"He loves big bombs." The Reporters' Roundtable. October 31, 2025.
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
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Shutdown Continues. Blame Game. Any Movement? Trump: Kill Filibuster. House Still Out. Trump Flattered in Asia. Nuclear Testing? NYC Mayor’s Race. VA and NJ Governor’s Race. CA Redistricting Fight. With Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent for 19th News, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter for HuffPost and Evan McMorris-Santoro, Reporter at NOTUS.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends on this Friday morning, October 31, happy Halloween. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to a truly scary 31st day of the government shutdown. |
| 0:20.1 | Yep, it's already impacting millions of federal employees. |
| 0:23.9 | 43 million Americans could lose their food assistance this weekend, and millions more will get |
| 0:29.3 | noticed that their health insurance premiums are skyrocketing, but there have been no bilateral |
| 0:35.2 | talks to end the shutdown. The House hasn't been in session for over a month. |
| 0:39.8 | The Senate adjourned for the weekend, and President Trump's been out of the country. |
| 0:44.5 | Does anybody care? |
| 0:46.5 | In other news, while in Asia, the president announced that we're going to resume testing of nuclear weapons |
| 0:52.4 | and fired all members of the commission that would |
| 0:55.9 | have the final say on his pet ballroom. And meanwhile, all eyes are on four off-year elections |
| 1:04.2 | next week that, however, they're decided, will have a major impact on American politics, races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, |
| 1:13.9 | the big race for mayor of New York City, and a California initiative that could give Democrats |
| 1:18.7 | five more seats in Congress. Never a dull moment in Washington and never a dull moment for |
| 1:25.7 | our reporter's roundtable. So let's say hello to Amanda Becker, Washington, a never a dull moment for our reporter's roundtable. So let's say hello to |
| 1:29.9 | Amanda Becker, Washington correspondent for 19th News. Hi, Amanda. Hello, great to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:37.3 | Welcome back. Also welcome to Igor Babish, senior politics reporter for HuffPost and self-described U.S. Senate basement dweller. |
| 1:48.3 | Hello, Igor. |
| 1:50.3 | And Evan McMorris Santoro. |
| 1:53.7 | Happy Halloween, Evan. |
| 1:55.4 | Senior reporter at notice. |
| 1:57.8 | We don't know where Evan hangs out. |
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