The Bill Press Pod

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"We are not a Judeo-Christian nation." Jul 09, 2019

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Rachel Laser, CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, talks with Bill about the misuse of religious freedom to advance racism and how the religious Right is putting a stain on religion, especially for young people. And Bill calls Jerry Falwell, Jr. "a phony Christian."

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The Bill Press Podtable July 3: The Census, the Border, N. Korea, Harris/Biden, July 4th Jul 03, 2019

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Nikki Schwab of The New York Post, Alex Seitz-Wald of NBC News and Hunter Walker of Yahoo News join Bill to break down the big stories.

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States Can and Must Fight Trump. w/Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island Jul 02, 2019

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Rhode Island Gov. and head of the Democratic Governors Association, Gina Raimondo lays out the high stakes in statewide elections in 2019 and 2020 re: Gerrymandering, healthcare and reproductive rights.

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Pompeo's vision of America: White, Male, Christian. W/ Amb. Wendy Sherman Jun 28, 2019

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Iran. North Korea. Cuba. Venezuela. NATO. Bill digs deep on them all with fmr. Undersecretary of State, Wendy Sherman

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The Second Night Democratic Debate: Bill's take: Kamala, Kamala! Jun 28, 2019

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Bill grades the candidates: Not a good night for Joe Biden

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The First Democratic Debate: Bill's Take. Jun 27, 2019

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10 Democratic candidates hit the stage in Miami and Bill shares his reactions to Elizabeth Warren, Julian Castro, Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Bill DeBlasio and all the others.

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"Housing is a basic human right." With Julian Castro, former Secretary of HUD Jun 25, 2019

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Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro talks with Bill about affordable housing, homelessness and it what it will take to solve those problems. And, of course, the upcoming Democratic Debate.

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The Bill Press Podtable June 19: New Trump. Same as the old Trump. Jun 19, 2019

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Bill and Ginger Gibson of Reuters, Niall Stanage of The Hill and Leah Askarinam of Inside Elections, breakdown the Trump campaign launch rally and the upcoming Democratic Debates. Plus the Hong Kong massive demonstrations and who wants to go to war with Iran.

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Income Inequality: "The pitchforks are getting pretty sharp out there." Jun 18, 2019

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Are Income Inequality and The Wealth Gap the most important issues facing the country? With Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow at The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Chief Economist to Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama Administration. How bad is it? How can we fix it?

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The Bill Press Podtable. Norway, if you are listening.... Jun 14, 2019

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Trump, Biden, Sarah Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, John Stewart. All are topics for Bill and Chris Lu, former top Obama official, Jen Bendry of the Huffington Post and Addy Baird of BuzzFeed. Plus Bill takes on Trump for stealing the Fourth of July and the panel wonders whether Bill wants to be buried with weed?

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