"Infrastructure Week"! The Reporters' Roundtable-April 1
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🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Infrastructure. Govs vs. CDC. Border. Matt Gaetz/Tucker Carlson. Chauvin Trial. With Jennifer Haberkorn, Congressional Reporter for The LA Times, Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America and Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter for NBC News.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends on this Thursday, April 1, and this is no April Fool's joke. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to the Bill Press Pod Roundtable, one day early this week, but still lots and lots to talk about. |
| 0:20.0 | This busy week included perhaps the biggest and boldest new government initiative since the days of FDR. |
| 0:27.9 | President Joe Biden's Rebuild America plan for new highways, new bridges, new electric grid, new broadband nationwide, new electric cars, trucks, and buses. |
| 0:39.2 | But does it have a prayer of getting through Congress? Meanwhile, all eyes glued on Minneapolis, where in effect, |
| 0:45.2 | all Americans now sit on the jury in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. |
| 0:51.4 | Red state and blue state governors ignore pleas of the CDC to keep mandatory masks in order. |
| 0:58.8 | Leading Trump supporter Matt Gates, no, not today's panelist, Matt Gertz, is under investigation for sex with a 17-year-old, sorry, Matt, |
| 1:08.5 | and it's opening day for Major League Baseball to almost empty stadiums nationwide. |
| 1:15.5 | So let's get right to it with Jennifer Habercorn, congressional correspondent for the L.A. Times. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello, Jen. |
| 1:23.4 | Hi, Bill. |
| 1:24.1 | Good to have you back. |
| 1:25.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.0 | Matt Gertz, aforementioned, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America. |
| 1:30.7 | Hello, Matt. |
| 1:31.6 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:32.2 | Good to be here. |
| 1:33.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:33.9 | And Alex Seitzwald Political Reporter for NBC News. |
| 1:38.0 | Hello, Alex. |
| 1:38.7 | Hey, Bill. |
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