What Next - Marjorie Taylor Greene vs. Everyone
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🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has become an avatar of the Republican far-right. But that has its downsides. It makes you a target. But Greene isn’t running scared.
Guest: Charles Bethea, staff writer at the New Yorker.
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| 0:31.5 | So Charles, you have a bit of a history with Marjorie Taylor Greene. |
| 0:35.6 | Is that how you'd put it? |
| 0:40.5 | History? |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah, sure. |
| 0:44.3 | Charles Bithae writes for the New Yorker, but he lives in Georgia right near Marjorie Taylor |
| 0:49.5 | Greene's congressional district. |
| 0:52.0 | He's covered her political rise for the last couple of years. |
| 0:54.8 | He's tagged along to her campaign speeches, interviewed the guys in her CrossFit gym. |
| 0:59.4 | He even has the congresswoman's cell phone number. |
| 1:02.4 | But they are not close. |
| 1:04.9 | When he did a splashy profile of her, back when she was first running for congress, she would |
| 1:09.5 | not even grant him an interview. |
| 1:12.0 | It was pretty clear she didn't see any benefit in doing that with me. |
| 1:16.8 | She knew it wasn't going to actually be able to harm her political chances in Northwest |
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