The Whole World is Watching-The Roundtable June 12
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Police reform possible? Trump behind the curve. Covid not gone. Biden VP? Former Obama Labor Dept. and White House official Chris Lu subs for Bill (on vacation) with Jason Dick, Deputy Editor at CQ Roll Call, Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow, Media Matters and Alaina Beverly, Former Associate Director, White House Office of Urban Affairs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bill Press pod. It's Friday, June 12th, 2020. As you may have guessed, this isn't Bill Press. This is Chris Liu. Bill is taking a well-deserved vacation, and I'm honored that Bill has asked me to sit in for him. After two weeks when protests |
| 0:22.0 | for social justice dominated the news, we have a trifecta of news stories this week. Protests are |
| 0:28.8 | continuing around the country, but a lot of attention is now turning to police reform and the |
| 0:33.9 | possibility of congressional action. We also have the return of COVID-19 to the news, |
| 0:38.8 | which, let's be honest, never really disappeared. Cases and hospitalizations are surging |
| 0:44.0 | in parts of the country, and that's raising new concerns about the economy. And soon we'll have |
| 0:49.2 | the resumption of the presidential campaign, with Donald Trump announcing plans to hold a campaign rally next Friday, |
| 0:55.8 | June 19th, and Tulsa. |
| 0:57.5 | We have a great group of panelists for this week's political roundtable. |
| 1:01.2 | Elena Beverly is a Democratic strategist who is a former aide in the White House Office |
| 1:06.0 | of Urban Affairs during the Obama administration. |
| 1:09.4 | Welcome, Elena. |
| 1:10.2 | Good morning, Chris. |
| 1:12.5 | You can follow Elaine on Twitter at Ms. Elena Beverly. We have Jason Dick, the deputy editor of |
| 1:18.5 | CQ Roll Call, and the host of the Political Theater podcast, which I strongly recommend. Welcome, Jason. |
| 1:25.3 | Great to be here, Chris. And you can follow Jason at Jason J. Dick. |
| 1:30.1 | And Matt Gertz is a senior fellow at Media Matters for America. You can follow him at Matt Gertz. |
| 1:35.9 | Welcome, Matt. Good to be back. And since we're shamelessly plugging, you can follow me on Twitter at Chris Loo-44. |
| 1:43.5 | So let's dive into the issues. Let's start |
| 1:45.8 | with police reform. There are now the more protests continuing around the country, as well as |
| 1:53.8 | increasing calls for police reform. This week, House Democrats released a legislative proposal, |
| 2:00.4 | and on the Senate side, Tim Scott is leading the efforts. |
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