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Explain It to Me

White House Chinese food summit leads to congressional chaos

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Education, News, Society & Culture

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Congressional reporters Jeff Stein and Tara Golshan join Matt to talk about congressional Democrats' hopes and Republicans' fears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's good Dara's on vacation,

0:01.2

so we can't explain any of this properly.

0:02.8

We're actually doing it.

0:03.6

Correct us.

0:04.4

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:21.3

I'm Matthew Glacias joined by Tara Galsham and first time Weedser Jeff Stein.

0:27.3

Hello.

0:28.3

Hi, thanks for having me.

0:29.7

Yeah, so Jeff and Tara cover Congress for us here at TheVox.com.

0:34.3

Tara are mostly looking at Republicans, Jeff mostly Democrats,

0:38.3

but it's really, it's one big happy bipartisan family these days,

0:42.9

so we thought we'd bring everybody together here to talk about some of the parties'

0:49.3

individual struggles.

0:50.3

We want to talk about some sort of ambitious progressive legislation

0:52.8

and want to talk about budget antics on the Republican side.

0:58.0

But start out with deals that have been made.

1:02.2

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi came over to the White House on,

1:06.5

what was it Tuesday night, Wednesday night, and they had some Chinese food.

1:10.2

It did.

1:10.8

And they hashed out an agreement to protect dreamers and possibly fund the border.

1:17.5

And it was kind of one.

1:19.0

I think Tara, you actually caught this story late at night, right?

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