"Calamity for the GOP"-The Roundtable August 14th
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🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Harris energizes. Trump caught flat-footed. Biden: Wear a mask! No new stimulus deal. DNC preview. With Chris Lu, fmr. Obama WH Cabinet Secretary, John Bennett, Washington Bureau Chief, The Independent, Lauren Burke writer at Black Press USA and Nicholas Wu, covering Congress for USA TODAY.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bill Press pod. It's Friday, August 14th, 2020. As you may have guessed, |
| 0:13.2 | this isn't Bill Press. This is Chris Liu. Bill is taking some well-deserved time off, |
| 0:18.2 | and I'm honored that Bill has asked me to guest host this week's |
| 0:21.2 | reporter's roundtable. The big political news of the week is the selection of California |
| 0:25.8 | Senator Kamala Harris to join the Democratic ticket. It's a historic set of first, the first |
| 0:31.0 | African-American woman, the first Asian-American on a major party ticket. And the new Biden-Harris |
| 0:37.4 | ticket officially did their first |
| 0:38.9 | events together this week in Wilmington, Delaware. This coming Monday, the Democratic Convention |
| 0:43.8 | kicks off completely virtually with two hours of programming each night featuring not just |
| 0:48.7 | Biden and Harris, but also the Obama's, Clintons, and at least one notable Republican. And the pandemic continues to surge around the country. |
| 0:56.7 | While overall cases seem to be easing a bit, deaths continue to rise on a V-shaped. |
| 1:02.0 | Meanwhile, negotiations on another round of economic relief seem to be over for now. |
| 1:06.9 | We have a great group of panelists for this week's political roundtable. |
| 1:10.1 | John Bennett is Washington Bureau Chief of the Independent. |
| 1:13.1 | You can follow him on Twitter at Bennett John T. |
| 1:17.3 | Good morning, John. |
| 1:18.7 | Good morning. Thanks for having. |
| 1:20.7 | Lauren Burke is a writer for Black Press USA. |
| 1:23.3 | You can follow her on L. Burke, 007. |
| 1:26.1 | Good morning, Lauren. |
| 1:27.1 | Hey, good morning. |
| 1:28.5 | And Nicholas Wu is a congressional reporter for USA Today. |
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