Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 10

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

President Trump says he is willing to declare a national emergency if Democrats don't go along with his demands for $5.7 billion for a border wall. Plus, prosecutors investigating Russian interference in the last U.S. presidential election suspect former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared polling data with a business associate who has links to the Russian intelligence service. This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, Congressional correspondent Susan Davis, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, editor correspondent Ron Elving, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and national security editor Phil 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 generic Kohler from Dallas, Pennsylvania.
0:03.0	I'm a third year medical student and I just scrubbed in on my first C-section and delivered
0:07.2	a healthy baby boy.
0:08.9	This podcast was recorded at 4.34 pm on Thursday, 10th of January.
0:15.1	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:17.1	Okay, here's the show.
0:18.9	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:24.8	It's the 20th day of the government shutdown, partial government shutdown, and President
0:29.3	Trump visited the US-Mexico border.
0:32.0	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:33.9	I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.
0:35.6	I'm Mara Lias and a National Political Correspondent.
0:38.5	And I'm Ron Elbing, Editor-Corerespondent.
0:40.6	Alright, so before we get to the President's border visit, very quickly, I would just like
0:46.2	to go back in time to yesterday when all the congressional leaders came up to the White
0:51.8	House for a negotiation.
0:54.4	And 30 minutes later, they were outside talking about how the President had walked out.
0:59.9	Bye-bye.
1:00.9	Well, some of the headlines said stormed out, some said walked out.
1:04.2	Many of the Republicans who had been in the meeting came out and said, no, no, wasn't
1:07.0	like that at all.
1:08.0	Very polite, nobody raised their voice.
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