Hello, good friends. Well, on this Friday morning, March 6th, welcome to this week's

Reuters Roundtable here on the Bill Press pod. Good to have you with us. As many have

remarked, covering the news in Washington these days is like riding the roller coaster,

and that was never more true than this week.

When we packed up last Friday's reporters' roundtable, for example, we figured we'd covered

all the big stories, only to wake up the next morning and discover we were in the middle

of war with Iran. Why? What's our goal? How long will it last?

Reporters spent a lot of time this week trying to get straight answers to those questions.

Then domestic politics leaped to the fore in Texas, of all places, with a big win of James Tolariko in the Democratic primary. The big question

now, can he beat John Cornyn or Ken Paxton? And how soon is President Trump going to endorse

in that race in the primary, Republican primary? But the week held two more big news stories.

First, Trump fired Christy K Noem, whom he'd repeatedly expressed

confidence in. She became the first member of his cabinet to be booted. And then the DOJ

released new documents from the Epstein files. Yes, we're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein,

in which a woman accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager.

Of course, he was long, long before he became president.

So that is a lot to chew on.

Let's get right to it with today's blue ribbon panel.

Sabrina Siddiqui, national political reporter for the Wall Street

Journal. Hi, Sabrina. Welcome back. Hello, hello. Arthur Delaney, senior politics reporter for

HuffPost covering Congress and the economy. Hi, Arthur. I love the Bill Press show. You'll be

invited back every week for that. And S.V. Dante senior White House correspondent for Huff Post, hi, Sharish.

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