"In normal times..." The Reporters' Roundtable. August 8, 2025.
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
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TX Dems Stand-up. CA-NY-IL Dems Fight Back. Epstein Still. Selling the BBB. GOP Town Hall Problems. Trump: Obama Committed Treason. Treason Claims=Epstein Distraction. Tariff Price Hikes are Here. With Allan Smith, Political Reporter for NBC News, Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent for 19th News and Cameron Joseph, Senior Washington Reporter for the Christian Science Monitor.
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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 Now on Audible. Go to Audible.com slash Rich Girl Summer. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello, good friends on this Friday, August 8. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and welcome to this week's Reporters Roundtable, where we look back on the news of the week and try to make some sense of it all with three top political reporters. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, with Congress out of town, focus shifted to congressional districts this week, where |
| 1:19.3 | some members were brave enough to hold town halls, which turned out to be pretty fiery, and |
| 1:26.1 | focus shifted to Austin, Texas, where Democrats fled the state in order to block Republican legislators from drawing new congressional district lines as requested by Donald Trump to give Republicans maybe five new seats in Congress. |
| 1:40.7 | And that's now exploded into a nationwide redistricting war. |
| 1:45.0 | With California, New York, Indiana, and other states may be jumping in if Texas moves ahead. |
| 1:52.0 | In other news, Donald Trump announces a summit with Vladimir Putin, maybe as early as next week. |
| 2:00.0 | Developer Donald Trump is adding a 90,000 |
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