"Can't Wish it Away." The Reporters' Roundtable - May 22
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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"Mail-in Voter Fraud" Fraud. Is Trump really taking that drug? Biden moving left. Veepstakes. Bill talks it all out with Pema Levy of Mother Jones, Igor Bobic of the Huffington Post and Chris Lu, fmr top Obama WH aide and Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's roundtable, looking back on another |
| 0:13.8 | coronavirus week. |
| 0:15.7 | Among the big news of the week on the coronavirus front, 1.6 million cases of COVID-19 now in the United States, |
| 0:24.5 | and 95,000 people have now died from the disease. Donald Trump still refuses to wear a mask |
| 0:30.9 | in public, at least, and gleefully announces he's taking hydroxychloric wine. On the economic front, all 50 states have started to |
| 0:40.3 | reopen businesses, some gradually, some full war, and 38 million Americans are now out of a job. |
| 0:48.9 | On the political front, Donald Trump threatens to publish any state that expands the opportunity to vote by mail, |
| 0:57.9 | and Joe Biden struggles to stay relevant from his basement in Wilmington, Delaware. |
| 1:03.2 | On today's panel, to tackle at all, Pemma Levy, political reporter for Mother Jones. |
| 1:08.4 | Hello, Pema. |
| 1:09.6 | Hi, Bill. Thanks for having me. Igor Babish |
| 1:12.5 | Politics Reporter for Huff Post. Hello, Igor. Hello, Bill. And Chris Liu, |
| 1:19.1 | former Deputy Secretary of Labor under President Obama, now senior fellow at the University of |
| 1:24.3 | Virginia's Miller Center. Hello, Chris. good to have you with us, too. |
| 1:28.3 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:29.4 | Hey, thank you all for joining us. |
| 1:31.6 | So President Trump yesterday went out to Michigan, visiting a Ford plant, now making |
| 1:36.5 | ventilators. |
| 1:37.9 | He refused again to wear a mask, even though he was asked to, to wear a mask in public. |
| 1:47.2 | And even though Michigan is such a hot spot for coronavirus, the president didn't talk much about COVID-19. He talked about vote by |
| 1:55.1 | mail. Chris, what's going on? Well, look, it's it's the height of hypocrisy. I mean, he's trying to point out |
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