"People are shocked. horrified." The Reporters' Roundtable. February 6, 2026.
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
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Trump’s 2020 Delusion. GOP Pushing “SAVE Act.” Trump: “Nationalize” Elections. ICE Stays in Minneapolis. Support for ICE Crashes. Trump’s Bad, Very Bad Polls. Clintons to Testify. Bezos Fails Washington Post. With Shirish Date, senior White House correspondent at HuffPost, Allan Smith, Politics Reporter at NBC News and Mia McCarthy, covering Congress for Politico.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.2 | Well, on this Friday morning, February 6th, it's the opening day for the Winter Olympics |
| 0:13.4 | in Milan and almost as exciting. |
| 0:16.9 | It's time for this week's Reporters Roundtable on the Bill Press pod, joined by three top political reporters to take a look back on the news of a busy week, another busy week here in the nation's capital. |
| 0:28.4 | The week started off with a mini government shutdown, which could lead to another bigger shutdown if no deal is reached on reforms to DHS and ICE. |
| 0:39.7 | And while Congress is dealing with that, ICE continues its operations in Minneapolis, |
| 0:44.4 | but with 700 fewer agents on the ground and a new man in charge. |
| 0:49.5 | Meanwhile, the FBI seized election records from Fulton County, Georgia, still trying for Donald Trump to prove, |
| 0:58.3 | despite all the evidence that he and not Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020. And Trump says, hey, |
| 1:05.5 | you may not even have to worry about fraud in 28 because we're going to nationalize all elections, which in a rare |
| 1:13.5 | moment of bipartisanship, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, many of them at least said, |
| 1:19.2 | is unconstitutional on the face of it. As we said, never a dull moment in Trump 2.0. |
| 1:25.9 | So here to shed some light on all the latest news. |
| 1:29.6 | Today's panel, Alan Smith, joining us from NBC News, politics reporter. Hi, Alan. Good to have you back. |
| 1:35.1 | Good to be with you, Bill. Thank you. Mia McCarthy covers Congress, congressional correspondent for |
| 1:40.7 | Politico. Hi, Mia. Hi, thanks for having me. Thank you. And SVDOTE is the senior |
| 1:46.3 | White House correspondent for HuffPost, Pelosi. Welcome back. It's good to be back. And I'm not sure whether |
| 1:54.0 | you heard it or not. Let's start with nationalizing elections. The president made that point |
| 2:00.0 | several times, at least once from the Oval |
| 2:02.0 | Office that I saw, and he made it first, perhaps, on a podcast with Dan Bongino, who used to be |
| 2:09.6 | podcaster, spent a little time at DOJ at FBI. Now he's back at podcasting. Donald Trump |
| 2:15.8 | joined him this week and says, we're going to take over elections. |
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