'Politically Savage' with Yamiche Alcindor

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

The Recount

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a frequent contributor on NBC and MSNBC. In 2020, she won the National Association of Black Journalists "Journalist of the Year Award" and the White House Correspondents’ Association's "Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage." Prior to joining PBS, Yamiche was a political reporter for The New York Times, a breaking news reporter for USA Today, and reporter for Newsday in Long Island NY.

Yamiche joins David on "Battleground" to discuss the role of white supremacy in American politics, the Covid relief bill, journalism in 2021, and Governor Cuomo's future.

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0:00.0	I'm David Plough and this is Battleground, a podcast with a recount and I heart rate.
0:08.5	Today I'm very excited to be speaking with Emiche Alcindor.
0:11.7	I'm sure most of you already know Emiche.
0:13.9	She's the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour and a contributor for both NBC News
0:18.2	and MSNBC.
0:20.2	I'm looking forward to hearing Emiche's thoughts on her views of the Biden administration so
0:24.6	far, how she believes journalists should be covering the threats to democracy that were
0:29.2	continuing to be built across the country as hundreds of restrictive voting bills are
0:33.2	put forward in state legislatures and her views on the state of journalism, both as we
0:37.9	move into the post-Trump era but as we deal with increasing misinformation bouncing across
0:43.1	the digital landscape.
0:44.8	Before I get into it with Emiche, we had a big week this week with President Biden
0:48.4	signing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan so I want to take a few minutes to reflect
0:54.1	on that.
0:55.1	I'm recording this Friday morning, I want to talk a little bit about the really important
1:00.3	hopeful but realistic speech the President Biden delivered to the country last night, Thursday
1:05.2	night.
1:06.2	It was a fireside chat.
1:08.2	It was not speechifying.
1:09.8	It was a very casual conversation with President with his citizens.
1:13.7	I thought it was plain spoken.
1:15.9	I thought it was grounded in reality.
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