"A Coldly Political Perspective." The Reporters' Roundtable May 14
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🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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The Great Unmasking. Cheney Purged. It's Trump's Party. January 6th Denialism. Trump/Gaetz Indictments Coming? With Leah Askarinam Editor of National Journal Hotline, Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor at Politico and Gabe Debenedetti National Correspondent for New York Magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. It's Friday, May 14, and time for this week's roundtable, where we look back on the news of the week with three top political reporters. |
| 0:16.5 | A special thanks to Jason Dick of CQ Roll Call for filling in as guest host while I was on the |
| 0:22.1 | West Coast for the last couple of weeks. And for my first week back, what a busy week it's |
| 0:28.3 | been. Two big back-to-back meetings on Wednesday captured most of the headlines. First, |
| 0:34.6 | a meeting of the House Republican Caucus, which took only 15 minutes to dump Liz Cheney from her leadership post because she refuses to accept Donald Trump's big lie that he and not Joe Biden won the last election. |
| 0:48.7 | And then just a couple of hours later, a meeting in the Oval Office with President Biden and Democratic and Republican leaders |
| 0:55.8 | of the House and Senate to discuss possible compromise on the president's big infrastructure |
| 1:01.9 | plan. And the week ended with a big smile on everybody's face. A smile you could actually |
| 1:08.3 | see for the first time in a long time. As the CDC said, |
| 1:12.8 | as long as you're double-vaxed, you can take off your mask. Here with a smile on their faces |
| 1:19.8 | today, today's panel, Leah Ascaranam, editor-in-chief National Journal's Hotline. Hi, Leah. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi, Bill. Also joining us from washington suedeep |
| 1:30.8 | ready managing editor of politico hello sidip hi bill and joining us from a little farther away |
| 1:38.4 | Gabe de venadetti national political correspondent for new york magazine hello Gabe hey. Hey, Bill. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:46.1 | Well, welcome to you all. Leah, I want to start with an announcement yesterday by Rachel |
| 1:52.7 | Walensky, director of the CDC, which then President Biden announced from the Rose Garden. |
| 2:18.2 | Here she is. Today, CDC is updating our guidance for fully vaccinated people. Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities large or small without wearing a mask or physical distancing. |
| 2:24.2 | So, Leah, a public health issue, but I start there because the fact that the president announced it from the Rose Garden indicates this has pretty big political implications as well, |
| 2:30.0 | doesn't it? |
| 2:30.8 | I think so. |
| 2:32.1 | We've seen the last week that Biden's plan to get things back to normal |
| 2:38.3 | has had a few setbacks, especially with the latest jobs report, which was not good news. It was not |
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