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Peter Baker on the Shutdown, Trump's DOJ Weaponization, and Lutnick's New Epstein Bombshell
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Peter Baker on the Shutdown, Trump's DOJ Weaponization, and Lutnick's New Epstein Bombshell

New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker

The Back Room with Andy Ostroy · Produced by RFR and Andy Ostroy

October 4, 202554m 37s

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Show Notes

Peter Baker is the Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. He has covered the last five presidents for The Times and The Washington Post. At The Post, he also served as Moscow Co-Bureau Chief and covered the opening months of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is author of seven books, including the best-selling The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, and The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, both with his wife, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker. He is a frequent panelist on Washington Week on PBS.

Peter and I discuss the government shutdown, the Comey indictment and Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department, and Howard Lutnick's jaw-dropping new Epstein comments.

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