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Introducing: Big Take DC

Jan 11, 20242 min
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Episode description

Bloomberg’s Saleha Mohsin shares one reported story a week about how money, power and politics shape Washington — and the consequences for people in America and all over the world.

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Transcript

Speaker 1

Let's face it, Washington is just not working the way we want it to.

Speaker 2

The House Republicans are running out of candidates who could possibly be speaker, and I'm running out of adjectives to describe how crazy this all is.

Speaker 1

I'm Bloomberg News reporter Salaiah Mosen after ten years covering policy, even I find the dysfunction baffling, and so to my sources, including politicians, I.

Speaker 3

Would rather stick a pencil through my eyeball into my frontal lobe than ever go to another fundraiser.

Speaker 1

On each episode of my new show, Big Take DC, I'll take you inside one story that you need to understand right now.

Speaker 4

Is the United States ready to fight two and a half or three wars? Well, our defense strategy says we're not.

Speaker 5

We are in a spiral of rising debt and rising payments on the debt.

Speaker 1

Will spotlight Bloomberg's best reporting on the collision of money, power and politics, and we'll dig into why solutions can feel so out of reach.

Speaker 6

We could have been evicted at any psycho I've cried over to the blast of the man.

Speaker 1

We'll explore what's at stake in the twenty twenty four election for the US and the rest of the world.

Speaker 4

If we're stuck with Trump and Trump gets the nomination, he will lose.

Speaker 6

The Democrats have not done a great job in keeping their promises.

Speaker 4

We'll be stuck with these two candidates.

Speaker 1

We've got nothing in the way of representation. Listen to Big Take DC every Thursday on the iHeartMedia app, Bloomberg, CarPlay, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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