The Bill Press Pod

"I'm all powerful." Not. Trump still behind the curve. Biden rolls out the endorsements. Bill breaks it all down with Jennifer Haberkorn, congressional reporter for the LA Times, Hunter Walker, White House Correspondent, Yahoo News and Pema Levy, political reporter for Mother Jones.  Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers. More information at AFT.org ....

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl has a great new book on the inside stories of the Trump administration. Karl quotes one senior aide, on officials thwarting Trump's crazy ideas, "that happened all the time." You can get Karl's book in hardcover at Barnes and Noble , and KIndle at Amazon . Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the heroic members of the United Food and Commerc...

Quarantine bends the curve, Bernie bends the knee and job losses break the record. Bill gets into it with top reporters Gabe Debenedetti, national correspondent, New York Magazine, Joe Williams, Sr. Editor, U.S. News & World Report & Leah Askarinam, Editor, National Journal’s Hotline.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

The man whose union represents the people risking their lives to provide us food and drugs, talks about the dangers they face and what is being done to protect them. And you. Marc Perrone is the International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union ( UFCW.org ). Their 1.3 Million members are the brave men and women we see at our grocery stores and pharmacies. And the thousands of...

Who gets what? How do we keep it fair? The $2.2T one was "Covid 3." There will be a "Covid 4," says Rep. David Cicilline (D) of Rhode Island and a key member of Nancy Pelosi's leadership team. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the 120,000 member of The Ironworkers Union. More information at Ironworkers.org. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https...

Deaths and cases piling up. Trump holding rallies in the White House Press Room. Governors stepping up in the vacuum. With Addy Baird covering Congress for BuzzFeed News, Lauren Burke of Black Press USA and Matt Gertz of Media Matters for America. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Former CNN and NBC anchor Soledad O'Brien hits CNN, Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, Dana Bash and Van Jones. She says networks carry the Trump Virus Follies for ratings. Period. She is also the Executive Producer of a new feature documentary Hungry to Learn, about college students with no money for food. Check it out here. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The Teamsters Union, America's largest....

$2 Trillion to ward off a depression. Over 86,000 US coronavirus cases, number one in the world. Bill breaks it down with Eliza Collins, Politics reporter covering the presidential election for The Wall Street Journal, Jason Dick, Deputy Editor at CQ Roll Call and Chris Lu, former Obama WH Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Labor. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...

Big fight inside the White House over whether to end the CDC stay-home recommendations. Axios' Jonathan Swan is among the best-sourced reporters covering the White House and he broke that story. Catch Bill's candid conversation with his old friend. Follow him at @JonathanVSwa n. Subscribe to his Sunday-night newsletter Axios Sneak Peak and watch him on Axios on HBO. This episode of The Bill Press...

It just keeps getting worse. Both the spread and the incompetence. How long will it go on? Biden looking up. Bernie looking for a way out. Bill makes sense of the week with Sabrina Siddiqui, National Politics Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Hunter Walker, White House Correspondent for Yahoo News and John T. Bennett, Washington Bureau Chief, The Independent.  See Privacy Policy...

What happened behind the scenes as America failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus? What is happening right now? Bill talks with Dan Diamond, one of the best reporters covering healthcare. Diamond has broken major stories on the Trump Administration's response to the Covid 19 Pandemic. He is the author of Politico Pulse , the highly-respected daily newsletter on healthcare. He is also the...

Biden ascendant. Bernie dead man walking. Trump way out his depth. Bill digs in with Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter of NBC News, Pema Levy, reporter for Mother Jones and Nikki Schwab Senior U.S. Political Reporter for the Daily Mail.  Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. More information at UFCW.org See Privacy Policy at https...

If it's a referendum on Trump, he loses. If it's a choice election, Trump can win. Bill looks at the state of America and the 2020 race with one of the world's most accomplished pollsters, Peter Hart. He's been doing the prestigious NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll for over 30 years. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the men and women of the United Steelworkers Union. More information at USW...

The unprecedented Biden comeback. Next week with challenging states for Bernie. Trump just keeps making the coronavirus problem, worse. Bill breaks it all down with Igor Bobic, Politics Reporter for the Huffington Post, Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor of Politico and Dr. Niambi Carter, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Howard University. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

The bestselling author of three books and an op-ed columnist covering national politics for the Washington Post, Dana Milbank gives Bill his biting and irreverent take on Trump's mishandling of the Coronavirus and the chaos in the Democratic race for the White House. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the 1.7 million men and women of the American Federation of Teachers. More information about...

Which is hotter: The Coronavirus or the 2020 Race? What’s not hot: The Stock Market! The Reporters’ Roundtable with Matt Gertz, a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, Addy Baird covering the Democrats in Congress for BuzzFeed News and Lauren Burke writer for The Black Press. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the men and women of the International Association of Fire...

Labor unions got us: The 40-hour work week. The Weekend. Pensions. Employer Health Coverage. Vacations. But the sustained GOP jihad on Unions has hurt. Bill talks to former NYT Labor reporter Steven Greenhouse about his new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor . Plus Bill's take on the Nevada Caucus and how the party needs to think, not about stopping...

Washington Post White House reporters Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig take us behind the scenes in the frightening reality that is the Trump presidency. A Very Stable Genius debuted at #1 on The New York Times Bestsellers' list. Terrifying but true. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the American Federation of Teachers with 1.7 million members in 3,000 locals all across the country. More informa...

Trump, Barr and GOP Senators get the full Judge Napolitano treatment: Smart, learned, truthful and fearless. Today's Podcast is sponsored by the .3 million hardworking men and women of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. More information at UFCW.org . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Trump Gets Revenge. GOP Senators proven fools. Centrist Dems Panic. Barr's kabuki theater. The Reporters’ Roundtable with Gabe Debenedetti, New York Magazine’s National Correspondent and Greg Krieg, CNN’s Politics Reporter.    Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The International Association of Firefighters. For more information go to IAFF.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19....

The author of 2019's Everything Trump Touches Dies , Rick Wilson is now out with Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves . We need to pay attention. Today's podcast is supported by the Laborers’ International Union of North America. More information at LIUNA.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...

Bill tackles the Trump and GOP threat to America. Plus Bernie and Pete surging, Biden fading and Bloomberg looming. With Niall Stanage, White House Columnist at The Hill, Scott Wong Senior staff writer at The Hill and Chris Lu, former Obama Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Labor.  Today’s Podcast is supported by the Teamsters Union. More information at Teamster.org See Privacy P...

Tom Daschle was the Senate Minority Leader during Bill Clinton's Senate Impeachment Trial. He has some tough words for the current Senators. Plus, Tom talks about the resilience of Obamacare, why Iowa should not go first and how we might get out of the toxic political atmosphere caused by the GOP. Todays' podcast is supported by the American Federation of Teachers, fighting for the right of our ch...

Bill breaks down the breakdown of our democracy with Pema Levy, reporter for Mother Jones, Matt Holt, correspondent for The National Journal and Richard Fowler, host of the Richard Fowler Show. Senate Trial: Lamar Alexander, WTF? Dershowitz promotes a dictatorship. Plus, is Bloomberg's Superbowl ad the right approach, the Iowa caucus down to the wire and Kobe touches us all. Today's Bill...

Eleanor Clift writes for The Daily Beast and has been a panelist on The McLaughlin Group for over three decades. She has covered every presidential election since 1976, was the White House Correspondent for Newsweek and its Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. She knows her stuff! Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the SMART Union, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transpo...