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The Fox News Rundown

Fox News Rundown Extra: Can Civility Be Restored In A Post-Impeachment Washington?

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Bitter partisanship was on full display this week in Washington. Tuesday's State of the Union was full of political theater. President Trump accused of snubbing Speaker Nancy Pelosi's attempt at a handshake. Speaker Pelosi ending the night by dramatically ripping of the President State of the Union speech. And all of that took place just hours before only the third presidential trial in American history where Trump was acquitted of two impeachment charges and avoided removal in a near party-line vote. So, how does America heal and move forward as the 2020 election heats up? This is what we asked Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) earlier this week on the Rundown. He co-chairs the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, whose members all wore purple ties or scarves to State of The Union to symbolize unity. Rep. Reed told host Jessica Rosenthal how he is working with Democrats to get bipartisan bills passed despite a very divided country and Congress. The New York Congressman also laid out a plan to bring down the temperature and bring civility back to Washington D.C.. Because of time, we could not include our entire conversation in our original Fox news Rundown segment. On the Fox News Rundown Extra you will hear our full conversation with Congressman Reed where he addresses more of this week's tense political movements, but explains why he believes most of the country still wants unity, civility and less heated rhetoric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jessica Rosenthal.

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Earlier this week, we spoke to two congressmen, one former

0:25.8

and one current, about the end of the impeachment trial and after the president's

0:29.8

state of the union during which Speaker Pelosi dramatically ripped up the President's speech.

0:34.7

We talked to New York Republican Congressman Tom Reed and former Democratic Congressman Harold

0:39.0

Ford Jr.

0:40.0

We wanted to talk about how we move on now, how we heal after the deep division the country's been experiencing.

0:45.0

Reed, who heads the Problem Solvers Caucus in the House, showed up to the State of the Union wearing purple, as did other members of his caucus, to symbolize unity, not red or blue,

0:56.4

but the color the mixture of those two creates.

0:59.4

But it may have been lost among all the theatrics. Still Reed believes most of the country wants

1:04.6

unity, civility, less heated rhetoric, do we? Our conversation with Reed was

1:10.2

far-ranging but we had to edit it down for time this past week. We thought you might

1:14.1

like to hear the whole thing. Thanks for listening. Now here's Congressman Tom Reed

1:18.3

on the Fox News rundown extra. Thank you so much for doing this. Thanks for your time.

1:26.4

No, I appreciate. You guys taking an interest here. This is helpful.

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