"Everybody got tired and wanted to go home." The Reporters' Roundtable. March 27, 2026.
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
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Summary
TSA Funding on Track. Who Won This Fight?
Cabinet “Meeting” Follies. Trump’s Wandering Thoughts.
MAGA vs Ground Troops. Gas Prices vs Iran War. Trump
Texas No-show. Mar-a-Lago Dem Win.
With Jennifer Haberkorn, Deputy White House editor at POLITICO, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost and John Bennett, White House Correspondent, CQ Roll Call.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. |
| 0:07.7 | Happy Friday and welcome to this week's Reporters' Roundtable here on the Bill Press |
| 0:12.3 | pod. |
| 0:13.4 | Well, we're now one month into Donald Trump's war in Iran with still lots of uncertainty. |
| 0:19.5 | Maybe it'll be over tomorrow. Maybe it's already over, or maybe it'll |
| 0:23.7 | drag on until September. Maybe there are talks going on. Maybe there aren't. Who knows? And who knows |
| 0:29.9 | after a Senate vote very early this morning, how soon the partial government shutdown will be over. |
| 0:36.9 | TSA agents haven't been paid now for over a month, |
| 0:40.1 | while ICE agents sent to help out are getting paid, |
| 0:43.7 | and members of Congress, who are also getting paid, |
| 0:46.9 | are set to leave town for two weeks. |
| 0:49.3 | What a mess. |
| 0:50.8 | In other news, after a big upset, a Democrat is the new Florida state senator for Mar-a-Lago. |
| 0:58.0 | The average gas price is now $3.99 a gallon, but it's well over $5 out here in California, where I am. |
| 1:07.0 | President Trump still has not endorsed in the Texas Republican primary, but he did hold a 90-minute |
| 1:13.6 | cabinet meeting yesterday where he spent a lot of time talking about, among other things, |
| 1:20.3 | Sharpies. Well, here today to try to make some sense of it all, Jennifer Habercourt, Deputy White House editor for Politico. |
| 1:29.3 | Hi, Jen. Welcome back. |
| 1:30.9 | Thanks so much for having me, Bill. |
| 1:32.1 | John Bennett, White House correspondent, also covering the White House, for CQ roll call. |
| 1:36.5 | Hello, John. |
| 1:37.3 | Hello, hello. |
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