'It Is About Race' with Abby Phillip

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

The Recount

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Abby Phillip is CNN's senior political correspondent, the new anchor of "Inside Politics Sunday," and one of the most astute political reporters on television. She joined CNN after working as a national political reporter for The Washington Post and as a White House reporter for Politico. David and Steve talk with Abby about how the January 6th insurrection should be framed, the role of racism in the Republicans' attempts to overturn the election, and how to report on politics in this age of disinformation. Then, they wrap up the conversation with a short discussion of "Dream Deferred," Abby's upcoming book about Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1984.

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0:00.0	I'm David Plough and I'm Steve Schmidt and this is Battleground, a podcast from the
0:05.8	recount and I heart radio.
0:10.0	Today we're going to be talking to Abby Phillips, CNN's Senior Political Correspondent and
0:14.1	a new anchor of Inside Politics Sunday on CNN.
0:17.6	She started covering the Trump administration for CNN in 2017.
0:21.5	She's a White House correspondent through 19.
0:25.0	She moderated CNN's Democratic debate in the Iowa and she anchored special coverage
0:29.3	on election night.
0:30.3	She's been reporting live for so many of the momentous moments we've witnessed in this
0:35.0	country in the last few months, the election, the attack on the Capitol, the murder at the
0:39.7	Capitol, Biden's inauguration, but let's get right to it and bring Abby in.
0:44.7	Abby Phillips, thank you so much for joining us on Battleground.
0:47.8	Great to have you, Abby.
0:48.8	Oh, it's a pleasure.
0:49.8	Thanks for having me.
0:50.8	Abby, when you think about from the 6th of January through the inauguration, what are
0:57.2	your impressions, your first draft history, so to speak?
1:01.9	Watching what happened on Fold was a really horrific thing to see as someone, you know,
1:09.0	think of myself as a patriotic person and I, and as a resident of Washington, DC, was
1:14.9	horrifying to watch, but I also think that immediately you have to make a decision about
1:22.2	what just happened there.
1:24.4	It's a moment that requires either moral clarity or you could be part of the problem because
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