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 Pod is sponsored by the International Association of Fire Fighters. More information at IAFF.org See...
Mar 24, 2020•31 min•Ep. 87
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 at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Mar 20, 2020•45 min•Ep. 86
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 host of the weekly podcast Pulse Check . Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by LIUNA – the Laborers...
Mar 17, 2020•33 min•Ep. 85
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://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Mar 12, 2020•45 min•Ep. 84
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.org. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...
Mar 10, 2020•33 min•Ep. 83
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 California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Mar 06, 2020•39 min•Ep. 82
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 at AFT.org . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:...
Mar 03, 2020•31 min•Ep. 81
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 Fighters. More information at IAFF.org . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice ...
Feb 28, 2020•45 min•Ep. 80
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 Bernie, but figuring out how to win with him. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by all the fine labor u...
Feb 25, 2020•39 min•Ep. 79
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 information available at AFT.org. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...
Feb 21, 2020•35 min•Ep. 78
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 ....
Feb 18, 2020•17 min•Ep. 77
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.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Feb 14, 2020•48 min•Ep. 76
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 https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Feb 11, 2020•36 min•Ep. 75
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 Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-in...
Feb 07, 2020•43 min•Ep. 74
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 children to get a quality education. More information at AFT.org . See Privacy Policy at https://art19...
Feb 04, 2020•30 min•Ep. 73
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 Press Pod is sponsored by the men and women of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. More information...
Jan 31, 2020•46 min•Ep. 72
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 Transportation Workers with over 216,000 members. More information at Smart-Union.org See Privacy Policy at...
Jan 28, 2020•37 min•Ep. 71
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 Hillary vs. Bernie. Today's podcast is sponsored by the 320,000 men and women of the International Association o...
Jan 24, 2020•51 min•Ep. 70
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-sell-my-info ....
Jan 21, 2020•32 min•Ep. 67
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 is sponsored by the men and women of The United Food and Commercial Workers at UFCW.org They are grocery workers, food pr...
Jan 17, 2020•46 min•Ep. 69
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 at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jan 15, 2020•45 min•Ep. 68
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 brought to you by the men and women of the International Association of Fire Fighters at IAFF.org See Privacy Policy at https:...
Jan 10, 2020•42 min•Ep. 65
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. Today's episode is sponsored by the IronWorkers Union, 120,000 members strong. (Ironworkers.org) See...
Jan 07, 2020•31 min•Ep. 64
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 .
Jan 03, 2020•40 min•Ep. 63
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 Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...
Dec 31, 2019•33 min•Ep. 62
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 this crucial session of the Court. The Bill Press Pod is sponsored today by The International Associati...
Dec 27, 2019•38 min•Ep. 61
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. Jerrold Post who just published Dangerous Charisma: The Political Psychology of Donald Trump and His Followers. Today episode sponsored ...
Dec 24, 2019•44 min•Ep. 60
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 .
Dec 20, 2019•34 min•Ep. 59
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 .
Dec 17, 2019•35 min•Ep. 58
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 .
Dec 13, 2019•42 min•Ep. 57
