Podcasts about pbs's washington week

Notable political journalist Amy Walter digs through the flood of information leading up to the 2020 election to share what she believes are the fundamentals of what you need to know in her seminar "State of Play - The 2020 Election". Walter, host of the podcast "Politics with Amy Walter," is a frequent contributor to CBS's Face the Nation, FOX News Sunday, PBS's Washington Week and Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier. She can be heard Fridays on The Takeway on KUNC, and Monday evenings on the PBS NewsHour.

President Trump had been in office for three months when he called Robert Costa on his cellphone to tell the Washington Post national political reporter about the first major legislative loss of the new administration; a Republican bill to overhaul the healthcare system was dead. The previous October, when a tape of Trump talking crudely 11 years earlier to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush threatened to derail his 2016 campaign, he gave his first interview to Costa. Again and again the President has demonstrated his trust in the 32-year-old journalist by speaking to him on the record, despite Costa’s refusal to shy away from reporting unflattering developments within the administration. Selected to take over for legendary journalist Gwen Ifill as the host of PBS's “Washington Week” after her tragic death from endometrial cancer in late 2016, Costa was a natural choice. His penchant for firsthand reporting, an enviable ability to slash through complicated stories to find the critical kernels and his willingness to question mainstream news narratives have enabled him to powerfully continue Ifill’s legacy. Fresh off a three-week hiatus for WBAI’s winter fund drive, “TrumpWatch” host Jesse Lent talks to Robert Costa about the ways that Washington DC has changed culturally under the Trump presidency and where he sees the administration heading in the coming months.

Georgie Anne Geyer writes a syndicated columnist who writes on foreign policy and international affairs for 120 American and Latin American papers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times. She is a regular commentator on PBS's Washington Week in Review and Frontline. Fluent in five languages, her career has been a whirlwind of ground-breaking journalism. She is the only American to interview Argentine president Juan Peron, one of the first journalists to interview Ayatollah Khomeini, and the only person to interview Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia when all American reporters were forbidden to enter the country. She is the author of six books, including Buying the Night Flight, an autobiography of her odyssey as one of the first women foreign correspondents.

Dan Balz is chief correspondent at the Washington Post and a regular panelist on PBS's Washington Week and MSNBC's The Daily Rundown. He is coauthor of Storming the Gates and The Battle for America 2008. His New York Times bestselling new book, Collision 2012, presents an inside view and analysis of the Obama-Romney presidential race—and the future of elections in America. In this exclusive interview, he discusses why he never gets tired of this beat.