Pete Buttigieg shreds Republicans over vote against veterans
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 7 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Biden has the single best week of his presidency. Brian interviews Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, who responds to Republicans voting against veteran healthcare, debunks Republican lies about the new Inflation Reduction Act raising taxes, and reveals whether it’s difficult for him to get booked on Fox News. And Pete’s former senior adviser Lis Smith joins to discuss her work for campaigns in the deepest red areas, the career moment that still haunts her, her response to the abortion vote in Kansas, and her book, Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wonder E's podcast business wars. |
| 0:03.7 | In our latest series, two visionary automakers each believe they can beat Detroit and build |
| 0:09.6 | America's favorite cars. |
| 0:12.0 | Listen to business wars on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:18.0 | Today we're going to talk about the single best week of Biden's presidency. |
| 0:21.0 | I interview Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about his response to Republicans |
| 0:24.8 | voting against veteran healthcare. |
| 0:26.6 | He debunks Republican lies about the new inflation reduction act raising taxes and whether |
| 0:30.8 | it's difficult for him to get booked on Fox News. |
| 0:33.6 | And coincidentally, I'm joined by a Pete's former senior advisor Liz Smith to discuss her |
| 0:37.6 | work for campaigns in the deepest red areas, the moment that still haunts her, her response |
| 0:42.0 | to the abortion vote in Kansas, and her book, Any Given Tuesday of Political Love Story. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm Brian Taylor Cohen and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:51.5 | So I usually take a deep dive into one topic each week, but I'm going to switch things |
| 0:55.2 | up this week because Biden just had the best week of his presidency. |
| 0:58.7 | So instead of focusing on one thing, which seems counterproductive, I'm going to tell |
| 1:03.0 | you about all of them because dear God, we have to celebrate the winds when we get |
| 1:06.8 | them. |
| 1:07.8 | So first off, Republicans were basically falling over themselves waiting for a jobs report |
| 1:11.6 | that was expected to show signs of a slowing economy. |
| 1:14.2 | It was predicted that about 250,000 jobs would be added, which would be a major decline |
| 1:20.1 | from the roughly half a million jobs that have been added since Biden took office. |
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