"The Chaos Comes First." The Reporters' Roundtable. Feb. 7, 2025
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Gaza Chaos. Trump Never Changes. Elon’s Power Grab. Will Trump Dump Musk? USAID and Soft Power Gone. Rubio Falls In Line. Powerless Democrats. NYC Mayor’s Race. Shutdown Coming. Constitutional Crisis Already Here. Will Court Orders Be Ignored? With Maya King, Political Reporter for the New York Times based in New York, Philip Bump, Columnist for the Washington Post and author of the How to Read This Chart Newsletter and Kirk Bado, Editor of The National Journal Hotline.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello sports fans. Well, I know this may be the most exciting weekend of the year for you, but before you dive into the Super Bowl, we want to bring you up to date on the big political news of the week. So welcome to this week's Ruters Roundtable on the Bill Press pod and what a week it's been. |
| 0:24.7 | Republican senators rallied behind two of President Trump's most controversial |
| 0:28.8 | cabinet nominees, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., advancing them to a vote on the Senate |
| 0:34.9 | floor. Federal judges have put a hold on two of Trump's most |
| 0:39.1 | important executive orders, one encouraging all federal employees to resign by September 30, |
| 0:45.5 | the other ending birthright citizenship. With Trump's approval, the unelected Elon Musk succeeded |
| 0:51.8 | in shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development |
| 0:55.1 | created by John F. Kennedy in 1961. And President Trump, who stirred up a hornet's nest at the |
| 1:02.5 | beginning of the week by threatening a trade war with Mexico and Canada, stirred up another |
| 1:08.3 | one in the middle of the week by saying he'd kick all Palestinians out of the Gaza |
| 1:13.1 | strip, take it over as an American territory, and make it the new Riviera of the Mediterranean. |
| 1:20.4 | So what's it all mean and where do we go from here? Let's find out in today's panel. |
| 1:26.0 | Maya King, political reporter for the New York Times, now based in New York City. |
| 1:31.5 | Hello, Maya. |
| 1:32.7 | Hi, Bill. |
| 1:33.7 | Kirk Beto, editor of the National Journal hotline, still stuck in D.C., I think. |
| 1:39.1 | Hello, Kirk. |
| 1:40.1 | Still stuck here, still enjoying this fall spring we're having here. |
| 1:43.1 | Great to be here with you guys. |
| 1:44.9 | All right, good, thank you. Kirk And Philip, um, columnist for the Washington Post and author of the weekly How to Read This Chart Newsletter. Hello, Philip. |
| 1:53.8 | Hello, hello. Okay. So, Philip, it is sort of unbelievable. But the president did say we're going to take over Gaza after Jordan and Egypt accept all the Palestinians to move out of the territory. |
| 2:10.6 | We're going to rebuild it, and that's going to be the new hottest resort on the planet. |
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