"More Time to do Nothing ." The Reporters' Roundtable- Feb 18
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🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s Bad Week. Feckless Congress. Sarah Palin Loses Libel Suit. Win for Gun Safety. MAGA's Liz Cheney Obsession. GOP Divided on Ukraine. And the Gazpacho Police. With Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor at Politico, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost and Addy Baird, Politics Reporter at BuzzFeed News.
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| 0:00.0 | Good friends, good to see you. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and to this week's |
| 0:11.5 | Reporter's Roundtable. A quick look back at the news of the week and what it all means with three of |
| 0:17.4 | Washington's top political reporters. Well, not a good week for Donald Trump. |
| 0:22.4 | His longtime accounting firm dropped him. |
| 0:25.2 | A judge ordered him to obey a subpoena to testify in the New York Attorney General's |
| 0:30.7 | investigation of his business dealings. |
| 0:33.8 | And President Biden once again refused Trump's claim of executive privilege for his White House logs. |
| 0:41.4 | Not such a great week for Joe Biden either. |
| 0:44.1 | His legislative agenda has simply died a quiet death. |
| 0:48.0 | Inflation drags on, raising consumer prices across the board. |
| 0:52.5 | And despite promises of diplomacy, every day it seems for getting |
| 0:57.3 | closer to war in Ukraine. But it was a good week for gun safety advocates as a group of Sandy Hook |
| 1:04.7 | parents won a $73 million settlement from Remington, manufacturer of that A-15 type assault rifle used in the 2012 school |
| 1:14.9 | massacre. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin lost round one with the New York Times. Hoopi Goldberg went back to work, |
| 1:22.2 | and the Rams won the Super Bowl. Here to make some sense of it all. |
| 1:28.1 | Addie Baird, National Political Reporter for BuzzFeed News. |
| 1:31.9 | Hello, Adi. |
| 1:32.7 | Hi. |
| 1:33.7 | Good to have you here. |
| 1:35.0 | Igor Babish, congressional correspondent for Huck Post. |
| 1:38.9 | Hello, Igor. |
| 1:40.1 | Hey, Bill. |
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