Updated Feb 8, 2021 - Politics & Policy
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The top headlines from the Feb. 7 episode of "Axios on HBO."
Jan. 31 episode:
- Washington Football Team president: I don’t think our name is “that weird”
- Ukraine's Zelensky calls riots "strong blow" to U.S. democracy
- Ukraine's Zelensky says he doesn't feel China threat
Dec. 7 episode:
- Exclusive: Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians
- Video: Key takeaways from our investigation on a suspected Chinese spy
- Christopher Krebs unloads on Trump disinformation "threat"
- HHS Secretary Alex Azar: COVID-19 vaccine will be available to all by mid-2021
Nov. 23 episode:
- Charles Koch says he "screwed up by being partisan" in political spending
- Southwest CEO: "Well into next year" before 737 MAX returns
- Southwest CEO: "You should fly," despite CDC warnings
- Cárdenas: Democrats need to be more "culturally competent" to win
- Moderna exec says children could be vaccinated by mid-2021
Nov. 9 episode:
- Exclusive: Valerie Biden Owens previews brother’s governing style
- Watch the full "Axios on HBO" interview with Valerie Biden Owens
- Ro Khanna urges Pelosi to retake Trump's pre-election COVID deal
- Kevin McCarthy: AOC "runs the floor" for House Democrats
- Top House Democrat says "defund police," other "sloganeering" cost seats
- Jon Ossoff: Georgia opponent Sen. David Perdue embodies "Trumpism in a nutshell"
Oct. 26 episode:
- Ilhan Omar: The Squad expects liberal turn from Biden after election
- Omar criticizes fellow House Democrats on police brutality, despite reform bill
- Ted Cruz doesn't think the Hunter Biden attacks are working
- Ted Cruz defends GOP's expected return to prioritizing national debt
- CRISPR pioneer: "Science is on the ballot" in 2020
Oct. 12 episode:
- Always Trumpers: The president’s unbreakable wall
- GOP senator defends Trump by claiming mask mandate would have failed
- BP’s climate reinvention dodges politics
- Exclusive: America's true unemployment rate
Sept. 28 episode:
- Bob Woodward: "I was not going to hide" my opinion on Trump
- Watch the full Jonathan Swan interview with Bob Woodward
- Life after Roe v. Wade
- Brookings fellow predicts reparations could happen in next 10 years
Sept. 14 episode:
- Exclusive: Melinda Gates slams Trump's COVID-19 response
- Melinda Gates: COVID-19 erased 25 years of vaccine progress in 25 weeks
- Match CEO calls Apple's policies "inconsistent and unfair"
- Match CEO sees "long-lasting" changes to dating from coronavirus
- Renters are still in eviction limbo
May 25 episode:
- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer won't apologize for coronavirus lockdown
- Whitmer: "I can’t for the life of me understand" Trump’s antagonism toward Michigan
- A closer look at how colleges can reopen
- Palantir CEO Alex Karp hits Silicon Valley "monoculture," may leave California
May 12 episode:
- Marco Rubio: "We don't have enough information" on coronavirus origins
- Mike Pence asked whether White House staffers need face masks
- Pence says he'd be "happy" to see Michael Flynn back in government
- Pence: Trump welcomes prayer at White House meetings
- Salesforce CEO hopes America's return to offices is only weeks away
March 22 episode:
- China ambassador disowns coronavirus conspiracy — Highlights
- Exclusive: Justice Stephen Breyer says judges are "very bad politicians"
- Microsoft CEO focused on "new demand" caused by coronavirus
- Carnival CEO defends coronavirus response — downplays coronavirus bailout
March 15 episode:
- Clyburn: Trump is racist and America could "go the way of Germany in the 1930s"
- Clyburn wants Biden to pick an African American woman for VP
- Why coronavirus could help stalled efforts to expand voting
- DNC chair Tom Perez: I don't know "what faith" Trump supporters follow
March 8 episode:
- Donald Trump Jr. says he'll debate Hunter Biden and release his taxes
- Ben Carson says minimum wage too low
- Leading female athletes outline plight for equal pay, representation
- Trump Jr. defends saying Democrats want millions to die from coronavirus — and explains his father’s attacks on fired Cabinet officials
- Trump Jr. claims he has "no intention" of running for president in 2024
- Donald Trump Jr. says his dad has told him to tone down the tweets
March 1 episode:
