"Leapt Right Over the Low Expectations" -The Reporters' Roundtable-Mar 26
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🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Biden. Border. Voting Rights. Gun Safety. DC Statehood. With Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor at Politico, Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor at NBC News Digital and Scott Wong, Senior Staff Writer at The Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. It's Friday morning, March 26, about 8.30 a.m. Washington time. |
| 0:14.0 | And time for this week's roundtable on the Bill Press pod. Welcome. And what a news-filled week it's been with so much to talk about. Another mass |
| 0:24.1 | shooting this time in Boulder, Colorado, with renewed calls led by the president for stronger gun safety |
| 0:30.3 | laws. A revived push for making Washington, D.C., the 51st state, attempts to expand voting rights in Congress in face of attempts to suppress |
| 0:40.7 | voting rights in many states, starting with Georgia, a looming battle over whether to kill or |
| 0:46.8 | reform the Senate filibuster, and Joe Biden's first official news conference as president. |
| 0:54.1 | What's the big takeaway from all? |
| 0:56.1 | Well, let's ask today's panel. |
| 0:58.1 | Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington editor for NBC News Digital. |
| 1:02.1 | Hello, Ginger. |
| 1:03.4 | Hello, thanks for having me. |
| 1:05.0 | Scott Wong, senior staff writer, covers Congress for the Hill. |
| 1:09.3 | Hello, Scott. |
| 1:10.7 | Hi, Bill. And Sudeep Reddy, managing editor of |
| 1:14.2 | Politico. Sadipe, good to have you back. Hi, Bill. Good to be here. So there was an east room |
| 1:19.3 | of the White House yesterday, President Biden. We got our first look at him in that role as his first |
| 1:27.4 | official presidential news conference, where he |
| 1:31.5 | kind of summed up who he is and how he sees his job. |
| 1:39.0 | When I took office, I decided that it was a fairly basic, simple proposition, and that is I got elected to solve problems. |
| 1:49.3 | And the most urgent problem faced the American people I stated from the outset was COVID-19 and the economic dislocation for millions and millions of Americans. |
| 2:01.1 | And he stressed the fact that politics is the art of the possible. |
| 2:06.3 | Practical guy, politics, the art of the possible. |
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