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What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Trump leaves office today after four years of hellish incompetence. We reflect on the challenges President Biden and Vice-President Harris will inherit as they takeover.
The Senate trial for Trump’s impeachment still looms, as do Cabinet confirmations. Plus, Biden plans to send Congress a major immigration bill today, which is expected to include a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants living in the US without legal status.
And in headlines: the SAT’s will no longer have optional essays or subject tests, corporations pause donations to GOP lawmakers who voted not to certify the election, and North Carolina Senator Richard Burr won’t be charged with insider trading.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 20th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we are calling for a complete shutdown of government flights from DC to Florida today until we can figure out what is going on. |
| 0:17.4 | Yeah, best to just reroute them to a remote island somewhere until we have all the facts, you know? |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah, and please cut communications to that island for the next five to ten years. |
| 0:27.0 | You know, make it 20. This is counting. |
| 0:34.7 | On today's show, what Congress will be doing in the first days of Biden's administration, then some headlines. |
| 0:39.5 | But first the latest. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah, that was just better get out parentheses leave because guess what Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States starting today. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, I'm telling a boy bye for all of us. |
| 1:13.7 | That's great. I think we should communicate solely through songs for the rest of the show. |
| 1:18.8 | Totally. |
| 1:19.7 | About all of our feelings on this. |
| 1:20.9 | Okay, so yeah, on that note, this is the day of transition and just wanted to take a few moments to reflect on the state of things as Trump leaves office as we tell him boy bye. |
| 1:30.2 | After four years of hellish incompetence. |
| 1:32.8 | So let's start with the state of the pandemic. |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah, as well, we should. |
| 1:36.1 | So this week marks one year of COVID cases in the United States with the first recorded case being found in Washington state. |
| 1:42.8 | And yesterday marked the darkest milestone yet with 400,000 confirmed COVID deaths in America. |
| 1:48.4 | America was not always the epicenter and in fact had several months heads up before the crisis got out of control. |
| 1:54.0 | But without any leadership coming from the top, our bad response got even worse. |
| 1:57.9 | There was little federal support for localities. |
| 2:00.2 | They often loosen restrictions too soon and no consensus was available for anything from mask usage to lockdown enforcement. |
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