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The Bill Press Pod

" We've got a lot of weird things going on." The Reporters' Roundtable. October 17, 2025.

The Bill Press Pod

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4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Bolton Indicted. Retribution Continues. Is Adam Schiff Next? Putin Trump Summit-Again. Will Gaza Deal Hold? Shutdown Continues. SCOTUS vs Voting Rights Act. GOP’s Racist “Kids.” No Kings Protest. With Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief of CQ-Roll Call, S. V. Date, Senior White House Correspondent for HuffPost and Cameron Joseph, Senior Washington Reporter for the Christian Science Monitor. 

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

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0:16.0

Hello, good friends. Good to see you again and welcome to this week's Reporters' Roundtable here on the Bill Press Pod.

0:24.9

Well, as everyone on today's panel knows, it's hard to keep up with the news coming out of the Trump White House.

0:30.7

Every day is a whole new big story. This week alone, Trump flew to the Middle East for the release of hostages from Gaza and,

0:38.8

at least for a moment, the end of the war there.

0:42.1

He returned home to take advantage of the government shutdown in firing 4,000 federal employees

0:48.8

and promising to fire another 6,000.

0:52.4

He sent the National Guard into Chicago and is threatened to send them

0:56.1

into San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, and St. Louis. He hastily arranged another meeting with

1:02.2

Vladimir Putin while rolling out the red carpet for President Zelensky again today.

1:08.2

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court seems ready to cancel whatever is left of the Voting Rights

1:13.4

Act. Young Republican political operatives sing the praises of Adolf Hitler, and millions of Americans

1:20.0

are ready to take to the streets for this weekend's second No King's protest. Man, so much going on, so much much to talk about so let's jump right in with

1:31.1

today's panel jason dick editor-in-chief of cqq roll call hello jason morning bill good morning

1:38.3

svitae senior white house correspondent for huff Post. S.V.

1:44.5

Hey there.

1:45.9

Good to have you back.

1:50.1

And Cameron Joseph, Senior Washington Reporter for the Christian Science Monitor.

1:51.3

Hello, Cameron.

1:52.5

Hello, Bill.

1:58.7

So, Jason, John Bolton got the news yesterday, indicted on 18 counts. No surprise, but I guess we can say that when Donald Trump promised to

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