"What On Earth is He Doing?" The Roundtable Oct 9
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Trump's physical and mental state. WH Covid outbreak. Stimulus? Debates? Supreme Court? Domestic Terror in Michigan. With Igor Bobic, Politics Reporter at The Huffington Post, Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor, Politico and Eliza Collins, Politics Reporter covering the presidential election for The Wall Street Journal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:07.6 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's roundtable, where we look back |
| 0:13.4 | at the big news of the week with three of Washington's crack political reporters. |
| 0:17.8 | And again, what a week it's been. |
| 0:23.0 | It started with President Trump in the hospital with COVID-19, then suddenly returning to the White House after telling Americans not to worry |
| 0:29.5 | about the coronavirus, which has now killed 215,000 Americans, and declaring himself cured. |
| 0:37.5 | It continued with the president, pulling the plug on negotiations for a new stimulus package |
| 0:42.1 | in Congress, only then later in the week to call on the talks to resume. |
| 0:47.7 | On another front, the president refused to take part in a virtual debate with Joe Biden |
| 0:52.7 | on October 15, but after Biden scheduled a |
| 0:56.1 | town hall on ABC News instead, Trump, with a letter from his White House doctor, said he |
| 1:02.9 | was going to Miami anyway and suggested they reschedule the debate. |
| 1:08.6 | Meanwhile, the FBI unveiled a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, after which |
| 1:13.1 | Trump accused her of complaining and doing a bad job by locking down her state over coronavirus. |
| 1:21.2 | Hey, it's enough to make your head spin, and it does make you wonder, what the hell is going on. |
| 1:27.1 | Well, let's find out from today's panel, Igor Babish, National Political Reporter for Huffington Post. |
| 1:33.6 | Hello, Igor. |
| 1:34.7 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:35.7 | Hey, Eliza Collins, National Political Reporter for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:39.5 | Hello, Eliza. |
| 1:40.9 | Hi, Bill. |
| 1:42.1 | And Sudip Reddy, managing editor from Politico. Hi, Sudip. Hi, Bell. And Sudeep Reddy, managing editor from Politico. Hi, Sudeep. Hi, Bill. |
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