Trump’s Pay-to-Play World Tour
Episode Date: May 15, 2025JVL and Bill Kristol discuss how Trump’s authoritarian playbook depends on public corruption, loyalty tests, and billion-dollar payouts. And why the b...
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1077 episodes transcribedJVL and Bill Kristol discuss how Trump’s authoritarian playbook depends on public corruption, loyalty tests, and billion-dollar payouts. And why the b...
JVL and Will Sommer deep dive into the social media accounts of one of the South African refugees who recently arrived in the US, uncovering far-right...
At a chaotic DHS hearing, Secretary Kristi Noem refused to admit a Trump-used photo was doctored, exposing how far officials will go to avoid contradi...
Sam Stein is joined by Senator Brian Schatz to break down the $400 million “gift” from Qatar to Donald Trump, raising serious constitutional and ethic...
Tim Miller joins Scott Galloway as a guest host on Raging Moderates. They unpack how Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs and trade war have pushed the U.S...
Tim Miller joins Krystal Ball on Breaking Points to share his takes on Biden’s decline, Democratic dysfunction, and how political cowardice opened the...
Tim Miller joins MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports to discuss Trump accepting a luxury jet from Qatar, his administration’s reckless immigration policies, and...
Will Saletan unpacks Donald Trump’s lies about the economy, from food prices, tariffs, and job losses, and contrasts them with hard data highlighting...
Remember when Trump’s China trade war was the MAGA movement’s big new thing? Andrew Egger walks through how that tough-on-China stance fell apart in j...
Tim Miller calls out the press conference by Trump's Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau where he explains the decision to accept white South...
Trump issued a new executive order on drug prices. Sam Stein and Jonathan Cohn unpack what it actually does, what it claims to do, and how it stacks u...
Tim Miller responds to Stephen Miller’s tweet accusing him of being a leftist for criticizing Trump’s massive tariff hike. He breaks down why the poli...
Sam Stein and Tim Miller react to the jaw-dropping moment Trump boasted about taking a luxury plane from a foreign government. No spin, no denial, jus...
Senator Richard Blumenthal joins Sam Stein to expose how major law firms have capitulated to Donald Trump’s pressure campaign, agreeing to vague, bill...
Jonathan Cohn speaks with pediatrician and former FDA official Joshua Sharfstein, who breaks down vaccine safety, debunks the myths pushed by anti-vax...
Sam Stein and Bill Kristol break down one of the most jaw-dropping stories of potential political corruption in recent memory. According to new report...
In this conversation, political analyst Bill Kristol and Harvard professor Daniel Ziblatt—co-author of How Democracies Die—discuss the alarming author...
Tim Miller joins Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez on MSNBC’s The Weeknight to discuss the Trump administration’s alarming...
Andrew Egger and Will Sommer dig into the MAGA reaction to Pope Leo XIV, whose recent comments on immigration have triggered the usual suspects despit...
A recent federal appeals court ruling has mandated that the Trump administration transfer Rumeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University,...