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Mark Murray

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  1. “Of the precedents playing out during that gingrich era, and maybe even right before Gingrich took over as speaker, but what has actually transpired today, I think, is fundamentally different than it was 20 years ago where people don't agree on anything. Transportation policy, for example, has become just stonewalled and no one wants to be able to do anything, whether you might want to raise the gas tax or come together in a bipartisan agreement. So I think that.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Made things worse, and everything plays for keeps. You know, David, I think even looking back on that era in the 1990s where obviously you had an impeachment and big battles travel gate and testimony from Paula Jones, I look back on even in that era, particularly when George W. Bush took over, that Democrats and Republicans might disagree on items one, two, three, or four, but they could actually work together on five, which might be education reform that George W. Bush was able to get done with Ted Kennedy. You look at transportation, and I was one of my first gigs at National Journal Magazine was covering transportation policy. And you had Bud Schuster, who was the powerful chairman from Pennsylvania, who was at the House TNI Committee. You had people like Ray La Hood, who you know very well who was on that committee. And those people worked together in a bipartisan way. And so I do think that you are right that we saw some.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Absolutely. And, you know, I kind of look back upon that experience and I see a lot of similarities between now and then. And certainly being at the federal courthouse and all the media scrums and what was actually going on in grand jury testimony, you know, David, we haven't really experienced a lot of those kind of courthouse drama stories in the last 20 years. And to see it play out again as it was in 1998, it really did. It was very impressionable. There were some people who were doing some really good journalism back in 1988. I was working with Michael Kelly, who was at National Journal, Stuart Taylor, a legal writer, and working for him. And so everybody was after the one big prize, and that was the impeachment. And Monica Lewinsky story.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “By the time that I think the internships, and particularly my last internship at Harper's Magazine, I tried to get a job there and it didn't work out, but National Journal was hiring some new young reporters, people right out of school, and it turned out that the editor at Harper's Magazine, Lewis Lapham, called up the editor at National Journal and said, you got to hire this Mark Murray guy. The rest is history. I crashed on a friend's couch for about a month, got an apartment in D.C., and been in Washington now for more than 20 years.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “I go back to every story I write and not underline every fact that I have an assertion in the story and make sure that I double or triple check it before I hit send.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “There were some longhorns at Mother Jones, but it was mainly me just kind of getting adjusted to a big city. And from a journalism standpoint, when I was started out the school newspaper, I wasn't a straight news reporter. I was actually a columnist. But what I ended up doing at Mother Jones, I was the fact checker for a lot of their magazine pieces, particularly the political ones. So I had to pick up the phone, fact the checks, check the facts, do all of that stuff. And that really started me on my reporting career.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “It was interesting being a Texan and never spending a whole lot of time other than family vacations outside of the state of Texas”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Mother Jones, an internship at Harper's Magazine in New York City. And then my first gig as a 22, 23-year-old writer at National Journal magazine and got hired three weeks before the Monaco Lewinsky story took off.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Basically, because I wanted something else on my resume. And by that time, I'd kind of gotten college under wraps, was making some pretty good grades and wanted to expand my resume and start thinking about what I wanted to do beyond just enjoying my history and political science courses and walked in, loved to write. And that turned into an internship out in San Francisco. Mother John.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “There's been some interesting politics in South Texas. And yes, you're actually right. And the LBJ and his run for the Senate, there was maybe some shenanigans by some folks. So I went to the University of Texas, but it wasn't until my junior year in school where I got interested in journalism I went to go write for the Daily Texan, which at the time was either the eighth or ninth largest newspaper in the state of Texas. That's huge.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “That was my foundation. Why? Conversations with my dad just talking about the 1960s and the 1970s, World War II, the Civil War.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I was a third generation Texas Longhorn. I looked around for some places to maybe go and play some football, but fundamentally a burnt orange guy. My brother went to the University of Texas as well. And I went there, studied political science, history.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Sometimes close to 15,000 people. And this is in South Texas. And I still tell people to this day the most nerve-wracking experiences I've had in my life or showing up in those games in front of all those people as opposed to actually ever going on TV. Because you were running.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “It's a big in Texas now. It's not as in South Texas, it's not as competitive in places like Houston or San Antonio or even in Austin.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “It's overwhelming. It's about 80% Latino. And to me, it was a fascinating place to grow up because of that. And you are exactly right during the healthcare debates, and this was flagged by even President Obama in many speeches that he ended up giving, where all of a sudden a lot of the deliverable health care services were so much more expensive. And so some of the things are actually put in the Affordable Care Act were meant to actually keep down the prices that you shouldn't get three or four CAT scans or MRIs that they were over subscribing things to people. And that New Yorker article really kicked off an interesting.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “They are super informed too. The questions have been amazing. But you are right. I grew up in McGallan, Texas, eight miles away from the US-Mexico border. And in these debates about NAFTA, McAllen, Texas has been one of the NAFTA success stories where the population, when I grew up, was about 50 or 60,000, and now it's more than 150,000, 160,000. In fact, the county Hidalgo County is one of the fastest growing counties in Texas and also the United States. And after growing up in McGowan, Texas, I went to the University of Texas.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “That's where I grew up, David. And first, let me just say it's been an amazing experience being at the University of Chicago with your students to have the regular interaction, the office hours and the seminars. And this has been very good for me to get away from Washington for a little bit and interact with all. I can only imagine.”

    2018-04-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 236 - Mark Murray · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source