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Krystal Kyle & Friends

Episode 83: David Dayen

Krystal Kyle & Friends

Krystal

News, Politics

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week's guest is David Dayen, executive editor of the Prospect. He takes us through the shocking developments behind this week's Manchin-Schumer deal.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody to Crystal Kyle and Friends.

0:09.2

Today we're going to be talking to a man by the name of David Dayan and one of the greats.

0:14.2

I like him.

0:15.2

I don't know how many of our audience are familiar with him because some people are more

0:19.0

just, I want to watch the stuff, I consume about news, others are more, let me read about

0:23.6

it.

0:24.6

But he has this outlet called the American Prospect and they do a phenomenal job.

0:29.2

So I'm really happy to have him on.

0:30.8

He's been a guy who I follow for a long time just to let everybody know, you know, the thing

0:34.9

I know him most for and you could chime in with what you know him most for but he's the

0:38.3

guy who set up the Biden executive order tracker at the beginning of his presidency.

0:42.2

Yeah.

0:43.2

And I was like, here are the things he can do.

0:44.6

Here are the things that, you know, at least to this point that he hasn't, hasn't done

0:48.5

and he tracks it and it's very vital and crucial information and he's as big of a policy

0:53.4

wonk as you can get.

0:55.1

I think that type of work is so incredibly essential because it's one thing for us to sit

1:01.1

here and say like they should do more, but he's saying here are concrete things they could

1:06.8

be doing and are choosing not to and goes way beyond, you know, the obvious things like

1:11.2

descheduling marijuana and student loan debt relief like a whole mass of executive orders

1:17.4

they could be doing and are not and they can really the whole outlet can be counted

1:21.5

on to dive into the details of policy in a way that is profoundly helpful and important

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