Post Game: Does Durbin speak for the White House on Ukraine?
The Chuck ToddCast
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🗓️ 30 January 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Chuck Tudd. I just got off the set of Meet the Press. Yes, it's |
| 0:07.0 | still Sunday. Wrap-up interviews with Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, Chair of the |
| 0:10.5 | Judiciary Committee, Republican Senator Rob Portman. We also had the Chair and |
| 0:14.9 | Vice Chair of the National Governors Association, together and on set, |
| 0:18.7 | Republican A.C. of Arkansas, Democrat Phil Murphy of New Jersey. I'm sitting |
| 0:23.4 | here now with one member of the panel and we've seen news White House |
| 0:26.2 | correspondent Carol Lee. So Carol, look, we had a show that was filled with a lot |
| 0:32.1 | of Supreme Court, a lot of Ukraine, a little bit of COVID. I'll start with the |
| 0:37.7 | Supreme Court just really quickly because on one hand it didn't feel like we... |
| 0:42.3 | There's not a ton of news here other than the event itself and how much it just |
| 0:47.3 | wiped away the bitterness of build-back veteran voting rights. I mean, I'm guessing |
| 0:52.7 | you're surprised by that speed. Yeah, because it was so quick and Democrats had |
| 0:59.2 | been really very openly fighting about their differences and you had this |
| 1:05.3 | voting rights bill that failed and then you had primary people talking about |
| 1:10.4 | primary, certain senators within the party that you had, you know, Senator Sinema |
| 1:15.8 | and Arizona that Arizona Democratic Party centering her and within days after |
| 1:20.6 | that suddenly everybody's rallying around this Supreme Court opening and for |
| 1:25.8 | the White House this is a gift. That's how they see it and it really gives them |
| 1:30.5 | the opportunity to in their view just take a breath and to focus on something |
| 1:37.1 | that everybody can be excited about instead of fighting. You know, it's |
| 1:42.1 | interesting. This issue of speed, I got this sense, right, from our show that |
| 1:46.7 | Durbin was interested in speed but it was interesting to hear Claire McCaskel |
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