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The NPR Politics Podcast

Weekly Roundup: Thursday, September 21

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Daily News, News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The policy and politics of the Republicans' latest effort to repeal-and-replace the Affordable Care Act. Plus the latest on the Russia investigation and the unusually contentious Senate race in Alabama. This episode: host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political editor Domenico Montanaro, Congressional correspondent Susan Davis and Justice Department reporter Ryan Lucas. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:33.7

Hi, this is Bianca Russo from New York City.

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I'm about to walk home from work in Midtown Manhattan while listening to the latest

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episode of the NPR Politics Podcast.

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The podcast you're about to listen to was recorded on.

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Thursday the 21st at approximately 1.10 pm.

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Americans may have changed by the time you listen to this.

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To keep up with all the latest NPR news, check out npr.org, download the NPR1 app or listen

1:04.0

to your local NPR radio station.

1:06.4

Okay, here's the show.

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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here with our weekly round up of political news.

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Obamacare, repeal and replace is back from the dead.

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Again, and we're going to dig into what the Graham Cassidy bill does and doesn't do.

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We're going to get caught up on the latest Russia-related news.

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There's a lot of it.

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