Take On Amy
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday was day two of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, when members of the Senate Judiciary Committee got their first public chance to directly question the nominee. There were a lot of questions, but there weren’t many answers.
Safety concerns led Johnson & Johnson to pause a large clinical trial of its COVID vaccine candidate and Eli Lilly to pause trials of their antibody drug. A new study found a person in Nevada was infected twice with COVID within a period of six weeks, which is the first confirmed case of reinfection in the US.
And in headlines: the Supreme Court rules to halt the census, Trump vs. Fauci, and a tourist in Peru waits 7 months to visit Machu Picchu.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 14th. I'm Gideon Ressik. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm Erin Ryan filling in Forkie Le Hues. |
| 0:11.5 | And this is what a day where we are following Mitt Romney's advice and making today's podcast |
| 0:15.4 | kind, good natured and civil. |
| 0:17.7 | Mitt Romney angrily whispers into an empty jar of mayonnaise. |
| 0:22.0 | Be nice, America, and then throws it into his closet. |
| 0:27.3 | You know, I thought I was the only person who saw that on his Instagram live, but I'm |
| 0:30.9 | really glad somebody else did. |
| 0:38.7 | On today's show, trials for a COVID vaccine and an antibody treatment get paused, then some |
| 0:43.3 | headlines. |
| 0:44.3 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:45.6 | Yesterday was day two of the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings when members of the |
| 0:49.5 | Senate Judiciary Committee got their first public chance to directly question the nominee. |
| 0:54.4 | Each senator got 30 minutes. |
| 0:55.8 | So Erin, can you give us a rundown of what happened? |
| 0:58.7 | So Tuesday's hearing involved much less yelling about beer than Brett Kavanaugh's. |
| 1:03.8 | But it was still disturbing for its own uniquely horrible reasons. |
| 1:07.5 | Because while there were a lot of questions, there weren't many answers. |
| 1:10.3 | As Coney Barrett spent the whole hearing dodging, seemingly straightforward, asks about |
| 1:14.4 | simple issues. |
| 1:15.9 | But before we get to that, I want to take a moment to appreciate this little nugget |
| 1:19.5 | from Utah Republican Mike Lee, who, as far as I can tell, is not being ironic. |
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