The Bill Press Pod

Filibuster. Infrastructure. Trump Rallies. Gen. Flynn Promotes Coup. Harris Assigned Voting Rights. Biden in Tulsa. UFO’s. With Addy Baird, Politics Reporter for BuzzFeed News, Jason Dick, Deputy Editor CQ Roll Call and Jamal Simmons, CBS News Contributor Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The Laborers' International Union of North America, whose members are eager to get started on infras...

George Packer is multiple best-selling author and a highly respected observer of the political and cultural life of the United States. He is a leading writer for the Atlantic after many distinguished years at The New Yorker. His latest book is Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal. You can purchase it here . Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the Laborers' International Union of North...

Want to know what really went on behind the scenes during the 2020 campaigns to take down Trump? Edward-Isaac Dovere is a staff writer for The Atlantic. His new book is: Battle for the Soul Inside-The Democrats' Campaigns To Defeat Trump . He has covered Democratic politics for 15 years, starting in New York, the Obama White House and then across 29 states during the 2020 election cycle.&nbsp...

January 6th Commission. Trump Grand Jury and Rallies. Gaetz and Greene. Putin/Biden. Bipartisanship on Anything? With Maya King covering national politics at Politico, Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor at NBC News Digital and David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the largest and most d...

Two criminal investigations in NY. One in Georgia. Lawsuits all over. Can Trump escape accountability one more time? Bill talks to David Fahrenthold, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post. Fahrenthold has been on the Trump legal/finance beat since 2016. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. More information at UFCW.org . See Priv...

Gaza-Israeli Cease-fire. January 6th Commission Votes. Asian-American Hate Crime Bill Signed. Trumps Legal Problems Get Worse. With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Political Analyst at CNN, Scott Wong, Senior Staff Writer at The Hill, covering House leadership and Melanie Mason, National Political Correspondent at The LA Times.  See Privacy Policy at https:/...

As the GOP is more and more committed to the cult of Donald Trump, a group of prominent “rational” Republicans are asking their party to leave Trump and the Big Lie behind. If not, they threaten to start a third party. One founder of the group is two-term former Northern Virginia Congresswoman Barbara Comstock. Bill quizzes her on the new group, Liz Cheney’s ouster, Kevin...

The Great Unmasking. Cheney Purged. It's Trump's Party. January 6th Denialism. Trump/Gaetz Indictments Coming? With Leah Askarinam Editor of National Journal Hotline, Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor at Politico and Gabe Debenedetti National Correspondent for New York Magazine. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the frontline workers of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. More informati...

Ron Brownstein is one of the most astute political observers working today. From his perch as Senior Political Commentator at CNN and Senior Editor at the Atlantic, he's always ahead of the pack at focusing our attention on the crucial trends that become the big stories of the day. For his new book, Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics...

Liz Cheney Drama. Biden Goes Populist. McConnell Obstructs. California Weird. With Jason Dick, Deputy Editor at CQ/Roll Call, Addy Baird, Politics Reporter for BuzzFeed News, Igor Bobic, Politics Reporter at HuffPost, and Maya King, Politics Reporter at Politico. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The United Food and Commercial Workers Union. With 1.3 million members they are on the frontlines...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful woman in American political history. Susan Page is the USA Today Washington Bureau Chief and author of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and The Lessons of Power . (Click on the link to see the book on Amazon.) Bill loved the book and Susan reveals the Nancy Pelosi who may be bad at doing press but is unparalleled at running The House. Oh, and she never fo...

Biden Speech. GOP's "interesting" reaction. Tim Scott: America not racist. Dems go big now, as mid-terms loom. Rudy in trouble. Census impact. With guest host Jason Dick, Deputy Editor, CQ Roll Call, Host of the Political Theater podcast, Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent, 19th News, John Bennett, Senior Editor & Covering White House & Biden Administration for the Washingto...

This is the next big thing for Biden and the Democrats. Bill talks to a White House insider who takes on the GOP criticism of the plan and makes the strong case for passage. That insider is Jared Bernstein, a long-serving top economic advisor to Joe Biden. First, as Chief Economist & Economic Adviser to Vice President Biden and now a Member of The Council of Economic Advisors for Presiden...

Chauvin Guilty. Police Reform Coming? Carbon Footprint tied to Infrastructure Bill. John Boehner Gets Salty. With Nikki Schwab, Senior U.S. Political Reporter for the Daily Mail, Jeff Dufour, Editor in Chief at National Journal and Eliza Collins, Politics Reporter for The Wall Street Journal.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

Congressman John Yarmuth (D) KY is chair of the all important House Budget Committee. A very Blue representative from a very Red state, he talks with Bill about the chances for Biden's expansive infrastructure bill. Will the D's stick together? Will R's in Congress get on board? Why we need it all. Plus he has some very strong words for fellow Kentuckian, Mitch McConnell. Today's Bill Press Pod is...

Guns. Putin. Afghanistan. Trump Fading? 2024. Boehner/Cruz. With Chris Lu, Former Obama WH Cabinet Secretary, Pema Levy, Reporter, Mother Jones and Hunter Walker, Reporter, HunterWalker.substack.com Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The Laborers' International Union of North America with embers working in diverse fields, from infrastructure to healthcare. More information at LIUNA.org ....

This first book may very well be the best book on the 2020 campaign. Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won The Presidency  by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. Authors of the definitive best-selling book on the 2016 campaign, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, Amy and Jon share the inside story of just how close it was to another Trump victory. Todays' Bill Press Pod is supported by...

Infrastructure gets real. Joe Manchin blocking Dems. GOP leans into cultural issues. The Trump factor in 2022. Blue Wall crumbling? With guest host Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor at Politico, Leah Askarinam Editor of National Journal’s Hotline and Maya King Political Reporter at Politico. Today we are once again asking you to help save our democracy by supporting FairFight.com , the organization cr...

There are problems at the Southern Border. Many people, including thousands of unaccompanied minors are overwhelming Border Patrol facilities. But is it unique to the Biden Administration? Did Trump set him up? What should be done today? What should be done, what can be done, in the future? Julian Castro was the Mayor of San Antonio Texas, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the...

Infrastructure. Govs vs. CDC. Border. Matt Gaetz/Tucker Carlson. Chauvin Trial. With Jennifer Haberkorn, Congressional Reporter for The LA Times, Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America and Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter for NBC News.  Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, on the frontlines in our grocery stores,...

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joined Bill at the Hill Center DC recently to talk about his role as the Lead House Manager in the Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump. He shares his views of the GOP senators he was trying to sway. From Mitch McConnell's' tears to Rand Paul refusing to even look at the video of the insurrection. He also comments on voting rights, gun safety, infrastructure and the pe...

Biden. Border. Voting Rights. Gun Safety. DC Statehood. With Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor at Politico, Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor at NBC News Digital and Scott Wong, Senior Staff Writer at The Hill.  Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The Laborers International Union of North America. More information at LIUNA.org . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Ca...

Anti-Asian American hate crimes reported to police rose 149 percent between 2019 and 2020. John Yang is the President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Their mission is to advance civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all. More information at AdvancingJustice-AAJC.org You can help the victims of the Atla...

Asian-American Hate Crimes. Help is Here. Border Dangers. Filibuster Reform? With Melanie Mason, National Political Correspondent, for The Los Angeles Times, Hunter Walker, White House Correspondent, Yahoo News and Jason Dick, Deputy Editor at CQ Roll Call. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The International Brotherhood of Teamsters. More information at Teamster.org . See Privacy Policy at ht...

Norman Ornstein is one of the leading experts on the Congress and an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He recently wrote a column in The Washington Post headlined:  Democrats Can’t Kill the Filibuster. But They Can Gut It. He is the co-author of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism . Today we are...