"The Stakes are High"-The Reporters' Roundtable-May 28
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🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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January 6th Commission. Trump Grand Jury and Rallies. Gaetz and Greene. Putin/Biden. Bipartisanship on Anything? With Maya King covering national politics at Politico, Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor at NBC News Digital and David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Here we are again on the Bill Press Pod Friday morning, May 28th, beginning |
| 0:12.6 | of the Memorial Day weekend, and time for this week's roundtable. Looking back on the news of the |
| 0:18.3 | week with three of Washington's top political reporters. |
| 0:21.9 | And what a busy week it's been. |
| 0:24.2 | Donald Trump's legal woes worsened with news that the Manhattan District Attorney has |
| 0:28.7 | convened a grand jury to look into possible criminal charges against the former president. |
| 0:34.1 | But does it matter? |
| 0:35.9 | With pressure from leader Mitch McConnell, all but two Senate Republicans |
| 0:40.4 | so far have vowed to vote against creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the |
| 0:46.3 | January 6th insurrection. The White House announces a June 16 summit between Joe Biden and |
| 0:52.3 | Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump prepares to hit the road again |
| 0:56.5 | with a flurry of campaign rallies. Is this what the Republican Party really needs? What's it all |
| 1:03.4 | mean? Well, here today with their insights. Maya King, joining us from Politico Politics |
| 1:08.9 | Reporter. Hi, Maya. Hi, Bill. Good to have you with us, as well as Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor for NBC News Digital. Hi, Ginger. Hi, Bill. Okay, and David Jackson, back with us from USA Today, National Political Correspondent. Hello, David. Hey, Bill. How you doing? Good. Great. Thanks to you all. |
| 1:32.4 | Let's start with, as we are speaking or shortly in very short time, the Senate will be voting on the |
| 1:42.7 | creation of the January 6th Commission. |
| 1:46.6 | Mitch McConnell, Republican leader, had some choice things to say in opposition just yesterday. |
| 1:54.9 | I've been clear and unflinching in my own statements about January the 6th. |
| 1:59.0 | But as I've also repeated, there's no new fact about that day. |
| 2:03.5 | We need the Democrats' extraneous commission to uncover. |
| 2:07.6 | So, Maya, we don't know what the exact vote will be, but with Mitch McConnell's opposition, |
| 2:12.0 | it looks like it's not going to make it, right? |
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