"The vibes are way, way up. "The Reporters' Roundtable. August 2, 2024
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Political Sea Change. Will Honeymoon Last? Trump’s Racist Attack. Will They Debate? JD Vance “Weird” and Struggling. No GOP Convention Bump. The Weird Factor. VP Search Ending. Biden’s Prisoner Swap. With Alex Seitz-Wald, National Politics Reporter for NBC News, Kirk Bado, Editor of The National Journal Hotline and Evan McMorris-Santoro, Reporter for NOTUS.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends on this Friday morning, about 8.30 in the morning in our nation's capital. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and welcome to this week's reporter's roundtable. |
| 0:16.9 | And what a week it's been with lots of surprises in this still relatively new political world of |
| 0:23.7 | Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris. Now on the campaign trail, Harris teased Trump for not yet |
| 0:29.9 | agreeing to debate her, challenging him whatever he has to say to say it to her face. Trump accused |
| 0:37.4 | Harris of not really being black, but only pretending |
| 0:40.6 | to be black to gain votes. J.D. Vance doubled down on his criticism of selfish women who |
| 0:47.8 | decide not to have children, suggesting they should also pay higher taxes. And the whole world |
| 0:53.8 | is waiting to see whom |
| 0:55.2 | Camilla Harris will tap as her vice presidential running mate. Meanwhile, Joe Biden, who's still |
| 1:02.1 | playing president, proposed shaking up the Supreme Court, and in a diplomatic coup, announced the |
| 1:09.2 | biggest prisoner swap with Russia since the Cold War, |
| 1:13.1 | bringing home, among others, Wall Street Journal's Evan Gerskovich. |
| 1:17.3 | All of that news is hard to keep up with, but here today to help us make some sense of it all, |
| 1:23.9 | a few of our top political reporters. |
| 1:30.9 | Evan McMorris Centauril, political reporter for notice. |
| 1:32.2 | Hi, Evan, welcome back. |
| 1:32.9 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:37.2 | Kirk Beto, editor of the National Journal Hotline. |
| 1:37.9 | Hello, Kirk. |
| 1:38.4 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:40.8 | Greetings from the Hotline Bureau of Bethany Beach. |
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