The two trillion dollar question

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Ten days and $2 trillion -- that's right, with a "tr." How did the Senate get to 96-0? Reporter Marianne LeVine joins host Scott Bland to talk through the past few days of negotiations on Capitol Hill. Plus, Michael Kruse on how the coronavirus task force briefings have become episodes of President Donald Trump's reality TV show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello listeners.
0:02.0	Hello, no? You do working?
0:06.0	I am still working.
0:07.0	Here, let's try that again.
0:08.0	Hello listeners.
0:10.0	Oh, listen.
0:12.0	Oh, almost.
0:13.0	Hey, Nerdasters, I'm Scott Bland.
0:18.0	I'm here with my two-year-old son.
0:20.0	Sammy?
0:21.0	Sammy, he's helping me out with the podcast.
0:23.0	Kind of.
0:24.0	No, we don't push that button.
0:26.0	No, no.
0:28.0	Anyway, this week on the show, we are going to talk about the way that Donald Trump is
0:32.8	inching his daily coronavirus Task Force briefings closer to prime time viewing
0:38.0	and why that makes sense for this animal of TV. But first we're going to get into the story behind the passing of the
0:44.4	emergency coronavirus relief bill in the Senate. It's been quite the
0:48.4	adventure covering this. Mary Ann Levine is a Senate reporter for Politico who's been on the hill for the past 10 days
0:54.7	tracking this emergency coronavirus package that the Senate just passed.
0:59.1	But the Hill the past 10 days has not really been the same as usual. The
1:04.0	environment was unlike anything we've ever seen.
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