The Bill Press Pod

Economy stalling. GOP resisting new big stimulus. Biden empathetic. Trump pathetic. Harris, Rice, Bass in the Veepstakes. With Jason Dick, Deputy Editor, CQ Roll Call, Hunter Walker, White House Correspondent, Yahoo News, Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent, 19th News and Maya King, Politics Reporter, Politico. Today’s Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The Teamsters Union.   More information at Teamster.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pundits have labeled Donald Trump crazy, a toddler, a narcissist. To get beyond the punditry we went to actual mental health professionals for this series of special podcasts based on the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. In conversations with a dozen psychiatrists and psychologists, we explore the pathologies that make Donald Trump the terrible person and worse president he is. Today’s episode features the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Dr. Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty of the Yale Medical School. Also Dr. James Gilligan who was on the faculty of The Harvard Medical School and was for 13 years, the director of the Harvard Institute of Law and Psychiatry; Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, one of the most prominent psychiatrists  in America and one of the originators of the field of psycho-history, which is the study of psychological motivations for war, terrorism, and genocide. He wrote the forward to the first edition of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. He was a lecturer at The Harvard Medical School and is a professor emeritus at The City University of New York. And Stanford Professor Emeritus, social psychologist Phillip Zimbardo; Stephen Soldz, a clinical psychologist and director of the Social Justice and Human Rights program at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and Harvard Psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Friedman. Drs. Gilligan, Zimbardo, Soldz and Friedman all contributed chapters to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Obama goes in on Trump and the GOP at John Lewis' Homegoing. Trump whines about his plummeting popularity with Covid raging and the economy not. Hosted this week by Sabrina Siddiqui, National Politics Reporter for The Wall Street Journal with Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, Jason Dick, Deputy Editor, CQ Roll Call and Jennifer Bendery, Senior Politics Reporter for The Huffington Post. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The Ironworkers Union. Their slogan is "The sky's the limit." More information at Ironworkers.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Mary Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, is a runaway bestseller and a crucial window into the dangerous mental life of the most powerful man in world. We decided to gather three mental health professionals to read the book and compare it to their own work in their bestseller from 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Bill is joined by Dr. Bandy Lee, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale school of Medicine and Editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Dr. Ellyn Kaschak, Professor Emerita of Psychology at San Jose State University and Dr. Edwin Fisher,m Clinical Psychologist and Professor at the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The Laborers International Union of North America. 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.

Paul Begala is a leading Democratic strategist who serves as a political contributor for CNN. He’s also been Bill’s good friend and collaborator for years. They breakdown Paul’s new book, You're Fired: The Perfect Guide to Beating Donald Trump. You can pre-order the book here. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The Teamsters Union. America's largest with 1.4 million members. Not just truck drivers but everyone from A-Z. From airline pilots to zookeepers. More information at Teamster.org. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Moms face the Feds in Portland. GOP Convention OFF but schools ON? Trump claims he doesn't dementia. Again. Obama and Joe talk. AOC shines. With Pema Levy, Reporter for Mother Jones, Ginger Gibson, Editor at NBC News Digital and Chris Lu, fmr. Obama Cabinet Secretary.Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, on the frontlines in our supermarkets and food processing plants. More Information at UFCW.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our politics are broken, maybe even Humpty-Dumpty broken. And Trump sure added fuel, but the fire that crippled American politics was started by Newt Gingrich in the 1980's. So says the book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, by Julian Zelizer. He's a Professor of History and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs. You can buy the book at your local bookstore or here on Amazon.Todays' Bill Press Pod is brought to you by The American Federation of Teachers, working hard to keep your kids safe in school, Information on opening schools safely at AFT.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump losing it. Covid winning. Schools not opening. Masks. Masks. The Roundtable with Addy Baird, Politics Reporter, BuzzFeed News, Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor, Politico and Vann Newkirk, Senior Editor for The Atlantic and host of the Floodlines Podcast.Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the frontline workers of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. More information at UFCW.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John Roberts moving to the middle? Big decisions on DACA, LGBTQ+ and Native American Rights. Plus a session of beatdowns for the Trump Administration. With Adam Liptak who has been covering The Supreme Court for The New York Times since 2008. He’s also a former practicing attorney. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The American Federation of Teachers. More information at AFT.org.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dangerous School Openings? Trump Failing and Flailing. Biden Bides His Time. Successfully. With Jason Joseph Dick, Deputy Editor, CQ Roll Call, Lauren Burke, Writer, Black Press USA, and Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent, New York Magazine. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The Teamsters Union. It's 1.5 million members run the gamut from A-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.