"An Emerging Backlash." The Reporters' Roundtable. February 21, 2025
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🗓️ 21 February 2025
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Federal Worker Purge. Cuts Begin to Hurt. Voter Backlash. Trump’s Worsening Polls. GOP Senators Fear Trump, MAGA. Death Threats. McConnel’s Legacy. Trump Lies About Ukraine. Trump Wants DC Rule. Eric Adams on a Leash. With Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief of CQ-Roll Call, Arthur Delaney, Political Reporter at Huff Post and Amanda Becker, Journalist at 19th News covering politics and Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
| 0:05.2 | from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
| 0:15.5 | set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, |
| 0:22.1 | a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing |
| 0:26.5 | together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the |
| 0:31.7 | impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong |
| 0:38.2 | and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, |
| 0:41.3 | Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated |
| 0:44.0 | than she ever planned. |
| 0:45.8 | She's in over her head and head over heels. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible. |
| 0:51.2 | Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 0:53.3 | Music on Audible. Go to Audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 1:04.4 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you. And welcome back to this week's roundtable on the Bill Press pod. Well, you know, for reporters these days, with apologies |
| 1:10.3 | to Charles Dickens, these are the best of times and the worst of times. |
| 1:14.5 | The best because there's so much to cover. |
| 1:17.1 | The worst because there's not enough time to give everything the reporting it deserves. |
| 1:23.1 | So like today, we just run hard and do our best to keep up with it all. |
| 1:27.2 | Like this week, among other big developments, President Trump rewrote history, |
| 1:32.8 | claiming that Ukraine started the war by invading Russia, not the other way around, |
| 1:38.4 | and started peace talks to end the war without Ukraine at the table. |
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