What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss whether the debate will affect the outcome of the November election. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is the author of “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” joins the conversation to look at what the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate can tell us about the upcoming event.
This week’s reading:
- “Project Trump, Global Edition,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Biden Is the Candidate Who Stands for Change in This Election,” by James Lardner
- “Trump’s Brazen Pact with the One Per Cent,” by John Cassidy
- “The American Election That Set the Stage for Trump,” by Isaac Chotiner
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| 0:00.0 | I just got a glimpse finally last night of the suppressed docudrama on Trump called The |
| 0:08.1 | Apprentice and I just can't believe that they can't find someone to show it in America. |
| 0:14.2 | Apparently, you know, distributors are really afraid of showing it in this country. |
| 0:18.7 | But it's all about Trump's relationship and how he got trained up by Roy Cohen. It's a lot of it. Jeremy Strong is fantastic. |
| 0:26.1 | What is he play? He plays Roy Cohn. He's really good as him. |
| 0:30.9 | Can't wait to see it. So can you get us a bootleg copy chain? |
| 0:34.0 | What about our listeners? |
| 0:35.0 | Our loyal listeners need a copy? |
| 0:37.0 | Susan, I mean, since you're calling in from Brussels, you can see this film in Europe, |
| 0:42.0 | but you can't see it in America isn't that |
| 0:44.3 | unbelievable? Wow. But don't we aren't we going to Europe to escape from the |
| 0:48.7 | omnipresent orange man? You know you want me to go see a movie about Trump? |
| 0:53.2 | Let's be honest, you're never fully escaped. |
| 0:56.5 | He's always there. |
| 0:57.4 | Welcome to the political scene, a weekly discussion about the big questions in American politics. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Evan Osnos and I'm joined, as ever by my colleagues, Jane Mayer and Susan Glasser. |
| 1:11.0 | Hi Jane. |
| 1:12.0 | Hi, Evan. And hi Susan, James, |
| 1:13.0 | heaven and hi Susan. |
| 1:14.0 | Hey guys, great to be with you. |
| 1:16.0 | Sure because here's a deal. |
| 1:21.0 | Here's a deal. |
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