"Reopening the Floodgates." The Reporters' Roundtable April 29
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
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January 6th Committee Hearings Coming. The Big Lie is Dividing the GOP. Biden: $33 Billion for Ukraine. GOP Knifes Madison Cawthorn. Elon Musk Terrorizes Twitter and Biden to White House Correspondents Dinner. With Linda Feldmann, Washington Bureau Chief, White House/Politics Correspondent at The Christian Science Monitor, Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent, at New York Magazine and Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's |
| 0:11.5 | Reporter's Roundtable. |
| 0:13.2 | I'll look back at the news of the week with three top political reporters. |
| 0:17.9 | Among items in the news this week, President Biden asked Congress for another $33 billion |
| 0:24.4 | for Ukraine. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy tells a Trump-sized lie and yet gets nothing but |
| 0:31.6 | praise from his fellow Republicans. For the second time, freshman Congressman Madison |
| 0:37.2 | Cawthorns caught by TSA trying to |
| 0:40.0 | take a loaded gun onto a plane. Elon Musk says he's buying Twitter only in order to save Western |
| 0:47.1 | civilization. Donald Trump says, if it weren't for Mitch McConnell, he'd still be in the White |
| 0:53.2 | House. And Dr. Fauci decides it's not safe to attend the White House correspondence dinner, |
| 0:59.4 | but President Biden has decided to go anyway. |
| 1:04.5 | So here today, to help us make some sense of it all, Igor Babish, congressional correspondent for for Huff Post. Hello, Igor. Welcome back. |
| 1:14.6 | Hey, Bill. Linda Feldman, Washington Bureau Chief of the Christian Science Monitor. Welcome, Linda. |
| 1:21.7 | Thank you. And Gabe de Benedetti, national political reporter for New York Magazine. Hello, Gabe. Howdy, Bill? So I woke up with, |
| 1:32.3 | on my cell phones, some breaking news out of CBS News this morning. Maybe a lot of you did too. |
| 1:39.8 | Congressman Jamie Raskin, a member of the January 6th committee, speaking to CBS News' new |
| 1:46.1 | political, top political correspondent, Robert Costa, moved over from the Washington Post, |
| 1:52.4 | making a pretty stunning conclusion about where the January 6 committee stands right now. |
| 2:00.2 | Here is Congressman Raskin. The findings of the committee |
| 2:04.7 | would blow the roof off the house because we now have the evidence to support a story of the |
| 2:13.0 | worst presidential political crime against the Union in American history. |
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