"In No Uncertain Terms." The Reporters' Roundtable Jan 7
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🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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January 6th Anniversary: Biden Speech. Hate in Congress. AG Garland Speaks Up. Former Staffers vs, TFG. Threats of Political Violence. Voting Rights. Democrats Retiring. With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter at The Wall Street Journal and Political Analyst at CNN, Maya King, Covering national politics at Politico and Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, happy new year. Welcome to the Bill Press Pod and the first reporter's roundtable of 2022. |
| 0:15.5 | Of course, there was no way this new year could have started without looking back to the first week of last year, January 6, |
| 0:22.6 | 2021, which will always be remembered as one of the worst days in American history, the impact of which is far from over. |
| 0:31.8 | To mark the occasion, President Biden made history with a powerful speech from the Capitol |
| 0:36.3 | Rotunda yesterday. the first time a |
| 0:39.8 | sitting president has called the former president a liar. He urged leaders of both parties to come |
| 0:46.2 | together to rebuild our democracy, yet in a sober reminder of how divided the country still is, just a couple of hours later, for a prayer service to remember the victims of January 6th, only two Republicans showed up, Liz Cheney, and her father. |
| 1:06.5 | In related news, Democrats push for a vote on voting rights legislation, and some former Trump |
| 1:12.2 | White House staffers are now mounting an effort to expose and depose him. Here today, to make |
| 1:19.7 | some sense of it all, three of Washington's top political reporters, starting with Sabrina Siddiqui, |
| 1:25.5 | White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Hi, Sabrina. |
| 1:29.0 | Hi, how are you? Okay, Maya King, joining us, National Political Reporter for Politico. Hello, |
| 1:35.3 | Maya. Hi, Bill. And Igor Babish, senior politics reporter for Health Post. Igor, welcome aboard. |
| 1:43.2 | So, what we heard yesterday from President Biden, |
| 1:48.0 | not only Joe Biden like we've never heard him before, but a speech unlike any president in our |
| 1:57.1 | history has ever given before, certainly one for the history books. |
| 2:02.0 | I'd like to get each of your, because you cover this, you were there, your reaction to the |
| 2:07.6 | speech, starting with three quotes from the president, one for each of you. |
| 2:14.6 | Let's start with, here, Sabrina, President President Biden talking about the web of lies that the |
| 2:21.2 | former president has spread. And here's the truth. A former president of the United States of America |
| 2:26.5 | has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He's done so because he values |
| 2:33.7 | power over principle |
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