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Captain's Log March 2nd, 2017, 5.04 pm.

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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here with a roundup of the week's political news. We'll

talk about Attorney General Jeff Sessions, recusing himself from any investigations into Russia's

election meddling, Donald Trump's speech to Congress, plus a few of your questions. I'm Scott

DeTroek, I cover Congress for NPR. I'm Danielle Kurtz, I've been political reporter,

and I'm Dominican Man's and I'm a political editor. How's everybody doing? Good, Scott, how are you?

I'm doing pretty well. Awesome. All right, two quick things. First, you can grab our last episode for

a full recap of the President's Speech to Congress Tuesday night. We'll talk a little bit more about

that here today, but if you want all the details, it's just back one episode. Two, you have one more

reason to check out the NPR1 app now. It's now available on your Amazon Echo Dot and other Alexa

enabled devices. Just say Alexa enabled NPR1, then you can tell Alexa to play our podcast. So there

you go. Do either of you have Alexa? I do. No, her jokes are awful. Really? Yes. What's an

example of an Alexa joke? I worked at the Orange Juice factory, but they made, but they fired me

because I couldn't concentrate stuff like that. The April showers, May flowers. She's trying.

I mean, Siri doesn't even try. Is she? Is she? That's true. Okay, oh my God.

Siri, tell me a joke. See, not even trying. All right, on to more important things,

as it seems to be happening with increasing frequency NPR justice correspondent,

Carrie Johnson is here in the booth to talk to us about breaking news. Hey, Carrie, how's it going?

Carrie. So late this afternoon, after a whirlwind, almost 24 hours of news, Jeff Sessions

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