"So much outrage." The Reporters' Roundtable-January 24, 2025
The Bill Press Pod
BP Pods
4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
J6 Pardons. Pardon Backlash. Executive Order Theater. Birthright Citizenship. No Appeal to Unity. Hegseth Vote. Gabbard Iffy. Ramaswamy Out. Musk’s Power. Trump to NC and CA. With Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief at The National Journal, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost and Evan McMorris-Santoro, Reporter at NOTUS.
Today's Bill Press Pod is The American Federation of Government Employees supported by More information at AFGE.org.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends on this Friday morning, January 24. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's Reporter's Roundtable. |
| 0:15.8 | Well, Trump, too, certainly got off to a wild launch this week, |
| 0:20.5 | starting with the inauguration |
| 0:21.9 | of the 47th president in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday, but hitting a big speed bump |
| 0:27.8 | yesterday with a federal judge shooting down Donald Trump's plan, at least temporarily, |
| 0:33.5 | to unilaterally end the practice of constitutional birthright enshrined in the Constitution. |
| 0:39.3 | In between, President Trump wasted no time fulfilling campaign promises |
| 0:45.3 | with dozens of executive orders overturning Biden climate change policies, |
| 0:50.3 | declaring an emergency at the southern border, ordering federal employees back to the office five days a week, |
| 0:56.8 | and, in effect, declaring war on Panama, and most notably surprising even his vice president, |
| 1:04.1 | by granting a full and unconditional pardon to some 1,500 mega supporters involved in the January 6th attack on the Capitol, |
| 1:13.6 | including some 600 charged with assaulting police officers. |
| 1:19.0 | As was true, the first time around, and we remember, Trump throws so much out there so fast, |
| 1:25.9 | it's hard for us to keep track of it all or even give it the |
| 1:28.9 | attention it deserves, but we'll try to make some sense of it all with today's panel. So let's |
| 1:35.2 | say hello to Jeff Cooper, editor-in-chief of the National Journal. Hello, Jeff. Hello, Bill. |
| 1:41.6 | Good to have you back. Evan McMorris Centoro, National Politics Reporter with Notus. Hello, Evan. Welcome to you, too. |
| 1:49.0 | Hey, Bill. And Igor Babbage, Senior Politics Reporter for Huff Post. Hello, Igor. Good morning. |
| 1:57.8 | And, Igor, I want to start with you because you were there on January 6th, four years ago. |
| 2:03.7 | You put out one of the most watched videos from that day of a police officer protecting, |
| 2:10.2 | doing his job. What was it like to be there four years later at the scene of the crime |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BP Pods, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BP Pods and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

