"Public opinion happened." The Reporters' Roundtable. January 30, 2026
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
ICE Pullback? Noem in Trouble. Stephen Miller Secure. The Power of Protests. Shutdown Unlikely. FBI 2020 Votes Raid. Tulsi Gabbard on Scene(Why?) Trumps Very, Very Bad Polls. Cabinet Suck-ups. Melania Movie Bombing. With Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief of The National Journal, Emily Goodin, White House Correspondent for The New York Post and John Bennett, White House Correspondent for CQ-Roll Call.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. It's Friday morning, January 30, and you're just in time for this week's |
| 0:12.5 | reporter's roundtable on the bill press spot. Looking back at the big news of another busy week |
| 0:18.4 | here in the nation's capital. Well, Greenland and Jeffrey Epstein have |
| 0:23.0 | dropped off the front page for now because all the space almost all, but at least has been |
| 0:29.0 | taken up by Minneapolis, where ICE is still on the scene, but Tom Homan's now in charge. |
| 0:36.0 | Christy Noman's no longer in charge. |
| 0:38.7 | Stephen Miller has been sidelined and President Trump, without admitting that the administration did anything wrong, |
| 0:44.5 | looks like he's trying to change the tone. |
| 0:47.3 | But is it real? |
| 0:48.2 | Will it work? |
| 0:49.5 | Meanwhile, it looks like Senate Democrats may have succeeded by demanding reforms to ICE as the price |
| 0:56.4 | for avoiding another government shutdown. |
| 0:58.8 | But it's still a work in progress as of this morning. |
| 1:01.7 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:03.2 | And if you haven't already done, bought your tickets for tonight's debut of the documentary |
| 1:07.8 | Melania. |
| 1:09.1 | Don't worry, it looks like there may be still a few seats left and available. |
| 1:13.6 | Just asked Jeff Bezos. |
| 1:16.0 | And a little breaking news this morning, Kevin Warsh, who's a former member of the Fed board |
| 1:22.2 | under President George W. Bush, will be officially nominated today by President Trump as the new head of the Fed replacing Jerome Powell. |
| 1:31.8 | Wow. So here to make some sense of another wild week in Washington, let's say hello to today's members of the panel. |
| 1:39.6 | Jeff Dufor, editor-in-chief of the National Journal. Hi, Jeff. Welcome back. |
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