"There Are Not the Votes." The Reporters' Roundtable Oct 22
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🗓️ 22 October 2021
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Bannon in Contempt of Congress. Biden Reveals Cuts to Build Back Better. Still No Voting Rights Legislation. Supply Chain Problems. Trump's "Truth." With Seung Min Kim, White House Reporter for The Washington Post, Jeff Dufour, Editor in chief at National Journal and Scott Wong, Senior Staff Writer at The Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and welcome to this week's Reporters Roundtable, |
| 0:13.7 | where we look back on the news of the week and try to make some sense of it all, |
| 0:18.0 | as impossible as that may seem. |
| 0:20.7 | A lot of news this week on several fronts. |
| 0:23.5 | On Thursday, nine House Republicans joined 220 Democrats to hold former White House aide Steve Bannon |
| 0:30.8 | in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee on |
| 0:36.5 | January 6th. Now it's up to Merrick Garland. |
| 0:39.9 | Will the Department of Justice file charges? Meanwhile, Democrats are still struggling to agree on |
| 0:46.0 | two infrastructure bills. Will they ever get their act together? Is time running out? And by the |
| 0:52.3 | time the final vote on infrastructure is scheduled, |
| 0:56.0 | will Joe Manchin still be a Democrat? |
| 0:58.5 | And last night on CNN's town hall, after Senate Republicans this week used the filibuster |
| 1:04.8 | for the third time to block debate on voting rights, |
| 1:08.8 | President Biden said he was hoping to changing the filibuster for |
| 1:13.4 | voting rights bills and maybe even more. Are there enough Democratic votes to do that? |
| 1:21.2 | Well, that's enough to keep our panelists working overtime, so it's time for them to weigh in. |
| 1:27.0 | Joining us this morning, Sungman Kim, White House correspondent for the Washington Post. |
| 1:32.2 | Sunmin, welcome back. |
| 1:33.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:35.0 | Scott Wong, congressional correspondent for The Hill, very busy these days. |
| 1:39.5 | Hi, Scott. |
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