The Bill Press Pod

Hey GOP, "Can you hear me now?" The Cult of Trump in full flower in the Senate. Bill breaks down this historic week in DC with Ginger Gibson, Political correspondent for Reuters, Peter Nicholas, White House reporter for The Atlantic and Joseph Williams Senior Editor, U.S. News and World Report . Plus MBS hacks Bezos, Trump on Iraq Traumatic Brain Injuries: No biggy. Bernie vs. Joe and Hi...

Patriotic Millionaires ( PatrioticMillionaires.org )is real. They want higher taxes on themselves, money out of politics and a higher minimum wage. With Executive Director, Erica Payne. Who pulls no punches. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The Teamsters Union at Teamster.org . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-s...

Big. Important. Historic. Bill breaks down the week in DC with Sabrina Siddiqui, National Politics Reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America and Jason Dick, Deputy Editor at CQ Roll Call. The Impeachment Trial Begins. Parnas sings. Warren and Sanders call each other liars. Pelosi calls Facebook shameful. Today's Bill Press Pod i...

At this point of world insecurity, who better than Susan Rice to explain the dangers and the possible off-ramps. Plus she gets personal and self-critical when talking about her new book Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For . Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The United Steelworkers Union at USW.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

Bill tackles the momentous news of the week. Out of the woods on Iran? Impeachment Trial next week? What’s happening in Iowa? With Eliza Collins, politics reporter covering the presidential election for The Wall Street Journal, Nikki Schwab, Senior U.S. Political Reporter for the Daily Mail and John Bennett, Senior White House Correspondent, Roll Call.  Today's podcast is...

Bill talks with Joseph Cirincione, President of The Ploughshares Fund ( Ploughshares.org ) and one of the nation's top experts on national security and nuclear policy. Joe explains how the killing of Iranian General Soleimani has already caused irreparable harm to U.S. interests from the Middle East to Europe to North Korea. That's before whatever hot conflict we are likely to get into with Iran....

Bill breaks down Iran/Iraq with Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor, Politico, Addy Baird, Congressional Reporter for BuzzFeed News and Lauren Burke, writer for Black Press USA. Plus More damning details on Ukraine and Dems 2020, Pelosi vs. McConnell.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Guns. DACA. Transgender Rights. Citizens United. John Roberts. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Neil Gorsuch. Just some of the topics Bill covered on a big news day for the Supreme Court, Bill interviewed Nina Totenberg, NPR's Legal Affairs Correspondent, before a live audience at The Hill Center in Washington DC. Today's podcast is sponsored by The International Brotherhood of Teamsters at Teamster.org. See...

Bill talks with Ruth Marcus, columnist for the Washington Post and author of Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover . They dig into how Kavanaugh sought a seat on the Court from just after law school, how he almost lost the battle and how the GOP rallied to him in the end. Is he as strongly conservative as Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas? And what we can expect from thi...

Trump’s deteriorating mental capacity only increases the DANGER he poses. Not to mention how unhinged he seems after being Impeached.  That’s why we are re-posting our conversation with two psychiatrists, leaders in warning of Trump’s danger to the world. Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee who edited   The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,  and longtime CIA profiler  Dr. Jerrol...

Bill discusses that blistering column with Friedman as well as Tom's well-sourced insights on Trump, Pompeo, Modi, Bibi, Kim and Brexit. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bill talks impeachment with Neal Katyal, former acting Solicitor General and author of Impeach. The Case Against Donald J. Trump  about Trump, McConnell, Chief Justice John Roberts, James Madison and the other Founders. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bill tackles the week's news with Pema Levy of Mother Jones, Jason Dick, Deputy Editor of CQ-Roll Call, Leah Askarinam , Editor of National Journal's Hotline. Impeachment. Moscow Mitch now jury fixer Mitch. IG report clears FBI of political bias. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bill talks to Ed Chung, the vice president for Criminal Justice Reform at The Center for American Progress. He follows the Barr Justice Department. What he finds is not good. To say the least. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bill breaks down the news with Ginger Gibson, National Political Correspondent for Reuters, Addy Baird, Congressional Correspondent for BuzzFeed and Scott Wong, Senior Writer for the Hill. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Maraniss, biographer of Obama, Clinton, Gore and Gingrich, reveals the damage The Red Scare did to his family and the country in his new book, "A Good American Family." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

How should any White House Counsel deal with a lawless President? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

CNN's Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin on impeachment, "absolute immunity," military justice and just how "moderate" is John Roberts. Plus Bill tears down the GOP impeachment defenses of Trump. One by one. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Where we are with impeachment after this week's bombshell testimony, with Jennifer Haberkorn of the LA Times, Hunter Walker of Yahoo News and Niall Stanage of The Hill. Plus, did the Dem Debate shake up the race? And Stephen Miller, Trump's pardons and Bibi's indictment. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bill was in Atlanta in the Spin Room to get after-action reports from reporters and candidates. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Stop with the "both sides-ism." The polarization is tribal and one party is at fault. Even before Trump See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bill breaks down the first day of Impeachment hearings with Reid Epstein of The New York Times, Lauren Burke of The Black Press USA and Matt Gertz of Media Matters for America. Plus, 3 more in the 2020 Democratic Primary??? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Former CA Governor Jerry Brown and Presidential Candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg have the kind of discussion on these issues that the current president could never have. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Trump fails in KY, VA goes Blue. So do the suburbs in PA. Sondland: Quid Pro Yes. Arms for Dirt going public. Bill breaks it all down with Alex Sietz-Wald of NBC News, Lauren Burke of The Black Press USA and John Bennett of CQRoll Call. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bill talks with "The Macker" about Trump, Charlottesville, Dem gains expected on VA election day, the 2020 race and what he might do next. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .