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12/22 What’s In the $900B Coronavirus Relief Bill w/ Jeff Stein & Elizabeth Pancotti

December 22, 2020

Sam hosts Jeff Stein of the Washington Post and Elizabeth Pancotti of Employ America to discuss the toplines of the coronavirus relief bill passed yesterday in the House and Senate. Stein and Pancotti get into the nitty-gritty details of the bill and how it came to pass in the House and Senate.

And in the Fun Half: Seb Gorka walks the Newsmax company line, the problematic YouTube algorithm, the theatrical left purity tests and the working-class left, support Brooklyn mutual aid group Supper Collective, Fox and Friends says Democrats want to keep you down, Prager U on why Robert E Lee should still have his statues, plus your calls and IMs!

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