"Going to absurd lengths. The Reporters' Roundtable. August 1, 2025
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
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Trump Fuels Epstein Scandal. Yes Tariffs-No Tariffs. Higher Prices are Here. Trump Attacks 2 GOP Senators. Grassley “Offended.” Texas Gerrymander. Dem States Fight Back. Kamala 2028? $200 Million WH Ball Room. With Arthur Delaney, Senior Political Reporter at HuffPost, Maria Recio, Washington Correspondent for Austin American Statesman and Evan McMorris-Santoro, Reporter for NOTUS.
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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. |
| 1:06.5 | Hello, good friends. It's August 1st, or Liberation Day, as President Trump calls it. |
| 1:11.0 | Welcome back to the Bill Crest Pod and welcome to this week's Reporters Roundtable, |
| 1:16.8 | where we look back at News of the Week from our nation's capital with three top political reporters. |
| 1:23.5 | Even with the House in recess, there's never a dull week in Washington, and this week was no exception. |
| 1:35.9 | Jeffrey Epstein continued to dominate the news, mainly because President Trump wouldn't stop talking about him, as pressure grows on the Justice Department to release all the Epstein files. |
| 1:46.4 | Meanwhile, in other news, Trump's August 1 tariff deadline came and went with mixed results, as we'll see. Texas Republicans voted to prematurely redraw congressional district lines in order to pick up maybe five more |
| 1:51.8 | seats. Kamala Harris decided not to run for governor of California and |
| 1:57.1 | Donald Trump announced plans to add a two200 million ballroom to the White House. |
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