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The Bill Press Pod

The Reporters' Roundtable. May 8, 2026

The Bill Press Pod

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Bill Press, Hillary Clinton, Cnn, Stephanie Miller, Liberal, Bernie Sanders, Fox News, Thom Hartmann, Progressive, Jamie Benson, Donald Trump, Progressive Talk, News, Msnbc, Young Turks

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Bill talks with three top political journalists about the week's news.

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0:00.0

Hello, friends and neighbors. Good to see you again and welcome to this week's

0:10.4

Reporters Roundtable, where three top political reporters join us to look back on the news of the

0:15.8

week and try to make some sense of it all, if possible. Well, by some accounts, today is day 70 of the war in Iran.

0:25.1

It's hard to keep track of because every day we're told something different.

0:28.4

It's almost over.

0:29.6

It'll be over in a week.

0:30.8

Or it was over on February 28th, the day it started.

0:34.7

So what's the latest?

0:36.0

What's the impact and how will we know when it's

0:38.6

really over? In other news, Senate Republicans now want to spend $1 billion to pay for the president's

0:46.7

new ballroom, even though he promised not one buck in taxpayer dollars would be spent on it.

0:52.6

Marco Rubio was dispatched to the Vatican to try to mend

0:55.8

fences with Pope Leo the 14th. The Supreme Court seems to have triggered a flood of new

1:01.1

congressional remapping, and President Trump's approval rating sank to a Jimmy Carter low of 37%.

1:08.4

What's it all mean? Well, let's find out. I'm bringing in today's panel. Say hello first is

1:13.8

Sabrina Siddiqui, National Political Reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Hi, Sabrina. Hello, hello. Hello,

1:18.8

hello. Good to have you here. Philip Bump, senior editor and columnist for Hurst, Connecticut. How about it?

1:25.8

Hello, Philip. Hello, sir. How are you?

1:27.7

Very good to have you back. And good to also welcome back. Evan McMorris-Santoro,

1:32.5

National Political Reporter for Notice and co-author of the Notice Daily Newsletter. Hi, Evan.

1:38.5

Hey, Bill. How are you?

1:39.5

All right, we're great. So, Sabrina, it is Friday. I forget on Friday, is the Warren ran on or off on

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