"The Real BFD!" The Reporters' Roundtable Aug 13
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🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Cuomo Resigns. Infrastructure Passes. Census Reveals a Changing Country. Afghanistan Falling. Covid Rising. The Roundtable with Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent at New York Magazine, Sudeep Reddy Managing Editor Politico and Leah Askarinam, Editor of The National Journal Hotline.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to our weekly reporters roundtable on the Bill Press Pod this Friday, August 13. |
| 0:14.4 | And Trisketophobia be damned. |
| 0:16.9 | We're still here at the end of another big news week with lots to catch up on before we head into the weekend. |
| 0:23.6 | To everybody's surprise, New York's Andrew Cuomo, despite early indications he might try to trump it out, actually resigned as governor of New York. |
| 0:34.6 | But is he setting himself up for a political comeback? |
| 0:38.9 | Equally to everyone's surprise, the Senate actually passed a bill first time and a long time |
| 0:44.9 | of $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill on infrastructure. Now, the big question is, can they get enough |
| 0:53.8 | votes in the House? And can Democrats also |
| 0:56.7 | round up enough votes for their three and a half trillion dollar so-called human infrastructure bill |
| 1:03.1 | coming up next? And on the COVID front, while new COVID cases soar among the yet, as yet |
| 1:10.7 | unvaccinated population, |
| 1:12.9 | at least three Republican governors still refuse to follow CDC guidelines on masks and vaccinations. |
| 1:20.4 | Will they pay any political price? |
| 1:23.0 | Plenty for today's panel to sink their teeth into, |
| 1:25.8 | so let's jump right in with Leah Ascaranam, |
| 1:29.5 | editor-in-chief of the National Journal Hotline. Hello, Leah. Good morning, Bill. Good to have you back. |
| 1:35.2 | Sudip Reddy, managing editor of Politico. Welcome back, Sudeep. Hi, Bill. And Gabe de Benadeni, |
| 1:41.7 | National Political Correspondent of New York Magazine. |
| 1:45.3 | Hello, Gabe. |
| 1:46.2 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:46.7 | Good to be here. |
| 1:48.0 | Well, it may not have deserved it, but it got most of the headlines this week. |
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