"Not Under Control." The Reporters' Roundtable -Dec 30
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🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Omicron Surge. Jan 6 Anniversary. Midterm Maps and Harry Reid. With Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor, NBC News Digital, Niall Stanage, White House Columnist, The Hill, Kirk Bado, Managing Editor, National Journal Hotline and Hunter Walker, Founder and Reporter, The Uprising Newsletter on Substack.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:08.6 | Sitting in for Bill this week, I'm Jim Jir Gibson, the deputy Washington editor at NBC News Digital. |
| 0:14.4 | Joining me this week, Nile Stanich, White House columnist with the Hill, Kirk Beto, managing editor at National Journal Hotline, |
| 0:22.3 | and Hunter Walker, founder and reporter of the uprising newsletter on Substack. First, we'll discuss |
| 0:28.4 | the latest wave of the coronavirus that is sweeping the nation as the White House struggles |
| 0:33.2 | to make testing available, and the CDC is defending their latest recommendation. |
| 0:38.9 | New redistricting maps are finished in Virginia and Michigan. |
| 0:42.2 | Did it not go as badly for Democrats as many had worried? |
| 0:46.3 | Next week we'll mark the one-year anniversary of the January 6th riot. |
| 0:50.9 | Where are we now on holding those accountable a year later? We'll take an extra look at some of the |
| 0:56.7 | most important but underappreciated stories of the last year. And finally, we will be talking about |
| 1:02.6 | Harry Reid, the titan of the Senate who we lost this week. And at the end of the podcast, when Bill, |
| 1:08.6 | who was all spending time with his family in California, will join us briefly to share his thoughts on the life of the podcast when Bill, who was all spending time with his family in California, |
| 1:11.6 | who will join us briefly to share his thoughts on the life of the majority leader. |
| 1:15.8 | Let's jump right into the news. |
| 1:17.7 | We've all seen as COVID's spread across the nation, we've seen a huge uptick in cases |
| 1:25.2 | over the Christmas holiday, long lines. |
| 1:28.6 | And it seems like the White House is really struggling to answer a lot of questions on the |
| 1:34.1 | testing front. |
| 1:35.4 | Niall, how about you tell us what do we see the White House trying to do to address some |
| 1:42.3 | of these testing and COVID issues? |
| 1:46.8 | And then the CDC this week, sort of setting people a flurry with their new recommendation. So there are a few things there, Ginger. |
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