Bill Press

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I'm Jason Dick, editor in chief at CQ Roll Call, sitting in for Bill.

Here in Washington, DC, it's about 8:30 in the morning on October 16th.

Yeah.

And Jess, um, again, welcome.

First time on the Bill Press Pod.

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Our, our former colleague, uh, uh, at CQ Roll Call, now, now at Punchbowl.

[upbeat music] Hello there.

Good to see you, and welcome to this latest episode of "The Bill Press Pod." And welcome to Plymouth Rock.

Yeah.

Ever since our forefathers came to America seeking religious freedom, we've been struggling with the relationship between religion and politics, church and state.

What it really looks like is January 6th, 2021.

And I open the book with the insurrection to show you what I saw that day, which is this profusion of religious extremism on a collision course with our democracy, explicitly theocratic, totally militant, open to violence as a means to achieve this end.

And I've just watched this movement grow more powerful and more entrenched in our government the whole time I've been in Congress, Bill, and that's a big part of why I wrote this book.

You even call January 6th a k- a religious riot or a Christian riot almost.

And then I went to go work for Randy Rhoads, and I worked for her on and off for about 15 years.

I also worked for Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, did a little bit for Tom, unfortunately worked for Laura Ingram and EWTN, and also Steel and Unger Show.

Wow.

How was that? How was working for Laura Ingraham?

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I'm Ginger Gibson, former Washington editor for NBC News, sitting in for Bill here in Washington, DC.

It's about 8:30 in the morning on October 9th, and we are 26 days away from the midterm election.

worksWe have a lot more to get to, but we're gonna take a quick break.

Um, we're, we'll touch on Michigan, the Guilfoyle, uh, scandal unraveling in Greece, and JD Vance weighing in on socialism when we get back.

[upbeat music] We're back on the Bill Press Pod Reporters Roundtable.

I'm Ginger Gibson, former Washington editor for NBC News, sitting in for Bill, along with Arthur Delaney from HuffPost, Sam Benson from Politico, and Zach Cohen from Bloomberg Government.

Let's jump right back in, Michigan.

Good day, good friends.

Good to see you, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod.

Well, in one of his most famous outbursts in the Oval Office, we're told, Donald Trump, frustrated that the Justice Department wasn't locking up enough of his political opponents, shouted out, where's my Roy Cohn? And now we know why Trump misses Cohn so much, thanks to a new biography of Roy Cohn by Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark.

In their book, American Scoundrel, they document how all the bad stuff Trump does today, from insulting everybody to suing the media to violating the Constitution to ignoring the law and the courts, is exactly what he learned from Roy Cohn, his first attorney.

Hi, Bird.

It's so good to connect with you.

Thank you for joining us today on the Bill Press Pod.

Well, thank you, Bill.

Hello and welcome to the Bill Press Pod Reporter's Roundtable.

I'm Ginger Gibson, former Washington editor for NBC News, sitting in for Bill here in Washington.

It's about 8.30 in the morning on October 2nd, and we are 33 days away from the midterm elections.

Today, we'll talk all things midterm.

There's much more to come.

We'll also get to our reporters' favorite stories of the week after a short break.

On the Bill PressPod Reporters' Roundtable, I'm Ginger Gibson, former Washington editor for NBC News, sitting in for Bill, along with Amanda Becker, Emily Goodin and Jen Bendry.

We're back on the Bill Press Pod Reporter's Roundtable.

I turn on the Communist News Network and, uh, you know, I can take about ten or fifteen minutes, and I gotta walk into the other room [laughs] for a little while 'cause there's so many liars telling so many lies.

I started watching, uh, Crossfire tonight, Bill Press.

You know, he's the...

He's from the... "I'm from the left." And, you know, they had, uh, Mary Matalin from the right, and she's about as right as, uh, [laughs] uh, as, um, a frozen Coke [laughs] in the middle of winter.

And, uh, here they were, just, this Bill Press just, you know, he just spouted one lie right after another.

He said the, uh, uh, the leader of the Albanian Kosovar, who was the president of Kosovar actually, uh, was taken by gunpoint from Paris to Belgrade and was forced to meet with Milosevic and smile and all that kind of stuff.

Uh, but, um, this reporter on, uh, CNN today says that he met with, with this guy, the president of Kosovo, uh, along with a whole bunch of other reporters, and asked about the meeting and, um, uh, he said that, uh, there was no coercion there.

The guy wasn't forced.