Maryland Delegate Marc Korman joins FOX 5’s Tom Fitzgerald on this week’s “On The Hill” podcast. The Democratic lawmaker represents Montgomery County, Maryland. We talk about the Board of Public Utilities decision this week to approve Gov. Larry Hogan’s plan to expand, improve and add toll lanes to I-270 and eventually the Beltway. Korman is not a fan of the plan and tells us why. He also takes us behind the scenes of the political maneuvering during the effort to name a replacement in the wake ...
Jun 10, 2019•28 min
Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland joins the “On The Hill” podcast to discuss the current debate over impeachment surrounding President Donald Trump. Raskin, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, also talks about the effort to end gerrymandering through a new bill on Capitol Hill which also addresses voting rights. The Congressman also give us a look into his lifelong fandom of Bruce Springsteen. How can Democrats win back the farmers, factory and steel workers that “The Boss” has sung ab...
Jun 03, 2019•31 min
Gregg Rothschild of The Glover Park Group joins the On The Hill podcast. If you use Facebook, Google or Waze, or if you sign up for a grocery card your data is being used and shared in many ways. For the first time in 20 years a broad federal data privacy bill is being hammered out in Congress. How should that data be protected, who should be allowed to get it and use it? Join us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 28, 2019•23 min
Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the On The Hill podcast. Taleblu’s been following the recent heightened Iran tensions and the evacuation of the embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. What’s the backstory that led up to this latest standoff? How has the U.S. changed its way of dealing with Iran under the Trump administration? What is Iran’s endgame? What does it mean for us? It’s a 20 minute deep dive with an expert who can boil it all down. Join us! Lea...
May 20, 2019•24 min
Aaron Zitner, the Wall Street Journal’s polling editor, joins Tom Fitzgerald in this week's episode of the On The Hill podcast. With the 2020 campaign underway, Tom and Aaron dive into the latest numbers which include numbers on the enthusiasm of voters. With more than 20 candidates on the Democratic side, the Wall Street Journal looked at voter enthusiasm and who voters are or are not comfortable with. We also have a frank conversation about people’s opinions of polling in general. How relevant...
May 13, 2019•30 min
Zach Terwilliger, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, joins the On the Hill podcast to discuss the opioid crisis. For the first time in a decade, opioid-related deaths dropped in Virginia. Fatal drug overdose has been the leading method of unnatural death in Virginia since 2013. Terwilliger discusses what his office is doing to combat the opioid epidemic, which includes prosecutions of drug dealers, gangs, dirty doctors and fentanyl coming in from China. Learn more about your...
May 06, 2019•23 min
Bill McCarren of the National Press Club joins Tom Fitzgerald on this episode of the “On The Hill” podcast. Bill and Tom look at the story of Austin Tice, the American Journalist who’s been held in Syria since 2012. The FBI has a $1 million reward for Tice’s return. Bill talks about “Night Out For Austin,” which will be held on May 2, where restaurants from around the country will donate a portion of their proceeds to the effort to #FreeAustinTice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast...
Apr 29, 2019•21 min
Virginia 8th District Congressman Don Beyer joins the On The Hill podcast. He’s been a well-known car dealer, lieutenant governor of Virginia, a U.S. Ambassador and now a Congressman. Beyer talks about what first-time candidates often get wrong, equating success in the business world with being a good elected official. And we also look at how the Mueller report may be robbing the media spotlight from an issue critical to Democrats recent success: healthcare. Beyer also has a blunt take on the cu...
Apr 22, 2019•34 min
DC’s member of Congress, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, joins the “On The Hill" podcast. She’s one of the most well-known members of Congress and a fixture on the national stage for 25 years now. In this wide-ranging conversation, we tackle D.C. Statehood and how she’s fought against “Taxation without Representation” for D.C. residents. Known as one of the toughest questioners in Congress, she pulls back the curtain on her process of preparing for hearings and how she knew when a witness is answeri...
Apr 15, 2019•31 min
If you drive a car, buy food or do just about anything, what happens with the US and China trade relationship impacts your wallet. So what’s the deal with the trade war rumblings and exactly what would a “good deal” or a “bad deal” look like for the United States? Riley Walter, an Asia Studies expert at the Heritage Foundation, joins the “On The Hill” Podcast to help break down all the ins and outs into the plain talk that makes a difficult subject much easier to understand. Join us! Learn more ...
Apr 08, 2019•23 min
Robert McCartney, the senior regional correspondent for the Washington Post, joins the “On the Hill Podcast.” McCartney is focusing on the political landscape in DC, Maryland and Virginia, which is a region that may be locked in a transportation and infrastructure nightmare. A truck crash at the American Legion Bridge closed the Beltway for hours and sent the entire region into gridlock. So how can the political leaders in the area break the gridlock by creating more transportation projects with...
Apr 01, 2019•26 min
Jeff Mason, the White House correspondent for Reuters and a past-president of the White House Correspondents Association, goes “On the Hill.” FOX 5’s Tom Fitzgerald and Mason talk about the next shoe to possibly drop now that Robert Mueller has finished his Russia special counsel investigation and the ongoing tug-of-war between the White House Press Corps and President Donald Trump. Also, while more Democrats jump into the 2020 nomination race, Trump is also setting his sights on his re-election...
Mar 25, 2019•27 min
Daniel Mulhall, the Irish ambassador to the United States, goes “On The Hill” during the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Mulhall returned to D.C. after a four-day tour across the U.S. with the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. FOX 5’s Tom Fitzgerald spoke to the ambassador about the close bond between Ireland and America, the effects of the United Kingdom’s Brexit on Ireland, and the trade boom currently underway in Ireland which is being led by a renaissance of Irish whiskey being shipped around th...
Mar 18, 2019•31 min
Doron Ezickson, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League for the Washington D.C. region, goes 'On The Hill.' The ADL is currently faced with increasing instances of anti-Semitic incidents in the news. Democrats on Capitol Hill debated and passed a resolution against hate speech that was sparked by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments on Israel. In our conversation, Ezickson talks about how politicians can be critical of the Jewish State, but need to be careful to avoid anti-Semitic remarks agai...
Mar 11, 2019•23 min
This week, Michael O’Hanlon, the Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, goes “On The Hill.” Michael and Tom take a closer look at what President Donald Trump achieved during his second summit with Kim Jong Un. Plus, what is the latest with our defense strategy and national security? Does the lack of an agreement represent a setback or opportunity? And what is Russia’s endgame as we approach another volatile presidential election here in the United States? Learn more about ...
Mar 04, 2019•21 min
This week Christopher Metzler, author of “Divided We Stand: The Quest for America’s Soul,” goes “On The Hill.” Metzler’s latest book states that the deep political divide in America didn’t start with President Donald Trump, but instead with the Clinton administration when America’s no-holds-barred politics took a sharp turn that’s still in place today. Also, as an African-American conservative, Metzler talks about “identity politics” and the way forward in possibly fixing what’s broken in our po...
Feb 25, 2019•23 min
This week David Adesnik, the director of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, goes “On The Hill” to give us insight on Iran and Syria. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, and later this November will mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. hostages being taken at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The U.S. and Iran were once allies, but that ended in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shad of Iran. Now, four decades later, the two countries are still at ...
Feb 19, 2019•22 min
Allan Lichtman, a distinguished professor of history at American University in Washington DC, goes "On The Hill" to talk about the prediction he made back in 2016 during the beginning of the presidential campaign. Against all the pundits, experts and political operatives, Lichtman came out with a bold prediction that Donald Trump would be elected president. Turns out, he was right. Now he’s predicting that despite economic indicators that would put any president on a steamroller to re-election, ...
Feb 11, 2019•24 min
Jason Rezian, who served as the Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post, goes “On The Hill” as he talks with Tom Fitzgerald about his new book “Prisoner.” Jason’s life took an unexpected turn when he was arrested by Iranian authorities and falsely accused of being an American spy for the CIA. After a sham closed-door trial, he spent 544 days in an Iranian prison, enduring solitary confinement. Jason talks about the high stakes diplomacy between the Obama Administration and Iran, and the extr...
Feb 04, 2019•27 min
Marty Crutsinger, the Economics Correspondent for the Associated Press since 1984, goes "On The Hill." Even after 35 years on the job, Marty will tell you he’s never covered anything like the just concluded government shutdown. What is the long-term economic impact of the shutdown? How has Donald Trump’s longtime trade philosophy shaped his presidency and U.S. trade policy? And, what is the looming economic danger hiding in plain sight that nobody is talking about? (Spoiler alert: It’s the defic...
Jan 28, 2019•21 min
Gina Foote, the vice president of the Glover Park Group Government Affairs Division and former chief of staff to Republican Congressman Ted Poe, goes “On The Hill.” As the new 116th Congress gets down to business in Washington, one of the hallmarks of this New Year are the record number of women who have been elected. Foote takes us inside the Capitol on the day the new Congress was sworn in, what the new female lawmakers mean for ‘business as usual’ on the Hill. She also talks about how the new...
Jan 08, 2019•21 min
Chuck McCullough, the former U.S. Inspector General for Intelligence, goes “On The Hill” to discuss what it was like to be at the center of the Hillary Clinton Email Investigation. McCullough also talks about his career as a former FBI agent, investigating the Oklahoma City Bombing case and his role in reviewing the Boston Marathon Bombing. He also discusses the importance of keeping politics out of criminal investigations and dealing with outside pressures when looking for the truth. Learn more...
Dec 31, 2018•28 min
In this episode of the On The Hill podcast, FOX 5’s Tom Fitzgerald is joined by U.S. Attorney Zachary Terwilliger. He is the 62nd United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. As the chief federal law enforcement officer there, Terwilliger supervises the prosecution of all federal crimes and the litigation of all civil matters in which the United States has an interest. As U.S. Attorney, Terwilliger leads a staff of over 250 prosecutors, civil litigators, and support personnel loc...
Dec 17, 2018•23 min
Trade wars and tariffs. What’s going on with the disputes with China, the European Union, Canada and Mexico that are putting Wall Street into such a roller coaster lately? Riley Walters of the Heritage Foundation joins the On The Hill podcast to break it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 10, 2018•21 min
Welcome! On The Hill is a new podcast coming to you from the FOX 5 Podcast Studio in Washington D.C. Our host Tom Fitzgerald was sprung from cages on Highway 9 somewhere in the swamps of New Jersey. Fitz has hosted a weekly On The Hill talk show on FOX 5 since the 2016 campaign and it’s quickly grown into a local staple of Sunday morning political talk in the nation’s capital. Now, the On The Hill podcast is branching out and expanding those discussions every week. Fitz kicks things off with a b...
Dec 03, 2018•14 min
