Dems are "Using Pure Power Politics." -The Reporters' Roundtable Feb 5
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Recovery Act Popularity/GOP Obstruction. Capitol Security Failure. Vaccine Success. Trump Owns GOP. Cancel Culture BS. With Eliza Collins, Politics Reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Addy Baird, Politics & Government Reporter, BuzzFeed News and Igor Bobic, Politics Reporter at HuffPost.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and neighbors. It's Friday morning, March 5. And time for this week's roundtable |
| 0:12.6 | with three top Washington political reporters. Debate starts today in the Senate over President |
| 0:19.0 | Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, 70% of Americans |
| 0:24.0 | support it, but all 50 Republican senators oppose it. What are the chances? Health experts |
| 0:30.6 | warn we're not out of the woods yet on COVID-19, but more and more states are relaxing or |
| 0:36.3 | canceling mask-wearing mandates and other protective measures. |
| 0:40.3 | Are we risking a new surge in coronavirus cases? |
| 0:45.1 | President Biden sides with workers trying to form a union at an Amazon plant in Alabama. |
| 0:51.3 | And on the personality front, the White House drops near a tandon like a hot potato. |
| 0:57.6 | Governor Cuomo says he's sorry, but he's not resigning. |
| 1:01.3 | Mike Pence comes out of hiding to echo Donald Trump's claims of election fraud. |
| 1:06.7 | And Dr. Seuss has green eggs and ham all over his face. |
| 1:11.9 | Well, here today to make some sense of it from BuzzFeed, political reporter, |
| 1:16.9 | Addie Baird from the Wall Street Journal, political reporter Eliza Collins, |
| 1:21.1 | and from Huffington Post, the king of the iPhone camera, political reporter, Igor Babish. |
| 1:28.2 | Hello, guys. Good morning. |
| 1:29.8 | Good morning. |
| 1:31.4 | Hi, Bill. |
| 1:32.6 | Okay, good to have you all here. |
| 1:34.7 | So, Igor, you were up most of the night because, thanks to Senator Ron Johnson, |
| 1:43.2 | Senate clerks had to read the entire stimulus bill before they could proceed with debate. |
| 1:49.7 | How exciting was that and how many votes were changed by going through that whole charade? |
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