War? Lies! Dancing! The PodTable for Sept 19th
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Whistleblower points at POTUS. Pompeo: Act of war. Trump: We'll see. CNN books Lewandowski, a man who says under oath he lies to the media. And Sean Spicer calls on evangelicals to keep him on Dancing With the Stars(sic). With Niall Stanage of The Hill. John Bennett of Roll Call and Matt Gertz of Media Matters for America.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome. Welcome to the Bill Press Pod and welcome particularly to this week's roundtable. |
| 0:13.3 | On this Thursday, September 19, I look back at the big news of the week with three of Washington's most intrepid political reporters. |
| 0:23.0 | A lot of attention to foreign policy this week with the United States on the brink of war with Iran, |
| 0:29.0 | it seems. Boris Johnson's still losing ground and face in the UK, and B.B. Netanyahu failing to |
| 0:36.3 | win in a special Israeli election. And with Congress |
| 0:40.0 | back in town, lots going on here in Washington, too, Congress under more pressure to do something |
| 0:45.4 | about guns, Speaker Pelosi under more pressure to get started on impeachment, and former Trump |
| 0:52.5 | campaign manager, Coralumandowski, bragging to Congress about |
| 0:56.0 | lying to the media and immediately invited to appear on CNN. |
| 1:02.1 | Meanwhile, Sean Spicer makes a total ass of himself yet again. |
| 1:08.6 | On top of it all, this week's panelist, John Bennett, senior White House reporter for |
| 1:12.8 | a roll call. Hey, John. Hey, how are you? Good to see you. Nile Stanage. Back with us, White House |
| 1:18.9 | columnist for the Hill. Hello, Nile. Hi, Bill. And Matt Gertz, senior fellow for Media |
| 1:25.2 | Matters for America. Hi, Matt. Hey, Bill. |
| 1:28.5 | So, gentlemen, we have gone this week from one scandal to another. |
| 1:32.9 | We have dived right from Sharpie Gate into Whistleblower Gate, it seems. |
| 1:39.3 | Now we have the story, as I understand it, back on August August 12 a member of the intelligence community an |
| 1:47.2 | intelligence officer was so upset by something he heard President Trump promised to a foreign |
| 1:54.9 | leader that he filed a whistleblower complaint with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. |
| 2:02.6 | John, you cover the White House. Now you do too. Let's start with you, John. What do we, who is he |
| 2:08.0 | talking, who is Trump talking to? And what did he promise? We don't know yet who he was talking to. |
| 2:14.7 | These things do have a way of coming out, especially when Congress is involved, |
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