President Joe Biden's First 100 Days - How Are Joe and Mitch Doing?

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

CPF Director Bob Shrum is joined by former Congressman Joe Kennedy III and strategists Karen Finney, Ron Christie, and Brian Goldsmith to discuss President Joe Biden's domestic performance for reviving the economy and reforming immigration, police, and gun policies.

Featuring:

Robert M. Shrum - Director, USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future; Carmen H. & Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics

Ron Christie - CEO, Christie Strategies; Political Analyst, BBC; Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush; Former Deputy Assistant to Vice President Cheney for Domestic Policy; Fall 2019 CPF Fellow

Karen Finney - Democratic Strategist; Former Senior Advisor and Spokesperson for Hillary Clinton; Former Senior Advisor to Stacey Abrams

Brian Goldsmith - Media Consultant; Political Strategist

Joe Kennedy III - Former U.S. Representative (D-MA)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:28.9	Good day. I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future at the University
0:34.2	of Southern California. Welcome to what I hope is our final entirely Zoom
0:40.5	conference. We've had to do this for over a year, and we've managed to pull it off. And I want to
0:46.5	thank our partners, the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival and Jamie Cabler, who have helped us do a
0:52.9	terrific job getting these programs out under
0:55.9	difficult circumstances. Let me introduce our guests for the first panel. Representative Joe Kennedy
1:01.6	III, represented Massachusetts' fourth congressional district for four terms from 2013 to 2021.
1:08.3	He emerged as a leading national figure in the Democratic Party's pivotal debates.
1:12.9	He is a founder of groundwork, which focuses on boosting local community organizing efforts across the
1:18.5	country. Ron Christie is an analyst for BBC News Worldwide. He is the founder and CEO of
1:24.3	Christie Strategies and a veteran, senior Republican advisor in both the White House and the Congress.
1:30.6	He also served, and we're very grateful for this, as a fall 2019 fellow at the Center for the Political Future.
1:37.3	Karen Finney is a Democratic consultant and CNN political commentator.
1:41.3	In 2016, she was senior advisor and senior spokesperson for Hillary Clinton's
1:47.2	presidential campaign. Brian Goldsmith is a Democratic consultant based here in Los Angeles,
1:52.5	an advisor, by the way, and a close friend and advisor to Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign,
1:59.3	his extensive experience in journalism includes a variety
2:02.5	of roles at CNN, the Atlantic Yahoo News, and CBS, where he helped lead political coverage at CBS
2:09.4	Evening News. So let me just start with this first question, and maybe each of you can take a crack at it.
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