"Earth shattering event." The Reporters' Roundtable. June 27,2025
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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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Summary
Iran Raid Confusion. Intelligence Chaos. MAGA Schism. Impeach Trump Vote Fails. Big Beautiful Mess. Supreme Court Harms Women. NYC Mayor’s Race Earthquake. With Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief at CQ-Roll Call, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost, Amanda Becker, covering Politics and People for 19th News and author of the book, You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America and Hunter Walker, Investigative Reporter at Talking Points Memo and author of the book, The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bill Press Pod Reporter's Roundtable. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jason Dick, editor-in-chief, at Cickey Roll Call, sitting in for Bill. |
| 0:14.0 | Here in Washington, D.C., it's about 8.30 in the morning on June 27th. |
| 0:18.0 | And thankfully, at least for now, the heat wave is over. It's been one of those |
| 0:23.6 | momentous weeks. In the wake of last weekend's U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, |
| 0:28.4 | President Donald Trump claimed they were obliterated, totally obliterated, as opposed to partially |
| 0:33.9 | obliterated. Initial intelligence reports saw it differently. The administration looked |
| 0:38.6 | to reclaim the narrative. They delayed some classified briefings for the House and Senate, |
| 0:42.9 | disputed their own reports, and then brought out their senior national security big guns to make |
| 0:47.1 | the case that it was, in Defense Secretary Pete Heggsett's words, the greatest military |
| 0:51.7 | operation in history. It all led to questions about what intelligence |
| 0:55.6 | reports could be trusted. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are continuing their efforts to construct |
| 1:01.3 | that chamber's version of the one big, beautiful bill, but they keep running into roadblocks |
| 1:06.3 | from within their own ranks in their attempts to cut funding for Medicaid, boot stamps, |
| 1:10.5 | and other programs |
| 1:11.3 | that their constituents depend on, as well as the Senate parliamentarian. |
| 1:16.2 | Meanwhile, the New York City mayoral race produced a Democratic primary winner that continued |
| 1:20.2 | to show the deep divisions in that party, a result that could also shape the 2026 elections. |
| 1:26.3 | And finally, the Supreme Court wraps up its term this week |
| 1:29.5 | with some cases that will likely reverberate in the public |
| 1:32.0 | and certainly here in Washington. |
| 1:34.3 | Here to discuss these topics and more are three top journalists. |
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