All Episodes

It’s the Theology, Stupid (with Doug Sosnik)

Gravity of the Situation (with Rahm Emanuel)

TACO Tuesday (with Morris Katz)

Mad King Politics (with David Plouffe)

The Luck of the Midterms (with Amy Walter)

On the Road (with Jonathan Martin)

Midterm Crossfire (with Mark McKinnon and Billy Begala)

SOTU Special

Map-a-Lago (with Dave Wasserman)

A Bigger Bowl (with Lis Smith)

Reading the Map (with Jonathan Martin)

Intentional Mayhem (with John Avlon)

The Ugliest American

Flood the Zone, Lose the Plot (with Mark McKinnon)

Iraqozuela (with Ron Brownstein)

New Year's Special: On with Kara Swisher

End of Year Show

The Canary in the Keystone Mine (with Bob Shrum)

Wag the Dog

Irrational exuberance (with Steve Israel)

Trumplated Age (with Astead Herndon)

Post-Election Hack-a-Thon (with Jonathan Martin)

The Wreckening (with Paul Begala)

No Sleep Till City Hall (with Howard Wolfson)

Ceasefire Abroad, Crossfire at Home (with Rahm Emanuel)

Orbánized Crime

From Watergate to Water-Weight (with Charlie Sykes)

Unindefinetly (with Kasie Hunt)

I’m right, you’re wrong (with Jonathan Martin)

Uninviting Mr. Rogers (with Jen Psaki)

Soldiers Field (with Rahm Emanuel)

Strongmen, Weak Deals (with Ron Brownstein)

Monumental Power Grab (with Paul Begala)

Drawn Out Democracy (with Adam Kinzinger)

From Glasgow With Grift (with Lis Smith)

Red Hats and Red Flags (with Robert Costa)

List and Found (with Frank Lavin)

A Big, Beautiful Mess (with Josh Dawsey)

Burgers, Bills & Billionaires

Diplomacy & Dem Primaries (with Senator Elissa Slotkin and Fmr. Amb. Patrick Gaspard)

Chain Reactionaries (with Maggie Haberman)

Executive Disorder (with Marc Short)

X Marks the Feud (with Jonathan Martin)

Musk, Mayors, and Moore (with Lis Smith)

Vladdy Issues

Bivalves & Bipartisanship (with JMart)

Planes, Popes & PR (with Rahm Emanuel)

Dolls, Tariffs & Polls

The 100th Day Special

Maximum Don (with Alex Isenstadt & Doug Heye)

Veritas v. Vendetta (with Jonathan Martin and Robert Costa)

Polls, Trolls, and Dinner Rolls (with John Anzalone)

Calling a Wolf a Wolf (with Jeff Greenfield)

End to End Incompetence (with Mallory McMorrow)

Groundwork & Gruntwork (with Steve Israel)

The Recession Will Be Televised (with Doug Sosnik)

Blitzkrieg of Bullsh*t

Russian Roulette (with Sarah Longwell & Patrick Gaspard)

Vladdy Knows Best (with Rahm Emanuel)

Make America Gulf Again (with Jonathan Martin)

Elon and Order (with Kaitlan Collins)

The Death of Norms (with Robert Costa)

A Tale of Two Speeches

Trending Right (with Jonathan Martin)

Hackzpah (with Jonathan Alter)

End of Year Hack Fest

The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (with John Anzalone)

Pardon Politics (with Chris Christie)

Hacksgiving Minnesode (Dontcha Know)

The New Non-Normal (with Jonathan Martin)

Picking Through the Rubble

Election Post-Mortem

Landing the Plane

Girls v. Boys

Crazier & Crazier

The Sprint

Margin of Effort (with Ron Brownstein)

Murder Genes & Media Gymnastics (with Mike Bender)

VP Debate

Poller Coaster (with Alyssa Farah Griffin)

It’s the Economy, Stupid (with James Carville)

Debate Post Mortem

Debate Preview

Fuster Cluck

Mainstream v. Extreme

Overtime Oration

The Rule of Three

Ope There It Is (with John Anzalone)

The Veepstakes (with Jonathan Martin and Bob Costa)

Kamalat (with John Heilemann)

The Fight (with Tim Alberta)

Press Panic (with Bill Kristol)

Tick Tock, Tick Tock (with Jonathan Martin)

The Political Fairway (with David Plouffe)

The Trap (with David Plouffe)

Naked On A Rock (with Jonathan Freedland)

Double Haters (with Sarah Longwell)

The Guilties (with Mark McKinnon & Steve Israel)

The Angry Trump (with Chris Christie)

Wetting the Bed (with Howard Wolfson)

W.T.F., Man? (With John Heilemann)

Floors & Ceilings (with Doug Sosnik)

Tired, Sleepy & Gassy (with Paul Begala)

Bubbling Over (with Scott Jennings)

Bad Options (with Whit Ayers and Jonathan Martin)

Mixed Messages (with Sasha Issenberg)

Gas & Eggs (with John Heilemann)

Bizarroland (with Bakari Sellers)

Nostalgia for Normalcy (with Maggie Haberman)

Dingbats with Chainsaws (with Amy Walter)

Sore Bruiser (with Jen Psaki and Scott Jennings)

Politicianing (with Sarah Longwell)

Main Character Energy (with Steve Israel)

Riding the Dragon (with Kasie Hunt)

Cynicism on Steroids (with Jonathan Martin)

Under His Skin

It’s Not Over…?

The Shiniest Silver Medal

Post Debate Hacknalysis (Another One!)

The Trumpire Strikes Back (with Kristen Soltis Anderson)

Dictator for a Day

Post Debate Hacknalysis

Eyes on Iowa (with Adam Nagourney)

Hacksgiving

The Circus Show (with Mark McKinnon and John Heilemann)

Ship Show

Chaos, Vendettas & Drama (with Jonathan Martin)

Congressional Clown Show (with Scott Jennings)

Riding Indictments (with John Harwood)

A Loser’s Lament (with Amy Walter)

The Fight Within The Fight (with Jonathan Martin)

Post Debate Hacknalysis

The Dancing Bear Theory (with Sarah Longwell)

Pony Faced Cowboys (with Bill Kristol)

Talk A Little Louder (with Jeff Zeleny)

The MAGA Hymn Book (with Scott Jennings)

Haley’s Comet

May The Fourth Indictment Be With You

Costa La Vista (with Robert Costa)

Indict-Me-Not (with Dana Bash)

Show Me Your Strategy (with Heidi Heitkamp)

Mailbag Spectacular K Mart Special

To Be Determined (with James Carville & Mark McKinnon)

Golf Shirts, Pants, and Top Secret Documents (with Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin)

The Typhoon from Trenton (with Doug Heye)

And They’re Off (with Jeff Zeleny)

Deal or No Deal (with Mark McKinnon)

Rocket Fuel… Or Not (with Paul Begala)

The Bear Minimum (with Joe Scarborough)

Aerogenous Events (with Sarah Longwell)

Fig Leaf or Full Monty (with Amy Walter)

Tuckered Out (with Jen Psaki)

Pudding Politics (with Jonathan Martin)

Out-Trumping Trump (with John Heilemann)

Stormy Tuesday (with Paul Begala)

Premature Indictment Excitement? (with Mark McKinnon)

Trump Trouble in River City: A Deep Dive Into The IA GOP Caucus (With David Kochel)

The Orange Caligula (with Charlie Sykes)

The Payback Playbook (with Maggie Haberman)

Woke Wars (with Amy Walter)

Three Dimensional Vulcan Chess (with Doug Heye)

Medicare, Medicare, Medicare (with Steve Israel)

State Of The SOTU

I’m Right, You’re Evil (with Mark Mellman)

No There There (with Bill Kristol)

Mud On Biden’s Tuxedo

C-SPAN’s Greatest Hits (with Dave Wasserman)

The First Annual Hacky Awards!

Palace Intrigue (with Doug Heye)

Run Off Run Up (with Mo Elleithee)

The Dust Has Settled (with Ron Brownstein)

The Crow Episode

Prepping for the Apocalypse from Story of the Week

The Whackadoodle Factor (with Jonathan Martin)

The Only Poll That Matters

Dire, Not Catastrophic (with Amy Walter)

Double Dive (with Jon Ralston & Greg Bluestein)

The Great Pageantry of Democracy

Values Vs. Issues (With Molly Murphy)

Introducing: It Was Said Season 2

Polls & Pols (with David Hill)

Culture Vultures (with Mo Elleithee)

Irrational Exuberance? (with Jon Favreau)

The Midterm Sprint

Bully Boy Tactics (with Mark Leibovich)

The Ferret Vs. The Boa Constrictor (with Maggie Haberman)

Where to Mar-a-LaGO From Here? (with Whit Ayres)

The Vengeance Tour

The Elephant in the Room (with Lis Smith)

Build Back Biden (with Paul Begala)

One More Item…

Precedent-Shattering

Prosecuting the Case (with Sarah Longwell)

Atomic Clock of Corruption (with Amanda Carpenter)

The Barr Tab (with John Heilemann)

Introducing The Powers That Be: Daily

California Scheming (with Dave Wasserman)

Swimming Against the Current (with Doug Sosnik)

“What Are We Doing?”

The MAGA Midterms?

Personality Politics (with Jonathan Martin & Alex Burns)

SCOTUS Leaks and Ohio Speaks

Mouse Trap: DeSantis vs. Disney (with Mark McKinnon)

Ping Pong Politics (with Whit Ayres)

Some Other Dude Did It (with Paul Begala)

Introducing Reflections of History with Jon Meacham

Gas & Groceries (with Steve Israel)

The Walkback of the Walkback

Chronicles of the Culture Wars (with Ron Brownstein)

Bad For Business (with Stephanie Cutter)

Margin of Error (with Mark Mellman)

State of the State of the Union

The State of the Union Is… (with Jon Favreau)

The RINO Rebellion? (with Amy Walter)

Legitimate Political Discourse

Eruption of Mt. Orange

Reset Report Card (with Jennifer Palmieri)

The Almighty vs The Alternative (with Jonathan Martin)

Joltin’ Joe Comes Out Swinging (with Addisu Demissie)

The Madman Behind The Curtain

Hacky Holidays, Mailbag Edition!

GOPuppets (with Steve Bullock)

20/24 Vision (with Bill Kristol)

Kitten Swipes and Variant Fights (with John Heilemann)

Inflation Nation (with Tony Fabrizio)

Process Over Substance (with Amy Walter)

Dems In Disarray?

Off To The Races (with Dave Wasserman)

All Roads Go Through Virginia

The Shot Clock Ticks

Here’s The Deal?

Where the Rubber Meets the Road (with John Anzalone)

A High-Wire Act (with Jonathan Martin)

A New Day For Newsom (with Dana Bash)

Can the Golden State Stay Blue? (with Peter Hamby)

The Short vs. Long Term (with Bill Kristol)

The Collapse of Afghanistan

Pugnacious Pols & Bipartisan Bills (with Paul Begala)

Mixed Messages (with Mark McKinnon)

U.S. House of Horrors (with Jackie Calmes)

Baseball Bats and Ghirardelli (with Steve Israel)

Texas Hold ‘Em (with Al Franken)

A Tale of Two Tracks (with Bill Kristol)

Rocky Road (with Stephanie Cutter)

Tyranny of the Minority (with Amy Walter)

Biden Takes the World Stage (with Howard Wolfson)

Infra-STUCK-ure (with Charlie Sykes)

Building Bridges (with Jonathan Martin)

Infrastructure Week? (with Rahm Emanuel)

Inconvenient Truths (with Barbara Comstock)

Weather Vanes & Freedom Fights (with Mark Mellman)

The Davos of Bipartisanship (with Karl Rove)

Welcome to Fate of Fact

America on the Move

Yoda and the Lessons of Power (with Susan Page)

The Ants Go Marching (with Mark McKinnon)

Infrastructuring (with Will Hurd)

Politics of the Possible (with Ron Brownstein)

Godzilla & The GOP (with Tony Fabrizio)

Shots In Arms & Checks In Pockets (with Claire McCaskill)

Voting Rights and Filibuster Fights (with Rahm Emanuel)

When CPACs Attack (with Scott Jennings)

Blanchin’ From Manchin (with Brad Woodhouse)

Impeachment: The Sequel (with Bill Kristol)

Introducing The Daily Punch

Greene Achers (with Amanda Carpenter)

Unity, Not Unanimity (with Heidi Heitkamp)

50+1 Fun

President Joe Biden

Pardon Me? (with Rahm Emanuel)

2020: Extra Innings (with John Heilemann)

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Hacky Holidays!

A Most Gracious Loser (with John Heilemann)

Kook D'Etat (with Jennifer Palmieri)

Bonjour, Biden Boom

My Cousin Rudy

A White House Held Hostage (with Dave Wasserman)

Trump Outrage Fatigue

President-Elect Joe Biden

Election Day Survival Guide

We're Rounding The Corner... To Election Day (with Mark McKinnon)

T-Minus One Week (with Rahm Emanuel)

Welcome to Fiasco Season 1 Bush v. Gore

The Final Debate: Mr. Mute vs. Sir Scranton

Polls Traumatic Stress Disorder (with John Heilemann)

Crazy Uncle POTUS (with Mark Salter)

Repeat After Me: It's Not 2016 (with Amy Walter)

Pencesplaining & Insect Baiting

A Cluster on Steroids (with Claire McCaskill)

Hacks on Call

Who Is "They" And Where Is This River? (with Charlie Sykes)

$h!t Show

Trump's Peaceful Transfer of Glower (with Rahm Emanuel)

SCOTUS Scramble (with Bob Shrum)

Lowering the Barr

The Mellman College of Polling Knowledge (with Mark Mellman)

Playing It Down With Bob

Coward in Chief (with Stephanie Cutter)

An Election So Nice, You’ll Want to Vote Twice! (With Mark McKinnon)

Post-Convention Politics & The Dark Force Farce

Introducing: It Was Said (w Jon Meacham)

Trump's Never Ending Reality Show (With Amanda Carpenter)

MAGA Mission: The RNC Begins

DNC Recap

The Conventions Commence (with Rahm Emanuel)

Executive Disorder (with Paul Begala)

It's Harris!

Where’s the Manual for Mayhem?

VP Jeebies (with John Heilemann)

Fort Bragg-adocious (with Donna Brazile)

Cognitive Distancing (with Mark McKinnon)

Chaos Culture and a Special Senate Deep-Dive (with Amy Walter)

Pandemic Panic: Trump’s COVID Crack-Up (with John Heilemann)

Tirades in Tulsa (with Robert Gibbs)

The President of Lawlessness and Disorder (with Alex Wagner)

Protests, Polling, and Provisions (with Phil Rosenthal)

A Nation Grieves and the President Seethes (with Robert Gibbs)

Masks and Gaffes (with John Heilemann)

POTUS’s Prescription: Hoaxes and Hydroxy (with Rahm Emanuel)

Prevailin’ or Just Wailin’? (with Robert Gibbs)

Ain't No Abe Lincoln (with Alex Wagner)

Trump Derails and Clorox Cocktails (with John Heilemann)

Open Mic Night and Gov Fights (with Mark McKinnon)

Trump's Total Authority (with Rahm Emanuel)

Trump’s Prescription: Mixed Messaging

Reality vs. A Reality Show

A Crisis of Confidence

“I’m dealing with a #$%*ing global crisis” (with John Heilemann)

A Debate, Uncharted Waters, and the Veepstakes Begin

The Bern Cools and Politics of a Pandemic

Super Tuesday Recap: And Then There Were Two

The Fact of the Matter is… Joe is Back!

BONUS: How To Vote for the Next President

Will the Democratic Party Bern?—On to South Carolina

Sin City Slugfest: Democrats Duke it Out

Live Free or Die: New Hampshire Votes

Quality (Out-of) Control: Iowa’s Meltdown and On to New Hampshire

Burisma is the New Benghazi and the Mad Dash to Iowa

Impeachy Not-So-Keen and the Iowa Countdown

Duking it Out in Des Moines and the Non-Handshake from Hell

Hacky New Year!—Iran, Iowa, & Impeachment

Merry Debate-mas with a Dash of Joe-mentum

Jolt’n Joe Biden and Impeachment Day Zero

26: No Kamalot! Harris Exits and Trump Churns

The Great Zzzzebate and Will Impeachment Ignite?

Bloomberg or Iceberg?—New Entrants and The Impeachment Show

Poltergeisty Polls, LJ Dinner Wrap-Up, and Bye-Bye Beto

al-Baghdadi Issues and Impressions in Iowa

The Pierre Affair and Senate Slippage? (with Cory Booker)

All's Fair in Love and Warren

Great and Unmatched... Wisdom (with John Heilemann)

Hacks Live from Austin with Karl Rove

Hard Rain from Ukraine and Boarding the Bus with Mayor Pete Buttigieg

More Debates and 10,000 Takes with Sen. Amy Klobuchar

Houston, We Have a Preview

Hats, Prattle, and a Primary Battle with Mark McKinnon

A Hack in Hog Heaven and Trump’s Tempestuous Trip

Mooch Ado About Something

Calling All Conspiracies and Let Biden Be Biden

Words, Guns, El Paso and Dayton with Rep. Steve Israel

Showdown in Motown

May the debate stage be ever in your favor, Sen. Michael Bennet joins the show

Trump's big trap and who ought to wrap

Warren's huge haul and Steyer's surprise with Jon Favreau

5: The post debate pollercoaster and the art of Beto-busting with Julián Castro

4: Recapping the first Democratic debates

3: Double-whammy in Miami: First Democratic debate preview

Trump purging pollsters, Dems ducking digital

1: Biden plays Hyde and go seek, Warren rising in Iowa

Introduction to Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy