Interviews with: Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Congressman-elect Mike Lawler

State of the Union

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🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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First, Secretary of State Antony Blinken sits down with Jake Tapper to discuss why the Biden administration has not labeled Russia a state sponsor of terrorism despite calls to do so. Also, Jake asks chair of the Senate Banking Committee Sen. Sherrod Brown about his opinion on how the Fed should fight inflation after the US economy added 263,000 jobs in November. Jake also presses him on why it has taken so long to pass protections and regulations for Americans investing in cryptocurrency. Plus, Congressman-elect Mike Lawler shares whether he is worried that House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy will not reach the 218 votes he needs to win speakership. And, the panel joins Jake to discuss this week’s Georgia Senate runoff election and Joe Biden’s proposed 2024 primary calendar changes. Finally, Jake examines how Donald Trump has avoided condemning Kanye West’s anti-Semitic rhetoric and how GOP leaders have recently avoided criticizing Trump for having dinner with West and a prominent white supremacist. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Georgia rematch.
0:07.3	Once again, Georgia votes.
0:11.5	As Democrats hope to improve their Senate margin, what would they do with it?
0:18.1	One progressive with ambitious plans for December, Senator Sherrod Brown joins us in moments.
0:22.8	And, the next fight, Kevin McCarthy tries to shore up his support for Speaker as his
0:27.5	party face is an uproar over Donald Trump's ties to anti-Semites and his new call to
0:32.7	terminate the Constitution.
0:34.6	What will a Republican-controlled House look like?
0:37.0	New Republican Congressman Mike Lawler is ahead.
0:39.3	Plus, defiance, mass protests erupt in China.
0:44.3	And more bloody crackdowns against protesters in Iran is the Biden administration doing enough
0:49.1	to help the fight for freedom.
0:50.7	Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins me next.
0:57.5	Hello, I'm Jake Tapper in Washington, where the state of our union is wondering what is
1:04.3	on Georgia's mind.
1:05.8	Voters are turning out in record numbers this week and they run off between Senator Raphael
1:09.6	Warnock, the Democrat and Herschel Walker, the Republican.
1:12.7	On Tuesday, Democrats will find out if Warnock is headed back to the Senate, giving his party
1:17.6	some breathing room as they try this month to pass key priorities before Republicans take
1:22.8	over the House of Representatives in January.
1:25.4	Now this week we got a hint of what a Republican-controlled House could look like as a handful of
1:29.9	lawmakers on the fringe of the Republican Party, frankly, vowed to block leader Kevin McCarthy's
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