The Bill Press Pod

The Bill Press Pod

Deep dives into the crucial issues and emergencies facing America with the people trying to solve them.

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June 20, 2025 43 mins

“2 Weeks” on Iran. MAGA Base Split. Tucker vs. Cruz. Congress MIA. Trump’s Bad Polls. No Kings Millions. NYC Mayor’s Race. DNC Infighting. With Maya King, Political Reporter for the New York Times, Kirk Bado, Editor of The National Journal Hotline and Tom LoBianco, editor of 24 sight News. 

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In this episode of the Bill Press Pod, Bill is joined by Peter Cohn, Managing Editor for Policy and Legislation at CQ Roll Call, to discuss the comprehensive and controversial bill that aims to encompass nearly all of Donald Trump's legislative priorities. This "Big Beautiful Bill," spanning over 1,100 pages, seeks to extend the 2017 tax cuts and includes several provisions impacting healthcare, military spending, bor...

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Israel Bombs Iran. Rubio: Not US. Trump: Let’s Make a Deal. Sen. Padilla Handcuffed. Noem: Liberate LA. Troops on the Streets. Trump’s Birthday Parade. Newsom Slams Trump. Elon Surrendered. With Alan Smith, Political Reporter for NBC News, John Bennett, White House Correspondent, CQ Roll Call and Arthur Delaney, Political Reporter at Huff Post. 

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In this episode of the Bill Press Pod, Bill welcomes Barbara McQuaid, a legal analyst for NBC, Co-host of the podcast Sisters-in-Law and author of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America to discuss the pervasive issue of disinformation, particularly under the Trump administration. They explore how disinformation is used deliberately to advance political agendas, create divisions, and destabilize societ...

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Trump-Musk Feud. Impact on BB Bill? Whose Side Are You On?. Epstein Files in Play. Will Trump Punish Musk? What Does Elon Want? Trump: Investigate Biden Autopen. Travel Bans Back. Karine Jean-Pierre Bombs. With Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico, Sarah Wire, Senior National Political Correspondent at USA Today and Kirk Bado, Editor at National Journal Hotline.

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In this episode of the Bill Press Pod, Norm Ornstein discussed the significant changes in the Republican Party and the broader implications for American democracy since the publication of his 2012 book, "It's Even Worse Than It Looks". Ornstein is a political scientist and an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a leading expert on Congress.  Ornstein asserted that the party has dramatically shift...

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Trump’s Tariff Tirade. Tariff Chaos Continues. The MAGA Path to Pardons. Putin Plays Trump-Again. Big Beautiful Bill Backlash. Flawed RFK, Jr. Report. Musk’s Tragic Legacy. 2028 Democrats. With Linda Feldmann, White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for The Christian Science Monitor, Phillip Bump, Columnist for the Washington Post and author of the How to Read This Chart Newsletter and Evan McMorris-Sant...

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In this episode of the Bill Press Pod, our own foreign policy expert, Joe Cirincione, discussed several pressing foreign policy issues. Cirincione is a National Security Analyst with decades of experience in DC. They began by touching on King Charles' historic visit to Canada for the parliamentary opening—a gesture seen as supportive of Canada amid criticism from Donald Trump. They then shifted focus to Trump's peculiar in...

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More Tariff Chaos. Public Feeling It? Markets Not Happy. Big “Beautiful” Bill. It’s Chances in the Senate. Trump’s Crypto Corruption. The Used 747 Bribe. White House Shakedowns. The End of the Penny. With Emily Goodin, Senior White House Correspondent for DailyMail.com, Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief of CQ-Roll Call and Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief of the National Journal. 

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In this episode, Bill speaks with Sylvia Poggioli from Rome about the new Pope, Leo XIV, and what he might bring to the table. Poggioli is the legendary NPR Rome, Vatican and Senior European Correspondent. They talk about Pope Leo’s inauguration mass, which was a big event with around 200,000 people attending. Leo XIV's homily focused on love, unity, and peace, similar to Pope Francis, but with a stronger push for uni...

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Bill had the great fortune of being in Saint Peter's Square when the new Pope was announced. He tells us what it was like and his thoughts on Leo XIV

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We are back next week with new episodes of The Bill Press Pod. The 12th and final chapter chronicles the demise of our fictional magazine, Capital Monthly. The pressure from the White House, from advertisers and from Social Media algorithms kills the independent journalism that was, in our stories, documenting what life was like for people under Donald Trump's second term guided by Project 2025. We now have seen, in ...

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Bill is back next week from his research and writing sabbatical. While he's gone, we decided it’s important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and have the series author, pro-democracy advocate and the author of nine books, David Pepper, tie them to what’s actually happened so far. In Chapter 11, set in November in Tallahassee, fic...

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While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 2 weeks we decided it’s important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and tie them to what’s actually happened so far. The first part of Chapter10 introduces the fictional character Dr. Joy Brewer, a dedicated researcher focused on studying cancer clusters affecting Blac...

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While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 2 weeks we decided it’s important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and tie them to what’s actually happened so far. The story in this chapter follows fictional Private Troy Marquis, who attends a tense early morning briefing at a military reserve base in Philadel...

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While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 3 weeks we decided it’s important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and tie them to what’s actually happened so far. Project 2025 proposed to eliminate the Department of Education and divert federal education funding into universal school voucher programs, allowin...

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While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 4 weeks we decided it’s important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and have the series author, pro-democracy advocate and the author of nine books, David Pepper, tie them to what’s actually happened so far.

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While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 4 weeks we decided it’s important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and tie them to what’s actually happened so far. The story that leads off Chapter 6 captures the struggles of 12-year-old Alvaro and his mother in a fictional detention center in West Texas. Alvar...

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Bill interrupted his sabbatical in Europe to share his thoughts on the death of Pope Francis and who just might replace him. And how important that is for the Catholic Church, and the world.

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While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 4 weeks we decided it’s important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and have the series author, pro-democracy advocate and the author of nine books, David Pepper, tie them to what’s actually happened so far. In Chapter 5, Part one, the fictional characters Congresswom...

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