"So Nakedly Political." The Reporters' Roundtable. August 22, 2025.
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
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FBI Raids John Bolton. Ukraine Summit. But No Ukraine Progress. Troops in DC. Gerrymander Fight. Epstein Not Going Away. Smithsonian/Slavery. With Katherine Doyle, White House Reporter for NBC News, Linda Feldmann, Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and Kirk Bado, Editor, The National Journal Hotline.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, good friends, and welcome to this week's Reporters' Roundtable, your favorite part of the |
| 0:12.3 | Bill Press pod, where we look back at the big political news of the week with three top political |
| 0:16.7 | reporters. Well, if you expected a quiet week with Congress out of town, you were wrong. |
| 0:23.9 | Veteran TV producer Donald Trump, in fact, put on one of the biggest shows the city's ever seen. |
| 0:30.4 | Not just a summit between two world leaders, but a summit with eight world leaders at the same time. |
| 0:39.8 | Seven of whom came on their own, |
| 0:44.2 | uninvited, to show their support for Ukraine President Zelensky and helped convince President Trump not to make any deal with Vladimir Putin without Ukraine's approval. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, that summit made history, but did it make any difference? Meanwhile, Trump's |
| 0:56.5 | military takeover of Washington expanded with the addition of National Guard troops from six |
| 1:01.8 | states, all red states, and political war broke out over red drawing congressional district lines |
| 1:08.1 | with both Texas and California approving new plans that could give |
| 1:12.6 | Republicans in Texas and Democrats in California five new seats in Congress. And the Smithsonian |
| 1:19.6 | has been ordered to change its existing exhibits in order to show that slavery wasn't so bad after all. Well, that's a lot for today's panel to |
| 1:31.4 | chew on, so let's say hello to Linda Feldman, Washington Bureau Chief and White House |
| 1:37.4 | Correspondent for Christian Science Monitor. Hi, Linda. Hi, Bill. Welcome back. Thank you. Kirk |
| 1:43.7 | Beto, editor of the National Journal Hotline. Hello, Kirk. |
| 1:47.5 | Poor Bill. Having to be here. Good. Thank you. And Catherine Doyle, back with us, White House reporter for NBC News. Hi, Catherine. |
| 1:55.2 | Hi, Bell. So, you know, I always laugh at the head opening of the evening news when they always say, |
| 2:02.1 | breaking news, breaking news, because usually it's something we already knew. |
| 2:05.5 | It's not breaking. |
| 2:06.3 | But we do have breaking news this morning, real breaking news, because just a couple of hours |
| 2:11.9 | ago, the FBI, we learned, raided the home of John Bolton out in Bethesda, Maryland. John Bolton, |
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