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The Bulwark Podcast

Manu Raju: The Hostage Crisis on Capitol Hill

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

House Republicans are bickering and calling each other names, while the Matt Gaetz caucus threatens to hold the country hostage with a government shutdown. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans think the dress code change is the most important story of the week. Manu Raju joins Charlie Sykes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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in all bookshops and online right now. Welcome to the Bull Work Podcast, I'm Charlie Sykes. It is a busy day, a shambolic day on Capitol Hill, which means it's another day that ends with why?

0:56.1

Is that right?

0:57.1

So to sort all this out for us, we are joined by Manu Raju, chief congressional correspondent

1:02.1

for CNN.

1:03.0

And, hey, congratulations,

1:05.0

because this Sunday, you debut as the new anchor of Inside Politics

1:10.3

11 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday so congratulations, Mona.

1:14.6

Thank you. I'm very very excited. It's going to be a great show. I hope everyone will watch.

1:19.5

I'll be able to use all my reporting from the Hill and roll it out on Sunday and provide viewers about

1:25.4

what's going on and behind the scene.

1:27.2

So I hope you can tune it.

1:28.8

Okay, so I'm going to ask you some tough questions about the media in the age of Trump a little bit later, but can we just

1:33.6

sort out what happened yesterday, what is going on? Kevin McCarthy goes to the floor,

1:40.0

basically dares the right wing, vote against this defense bill, at least the rule in the

1:44.6

defense bill, and it goes down.

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