Biden Signs Bill to Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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First, Chris discusses Biden's signing of the bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday with author Ibram X. Kendi. Then, Chris goes one-on-one with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy. Chris wraps up the show with Dr. Zeke Emanuel on the Supreme Court's decision to keep the Affordable Care Act in place. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, thank you very much, Coup.
0:01.1	I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
0:03.5	Surprise!
0:04.5	We have a new national holiday, starting now.
0:07.8	Happy June 10th.
0:09.5	Mary, June 10th.
0:11.2	A blessed, June 10th.
0:13.4	All positive qualifiers should apply,
0:15.9	because today we'll go down in history as the birth
0:19.4	of the first federal holiday created since MLK Day in 1983.
0:24.8	It is to commemorate the end of slavery post-civil war
0:28.9	in 1865.
0:30.8	President Biden signed the June 10th National Independence Day
0:35.6	Act earlier at the White House.
0:37.2	He calls it one of the greatest honors he will have as president,
0:40.8	surrounded by the first Black Vice President of America,
0:43.7	lawmakers, and guests, including our special guest tonight.
0:48.1	94-year-old, Opal Lee.
0:51.0	You're going to meet her in a little while tonight.
0:52.8	The grandmother of June 10th.
0:54.8	She'll be first to call you, tell you.
0:56.4	It was a lot of people, not just me,
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