Weekly Roundup: Thursday, August 30

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

President Trump's White House Counsel Don McGahn may be leaving his post, but his goal of tilting the court for conservatives is nearly accomplished. Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh begin his confirmation hearings next week. And the president attacks Google's search algorithms calling them biased. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, Congressional reporter Kelsey Snell, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, White House correspondent Scott Horsley, and national security editor Philip Ewing. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Cory calling from the Zion Stone Valley Church picnic
0:04.0	Grove in Dalmatia, Pennsylvania, where maintaining my family's 100th annual
0:09.2	family reunion. This podcast was recorded at...
0:12.3	145 Eastern on Thursday, August 30th.
0:15.6	Things may have changed by the time you hear this. All right, here's the show.
0:22.8	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here with our weekly roundup of the week's
0:27.1	biggest political stories. President Trump's White House Council, Don McGahn,
0:31.3	may be on his way out, but that has not stopped him from trying to get more judges
0:35.6	confirmed in the Senate. And we will preview the confirmation hearing for
0:39.6	President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, that happens next week.
0:44.2	We'll also talk about President Trump's fight with Google's search algorithms.
0:48.3	I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress. I'm Kelsey Snally, I also cover Congress.
0:51.6	I'm Carrie Johnson, just a correspondent. And I'm Scott Horstite, I cover the White House.
0:55.2	All right, so we are actually going to pick up exactly where we left off with
0:58.8	the last podcast because we were talking about Don McGahn, his time in the White House,
1:03.6	his role as White House Council. But we didn't really get into one big part of
1:07.2	McGahn's legacy. And that is the key role he has played in the Trump administration's
1:11.7	aggressive push to get a whole lot of federal judges on the bench.
1:16.7	Yeah, this is record material. Scott, under Don McGahn's 10 years White House Council,
1:22.5	President Trump has nominated and confirmed 26 federal appeals court judges and something like
1:29.0	33 district court judges. That is astounding. These are lifetime appointment jobs,
1:34.8	often going to people in their late 30s or 40s. These are people who could be on the bench
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