"This is Brave New World Territory." The Reporters' Roundtable. October 24, 2025.
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
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Trump Tears Down Whole East Wing. “Privately” Funded Destruction. Trump Demands $230 Million. Johnson Knows Nothing. Shutdown Goes On and On. Does Trump Care? At “War” with Venezuela? No Putin Summit. Trump Poops on America. AI’s Cost to Truth. With Emily Goodin, White House Correspondent for McClatchy Media, Allan Smith, Political Reporter for NBC News and Kirk Bado, Editor, National Journal Hotline.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Well, it's about 8.30 a.m. on this Friday, October 24, time for our weekly |
| 0:12.7 | reporters roundtable here on the Bill Press pod. Thanks so much for joining us. That grounding sign |
| 0:19.9 | you hear in the background? President Trump says it's a sound of money. |
| 0:24.5 | Others say it's a sound of demolition, which it is. Destruction of the East Wing of the White |
| 0:30.8 | House, totally torn down in three days to make way for Trump's $300 million ballroom, which is just about how much Donald Trump is |
| 0:40.6 | demanding from the Justice Department to pay him back for what he claims were |
| 0:45.2 | politically motivated investigations of him by the Biden Department of Justice. |
| 0:51.4 | In other news, the president dropped plans to send the military into San Francisco, |
| 0:56.6 | canceled a highly promoted summit with Vladimir Putin in Budapest, and in effect, declared war |
| 1:03.6 | against Venezuela. While the government shutdown continues to roll on, and nobody's talking about |
| 1:10.5 | how to end it. Mike Johnson has shut |
| 1:12.6 | down the House of Representatives too and President Trump is jetting off to Asia for a whole week |
| 1:19.7 | this evening. Boy, what's that all mean? Well, let's turn to today's panel. Alan Smith, political |
| 1:26.3 | reporter for NBC News. Hi, Alan. Welcome back. How you doing it, Bill? Thank you. Emily Gooden, joining us again, White House correspondent for McClatchy News. Hi, Emily. Hi, Bill. Thanks for having me. Thank you. And Kirk Beto, editor of the National Journal hotline. Hello, Kirk. Good to have you back to. |
| 1:44.8 | More, Bill. Happy to be here with everybody. Well, you know, if we were ESPN, we would start talking |
| 1:49.7 | about the big gambling scandal with the NBA, but we're political reporters, not sports reporters. |
| 1:56.9 | So let's look instead at the front page of the Washington Post, if any of you have seen it this morning, a huge photo of a pile of debris outside the White House and a banner headline across the top of the front page. |
| 2:11.7 | The East Wing is now only a memory. |
| 2:16.7 | Emily, let's go back starting our conversation about the ballroom to July. |
| 2:22.5 | President Trump meeting with reporters and talking about where the new ballroom was going to be |
| 2:28.4 | located. Maybe you were there. Here's the president. |
| 2:31.3 | I want to interfere with the current building. It won't be, it'll be near it but not touching it. |
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