Better to Blame the Governors. The Roundtable April 17
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🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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"I'm all powerful." Not. Trump still behind the curve. Biden rolls out the endorsements. Bill breaks it all down with Jennifer Haberkorn, congressional reporter for the LA Times, Hunter Walker, White House Correspondent, Yahoo News and Pema Levy, political reporter for Mother Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's |
| 0:10.2 | roundtable, where we invite a couple of Washington's top-notch political reporters to look back on |
| 0:17.4 | the news of the week and try to put it all in perspective. For the fourth week in a row, |
| 0:23.0 | the only real story is the spread of the coronavirus and how we're dealing with it at the state |
| 0:28.1 | and federal level. And as of today, Friday, April 17, we stand at 677,000 cases in the United States, with some 35,000 dead from the disease, with all businesses, |
| 0:42.6 | offices, and restaurants still shut down. The big question is, how soon do we reopen, and who |
| 0:49.5 | makes the decision, the president, or the nation's governors. Meanwhile, from the quiet of his basement up |
| 0:57.8 | in Wilmington, Delaware, Joe Biden keeps rolling on the way to the nomination with endorsements |
| 1:03.0 | this week by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Barack Obama. On both fronts, where do we go |
| 1:10.0 | from here? Let's bring in today's panel, Pamela Levy, political |
| 1:14.4 | reporter for Mother Jones, joining us by social distance, of course, from her home. Hi, Pema. |
| 1:20.9 | Hi, thanks for having me. Good to have you here. And Jennifer Habercombe, congressional reporter for the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:27.8 | Hi, Jennifer. |
| 1:28.8 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:29.8 | So, you heard the numbers, 677,000 cases in the United States, now some 35,000 dead. |
| 1:39.8 | 73% of Americans say, however, the worst is yet to come. |
| 1:47.5 | Pema, do we see any light at the end of the tunnel yet? |
| 1:51.5 | Oh, gosh. |
| 1:52.3 | I am not feeling, you know, I think the answer is yes and no, right? |
| 1:56.9 | I mean, we are seeing on, you know, the numbers that are coming out of New York and other places that they're devastating, but they're also not, you know, exponentially growing at this point, especially when you're looking at the deaths. |
| 2:11.1 | And so I think that that obviously feels really good. |
| 2:14.4 | And we hope that that continues. |
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