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Hacks On Tap

The Almighty vs The Alternative (with Jonathan Martin)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.87.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As the anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration approaches, the Hacks called in Jonathan Martin, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, to reflect on Biden’s first year in office. They discuss whether Biden needs a reset, the fate of some of the administration’s key legislation, the messaging and campaign strategies for both parties in the midterms, and if we’re witnessing the early signs of a Donald Trump vs Ron DeSantis showdown.

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0:00.0

Hey, pull up a chair.

0:10.4

It's axon tap with David Axelroth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

0:22.0

With unity, we can do great things, important things.

0:27.2

We can write wrongs.

0:28.8

We can put people to work in good jobs.

0:30.9

We can teach our children in safe schools.

0:33.7

We can overcome the deadly virus.

0:37.0

We can reward work and rebuild the middle class and make health care secure for all.

0:41.9

We can deliver racial justice and we can make America once again, the leading force for

0:47.7

good in the world.

0:49.4

That was President Joe Biden a year ago, or thereabouts, at the Capitol, surrounded by

0:56.6

chain link and barbed wire, fencing, telling the country that things would be better in

1:02.0

a year.

1:03.0

He was sitting there with an approval rating in the 60s and ate that way anymore.

1:09.9

Only a year ago, there he was, a young, spry man with a dream to transform post-Trump

1:16.4

America.

1:17.4

I guess we're going to review some of the speed bumps.

1:21.0

I'll be charitable.

1:22.0

He's head along the way and maybe talk a little bit about how to finally get a restart.

1:26.5

Before they fit him for a Jimmy Carter cardigan and to help us do that.

1:31.2

We have with us the most stained of ink stained wretched drenched in ink.

1:36.0

The poison pen, the National Political Reporter for the New York Times offer of this will not

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