Weekly Roundup: Thursday, March 29

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Russia announced Thursday that it's expelling 60 U.S. diplomats, just a few days after the Trump administration expelled the same number of Russian diplomats from the U.S. That was in response to Russia's alleged poisoning of a former spy on British soil. Also this week, another big shake-up in the Trump administration: Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has been fired, and Trump says he plans to nominate his White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, to the post. And there is more upheaval on the president's legal team. This episode: host/political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional reporter Kelsey Snell and editor correspondent Ron Elving. 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 Trashley Madison from the DC Roller Girls Practice Space in
0:04.4	Hyatt'sville, Maryland, where we're getting ready for our April 7th bout
0:07.6	between the majority whips and the cherry blossom bombshells.
0:11.0	You're listening to the NPR Politics Podcast, which was recorded at...
0:15.0	159 PM on March 29th.
0:17.7	Keep in mind that things may have changed by the time you hear it.
0:20.9	Keep up with all NPR's political coverage on the NPR1 app,
0:24.8	npr.org, and of course your local station.
0:28.2	Okay, here's the show.
0:29.8	Hey everyone, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here with our weekly roundup of political news.
0:38.1	Russia said today just minutes before we got in the studio that it's
0:41.2	expelling 60 US diplomats, and that came just a few days after the Trump
0:45.4	administration itself expelled 60 Russian diplomats from the US.
0:49.6	That was in response to Russia's alleged poisoning of a former spy on British
0:53.9	soil.
0:54.9	Also this week another big shake up in the Trump administration,
0:57.6	veterans of fair secretary David Shulkin is out and on top of that,
1:02.0	more upheaval on the president's legal team and we're going to talk about all of it this week.
1:05.9	I'm Danielle Kurtzlavin, political reporter.
1:07.8	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
1:09.5	I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress.
1:11.1	And I'm Ron Elving, president of the Trashley Fan Club,
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