"October Surprises." The Reporters' Roundtable October 7
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🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Herschel Walker Fumble. Christian Walker on Offense. Biden on Marijuana. Biden and DeSantis Make Nice. Trump’s Power over the GOP. Putin Wing of the GOP? Hunter Biden Charges? With Maya King, Politics Reporter for the New York Times covering the South, Alex Seitz-Wald Senior Digital Politics Reporter for NBC News and Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends, good to see you and welcome to this week's |
| 0:10.3 | reporter's roundtable with insights into the latest political news from three of our top |
| 0:15.4 | political reporters. |
| 0:17.2 | Well, 32 days now before the midterms and things are indeed heating up, especially in some key Senate races and nowhere more so than in Georgia, where Republican Senate candidate Hershaw Walker, campaigning as 100% anti-abortion, was hit this week with allegations from a former girlfriend that he had encouraged her to have |
| 0:39.5 | an abortion back in 2009 and paid for it. On the House side, Speaker Pelosi announced that her |
| 0:46.5 | pack has raised over $134 million to support House Democratic candidates. Does that give her a chance |
| 0:54.0 | to hold on to the speakership? |
| 0:56.1 | President Biden dropped a big surprise yesterday, |
| 0:59.4 | issuing a blanket pardon for anyone arrested for possession of marijuana under federal law. |
| 1:05.3 | So will potheads say thank you by turning out the vote? |
| 1:08.9 | And the Washington Post reports that federal prosecutors are primed to file tax evasion |
| 1:14.1 | charges against Hunter Biden. |
| 1:17.2 | Yep, just in time for the midterms. |
| 1:19.6 | Here today to help us tangle, untangle at all. |
| 1:23.0 | Igor Babish, congressional reporter for the Huffington Post, reporting today from Georgia. |
| 1:29.0 | Hello, Igor. |
| 1:30.5 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:31.6 | Maya King, political correspondent for the New York Times, based in the state of Georgia. |
| 1:36.9 | Hi, Maya. |
| 1:37.8 | Hi, Bill. |
| 1:38.9 | And Alexander Siteswald National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC Digital, |
| 1:44.1 | who always has Georgia on his mind. |
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