The Bill Press Pod

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"Nervous and Scared." The Reporters' Roundtable April 14 Apr 14, 2022

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The panel takes on the primary races in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Plus the depressing national political landscape for Democrats. And the effect of Trump's endorsements. With Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor at NBC News Digital, Maya King, Politics Reporter at The New York Times covering the South, S.V. Dáte, White House Correspondent at HuffPost and Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter for NBC News.

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The View From Europe with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli Apr 12, 2022

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Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk. She covers Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli has reported on the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.

Today Bill featured the work of the World Central Kitchen run by Chef Jose Andres. They have served millions of meals in disaster areas and war zones, including over a million meals in and around Ukraine. You can support their work by visiting the World Central Kitchen website at WCK.org.

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"Reclaim the Narrative." The Reporters' Roundtable April 8 Apr 08, 2022

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed. Bipartisan Punishment for Russia. Midterm Attack Lines. Time is Short for the Jan 6 Committee. With Jason Dick, Interim Editor in Chief at CQ-Roll Call, Sarah Wire, Justice Department and National Security Reporter for The Los Angeles Times, focused on Jan 6/extremism, Alayna Treene, Congressional Reporter for Axios and Alex Roarty White House Correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers.

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Rolling Back Rights. With CNN's Ron Brownstein Apr 05, 2022

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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. Ron's CNN work can be found here. His work for The Atlantic here. Ron's great book, Rock Me on the Water, on the way the TV, Music and Movies changed after the year of 1974, is now out in paperback. You can buy it here.

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"Political Wildcard." The Reporters' Roundtable- April 1 Apr 01, 2022

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Can Biden Fix Inflation? Are the Democrats doomed in November? Is the January 6th Committee Stalling Out? Will the Department of Justice Move on Meadows/Trump? Will Putin Help Trump Smear the Bidens? With Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington Editor at NBC News Digital, David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY, Hunter Walker, Reporting on Jan 6 at TheUprising.info and Kirk Bado, Managing Editor at National Journal Hotline.

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"The Constitution is Trash." with Elie Mystal Mar 29, 2022

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Elie Mystal is The Nation Magazine’s Justice Correspondent. He's a frequent guest on MSNBC commenting on the intersection between the legal and the political. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he gave up Big Law to fight for justice.

He has just published a new book that immediately landed on the New York Times bestseller list at #2. Allow Me to Retort A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution can be purchased here.

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"Fighting Like Hell." The Reporters' Roundtable March 25 Mar 25, 2022

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Ukraine Winning? GOP attacks on Judge Jackson. Ginni Thomas Texts. Trump Power Waning? Albright and Young Legacy. With Jeff Dufour, Editor in Chief of National Journal, Scott Wong, Senior Congressional Reporter for NBC News, Lauren Burke, Writer for Black Press USA and The Guardian and Zach Cohen, Congress Reporter for Bloomberg Government.

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What's Next for Putin's War Mar 22, 2022

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Twenty-six days into Putin's War in Ukraine, can anything be done to stop the carnage and stop Putin? What are the likely next steps, diplomatically and militarily? What are the risks of a wider war, of a nuclear war? To provide some context, Bill has arranged to talk again with the two experts on foreign affairs who gave us their first assessment of the situation in Ukraine three weeks ago. A lot has changed. . Steven Pifer was our Ambassador to Ukraine in the last two years of the Clinton Administration and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State with responsibilities for Russia and Ukraine in the first four years of the George W. Bush Administration. He is currently a Fellow at Stanford University and the Brookings Institution. Joining him is Joe Cirincione, a Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He previously served for over 12 years as the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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"The End of Populism." The Reporters' Roundtable March 18 Mar 18, 2022

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Zellenskyy Inspires the World. The End of Daylight Savings Time? Trump Flailing. A Global Reset at Every Level? With Jennifer Haberkorn, Congressional Reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Jason Dick, Deputy Editor at CQ-Roll Call and Host of the Political Theater podcast and Tom LoBianco, Reporter at Yahoo News.

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"Why Did Putin Wait?" With John Bolton Mar 15, 2022

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John Bolton had unimpeachable Republican and Conservative credentials. Until he went to work for Donald Trump as his National Security Advisor. It did not go well as he detailed in his book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir. Bolton and Bill discuss the current situation in Ukraine and Trump's attitudes toward Russia, Ukraine and Vladimir Putin.

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