What Next - The Frightening Rise in Political Violence
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🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Paul Pelosi joined a growing list of Congress members and their families who have been targets of violent political attacks. What can be done about the growing safety risk of being in the public eye? And what does living under threat do to the people charged with running the government?
Guest: Liz Goodwin, Congress reporter at the Washington Post.
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| 0:00.0 | Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama. |
| 0:05.6 | The young gentleman's name would be... |
| 0:08.3 | Oliver, Oliver Twist. |
| 0:10.7 | ...with Brian Cox as Fagan. |
| 0:12.9 | What have you seen? Street boy. |
| 0:14.9 | Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes. |
| 0:19.3 | Oh, look at me like a hello to my lawyer. |
| 0:21.3 | I love you, baby. |
| 0:22.3 | ...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells. |
| 0:25.7 | Subscription required. See audible.co.uk for terms. |
| 0:37.0 | For a congressional reporter like Liz Goodwin, today's a weird day. |
| 0:41.9 | It's the day most of the people she reports on are going to find out if they still have jobs. |
| 0:47.1 | It's the day she's going to find out whether next year, |
| 0:49.8 | instead of covering the January 6th committee, |
| 0:52.4 | she'll be covering an investigation into Hunter Biden. |
| 0:56.4 | And it is also the culmination of a bitter campaign season. |
| 1:00.5 | Election day in some ways feels like a relief as someone who covers politics |
| 1:06.1 | because it just feels like each campaign cycle is getting longer and longer, |
| 1:11.0 | and the atmosphere around them is more and more toxic. |
| 1:18.4 | Liz has been thinking about this toxic environment a lot lately, |
| 1:21.8 | and not just because it's her workplace. |
| 1:24.5 | Through the summer, she is reported on attack after attack. |
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