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It's Been a Minute

Weekly Wrap: Ron Elving On Impeachment, Investigations And More Political Qs

It's Been a Minute

NPR

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It's Friday. Sam is joined by NPR political editor and correspondent Ron Elving and NPR breaking news reporter Camila Domonoske. Sam and Camila are looking for answers to all the latest and burning questions on the Mueller investigation and President Trump's political agenda. Then Sam catches up with a listener from Portland, Maine, who last year shared her story of hosting a family of asylum seekers from Burundi.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'll say I'm Sanders here with my cubicle mate and dear friend Melissa Kipers say hi.

0:07.1

Hi, Sam.

0:08.1

What is your title?

0:09.1

Operations Coordinator in PR West.

0:11.6

So you coordinate connections and interviews and all kinds of stuff throughout the Public

0:16.4

Radio Network, which means that you have a very intricate understanding of what this network

0:20.6

represents.

0:21.6

And I brought you in here because you described the network in a very special way.

0:25.5

Tell us.

0:26.5

You know it's special?

0:27.5

Seven layer dip.

0:28.5

Yes.

0:29.5

But we are.

0:30.5

The Public Radio Network is a seven layer dip.

0:32.4

That's right.

0:33.4

Let me explain.

0:34.4

So if we think of our listeners as the chip, they're going to consume this seven layer

0:38.3

dip.

0:39.3

So you got your first layer, that's beans.

0:41.3

That's like our flagship shows.

0:43.5

Could you just dip your chip into beans?

0:46.4

You could.

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