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The NPR Politics Podcast

Weeky Roundup: Thursday, April 20

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Georgia's 6th, Tom Perez and Bernie Sanders on the road, and what's changing under Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice. This episode: host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional reporter Scott Detrow, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and White House correspondent Scott Horsley. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations. *Correction: In an earlier version of this podcast, we said that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms. While it does do breast cancer screenings and makes referrals for mammograms, Planned Parenthood does not do mammograms at its clinics.

Transcript

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0:19.2

Hi, this is Kirsten Schatzer from Cape Town, South Africa.

0:23.0

This podcast was recorded at 2.52 p.m. on Thursday, 20 April.

0:28.9

Things may have changed by the time you hear it.

0:31.7

Keep up with all of NPR's political coverage at npr.org, the NPR-1 app and on your local

0:37.9

public radio session.

0:39.6

Okay, here's the show.

0:41.0

It's the NPR Politics Podcast here with our regular roundup of political news this week.

0:49.0

We're going to talk about the deported dreamer and what's going on with the Department

0:53.8

of Justice.

0:54.8

The Republicans close call in the Georgia special election, the election in France and the

1:00.9

magical mystery democratic unity tour with Bernie Sanders and Tom Perez.

1:06.7

I'm Tamer Keith.

1:07.7

I cover the White House for NPR.

1:09.3

I'm Danielle Kurtzlavin, political reporter.

1:11.3

And I'm Scott Horsley.

1:12.3

I also cover the White House.

1:13.3

And I'm really excited about today's podcast because we're going to take some time and talk

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