A Total Eclipse of the Pivot (8.21.17)
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2017
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Bill Press is out so Sabrina Siddiqui (The Guardian) is filling in. She welcomes Simone Pathe, Pema Levy and Elise Foley to discuss whether or not Steve Bannon's departure means a presidential pivot is on the way, the political future for Mike Pence's brother, the Justice Department's Orwellian breach of the Constitution and the latest on the Republicans' push for a wall on the US-Mexico border - the full Monday edition of the Bill Press Show!
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| 0:40.3 | Good morning. Welcome to The Bill Press Show. I'm Sabrina Siddiqui. Political reporter at The Guardian |
| 0:46.1 | filling in for Bill this Monday morning. New day, new week, maybe a new dawn in the White House as Steve Bannon is out. That was the big |
| 0:57.9 | news from Friday and we will be dissecting whether or not there is a pivot, spoiler alert. There is |
| 1:05.4 | no pivot. There never will be a pivot. I am joined by my good friends here at the Bill Press show, Jamie Benson. Good morning, Jamie. |
| 1:14.3 | Good morning, Sabrina. Was a new dawn a attempted upon with the eclipse? |
| 1:19.3 | It was not. Oh, okay. I actually am the worst about the eclipse. I didn't even realize, I didn't even remember it was today. |
| 1:26.3 | Yeah, today's the big day. I don't have glasses, so I can't look in the sky. I don't know what's going to happen. Rachel Pekarski is also here. And so is Monique Kancellor, who of course makes us look good on camera. We've got the eclipse. We've got Bannon. Maybe it's all related. We will be breaking down all of that |
| 1:46.3 | and more. But first, this is the full court press. Just a couple of other stories for you on this |
| 1:54.1 | Monday morning. That's right. Today is the big day. The solar eclipse here in North America, |
| 2:00.4 | the first time since 1979. |
| 2:04.1 | It's a pretty big deal. |
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