"A Nakedly Political Actor." The Reporters' Roundtable-March 1, 2024
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
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Summary
Border Photo Ops. No Government Shutdown. Ukraine in the Balance. SOTU Coming Up. McConnell Steps Down. Hunter Defeats Comer. Michigan Primary Warnings. Biden/Trump Age Issue. SCOTUS Takes the Case. With Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico, Shirish Date, White House Correspondent at HuffPost and Lauren Green, Congressional Reporter at The National Journal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and on this Friday morning, first day of March. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to this week's Reporter's Roundtable. |
| 0:15.6 | And again, lots of news on several fronts. |
| 0:19.1 | Yesterday in dueling photo ops, both Joe Biden and Donald Trump showed up at the southern border, |
| 0:25.9 | each blaming the other for not fixing the problem. |
| 0:29.7 | That came after two days after Donald Trump and Joe Biden handily won the Michigan primary. |
| 0:36.2 | If it's not already over by now, it looks like it will be |
| 0:39.5 | next week on Super Tuesday. And meanwhile, after stewing about it for two weeks, the Supreme Court |
| 0:46.7 | decided to take up Donald Trump's claim that he should enjoy absolute immunity for anything he did |
| 0:53.5 | as president. Long-serving GOP leader |
| 0:56.8 | Mitch McConnell, facing a rebellion from some Republican senators, decided to throw in the towel instead. |
| 1:04.7 | And at the 11th hour again, Congress managed to avoid a government shutdown by kicking the can down the road until |
| 1:13.6 | a week from today, where in Washington that counts as progress. |
| 1:20.0 | What to make of it all? |
| 1:21.0 | Well, let's find out from today's panel. |
| 1:24.3 | Sudeep Reddy back with us again, senior managing editor at Politico. Hello, Sudeep. Hi, Bill. |
| 1:31.9 | Cherish Date, White House correspondent at HuffPost. Shereach, welcome back to you, too. |
| 1:38.4 | Thank you, Bill. And Lauren Green, joining us for the first time, congressional reporter at the National Journal. |
| 1:46.3 | Hi, Lauren. Good to have you with us. Hey, Bill. Excited to be here. Well, so let's start with the big |
| 1:53.0 | dueling photo ops at the border. Cherish, I know you were not on White House pool duty yesterday, |
| 2:05.2 | but I'm just curious, first of all, tell us how long is a trip like this planned? |
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