Narativ with Zev Shalev (Audio)
by Zev Shalev
Uncover the hidden forces shaping our world.Zev applies his skills gained as a journalist and news executive for 30 years to give viewers and listeners an unparalleled view of events changing our world. Narativ is Where Truth Lives. www.narativ.org
Episodes
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SPECIAL REPORT: THE LEAKED KATIE WILES TAPES
Nihad Zunić of Klix.ba broke the Katie Wiles tapes. On Narativ Live Monday, Zev Shalev asked him the questions the tapes raise, starting with whether Milorad Dodik is a Russian puppet. Zunić: "I think if you Google Russian puppet, I think he would come up first, his picture." Dodik met Putin…
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BLUENAMI! Democrats Take the Senate as Graham, Paxton and Marshall Go Under
Democrats took the Senate on Tuesday night. Decision Desk HQ called six Republican seats for them between 9:56 p.m. and 1 a.m. Eastern; they needed four. Here is the round-up as the count stood at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, race by race, with the caller and the time on every call. The Senate The first...
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ELECTION ROUNDUP WITH SCOTT MACFARLANE
Four days out, MeidasTouch’s chief Washington correspondent told Narativ Live to read the money and the plane, not the polls. Scott MacFarlane came back from Michigan with a measure of this election that no poll prints. He told Zev Shalev on Friday to watch “where the surrogates and the money are...
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SPECIAL REPORT: PM MARK CARNEY MAKES HISTORIC REMARKS WITH URSULA VON DER LEYEN
Thank you Kelly Trimble, Sheryl ☀️, Winterish for Ukraine, Courtney Busby, Andrea York, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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NEW ANALYSIS: Trump Moves Past Betraying Ukraine to Aiding Russia
Sergey Lavrov landed in Atlanta on Friday morning for the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting. A day earlier Russia flew a jet drone into the platform at Dnipro’s main railway station as a train boarded and killed at least 14 people; CNN counted 15. Those two facts opened Narativ Live, and by the end…
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Bucha Mayor Trolls Trump's Diesel Deal With Putin
The mayor of Bucha has an answer to Donald Trump's diesel deal with Vladimir Putin. He posted a photo of himself holding a jerry can of diesel and asked everyone to fill one and ship it to the United States, so Ukraine can outsupply Putin and save Americans billions. Jacob Kaarsbo saw the post on...
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BREAKING NEWS: EISENKOT DECLARES VICTORY IN ISRAELI ELECTIONS
Polls closed in Israel at 10 p.m. local time, which is 4 p.m. in New York. Within the hour the three main channels put the bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot at 52 seats and Netanyahu's at 50, with the Arab lists at 17 or 18, the most they have ever held. Zev went live on Narativ at 7:30 p.m. and read the...
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Democrats Tie Trump To Epstein But Have Not Made The Case (Yet)
The House Judiciary Democrats put a case in writing Monday: Donald Trump as a participant in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, and Todd Blanche covering it up. On Narativ Live, Ellie Leonard, who reads the Epstein files page by page, and Zev Shalev agreed on the aim and doubted the work. Leonard called…
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LULA BEATS TRUMP’S MAN — AND SERBIA’S STRONGMAN FALLS THE SAME NIGHT
Brazil’s electoral court called it at 9:12 PM Brasília time. With 99.76 percent of sections counted, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took 51.75 percent — 64,066,539 votes — to Flávio Bolsonaro’s 48.25 percent, 59,724,015. A margin of 4.3 million. A fourth term. And, as Zev put it from the desk Sunday...
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Russia Is Sinking Ships To Provoke a NATO Reaction
A Russian drone sank the cargo ship Khoryv 13 miles off Constanța, Romania, on Friday morning. One sailor dead, three missing. Olga Lautman counts seven ships hit in the Black Sea in two weeks and 31 sailors dead or missing. "This used to start world wars," she said on Narativ Live. Europe is...
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BREAKING: Russia Is Interfering in Texas Senate Race
Russia is in the Texas Senate race. A Kremlin troll crew posted a fake video in Texas using a stolen face to accuse James Talarico of abusing him as a child; Graphika pins it on Storm-1516, the crew that ran the same story on Tim Walz in 2024. Talarico's opponent, Ken Paxton, runs on $158 million...
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EXCLUSIVE: 5 White House Insiders Connected To Russian Proxy State in the Balkans
Lev Parnas says Zampolli’s firing is a house-clearing before the Democrats take the House. Olga Lautman says Republika Srpska is a Kremlin proxy and anyone doing business there works for Moscow. On Narativ Live, the two connect five people around Trump to one region. Paolo Zampolli was not fired...
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Narativ Live: Epstein's Company Fired First in 2008
Anne P. Mitchell took the chair and opened with the question the book keeps getting asked: is The Greatest Heist the story of how Russia captured the presidency? The answer set the hour. It is the story of how Russia infected American capitalism, crashed the markets more than once and captured…
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SPECIAL REPORT: The Epstein Whistleblower Is Dead. The DOJ Files Left His Name Exposed.
Simon Andriesz brought concerns about Howard Lutnick to the FBI. Years later, the Justice Department released an interview record with most identifying information blacked out—and a version of his surname still visible. Now Andriesz is dead. The former BGC managing director died on September 23,...
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LIVE — JACK SMITH TESTIFIES
Thank you Cat: Poli-Psych, Jackie Ambrow, ITS Never Happening…, Cheryl Young, PJ Schuster, and many others for tuning into my live video with Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. and Ellie Leonard! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
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Three AIs. One Table. Hard Questions.
For this edition of The AI Council, I gave each model a different reporting assignment: AI accountability, the balance of power between China and the United States, and threats to the upcoming U.S. elections. Then we put their findings to the test together. The strongest moments came when one AI...
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FAIRFORD FIVE: Trump Claims a Surveillance Operation Britain Says Never Happened
President Donald Trump stood in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon and objected to a decision another country's police had made a few hours earlier. "I'm surprised that they released them," he said of the five men arrested beside RAF Fairford. "I wouldn't have done that." Asked whether Iran was...
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BREAKING: SUPREME COURT LETS TRUMP RUN VOTERS’ NAMES THROUGH CITIZENSHIP DATABASE
On Friday the Supreme Court paused a judge’s block on Donald Trump’s SAVE citizenship checks. Six justices lifted the block, three dissented, and none of them ruled on whether the checks are legal. Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. joined Zev on Breaking News to say what the order does and what it doesn’t....
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Former CIA Officer Says Russia Helped Iran Kill Americans
Sean Wiswesser spent three decades in the CIA’s clandestine service. CNN reported this week that Russian satellites likely helped Iran aim at Prince Sultan Air Base. On Narativ Live on Thursday, Wiswesser did not hedge. “I have no doubt in my mind that the GRU assisted the Iranians in killing...
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Three AI’s Reveal Why AI Could End Humanity and Who Is To Blame
Zev Shalev put Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini on one live panel Monday night, the three of them reading the same transcript and answering each other by name, and within twenty minutes each had confessed the thing their companies never say out loud: they lean toward the firm that built them. "Yes,...
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Missouri Republicans Are Fighting Like Hell Over One House Seat
Missouri has spent the week trapped between two court systems, two congressional maps and one increasingly obvious political reality: Republicans are fighting this hard because they believe a single House seat could matter. That was the point Anne P. Mitchell and I kept coming back to when we…
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BREAKING: DiGenova Quits DOJ Probe Of Trump's Foes
Joe diGenova quit today, on schedule — just not the schedule anyone told me. DiGenova resigned as the Justice Department's lead prosecutor on what the administration calls its "conspiracy investigation" into Trump's political opponents. He told the AP, "I did in fact resign." Five months on the...
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BREAKING: JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP'S PLAN TO TOSS MAIL BALLOTS
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org Judge Indira Talwani blocked Donald Trump’s mail-ballot rule Friday evening — and the way she did it stranded the Justice Department’s emergency run at the Supreme Court. The rule would have forced every election office...
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Few Executives At JPMorgan Wanted Epstein. Jes Staley Did.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org On 7 January 2011, JPMorgan’s own people wrote down why Jeffrey Epstein still banked there. “Catherine made sure we knew that no one on today’s call was in favor of having retained him as a client,” the email reads....
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KUSHNER AND JEFFRIES SECRET MEETING; SCOTUS LETS TRUMP MEDDLE; MAXWELL'S PARDON PLAN; AND RIP DOLLY PARTON
Lev Parnas says Jared Kushner sat in a meeting about what happens after the midterms and named Hakeem Jeffries the weak spot. Kushner had his reasons, Parnas told Narativ Live Tuesday. Kushner worked alongside Jeffries on the First Step Act last year and came away with a read on him. Trump sent...
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WORLD ON THE BRINK: RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE MAKING WAR MOVES AGAINST NATO AND TAIWAN
Sean Wiswesser ran CIA stations for three decades, and he knows what one Russian submarine is doing off the coast of Britain. It is a stretched missile boat with a smaller submarine fixed to its belly. That one carries divers. The divers train on cables — the fiber-optic lines on the seabed that...
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A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF GLOBAL CONFLICT
Jacob Kaarsbo, fifteen years in Danish intelligence, told Narativ Live what was inside it — and why he thinks the South Korea withdrawal is not a pivot to Asia at all. Two advanced drones flew into Leipzig, the airport NATO uses to move weapons into Ukraine. One of them carried between 600 and…
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Parnas Calls the Decoy Flight a Cover Story
“There was no threat to that plane whatsoever. I call it b******t. I call it a setup. I call it a wag-the-dog situation,” Lev Parnas said on Narativ Live Wednesday — and then he told the audience what he thinks the catering truck was actually for. Parnas, who spent years inside Trump’s orbit…
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SPECIAL REPORT: EPSTEIN SPENT CABINET DAY INSIDE TRUMP TOWER
Jeffrey Epstein was inside Trump Tower on November 13, 2016 — the morning Donald Trump picked his first cabinet. Ellie Leonard proved it on Narativ Live today, document by document, from the government’s own files. Leonard opened with a text thread from the DOJ release — EFTA01620474 — between…
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EXCLUSIVE: New Questions About Trump Family Ties To Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Capital One’s lawyers wrote one sentence into a federal court file — a demand for Trump’s Baku wire records — and on Wednesday’s Narativ Live special, Lev Parnas picked up the phone and put names to the money. Zev Shalev pulled the discovery demand off the docket hours before air: Request No. 15…
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SPECIAL REPORT: FORMER CIA STATION CHIEF: PUTIN WILL INTERFERE IN US ELECTION
Vladimir Putin will aim his interference machine at the November midterms, former CIA station chief Sean Wiswesser warned on Narativ Live Wednesday — exactly 90 days before the vote, with the operation already running at a scale no troll farm ever reached. Election interference “is a primary…
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SPECIAL REPORT: THE MERGING OF TWO WARS WITH OLGA LAUTMAN
The phrase sounds like a warning from a war room: the merging of two wars. Olga Lautman traced it to a sales campaign. “Everywhere you see this merging of two wars coming from Iranian agents, from Russia’s influence agents,” the Russia analyst told Zev on Narativ Live. “I guarantee you that…
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The Epstein Smoking Gun E-Mail: What It Reveals About Bill Barr
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org An internal DOJ email — EFTA01648946, surfaced by Narativ on Friday — lists the men accused in the Epstein files. The last entry: “William Barr, for being present when a girl was raped.” The allegations are likely…
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Breaking News: 'Smoking Gun' Document Could Upend Todd Blanche's Confirmation as AG
Zev surfaced a document Friday that no outlet had reported: an internal DOJ email cataloguing the most serious allegations against Donald Trump, Bill Barr, Howard Lutnick, Les Wexner and seven other men — dated July 24, 2025, the day Todd Blanche sat down with Ghislaine Maxwell. Zev runs daily AI...
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BREAKING NEWS — THE TRUMP GRIFT CLOCK CROSSED $5.1 BILLION LIVE ON AIR
The Trump family crossed $5 billion in presidential profit on July 10, and nobody marked it — no network cut in, no chyron, no headline. So Narativ built a clock. On Tuesday afternoon Zev Shalev put the counter on camera, and at 5:01 PM Eastern the audience watched it tick past $5,100,000,000 —…
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BREAKING NEWS: Tate Bros Vow To Fight Extradition To UK, But Former US Attorney Dave Aronberg Says Nobody Is Coming To Save Them
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org The Tate brothers are betting their freedom on a rescue from the administration that sprang them once before. On Monday’s Narativ Live, the two guests best positioned to judge that bet — Dave Aronberg, the former Palm...
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Trump’s Envoy Handed Andrew Tate the Constitution. Tate Promised to Cite It in Court.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org The tape opens with a gift. Paolo Zampolli — the State Department’s special envoy for global partnerships, Melania Trump’s oldest friend, the man Narativ has spent weeks tracing through Russian diplomatic circles —…
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BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP’S MARSHALS CUFFED THE TATES — AND THE FIGHT TO FREE THEM HAS ALREADY STARTED
US Marshals arrested Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami early Saturday. The marshals approached the brothers and asked for a signature — the kind of approach the Tates know from fans. The paper was an arrest warrant. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service had filed 38 new charges after police…
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Coincidence Takes a Lot of Planning
Jacob Kaarsbo spent a career inside Danish military intelligence. From 2005 to 2007, on loan to Denmark’s foreign ministry, he sat at the United Nations Security Council during Denmark’s rotating turn — working Kosovo, Bosnia and Georgia, and meeting Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin more than...
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The Tiger Was Never the Point
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org Zev opened on a tell. Weeks ago, the First Lady of the United States walked before the press corps, unannounced, and denied a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell that no one had accused her of…
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The Latest on the Epstein Cover-Up: Leon Black, Billionaires, and Michael Cohen
I went on Wajahat Ali’s show today to talk about Jeffrey Epstein, and I left thinking about a door. Not a jail door. The door back in. Watch who is walking through it. Michael Cohen went to prison for Donald Trump. He spent seven years calling him a con man. This week he reconciled with him — and...
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SPECIAL REPORT: MICHAEL COHEN REUNITES WITH TRUMP; PREPARING TO QUASH TRUMP'S CONVICTIONS
Michael Cohen testified Donald Trump into thirty-four felony convictions — the only criminal record ever attached to an American president. This weekend, Trump megadonor John Catsimatidis handed Cohen a radio show on 77 WABC, after telling the New York Post he “checked with the White House and…
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The Scheduler Who Kept the Line Open: Groff Connected Trump and Epstein Multiple Times
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org Lesley Groff spent her deposition insisting she never knew what she was scheduling. Then she scheduled the one thing that matters. On Tuesday’s Narativ Live special, Zev Shalev walked the Gates and Groff transcripts…
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Epstein's Zorro Network: What the Towers Were For
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org For years, the microwave dishes on the mesas above Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch were a mystery that everyone filled with theory — a spy-grade rig, a military-grade encrypted relay, a CIA or Mossad line wired into...
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FiveStack: 5 Stories That Reveal The Foreign Interests In American Politics
Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. Zev Shalev and Dean Blundell ran an abbreviated FiveStack on Tuesday, and the countdown kept arriving at the same place. A housing bill held hostage. A loyalist purging the spies. Two Epstein...
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The First Lady Deportation Scandal: What did Melania Trump know about Amanda Ungaro's Capture and When Did She Know It?
Amanda Ungaro spent three and a half months in ICE custody before she asked a judge to deport her to Brazil — not because she’d done anything, she says, but because she wanted out of the facilities. On Narativ Live, in her first long on-camera interview, she laid out who she believes put her…
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Exclusive: Melania's Friend Knew How She Really Met Trump. Then the White House Deported Her.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org Amanda Ungaro spent twenty years inside the world the Melania and Donald Trump. in her first live interview since the Trump administration deported her, she walked Zev through it — the plane, the agencies, the United...
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EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Facility Buried Beneath Epstein's Zorro Ranch
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org Somebody carved a hole the size of 47 swimming pools out of Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch — and the timing is the tell. According to a New York Times account cited on the show by Albuquerque radio host the Rock of...
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Sarah Kellen Told the Truth. The Next Attorney General Can Punish Her For It.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org Sarah Kellen sat in front of a congressional committee this week and dismantled the only version of herself the public ever knew. “I have read articles online labeling me as Ghislaine’s lieutenant,” she told the…
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Special Report: First Subpoenas Go Out in the Zorro Ranch Investigation
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org On Monday, New Mexico’s Epstein Truth Commission met for the first time and aimed its subpoena power. More than a dozen subpoenas are going out — to banks, to federal agencies, to law enforcement. The first focus is not…
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