Weekly Wrap: Nancy Pelosi's Return, Retail's 2019 Outlook, What's The Deal With CBD?

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's Friday. Sam is talking to everyone here, specifically NPR Congressional correspondent Susan Davis and Bloomberg Opinion columnist Sarah Halzack. A new U.S. Congress was sworn in this week and Rep. Nancy Pelosi returned as Speaker of the House, but what will Democrats' legislative priorities be? It's a new year, and tariffs could mean an uncertain future for retail in the months to come. Plus, what is CBD, why is it everywhere, and is it legal?

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Daddy.
0:02.4	This week on the show, retail columnist for Bloomberg opinions, Sarah Halzak, and NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis.
0:12.0	Alright, let's start the show!
0:15.6	Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute.
0:19.2	Happy weekend to my listeners and my guests.
0:22.6	Sarah Halzak, my good old friend who covers retail at Bloomberg,
0:27.0	Sue Davis who covers Congress for NPR. Happy New Year.
0:30.7	Happy New Year, Sam. It's so good to see you and hear you, and it's so good to hear
0:34.7	Aunt Buddy's voice.
0:35.4	I know, and it's good. It's so good to have you back, Sue. This is your first appearance on the show,
0:40.3	since becoming a mother to a very, very beautiful baby girl.
0:43.8	It's true, and this is only my third week back at work for the Trinity leave, and I came back to
0:49.6	cover a government shutdown, so it is really like I never left.
0:53.4	Sarah, great to have you here as well.
0:54.8	Yeah, happy New Year, Sam. Happy to be here.
0:56.4	We are joined in studio by another friend. Her name is Taylor Swift.
1:07.0	Playing one of her songs right now.
1:09.6	Called Gorgeous, from her latest album Reputation.
1:17.5	And there's a reason I'm playing it, y'all.
1:19.8	Tell him what's the reason.
1:20.8	So this week, Taylor Swift and her empire announced that they were going to,
1:25.4	or that they are going to shut down her social networking app, the Swift life.
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