Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 3

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nancy Pelosi is again speaker of the House, as Democrats retook control of the chamber for the first time in eight years, bringing divided government back to Washington. Plus, Elizabeth Warren kicked off the new year by announcing that she was running for president. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, political reporter Asma Khalid, editor correspondent Ron Elving, political editor Domenico Montanaro, and Congressional correspondent Susan Davis. 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 Deborah from Perth Australia, but at the moment I'm in my old hometown of Washington, DC.
0:06.0	Right now I'm standing on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial on a beautiful sunny day.
0:11.0	This podcast is recorded on...
0:13.0	3.52 Eastern on Thursday, January 3rd.
0:16.0	Things will have changed by the time you hear this.
0:19.0	Here's the show.
0:23.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here with our weekly round up of the week's biggest political story.
0:28.0	Nancy Pelosi is once again speaker of the house. It's official.
0:32.0	And Elizabeth Warren kicked off 2019 by saying she's running for president.
0:37.0	I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress.
0:39.0	I'm Asmohale, I cover politics.
0:41.0	I'm Domenico Monserro, political editor.
0:43.0	And I'm Ron Elving, Editor Correspondent.
0:45.0	All right, so we have known for a couple months.
0:48.0	Obviously the Democrats would take back control of the House of Representatives.
0:52.0	But today, new session began early this afternoon.
0:56.0	It was official. Democrats are now in charge.
0:59.0	And Nancy Pelosi won the election to be speaker of the house.
1:02.0	So here we are.
1:03.0	Our nation is at an historic moment.
1:06.0	Two months ago the American people spoke and demanded a new dawn.
1:10.0	They called upon the beauty of our Constitution,
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