Trumpcast

Jacob Weisberg talks to Brian Klaas, author of The Despot's Apprentice, about Trump's dictatorial tendencies and why the Republicans are still refusing to call out the President after his "shithole" comment yesterday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamelle Bouie is joined by Vox’s Dara Lind to discuss the latest going on around Capitol Hill on immigration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg is joined by Virginia Heffernan to pore through the release of Glenn Simpson's (Fusion GPS) testimony by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Heffernan is joined by Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, to discuss the recent revelations with regards to the President possibly obstructing justice. Plus, Asawin Suebsaeng, a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, joins us to discuss the Wolff story & his experience reporting on the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamelle Bouie talks to Ari Berman, a writer at Mother Jones, about President Trump's now disbanded voter fraud commission and how the fight over voter suppression is still far from over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Heffernan chats with Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter for the Washington Post, about how Washington failed to handle Kremlin trolls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg is joined by Katie Roiphe and Philip Gourevitch to discuss Michel Houellebecq's novel, Submission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg chats with Slate's Fred Kaplan about Trump’s new National Security Strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg chats with economist Jason Furman about the impending GOP tax bill and its economic impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Heffernan is joined by Dahlia Lithwick and Jacob Weisberg to discuss all the sexual misconduct accusations against the President and what can be done about them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Heffernan talks to Walter Shaub about the Office of Government Ethics, principled governance, and what it's like to run a federal agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg chats with The Washington Post's Erik Wemple about Trump's most recent round of attacks on the press and about the reporting errors over the last week on the Russia investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamelle Bouie talks to Geoffrey Skelley – associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. The two discuss the upcoming Alabama senate race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg talks to The Guardian's Luke Harding about his new book Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win. Plus, our Secretary of State issues yet another denial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Heffernan is joined by Jeffrey Toobin (Senior Legal Analyst for CNN & Staff Writer at The New Yorker) to talk about Trump's defense in light of the most recent Flynn news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Producer Jayson De Leon chats with Just Security's Deputy Managing Editor, Kate Brannen. about the latest surrounding Michael Flynn's plea deal and where this all may point to next. Stick around after the break for Virginia Heffernan's conversation with TPM's Josh Marshall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg chats with Slate's Leon Neyfakh about his latest series Slow Burn | A Podcast About Watergate. Who are the lesser known characters of the scandal? What led to the Republicans ultimately turning on Nixon? And where does what we know now about Trump measure up on the Nixon scale? Listen to the first episode of Slow Burn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg and Virginia Heffernan are joined by Bill Browder to chat about the latest surrounding the Magnitsky Act, corruption, and those seeking to discredit his efforts worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trumpcast presents a preview of Slow Burn, an eight-episode miniseries about Watergate.  People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha Mitchell, the celebrity wife of one of Nixon’s closest henchmen, tried to blow the whistle on Watergate—and ended up ruining her life. Find out more at slate.com/slowburn.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg is joined by Philip Gourevitch (The New Yorker) and Katie Roiphe (NYU) to discuss Robert Penn Warren's first novel, Night Rider. For the December book club we'll be reading Submission by Michel Houellebecq. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices