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Skullduggery

Packing a Punch

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Dan sit down with Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, the founders of Punchbowl News and the co-hosts of the news podcast The Daily Punch. They talk about Ted Cruz's misbegotten Mexico adventure, the chilly Trump/McConnell relationship, the proposed 9/11-style commission to investigate the Capitol attack, and more.


GUESTS:


HOSTS:

  • Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
  • Dan Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We need student loan forgiveness beyond the potential $10,000 your administration has

0:06.1

a proposed.

0:07.3

We need at least a $50,000 minimum.

0:10.7

What will you do to make that happen?

0:12.7

I will not make that happen.

0:16.1

That was the extraordinary exchange during a CNN town hall meeting in Milwaukee the other

0:20.7

night in which President Biden drew a clear line in the sand.

0:24.5

No, he would not back a proposal being pushed by progressive groups to forgive up to $50,000

0:30.9

in student loan debts.

0:32.4

It was a signal that Biden, even while adopting some of the progressive agenda of his party,

0:38.1

is not about to be pushed around by the left, or at least not be seen as being pushed

0:42.5

around.

0:43.5

Is this a sign of a widening Gulf among Democrats as to how far and how fast Biden is

0:48.3

prepared to go?

0:50.0

And what about the even bigger rift within the Republican Party between the Donald Trump

0:53.6

Wing and the anti-Trump forces now led by none other than minority leader Mitch McConnell?

0:59.8

We'll discuss with two shrewd observers of the Capitol Hill scene, Jake Sherman and

1:03.9

Anna Palmer, the founders of the newly created Punchball News site, on this episode of Skull

1:10.4

Duggery.

1:11.4

Hi, do solemnly swear.

1:17.1

And I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States.

1:20.7

And we'll do the best of my building.

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