" A nuclear bomb in the courtroom." The Reporters' Roundtable. May 31,2024
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
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Trump Guilty. Times 34. GOP Closes Ranks. Effect on non-MAGA GOP. Trump: “I’m Innocent.” Down-Ballot Effect? What Should Biden Do? CA Senate Race. Gavin Newsom in the Wings. With Joe Garofoli, Senior Political Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, Melanie Mason, Senior Political Reporter at Politico and Marisa Lagos, Political Correspondent for KQED San Francisco, Co-host of the Political Breakdown podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and on this Friday morning, May 31, welcome to our reporter's roundtable coming to you today from San Francisco. Well, it goes without saying there will never be another reporter's roundtable like this one, |
| 0:23.3 | because there's never been not in our lifetime and not in the history of the country, |
| 0:29.0 | another news day like this one. |
| 0:31.7 | Donald Trump is now not only the first president who refused to accept the results of an election, |
| 0:38.4 | not only the first president impeached and indicted for trying to overthrow the government, not only the first |
| 0:44.1 | president charged with a federal crime, 88 of them, he's now also the first president and |
| 0:50.0 | presidential candidate who's a convicted felon on all 34 counts. Yesterday's decision, no doubt, |
| 0:59.0 | will hang over American politics forever and will have a huge impact on this 2024 presidential |
| 1:05.7 | election, although nobody knows exactly how. |
| 1:13.5 | And we probably won't until November 5. |
| 1:20.9 | But today we examined that decision and its impact so far with an All-California, all-star panel. |
| 1:25.5 | Melanie Mason, back with us, senior political reporter for Politico. |
| 1:26.4 | Hi, Melanie. |
| 1:27.3 | Hey, Bill. Marisa Lagos, political correspondent for Politico. Hi, Melanie. Hey, Bill. |
| 1:34.0 | Marisa Lagos, political correspondent for KQED San Francisco, joining us for the first time. |
| 1:35.2 | Marisa, good morning. |
| 1:36.3 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:37.8 | Yeah, great to have you here. |
| 1:43.3 | And Joe Garfoli, senior political writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. |
| 1:44.0 | Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. |
| 1:45.4 | Hello, Bill. |
| 1:46.2 | Thanks for inviting me. |
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