"The Good Old Days Are Gone." The Reporters' Roundtable-Dec 10
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Bob Dole's Life. Christmas Card Guns. GOP Hardliners Threaten. January 6th Committee Moving Faster. Biden/Putin Summit. Inflation/Biden Boom. Press Treatment of Biden/Harris. With Philip Bump, National correspondent for The Washington Post and author of the Newsletter: "How to Read This Chart,” John Bennett, Editor-at-Large, CQ Roll Call and Lauren Burke, Host Burkefile podcast and writer at Black Press.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.0 | Happy holidays. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and welcome to this week's roundtable, where we look back |
| 0:15.0 | on the big stories of the week with three of Washington's top political reporters. |
| 0:19.7 | This week brought an unusual show of bipartisanship |
| 0:22.7 | on the Hill, where Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell agreed on a plan to raise the debt ceiling, |
| 0:29.3 | even though Lindsey Graham warned that Donald Trump would punish any Republican who voted for it. |
| 0:35.1 | We also saw an unusual standoff online between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, |
| 0:41.4 | where Biden warned Putin of serious consequences if Russia invades Ukraine. Donald Trump lost |
| 0:48.8 | another round in court in his bid to withhold key documents from the January 6th House Committee, hand them over, said the D.C. appeals court. |
| 0:58.8 | And Washington gave a solemn farewell to warrior, statesman, Senate leader, and presidential candidate Bob Dole. |
| 1:07.0 | Here to put it all in perspective for us, today's panel, Philip Bump, joining us, National Correspondent for the Washington Post. |
| 1:14.2 | Hello, Philip. |
| 1:14.8 | Good morning, sir. |
| 1:15.2 | How are you? |
| 1:16.3 | Okay, Lauren Burke, host of the Burke File podcast and writer for Black Press USA. |
| 1:22.1 | Hi, Lauren. |
| 1:22.9 | How are you, Bill? |
| 1:24.0 | Great, thank you. |
| 1:25.2 | And John Bennett, editor-in-large of CQ roll call back with us again today. |
| 1:31.4 | Hello, John. |
| 1:32.3 | Hello, Bill. |
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