"Very, very thin." The Reporters' Roundtable September 15
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🗓️ 15 September 2023
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Impeachment. Shutdown Coming. Hunter Biden Charged. UAW Strike. Pelosi Running. Romney Not. With Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief at CQ-Roll Call, Philip Bump, National Columnist at the Washington Post, Author of the great book, The Aftermath and the How to Read This Chart newsletter and Katherine Doyle, White House Reporter for NBC News.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, good friends. Well, it's Friday, September 15, about 8.30 in the morning |
| 0:12.2 | International Capital. Time to wrap up the week with this week's The Reporter's Roundtable. |
| 0:18.2 | And it's been a week of really big news, but on the other hand, not a lot of surprises. |
| 0:24.7 | We expected House Republicans to open up an impeachment drive against President Biden, |
| 0:30.2 | and on the orders of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, they did. |
| 0:35.1 | Despite McCarthy's move, we expected members of the Freedom Caucus to continue to defy him |
| 0:40.9 | by refusing to support his budget plans and trying to shut down the government. And they're doing |
| 0:47.5 | exactly that. And sooner or later, we expected Hunter Biden to actually get charged with a crime, |
| 0:53.8 | and he was this week three counts |
| 0:56.0 | related to a gun purchase back in 2018. All right, two surprises. Nancy Pelosi announced she's |
| 1:04.1 | running for another term, and Mitt Romney announced he's not. Whoa, that's a lot to deal with, but here today to help us make some |
| 1:13.4 | sense of it all, Philip Bump, National columnist for the Washington Post, author of the great new book, |
| 1:19.8 | The Aftermath, and editor of the How to Read This Chart newsletter. Hello, Philip. Welcome |
| 1:25.8 | back. Hello, sir. Thank you for having me. Good to have you. |
| 1:29.9 | Catherine Doyle, White House Reporter for NBC News, back with us. Hello, Catherine. Welcome. |
| 1:36.7 | Good morning. And Jason Dick, editor-in-chief of CQ roll call, veteran roundtableer. Hiason good morning bill morning everybody it appears that the president's |
| 1:50.0 | family has been offered special treatment by biden's own administration these are allegations |
| 1:56.8 | of abuse of power obstruction obstruction, and corruption. |
| 2:10.3 | That's why today I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. |
| 2:14.9 | So there it is the announcement this week by Speaker Kevin McCarthy. |
| 2:20.8 | Philip, you've been looking at how this impeachment effort stands alongside of other recent impeachment efforts. What did you find out? Yeah, I actually was in |
| 2:27.5 | process of sort of digging into the history of recent attempted presidential impeachments |
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