"Never a dull moment." The Reporters' Roundtable. September 5, 2025.
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Very Bad Jobs Report. Department of War. Attack on “Drug” Boat. RFK, Jr., Slammed. Epstein Survivors Speak. Files Release Stalled. Troops in DC. Troops To Chicago? Pritzker Fights Back. Will SCOTUS Stop Trump? With Jeff Dufour, Editor in chief at National Journal, Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent for 19th News and Arthur Delaney, Senior Politics Reporter covering Congress and the economy for Huff Post.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash Wondery. |
| 0:16.1 | Good day, good friends. |
| 0:19.7 | On this Friday morning, September 5, welcome to this week's |
| 0:23.1 | Reuters Roundtable on the Bill Press pod, where we look back at the big news of the week with |
| 0:27.8 | three of Washington's top political reporters. Well, Congress came back to town with two |
| 0:32.7 | blockbuster news events on the hill. A fiery hearing yesterday where HHS Secretary RFK Jr. was peppered |
| 0:41.3 | with hostile questions about his position on vaccines, mainly from Republican senators who voted to |
| 0:48.3 | confirm it just a couple of months ago. And the day before, an emotional news conference |
| 0:53.8 | where victims of Jeffrey Epstein's |
| 0:55.6 | sex trafficking ring told their stories, some for the first time, and called on Congress |
| 1:00.9 | to vote to release all the Epstein files, which Speaker Johnson and the White House still resist. |
| 1:07.7 | In other news, some National Guard members assigned to Washington said, they're tired of doing |
| 1:12.4 | garden work and just want to go home. And the legality of Trump's firing a Fed board member, |
| 1:18.4 | cutting university research funds, sending troops into city streets, and imposing tariffs on |
| 1:23.5 | imports without congressional approval, all are headed to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:29.3 | Breaking news this morning, say goodbye to the Department of Defense and hello to the Department of War. |
| 1:37.3 | Whoa, never a dull moment in Trump, too. |
| 1:40.0 | So let's check you in today's panel. |
| 1:42.6 | Jeff Dufor, editor-in-chief of the National Journal. |
| 1:45.4 | Good to have you back, Jeff. |
| 1:46.7 | Good morning. |
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