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The Chuck ToddCast

‘Existential threats’ multiply as voting & climate legislation come to an end

The Chuck ToddCast

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Government, News

4.02.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jackie Calmes, columnist at the Los Angeles Times and Olivier Knox, Washington Post reporter and author of the Daily 202 newsletter, join Chuck to talk about the balance between urgency and emergency.

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Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast. So today's Wednesday.

0:40.5

This is when we're taping and the Senate is a vote scheduled this afternoon on a voting rights bill.

0:44.8

Democrats have called the bill the For the People Act and they say its passage is

0:48.1

crucial for protecting the country against an existential threat.

0:52.2

And by the time you hear this, Republicans will have most likely fellabustered and blocked the bill.

0:56.5

Meanwhile, negotiations continue over President Biden's domestic spending bill with the

0:59.8

provision over clean energy likely dropped from the deal. They seem to know what's going to be in the bill.

1:04.8

They don't know how they're going to pay for it right now. But that's, meanwhile,

1:09.4

the bigger unknown is what is the climate change provisions going to be? By the way, climate change

1:15.2

and other existential threat. It's not going to be fully addressed as well as some people think it

1:18.9

needs to be in the final product. And then there's former President Trump and his repeated lies about

1:23.2

an election he lost each time he an elected leader, Winks and Nodds at the former president,

1:27.6

or I wish we'd focus on the future and not on the past. They help undermine the authority of our

1:32.4

system of government, which sounds like you guessed it in another existential threat.

1:36.0

But why are all these do-or-die issues ending the same way? Is it the media's fault for focusing on

1:40.3

the wrong thing? Should Trump be allowed back on social media? So more folks can actually see the

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