"There is a lot swirling around." The Reporters' Roundtable. June 20, 2025
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
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“2 Weeks” on Iran. MAGA Base Split. Tucker vs. Cruz. Congress MIA. Trump’s Bad Polls. No Kings Millions. NYC Mayor’s Race. DNC Infighting. With Maya King, Political Reporter for the New York Times, Kirk Bado, Editor of The National Journal Hotline and Tom LoBianco, editor of 24 sight News.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. Happy Friday and welcome to this week's |
| 0:10.7 | reporter's roundtable on the bill press pod. Well, and this week's been another hard one to keep |
| 0:16.2 | track of. It started out with America what looked like on the brink of joining Israel's war on Iran, but ended |
| 0:23.6 | with President Trump announcing it could be maybe two weeks before he makes a final decision. |
| 0:30.1 | It started out with the president telling ICE deportation squads to stay away from farmers, |
| 0:35.6 | fields, hotels, and restaurants, but ended up a couple |
| 0:38.8 | days later with Trump changing his mind and telling ICE that farms, hotels, and restaurants |
| 0:43.3 | were indeed fair game again. |
| 0:47.0 | It started out with the president celebrating his 79th birthday with a military parade, but |
| 0:52.1 | ended up with Trump facing the lowest poll members of his |
| 0:55.4 | presidency from Fox News that he wasn't happy about. You can't make this stuff up, friends, |
| 1:02.1 | but here to make some sense of it all. For us to, uh, joining us today, three veteran political |
| 1:08.0 | reporters, Maya King political reporter for the New York Times. |
| 1:11.9 | Hello, Maya. |
| 1:12.9 | Hi, Bill. |
| 1:13.9 | Good. |
| 1:14.3 | Welcome back. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.5 | Kirk Vado, editor of the National Journal Hotline. |
| 1:18.4 | Hello, Kirk. |
| 1:19.1 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:19.5 | Happy to be here with you all. |
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