The Bill Press Pod

Biden from the Oval. The Fog of War. GOP at War with Itself. Trump in Court. Powell Guilty/Flips. Favorite Stories. With Sarah Wire, Justice Department/ National Security and Washington Accountability Reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Philip Bump, National Columnist for The Washington Post and author of the How to Read this Chart newsletter and the great book, The Aftermath and Gabe Debenedetti,...

The idea behind No Labels, that Americans should have a third choice between Republicans and Democrats, might be a good idea if our democracy wasn't under attack by MAGA Republicans. But right now, democracy is on the ballot and a third party centrist candidacy will take more votes from Joe Biden than Donald Trump. And it might even get enough electoral votes to deny 270 to either Biden or Trump,...

Speaker Chaos. Real World Impacts. Bi-partisan Speaker? Terror/War in Israel/Gaza. Grading Biden’s Response. Humanitarian Crisis Coming. Trump Praises Hezbollah. With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Amanda Becker, covering Politics and Washington for 19th News and Brian Beutler, author of the Off Message newsletter on substack. You can see the video of...

To understand the history and context of what's going on in the Middle East right now, 6 minute cable hits won't do it. That's why Bill talks today with Joe Cirincione. Cirincione is a national security analyst and foreign policy expert, adviser to presidents and the former head of the Ploughshares Fund. This is his sixth appearance on the Bill Press Pod because that's how much we value his expert...

Kevin Vacated. Trump Endorses Jordan. Speaker Vote Chaos. Gaetz Hated. Trump in NY Court. How to Cover Trump. New CA Senator. Menedez Holding On. With Melanie Mason, Senior Political Writer at Politico, Arthur Delaney, Political Reporter at Huff Post and Kirk Bado, Editor of The National Journal Hotline.  Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Mor...

There’s a new progressive newsletter whose very mission is to call out the media and prod them into doing their job. Something we really need to save our democracy. He also wants to encourage healthy debate inside the Democratic Party and the Progressive Movement. The newsletter is called Off Message, and it's written by a man who knows his way around the media world. Before launching Off Message,...

Feinstein Passes. GOP Shutdown. Impeachment Belly Flop. GOP Debate Mess. Menendez Scandal. Trump: Kill Milley. With Lynn Sweet, columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington editor at NBC News and Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The International Brotherhood of Teamsters. More informat...

Zoe Lofgren has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. She represents the 18th District of California, which serves communities in Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties. Congresswoman Lofgren discusses her role in Congress, including her involvement in the impeachment trials of Donald Trump and her leadership role on the Select commi...

GOP House Mess. “Speaker?” McCarthy. Kevin Snubs Ukraine. Garland Fights Back. Senate Dress Code. GOP Debate? Abortion-Always. Murdoch Steps Down. Favorite Stories.  With David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY, Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico and John Bennett, Editor-at-Large & Analysis Columnist, CQ Roll Call, CQ Afternoon Briefing writer.&nbs...

Franklin Foer, author of "The Last Politician," discusses his book about President Joe Biden's first two years in office. You can get it here . Foer argues that Biden has been grossly underestimated, highlighting his accomplishments such as managing the Covid-19 crisis, passing major bipartisan legislation, ending the war in Afghanistan, and strengthening the American economy. However, Foer notes...

Impeachment. Shutdown Coming. Hunter Biden Charged. UAW Strike. Pelosi Running. Romney Not. With Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief at CQ-Roll Call, Philip Bump, National Columnist at the Washington Post, Author of the great book, The Aftermath and the How to Read This Chart newsletter and Katherine Doyle, White House Reporter for NBC News. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The International Br...

Stuart Stevens spent 30 years helping to elect Republicans at all levels of government as a top political strategist. In 2012 he was Mitt Romney's top political advisor. He is now a senior advisor for the Lincoln Project, a pro-democracy group made-up of Republicans, and former Republicans trying to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. And rescue the GOP from itself. In 2020, he wrote a book,...

McConnell Health. Gov’t Shutdown Over MAGA Issues. Navarro Guilty. Long Prison Terms for Proudboys. Trump Still Dominates GOP. Noem for VP? Biden’s Bad Polls. GOP vs Hunter Biden. With Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief of the National Journal and author of the Sunday Nightcap Newsletter, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter for HuffPost and Leah Askarinam, Contributing Analyst to The Cook Politica...

Bill talks with one of the most astute political scientists and commentators in the business, Larry Sabato, the founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. He’s the author of the Crystal Ball newsletter which is free and you can sign up  here . In the podcast, Sabato discussed the upcoming political season, suggesting that if the election were held toda...

SCOTUS Ethics(?) McConnell Freezes. Age on the Ballot. Government Shutdown? GOP Debate Fallout. Haley Attacks Harris. Trump’s Many Trials. Gov. Kemp Says No.  With Maya King, Politics Reporter for The New York Times covering the South, Linda Feldmann, Washington bureau chief, White House/politics correspondent at Christian Science Monitor. Host of the Monitor Breakfast and Kirk&nbsp...

Oliver Darcy is the Senior Media Reporter at CNN. His nightly newsletter, Reliable Sources, is the top source for media news and commentary. Darcy has been outspoken about Fox News and the inability of mainstream media to call it what it really is, a right- wing talk network. We read his newsletter every night. It's free and you can sign up here reliablesources.com . Here is a summary of Bill's co...

Trump DID Get Indicted. Trump DID NOT Debate. But Others Did. With Lynn Sweet, Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY and Arthur Delaney, Senior Reporter at HuffPost. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by the Ironworkers Union. More information at Ironworkers.org . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...

The bestselling author of three books and an op-ed columnist covering national politics for the Washington Post, Dana Milbank makes his third appearance on The Bill Press Pod. Bill describes his work: "A combination of insight with disbelief, outrage and biting humor." Today the two old political pros try to understand the modern Republican Party, Wither Trump goest and can we ever be free of the...

Trump RICO’d. Threats to Judge/Grand Jurors. Hands off Trump in Iowa. GOP Debate Chaos. Selling Bidenomics. Abortion Still News. With Jason Dick, Editor in Chief at CQ-Roll Call, Host of the Political Theater Podcast, Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent for 19th News, Sarah Wire, Justice Dept./ National Security and Washington Accountability Reporter for The Los Angeles Times focused on J...

Russell Moore is very worried at the state of evangelical Christianity in America. He should know. Moore served previously as President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and, before that, as the chief academic officer and dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also taught theology and ethics. He is an ordained Baptist minister, b...

Ohio “Abortion” Vote, Trump to Iowa. Trump Trials Timing. Desantis Shifting Tactics. Impeach Biden? Gov’t Shutdown Likely. With Ginger Gibson Senior Washington Editor at NBC News Digital, Scott Wong, Senior Congressional Reporter, Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter and Alan Smith, Political Reporter, all for NBC News. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The United Food and Commer...

Charlie Cook is the founder of the Cook Political Report, a non-partisan online newsletter and website that provides analysis and insights into electoral politics, campaigns, and elections in the United States. Cook's expertise lies in analyzing and predicting electoral outcomes, particularly in congressional races and presidential elections. He combines polling data, historical trends, and his ow...

Trump Indicted. Again. Pence Attacks Trump. Finally. GOP Hunter Flop. Tommy Tuberville Gets Punished. Angry Ron Flailing. With Philip Bump, National Columnist at The Washington Post, Author of The Aftermath and writer of the How to Read This Chart newsletter, Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor for Politico and Emily Goodin, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com Today’s Bill Press Pod is supp...

Susan Glasser is the ultimate Washington insider. She has had reporting and/or editing positions at Roll Call, The Washington Post, Politico and Foreign Policy magazine. She is the co-author of three books with her husband Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. The best-selling books focused on Vladimir Putin, James Baker and Donald Trump. She was a long time contribu...

New Charges in Docs Case. J6 Charges Coming Soon. Effect on 2024. McCarthy Floats Biden Impeachment. “Bidenomics” Working? DeSantis Flailing Badly. With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House reporter at The Wall Street Journal and S.V. Date, White House correspondent at HuffPost. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the American Federation of Teachers. More information at AFT.org See Privacy Policy...