Hello, good friends. Good to see you again and welcome to this week's

Reporter's Roundtable on the Bill Press 5 coming at the end of week two of Trump 2.

It was already a wild week with a freeze on all federal grant programs announced by the Trump

administration and shortly rescinded, with 17 inspectors general abruptly fired, with an email

to 2.3 million federal employees encouraging them to resign by September 30, with lively confirmation hearings on

RFK Jr. Tulsi Gabbard and Cash Patel.

And then Wednesday night came tragedy on the Potomac at Washington's hometown airport and

the loss of 67 lives when a Black Hawk Army helicopter collided with an incoming American

Airlines regional jet. A horrific accident with President Trump with zero evidence immediately

blamed on Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and DEI. Whoa, that means a lot to cover for today's reporter's roundtable, but let's jump right in with

Lynn Sweet, columnist and Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times.

Hello, Lynn, welcome back.

Hi, good to be here.

Emily Good and joining us, senior White House correspondent

for Dailymail.com. Good to have you back to, Emily. Hello. Hi, thanks for having me.

And John Bennett, White House correspondent and editor-at-large for CQ roll call. Hello, John. Hello, Bill. Thanks

for having me. Okay, so we've got to start with the big news that is dominating the coverage here in Washington and around the country.

At yesterday's news conference, John, you were there.

After a moment of silence for the 67 victims of that horrific crash on the Potomac. The president again said this was the fault of the policies of the previous administrations,

Barack Obama, Joe Biden, particularly Pete Buttigieg, who he said had a fine line of,

or good line of bullshit. That's the word the president used from

national television. And then he was pressed, John, about what kind of evidence he had that

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