Weekly Roundup: January 7th

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The justices are considering whether the federal mandates governing private employers and healthcare staff are constitutional. And Republicans who back Trump's election lies are running for election administration offices across the country.

This episode: politics correspondent Juana Summers, labor correspondent Andrea Hsu, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and voting and disinformation reporter Miles Parks.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Nina from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
0:03.6	I'm currently munching on some dried mango,
0:06.9	because my news resolution is to eat more fruits and vegetables.
0:11.7	Did you know we're supposed to have nine servings a day?
0:16.1	This podcast was recorded at 106 pm on Friday, January 7th, 2022.
0:22.5	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:25.6	Okay, here's the show.
0:27.1	Is that true nine servings?
0:32.1	Yeah, I'm not eating enough of those for sure.
0:34.6	It's not going good over here.
0:36.0	Yeah, well, you know, there's good to have resolutions.
0:39.1	I'm going to kick that one to 2023.
0:41.2	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:45.2	I'm Juan Asummers, I cover politics.
0:47.2	I'm Dominic Amantiner, our senior political editor and correspondent.
0:50.3	The Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of the federal government's
0:54.2	COVID vaccine mandates.
0:56.0	And today we've got Andrea Shoe with us who's covering all of this
0:59.4	for NPR's business desk.
1:00.7	Hey there, Andrea.
1:01.7	Hey, Wana.
1:02.5	Thanks for coming on the show.
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