"A Tricky Dance." The Reporters' Roundtable-June 17
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🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Putin Summit. Biden Temper. Tension on the Hill. Juneteenth National Holliday. Tucker Carlson False False Flag. Supreme Court. Critical Race Theory. With Pema Levy, Reporter at Mother Jones, Jeff Dufour, Editor in Chief at National Journal and Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter for NBC News.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's roundtable. |
| 0:12.9 | Coming to you this Thursday morning, July 17, around 8.30 a.m. |
| 0:17.7 | Just about the time Joe Biden's expected back in the Oval Office after returning home |
| 0:23.3 | last night from his whirlwind diplomatic fan dance bucking up the G7, romancing the queen, |
| 0:30.4 | reaffirming ties with NATO, and stepping into the lion's den with Vladimir Putin. Was anything |
| 0:37.3 | accomplished and how did Biden do on the world stage? |
| 0:41.8 | Meanwhile, back here at home, except for the temperatures in the west and the southwest climbing to record highs, |
| 0:49.0 | things continue more or less at a standstill. |
| 0:52.1 | While bipartisan negotiations continue on an infrastructure bill, |
| 0:56.7 | many Democrats are getting antsy and ready to go it alone. Mitch McConnell vows to block Biden |
| 1:02.7 | from putting anybody on the Supreme Court. And Republicans, led by Tucker Carlson, now float |
| 1:09.0 | a new conspiracy theory that January 6 was actually an inside job |
| 1:15.4 | engineered by the FBI. |
| 1:18.9 | Yes, here today to help us sort it all out. |
| 1:22.6 | Pema Levy, politics reporter for Mother Jones. |
| 1:25.4 | Hi, Pema. |
| 1:26.3 | Hi, Bill. |
| 1:26.8 | Thanks for having me. All right, welcome |
| 1:28.4 | back. Jeff Dufor is editor-in-chief of the National Journal. Hello, Jeff. Good morning, Bill. |
| 1:33.9 | And Alex Hiteswald, back again, political reporter for MSNBC and NBC News. Hi, Alex. |
| 1:42.1 | Morning, Bill. Thanks for having me. Okay, well, let's start with the summit, of course, has been dominating the news for the last |
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