"A True Spectacle." The Reporters' Roundtable September 22
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🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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GOP House Mess. “Speaker?” McCarthy. Kevin Snubs Ukraine. Garland Fights Back. Senate Dress Code. GOP Debate? Abortion-Always. Murdoch Steps Down. Favorite Stories. With David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY, Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico and John Bennett, Editor-at-Large & Analysis Columnist, CQ Roll Call, CQ Afternoon Briefing writer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends, and on this Friday, September 22, around 8.30 in the morning in our nation's capital, |
| 0:13.2 | welcome to this week's Reporters' Roundtable on the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:17.8 | Plenty to talk about this week on several fronts. |
| 0:24.1 | If at first you don't succeed, try, try, |
| 0:29.3 | try again. Well, that may work for everybody, but it doesn't work for Kevin McCarthy, |
| 0:36.6 | who keeps trying, trying, trying to get a funding bill passed, but keeps getting blocked by a handful of fellow Republicans, and now they've given |
| 0:39.2 | up and gone home for the weekend. Meanwhile, Attorney General Merrick Garland held his own against |
| 0:45.0 | a hostile House Oversight Committee. Ukraine President Zelensky came to town and got a cold |
| 0:51.4 | shoulder from House Republicans. Senators were given permission to wear |
| 0:56.1 | shorts and sweatshirts on the Senate floor, at least one of them. And Donald Trump said, |
| 1:03.0 | hey, I didn't go to the first debate and I'm not going to the second one either. That's just |
| 1:09.3 | part of what we want to talk about this morning. So let's try to put |
| 1:12.4 | it all in perspective with today's panel. David Jackson, national political correspondent for |
| 1:17.9 | USA Today. David, welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me, Bill. Okay, Sadipe Ready, managing editor |
| 1:24.4 | of Politico, and welcome back to you, Sadipe as well. |
| 1:28.4 | Hi, Bill. |
| 1:28.9 | How are you? |
| 1:30.8 | And another veteran. |
| 1:38.0 | Good to see John Bennett, who's the editor-in-large and analyst columnist for CQ roll call and writer of CQ's afternoon briefing. |
| 1:41.7 | Hello, John. |
| 1:42.7 | Good morning, Bill. |
| 1:44.0 | All right, so John, they're gone home for |
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