"What did we learn?" The Reporters' Roundtable-April 26, 2024
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Trump/Immunity. Trump/Catch and Kill. Johnson’s Conversion. Ukraine $$ Flowing. Chuck Praises Mitch. Anti-Trump Vote in PA. Trump in the Dock/Biden on the Trail. Campus Protest Impact. With Sarah Wire, Washington Reporter for Los Angeles Times, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter for Huff Post and Brian Beutler, writer of the Off Message Newsletter and co-host of the Politix podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:10.6 | And on this Friday, April 26th, welcome to this week's |
| 0:14.3 | Reporter's Roundtable. |
| 0:16.2 | Another busy week and another week's news dominated, it seems, by Donald Trump and his trials. |
| 0:22.9 | Yesterday, historic hearing in front of the Supreme Court on whether a president of the United |
| 0:28.4 | States is not held by the laws that he takes an oath to defend, and of course, Trump's |
| 0:34.3 | ongoing trial up in New York for election fraud. |
| 0:45.0 | But there was other big important news after Speaker Mike Johnson defied his extreme right-wing Republican opponents in the House. I shouldn't say opponents, but colleagues in the House. |
| 0:50.4 | The House and Senate passed the bill, sending more military aid to both Ukraine and Israel, |
| 0:56.3 | which President Biden, of course, immediately signed into law. |
| 0:59.8 | A big surprise in Pennsylvania's Republican primary, |
| 1:03.6 | when more than 100,000 Republican voters said they'd still rather have Nikki Haley than Donald Trump as their nominee, even though |
| 1:13.5 | she dropped out weeks ago. And what do you know, there are once again protests on college |
| 1:19.6 | campuses, including yesterday at George Washington University in Washington. Here today to help us sort it all out, |
| 1:29.5 | Igor Babish, senior political reporter with Huff Post. |
| 1:34.1 | Welcome back, Igor. |
| 1:36.0 | Thanks, both. |
| 1:37.3 | Sarah Wyer, joining us again, Washington Reporter for the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:41.8 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 1:42.8 | Hi, nice. |
| 1:44.0 | And also good to welcome back, Brian Boydler, creator and |
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