Biden Looks Back At It
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🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today is the first anniversary of President Biden taking office. Yesterday, he held his first formal news conference in months to discuss his administration’s accomplishments and progress over the past year. We share our biggest takeaways from the speech that covered COVID to Congress to Afghanistan, and more.Â
Verizon and AT&T agreed to turn on nationwide 5G service yesterday, except near airports and runways due to ongoing safety concerns from the Federal Aviation Administration. Despite this decision, some flights were canceled yesterday. Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants CWA, joins us to discuss workers’ safety concerns.
And in headlines: the Supreme Court denied Trump’s request to block the release of White House records pertaining to the January 6th insurrection, two abortion-rights advocacy groups threatened to pull support from Senator Kyrsten Sinema for standing in the way of voting rights legislation, and the University of Michigan reached a $490 million settlement with over 1,000 survivors of sexual abuse by one of its former sports doctors.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday, January 20th. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Priyanka Erbindi and this is what a day, the only daily news podcast that is |
| 0:13.8 | fully recorded using smart assistant devices that are always listening in our homes. |
| 0:18.3 | Right, and in that sense, the third bike on every episode is the robot called Alexa. |
| 0:23.0 | Yes, but don't say her name because she will wake up and start talking. |
| 0:26.8 | And she could be in a bad mood. On today's show, how the rollout of 5G is |
| 0:33.5 | affecting already burned out airline staff, plus a major backer of Senator Kiersten |
| 0:38.4 | Sinema says that it will not support her if she continues to block voting rights laws. |
| 0:42.7 | But first, today is the first anniversary of President Biden taking office. |
| 0:47.3 | And yesterday, he held his first formal news conference in months to discuss his |
| 0:51.2 | administration's accomplishments and progress over the past year. |
| 0:54.9 | Yes, so that was certainly a long press conference Priyanka covered a bunch of different |
| 0:59.2 | topics from COVID to Congress to Afghanistan and more. |
| 1:02.8 | For those of us who did not have the full two hours to go through all this yesterday, |
| 1:07.4 | what were some of your biggest takeaways? |
| 1:08.9 | Yes, I watched the entire thing. So you all don't have to lucky you. |
| 1:13.8 | As you said, he covered a ton of ground, but there were definitely a few big takeaways. |
| 1:18.1 | Let's start with COVID. If you're wondering why I sound a little stuffy right now, it's |
| 1:21.7 | because I actually have COVID currently. I am recovering. I'm doing a lot better. |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah, it happens to the best of us, the bummer. I was really glad I was boosted after |
| 1:32.0 | my first J&J shot. But as more people continue to be infected with Omakron, I was really curious |
| 1:37.4 | about what he had to say. Take a listen. |
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