"Regular Rude Squabbling. "The Reporters' Roundtable-May 17, 2024
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Cohen Testifies. MAGA Reps to NY. Speaker Johnson, Too. Veep Race. Debates Are On. Weed Downgraded. Maryland Senate Race. Hearing Chaos. With Katherine Doyle, Reporter for NBC News, Arthur Delaney, Political Reporter at Huff Post and Kirk Bado, Editor of National Journal Hotline.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends on this Friday, May 17. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and welcome to this week's Reporters Roundtable, |
| 0:15.0 | where we look back at the news of the week with three of Washington's top political reporters. |
| 0:20.2 | Well, actually, most of this week's |
| 0:21.8 | news came out of New York, where Donald Trump's election fraud trial was in full swing, |
| 0:26.9 | with former Trump fixer Michael Cohen on the stand, along with the daily parade of Republican |
| 0:33.0 | members of Congress, including the Speaker of the House, showing up to give Trump some love, not to mention |
| 0:40.9 | yesterday, 100 penis balloons floating over the courthouse. But there was a lot of the news on |
| 0:47.8 | other fronts. Police continued to shut down campus protest over the war in Gaza. President |
| 0:53.2 | Biden moved to make it easier to smoke |
| 0:55.3 | hot. Biden and Trump agreed on two debates. The candidate with the most money actually lost in |
| 1:03.4 | Tuesday's Maryland Democratic primary and last night's oversight committee hearing in the House |
| 1:08.8 | erupted into a cascade of personal insult. Hey, that's a lot |
| 1:14.4 | to cover, but today's panel is sure up to it. Let's say hello first to Kirk Beto, editor of the |
| 1:20.5 | National Journal Hotline. Hello, Kirk. Welcome back. Warren, Bill. Thanks for having me this morning. |
| 1:25.9 | Catherine Doyle joining us to a political Reporter for NBC News. Hi, Catherine. |
| 1:30.9 | Good morning. |
| 1:31.8 | And along shortly, Arthur Delaney, political reporter for Huff Post. All right. So, Catherine, you normally covering White House Congress, you've been up in New York attending a lot of the Donald Trump trial. |
| 1:48.8 | This week it was almost like Michael Cohen, not Donald Trump, was on trial. |
| 1:53.6 | And the reports I've read go from the defense knocked Cohen out of the box or that Cohen held his own, kept his calm. |
| 2:04.8 | What's your read on this week, particularly with Michael Cohen? |
| 2:09.5 | How'd it go? |
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