"Bombshell News." The Reporters' Roundtable 5-13
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🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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January 6th Subpoenas to GOP. FBI Probe of Trump Documents Removal. Trump’s Midterm Record Mixed. Abortion Rights vs The Midterms. With Melanie Mason, National Political Correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, Lauren Burke, Host, Burkefile, Writer for Black Press USA and The Guardian and Jeff Dufour, Editor in chief at National Journal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, it's Friday, the 13th but no Triscahophobia here. |
| 0:11.9 | We carry on as usual. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's Reporters Roundtable. |
| 0:18.9 | Before you head into the weekend, your chance to get up to date |
| 0:22.2 | on the big stories of the week with three top political reporters. Bombshell news yesterday, |
| 0:27.6 | the House January 6th committee stunned Washington by issuing subpoenas to five Republicans in Congress, |
| 0:35.4 | including Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, all five of whom had |
| 0:39.7 | dismissed previous request to testify voluntarily. They're certain to refuse, but when they do, |
| 0:47.1 | will anything happen? In other news of the week, Donald Trump won a big primary in West Virginia, |
| 0:53.2 | but lost a big one in Nebraska. |
| 0:55.0 | He also learned that he's the target of an FBI investigation over classified documents |
| 1:01.0 | that he took with him to Mar-a-Lago. |
| 1:05.0 | On Wednesday, Senate Democrats staged a hopeless vote to codify Roe v. Wade. America marked the grim |
| 1:14.1 | rind milestone of one million COVID deaths. And this week, Joe Biden came out swinging against |
| 1:20.9 | what he called the ultra-maga party. A lot to dig into. So here today to help us make some sense of it all. |
| 1:29.6 | Jeff Dufor, editor-in-chief National Journal, Lauren Burke, newswriter, Black Press USA, and host of |
| 1:36.0 | the Burke File podcast. And from the West Coast, Melanie Mason, National Political Correspondent |
| 1:42.2 | of the LA Times. Hello to you all. |
| 1:45.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:46.9 | So, Jeff, this big issuing the subpoenas, an unusual move for a congressional investigation to subpoena sitting members of Congress. |
| 1:56.9 | They're not going to testify. |
| 1:59.0 | So why did the committee do this? |
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