"Racist Misogyny. " The Reporters' Roundtable-March 19
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Asian-American Hate Crimes. Help is Here. Border Dangers. Filibuster Reform? With Melanie Mason, National Political Correspondent, for The Los Angeles Times, Hunter Walker, White House Correspondent, Yahoo News and Jason Dick, Deputy Editor at CQ Roll Call.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome back to the bill press pod. |
| 0:10.5 | It's Friday, March 19, time for this week's roundtable, looking back on the news of the week |
| 0:15.9 | with three top political reporters. |
| 0:18.7 | After signing the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, President Biden, and top |
| 0:22.7 | administration officials are off on a nationwide campaign to sell the package to the American |
| 0:28.1 | people. But he and the vice president interrupt their tour today to meet in Atlanta with leaders |
| 0:34.8 | of the Asian American community in the wake of the murder of |
| 0:38.2 | eight people, including six women of Asian descent at Atlanta area massage parlors. Meanwhile, |
| 0:45.4 | the White House announces it will meet its goal of 100 million vaccinations today, six weeks |
| 0:52.5 | early. Mitch McConnell warns Democrats that all hell will break loose if they dare try to change the filibuster. |
| 1:01.0 | And on the state front, two Democratic governors, New York's Andrew Cuomo and California's Gavin Newsom are fighting for their political lives. |
| 1:09.8 | So much to talk about, so let's get right to it with Hunter Walker, |
| 1:15.3 | White House correspondent for Yahoo News. Hello, Hunter. Hey, Bill. How are you? All right. Jason Dick, |
| 1:21.9 | deputy editor for CQ roll call. Hello, Jason. Good morning, everybody. And making her first appearance, the first of many, we hope, on the Bill Press |
| 1:31.2 | Pondon, Brown Table, Melanie Mason, National Political Correspondent for the L.A. Times. Welcome, Melanie. |
| 1:38.4 | Thanks for having me. So let's start with the big news of the day. |
| 1:55.5 | Hunter, the president, ordered the flags at the White House flying half staff in memory of the Asian women or the victims, all of them, of the Atlanta massacre. |
| 2:02.9 | The president, the vice president will meet with Asian American leaders in Atlanta today, which is a different approach or a different tone maybe to what happened than we first heard from Captain J. Baker |
| 2:09.7 | of the law in the Atlanta area law enforcement who had this comment about the murderer in this case. |
| 2:20.9 | With investigators, they interviewed him this morning, and he was pretty much fed up, |
| 2:24.8 | and it had been kind of at the end of his rope, and yesterday was a really bad day for him, |
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