"The Lurid Fascination." The Reporters' Roundtable. July 25, 2025
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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Epstein in DC/Epstein Back Home. Pardon for Maxwell? Trump Accuses Obama of Treason. Powell Checks Trump. Melania’s Opera House? Trump Bullies the NFL. With John Bennett, White House Correspondent, CQ Roll Call, Sarah Wire, Senior National Political Correspondent for USA Today and Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief at National Journal.
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| 1:06.3 | Good day, good friends. On this Friday morning, July 25, about 8.30 in the nation's capital. |
| 1:12.4 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and today's reporter's round table. Well, remember that movie Dead Man Walking? We saw the sequel this week, Dead Man Jeffrey Epstein, walking all over Washington |
| 1:19.4 | and dominating the news, just like he did last week and the week before. For even seasoned |
| 1:26.7 | reporters, it was hard to keep up with the ups and downs. |
| 1:30.1 | First, the Justice Department was going to release all the Epstein files. |
| 1:34.6 | Then they said, ah, guess what, there are no files. |
| 1:37.8 | First, Donald Trump said he hardly knew Epstein. |
| 1:40.9 | Then the Wall Street Journal reported, confirmed by the New York Times last night, |
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