Who Is "They" And Where Is This River? (with Charlie Sykes)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Axe and Gibbs spend this episode talking to The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes and in search of this river! Two days after the Cleveland Debacle we sift through the debate one more time, talk about the politics of the economy and ask Charlie about what's happening in his state of Wisconsin. We're still wondering who is they and, yes, we'll keep looking for the river. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A bowl of a chair, a tax on tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
0:16.4	The president has criticized the mail-in voting process quite a bit over the last few weeks.
0:29.0	The other day he said they found a lot of ballots in a river.
0:34.2	Who is the day?
0:36.2	So what the president was referring to are something that we've seen just in the last
0:40.6	seven days where in Wisconsin there were trails of May ending up in a ditch.
0:45.6	That's, I believe, the specific he was referring to.
0:48.4	And that included absentee ballots.
0:50.7	We're specifically in this particular statement though.
0:54.6	Who is the day that found those ballots and where is this river anywhere in this country?
0:59.9	The local authorities, it was a ditch in Wisconsin that they were found and I can get the
1:03.1	article to your inbox and be on that.
1:05.7	If he was spoke, that's fine.
1:07.2	No, that's what the president was referring to.
1:11.6	And you're really missing the force for the trees here.
1:13.9	The point is, I like to report accurately in the news.
1:18.7	And when the president says they found a lot of ballots in a river, I simply want to know where
1:23.4	the river is.
1:24.2	That is a little sound from Thursday's White House briefing.
1:28.8	And let me just say as somebody who did that job and walked into that briefing room a lot,
1:34.6	on the best and easiest day, that is a really, really hard job.
1:38.8	There are about 12 TV cameras in that room.
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