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Stay Tuned with Preet

Infrastructure Speak (with Pete Buttigieg)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.832.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s Infrastructure Week at CAFE!  On this episode of Stay Tuned, Preet answers listener questions about the House Select Committee’s first hearing on the January 6th insurrection, and the Office of Legal Counsel’s recent opinion on vaccine mandates.  Then, Preet interviews Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the Biden administration’s efforts to pass infrastructure legislation.  For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/infrastructure-speak-with-pete-buttigieg/ Interested in the history of American infrastructure? Check out this week’s episode of our new history podcast, Now & Then, on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen.  As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is produced by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, Noa Azulai, David Kurlander.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.

0:05.0

I'm Pete Barara.

0:07.0

You could start the clock, well, really, right around the beginning of my lifetime.

0:12.0

The last 40 years, we've just systematically disinvested and it's catching up to us.

0:18.0

So let's not just do all this work to remain in 13th place in the world on infrastructure.

0:25.0

Let's take it to the next level and be proud of it.

0:28.0

That's Pete Buttigieg.

0:33.0

He's the United States Secretary of Transportation.

0:37.0

A lot has changed since Buttigieg's last join me on Stay Tune in March of 2019.

0:42.0

He was still weeks away from launching his presidential bid and the country was just getting to know Mayor Pete from South Bend, Indiana.

0:49.0

Now Buttigieg is Secretary Pete and he's a key player in the Biden administration's efforts to pass the most significant investment in America's infrastructure since the 1950s.

0:59.0

But it all hangs in the balance as the White House struggles to hammer out the details and piece together the votes.

1:05.0

Buttigieg joins me today to talk about what's actually in the bill and what it would mean for our trains, roads, bridges and the livelihoods of millions of Americans.

1:14.0

That's coming up. Stay tuned.

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Now let's get to your questions.

2:00.0

This question comes in an email from Barbara Wright Highpreet.

2:03.0

Did you happen to watch the House Select Committee's first hearing on the January 6th insurrection?

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