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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Soledad O'Brien on the Problems With Political Media, the Coverage of Kamala Harris, and Her Show, 'Matter of Fact'

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Soledad O'Brien to talk about transitioning from being a reporter to owning her own production company (2:24), the issues with political media and the coverage of Kamala Harris (14:08), and what O'Brien is working on right now including her show, 'Matter of Fact,' and a documentary on Rosa Parks (21:20). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Soledad O'Brien Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Producer: Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

0:14.8

Today we'll be interviewing none other than iconic journalist and anchor Soledad

0:19.4

O'Brien, where we'll be talking about media and journalism and how we can combat misinformation.

0:25.3

But before we get to celebrate that, I wanted to join in celebrating today's signing of the

0:29.8

Investment and Infrastructure and Jobs Act.

0:31.9

Nearly two trillion dollar investment in our roads, bridges, broadband, and water infrastructure just to name a few types of investment.

0:39.6

This is a very, very good thing.

0:41.4

And I don't want the wrangling over how we got here or the

0:44.2

obstructionism around the president's social spending bill to cause people to

0:48.0

lose sight of the fact that Donald Trump can get this done. And for the Biden Harris administration,

0:54.4

that's the second major piece of legislation

0:56.6

they passed after being in office just over a year

0:59.9

where we passed the American Rescue plan soon after taking office.

1:05.0

If we can get bill back better across the line,

1:07.0

that would be almost $6 trillion across the three bills,

1:10.5

way bigger than the new deal of the great society making Joe Biden arguably

1:14.8

the most transformative domestic president of our time.

1:17.6

But if you let track and polls and cable news tell that inflation and approval

1:21.8

ratings have Joe Biden polling at historic lows for the new president. and when election season is in full swing.

1:33.2

We've got to make sure that the money actually hits the streets

1:36.4

as quickly as possible, but the sales jobs around what this all means for the American

1:41.2

people has to not only be done by the president and

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