"We may never know." The Reporters' Roundtable July 7
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Cocaine at the White House. SCOTUS Chooses its Cases. SCOTUS Reform Dead. Selling Bidenomics. Biden’s Age. Trump Up/Ron Going Down. GOP 2024 Gets Nasty. GOP Debate Chaos. McCarthy’s High-wire Act. What’s With RFK, Jr. With Philip Bump, Washington Post National Columnist, Author of The Aftermath, Writer: How To Read This Chart newsletter, Linda Feldman, Washington Bureau Chief, White House/Politics Correspondent at Christian Science Monitor, Host of the Monitor Breakfast and David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. Good to see you. Well, it's Friday morning, July 7, about 8.30 a.m. |
| 0:12.7 | in our nation's capital. Time for another reporter's roundtable on the bill press pod. Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:19.9 | With Congress out of town this week, most of the |
| 0:22.2 | attention shifted to the Supreme Court, which provided, in fact, lots of news to talk about. |
| 0:28.2 | One six to three decision against gay rights and another six to three decision blocking President |
| 0:34.3 | Biden's student loan forgiveness plan on top top of last week's 6-3 decision |
| 0:39.8 | killing affirmative action, certainly fueled criticism that the courts become an active right-wing |
| 0:45.7 | political force and also trigger new demands among Democrats for court reform. |
| 0:52.5 | Meanwhile, conservative House members, to the dismay of some more moderate |
| 0:56.5 | Republicans, are pushing to impeach President Biden and imprison under Biden. And on the political |
| 1:04.6 | trail, far from derailing him, Donald Trump's mounting legal trouble seemed to make him |
| 1:09.7 | stronger and stronger to the point |
| 1:12.1 | where he may already be invincible in the 2024 GOP primary. |
| 1:18.5 | And the Biden economy keeps getting stronger and stronger, even though most Americans don't believe it |
| 1:24.2 | and certainly don't give Joe Biden any credit for it. |
| 1:28.5 | Well, here today to help us sort it all out, our panel, Philip Bump, Washington Post National |
| 1:34.5 | columnist, author of The Aftermath, and writer of How to Read This Chart Newsletter. |
| 1:40.9 | Hello, Philip. Welcome back. |
| 1:42.4 | Good morning, sir. Happy to be here. |
| 1:43.8 | Linda Feldman, Washington |
| 1:45.4 | Bureau Chief of the Christian Science Monitor and White House Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, |
| 1:50.6 | also host of the Monitor Breakfast. Hi, Linda. Good to have you back. And David Jackson, |
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