Thanks for posting the transcript.
Referring to the NPR position; think about it - we don’t want to do live interviews anymore with controversial figures; they can get the better of us.
Better to tape the interview, then we can edit it to suit our purposes.
And we, as taxpayers, fund this communist outlet!
NPR transcripts should be labeled: “warning! contains federal government subsidized intellectual pablum and statist propaganda targeted towards weak minded listeners. read with caution!”