"No one tells him what to do." The Reporters' Roundtable. April 3, 2026
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
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Summary
Pam Bondi Fired. Trump’s SCOTUS Visit.
Birthright Citizenship Seems Safe.
Trump’s Primetime “Address!?”
A Most Unpopular War. Ground Troops?
House GOP Disarray. Ballroom Chaos.
Trump’s Name Everywhere. Great Space Launch. . With Emily Goodin, White House Correspondent for The New York Post, Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief at CQ-Roll Call and Philip Bump formerly of the Washington Post and about to take on a new role at Hearst Media Group in Connecticut as a columnist and to head-up their data journalism team.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Happy Friday and welcome to this week's |
| 0:10.2 | Reporter's Roundtable here on the Bill Press 5. Well, one thing for sure, no lack of big |
| 0:15.9 | stories to talk about this week. In his ongoing role as star of The Apprentice, Donald Trump invited |
| 0:23.6 | Pan Bondi to accompany him to the Supreme Court Wednesday morning and then fired her that evening, |
| 0:30.4 | proving again that loyalty is a one-way street in Trump world. That same evening from the White |
| 0:36.2 | House, President Trump told the nation that the war in |
| 0:39.1 | Iran was all but over and that Iran had been basically totally destroyed, but we were still going |
| 0:45.1 | to continue bombing them for two or three more weeks. In other news, a judge halted construction |
| 0:51.3 | of Trump's new ballroom until and unless it's approved by Congress. |
| 0:56.3 | Supreme Court justices didn't seem to be in any hurry to agree to Trump's ban on |
| 1:01.0 | birthright citizenship. And with the picture perfect launch of Artemis II, American astronauts |
| 1:07.5 | are back in space and on their way to circle the moon. |
| 1:11.5 | Here today, to help put it all in perspective for us, today's panel of top political reporters, |
| 1:16.9 | Jason Dick, starting us off, editor-in-chief of CQ roll call. Hi, Jason. |
| 1:21.1 | Good morning, Bill. Welcome back. Thank you. Emily Gooden, White House correspondent for the New York |
| 1:26.1 | Post. Hi, Emily. No. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank, good to have you there. And Philip Bump, formerly with the Washington Post and about to join |
| 1:34.0 | Hearst Media Group up in Connecticut as a columnist and head of their journalism team. Congratulations, |
| 1:41.2 | Philip, and welcome back. Of their data journalism team, but yes, happy to be here. Thank you, sir. |
| 1:46.1 | All right, there we go. So, Emily, let's get the take from the White House. First of all, we got to say that loyalty, Pam Bondi was, she was Ms. Loyalty, certainly in the Trump administration. |
| 2:01.9 | Here's a little montage of her, either at a cabinet meetings or testifying in front of Congress, |
| 2:07.9 | telling us all how great Donald Trump was. |
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