"A Bizarre Situation."- The Reporters' Roundtable- Mar 5
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🗓️ 12 March 2021
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Biden Speech. Selling the Stimulus. Cuomo Toast? Trump Greedy! Major Innocent! With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter at The Wall Street Journal and Political Analyst at CNN, Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-Chief at National Journal and David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, time for this week's roundtable. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's roundtable, |
| 0:15.0 | looking back at the big news of the week. |
| 0:18.0 | The first anniversary of the coronavirus of being defined as a pandemic by the World |
| 0:23.4 | Health Organization, a virus which is now claimed 528,000 American lives. President Biden's |
| 0:31.2 | first primetime address to the nation. Congressional passage of the President's $1.9 trillion |
| 0:37.3 | stimulus package to fight the pandemic and rebuild the economy, growing pressure on Democrats to kill or gut the filibuster, and every day new accusations of sexual harassment charges against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, while Donald Trump is waging war |
| 0:56.4 | against leaders of his own party. Here today to help us sort it all out. |
| 1:02.2 | Sabrina Siddiqui, White House correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Hi, Sabrina. |
| 1:07.0 | Good morning. Jeff Dufor, editor-in-chief of the National Journal. |
| 1:11.2 | Hello, Jeff. |
| 1:12.4 | Hello, Bill. |
| 1:13.4 | And David Jackson, national political correspondent for USA Today. |
| 1:18.5 | David, welcome. |
| 1:19.9 | Thank you, Bill. |
| 1:21.3 | So we saw last night, President Biden, one year again after the World Health Organization said this is a worldwide pandemic, |
| 1:30.3 | giving his first speech about 24 minutes to the nation from the White House, |
| 1:37.3 | and basically summing up that we've been through a year of hell, but we're starting to come out of it. And if we all |
| 1:45.9 | band together, as Americans do, we can beat this coronavirus. Here's just a little montage of pure |
| 1:53.1 | Joe Biden. We lost faith in whether our government and our democracy can deliver on really |
| 1:59.8 | hard things. |
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