"The Pressure is Mounting." The Reporters' Roundtable-July 8th
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
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With Maya King, Politics Reporter for The New York Times covering the South, Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent for New York Magazine. His new book on Biden and Obama, The Long Alliance is out in September and Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter for NBC News.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and neighbors. It's Friday, July 8 and it's reporters |
| 0:11.1 | roundtable time on the bill press pod. Well, no action in Congress this week, but lots of action |
| 0:17.8 | on the political front, starting in Georgia, where the district attorney of |
| 0:22.5 | Fulton County investigating possible election fraud issued subpoenas to big-time Trump allies |
| 0:28.8 | Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Lindsay Graham, among others. Meanwhile, Herschel Walker, |
| 0:35.3 | Georgia's Trump-endorced Republican Senate candidate, admits he's been lying to his campaign staff. |
| 0:42.4 | They still aren't sure how many kids he has. |
| 0:46.8 | Suddenly, in this post-row world, governor races in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania have become a lot more critical and are getting a lot more attention. |
| 0:57.9 | In a bizarre twist on all of that, California Governor Gavin Newsom, who's a cinch for re-election, is running a campaign commercial on television in Florida. |
| 1:11.6 | And Democrats have decided to blame everything that's wrong with America from mass |
| 1:16.6 | murders to record high summer temperatures on Joe Biden. |
| 1:22.6 | Well, here today, to help us make some sense of it all from New York magazine, National Political Correspondent |
| 1:28.8 | Gabe de Benedetti, from the New York Times, national political reporter Maya King, |
| 1:34.7 | and from NBC and MSNBC News political reporter Alex Siteswald. |
| 1:41.0 | So I want to start a little differently this week. |
| 1:45.6 | Again, Congress kind of out of action this week, but a lot of action on the national |
| 1:51.2 | political scene, which both of you cover. |
| 1:54.1 | So let me ask you, what was the one big story you were working on this week? |
| 1:57.5 | Gabe, start us off. |
| 1:59.1 | Well, in addition to working on trying to take some time |
| 2:01.9 | off for the 4th of July without a vacation. No fair. Not successfully. I just wrapped up a story |
| 2:07.6 | about, as you alluded to, the gubernatorial races in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, |
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