"Life and Death." The Reporters' Roundtable-July 30
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🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Mask/Jab Mandates. Infrastructure Moving. January 6th Testimony. Pelosi Crushes McCarthy. With Eliza Collins, Politics Reporter on the Hill for The Wall Street Journal, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost and Hunter Walker, Reporter, TheUprising.info.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.6 | We're back again on the Bill Press pod this Friday morning, July 30, around 8.30 a.m. |
| 0:14.0 | in Washington, D.C. for our weekly roundtable. |
| 0:17.7 | Looking back on the big news of the week with three of Washington's top political reporters. |
| 0:22.4 | And what a week it's been. |
| 0:24.5 | Things were actually happening in Washington this week. |
| 0:27.8 | We even saw something called legislating. |
| 0:30.9 | We haven't seen in a long time. |
| 0:32.8 | In no particular order, we experienced the first hearing of the January 6th Select Committee with |
| 0:40.0 | dramatic emotional testimony from four police officers. Renewal of the mask mandate in the House |
| 0:46.5 | of Representatives met, shall we say, with a mixed reaction, a vaccination mandate in effect |
| 0:53.3 | for all federal employees, and believe it or not, |
| 0:56.8 | 67 senators, 50 Democrats and 17 Republicans, voting to move forward to debate a $1 trillion |
| 1:05.2 | infrastructure bill. |
| 1:08.0 | What's the big takeaway from all of it? |
| 1:10.3 | Well, let's find out from today's panel. |
| 1:12.7 | Eliza Collins, political politics reporter for the Hill for the Wall Street Journal. Hello, |
| 1:18.5 | Eliza. Hi there. Igor Babish, also on the Hill, senior politics reporter at HuffPose. Hello, Igor. |
| 1:26.8 | Hello. |
| 1:27.8 | And Hunter Walker, he's everywhere, founder and reporter of the new politics newsletter, |
| 1:34.7 | The Uprising.S. Info. Hello, Hunter. |
| 1:38.3 | Hey, Bill. |
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