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The Senate GOP on Trial w/ Eleanor Clift of The Daily Beast Jan 28, 2020

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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!

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Schiff: Stellar. GOP: Deaf. The Roundtable for Jan 24. Jan 24, 2020

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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.

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Patriotic Millionaires. Yes. Really. Jan 21, 2020

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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.

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"This is a BFD." The Reporter's Roundtable-Jan 17 Jan 17, 2020

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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.

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Susan Rice, Obama's UN Amb and Nat Sec Adv: Candid and Cutting. Jan 15, 2020

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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.

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Iran. Impeachment. Iowa. The Reporters' Roundtable for Jan. 10 Jan 10, 2020

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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.

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"This is bad. This is very bad." w/Arms Expert Joseph Cirincione Jan 07, 2020

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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.

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Blundering Towards War. The Reporters' Roundtable for Jan 3 Jan 03, 2020

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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.

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The Conservative Supreme Court w/ NPR's Nina Totenberg Dec 31, 2019

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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.

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Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Ambition w/Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post Dec 27, 2019

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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.

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