The Bill Press Pod

Norm Eisen is an attorney, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, legal analyst for CNN, and former special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee in the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump. He is one of the authors of a model prosecution memo outlining potential charges against Trump for his role in the January 6th insurrection. In this podcast episode, Eisen discusses the potential c...

Trump's Target Letter. Impact on GOP 2024. No Labels=Spoiler? GOP House "Hearings." With Jackie Alemany, Congressional investigations at the Washington Post, Contributor to NBC News and MSNBC, Lynn Sweet, columnist and Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times and Leah Askarinam, Contributing Analyst at the Cook Political Report.  Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The L...

Hotspots around the world: Ukraine. China. North Korea. Israel. And a few words about the new Oppenheimer movie with The Bill Press Pod Foreign Policy guru, Joe Cirincione. Cirincione was the President of the nuclear-weapons focused Ploughshares Fund and is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The...

Biden’s Good Week. Defense Bill Culture War. Sen. Tuberville’s Fights. GOP vs FBI. GOP 2024 to Iowa. No Labels Threat to Biden. With Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-Chief at National Journal, Maya King, Politics Reporter covering the South for The New York Times and Zach Cohen, Congress Reporter for Bloomberg Government.  Today Bill highlights the strike of his union, SAG-AFTRA. More information at SA...

This is Elie Mystal’s third appearance on The Bill Press Pod. Yes, he’s that good. He is The Nation’s Justice Correspondent and the host of its new legal podcast, Contempt of Court. You can find the latest episode here . He talks Supreme Court expansion, Clarence Thomas’ “Ethics,” and how this new breed of Conservative Justices just make up facts and the law to reach their desired ideological conc...

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 Hous...

Author Neil King thinks the best way to understand our country is to meet people on the ground by walking up to them and saying hello. Over 26 days and 330 miles, that is exactly what he did. The result for him was a kind of spiritual awakening, For the rest us, the delightful book he wrote about is journey, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. Bill loved it so much, he read it twice. Yo...

Affirmative Action Out. Scotus Trends. 2024: Minor Candidates Struggle. Biden vs. Trump. Dirty Race Coming. Jack Smith Still Digging. GOP Hunter Obsession. With Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington Editor at NBC News Digital, Kirk Bado, Editor, National Journal Hotline, Katherine Doyle, White House Reporter, NBC News and Emily Goodin, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com.  Today’s Bill...

Barry Lynn has been a towering figure in the fight for progressive causes. As a clergyman with the United Church of Christ. As a member of The Supreme Court Bar, advocating for Amnesty for Vietnam era draft protestors. He fought hard to keep Church and State separated. He was a constant media presence debating figures on the religious and political Right. His memoir, Paid to Pi...

More for 24. Trump out-FOXed. Joe Governs. Hunter Guilty. Schiff Censured. Schiff Thrilled. Abortion Looms Large. With Jason Dick, Editor in Chief at CQ-Roll Call, Joe Morton, Washington Correspondent for The Dallas Morning News, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost and Jessica Taylor, Senate & Governors Editor at The Cook Political Report.  Today's Bill Press Pod is supp...

Bulwark: “a person, institution, or principle that acts as a defense.”  The Bulwark was founded in 2018 as three former conservative Republicans decided to put country over party and defend all of us from Donald Trump. Charlie Sykes, a very successful conservative radio talk-show host was one of the founders and he joins Bill today to assess the danger still caused by Donald Trump and his MAG...

Trump Indictment. Trump Responds. Haley Waffles. DeSantis Goes Harder Right. Christie Attacks. GOP Deflects. No to “No Labels.” Kevin’s Weakness. With Eliza Collins, Politics reporter, at The Wall Street Journal, covering 2024, Arizona and the West, Jason Dick, Editor in Chief CQ Roll Call. Political Theater podcast host and Sarah Wire, National Security/Justice Dept. and Washington Accountability...

Governor J.B. Pritzker has made Illinois, by most accounts a center left-state, into an island of prairie progressivism. This is Pritzker’s second term. He won reelection by 12 1/2 points last November. The billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, he was a very successful businessman and political activist and in 2018 ran for governor for the first time and won. He has very much governed...

Trump Indicted. Impact on 2024 GOP Primary. With Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico, Tom LoBianco, National Political Reporter at The Messenger and Leah Askarinam, Elections Editor at The Messenger. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The American Federation of Teachers. More information at AFT.org . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck has written a new book that outlines how since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the out-of-the-public-eye “shadow docket,” to regularly make rulings that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation. Conservatives on the Court have used the shadow docket to green-light restrictive voting laws and...

Debt Deal Winners and Losers. 2024: Christie, Scott In. Ron and Don at War. Trump vs. The Law. With Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington Editor for NBC News Digital, Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent for New York Magazine and Allan Smith, Political reporter for NBC News. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by  The American Federation of Government Employees. More information at A...

Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of California is a man with a virtual target on his back from MAGA Republicans. He was thrown off the Intelligence Committee by Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Which kind of works for him, because it gives him more time to campaign for the Senate to replace Dianne Feinstein when her term ends at the beginning of 2025.  Congressman Schiff was a major player...

Debt Optimism. McCarthy Peril. 14th Amendment. DeSantis "Launch." Scott is In. 18 Years for Sedition. With Lynn Sweet, Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Scott Wong, Senior Congressional Reporter, NBC News and Philip Bump, Washington Post National Columnist, Author of The Aftermath and How To Read This Chart newsletter. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The United...

The progressive Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is a man of many firsts. He's the first African American to hold a statewide elected office in Minnesota, and the first Muslim American to hold an elected statewide office in any state. A former Congressman Ellison ran for and won the Attorney General's position in 2018. In 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz asked Ellison to take over a...

Debt Optimism. Work Requirements on the Table. GOP 2024 Gets Crowded. Abortion: GOP Poison. MTG in Charge? With Shirish Date, Senior White House Correspondent HuffPost, Maya King, Politics reporter for The New York Times covering the South and David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The International Association of Fire Fighters, M...

The Bulwark’s Will Saletan has a new long article/short book entitled: The Corruption Of Lindsey Graham: A case study in the rise of authoritarianism. This is a very important and well-written and reported story that charts the fall of Graham from severe Trump critic to Trump enabler. He says it was a slow process for Graham and mirrors how a society descends into authoritarianism, one small...

CNN’s Townhall Debacle. Trump Gives Evidence. Trump Assaults and Defames. Default Fears. Santos Indicted. Trump a Lock? With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief, National Journal and Abby Livingston, Writer for The Almanac of American Politics.  Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The International Brotherhood of Teamsters. More...

Norm Ornstein has been studying and writing about Congress and politics for over 40 years. He is currently a Senior Emeritus Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a mostly conservative think tank. He wrote (along with Thomas E. Mann)  It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.  When it came out in paperb...

Clarence Thomas “Ethics.” Trump to CNN. Trump “Rape” Trial. J6 Sedition Convictions. Debt Ceiling Looming. With Linda Feldmann, Washington bureau chief, White House/politics correspondent at Christian Science Monitor. Host of the Monitor Breakfast, Kirk Bado, Editor, National Journal Hotline and Dan Merica, National Political Reporter at The Messenger.  Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by...

It's been a wild ride for the media these last few weeks. First Fox settles its Dominion lawsuit by paying nearly $800 million. But they escaped an apology. Then a few days later they fired Tucker Carlson, the highest rated host in prime-time cable news. Then that same day CNN fires Don Lemon. And as a backdrop to all this high-profile news, is the undercurrent of heavy layoffs in the media field,...