Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson desperately peddle vax mandate lies
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 17 October 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Republicans desperately claim that vaccine mandates are leading to worker shortages. Brian interviews the Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, about the state of reconciliation negotiations and what holdouts like Kyrsten Sinema actually want. And former Senator Harry Reid’s deputy chief of staff, Adam Jentleson, joins to discuss the filibuster and the political upside and downside for defending it when it comes to Manchin and Sinema.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we're going to talk about Republicans' desperation to claim that vaccine mandates |
| 0:04.7 | are leading to worker shortages. |
| 0:06.4 | I interview the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congresswoman Pramila |
| 0:09.6 | Jaya Paul about the state of reconciliation negotiations and what holdouts like Kyrsten |
| 0:14.0 | Sinema actually want. |
| 0:15.1 | And I'm joined by former Senator Harry Reid's Deputy Chief of Staff, Adam Jentelson, |
| 0:19.7 | to discuss the filibuster and the political upside and downside for defending it when |
| 0:24.0 | it comes to mansion in Sinema. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:31.0 | Just to break down where we are right now, since the outside of this pandemic, Republicans |
| 0:35.0 | have railed against masks, they've railed against state home orders, they've railed against |
| 0:38.8 | shutting down mask gatherings, they've railed against vaccines. |
| 0:42.5 | Every step of the way Republicans who claim to hate this pandemic have done everything |
| 0:47.4 | in their power to ensure that this pandemic can spread uninhibited. |
| 0:51.1 | And so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they're now railing against vaccine mandates, |
| 0:55.1 | saying that they're leading to worker shortages. |
| 0:57.2 | You've got people like Ted Cruz who took to Twitter and made the news that 3,000 Southwest |
| 1:01.1 | flights were canceled to say, quote, Joe Biden's illegal vaccine mandate at work. |
| 1:05.7 | Suddenly we're short on pilots and air traffic controllers. |
| 1:08.4 | Hashtag thanks Joe. |
| 1:10.3 | Republican Congressman Andy Biggs tweeted, I stand with Southwest Airlines employees |
| 1:14.2 | who are fighting against these mandates. |
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