Different This Time?...The Reporters' Roundtable - June 4th
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Trump, under attack, bunkers down. Protests keep going and so does Covid-19. Is Biden a lock? With Hunter Walker, White House Correspondent for Yahoo News, Lauren Burke, Writer for Black Press USA and Niall Stanage, White House Columnist for The Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's roundtable, a chance for us to look back on the news of the week with three of Washington's finest. |
| 0:17.9 | It's been a week of protests and virus as we meet on Thursday, June 4, about 8.30 in the |
| 0:24.2 | morning. In hundreds of cities across the land, there have been 10 nights of protests now, |
| 0:29.4 | too many of which turned into riots. Several large cities, including here in Washington, |
| 0:34.7 | D.C. are still under curfew. By their very nature, of course, protests are large numbers of people crowded together. |
| 0:42.2 | Just the kind of gathering we've been warned against as we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic, |
| 0:48.3 | as a result of which health officials fear another spike in COVID-19 cases. |
| 0:54.1 | Here in the U.S., the count is now 1.9 million cases and 109,000 |
| 0:59.9 | deaths. The protests were also enough to kick the 2020 presidential campaign back into gear, |
| 1:07.0 | with Donald Trump emerging from the White House to waive a Bible in Lafayette Square, |
| 1:12.5 | and Joe Biden emerging from his basement in Wilmington, Delaware, |
| 1:15.8 | to give speeches in Wilmington and Philadelphia. |
| 1:19.5 | Busy week, here to make some sense of it all. |
| 1:22.1 | From Yahoo News, Hunter Walker. |
| 1:24.8 | Hello, Hunter. |
| 1:25.9 | Hey, Bill. How are you? |
| 1:27.4 | All right. And from Black News USA, Lauren Burke. |
| 1:31.3 | Hello, Lauren. |
| 1:32.3 | How are you? |
| 1:33.3 | Good to have you back. And back with us from the Hill. |
| 1:36.3 | Nile Stanage. Hello, Nile. |
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