TALKING FEDS is a roundtable discussion that brings together prominent former government officials, journalists, and special guests for a dynamic and in-depth analysis of the most pressing questions in law and politics.
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Ringer Dish is the place for all things celebrity and pop culture. From major moments like the Met Gala and the Oscars, to the weird habits of the stars you love, and refreshers on the biggest tabloid stories from the last 20 years, Ringer Dish has all the vital details. On Tuesdays, catch ‘Jam Session’ with Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins for royal family rumors, celebrity real estate, and industry analysis. And on Fridays, listen to 'We're Obsessed' with Jodi Walker and Chelsea Stark-Jone ...
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A five-time Emmy winning SNL comedy writer/producer, joins a four-time #1 NYT bestselling author, a three-time highest-rated national progressive radio host, a two-time Grammy winning artist, and a former US Senator. So, it gets a little crowded in the booth when Al talks public policy and sometimes political comedy with notable guests. Think “The Daily” without the resources of the NYTimes.
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Join noted author & pundit Molly Jong-Fast for irreverent humor that cuts right to the heart of our politics today as she discusses the top political headlines with some of today’s best minds. Known for being one of the few interviewers in politics to cut through the talking points, Molly reveals the personalities and issues tearing the country apart. She asks the questions no one else does, and gets the answers even her guests didn’t expect to give – and exactly what you want to know. Tune ...
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Talking Feds: Women at the Table brings to the table prominent legal and policy professionals (and special guests) for a lively and intellectual discussion. Get to know hosts Anne Milgram, Melissa Murray, and Juliette Kayyem as they dissect the news each week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to the NEW HOME of Mea Culpa – the ONLY place to find new episodes of Michael Cohen’s hit podcast. Cohen, the former attorney and personal “fixer” for Donald J. Trump, once vowed to take a bullet for the President. But that was before the country was brought to its knees by Trump’s lies and personal madness. While Cohen was imprisoned in his own home, with his life, reputation, and livelihood destroyed, he went on a mission to right the wrongs he perpetuated on behalf of his former b ...
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Talking Feds host Harry Litman stops by to discuss the insane amount of chaos in the Justice Department. Congressman Eric Swalwell talks about protecting citizens from DOGE’s unlawful aggressions on their data. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Biden’s Pardons Are Worthless + A Conversation With Harry Litman
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1:24:51Today on Mea Culpa, I welcomed back Harry Litman, former U.S. Attorney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, law professor, and host of Talking Feds, to discuss Trump’s first week in office. We critique Trump’s authoritarian agenda, including mass deportation plans, the creation of controversial new departments, and executive orders that undermine de…
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Angelo Carusone & Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
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47:42Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone examines the missed opportunities to push back against Trump’s agenda. Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse details how the Senate can counter DOGE and Trump’s aggressions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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It’s our regular mash-up with none other than Molly Jong-Fast, in which Molly fires legal question that have been occupying her at Harry, and Harry reciprocates with political questions for Molly. This mash-up is in the middle of the burgeoning Department of Justice scandal over the Eric Adams prosecution, and Harry presses Molly on whether the sca…
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Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall stops by to discuss Trump taking a sledgehammer to our government. Author Katherine Stewart talks about her new book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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"SNL50," Meghan Markle, Selena and Benny, and More | Jam Session
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50:29This week, the ladies have a packed episode, starting with a debrief of "SNL50," including their favorite moments, celebrity appearances, performances of the night, and more (0:00)! Next, the ladies discuss Meghan Markle’s new rebranding of her American Riviera Orchard to "As Ever" (25:28), Selena Gomez and fiancé Benny Blanco’s recent public appea…
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“Not anything any of us ever expected to see in America"
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54:25Trump continued to bend the political system to his will, but the courts and his own Dept of Justice pushed back. Alisyn Camerota, Norm Ornstein, & Jacob Weisberg join Harry to assess Trump’s checkered week. A series of federal courts temporarily froze some of Trump’s more brazen power grabs, and a cascade of DOJ prosecutors resigned rather than co…
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The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson skewers Trump’s latest dictator-like language. Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head Rohit Chopra details the accomplishments of the organization and why Trump dismantled it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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My Knee Won’t Bend + A Conversation With Jim Acosta
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1:19:39Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Jim Acosta, former CNN anchor and chief White House correspondent, who made headlines for his heated clashes with Donald Trump during press briefings. After recently departing CNN following a proposed shift change, Jim left with a powerful message: "It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. Don’t give in to …
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We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live this week! This special episode changes things up a bit as Executive Producer Peter Ogburn asks Al about his history with the show. We pull the curtain back on what a typical week looks like building up to the live show on Saturday and learn about how Al and his writing partner, Tom Davi…
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Harry talks to Kristy Greenberg, former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the Southern District of New York, about the burgeoning scandal involving the resignation of the acting United States Attorney and multiple other officials in her office and at Main Justice. The resignations all come in response to an improper command by the acting dep…
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Nora Princiotti's Super Bowl Experience, Poppi, and Por Favor Montoya! | We’re Obsessed
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1:35:22¡¿Por qué?! Jodi Walker is joined by her new cohost, Nora Princiotti! First things first, Jodi picks Nora’s brain about her trip to the Super Bowl (10:14)! They start with Kendrick Lamar’s viral flare jeans before breaking down Jordan Hudson's—Bill Belichik’s girlfriend—fashion choices as well as their Dunkin’ cameo (20:34). Nora tells Jodi about h…
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A Smorgasbord of Stupidity + A Conversation With Leigh McGowan
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1:21:51Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Leigh McGowan, also known as PoliticsGirl. Leigh launched her platform to make politics accessible and inspire civic engagement. She gained popularity with her no-nonsense, kitchen-table rants, breaking down complex political issues in a digestible way. Now, she is a widely recognized political commentator, activis…
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Talking San Diego presents Chris Hayes With His #1 Bestselling Book, “The Sirens’ Call”
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56:04In the latest conversation in the Talking San Diego series, Harry sits down with Chris Hayes before a live San Diego audience on the evening when Hayes’s new book, “The Sirens’ Call,” was named to the top position on the New York Times’s Bestseller List. Hayes’s focus is attention – how it has become our scarcest resource and the constant bombardme…
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Charlie Sykes examines the continued erosion of law and order in America. Congresswoman Becca Balint details the Republicans' attempts to rewrite American culture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Substack's The Jim Acosta Show host Jim Acosta examines Trump’s strategy to exploit the weak points in our government. Wired’s David Gilbert details the threats Elon’s DOGE-obsessed teenagers pose to U.S. national security. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Super Bowl LIX: Everything Except the Game
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52:37The ladies return at the top of this week with a special Super Bowl recap, discussing everything except, of course, the actual game. They start off with the pleasant surprise appearance of Lady Gaga in New Orleans amidst her recent album drop (2:12). Then, the ladies obviously had to discuss all the celebrities that appeared at the game—specificall…
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Jeff Toobin Talks Righteous and Corrupt Pardons
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22:26Harry sits down with Jeff Toobin on the day of the publication of Toobin’s latest book, “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy.” Toobin’s work spans the history of controversial pardons over the last 50 years, with a ground-setting, detailed focus on President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon. The conventional wisdom about that pardon…
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An all-contrarian roundtable—Paul Krugman, Norm Eisen, and Jen Rubin—chronicles the first signs of pushback against Trump’s constitutional assaults and analyzes the vacuous tariffs initiatives. Norm provides some dispatches from the litigation front, which has secured multiple injunctions against Trump’s lawless, harmful policies. Paul proceeds to …
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The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson examines Trump’s voters learning what his agenda actually is. More Perfect Union’s Josh Miller-Lewis details the lobbying firm funneling massive influence into Donald Trump’s White House. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Trump Team Guts Government + A Conversation With Joe Trippi
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1:19:17Today on Mea Culpa, I welcome back Joe Trippi, veteran Democratic strategist, senior advisor at The Lincoln Project, host of That Trippi Show podcast, and founder of Sez, a pro-democracy social network. We break down Trump’s chaotic first weeks back in office, including his bizarre claim that the U.S. should 'own' Gaza, his mass federal employee bu…
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Donald Trump ran on a platform of mass deportations. Now that he's back in the White House, what does that look like? We're joined by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Molly O'Toole, whose upcoming book “The Route” details global migration through the Americas. Molly has spoken to hundreds of migrants making their way from war-torn countries to be …
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Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara examines the legal obstacles that can keep Trump in check. Citation Needed’s Molly White details the tech bro oligarchy’s plans for America. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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The Grammys, the Dallas Mavericks, and ‘Another Simple Favor’ | We’re Obsessed
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1:26:59Wait, is this a sports podcast now? Jodi and Sophia Benoit first tell us all about the things that made them say LOL out loud this week, including Robbie Williams’s deranged Instagram (1:40), the ‘Another Simple Favor’ poster debacle (7:00), and more ‘Jennifer Hudson Show’ tunnel shenanigans (15:30). Then, Sophia tells us about her Traitor of the W…
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More Dangerous Than Nixon + A Conversation With Jill Wine-Banks
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1:20:22Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Jill Wine-Banks, former Watergate prosecutor, legal analyst, author of The Watergate Girl, former U.S. General Counsel of the Army, and host of multiple podcasts. With her deep expertise in law and presidential power, we break down Trump’s alarming early actions in his new term. Following this week’s news of Trump …
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Poetic Justice: The Year of Kendrick Lamar
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1:24:00Ahead of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance, Ringer senior staff writer Justin Charity explores some of the critical moments of Kendrick’s story: from a legendary come-up in the rap blog era of the late 2000s to his early stardom in the 2010s to his fiery resurgence in the past several months as he takes a never-ending victory lap aft…
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Harry talks with Andrea Pitzer, who has reported extensively on democratic decline in countries such as Chile, Russia, and Hungary, and has written extensively about historical examples especially Nazi Germany. She discusses signal developments in authoritarian democracy that degraded into authoritarian rule, bringing the illustrations back to comp…
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The Nation’s Jeet Heer tries to make sense of Trump’s plans to expand America across the globe. Democracy Forward’s Skye Perryman examines the lawsuits they are filing to stop Trump and Musk’s agenda. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Historian Thomas Zimmer parses the inner workings of why Trump and Musk are rushing through their demolition of government institutions. Harvard’s Theda Skocpol examines what helped shape the right’s urge to dismantle government. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Baldoni Vs. Lively Saga Updates, Kate Middleton, Karla Sofía Gascón, and More | Jam Session
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46:32This week, Juliet and Amanda have a packed lineup of the latest celebrity news, starting with updates on the Justin Baldoni vs. Blake Lively lawsuit (00:53), Kate Middleton's return to her duties and her request that the world pay more attention to her work than her clothes (16:23), Karla Sofía Gascón's struggling ‘Emilia Pérez’ Oscar campaign afte…
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