ITT Sound Off: Vaccine Chaos
In The Thick
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🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Sound Off, Julio and guest co-host Jamilah King, reporter and host of the Mother Jones podcast, talk about the latest in impeachment news following the Capitol Hill attack. They also dig into the complications of vaccine rollout, and hear from Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, about the Biden administration's immigration policy. ITT Staff Picks: - "They are no longer private citizens — they are government officials now, and their words carry even more weight." ITT All-Star Andrea González-RamĂrez writes about the "anti-Squad" that found its way to Congress, via GEN by Medium. - "Unless Washington and its allies quickly do more to address what’s happening in the planet’s poorest places, however, virtually everyone everywhere will soon face a lot more pain," writes Jonathan Tepperman about the failing global vaccine rollout, for Foreign Policy. - In this op-ed for The New York Times, Jean Guerrero looks at the millions of deportations carried out during the Obama administration that left immigrant communities fractured. Photo credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Â
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| 0:25.0 | Welcome to The thick, I'm Julio Riccalo Guarela. |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm Jamila King, and this is I T sound off. |
| 0:35.0 | First of all, thank you for guest co-hosting this month on the Fridays. |
| 0:40.0 | We're getting a lot of love. |
| 0:42.0 | I read the tweets. You're good at this. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm like the coronavirus you just can't get rid of me. |
| 0:46.0 | Oh man, okay. All right. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm not like that at all. |
| 0:51.0 | No, you're not. You're not. |
| 0:52.0 | I promise I'm a lot better. |
| 0:53.8 | You're a great colleague and a friend and we're really, really happy that you stepped up for |
| 0:57.0 | Marianne Hosa this month and our listeners appreciate it too. |
| 1:00.6 | So let's get to it with our first topic which I wanted to talk about this and I'm glad we did it's the impeachment of Donald Trump because on Tuesday |
| 1:10.3 | 45 Senate Republicans voted to dismiss the trial as unconstitutional, you know, a reminder |
| 1:16.6 | that two-thirds majority is needed to convict Trump. |
| 1:19.7 | So it doesn't look like that's going to happen now. And despite all these calls for senators Ted Cruz and |
| 1:25.8 | Josh Holly to resign, there hasn't been any real accountability in the GOP. I actually saw like Matt Gates, he went out in Wyoming because |
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