"The Normalization of Trump." The Reporter's Roundtable-December 13, 2024
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Hegseth Rising. Gabbard Drama. Patel vs FBI. Elon and Vivek. Moguls to Mar-a-Lago. Trump vs The Media. Trump Normalized. Killer to Folk Hero. Syria Fallout. With Linda Feldmann, Washington Bureau Chief, White House/politics correspondent at Christian Science Monitor, Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief, The National Journal and John Bennett, White House Correspondent & Editor-at-Large at CQ Roll Call.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. |
| 0:08.0 | It's Friday, December 13, Taylor Swift's birthday. |
| 0:12.0 | How about it? |
| 0:13.0 | Well, even though that's not yet a national holiday, |
| 0:18.0 | we're still going to barge ahead with today's Reporters Roundtable. Welcome to |
| 0:22.9 | today's Reporters Roundtable. Our chance to look back on the news of the week from Washington, D.C., |
| 0:28.6 | and try to make some sense of it all as difficult as that often is. Well, this was another week |
| 0:35.3 | dominated by news about Trump's cabinet nominees, looking for votes on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:41.7 | Thanks to Trump's personal lobbying, Pete Hegspeth, written off as a dead man last week, seems to have a second chance for defense secretary. |
| 0:51.4 | While Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel, and RFK Jr. still face headwinds while trying |
| 0:57.2 | to round up votes. But it's not all negative. Several Democrats have broken ranks by saying |
| 1:02.6 | they want to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramasami to slash government spending. And two of the |
| 1:09.7 | country's biggest media moguls, Jeff Bezos of the |
| 1:12.3 | Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, have in effect joined forces with Donald Trump and given |
| 1:18.3 | $1 million each to his inauguration committee. Meanwhile, in what is, without doubt, the most |
| 1:25.5 | consequential issue of the moment. |
| 1:28.5 | President Biden is trying to figure out how the United States should respond to the stunning |
| 1:33.8 | fall of Syria's dictatorship. |
| 1:36.2 | Whoa, that's a lot to deal with, but here today to help us sort it all out. |
| 1:40.9 | Linda Feldman, Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. |
| 1:45.7 | Hello, Linda. Hi, Bill. Jeff Dutfer, editor-in-chief of the National Journal. Good morning, Jeff. |
| 1:52.8 | Good morning, Bill. And John Bennett, White House correspondent and editor-at-large at large at CQ roll call. |
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