"Where the Hell is He?" The Reporters' Roundtable-Dec 18th
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Mitch concedes on Biden/Harris. Trump MIA on Covid. Biden's groundbreaking Cabinet. Tucker's a doctor hypocrite and a danger to public health. Georgia runoff. With Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent, New York Magazine, Addy Baird, Politics and Government Reporter, BuzzFeed News and Jeff Dufour, Editor in Chief, National Journal.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy holidays, everybody. Welcome to the Bill Press Pod and this week's roundtable, the very last roundtable of 2020. And as always, lots to talk about at the end of a very lively week. It's about 830 on Friday, December 18. Without incident |
| 0:24.6 | this week, the Electoral College met and awarded Joe Biden, 306 electoral votes, making it official. |
| 0:32.1 | Well, official for everybody but Donald Trump, who still insists that he won, not Joe Biden, but for him, |
| 0:40.2 | double rejection by the Supreme Court looks like the end of the road. Meanwhile, up in |
| 0:46.6 | Wilmington, Delaware, the president-elect continues to make history with the most diverse |
| 0:51.2 | cabinet in history. Already more women and more people of color, |
| 0:56.1 | plus the first ever openly gay cabinet member and the first Native American cabinet member. |
| 1:01.7 | And he still has a few more slots to fill. And good news, the coronavirus vaccine, |
| 1:08.2 | has arrived with health care workers first in line and Vice President Mike Pence |
| 1:14.5 | and his wife receiving the COVID vaccine this morning at the White House. |
| 1:20.1 | So let's sort it all out with today's roundtable guest, Addy Baird, political reporter for BuzzFeed. |
| 1:26.2 | Hello, Addy. |
| 1:27.3 | Hi, Joe. Okay, Addy. Hi, Bill. |
| 1:28.3 | Okay, Jeff Dufour, editor-in-chief of the National Journal. Hi, Jeff. Hi, Bill. |
| 1:33.7 | And good to see Gabe de Benedetti, National Political Reporter for New York Magazine. Hello, Gabe. |
| 1:40.2 | Hey, Bill. You can see me? |
| 1:43.5 | It's a magic, Gabe. So can see me? It's a magic game. |
| 1:46.5 | So, we heard something this week, Tuesday morning, on the floor of the United States Senate, that we have never heard before. |
| 1:58.5 | Let's listen up. |
| 2:00.3 | The Electoral College has spoken. |
| 2:04.6 | So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. |
| 2:08.6 | The President-elect is no stranger to the Senate. |
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