"We all need a timeout." The Reporters' Roundtable- July 19, 2024
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
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GOP Convention. No Trump Pivot. Long Rambling Speech. J.D. Vance Gets VP Nod. Assassination Attempt Impact. Vise on Biden Closing Fast. Harris the Choice? With Sabrina Siddiqui, National Politics Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief at CQ-Roll Call and Brian Beutler, author of the OffMessage.net Newsletter on Substack.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod on this Friday morning, about 8.30 a.m. on July 19, 8.30 a.m. |
| 0:16.7 | in our nation's capital, or as Donald Trump calls it, that horrible killing field. |
| 0:22.2 | And also welcome to this week's Reporter's Roundtable, wrapping up a week like no other than any of us have ever covered. |
| 0:30.3 | Think about it since our last roundtable. |
| 0:33.1 | In this one week, a Pennsylvania gunman comes close to but fails to assassinate former president Donald |
| 0:40.0 | Trump. A federal judge throws out Trump's presidential documents case. The 2024 Republican |
| 0:46.8 | National Convention convenes in Milwaukee. Donald Trump selects J.D. Vance as his vice presidential |
| 0:53.5 | running mate. |
| 1:01.6 | Trump accepts the Republican nomination with a bandage on his ear in the longest acceptance speech ever. |
| 1:08.0 | A powerful California Democratic congressman calls on President Biden to get out of the race. |
| 1:12.6 | And the president himself is sidelined again by COVID. |
| 1:16.9 | Whoa, after a week like that, we all need a time out. |
| 1:21.8 | But first, a time to reflect on what it all adds up to. |
| 1:24.5 | And that's a challenge for today's panel. |
| 1:29.5 | So let's say hello to Sabrina Siddiqui, national political reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Hi, Sabrina. Good morning. Welcome back. Welcome back also to Brian Poitler, |
| 1:35.9 | author of the great new off-message newsletter on Substack. I subscribed to off-message and you should |
| 1:43.5 | too. Hello, Brian. Hey, Bill. Good to have you back |
| 1:46.8 | too. And from Milwaukee, Jason in Milwaukee, I should say Jason Dick, editor-in-chief of CQ roll call. |
| 1:55.6 | And for those of you, if we were watching on Zoom, I would say you can tell which one is Jason of our panelists |
| 2:02.1 | because he's the one with the white bandage on his right here. |
| 2:05.7 | Is that it Jason? |
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