The Bill Press Pod

Biden. Obamas. Harris. The DNC with Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor for Politico, Eliza Collins, Politics Reporter covering the presidential election for the Wall Street Journal and Alex Seitz-Wald, Senior Digital Politics Reporter for NBC News.State-by-state voting information from NBC News here. And The Wall Street Journal here Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by the Laborers' International Union of North America. More information at LIUNA.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Elizabeth Warren. Gabby Giffords. And then Kamala Harris! Plus Obama. Wow. What a night!Bonus: my column on the brilliant, powerful and important speeches by Michelle and Barack Obama.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

United Food and Commercial Workers Union President Marc Perrone on the casualties, the end of hazard pay, the dangers of enforcing mask mandates and steps the Union is taking to fill the gaps left by an inadequate Federal Government response. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Theme of the night: Joe Biden is a Good Man. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Day one of the DNC is in the books. Bill on how effective it was in advancing the Democrats prospects in November. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is the the third in our series on The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump. Produced in association with the authors of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Today we explore the mental and emotional deficits that render Trump impaired and unfit for the presidency. And try to answer the question, Why is it that Donald Trump, who thinks only about himself, cannot make the decisions on the pandemic that would save lives and save his election prospects? And finally, what can we expect before and AFTER the November election.Joining the podcast are eight distinguished psychiatrists and psychologists, all contributors to The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump. They are, in order of appearance: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.Harper West, a psychotherapist.Harvard Psychiatrist, Dr. Henry FriedmanPsychiatrist, Dr. Judith Herman is on the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School and is one of the most renowned psychiatrists in America. Psychiatrist, Dr.Prudence Gourguechon, past President Of The American Psychoanalytic Association. Stanford University professor emeritus, Dr. Philip Zimbardo. Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Stephen Soldz.Clinical psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Panning. Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The American Federation of Teachers. Our teachers know best what we should be doing on opening schools. To see their plan to re-open schools safely, go to AFT.org.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Harris energizes. Trump caught flat-footed. Biden: Wear a mask! No new stimulus deal. DNC preview. With Chris Lu, fmr. Obama WH Cabinet Secretary, John Bennett, Washington Bureau Chief, The Independent, Lauren Burke writer at Black Press USA and  Nicholas Wu, covering Congress for USA TODAY.Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by the SMART union. More information at SMART-Union.org.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

"The Goldwater Rule" has been used by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to convince mainstream media to suppress the expertise of psychiatrists on Donald Trump's mental state. Bill talks to two psychiatrists who explain the origins of the"Rule, " and how they had tried to modify it in the face of the dangers Trump posed. Now, they say, their expertise is no longer welcome in the mainstream media. Bill's guests are Dr. Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty of the Yale Medical School and the Editor of The New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Also joining Bill is Dr. Leonard Glass, is associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by The United Food and Commercial Workers Union. On the frontlines during the pandemic in our grocery stores, pharmacies and food processing plants. More Information at UFCW.ORG.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.