Weekly Roundup: Congressional Bipartisanship, Trump Jury

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Foreign aid legislation is advancing to a vote in the House thanks to Democratic support, as a third Republican signs on to the effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. And a prospective juror in the Trump trial was excused after the press published details that could have led to her being publicly identified.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:31.8	Friday like it's our birthday Friday.
0:34.4	This podcast was recorded at 1239 PM on Friday, April 19th.
0:39.6	Things might have changed by the time you hear it,
0:42.3	but I'll be enjoying life as a 50-year-old.
0:44.9	Happy birthday.
0:49.9	That's okay, Guad.
0:51.3	Every Friday is birthday Friday. New rule. Hey there, it's the club. Every Friday is birthday Friday new role. Hey there it's the
0:54.9	MPR politics podcast I'm Susan Davis I cover politics. I'm Claudia
0:58.4	I cover Congress and I'm Domenico Monaghanar our senior political
1:01.0	editor and correspondent and it has been a week on Capitol Hill.
1:04.6	So Claudia, this is basically just going to be a rapid fire round
1:08.0	because we have a lot to talk about to wrap up the week.
1:11.2	Let's start here.
1:12.2	Impeachment. The Senate quickly dismissed the week. Let's start here. Impeachment. The Senate quickly dismissed the
1:14.7	articles of impeachment against Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
1:18.0	Why didn't they ultimately decide to put it to trial? You know it's going to be up to the party that controls the
1:24.9	chamber and that's Democrats and they didn't want to spend much time on it so
1:29.0	truly with everything going on at the Capitol this week.
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