Weekly Roundup: Thursday, March 15

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration announced new sanctions against Russia on Wednesday over its meddling in the 2016 election. Democrat Conor Lamb appears to have won a special election in Pennsylvania. The next election on the calendar is the Illinois primary next week, which may have some interesting clues for Democrats for the fall. Thousands of students walked out of school across the country on Tuesday — the one month anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — to protest gun violence. And the Senate voted to roll back Dodd-Frank, the banking regulations created in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. This episode: political reporter Asma Khalid, congressional reporter Kelsey Snell, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas and national political correspondent Mara Liasson. 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	Hello, this is Tyler Abrams.
0:02.2	And Alexandria Hammons calling from our apartment on Mission Bay in San Diego, California.
0:08.0	Of course I said yes. We're engaged.
0:11.2	This podcast was recorded at 1.15 pm Thursday, March 15th.
0:17.2	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:20.0	Keep up with all the political coverage at npr.org.
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0:27.1	Enjoy the show.
0:28.6	Oh, I'm so happy.
0:30.2	That's very good.
0:31.0	Nice.
0:34.8	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:37.1	And we are here with our weekly roundup of political news.
0:40.4	Thousands of students walked out of school yesterday to protest gun violence.
0:44.4	The walkouts marked the one-month anniversary of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman
0:48.3	Douglas High School in Florida.
0:50.1	Also news today that the Treasury Department is imposing new sanctions against Russia
0:54.8	over its meddling in the 2016 election.
0:57.4	And in 2018 election news,
0:59.9	Democrat Conor Lam appears to have won a special election in Pennsylvania.
1:03.9	Now all eyes are on the Illinois primary coming up next week.
1:07.6	I'm Asmakhalla's political reporter.
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