Bill is in Rome at the American Academy and got to engage in one of his favorite pastimes: wondering what residents of the country he is visiting think about us Americans and what they think about their own country. He got the chance to sit down for that very discussion with one of Italy’s best-known journalists. In Italy, Maria Latella is a superstar. She's like an Andrea Mitchell or a Diane Sawyer. Maria Latella is an author, columnist, radio talk-show host and TV anchor. She doesn't hold back...
Apr 18, 2023•29 min•Ep. 414
GOP Faceplant in TN. The NRA/GOP Bind. Abortion Looming Large. Trump’s Worsening Legal Issues. 2024 GOP Primary. Feinstein Stalemate. Clarence Thomas Ethics. Leaker Arrest. Biden in Ireland. With Philip Bump, National Columnist for the Washington Post, Author of The Aftermath and How To Read This Chart newsletter, Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico and David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The United Food and Commercial...
Apr 14, 2023•47 min•Ep. 413
Syliva Poggioli is a legend. Forty-one years reporting from Rome and the world for NPR. She recently resigned from her role as Senior European Correspondent so she has now can be a bit more candid about what she thinks about Italy’s new rightwing government and its connections to Italy’s fascist past. Bill interviewed her in Rome. Today Bill highlights the work of Jose Andres and the World Central Kitchen, continuing their work providing millions of meals in war zones and areas of natural disast...
Apr 11, 2023•27 min•Ep. 412
Trump Arrested. Gag Order Coming? Is it a Strong Case? Defund the FBI? Abolish the ATF? Pence to Testify. 2024 GOP Contenders Stymied. Democrats Win Big in Wisconsin. Abortion Looms Large. With Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington Editor at NBC News Digital, Alex Seitz-Wald, Political Reporter for NBC News, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffPost and Nikki Schwab, Senior U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The Laborers’ International Union of No...
Apr 06, 2023•43 min•Ep. 411
Donald Trump was arraigned yesterday on 34 felony counts in a New York state court. The crime was falsifying business records as part of scheme to potentially avoid taxes and to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. We caught up with New York-based reporter Hunter Walker, a longtime contributor to the Bill Press Pod. Walker literally wrote the book on the January 6th investigation along with Denver Riggleman and has followed the Trump story from the beginning. Hunter is currently an Invest...
Apr 05, 2023•21 min•Ep. 410
Trump Indicted. GOP Attacks Prosecutor. DeSantis Struggling. Nashville School Shooting. GOP Budget Woes. With Linda Feldmann, Washington bureau chief, White House/Politics Correspondent at Christian Science Monitor, Host of the Monitor Breakfast, Kirk Bado, Editor, National Journal Hotline and co-host of the National Journal Radio podcast and John Bennett, Editor-at-Large & Analysis Columnist, CQ Roll Call, CQ Afternoon Briefing writer. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The United Food ...
Mar 31, 2023•51 min•Ep. 409
OK, this is a little self-referential, but here is last week’s guest, writing about this week’s guest: CNN and The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein, writing in The Atlantic about Simon Rosenberg. “After working for three decades as an operative in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, Simon Rosenberg in 2022 became an overnight sensation. Rosenberg was the most visible public skeptic of the GOP-surge scenario. After the election, Vox called Rosenberg ‘the guy who got the midterms right.’” Bill has...
Mar 28, 2023•35 min•Ep. 408
Trumps' Legal Peril. Gloves Off on 2024 Race. DeSantis Stumbles. TikTok's Troubles. Unity on China Threat. With Jeff Dufour, Editor in chief of the National Journal, Sarah Wire, National Security/Justice Dept. and Washington Accountability Reporter for The Los Angeles Times, Leah Askarinam, Senior Editor at Grid News and Lauren Burke, writer for Black Press USA and The Guardian. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The Laborers' International Union of North America. Already at work rebuilding ...
Mar 24, 2023•27 min•Ep. 407
Ron Brownstein is one of the sharpest analysts of American politics. He is a Senior CNN Political Analyst and a Senior Editor for The Atlantic. He's been reporting and writing about the radical rollback of rights in Red states and he has a new analysis based on years of data research that explains why are politics is so evenly divided. And perhaps irreconcilable. Ron's CNN work can be found here . His work for The Atlantic here. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the United Food and Commerci...
Mar 21, 2023•39 min•Ep. 406
Trump Legal Watch. Pence Blames Trump for J6. DeSantis Ukraine Controversy. Trump Hits DeSantis on Ethics. Fragile Banking System? Is “Woke” Working? War Powers Challenged. Chicago Mayor’s Race. With Lynn Sweet, Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent for New York Magazine and Jason Dick, Editor in Chief CQ Roll Call, Political Theater podcast host. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The Laborers' International Union of North A...
Mar 17, 2023•46 min•Ep. 405
Now that the Republicans are in charge of the House of Representatives, they get to decide what to investigate. Actually, it seems the only thing they are doing is investigating. But they've run into a problem. Democrats on the committees. Delegate Stacy Plasket, Ranking Member on the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” chaired by the MAGA star Jim Jordan. Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. And today’s guest, Rep. Eric Swalwell o...
Mar 14, 2023•29 min•Ep. 404
Trump NY Indictment Imminent. Tucker J6 Whitewash. Biden’s Budget. 2024 GOP Race. DeSantis the Real Deal? And an inside look at Sabrina’s trip with Biden to Ukraine. With the aforementioned Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter for the Wall Street Journal, David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY and S.V. Dáte, White House Correspondent at HuffPost. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by the SMART Union, working to rebuild America's infrastructure. More information at SMART...
Mar 10, 2023•49 min•Ep. 403
What a president eats can tell you a lot about the man. What he serves to people at the White House is also revealing. All that is the subject of a new book by Alex Prud’homme, Dinner With The President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House. You can buy it here . Prud’homme is the author, with his great aunt Julia Child of My Life in France , a New York Times bestseller and the inspiration for half of the movie Julie and Julia . He's also written several important n...
Mar 07, 2023•39 min•Ep. 402
2024 GOP Race Begins. Fox News Unmasked. Tucker’s Spin on J6 Tapes. Dr. Biden in Africa. China in the Crosshairs. With Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington Editor for NBC News Digital, Allan Smith, Political Reporter for NBC News, Emily Goodin, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com and Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the Laborers International Union of North America, at work rebuilding America's infrastructure. More information at LIUNA.o...
Mar 03, 2023•41 min•Ep. 401
Joe Cirincione is a national security and foreign policy expert He previously served for over 12 years as the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution. He was an outside advisor to the State Department during the Obama Administration. He is a member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. He is the Bill Press Pod foreign policy expert. Today Bill once again highlights the work of Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen. They...
Feb 28, 2023•42 min•Ep. 400
Biden in Kyiv. Ohio Toxic Train Wreck. Tim Scott Running. Trump Support Fading? J6 Tapes to Tucker. MTG’s Power. Carter in Hospice. With Philip Bump, National Columnist for the Washington Post, author of How to Read this Chart Newsletter and the book: The Aftermath, The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America, Kirk Bado, Editor of the National Journal Hotline and host of the National Journal Radio podcast and Abby Livingston, writer of The Almanac of American Politics. Toda...
Feb 24, 2023•49 min•Ep. 399
Remember when Rick Perry wanted to abolish the Energy Department? And then became the Energy Secretary under Donald Trump? He said after he got there that there was a lot the Energy Department did that he didn't know about. Here's what the Energy Department does: It manages the United States' nuclear infrastructure, administers the country's energy policy and funds scientific research in the field. And it's become even more important today with the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill a...
Feb 21, 2023•40 min•Ep. 398
Nikki Haley In. Biden Health/2024. Fetterman/Depression. Feinstein to Retire. Biden vs Scott. McConnell vs Scott. GOP Ukraine Divide. Balloonacy. With Maya King, Politics reporter for The New York Times covering the South, Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico and Igor Bobic, Senior politics reporter at HuffPost. Today Bill once again highlights the work of Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen. They are currently in Turkey and Ukraine as well as other spots around the world feeding peop...
Feb 17, 2023•43 min•Ep. 397
Susan Glasser is the ultimate Washington insider. She has had reporting and/or editing positions at Roll Call, The Washington Post, Politico and Foreign Policy magazine. She is the co-author of three books with her husband Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. The best-selling books focused on Vladimir Putin, James Baker and Donald Trump. She was a long time contributor to CNN. Now she writes the highly regarded weekly “Letter From Joe Biden’s Washington” and does ...
Feb 14, 2023•36 min•Ep. 396
Raucous State of the Union. Debt Limit Showdown. Sanders' Dark Speech. GOP “Investigations.” Santos On the Way Out? Nikki Haley Jumping In. Santos vs Trump Gets Heated. Rep. Mace and Sen. Warnock Take Their Shots. With Scott Wong, Senior Congressional Reporter for NBC News and John Bennett, Editor-at-Large & Analysis Columnist, CQ Roll Call and writer of the CQ Afternoon Briefing. Today Bill once again highlights the work of Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen. They are currently in Turkey an...
Feb 10, 2023•45 min•Ep. 395
Carl Hulse is the Dean of congressional reporters. He's the Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times and has been covering Congress for over 35 years. This is a Congress like no other and he and Bill try to figure out what the 118th Congress is going to do. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The American Federation of Government Employees. More information at afge.org. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...
Feb 07, 2023•39 min•Ep. 394
Debt Ceiling Standoff. Plea for Civility. Rep. Omar Removed. This Week in George Santos. DNC Meets. Trump vs. Desantis. Wild Jobs Growth. Biden SOTU Preview. With Leah Askarinam, Senior editor at Grid News, Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter for NBC News and Linda Feldmann, Washington bureau chief, White House/politics correspondent at Christian Science Monitor. Host of the Monitor Breakfast. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. More i...
Feb 03, 2023•43 min•Ep. 393
The title of Washington Post National Columnist Philip Bump’s new book says it all: The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America. The Baby Boomers, America's largest and most powerful generation, hold so much economic and political power, that even after they're gone, the effects of their domination of American culture and society will be felt for years to come. Bump shares his insights on Boomers and Millennials and how they are today fighting over resources ...
Jan 31, 2023•35 min•Ep. 392
Pence has Docs Too. Debt Ceiling Threats. GOP House Agenda Very Unpopular. GOP 2024 Campaign. Santos. Artificial Intelligence. Republican National Committee Fight. With Philip Bump, Washington Post: National columnist. Newsletter: "How To Read This Chart." Book: "The Aftermath," Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington editor at NBC News Digital and Jason Dick, Editor in Chief CQ Roll Call. Political Theater podcast host. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by the Iron Workers Union. More information at...
Jan 27, 2023•43 min•Ep. 391
It's that time. When a Republican Congress and a Democratic president face off over an archaic procedure known as the debt ceiling. You've probably heard about it, so we decided to do a deep dive to understand what's going on in the next few weeks and months as the radical Republicans in the House hold the world's economy hostage to their demands for cutting Medicare Social Security and defense. To dig into this topic we turn to one of the sharpest voices on the intersection of economics and pol...
Jan 24, 2023•38 min•Ep. 390
Debt Default Looming. Santos Still Lying. Biden Documents Political Scandal. Deniers on Key Committees. Swalwell Schiff off Committees. Ambitious California Democratic Politicians. Arizona Senate Race. Maryland Governor Wes Moore Rising. With Eliza Collins, Politics Reporter covering Arizona and the West for The Wall Street Journal, Melanie Mason, National Political Correspondent for The Los Angeles Times and Jeff Dufour, Editor in chief at National Journal. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported b...
Jan 20, 2023•42 min•Ep. 389
The Republican House majority, controlled by the crazies empowered by Speaker McCarthy, seem intent on driving America and the world over a financial cliff over the debt limit. But Real Clear Politics Associate Editor and Columnist A.B. Stoddard, argues they're also driving themselves over a cliff as well. She joins Bill today to dissect the “agenda” for House Republicans, and how that agenda helps the crazies raise money, get hits on Fox News, but turns off moderate Republican voters and indepe...
Jan 17, 2023•37 min•Ep. 388
Biden’s Document Mess. Special Counsel to Investigate. Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Longevity. George Santos’ Legal Peril. With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Allan Smith, Political Reporter for NBC News and Jessica Taylor from The Cook Political Report. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The International Brotherhood of Teamsters. More information at Teamster.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.c...
Jan 13, 2023•38 min•Ep. 387
The Politics Bureau Chief at Politico, Jonathan Martin is one of the very best political reporters in America. His book, with Alexander Burns is This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy told the story of two men with radically different visions for America. Biden defeated Trump but not Trumpism. Jon and Bill explore the current state of the GOP, Trump’s power and plans. Biden’s 2024 plans and all the younger Democrats who are strongly supporting Biden’s 2024 run. Bu...
Jan 10, 2023•33 min•Ep. 386
The Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy. Trump Power Fail. Real World Consequences. Biden Showcases Bi-partisan Government Action. Remembering January 6th Matters. With Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico, David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY and Lauren Victoria Burke, writer for The Guardian and Black Press USA. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The Iron Workers Union, working on the new bridge connecting Kentucky and Ohio, and so much many other projects. M...
Jan 06, 2023•39 min•Ep. 385
