Policy debates break out across Washington; public opinion on insurrection still evolving

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🗓️ 20 June 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) discuss the future of bipartisanship and President Biden’s infrastructure plan. Fiona Hill breaks down the Biden-Putin summit. Carrie Dann looks at the numbers to see where consensus is emerging on the January 6th insurrection.

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Jack Todd.
0:03.9	I'm speaking to you from the set of Meet the Press, where we just finished today's broadcast
0:07.0	with an actual in-person panel, which I am still jazzed about.
0:11.9	Our guests today were two people at the center of pretty much everything in the domestic
0:16.7	debate these days, Bernie Sanders, the independent progressive of Vermont, Rob Portman, Republican
0:21.2	from Ohio, who's essentially the lead Republican, if you will, on the bipartisan deal.
0:25.3	We also had Fiona Hill, the Russia expert, a national security council official and multiple
0:29.6	administrations left and right.
0:31.4	Look, here's what I learned.
0:33.2	Bernie Sanders is not going to kill the bipartisan deal.
0:36.5	You could hear it.
0:37.5	He praised the 20.
0:38.5	He called it, it's certainly not enough.
0:40.2	He doesn't love the taxation parts.
0:41.9	He doesn't love much of it, but he does agree that the hard core infrastructure stuff is
0:48.3	good things in there.
0:49.6	He just doesn't think that goes nearly far enough and he thinks that the pay for part is
0:54.1	a bit regressive.
0:55.1	But if you know Bernie Sanders, and remember, he was a guy who didn't like Obamacare
0:59.3	but voted for it.
1:00.3	Keep that in mind when you listen to his, when you listen to some of those answers in
1:04.8	the interview, Rob Portman, the big, you know, current pay for disagreement has to do with
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