"An Immense Disaster."-The Reporters' Roundtable-Feb 19
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🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Cruz Cancun Scandal. Biden pushes his $1.9T rescue plan. Trump vs. Mitch. With Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent, New York Magazine, Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor at NBC News Digital and Bob Cusack, Editor in Chief, The Hill Newspaper.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome. Welcome to this week's roundtable on the Bill Press Pod, where we look back at the news of the week with three top political journalists. |
| 0:17.3 | Well, with the former guy out of town, it's not as crazy as it's been for the last four years, but there's still lots going on. |
| 0:25.6 | The new guy made his first public debut as president this week in a CNN town hall and promised a vaccine for every American by July. |
| 0:34.3 | Can he deliver? |
| 0:35.7 | Congress prepares a vote on President Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. |
| 0:41.3 | Can Congress deliver? A winter storm paralyzes most of the nation and knocks out power in Texas. |
| 0:48.6 | Who's to blame? And Donald Trump declares war on Mitch McConnell and any other Republican member of Congress |
| 0:55.9 | who did not support his attempts to overturn the election. |
| 0:59.9 | Are Republicans eating their own? |
| 1:03.6 | Here today, to make some sense of it all, Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington editor for NBC News Digital. |
| 1:10.3 | Hello, Ginger. Hello. Gabe to Benedetti, |
| 1:13.9 | National Correspondent for New York Magazine. Hello, Gabe. Welcome back. Howdy Bill? And Bob Cusack, |
| 1:21.7 | editor-in-chief of the Hill, making his first appearance on the Bill Press Roundtable. Welcome, Bob. |
| 1:28.1 | Good morning, Bill. |
| 1:29.4 | Okay, so, you know, Washington, we got to start here. |
| 1:32.3 | Washington loves nothing better than a scandal, a big scandal, or a little scandal. |
| 1:38.1 | So it got cold in Texas, and Ted Cruz wanted to find some heat, Ginger. |
| 1:45.5 | Looks like he founded, huh? |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah, so he and his family decided that it would be a good idea to fly to Cancun, |
| 1:53.0 | which, you know, a lot of my family in Houston without power probably also would have |
| 1:58.6 | thought it would have been a good idea to fly to Cancun. |
| 2:01.2 | But they're not the U.S. senator from Texas. |
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