Where Science Meets Politics. With The Washington Post's Philip Bump.
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Philip Bump is a National Correspondent for the Washington Post who uses science and data to analyze what politicians say or do. As Bill says, "when it comes to politics, he's got the best take on where we are today, how we got here and where we're heading tomorrow." Philip and Bill talk about Ron DeSantis, Mike Lindell, JD Vance, The GOP, AOC and Donald Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, happy end of summer, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:12.0 | We're almost a year away from election 2020. We're still a year away from election 2022, |
| 0:18.0 | but already the American political pot is boiling. A majority of Republicans still |
| 0:23.6 | refused to admit that Donald Trump actually lost the last election, and most of those same |
| 0:29.2 | people also refused to accept COVID-19 as a serious threat and therefore refuse to get vaccinated. |
| 0:36.2 | Republicans are also split on what to do about Afghan refugees. |
| 0:40.1 | They attack Joe Biden for not getting enough of them out of Afghanistan fast enough, |
| 0:44.7 | yet they also attack Biden for agreeing to let so many of them into the United States. |
| 0:50.4 | While Democrats also experienced a little infighting over how long to stay in Afghanistan and how much money to spend on infrastructure, hard or soft infrastructure. |
| 1:02.0 | It's hard to keep track of all of these counter currents and it would be impossible without the insights of great reporters like Philip Bump, national correspondent for the Washington Post. |
| 1:13.5 | Believe me, I read every word he writes. I'm a big fan because I believe when it comes to politics, |
| 1:19.4 | he's got the best take on where we are today, how we got here, and where we're heading tomorrow. |
| 1:26.4 | Philip Bump, good to talk to you. |
| 1:27.8 | Welcome to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:30.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:31.4 | Well, there's so much going on in American politics today we can talk about forever. |
| 1:36.4 | But let's start with something which fascinates me and you've been writing a lot about. |
| 1:40.9 | How did a health care crisis, a serious national health care crisis, maybe the most serious |
| 1:47.1 | ever, become such outright political warfare? It's a complicated question. I think this is one of |
| 1:53.5 | those questions that will be best answered by some 400-page book in the year 2030, right? I mean, |
| 1:58.0 | well, we're sort of going to have to wait and see what all of the |
| 2:01.0 | different details of it are. But I think that we can point to one pretty obvious cause here, |
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