"The House is on Fire." The Reporters' Roundtable October 13
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🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Speaker Chaos. Real World Impacts. Bi-partisan Speaker? Terror/War in Israel/Gaza. Grading Biden’s Response. Humanitarian Crisis Coming. Trump Praises Hezbollah. With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Amanda Becker, covering Politics and Washington for 19th News and Brian Beutler, author of the Off Message newsletter on substack. You can see the video of "Coach" Tuberville here: bit.ly/3twgpDU
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. It's Friday morning, October 13, about 8.30 in the morning in our nation's |
| 0:13.0 | capital, and time for this week's reporters round table on the bill press pod, where we look back |
| 0:19.3 | at the big news of the week with three top political |
| 0:22.0 | reporters. And this week, it was, for the most part, war, more on two fronts, a violent bloody |
| 0:29.5 | war in the Middle East after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in response to which Israel's |
| 0:35.5 | declared war against Hamas. |
| 0:43.4 | And while the world is on fire back here at home, the House is on fire, |
| 0:50.2 | a less bloody but intensely uncivil civil war inside the House Republican caucus over who will be the next speaker of the House. |
| 0:53.8 | First they threw Kevin McCarthy out of the job, |
| 0:56.7 | then they nominated Steve Scalise to take his place, only to force him out of the job before he could |
| 1:03.1 | even be elected. The result is pure chaos. Indeed, there's a serious question about whether anybody |
| 1:10.3 | could lead this caucus. |
| 1:12.9 | So what are we going to make of it all? Well, let's find out from today's panel. |
| 1:17.3 | Sabrina Siddiqui joining us back on the Bill Cress Pod, White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:23.7 | Hello, Sabrina. |
| 1:25.1 | Good morning. |
| 1:26.1 | Welcome back. Amanda Becker, back with us again to Washington correspondent for 19th News. |
| 1:33.2 | Hello, Amanda. |
| 1:34.6 | Hello. |
| 1:35.7 | Okay, and joining us for, he's been on the podcast before, his first appearance on our reporter's roundtable, Brian Boitler, who is author of the brand new |
| 1:46.2 | newsletter called Off Message on Substack. I've subscribed, and I hope you guys will too. Hello, Brian. |
| 1:55.7 | I should be with you, Bill. Okay, let's start out. Sabrina, I want to ask you the same question, believe it or not, that I asked, the very first question I asked on last week's roundtable, which is this. |
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