Weekly Roundup: Wednesday, December 28

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.4 • 25.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Israel and the UN Security Council, plus Donald Trump's talk of nuclear proliferation. This episode: host/reporter Sam Sanders, congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, and editor/correspondent Ron Elving. 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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0:00.0	Here's a recent tweet from NPR Listener at Suzy Sussan earlier this month.
0:03.9	Quote, after downloading the NPR-1 app after being told to for the thousandth time by an NPR podcast,
0:10.1	thank you, thank you, thank you.
0:11.8	Hashtag insert-shamed face here.
0:14.4	Okay, don't wait like Suzy did.
0:16.1	NPR-1 is ready and willing to make your long drives and house cleaning and post-t holiday downtime better.
0:22.4	Find NPR-1-O-N-E on your App Store now.
0:26.1	Hey y'all, it's the NPR-Politics podcast here with a roundup of political news from the holiday week.
0:34.1	It's a week when the drama of the Trump transition really took no time off at all.
0:38.6	I'm Sam Sanders, reporter. I'm Scott Tattro, I cover Congress.
0:41.5	And I'm Ron Elving, Editor correspondent.
0:43.3	Okay, just three of us here today, three bad ombres.
0:46.4	That is because a lot of our colleagues are still out for the holidays and some vacation and some much-needed year-end self-care.
0:54.1	What have you guys been doing to unwind this holiday season?
0:58.1	I was hanging out in Lincoln, Nebraska for a few days.
1:01.1	Are you not from in Nebraska?
1:02.1	No, but my wife is.
1:03.1	Okay.
1:04.1	So hang out with the family in Lincoln.
1:05.1	I like Lincoln.
1:06.1	Sarah McCammond happened to be in Lincoln at the very same time, but we found this out after we'd both left.
1:11.1	So Ron, did you go somewhere for Christmas?
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