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Why the Impeachment Trial Might Be the High Point of Donald Trump's Year
If and when Nancy Pelosi decides to sends the articles of impeachment to the Senate, the odds of a fair trial are slim to none. (Aw, who are we kidding? They're zero.) Trump will be acquitted. He will have a celebratory press conference and declare he has been exonerated, an end to the hoaxy…
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Have We Just Bumbled into Another War in the Middle East?
In the days since President Donald Trump ordered the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the presidents's spokespeople have taken to the airwaves to claim that we are safer with the Iranian who had the death of hundreds of Americans on his hands gone. But so far, things don't feel safer....
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Two Years Later, We Are In a Constitutional Crisis
For Two Years, Rosa Brooks had remained optimistic that despite all that was happening in the Trump administration over the past three years, a full-on constitutional crisis could be avoided. That changed with our episode on October 11, 2019. In this Best of Deep State Radio episode, we’ve pieced...
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Other than the End of the World and the Fall of Democracy, How Did You Like the Decade, Mrs. Lincoln?
In the last episode of not just 2019 but of the entire decade for Deep State Radio, we gather Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law, Stephen Walt of Harvard's Kennedy School, David Sanger of the New York Times and Ed Luce of the Financial Times to reflect on the ten years just past. We identify the big...
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Rep. Eric Swalwell: Don't Assume McConnell Holds the Winning Hand on the Shape of the Senate Trial
During this special 20 minute conversation with one of the standout stars of the impeachment process, California Congressman Eric Swalwell, he parries the latest jibes from the White House against Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Majority in the House by noting that 70 percent of the American…
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The Republican Centipede: It's a Horror Movie, but for Whom?
In the wake of impeachment, all eyes turn to the Senate. Will delaying handing over the articles of impeachment buy the Democrats any leverage? Will buying time be enough with new bad news for Trump breaking daily--such as the report it was Putin who told him about Ukraine interference in 2016 or...
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The Incredible Shrinking Special Relationship and What Comes Next
The US and the UK were the Batman and Robin of the Atlantic Alliance. Or was it the Holmes and Watson? The Lucy and Ethel? Well, whatever we were, we aren't that any more. It looks like Great Britain may be heading for a crack app and a future as only Meh Britain. And the US has been in retreat...
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What's Worse Than Donald Trump Winning Re-election?
What if the history books record that Donald Trump was third American president to be impeached, but the first of those to be re-elected? It's not far-fetched. In fact, many folks think it's likely. And it's what happens after that that has them scared. We discuss in a great roundtable with the...
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In Other News: Birds Spitting Burning Tar Onto the Wailing Masses Below
Remember national security? Remember defending the country against foreign attacks? Remember principles? Remember truth? Well, there sure are some people in our government who don't. Saudis attack Americans and the American president flacks for the Saudi Crown Prince. Russia attacks America and…
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A Conversation With Juliette Kayyem
Unfortunately, Juliette Kayyem’s tv appearances have made her a household name. Unfortunate only because of her area of expertise: tragedies — both natural and unnatural. We saw this again after the recent shooting at Naval Air Station Pennsacola. It was another moment where Juliette’s unique...
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How Will History View the Impeachment of Donald Trump?
On this special episode of Deep State Radio, coinciding with the official beginning of the House Judiciary Committee's Impeachment Hearings, we discuss the case against Trump in the context of history. Our guests are impeachment historian Frank Bowman of the University of Missouri and Ryan…
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There Are No Turning Points
With every flashing headline, every bright chyron claiming "breaking news" we expect our worlds are changing. In the current political atmosphere in the US those come fast and furious and leads pundits everywhere to regularly exclaim that we have reached a turning point. Well, we offer a…
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Meet Phil Ehr, the man who’ll beat Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz has got to go. The people of Florida’s 1st congressional district deserve better. Much better. But wanting him to go isn’t enough. Someone has to beat him. That someone is Phil Ehr. As part of UNREDACTED’s series of meeting the candidates who are taking on the worst of the worst...
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What's Better Than Listening to Your Crazy Relatives Talk Politics?
Psssst. Put down that drumstick. Push back from the Thanksgiving table. You don't need any more of that pumpkin pie. (And we say that as your friend.) We have something better for you to do, in keeping with the spirit of the day and much less likely to drive you crazy than your relatives. Join us...
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How Does a Nation Go Morally Bankrupt?: Gradually and then Suddenly.
The president of the United States, always searching for lower lows, has done profound damage to the military, our system of justice and America's standing in the world by pardoning war criminals from our own military. The risk at which this puts soldiers and civilians in the future is only…
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Meet Phil Arballo, the Man Who Will Beat Devin Nunes
Next in UNREDACTEDdsr’s series of introducing the challengers focused on the unfinished business of 2018, we spoke with Phil Arballo – the man who’ll unseat Devin Nunes. While Nunes has long been a household name for all the same reasons, Arballo is working every day to introduce himself to the...
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If You Think Post-Impeachment Hearings Depression is Bad, Wait Till You See What's Next
Adam Schiff masterfully conducted impeachment hearings that made the case that Donald Trump sought to bribe and extort the president of Ukraine, using his official office to advance personal interests. The case is a lock. Except if facts don't matter. Or if you don't care. And that's the GOP...
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While the World Burns: Impeachment Week Ahead and Other Trumpian Catastrophes
This week promises to be a dramatic on the impeachment front. Is Gordon Sondland going to tell the truth (for the first time) or lie (again)? What about Lt. Col Vindman, Fiona Hill and the others to come? Will there be a game changer? And how will the president throw himself into the mix? More...
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How to Start a Revolution - A Conversation with Lauren Duca
Love her or love her less, (UNREDACTED can’t get enough of her), Lauren Duca burst onto the public stage with a series of high-profile columns and media appearances. In December 2016 she wrote “Trump is Gaslighting America” — well ahead of the curve of the now common coverage of trump’s rampant...
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What if the Facts on Impeachment Just Don't Matter?
In Ohio today, one house of the legislature passed a law saying that if a student gets a science question wrong at school because it does not conform with his religious beliefs it can't be held against him. We have officially entered the post-fact world. That matters in the impeachment case…
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Through the Lens of Ukraine: The Escalating Dangers of Trump Foreign Policy
With all eyes on the impeachment hearings this week, we take a step back to reframe the discussion about Trump shake-down of the Ukrainian government in terms of the damage that was done to U.S. national security interests and those of our allies. Congress voted money to Ukraine not as a gift…
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Let's Not Screw Up This Impeachment Thing, OK?
Next week public hearings on impeachment will begin. Democrats, led by Rep. Adam Schiff, will make the case that Donald Trump sought to bribe a foreign official, one of the few high crimes and misdemeanors specified in the Constitution's article on impeachment. Republicans will argue he did not…
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It Can Happen Here: As Tyranny Looms and Becomes More Likely Daily
Look around. Count the good and great political leaders in the world today. That didn't take long did it? Why not? What has happened? Where have all the leaders gone? Is that a sign of progress or decline? And where does it lead? To messy, ineffective governments--mere cattywampusness--or to...
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The Zebra Problem and Russiagate as the Original Sin of the Trump Administration
As one of our guests on this week's episode, Max Bergmann of the Center for American Progress where he directs its Moscow Project looking into all things Trump-Russia pointed out, the Trump Administration presents the so-called "Zebra Problem." Zebra's stripes might not appear great camouflage...
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Less Than Zero: A Look at the President’s Budget…and into His Mind
For a man who’s word means nothing and who never met a lie he didn’t like, it is hard to imagine how Donald Trump could produce something even more meaningless than the stream-of-consciousness Twitterized nonsense he offers up daily. But there is one thing that qualifies and that is the…
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2019: The Year in Review, Part I--"War: What is it Good For?"
As we have learned, these days years seem much longer than they used to. So, as a special service to Deep State nation, your favorite podsters are providing you with all of 2019 in two compact 45 minute episodes. The first looks at what is going to happen internationally in the year ahead. And...
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1-on-1 with Norman Ornstein: America's First Post-Midterm Election Take
Average Americans will have to wait until the results are in to understand America's verdict in next Tuesday's midterm elections. But our Deep State nerds don't want to wait. So we've had a conversation with one of America's premier political observers, Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise...
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1-on-1 with David Sanger: It's Been Quite a Week, Let's Have a Drink...OK, Let's Have a Few...
Remember way back when we were concerned with how the White House was planning on pulling out of yet another international agreement, this one among the very few real nuclear arms control agreements that exist? That was Monday. Since then we have had news the president has had his cellphone…
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