Pelosi to Step Down, Biden Disputes Zelensky Over Poland Missile

Journalist and writer Dan Lazare joins Political Misfits hosts Michelle Witte and John Kiriakou to discuss internal opposition within the GOP over Trump, Nancy Pelosi’s choice to not seek another role in the Democratic leadership, and whether the U.S. is truly interested in negotiations over Ukraine.Independent investigative journalist Christopher Helali discusses Turkey’s reclamation of its Ottoman legacy over association with the West, how the newest grain deal could prove Ankara’s role as peacebrokers, U.S. relations with Turkey, and the rising threat of war in the Aegean.Author, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and former Washington Post bureau chief Jon Jeter discusses what happened to FTX, how its collapse reflects the state of the larger U.S. economy, the inflation crisis, and the chances of a rail strike in the U.S. Labor, community and anti-war activist Gloria La Riva discusses a new report by the U.S. Senate on the mistreatment of women in an ICE detention center,, her eyewitness account of a hunger strike in a women’s detention center in Louisiana, and U.S. intervention in Latin America and its effect on the migration crisis. The Misfits also discuss Kari Lake’s refusal to concede in the Arizona governor’s race, the GOP’s failed attempt to use anti-LGBTQ panic to deliver an electoral mandate, and the shooting of U.S. border agents off the coast of Puerto Rico.