"Trump IS the Issue." The Reporters' Roundtable. August 25, 2023
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🗓️ 25 August 2023
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Trump DID Get Indicted. Trump DID NOT Debate. But Others Did. With Lynn Sweet, Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY and Arthur Delaney, Senior Reporter at HuffPost.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. It's Friday morning, August 25, about 8.30 in the morning in our nation's |
| 0:12.5 | capital and time for this week's reporter's roundtable on the Bill Press pod. Welcome. Good to see you. |
| 0:19.1 | And what a week it's been. Donald Trump made news this week by showing up and by not showing up. |
| 0:27.9 | Last night, he made news by showing up to be arrested, booked, and fingerprinted. Only the fourth time any president or former president's been subjected to that treatment, |
| 0:38.6 | and all four times it was Donald Trump himself in just the last two months. |
| 0:45.1 | But this time, Donald Trump had his photo taken a mugshot that'll last were the ages. |
| 0:51.3 | On Wednesday, he made news by not showing up for the first GOP primary debate in Milwaukee, |
| 0:58.0 | even though he's the runaway frontrunner, leaving the stage to eight challengers who for the |
| 1:03.2 | most part ignored him and tore into each other. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, whether this is good for the country or not, it is like catnip for political reporters, |
| 1:14.7 | three of the best of whom join us this morning to take a look at this week's news. |
| 1:19.6 | David Jackson, national political correspondent for USA Today. Hello, David. |
| 1:24.3 | Hey, Bill. How you doing? All right. Welcome back. Lynn Sweet, columnist of and Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times. |
| 1:34.4 | Hello, Lynn. |
| 1:35.3 | Welcome back to you. |
| 1:36.5 | Well, thank you. |
| 1:37.2 | And hi, Bill. |
| 1:37.6 | And hi, hi, everybody. |
| 1:38.6 | Okay. |
| 1:39.3 | And joining us for the first time on the Bill Press pod, but a regular on the old |
| 1:43.6 | Bill Press show, Arthur Delaney on the old Bill Press show, |
| 1:45.7 | Arthur Delaney, senior reporter at Huff Post. Good to reconnect, Arthur. Welcome. |
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