7.07: The Debate (Part II, with Ronald Klain and Beth Myers)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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How did Santos and Vinick do in the debate? To help us judge the candidates on both substance and style, we’ve enlisted the people in charge of debate prep on either side of the 2012 Presidential election. Ronald Klain led President Obama’s debate prep, and Beth Myers was in charge of Senator Mitt Romney’s prep. It was fascinating to speak to both of them together for this bipartisan episode of our podcast.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly.
0:08.2	I'm Joshua Molina.
0:09.8	And I'm Rishi Keishirwe.
0:11.3	And today we're talking about the debate.
0:13.1	It's episode 7 from season 7.
0:15.5	It was written by Lorenzo Donnell.
0:17.1	It was directed by Alex Graves and it first aired on television on November 6, 2005.
0:23.8	Before we get into this week's discussion of the debate, we want to clarify one thing
0:27.2	from last week's episode.
0:28.9	We realized as we were talking that the version of the episode on Netflix is missing about
0:32.7	eight minutes of content.
0:34.4	But it's also missing on iTunes and some other digital distribution platforms.
0:39.0	So after we wrapped up with Lorenzo's last week, we actually talked about it a little
0:42.2	more.
0:43.2	Here's a little bit of that.
0:44.2	Well so here is the likely source.
0:47.8	They might have had to do this cutting for syndication because this show did go into
0:52.6	syndication in different places.
0:54.8	Oh yes.
0:56.2	It didn't go in a syndication in a big way, but it went into syndication enough that
1:00.5	somebody had to cut that for syndication.
1:03.3	And then probably it's that same department for Bravo, right?
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