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The Lincoln Project

33: A Dollop of Rage

The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by Lisa Senecal and Maya May, the Co-Hosts of Lincoln Project Television’s “We’re Speaking” as well as Tedra Cobb (President of Backroads PAC & former Democratic candidate for Congress in NY-21 challenging Elise Stafanik) to discuss the return of “We’re Speaking” to the LPTV airwaves, Sen. Mitch McConnell requesting a “personal favor” of Senate Republicans, and the rise and evolution of Rep. Elise Stefanik. LPTV’s "We’re Speaking" streams live every Wednesday at 8pm ET on the Lincoln Project's YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today I'm joined by

0:12.2

Lisa Senegal and Maya May, the host of LPTVs we're speaking, which airs Wednesday nights

0:17.9

at 8 p.m. Eastern on the Lincoln Project's Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channels. Lisa

0:22.7

and Maya, welcome to the show.

0:24.5

Hey Reed, thanks for having us. Thank you.

0:27.3

Also joining me today and making her Lincoln Project podcast debut is Tedra Cump, the

0:32.1

president of Backroads Pack and the Democratic opponent of the Lisa Fonic in New York's

0:36.7

21st Congressional District in the 2018 and 2020 elections. Tedra, welcome.

0:41.7

Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here.

0:44.4

So gang, today we're going to be talking about the Senate Republicans trying to derail

0:48.6

the January 6th bipartisan commission, as well as taking a look at the evolution of

0:53.4

the Lisa Fonic and her rise within the House Republican Conference. But before that,

0:58.0

LPTVs, we're speaking is back and better than ever.

1:01.3

Lisa, tell us how it was to be back on the air. Your first show was Wednesday night and

1:05.1

also you can always remember that you can watch the replay on YouTube at your convenience.

1:09.8

So Lisa, how did go?

1:11.6

It was great. It felt so good to be back. I was missing being on the show and being with

1:16.8

Maya and to reconnect with our audience again, which was really great. So the mission of

1:22.0

where speaking is to be able to amplify diverse voices, talking about all of these issues

1:28.0

that we're dealing with politically and socially right now and hopefully do it in a really

1:32.2

engaging way that's accessible and also gives people the kind of nuts and bolts tools

1:38.3

that they need to be able to get engaged and be active citizens in our democracy.

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