"Feeling the Consequences." The Reporters’ Roundtable March 11
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🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Russian War Crimes. GOP Putin Whiplash. Congress actually passes a budget. Jan 6th Committee revelations. GOP replays the Culture War. With Melanie Mason, National Political Correspondent at The Los Angeles Times, Jennifer Bendery, Senior Politics Reporter for HuffPost and Pema Levy, Reporter at Mother Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. It's the Bill Press pod, and it's Friday, March 11. Time for this week's |
| 0:12.5 | reporter's roundtable. For the third week in a row, the war in Ukraine dominates the news, with Russia |
| 0:19.7 | more and more targeting civilians, as many people have |
| 0:23.6 | called a war crime, which it is. The war also impacting things here in the United States, |
| 0:29.8 | Congress spending more money and sending more money to Ukraine, as well as military hardware, |
| 0:37.1 | and people, Americans, paying more at the pump. |
| 0:40.4 | Meanwhile, Republicans are still trying to decide whether they follow Donald Trump in praising |
| 0:45.3 | Vladimir Putin or follow their own gut in condemning him. And here's something new. Congress actually |
| 0:52.7 | passed a bill this week, a big bill, one and a half |
| 0:56.1 | trillion dollars with another $13 billion for Ukraine and more money for the military and more |
| 1:03.2 | money for social programs, but strangely no more money for fighting COVID. |
| 1:08.9 | While Washington sleeps, state legislatures are working all night, |
| 1:14.0 | passing legislation on what can no longer be taught in schools, according to some parents, |
| 1:21.1 | nothing about race, nothing about slavery, nothing about sex, and no books with four-letter |
| 1:26.4 | words, or in Florida, no books with the three-letter word, gay. |
| 1:31.7 | And maybe most importantly of all, baseball is back. |
| 1:35.4 | Opening day now set for April 7. |
| 1:38.8 | Joining us today to make some sense of it all, our all-star all-Women panel in honor of International Women's Day on March 8. |
| 1:49.1 | Melanie Mason joining us, national political correspondent from the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:54.4 | Hi, Melanie. |
| 1:55.4 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:56.8 | Jennifer Bendery, senior political reporter for HuffPost. |
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