"Trump is Faltering." The Reporters' Roundtable. December 12, 2025.
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
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Trump's Power fading: Indiana Fail. Trump Lame Duck? Senate Healthcare Fail. Affordability Fail. James Indictment Fail. Judicial Guardrails Holding. Boat Strike Questions. War in Venezuela? With Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent for 19th News, Arthur Delaney, Senior Reporter for HuffPost and Evan McMorris-Santoro, Reporter and co-author of the Daily Newsletter for NOTUS.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Friday, friends and neighbors, and welcome to this week's |
| 0:10.2 | Reporter's Roundtable on the bill press spot, ending another week, chock full of big news. |
| 0:16.3 | Like this, yesterday Republicans in the Indiana legislature stood up and said no to Donald Trump, |
| 0:23.6 | refusing to adopt a plan, giving Republicans two more seats in Congress. |
| 0:28.6 | Or this, South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace wrote an op-ed in the New York Times this week, |
| 0:34.1 | blasting fellow Republicans and calling Nancy Pelosi the best speaker ever. |
| 0:40.1 | Or this, Donald Trump insists that those higher prices you're paying for groceries are just a |
| 0:45.5 | Democratic hoax and will soon come down. |
| 0:49.4 | For this, for the first time in 30 years, a Democrat as elected mayor of Miami, Trump's candidate lost by 18 points. |
| 0:59.2 | For this, after promising to release video of a second strike on a small boat of Venezuela, |
| 1:05.8 | the administration now refuses to do so. |
| 1:08.8 | It's kind of like not releasing the Epstein files as promised. And meanwhile, |
| 1:13.9 | we also sees a Venezuelan oil tanker. That's a lot for today's panel to cover. So let's get |
| 1:20.4 | right to it and say hello to Arthur Delaney, senior reporter for Huffington Post. Huff Post. Hi, Arthur. |
| 1:28.2 | Hello. |
| 1:29.3 | Good to have you back. |
| 1:30.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:30.9 | Amanda Becker joining us Washington correspondent for 19th News. |
| 1:35.4 | Hello, Amanda. |
| 1:36.7 | Hello, always great to be here. |
| 1:38.6 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:39.8 | And Evan McMorris-Santoro, reporter for notice and author of the Notice Daily Newsletter. |
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