Weekly Wrap: Dems Debate, Mister Rogers and WeWork

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🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Guest host Elise Hu steps in for Sam this week. She is joined by panelists Jacob Margolis, science reporter for Southern California Public Radio, and Peter Hamby, host of Snapchat's Good Luck America, and contributing writer for Vanity Fair. They discuss the aftermath of a California school shooting, the fall of WeWork, and the lawmaker who may have farted on air. Plus, why Mister Rogers is still ingrained in the American psyche, years after his PBS show went off the air.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, we are releases daughters Ava, Issa, and Medballuna.
0:05.6	This week on the show, science reporter at Member Station, KPCC, Jacob Moregolas, and the host of
0:14.3	Good Luck America and a writer for VINITY FAIR, Peter Handley. Let's start the show!
0:24.4	Hey y'all, I'm Elise Hugh in for Sam Sanders. It's been a minute. Welcome to you and our
0:29.5	guests today, science reporter for Member Station KPCC and Los Angeles, Jacob Moregolas,
0:34.1	Hey Jacob. Hey. And Peter Handley host of Good Luck America on Snapchat and contributing
0:38.4	writer for VINITY FAIR, hey Peter. Hey. So this week will forever be the week that A-SAP Rocky
0:44.7	was introduced to the American Congressional Record. It's true that the president speaks loudly at
0:50.0	times, and it's also true. I think we primarily discussed A-SAP Rocky. That was EU Ambassador Gordon
0:58.3	Sunlin speaking in Testonée this week during the House impeachment inquiry.
1:02.2	Have any other rappers ever been included in the Congressional Record? The context here is that A-SAP Rocky
1:07.5	was detained in Sweden for an alleged assault, and President Trump wanted to get him out because
1:13.0	Kim Kardashian and Kanye West asked him to. That's a real sentence. They have a hard line into the
1:20.1	White House these days. And now you're hearing no limit. The 2018 hit by G-Easy Featuring.
1:25.5	A-SAP Rocky. Yeah.
1:30.8	Okay. Time to unpack the other news of this week. Each week we ask our guests to describe their
1:36.0	week of news in three words. Peter, you're up first. You're three words. My three words Elise are
1:41.9	Democrats talking abortion. As you know, or might not know, because the ratings weren't great.
1:47.7	There was a Democratic debate this week. Host Rachel Maddow asked a very important question
1:54.5	of Elizabeth Warren. Just this weekend, Louisiana reelected a Democratic governor, John Bell Edwards.
2:01.6	He has signed one of the country's toughest laws restricting abortion. Is there room in the
2:07.2	Democratic Party for someone like him, someone who can win in a deep red state, but who does not
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