EPISODE · Mar 1, 2018 · 22 MIN
How has President Trump changed the political culture in the nation's capital? (Robert Costa)
from TrumpWatch with Jesse Lent · host WBAI 99.5fm, New York City's Pacifica radio station
President Trump had been in office for three months when he called Washington Post reporter Robert Costa on his cellphone to inform him that a Republican bill to overhaul the healthcare system was dead. The previous October, when a tape of Trump talking crudely in 2005 to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush threatened to derail his 2016 campaign, Trump gave his first interview to the entrenched journo. Again and again the President has demonstrated his trust in the 32-year-old journalist by speaking to him on the record, despite Costa’s refusal to shy away from reporting unflattering developments within the administration. In 2017, Robert replaced Gwen Ifill as the host of PBS's “Washington Week” after the groundbreaking journalist died from endometrial cancer the previous year. In this installment of TrumpWatch, Jesse talks to Robert about the ways that Washington, DC has changed during the Trump presidency.
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