"A Test for Donald Trump." The Reporter's Roundtable. January 3, 2025
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Speaker Race. Fallout From Race. Small GOP House Margin. Hegseth Up First. Gabbard, Patel, RFK Jr. Next. First 24 Hours. First 100 Days. J6 Pardons. Carter’s Legacy. With Sarah Wire, Senior National Political Correspondent for USA Today, Kirk Bado, Editor of the National Journal Hotline and Jasmine Wright, Reporter at NOTUS.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Happy New Year and welcome to this first edition of the Bill Press Pod for 2025. |
| 0:12.3 | Our weekly reporters roundtable, good to have you with us. |
| 0:17.0 | Well, with the holidays, it's been a quiet week so far, but fireworks start today with election of Speaker for the House of Representatives. |
| 0:24.8 | Of course, Mike Johnson's running for re-election, but with such a slim margin in the House, he can only lose two votes, or else he's out of office and he's already down one. |
| 0:41.3 | One more to go, and we'll see what happens. It's a big first test for Republicans in 2025. |
| 0:45.3 | Even with Trump's endorsement, can Mike Johnson survive? |
| 0:49.3 | Will he make it on the first ballot? We'll find out. |
| 0:51.3 | More fireworks ahead. |
| 0:53.3 | Four years later, another January 6th on Monday, |
| 0:57.8 | and another vote to certify results of the Electoral College, hopefully with less drama this time |
| 1:03.4 | around. And confirmation hearings get underway for Donald Trump's cabinet nominees, starting with |
| 1:09.3 | Defense Secretary wannabe Pete |
| 1:11.6 | Heggsett, in the middle of which President Jimmy Carter will lie in state in the Capitol |
| 1:17.5 | Rotunda for two days before his state funeral on January 9 at the National Cathedral, |
| 1:24.3 | to which Donald Trump has invited himself. So 2025 is off to a roaring start, and so are members of today's |
| 1:33.3 | Reporter's Roundtable panel. |
| 1:35.3 | Let's say hello to Sarah Wyer, senior national correspondent at USA Today. |
| 1:39.3 | Hi, Sarah, happy New Year. |
| 1:40.3 | Welcome. |
| 1:41.3 | Good morning. |
| 1:42.3 | Happy New Year you be as well. |
| 1:43.3 | Kirk Beto, editor of the National Journal Hotline, rejoining us. Hello, Kirk. |
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