#627 Congressional Reset Ft. Ali Vitali

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali joins Sami and Amanda to preview what to expect in Congress between now and the midterms. She shares her inside reporting on how Democrats might move forward with voting rights and Build Back Better, what’s *actually* going on in Joe Manchin’s head, if any Republican might surprise us, and prospect for paid leave. She also shares which senators are the hardest to chase and the best footwear for Capitol Hill before previewing how Democrats in Congress could pass legislation to protect abortion rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betcha's media presents madam speaker madam vice president you want to hang out with us and get your back
0:05.9	See and so I went to human resources. There's some things. I just can't tell you on air the Betcha's sub podcast a woman's problem if you will
0:18.8	Hello, I'm Amanda Duberman. I'm Sammy Sage and
0:22.5	This is the Betcha sub podcast where he's been we took a group chat to be processed and laugh at the biggest topics in US news and
0:28.4	Politics today. We are here with Ali Vitale she's the Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC news and MSNBC
0:34.8	And I know personally the first person I hit up when I am trying to figure out what the hell is going on in Congress that day
0:40.5	What are they doing at work? We're so excited to finally chat face to face with you
0:45.0	Thanks guys, I'm really excited to be here
0:47.3	Yeah, I love watching you your stories obviously not you personally your stories when you're inside
0:53.8	We watched the news. We watched the behind-the-scenes content about the news of course. Yeah, both are great
0:59.5	But it it does give like some insight just kind of like your vibe on in-s or M stories
1:05.2	Kind of communicates its own thing if you are a frequent enough watcher. So I
1:09.5	Hope so I mean we love giving the behind-the-scenes
1:12.1	Congress is ever moving even if the cameras aren't on it. Yeah, yeah, and you're in a recording studio in the Capitol right now, right?
1:18.4	Yeah, I'm in our house booth, which is very scenic and very cold right now. Is it just for MSN for NBC or is it for any media?
1:26.5	Yeah, there's a bunch of different booths back here
1:28.8	But this one is just for NBC. So this is where we huddle during the day when we're not running around chasing lawmakers
1:34.4	Oh, God it got it cool cool. So physically chase ever like like with your shoes feet
1:40.8	Oh, there are frequent chases. There's a lot of decisions made about shoes specifically about hard-marble floors standing all day running after lawmakers
1:49.0	Who's the fastest? Oh?
1:51.0	Gosh, Joe Manchin is pretty fast
1:54.5	Time chasing him not only that though. I'm five to every lawmaker feels like they're six feet
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