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Talking Feds — 535 episodes
Molly Mashup: “Trump Makes Nixon Look Like Lincoln”
Democrats’ Path to Beating Trump
Contempt, Crime, and Chaos: Trump's DOJ from a Judge's Eyes
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Pacifying the President
The Biggest Threats to Free and Fair Midterms
Trump's Monumental Ego
The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rebirth of a DOJ Crown Jewel
Blanche Avalanche
Anne Applebaum on Iran, Ukraine, and Trump’s Kleptocracy
Trump’s Botch Job
Raphael Warnock Makes the Moral Case Against Trump
How To Lose a War in Six Months
Maggie Haberman on a Year of “Pure Trump”
Blanche in the Arena
The Biggest Epstein Questions for Blanche and Trump
Trump's Economy: Inflation, Instability, and Influence
Adam Schiff is Ready to Battle Blanche
Slaughterhouse-Six
David Brooks on Trump, AI, and Fixing America
Kick Out Your Tired and Poor
Chris Murphy on Fighting Trump and Pursuing Happiness
Will the FBI Stand Up to Trump?
Molly Mashup: “Who’s Not Mad at Trump Right Now?”
Trump's Birthday Bummer
Inside the DOJ’s Downward Spiral
The Start of Trump’s Long Slide?
David Frum’s Unified Thesis of Trump’s Failings
Purges, Payoffs, and Paxton
Patrick Radden Keefe’s “London Falling” and Death in the Time of Oligarchs
Orange Slush
Why is John Roberts Suddenly Rushing?
Trump's "Systematic" Undermining of the Economy
Race to the Bottom
Redistricting Roulette
A Modern Reader's Guide to a Besieged Constitution
Democracy Demolition Derby
The Global Aftershocks of Trump’s Blunder in Iran
Molly Mashup: ‘Lots of Smoking Guns’
Kash Crash
Jersey’s New Governor Knows How to Take On a Don
Trump's "Absolute Fiasco"
The 'No Kings' Plan to Make Trump the Next Orbán
Carte Blanche and an Inside Strait
Bondi to Blanche and Bad to Worse
Bondi, Bombs, and Birthright
Will SCOTUS Blow Up Mail-In Voting?
Departure of Justice
How Trump Blew Up the World Order
Dire Strait
Josh Shapiro Wants the Ball
Hegseth: Unleashed and Unhinged
“Nobody Cancels Elections. They Just Rig Them."
A Man, No Plan, Iran
Stacey Abrams’s 10 Steps to Save Democracy—Or Lose It
Bombs and Bombast
Molly Mashup: The 411 on the Missing Epstein 302s
Tariffs Trumped
Josh Shapiro's Game Plan
Bad Bondi
Will the Supreme Court Betray the Constitution?
Live from Princeton: A Contrarian Quartet
Trump's Reign of Terror in the Civil Rights Division
Cracks in the ICE
The Legacy of the Subway Vigilante
"Are You F***ing Kidding Me?"
EAG Keith Ellison on Justice for Renee Good, and Minnesota
Trauma and Terror in Minnesota
John Roberts: Umpire or Ultimate Decider?
Gasoline on the Fire
The Illegality of the Maduro Seizure Under Domestic and International Law
Inside City Hall
Corruption, Chaos, and a Crooked Peace Plan in Ukraine
Military Madness
Inside the White House Bubble
The [REDACTED] Files
Molly Mashup: "They're Not Doing 15 Dimensional Chess"
Dents in the Armor
Senator Mark Kelly: "It's a Complete S*** Show"
Indict, Strike, Repeat
Can a New Kind Of Liberalism Take Hold?
A Bad Dictator is Still a Dangerous One
Halligan, Bondi, and Other Turkeys
Lame but Lethal
Inside the DOJ’s Unravelling under Trump
The Dog That Hasn’t Barked
The Phrase that Could End Trump's National Guard Power Grab
Blue Blizzard
Presenting The Alabama Murders from Revisionist History
How Trump Demolished the DOJ
Democracy on ICE
A Legendary Congressman's Advice for Today's Democrats
The Costs of Chaos
Is No Kings a Turning Point? (Plus a baseball bonus on Ohtani!)
Bolton Shut
Getting Free Speech Right on College Campuses
Ceasefire and Crossfire
Return of the Wrecking-Ball Court
Shutdown Smackdown, Chi-Town Showdown
Trump's Prescription for Chaos and Poor Health
Comey Before the Storm
Molly Mashup: Trump, Tylenol, and Turmoil
Autocracy Live!
The Constitution Was Intended To Be Amended
A Darker Turn
Rep. Krishnamoorthi: “We Have To Stand Up”
Epstein Returns and the Courts Push Back
Senator Blumenthal Exposes the DOGE Boondoggle
Mob Boss in the White House
Pam Bondi’s DOJ: “Heartbreaking" and "Terrifying”
Bagging Bolton
J.B. Pritzker takes on the Bully-in-Chief
Checkpoint D.C.
E. Jean Carroll’s Knock-Out Punch
Department of Vengeance
2026 Election Interference Has Begun
Incriminating—Or Just Skeevy?
A Molly Mashup on the MAGA Mess
Justice Blanched
Justice Abandoned: Rachel Barkow on the Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration
Epstein, Emil, and Elmo’s Eventful Week
Fighting Trump’s Bills, Bombs, and Baloney
ICE Age
Happy Days Are Here Again
Supreme Court Roundup: Revenge of the Six
Iran’s Next Move
The Corrections
Cory Booker’s Long Stand
Trump at War
How Social Media Broke Democracy and Childhood
California Screamin'
Who Is Government, Really? with Michael Lewis
Caught in a Bad Bromance
ENine Years of Warning America: A Conversation with Rick Wilson
ETaco Tuesday Every Day
Plane Hits House
E"Fight Fiercely, Harvard!"
Donald Trump in the Crisis of Young Men
Art of the Self Deal
Will Abrego-Garcia Ever See the Light of Day Again: A Discussion with Sen. Chris Van Hollen
Third Term Threat
Bad Vibes at the High Court
Incursion Reversion
Winning Under the House Rules
Public Sentiment Is Everything
“Is Trump Strangling Democracy?” with Rep. Dan Goldman
CECOT Slingshot
Can Harvard Tough it Out?
The Madness of King Donald
Federal Health Oversight in the Age of RFK Jr
Fear & Loathing at DOJ
A New Abundance Agenda for the Democratic Party
Hegsethive Pride
Beware the Coming Republican Voting Rights Legislation
Capitulation Nation
Steven Pinker Knows Everything
ClusterChuck
The View From New Jersey… and Washington D.C.
A House Misguided
Trump’s Disastrous Assault on U.S Soft Power
"Anyone Unhappy With Elon?"
Jamie Raskin and the Constitutional Cavalry
Trump Breaks the World
What Will Happen to Consumers Under Trump?
The Politics of DOJ and the Law of DOGE
“Not Anything Any of Us Ever Expected To See in America”
THURSDAY NIGHT MASSACRE AT THE DOJ
Talking San Diego presents Chris Hayes With His #1 Bestselling Book, “The Sirens’ Call”
Jeff Toobin Talks Righteous and Corrupt Pardons
Too Many Musks on the Field
Signposts of Democratic Decline
DEFCONstitution
Executive Orders – What Can’t Trump Do?
Mayday at DOJ (Special Episode)
"F**k It: Release ‘em All"
“Friday Night Was the Danger Zone” with Fired Inspector General Mark Greenblatt
We Already Know a Lot About Volume Two of the Smith Report
A Cold Day in Hell
Trouble Ahead for Election Fight and Traditional Media
Convict in Chief
AI and Income Inequality
There’s No Vaccine Against Crazy (Special Episode on Healthcare)
A Blue Man in a Red State
Hold Steady States (Special Episode on State/Local Power)
Megalomania Mash
AlieNation (Special Episode on Immigration)
Pardons Here, There, and Everywhere
Tarrifying (Special Episode on Economics)
Rebutting the Insurrectionary Theory of the Second Amendment
Kash and Burn (Special Episode on National Security)
Freedom, Fascism, and Donald Trump
Kakistocracy (Look It Up)
The Real Reason Trump Won.
Why We Must Have A Detailed Report of the Trump Prosecutions
DOJ-Jacking (Special Episode on DOJ)
Sen. Chris Murphy on the Election and the End of Neoliberalism
Will the Supreme Court Stand Up to Trump?
The Gaetz of Hell
Rick Wilson Breaks It Down and Looks Ahead
Apocalypse: Now.
Legal, but Not Legitimate
Turning Never Trump
Margin of Fuhrer
The Speaker is In The House!
Margin of Terror
The Lawyer as Political Warrior (Talking Books with Bob Bauer)
Time to Panic?
Is Justice Ever Coming?
A Hurricane of Hate
A Second Look At The Jack Smith Brief
Liar Liar Pres for Hire
What Polls Get Wrong
Donald Declining
DOJ Insider with Preet Bharara
What’s that you say, Mr. Robinson?
“There Is No Republican Party” (recorded live with Judge Michael Luttig at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Talk about extreme!
Trailer: Introducing a New Series of 1-on-1 Conversations from Talking Feds
Kamala for the Prosecution (Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Next Question
300th Episode DNC Extravaganza!
DNC TLC
Walzing Kamala
Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies
The Kamala Cavalry
“You did it, Joe!”
Has Trump Evaded All Accountability?
Bedlam in Demland
Supreme S*#tStorm
D is for Disaster
Blueprint Blues
Trumping the Shark
Verdict Aversion
DOJ Insider: DOJ, DJT, TBD
A Man of Many Convictions
America Upside Down
Cohen the Destroyer? From Inside the Courtroom IV
Eye of the Storm: From Inside the Courtroom III
Hope & Chaos
Immunity Impunity
In the (Court)Room Where it Happens
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury...
Jury Selection, Abortion Rejection, Cannon Deflection
Court and Snark
Democracy saved! Trump in exile! (April 1 edition)
Trump Trials University
Once More With Feeling (Terrified)
A Country for Old Men
99 Problems But a Mitch Ain’t One
Alabama Goddam
Trump Change
A Tale of Two Cases
Accountability Era
Sore Winner, Big Loser
Live Bad and Profit
"Fraud on me!"
Rocky (Mountain) High Court
Lonelyville, USA
The Fentanyl Crisis Rages On
Investigation into an Inquiry into an Impeachment
Staring into the Abysses
No Immunity For Fraudsters!
DOJ insider: Trying Trump
Gag!
It's (Half) the Economy, Genius!
Leaning Tower of Trumps
From Russia with kompromat
Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Political Bipartisanship (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Law Enforcement (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump
Remembering Dianne Feinstein
Oyez, Oyez, Oy Vey
Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Journalism (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Hunter Gatherers
Remove, Remand, Repeat
Meadows’ Lark
Can Ukraine Prevail?
(Trump’s) Trials & (Our) Tribulations
A Theory of Everything: A Deep Dive Into the Fulton County Indictment
An Ordinary Defendant And A Special Counsel
Defending Donald
A Deep Dive into the 1/6 Indictment
"Any Day Now"
DOJ Quarterly Review: On Target
Et tu, Jared?
Nauta Chance
Affirmative Retraction
Bedminster Gabby
It’s Arraigning Presidents
Signed, Unsealed, Delivered
Down to the Wire
Contempt of Court
Default, Defraud, DeSantis
Top Gun Trial Lawyers and Their Secrets
Loneliness in America
Et tu, Mike Pence?
DOJ Insider: Indictments, Agents, Friends with Benefits
It's the Economy, Genius!
Forecast Update: Stormy and Arraign-y
💥Boom💥
Crime Fraud Expected
Bragging Rights & Ukraine Slights
National Forecast: Stormy
MAGA, May I?
Zelensky Zugzwang
Jack Attack & Pence Defense
Joe Jitsu
Ne Plus Ultra: Rachel Maddow on American Fascism 1940s to Today
Under Cover of Law
Groundhog Day in Washington
DOJ Confidential
Special (Counsel) Effects
Speaker Squeaker
Special Year-End Episode: How Will We Go Down in History?
The Very Model of a Modern Mayor
Referral Madness
Supreme Contortions
Oath Keepers and House Speakers
Public Education in Crisis
And Now This Special (Counsel) Announcement
Red Herring
Red Alert
Halloween Edition: Margin of Terror
Fortnight Forecast
Hear! Hear!
A MAGA Midterm?
Nightmare on First Street: SCOTUS Returns (Live from the Texas Tribune Festival)
DOJ Under the Microscope (Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Utter (Can)nonsense
Judge Loose Cannon
Troll of the Nation
[REDACTED]
The Nation’s Hidden Killer
Garland Crosses The Rubicon
Deleted texts, DOJ inspects, Kansas rejects
Post-Roe America: Prosecutorial Discretion Advised
The Horror! The Horror!
Blood and Gasoline
Patsy Baloney and Every Crime Imaginable
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (and Amy Coney Barrett)
This is (Trump’s) America
“Hang Mike Pence!”
A Republic, If We Can Keep It
At History’s Edge
Guns and Butter
Mapping Violence
DOJ: Here, There, and Everywhere
Alito’s Torpedo
Russia, Through A Glass Darkly
Ruthless Ambition Unmasked
Refer, Regulate, Restrict
Cooperation and Covert Operations
Current Events: Turning of the Tides?
Critical Republican Theory
Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington
(Economic) Life During Wartime
Taking Civil Rights Seriously
Darkest Hour 2: Midnight in Kyiv
Rule of Law, Rule of Outlaws
Facts, Feints, and the Fifth
DOJ: Inside the Insurrection Investigation
A Tale of Two Tyrants
Exit, Stage Center-Left
Slidin’ Biden and Hobbled Donald
Talking Filibuster
Happy Anniversary. I want a divorce.
Democratic Party 2022: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind
Republican Party 2022: Party Over?
A Very Variant Christmas
Economics 2021: Inflation Frustration
Supreme Court: Leaving Us No Choice
Making Ends Meat: Farmers Get Raw Deal
Pelosi Talks, Rittenhouse Walks, Meadows Balks
From the White House to the Big House to Rittenhouse
DOJ: Turning Up the Heat
Listener Q&A with Harry Litman
G20-20 Vision: Bringing the Good China to the Table
Utter Contempt: Breaking Bannon
Clark, Bannon and Trump: Lawsuit or Jumpsuit?
National Security: Beyond the Fringe
Courting Disaster
Build Back Better Bill: Biden on the Brink
Totalled Recall: Masks, Mandates and Manchin
9/11, Texas, Covid… And how was your week?
Texas Two Step (Backwards)
National Security Edition: “No Boots On the Ground to Booed On the Grounds”
Voting Rights: You Beto Your Life
Closing the Barn Door on the Stable Genius
DOJ: Garland Here for the Right Reasons?
I See Your Trillion and Raise You Climate Change
Bear Trap in the Bedroom: Select Committee, Infrastructure and Buried Tips
Foreign Affairs: Putin on the Blitz
S/Elect: Rights and Riots
The Supreme Court: Baby, Baby, Where Did Our Left Go?
Deal or No Deal
We Wish to Welcome You to Manchinland
Leak House
Oh, DeJoy! Gaetz of Hell!
White House Counsel: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
Commission Impossible?
Cheney of Command Disrupted
Talking Counter-Terrorism: Knock and Talk
Talking DOJ: 100 Days of Solid’Tude
Chauvin Verdict: You Do the (After) Math
Foreign Policy: "This Year We No %$&* Suck"
Gun Safety: Giving it a Real Shot
Chauvin-ism and the National Schism
The New New Deal?
Filibuster or Bust
Life begins at 50 (Days)
Anatomy of a Prosecution
The FBI: The Weather(ed) Bureau
Republicans On The Fence
Base Instincts
Allies Allies All Come Free
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Transition, Transition!
Impeaches and Crime
News Edition; New Sedition
Burning Down the House
The Very Model of a Modern Solicitor General
Georgia on my Mind
T-30... and Counting
I Never Promised you a Rose Garden Pardon
Purple Reign
National Security: 50 Days of Gray
Goodbye Rudy Tuesday
Biden Our Time
Welcome Back, America
Scenarios
And Yet they Persisted
Rounding the Corner... to what?
Confirming Amy... Recuse, Refuse...We Lose
Talking Zeds: Social Media is Our Country
Treasonable Doubt
Talking Feds Now: Positive Uncertainty
Judging Amy
Honoring RBG: May her Memory be a Revolution
Before She was Notorious: Clerking for Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Homeland Insecurity: Flying Blind
The Vote is in the Mail: Election Protection (from the ground up)
Sisters in Law Special Voters Rights Edition: Use it or Lose it
Married to the Don
Conventional Wisdom: It Is What It Is
The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Nasty Women Vote
Kamala: Game On!
A Tale of Two Cities: Paris, Texas and Paris, France
Person Woman Man Economy Virus
A Man a Van No Plan: Portland
Toxic Mask-ulinity
Pardon Our Obstruction!
5-4 Roberts Plays the Long Game
Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams
The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Lowering the Barr
Pride and Prejudice and the Room Where It Happened
Talking Feds Now: The Barr-Berman Standoff
Trumpocalypse Nu?
Pouring Tear Gas on the Fire
Minnesota Burning
Memorial Day or Groundhog Day?
(Whistle) Blowin' in the Wind
Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Governor Gretchen Whitmer
In Like Flynn
Return to the Double Agent Bar and Grill: Intelligence, National Security, and the Coronavirus
A Few Choice Words: Abortion Returns to the Supreme Court
Law in the Time of Corona: Trump’s efforts to foil law enforcement oversight
Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Val Demings
COVID-19 & the November Election: A National Crisis in the Making
Tequila & Quaaludes: Trump’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus
Focus on American Universities: Fighting for DACA Dreamers and Coping With COVID-19
Governments’ Responses to COVID-19: The Good, The Bad, and The Ridiculous
Corona Cataclysm: a national emergency and a political wild card
Corona Clusterf**k
Was the Killing of Qasem Soleimani Legal?
Ignorance is Strength: Trump’s War on Fact
Stone Cold Disaster at DOJ
Has the Presidency Grown Too Powerful for the Constitution?
Partial Acquittal
Can I Get A Witness?
We're Lost
Will All Senators Now Stand
The Big Picture in Homeland Security: 2020 and Beyond
From Russia with Blood
Demagoguing the Border: The Trump Administration’s Treatment of Migrant Families
Trump Impeached: An Act of Constitutional Fidelity
"The Articles Are Agreed To"
What Will The Trial in the Senate Look Like?
Impeachment Academy
The Impeachment Week That Was: If an avalanche of evidence falls in the Congress, can Republicans hear it?
Sondland Testifies: The Answer is Yes
The Impeachment Hearings Begin
Deja Vu: The Trump Impeachment Through the Prism of Past Impeachments
The Troubled State of Voting Rights Heading into the 2020 Election
“Is the Dam Breaking?” Part 2-- LIVE from Politicon in Nashville, Tennessee
“Is the Dam Breaking?” Part 1--LIVE from Politicon in Nashville, Tennessee
The Federal Death Penalty
Get over it!
Bill Barr’s Justice
The Whistleblowers’ Moment
Are we f***ed?
Trump Agonistes
The Whistle is Blowing
McCastrophe
SDNY (2); still in the house
La Cosa SDNY: An Insider’s Guide to the Most Renowned United States Attorney’s Office
Left of Boom: Violent Extremism and the Law
The Republican Opposition
The Pardon Power
Who Fights for The People When the Government Won't?
The Witness Has Left The Room
Mooting Mueller
Congress's Last Stand: Mueller's Testimony
Trump’s Interference with the DOJ
“Public sentiment is everything”
Mueller Report Myths and Gerrymandered Maps
No Hope
Ted Talks
A House Divided
High Crimes and Misdemeanors (feat. Professor Laurence Tribe, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, and Congressman Jamie Raskin)
The Day Bob Mueller Spoke
Do Overs and Cover Ups
Game of Trump: A Song of Vice and Ire
The Counterintelligence Investigation: What it is, why it matters
Barr on the Rocks
Mueller in the House
A Deep Dive Into Murky Waters
The Mueller Report: And Now What?
Redaction Reaction
Report Summary: [REDACTED]
The Mueller We Know
Mueller Punts, Barr Intercepts
Breaking News: The Report Is In
Pardon Me
Mueller Done, Manafort Undone?
An Introduction