James Fallows on Repairing the Country from the Pandemic and Trump

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Journalist James Fallows says the Biden Administration is facing harder decisions than most new administrations because, he writes, “In addition to looking forward, to all the problems they are now supposed to solve, they must look backward, to reckoning with what Donald Trump and his enablers have done.” On the first day of President Trump’s impeachment trial, we’ll talk with The Atlantic writer about how Biden should triage the multiple crises on his hands. And we’ll get his assessment of the administration’s early policy moves and impeachment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.8	The Senate's impeachment trial of Donald Trump is set to begin in
0:55.0	just an hour. We'll talk with journalist James Fallows about what to expect and the purpose of a
1:00.4	second impeachment trial that everyone expects will end in an acquittal. Meanwhile, President Biden is
1:05.8	reckoning with multiple crises stemming from the pandemic. We'll talk with Fallows about how the Biden administration should triage the nation's problems
1:13.7	and will assess the new administration's early policy moves.
1:17.7	That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. The Senate will open the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump in about an hour,
1:45.3	and they'll begin today with a debate over whether it's constitutional to prosecute a president for
1:50.0	impeachment after he's left office. National correspondent for the Atlantic, James Fallows,
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