The Bill Press Pod

The people a president surrounds himself with are key.

" Was there ever a point to any of this?"

"Biden is very much in line with Truman, Eisenhower, Bush 41, Barack Obama."

"More than about how many weeks."

“Biden understands the need for continuity. Trump wants to turn back the clock.”

"The chaos factor."

"If he is reelected, he will become cognitively incapacitated within four years."

"I literally thought it was a joke."

"It should be as much as possible a referendum on Trump."

"Gradual, Awkward and Halting."

"Democrats have arguments they can make to voters."

"A very long and dirty campaign."

"Young voters are the most politically active generation we've seen."

"Lot's of focus on Trump."

"Political actors are attacking America from within."

"Another tactical political error."

"It's been a joke from the beginning."

"Trump just wants things to go badly for Joe Biden."

"There is no doubt. It is a hundred percent him[Trump]."

"The courtroom is the campaign trail."

"We can't process all the garbage because there's so much of it."

"They don’t have the capacity to be embarrassed."

"Nothing is true and everything is possible."

"Too crazy for Marjorie Taylor Greene."

Harry Dunn is a former U.S. Capitol Police officer who risked his life to save our democracy by repelling the rioters on January 6th. He was one of three Capitol Police officers who gave riveting testimony to the January 6th Committee. Those events have led him to resign from the Capitol Police force and to run for Congress from Maryland. He describes his role in providing security for protests at the Capitol and how the events of January 6th were unexpected. He talks about the physical assaults and racist slurs he and his colleagues faced during the attack. He also discusses the influence of Donald Trump and the need for truth and decency in politics. He emphasizes the importance of standing up for the country and the potential consequences if action is not taken. He mentions his policy priorities, such as healthcare, gun reform, mental health funding, infrastructure, and addressing rising crime. He acknowledges the polarization in the country and the audience that exists for Donald Trump. He expresses concern about Trump's statements and actions, including his desire to be a dictator. You can learn more about Harry and his campaign at HarryDunnForCongress.com. Today Bill directs listeners to ActBlue.com to donate to Harry’s campaign. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

"Sending a message to Donald Trump."

The war in Gaza makes the whole world more dangerous.

"He does this all the time."

"They embrace political violence."

"Impeachment contempt palooza."

“You can’t stand with Democracy if you stand with Trump.”

"Allegations on one side and facts on the other."

"They don't believe in the fundamental principle of democracy, which is that somebody has to be willing to lose."

Did you hear the one about....

“He was a political failure, but he was a substantive and often visionary success.”

"The biggest story of my year was Donald Trump in criminal court."

"Public confidence in the Courts is in the tank."

"Just No Evidence."

"It's not defensible from a biblical perspective."

"Nobody believes he believes what he is saying."

"The future can always be changed."

"He overestimates his own intelligence."

This is Jonathan Karl's third book on Trump, the three privately known together as the "Treason Trilogy." Karl is ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent. The book is Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party . You can get your copy here. The book is based on his interviews with Donald Trump and top Trump officials, and paints a picture of a chaotic and directionless White House under Trump's leadership. Karl argues that Trump personally led the charge to overthrow the government on January 6th and remains a clear and present danger to democracy. He also discusses the loyalty Trump demands from his supporters and the potential consequences if Trump were to be reelected in 2024. Karl concludes by urging voters to understand the stakes and the potential dangers of a Trump return to power. Today Bill highlights the work of the Laborers' International Union of North America. A union at the heart of the American Labor Movement. More information at LIUNA.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

One president kept a cow IN the White House.

John Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, Edward R. Murrow, James Earl Jones, Steven Spielberg, Laurence Fishburne, Robert Wagner, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and George Stevens, Sr., just a few of the people we meet in Bill's interview with George Stevens, Jr. In addition to working with his father, the legendary film director George Stevens. Sr., George Stevens, Jr. was a successful producer and director in Hollywood before being lured to Washington as a member of Edward R. Murrow’s team at the United States Information Agency during the Kennedy administration. Stevens founded the American Film institute and created the Kennedy Center Honors. He ran those for 37 years, interacting with the greatest artists and performers of our time and presidents from Carter to Obama. He's captured it all in a new book, a memoir, entitled My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington. You can get your own copy here. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. America's most diverse union, as they like to say, from A to Z. From airline pilots to zookeepers. More information at teamsters.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

"An overall chaotic element in our politics."

The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

"It's overwhelming everyday."

"You don't get a get-out-of-jail-free card because your case is novel or you're a former president."

"A bold move or a pander?"

"The most conservative Speaker we've ever had."

"Right into the deep end."

"It could escalate quickly."

"It’s your problem, you fix it."

"This is a clear & present danger to having Trump re-elected.”

"Who would want this job?"

"Nothing justifies what Hamas has just done.

“No way to please the nihilists.”

"They all know that the impeachment is meritless."

"It's not grounds for execution."

The Biden Impeachment? "It's laughable."

"The Republicans are self-immolating."

"His strengths are abundant and a little bit harder to discern, but they're very real."

"The chaos we are seeing on the House floor."

"They have given the party to Trumpism and I know exactly why they did it."

"You never know what could come out."

"He's unpopular. A lot of it's inflation. Some of it's age."

"The dangers of this burn it all down approach."

"Fox News morphed into something far more sinister and ugly."

"Sick of the entire mess."

"Could imagine a worse campaign?"

Irrefutable "facts."

"Anything that tries to use religion as a means to an end, I believe, to be dangerous."

"The Legal system racing the political system."

“Democrats escaped 2022 and they learned the wrong lesson."

"They gotta say something."

"We're hurtling toward a catastrophe."

"No stopping the inevitable."

"Donald Trump was the mastermind of the fake elector scheme.”

"We have thrown away the term unprecedented."

“There is an active pro-Putin wing in the Republican party."

"They really can't feel it on the ground."

"To defeat Trump in the courtroom, we have to defeat Trump in the polling booth.

"Not a political winner."

"Walking is 20 times slower than driving. It's hundreds of times richer."

"Not a lot of middle ground here."

“Evangelicals say, ‘yes, he fooled around with women and....'"

"It's not going to stop."

"The almost limitless capacity of the Republican party to continue to embrace him tighter, the worse it gets.”

"One for the history books."

The leader among Blue states in adopting progressive policies.

"A Big Historic Moment."

"Unsigned, unexplained orders are producing massive real world effects."

"Could have been a hell of lot worse."

“The Supreme Court is now the least representative body in the country."

"Bad in concept and terrible in execution."

“History was on Derek Chauvin's side ."

"He didn't like people."

"Lindsey Graham was, if not encouraging, was leveraging the prospect of violence."