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Talking Feds — 520 episodes

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1

The Biggest Epstein Questions for Blanche and Trump

2

Trump's Economy: Inflation, Instability, and Influence

3

Adam Schiff is Ready to Battle Blanche

4

Slaughterhouse-Six

5

David Brooks on Trump, AI, and Fixing America

6

Kick Out Your Tired and Poor

7

Chris Murphy on Fighting Trump and Pursuing Happiness

8

Will the FBI Stand Up to Trump?

9

Molly Mashup: “Who’s Not Mad at Trump Right Now?”

10

Trump's Birthday Bummer

11

Inside the DOJ’s Downward Spiral

12

The Start of Trump’s Long Slide?

13

David Frum’s Unified Thesis of Trump’s Failings

14

Purges, Payoffs, and Paxton

15

Patrick Radden Keefe’s “London Falling” and Death in the Time of Oligarchs

16

Orange Slush (Special DOJ Episode)

17

How SCOTUS is Slanting the Midterms

18

Trump's "Systematic" Undermining of the Economy

19

Race to the Bottom

20

Redistricting Roulette

21

A Modern Reader's Guide to a Besieged Constitution

22

Democracy Demolition Derby

23

The Global Aftershocks of Trump’s Blunder in Iran

24

Molly Mashup: ‘Lots of Smoking Guns’

25

Kash Crash

26

Jersey’s New Governor Knows How to Take On a Don

27

Trump's "Absolute Fiasco"

28

The 'No Kings' Plan to Make Trump the Next Orbán

29

Carte Blanche and an Inside Strait

30

Bondi to Blanche and Bad to Worse

31

Bondi, Bombs, and Birthright

32

Will SCOTUS Blow Up Mail-In Voting?

33

Departure of Justice

34

How Trump Blew Up the World Order

35

Dire Strait

36

Josh Shapiro Wants the Ball

37

Hegseth: Unleashed and Unhinged

38

“Nobody Cancels Elections. They Just Rig Them."

39

A Man, No Plan, Iran

40

Stacey Abrams’s 10 Steps to Save Democracy—Or Lose It

41

Bombs and Bombast

42

Molly Mashup: The 411 on the Missing Epstein 302s

43

Tariffs Trumped

44

Josh Shapiro's Game Plan

45

Bad Bondi

46

Will the Supreme Court Betray the Constitution?

47

Live from Princeton: A Contrarian Quartet

48

Trump's Reign of Terror in the Civil Rights Division

49

Cracks in the ICE

50

The Legacy of the Subway Vigilante

51

"Are You F***ing Kidding Me?"

E
52

AG Keith Ellison on Justice for Renee Good, and Minnesota

53

Trauma and Terror in Minnesota

54

John Roberts: Umpire or Ultimate Decider?

55

Gasoline on the Fire

56

The Illegality of the Maduro Seizure Under Domestic and International Law

57

Inside City Hall

58

Corruption, Chaos, and a Crooked Peace Plan in Ukraine

59

Military Madness

60

Inside the White House Bubble

61

The [REDACTED] Files

62

Molly Mashup: "They're Not Doing 15 Dimensional Chess"

63

Dents in the Armor

64

Senator Mark Kelly: "It's a Complete S*** Show"

65

Indict, Strike, Repeat

66

Can a New Kind Of Liberalism Take Hold?

67

A Bad Dictator is Still a Dangerous One

68

Halligan, Bondi, and Other Turkeys

69

Lame but Lethal

70

Inside the DOJ’s Unravelling under Trump

71

The Dog That Hasn’t Barked

72

The Phrase that Could End Trump's National Guard Power Grab

73

Blue Blizzard

74

Presenting The Alabama Murders from Revisionist History

75

How Trump Demolished the DOJ

76

Democracy on ICE

77

A Legendary Congressman's Advice for Today's Democrats

78

The Costs of Chaos

79

Is No Kings a Turning Point? (Plus a baseball bonus on Ohtani!)

80

Bolton Shut

81

Getting Free Speech Right on College Campuses

82

Ceasefire and Crossfire

83

Return of the Wrecking-Ball Court

84

Shutdown Smackdown, Chi-Town Showdown

85

Trump's Prescription for Chaos and Poor Health

86

Comey Before the Storm

87

Molly Mashup: Trump, Tylenol, and Turmoil

88

Autocracy Live!

89

The Constitution Was Intended To Be Amended

90

A Darker Turn

91

Rep. Krishnamoorthi: “We Have To Stand Up”

92

Epstein Returns and the Courts Push Back

93

Senator Blumenthal Exposes the DOGE Boondoggle

94

Mob Boss in the White House

95

Pam Bondi’s DOJ: “Heartbreaking" and "Terrifying”

96

Bagging Bolton

97

J.B. Pritzker takes on the Bully-in-Chief

98

Checkpoint D.C.

99

E. Jean Carroll’s Knock-Out Punch

100

Department of Vengeance

101

2026 Election Interference Has Begun

102

Incriminating—Or Just Skeevy?

103

A Molly Mashup on the MAGA Mess

104

Justice Blanched

105

Justice Abandoned: Rachel Barkow on the Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration

106

Epstein, Emil, and Elmo’s Eventful Week

107

Fighting Trump’s Bills, Bombs, and Baloney

108

ICE Age

109

Happy Days Are Here Again

110

Supreme Court Roundup: Revenge of the Six

111

Iran’s Next Move

112

The Corrections

113

Cory Booker’s Long Stand

114

Trump at War

115

How Social Media Broke Democracy and Childhood

116

California Screamin'

117

Who Is Government, Really? with Michael Lewis

118

Caught in a Bad Bromance

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119

Nine Years of Warning America: A Conversation with Rick Wilson

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120

Taco Tuesday Every Day

121

Plane Hits House

E
122

"Fight Fiercely, Harvard!"

123

Donald Trump in the Crisis of Young Men

124

Art of the Self Deal

125

Will Abrego-Garcia Ever See the Light of Day Again: A Discussion with Sen. Chris Van Hollen

126

Third Term Threat

127

Bad Vibes at the High Court

128

Incursion Reversion

129

Winning Under the House Rules

130

Public Sentiment Is Everything

131

“Is Trump Strangling Democracy?” with Rep. Dan Goldman

132

CECOT Slingshot

133

Can Harvard Tough it Out?

134

The Madness of King Donald

135

Federal Health Oversight in the Age of RFK Jr

136

Fear & Loathing at DOJ

137

A New Abundance Agenda for the Democratic Party

138

Hegsethive Pride

139

Beware the Coming Republican Voting Rights Legislation

140

Capitulation Nation

141

Steven Pinker Knows Everything

142

ClusterChuck

143

The View From New Jersey… and Washington D.C.

144

A House Misguided

145

Trump’s Disastrous Assault on U.S Soft Power

146

"Anyone Unhappy With Elon?"

147

Jamie Raskin and the Constitutional Cavalry

148

Trump Breaks the World

149

What Will Happen to Consumers Under Trump?

150

The Politics of DOJ and the Law of DOGE

151

“Not Anything Any of Us Ever Expected To See in America”

152

THURSDAY NIGHT MASSACRE AT THE DOJ

153

Talking San Diego presents Chris Hayes With His #1 Bestselling Book, “The Sirens’ Call”

154

Jeff Toobin Talks Righteous and Corrupt Pardons

155

Too Many Musks on the Field

156

Signposts of Democratic Decline

157

DEFCONstitution

158

Executive Orders – What Can’t Trump Do?

159

Mayday at DOJ (Special Episode)

160

"F**k It: Release ‘em All"

161

“Friday Night Was the Danger Zone” with Fired Inspector General Mark Greenblatt

162

We Already Know a Lot About Volume Two of the Smith Report

163

A Cold Day in Hell

164

Trouble Ahead for Election Fight and Traditional Media

165

Convict in Chief

166

AI and Income Inequality

167

There’s No Vaccine Against Crazy (Special Episode on Healthcare)

168

A Blue Man in a Red State

169

Hold Steady States (Special Episode on State/Local Power)

170

Megalomania Mash

171

AlieNation (Special Episode on Immigration)

172

Pardons Here, There, and Everywhere

173

Tarrifying (Special Episode on Economics)

174

Rebutting the Insurrectionary Theory of the Second Amendment

175

Kash and Burn (Special Episode on National Security)

176

Freedom, Fascism, and Donald Trump

177

Kakistocracy (Look It Up)

178

The Real Reason Trump Won.

179

Why We Must Have A Detailed Report of the Trump Prosecutions

180

DOJ-Jacking (Special Episode on DOJ)

181

Sen. Chris Murphy on the Election and the End of Neoliberalism

182

Will the Supreme Court Stand Up to Trump?

183

The Gaetz of Hell

184

Rick Wilson Breaks It Down and Looks Ahead

185

Apocalypse: Now.

186

Legal, but Not Legitimate

187

Turning Never Trump

188

Margin of Fuhrer

189

The Speaker is In The House!

190

Margin of Terror

191

The Lawyer as Political Warrior (Talking Books with Bob Bauer)

192

Time to Panic?

193

Is Justice Ever Coming?

194

A Hurricane of Hate

195

A Second Look At The Jack Smith Brief

196

Liar Liar Pres for Hire

197

What Polls Get Wrong

198

Donald Declining

199

DOJ Insider with Preet Bharara

200

What’s that you say, Mr. Robinson?

201

“There Is No Republican Party” (recorded live with Judge Michael Luttig at the Texas Tribune Festival)

202

Talk about extreme!

203

Trailer: Introducing a New Series of 1-on-1 Conversations from Talking Feds

204

Kamala for the Prosecution (Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

205

Next Question

206

300th Episode DNC Extravaganza!

207

DNC TLC

208

Walzing Kamala

209

Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies

210

The Kamala Cavalry

211

“You did it, Joe!”

212

Has Trump Evaded All Accountability?

213

Bedlam in Demland

214

Supreme S*#tStorm

215

D is for Disaster

216

Blueprint Blues

217

Trumping the Shark

218

Verdict Aversion

219

DOJ Insider: DOJ, DJT, TBD

220

A Man of Many Convictions

221

America Upside Down

222

Cohen the Destroyer? From Inside the Courtroom IV

223

Eye of the Storm: From Inside the Courtroom III

224

Hope & Chaos

225

Immunity Impunity

226

In the (Court)Room Where it Happens

227

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury...

228

Jury Selection, Abortion Rejection, Cannon Deflection

229

Court and Snark

230

Democracy saved! Trump in exile! (April 1 edition)

231

Trump Trials University

232

Once More With Feeling (Terrified)

233

A Country for Old Men

234

99 Problems But a Mitch Ain’t One

235

Alabama Goddam

236

Trump Change

237

A Tale of Two Cases

238

Accountability Era

239

Sore Winner, Big Loser

240

Live Bad and Profit

241

"Fraud on me!"

242

Rocky (Mountain) High Court

243

Lonelyville, USA

244

The Fentanyl Crisis Rages On

245

Investigation into an Inquiry into an Impeachment

246

Staring into the Abysses

247

No Immunity For Fraudsters!

248

DOJ insider: Trying Trump

249

Gag!

250

It's (Half) the Economy, Genius!

251

Leaning Tower of Trumps

252

From Russia with kompromat

253

Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Political Bipartisanship (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

254

Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Law Enforcement (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

255

Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump

256

Remembering Dianne Feinstein

257

Oyez, Oyez, Oy Vey

258

Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Journalism (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

259

Hunter Gatherers

260

Remove, Remand, Repeat

261

Meadows’ Lark

262

Can Ukraine Prevail?

263

(Trump’s) Trials & (Our) Tribulations

264

A Theory of Everything: A Deep Dive Into the Fulton County Indictment

265

An Ordinary Defendant And A Special Counsel

266

Defending Donald

267

A Deep Dive into the 1/6 Indictment

268

"Any Day Now"

269

DOJ Quarterly Review: On Target

270

Et tu, Jared?

271

Nauta Chance

272

Affirmative Retraction

273

Bedminster Gabby

274

It’s Arraigning Presidents

275

Signed, Unsealed, Delivered

276

Down to the Wire

277

Contempt of Court

278

Default, Defraud, DeSantis

279

Top Gun Trial Lawyers and Their Secrets

280

Loneliness in America

281

Et tu, Mike Pence?

282

DOJ Insider: Indictments, Agents, Friends with Benefits

283

It's the Economy, Genius!

284

Forecast Update: Stormy and Arraign-y

285

💥Boom💥

286

Crime Fraud Expected

287

Bragging Rights & Ukraine Slights

288

National Forecast: Stormy

289

MAGA, May I?

290

Zelensky Zugzwang

291

Jack Attack & Pence Defense

292

Joe Jitsu

293

Ne Plus Ultra: Rachel Maddow on American Fascism 1940s to Today

294

Under Cover of Law

295

Groundhog Day in Washington

296

DOJ Confidential

297

Special (Counsel) Effects

298

Speaker Squeaker

299

Special Year-End Episode: How Will We Go Down in History?

300

The Very Model of a Modern Mayor

301

Referral Madness

302

Supreme Contortions

303

Oath Keepers and House Speakers

304

Public Education in Crisis

305

And Now This Special (Counsel) Announcement

306

Red Herring

307

Red Alert

308

Halloween Edition: Margin of Terror

309

Fortnight Forecast

310

Hear! Hear!

311

A MAGA Midterm?

312

Nightmare on First Street: SCOTUS Returns (Live from the Texas Tribune Festival)

313

DOJ Under the Microscope (Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

314

Utter (Can)nonsense

315

Judge Loose Cannon

316

Troll of the Nation

317

[REDACTED]

318

The Nation’s Hidden Killer

319

Garland Crosses The Rubicon

320

Deleted texts, DOJ inspects, Kansas rejects

321

Post-Roe America: Prosecutorial Discretion Advised

322

The Horror! The Horror!

323

Blood and Gasoline

324

Patsy Baloney and Every Crime Imaginable

325

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (and Amy Coney Barrett)

326

This is (Trump’s) America

327

“Hang Mike Pence!”

328

A Republic, If We Can Keep It

329

At History’s Edge

330

Guns and Butter

331

Mapping Violence

332

DOJ: Here, There, and Everywhere

333

Alito’s Torpedo

334

Russia, Through A Glass Darkly

335

Ruthless Ambition Unmasked

336

Refer, Regulate, Restrict

337

Cooperation and Covert Operations

338

Current Events: Turning of the Tides?

339

Critical Republican Theory

340

Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington

341

(Economic) Life During Wartime

342

Taking Civil Rights Seriously

343

Darkest Hour 2: Midnight in Kyiv

344

Rule of Law, Rule of Outlaws

345

Facts, Feints, and the Fifth

346

DOJ: Inside the Insurrection Investigation

347

A Tale of Two Tyrants

348

Exit, Stage Center-Left

349

Slidin’ Biden and Hobbled Donald

350

Talking Filibuster

351

Happy Anniversary. I want a divorce.

352

Democratic Party 2022: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

353

Republican Party 2022: Party Over?

354

A Very Variant Christmas

355

Economics 2021: Inflation Frustration

356

Supreme Court: Leaving Us No Choice

357

Making Ends Meat: Farmers Get Raw Deal

358

Pelosi Talks, Rittenhouse Walks, Meadows Balks

359

From the White House to the Big House to Rittenhouse

360

DOJ: Turning Up the Heat

361

Listener Q&A with Harry Litman

362

G20-20 Vision: Bringing the Good China to the Table

363

Utter Contempt: Breaking Bannon

364

Clark, Bannon and Trump: Lawsuit or Jumpsuit?

365

National Security: Beyond the Fringe

366

Courting Disaster

367

Build Back Better Bill: Biden on the Brink

368

Totalled Recall: Masks, Mandates and Manchin

369

9/11, Texas, Covid… And how was your week?

370

Texas Two Step (Backwards)

371

National Security Edition: “No Boots On the Ground to Booed On the Grounds”

372

Voting Rights: You Beto Your Life

373

Closing the Barn Door on the Stable Genius

374

DOJ: Garland Here for the Right Reasons?

375

I See Your Trillion and Raise You Climate Change

376

Bear Trap in the Bedroom: Select Committee, Infrastructure and Buried Tips

377

Foreign Affairs: Putin on the Blitz

378

S/Elect: Rights and Riots

379

The Supreme Court: Baby, Baby, Where Did Our Left Go?

380

Deal or No Deal

381

We Wish to Welcome You to Manchinland

382

Leak House

383

Oh, DeJoy! Gaetz of Hell!

384

White House Counsel: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

385

Commission Impossible?

386

Cheney of Command Disrupted

387

Talking Counter-Terrorism: Knock and Talk

388

Talking DOJ: 100 Days of Solid’Tude

389

Chauvin Verdict: You Do the (After) Math

390

Foreign Policy: "This Year We No %$&* Suck"

391

Gun Safety: Giving it a Real Shot

392

Chauvin-ism and the National Schism

393

The New New Deal?

394

Filibuster or Bust

395

Life begins at 50 (Days)

396

Anatomy of a Prosecution

397

The FBI: The Weather(ed) Bureau

398

Republicans On The Fence

399

Base Instincts

400

Allies Allies All Come Free

401

Won’t Get Fooled Again

402

Transition, Transition!

403

Impeaches and Crime

404

News Edition; New Sedition

405

Burning Down the House

406

The Very Model of a Modern Solicitor General

407

Georgia on my Mind

408

T-30... and Counting

409

I Never Promised you a Rose Garden Pardon

410

Purple Reign

411

National Security: 50 Days of Gray

412

Goodbye Rudy Tuesday

413

Biden Our Time

414

Welcome Back, America

415

Scenarios

416

And Yet they Persisted

417

Rounding the Corner... to what?

418

Confirming Amy... Recuse, Refuse...We Lose

419

Talking Zeds: Social Media is Our Country

420

Treasonable Doubt

421

Talking Feds Now: Positive Uncertainty

422

Judging Amy

423

Honoring RBG: May her Memory be a Revolution

424

Before She was Notorious: Clerking for Ruth Bader Ginsburg

425

Homeland Insecurity: Flying Blind

426

The Vote is in the Mail: Election Protection (from the ground up)

427

Sisters in Law Special Voters Rights Edition: Use it or Lose it

428

Married to the Don

429

Conventional Wisdom: It Is What It Is

430

The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Nasty Women Vote

431

Kamala: Game On!

432

A Tale of Two Cities: Paris, Texas and Paris, France

433

Person Woman Man Economy Virus

434

A Man a Van No Plan: Portland

435

Toxic Mask-ulinity

436

Pardon Our Obstruction!

437

5-4 Roberts Plays the Long Game

438

Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams

439

The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Lowering the Barr

440

Pride and Prejudice and the Room Where It Happened

441

Talking Feds Now: The Barr-Berman Standoff

442

Trumpocalypse Nu?

443

Pouring Tear Gas on the Fire

444

Minnesota Burning

445

Memorial Day or Groundhog Day?

446

(Whistle) Blowin' in the Wind

447

Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Governor Gretchen Whitmer

448

In Like Flynn

449

Return to the Double Agent Bar and Grill: Intelligence, National Security, and the Coronavirus

450

A Few Choice Words: Abortion Returns to the Supreme Court

451

Law in the Time of Corona: Trump’s efforts to foil law enforcement oversight

452

Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Val Demings

453

COVID-19 & the November Election: A National Crisis in the Making

454

Tequila & Quaaludes: Trump’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus

455

Focus on American Universities: Fighting for DACA Dreamers and Coping With COVID-19

456

Governments’ Responses to COVID-19: The Good, The Bad, and The Ridiculous

457

Corona Cataclysm: a national emergency and a political wild card

458

Corona Clusterf**k

459

Was the Killing of Qasem Soleimani Legal?

460

Ignorance is Strength: Trump’s War on Fact

461

Stone Cold Disaster at DOJ

462

Has the Presidency Grown Too Powerful for the Constitution?

463

Partial Acquittal

464

Can I Get A Witness?

465

We're Lost

466

Will All Senators Now Stand

467

The Big Picture in Homeland Security: 2020 and Beyond

468

From Russia with Blood

469

Demagoguing the Border: The Trump Administration’s Treatment of Migrant Families

470

Trump Impeached: An Act of Constitutional Fidelity

471

"The Articles Are Agreed To"

472

What Will The Trial in the Senate Look Like?

473

Impeachment Academy

474

The Impeachment Week That Was: If an avalanche of evidence falls in the Congress, can Republicans hear it?

475

Sondland Testifies: The Answer is Yes

476

The Impeachment Hearings Begin

477

Deja Vu: The Trump Impeachment Through the Prism of Past Impeachments

478

The Troubled State of Voting Rights Heading into the 2020 Election

479

“Is the Dam Breaking?” Part 2-- LIVE from Politicon in Nashville, Tennessee

480

“Is the Dam Breaking?” Part 1--LIVE from Politicon in Nashville, Tennessee

481

The Federal Death Penalty

482

Get over it!

483

Bill Barr’s Justice

484

The Whistleblowers’ Moment

485

Are we f***ed?

486

Trump Agonistes

487

The Whistle is Blowing

488

McCastrophe

489

SDNY (2); still in the house

490

La Cosa SDNY: An Insider’s Guide to the Most Renowned United States Attorney’s Office

491

Left of Boom: Violent Extremism and the Law

492

The Republican Opposition

493

The Pardon Power

494

Who Fights for The People When the Government Won't?

495

The Witness Has Left The Room

496

Mooting Mueller

497

Congress's Last Stand: Mueller's Testimony

498

Trump’s Interference with the DOJ

499

“Public sentiment is everything”

500

Mueller Report Myths and Gerrymandered Maps

501

No Hope

502

Ted Talks

503

A House Divided

504

High Crimes and Misdemeanors (feat. Professor Laurence Tribe, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, and Congressman Jamie Raskin)

505

The Day Bob Mueller Spoke

506

Do Overs and Cover Ups

507

Game of Trump: A Song of Vice and Ire

508

The Counterintelligence Investigation: What it is, why it matters

509

Barr on the Rocks

510

Mueller in the House

511

A Deep Dive Into Murky Waters

512

The Mueller Report: And Now What?

513

Redaction Reaction

514

Report Summary: [REDACTED]

515

The Mueller We Know

516

Mueller Punts, Barr Intercepts

517

Breaking News: The Report Is In

518

Pardon Me

519

Mueller Done, Manafort Undone?

520

An Introduction