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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The White House's Favorite Tech Billionaire

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Why did Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt spend over a decade building relationships with the most powerful Democrats in America?


Guest: Alex Thompson, reporter at Politico


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0:00.0

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1:05.7

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. It was a sort of

1:11.7

slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so it was all wrapped up, but it was

1:16.8

so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it

1:20.1

and I was so gasped. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my

1:24.8

area now so for that one change me a little. Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

1:37.8

Last fall, Politico reporter Alex Thompson wrote a short news story about President Biden's

1:43.3

then-science advisor, Eric Lander. And it was about how Eric Lander was driving everyone in the

1:48.5

White House crazy. He was changing deals going up to Capitol Hill on his own, the kind of

1:54.1

internal fighting that's not unheard of in official Washington. But then after writing that article,

2:00.8

Alex got a tip. Then I received an anonymous email from a proton mail count that said I was missing

2:07.4

the real story. The real story is how he treats his subordinates how he treats his staff.

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