Three Presidents and a Baby-The Roundtable July 30
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Obama goes in on Trump and the GOP at John Lewis' Homegoing. Trump whines about his plummeting popularity with Covid raging and the economy not. Hosted this week by Sabrina Siddiqui, National Politics Reporter for The Wall Street Journal with Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, Jason Dick, Deputy Editor, CQ Roll Call and Jennifer Bendery, Senior Politics Reporter for The Huffington Post.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bill Press Pod roundtable for July 31st, around 8.30 in the morning here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:14.7 | As you can surely tell, I'm not Bill Press. I'm Sabrina Siddiqui of the Wall Street Journal, filling in for Bill who is on |
| 0:22.3 | vacation. This has been a week dominated by awful numbers and tragic deaths, by disinformation |
| 0:29.9 | on COVID-19, and around mail-in voting. Our economy contracted in the last quarter at an annual |
| 0:36.8 | rate of 32 percent, the biggest |
| 0:39.0 | drop in modern history. |
| 0:41.1 | News claims for unemployment are up again, 1.4 million this week alone. |
| 0:46.3 | And the United States passed another grim milestone over 150,000 deaths from COVID-19, including former Republican presidential candidate |
| 0:57.6 | Herman Kane. |
| 0:59.5 | But another issue that caught attention was that of Civil Rights Pioneer, Congressman John |
| 1:05.7 | Lewis. |
| 1:06.7 | Three former U.S. presidents spoke at his funeral yesterday. In his eulogy, President Obama called |
| 1:13.7 | out President Trump and the GOP, but not by name. And we are one week away from Joe Biden's |
| 1:21.8 | VP pick. Will it matter? We'll find out a lot to digest on our roundtable today. And I'm joined by Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters. Hi, Matt. |
| 1:34.7 | Hey. |
| 1:35.9 | Good to be with you. And Jason Dick, deputy editor of CQ Roll Call and host of the podcast Political Theater. Hi, Jason. |
| 1:43.3 | Hello. Morning, everybody. |
| 1:45.3 | Morning. And Jennifer Bendery, senior politics reporter for Huff Post. Hi, Jen. Hello. |
| 1:52.5 | Okay, let's get to it. Another week where the daily death toll soared in the United States and the number of Americans dead from COVID-19 |
| 2:05.1 | approached the tragic milestone of 150,000, President Trump was back in the briefing room, |
| 2:14.1 | and after a brief maybe day or two where some people thought he might be taking it more |
| 2:18.9 | seriously, he finally was wearing a mask, he seemed to be taking it a little more seriously, |
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