"Absolute Sea Change." The Reporters' Roundtable December 15
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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Same Sex Signed. Sandy Hook Remembered. McCarthy Still Short. Pelosi Honored. SCOTUS Ethics. Trump Troubles. FTX Fail. With Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-Chief at National Journal, Niall Stanage, White House Columnist for The Hill and Political analysis for News Nation AM and Leah Askarinam, Senior editor at Grid News.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome to the Bill Press Pot and this week's Reporters Roundtable. |
| 0:12.1 | Coming to a day earlier this week because so many of us, including me, are heading out of town for the holidays. |
| 0:18.9 | As always, Congress waits till the last minute to get things done. |
| 0:23.4 | This year, no exception. |
| 0:25.5 | After months of negotiating, they finally did pass, and President Biden did sign historic |
| 0:32.1 | legislation recognizing same-sex marriage. |
| 0:35.9 | Now they're fighting at uphill battle to pass an omnibus spending bill |
| 0:39.5 | before leaving for the holidays, just to keep the government running for another few weeks. |
| 0:46.3 | Meanwhile, with the midterms behind us, everybody's already talking about 2024, where Donald Trump |
| 0:52.4 | got a bit of bad news this week, according to the latest poll, |
| 0:56.2 | trailing Ron DeSantis and a Republican primary, 52 to 38. |
| 1:02.8 | Kevin McCarthy's moment of truth comes a lot earlier in early January when House Republicans |
| 1:08.4 | meet to elect the next speaker. McCarthy needs 218 votes, but he's not |
| 1:13.6 | there yet and may never get there. All of that and a whole lot more for today's Blue Ribbon |
| 1:20.0 | panel of Washington political reporters. Leah Ascaranam, now senior editor at Grid News. |
| 1:28.0 | Leah, welcome back. |
| 1:29.4 | Thanks, Bill. |
| 1:31.3 | Niall Stanage, joining us again, White House columnists for the Hill and political analysts for News Nation AM. |
| 1:39.3 | Hello, Neil. |
| 1:40.2 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:41.3 | And Jeff Dufour, editor-in-chief of the National Journal. |
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