"No good options left anymore." The Reporters' Roundtable. March 13, 2026
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
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War Hits the Homefront. Strait of Hormuz Blocked. Short(?) Term Pain. Low Support for War. Girls School Bomb Blame Game. TSA Struggles in Shutdown. Save Act Stalled. Filibuster Still Here. Old Pols Not Retiring. Replacing MTG. With Linda Feldmann, Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief at The National Journal and Maeve Sheehy, Congressional Reporter at Bloomberg Government.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Happy Friday and welcome to this week's |
| 0:09.9 | reporter's roundtable on the Bill Press plot. Actually, on this Friday the 13th, the second Friday |
| 0:16.1 | the 13th of this year. Whoa, with one more to go. But you can't escape it. It's been another week |
| 0:22.9 | dominated by news of the war in Iran, assuming it's okay to call it a war and not just an excursion. |
| 0:30.2 | But whatever you call it, President Trump said it was over on day one, but the U.S. and Israel |
| 0:35.2 | keep shelling Iran, and Iran keeps hitting nearby targets and shutting |
| 0:39.1 | down the strait-or-moos, while the price of gas shot up 40 cents a gallon in just the last week. |
| 0:46.1 | Meanwhile, Trump is pressuring Congress to dump the filibuster and pass the so-called Save America |
| 0:51.6 | Act, though it's doubtful. Republicans have the votes. In House |
| 0:56.2 | races, two senior Democrats, James Clyburn and Benny Thompson, are refusing to pass the torch to a |
| 1:03.9 | younger generation, and a Democrat actually made the runoff in Marjorie Taylor Green's |
| 1:09.3 | conservative district down in Georgia. |
| 1:12.7 | And by the way, did you know there's still a government shutdown going on? |
| 1:16.8 | Well, here to make some sense of it all today, Linda Feldman, Washington Bureau Chief |
| 1:22.4 | and White House correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. |
| 1:25.3 | Hi, Linda, welcome back. |
| 1:26.5 | Hi, thanks, Bill. Jeff Dufor is editor-in-chief of the National Monitor. Hi, Linda, welcome back. Hi, thanks, Bill. |
| 1:45.8 | Jeff Dufor is editor-in-chief of the National Journal. Hi, Jeff. Good morning, Bill. And joining us for her first turn at the reporter's roundtable, Delida Dworkin, Mave Chieh, who is congressional reporter for Bloomberg News. Hello, Maeve, welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. So, Linda, let's just start by saying we've got to start with a war in Iran, but certainly, when you look at Gaza and |
| 1:51.7 | Greenland and Venezuela, right, and Cuba and Iran, we didn't expect so much of the present second |
| 1:59.9 | term to be all about foreign policy, did we? |
| 2:03.3 | No, we didn't. |
| 2:04.3 | I mean, Trump has been under orders from Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, to focus on domestic issues, affordability, the economy, things that people care about, and more importantly, vote on vote on and will vote on in November. |
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