We’re All Just Living Under the Tyranny of Joe Manchin w/ Andy Slavitt, Rep. Ritchie Torres & Jason Kander

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🗓️ 11 June 2021

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“Everything’s a question mark, because we no longer live in a democracy. We live under the tyranny of Joe Manchin,” says Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) of the current state of Congress. The congressman, who represents “America’s most impoverished district,” New York’s 15th, joins Molly Jong-Fast on the latest episode of The New Abnormal to talk about why making President Biden’s child tax credit permanent could be his administration’s greatest legacy. But it all rests in the hands of a single—tyrannical—senator. Also on the show, Andy Slavitt, Biden’s outgoing coronavirus adviser and author of the new book Preventable, says it would be “healthy for us to try to hold to account not just the president, but ourselves, each other” after 600,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. Former Missouri secretary of state and Majority 54 podcast host Jason Kander also goes in-depth with Molly—who asks how Democrats can possibly take back red states “if we can’t get people like you to run? No pressure.” Tune in for his response and what we can learn from Georgia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and welcome to the Daily Beast, the new abnormal.
0:28.0	I'm a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at the Daily Beast.
0:32.0	We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, politics and science,
0:39.0	that help make what's happening in the country and the world clearer.
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0:56.0	We have a great show today with Andy Slavitt, who of course has been the senior adviser to the White House's pandemic response.
1:03.0	We'll talk to us about that, along with his new book, Preventable.
1:06.0	Then we will talk to Congressman Richie Torres, who represents New York's 15th District,
1:11.0	and he will talk to us about representing America's most impoverished district and how that affects his legislative work.
1:17.0	But first, we have former Missouri Secretary of State and host of the majority 54 podcast, Jason Kander.
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