Weekends: Texas Power Outage Market Failure, Domestic Terrorism Commission, and the Cuomo COVID Cover-up
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from February 20, 2021.
In this episode, Ana Kasparian, Nando Vila, and Cale Brooks discuss the calls for a new "9/11-style commission" to investigate the Capitol riots, the free-market energy failure in Texas, and Governor Andrew Cuomo's COVID coverup in New York nursing homes. The original guest, Liz Bruenig, had to reschedule.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends, you're watching Weekends. I'm Anna Casparian, joined by my fantastic |
| 0:19.8 | co-host, Nando Villa. Nando, we have an awesome show ahead for everyone. I'm really looking |
| 0:26.5 | forward to your segment. It's going to be so good to your segment. Yeah, yeah, from the New York |
| 0:34.6 | Times ever. Not a big deal. No, not a big deal. I'm really looking forward to interviewing her. I've |
| 0:41.8 | been wanting to, you know, interview her for a while now, and this is the perfect opportunity |
| 0:46.6 | to do it. So she's going to come on to talk a little bit about how awful Governor Andrew Cuomo is. |
| 0:53.0 | He's now embroiled in a giant scandal regarding the suppression of data, |
| 0:59.4 | regarding coronavirus deaths in nursing homes. So she's going to help us break that down and, you |
| 1:04.4 | know, figure out what's going on, figure out what the hell is going on. And Texas is in a lot of |
| 1:11.8 | trouble. Capitalism has got a lot to do with it. Deregulation has got a lot to do with it. Nando |
| 1:16.8 | is going to suss that out. And I'm going to later also discuss the, I was going to say potential |
| 1:25.3 | downsides, but I'm just going to say the completely disastrous idea of forming a 9-11 type |
| 1:31.2 | commission in order to investigate the rights that took place in the nation's capital on January |
| 1:37.0 | 6. But before we get to that Nando, Ted Cruz, I know everyone's talking about it. And I wanted |
| 1:43.7 | to get your thoughts because Ted Cruz did what you would expect Ted Cruz to do, abandon his |
| 1:49.3 | constituents, abandon the state of Texas when it's in the middle of a terrible crisis, |
| 1:54.2 | and vacation in Cancun. And then when he got caught, he just ran back home and pretended like |
| 1:59.8 | all he was doing was trying to be a good father. He just dropped in his kids off and then he was |
| 2:05.0 | going to come right back. Yeah, it reminded me of kind of like a throwback political scandal. |
| 2:12.8 | Like it just like it feels like a very political scandal from back in the day when this kind of |
| 2:17.0 | thing probably would have sank his career. You know, like this is the kind of thing that ended |
| 2:21.3 | other careers. I remember, who was the governor that like disappeared for a while and went to, |
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