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Omnishambles
by The Daily Beast
Do you read the news coming out of D.C. and wonder “How the hell did this happen?” If so, Omnishambles is for you. Join The Daily Beast’s D.C. Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich and Politics Editor Sam Stein every Monday as they try to make sense of the chaos in Washington, with a rotating cast of your favorite voices from The Beast. They’ll set you up for the week and share the interesting little nuggets that often get left on the cutting room floor.
Episodes
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A Washington Lobbyist Dishes on the Trump Swamp He Helped Create
This week, we discuss what it’s like operating as a Washington lobbyist in the Donald Trump era. Fortunately, we have a former Trump adviser and longtime Republican operative on the show to take us through the gory details, what it was like working for The Donald, and how President Trump changed...
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Why Liberals Should Want to Nuke The Filibuster
This week’s guest: Adam Jentleson, Public Affairs Director at Democracy Forward and former Deputy Chief of Staff to former Senator Harry Reid. This week we discuss the latest policy debates pulling the Democratic Party sharper to its left, how to separate the noise from the actual substance with...
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Trump Called Tom Brady for His Birthday to Joke that ‘Ivanka Chose Jared’
Today's guest is Jason Miller, a former top Trump campaign adviser, who, among other things, talks about the time when Donald Trump called one of his favorite athletes—New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady—to wish him a happy birthday and to give him a gentle ribbing.
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Here's Some Advice From a Former Trump White House Staffer
On this week’s episode of Omnishambles, host Jackie Kucinich welcomes The Daily Beast’s White House reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, and our very first guest from the upper ranks of Trumpworld: Marc Short, President Donald Trump's former legislative affairs director and a current Miller Center senior...
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Is This 'The Onion' Or Headlines in the Trump Era?
On this week’s episode of OMNISHAMBLES, host Sam Stein welcomes The Daily Beast’s tech reporter and "Extremely Online" expert Will Sommer and White House and Trumpworld reporter Asawin Suebsaeng to discuss an almost quaint topic: What is truth, even, in the era of Donald Trump? Will breaks down…
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Shutdown Trump Officials Coming to Work in Pajamas
On this week’s episode of Omnishambles, host Jackie Kucinich welcomes The Daily Beast’s national-security reporter Erin Banco, as well as White House and Trumpworld reporter Asawin Suebsaeng. Erin breaks down the latest Donald Trump-Russia bombshells that detonated over the president's snowed-in...
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Will Trump's Wall Be Invisible? Or Made of Clay?
On this week’s episode of Omnishambles, hosts Jackie Kucinich and Sam Stein welcome The Daily Beast’s national-security and immigration reporter Betsy Woodruff and White House and Trumpworld correspondent Asawin Suebsaeng, the latter of whom Sam and Jackie failed to keep locked in a broom closet...
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Giuliani's Quest to Confuse Us Into Submission
On this week’s episode of Omnishambles, host Sam Stein welcomes The Daily Beast’s White House and Trumpworld reporting duo Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng. The topic of outrage and fascination for this week is President Donald Trump’s lead attorney for the Russia probe, Rudy Giuliani, the...
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The Apprentice: 'Leader of the Free World’ Edition
Can anyone actually manage an administration run by Donald Trump? That’s just one of the questions tackled on the latest episode of OMNISHAMBLES, in which Sam Stein, Erin Banco and Asawin Suebsaeng break down another chaotic week in Washington. There were big staffing shakeups, Special Counsel...
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Who Is Trumpworld’s ‘Least Lovable Snitch’?
Co-host and Beast D.C. Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich is joined this week by White House correspondent Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer, The Beast’s senior bizarroworld reporter. The trio kicked off the show by discussing how President Donald Trump handles—or, more accurately, spectacularly fails…
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Does Trump Really Want The Border Wall?
President Trump is once again demanding cash to build his border wall. But does he really want it? Like, really? Immigration will dominate the conversation as Congress heads because into session for what promises to be one of the least lame, lame duck sessions in recent memory. The spark: a...
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Introducing Omnishambles
Do you read the news coming out of D.C. and wonder “How the hell did this happen?” If so, Omnishambles is for you. Join The Daily Beast’s D.C. Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich and Politics Editor Sam Stein every Monday as they try to make sense of the chaos in Washington, with a rotating cast of your...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Do you read the news coming out of D.C. and wonder “How the hell did this happen?” If so, Omnishambles is for you. Join The Daily Beast’s D.C. Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich and Politics Editor Sam Stein every Monday as they try to make sense of the chaos in Washington, with a rotating cast of your favorite voices from The Beast. They’ll set you up for the week and share the interesting little nuggets that often get left on the cutting room floor.
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Do you read the news coming out of D.C. and wonder “How the hell did this happen?” If so, Omnishambles is for you. Join The Daily Beast’s D.C. Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich and Politics Editor Sam Stein every Monday as they try to make sense of the chaos in Washington, with a rotating cast of your...
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