"It's a Television Show" -The Roundtable Oct 16th
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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E-mails! Dueling Town Halls. Covid. Amy Coney Barrett. 18 days to Go. With Matthew Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters, Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent 19th News and John T. Bennett, Washington Bureau Chief & Columnist, The Independent.
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| 1:03.5 | Hello, friends and neighbors. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's Roundtable, where we look back at the big news of the week with three of Washington's top political reporters. |
| 1:19.2 | Well, we're down to the home stretch now in the 2020 campaign, and campaign developments again dominated the news from Washington this week. |
| 1:28.7 | Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden back on the road with Trump holding a daily campaign rally |
| 1:34.4 | and Biden smaller, safer events, all of them in key battleground states. |
| 1:40.2 | A canceled second presidential debate was replaced last night by two competing town halls between |
| 1:47.0 | rival candidates on rival networks. Meanwhile, Amy Coney-Barritt sailed through confirmation hearings |
| 1:53.9 | in the Senate Judiciary Committee. And despite Donald Trump's promise that it was disappearing, |
| 2:00.7 | the coronavirus spiked as part of a |
| 2:03.3 | fall surge with eight states yesterday reporting the highest number of cases since March. |
| 2:11.0 | Here to help us make some sense of this busy week, Amanda Becker, national political reporter |
| 2:16.4 | for 19th news. Hi, Amanda. Hello. |
| 2:20.0 | John Bennett, White House correspondent for The Independent. Hello, John. Hello, Bill. |
| 2:25.3 | And Matt Gertz, joining us again, senior fellow from Media Matters for America. Hey, Matt, good to see you. |
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