Is the Country Calming Down?

The Mona Charen Show

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Charlie Sykes joins the group to discuss the infrastructure Rubik's cube, the Republican governors' war on public health, and whether the big strife is past. ————— Highlights/Lowlights: https://www.census.gov/en.html https://www.bradleyfdn.org/prizes/ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-proposed-consent-decree-state-new-jersey-resolve-claims-edna-mahan Special Guests: Bill Galston, Charles Sykes, Damon Linker, and Linda Chavez.

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0:36.2	in all bookshops and online right now. Welcome to Beg to Bueg to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the
0:54.8	political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona
0:58.9	Charon, indicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwark and I am joined by our regulars Bill
1:04.2	Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker of
1:09.2	the Week, and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.
1:13.0	Our special guest this week is the host of the hugely popular
1:16.1	Bullark Daily Podcast, Charlie Sykes.
1:20.2	Welcome, one and all.
1:22.2	Well, it really is infrastructure week finally.
1:26.7	It happened. The Senate, well at least the Senate did.
1:30.0	The Senate voted to move forward on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill.
1:36.3	It passed it by a vote of 69 to 30.
1:41.0	So that included 19 Republicans voted for this. So I'm going to start with you Bill
1:49.3	Galston. There are a lot of moving parts here. We are a long way from actual passage for a lot of complicated
1:55.8	reasons. But my first question to you is, is this a vindication of Biden's philosophy that bipartisanship is? of No, I don't think just any old president would have been able to do this.
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