Mask On, Run Off with Senator Ed Markey
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🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today's Senate runoffs in Georgia will determine control of Congress, the future of economic relief, and the country’s response to existential threats like climate change. We spoke to Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey about the Georgia races, what Biden can do on his own on climate, and how to deal with Republicans who want to erase the will of voters.
And in headlines: the UK says Assange can’t be extradited to the US, hundreds of Google workers unionize, and Florida counties use EventBrite for vaccine scheduling.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 5th. I'm Hila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day coming to you on the official last day of the 2020 election. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, it's been a real long time. I've been waking up with Chris Cuomo, looking at buttons being like, what does this wall do? |
| 0:20.0 | But it's almost over. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, I've been wearing khakis every single day in solidarity with Kornaki and I'm excited to take them off. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm freaking out. |
| 0:35.0 | On today's show, the Georgia runoffs and a conversation about what is at stake with Senator Ed Markey, then some headlines. |
| 0:41.0 | But first the latest. |
| 0:42.0 | And the debate over $2,000 is in some abstract debate in Washington. |
| 0:48.0 | It's about real lives. |
| 0:50.0 | Your lives, the lives of good, hard work in Americans. |
| 0:53.0 | And if you're like millions of Americans all across this country, you need the money. You need to help. |
| 0:59.0 | And you need it now. |
| 1:01.0 | That was President-elect Joe Biden yesterday in Georgia. |
| 1:04.0 | Today is finally the day of their Senate runoffs where Democrats John Assoff and Rafael Warnock are running against incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Laughler. |
| 1:13.0 | The races have taken on historic importance for a number of reasons. |
| 1:16.0 | Biden won the state in November, becoming the first Democrat to do so since 1992, and his agenda will be shaped by what happens there. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, so no pressure. And that's because wins by Assoff and Warnock would give Democrats the Senate majority. |
| 1:29.0 | That point, and specifically that a Democratic majority would secure more economic relief without Republican leadership just obstructing it, has been a big focus of Democratic messaging. |
| 1:38.0 | Meanwhile, President Trump also visited the state last night where he began his event as we started recording by saying there's no way he lost Georgia and that the election was rigged. |
| 1:46.0 | And also that he hopes Vice President Pence comes through for him on Wednesday. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah. |
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