Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) joins Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi on this episode to talk about President Biden's COVID-19 package and its economic components, what he hopes the Biden administration will do to help working families, and advising young people on what they can do to help improve government.
Read MorePoliticon brings a brilliant team of political and legal masterminds together for an exciting new podcast, #SistersInLaw.
Read MoreAnand Giridharadas, a prolific author and former columnist for the NYT, joins hosts Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi to discuss his latest book "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World." Aside from being an author of this and many other books, Anand is an editor-at-large for TIME, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.
Read MoreI disagree with Tony Messenger’s column “St. Louis attorney has early advice for new president: Remember Watergate era” (Jan. 22). I was an assistant Watergate special prosecutor for the obstruction trial of President Richard Nixon’s top aides in which he was named a co-conspirator. We were prevented from indicting Nixon when President Gerald Ford pardoned him, so I understand the impact of issuing a pardon and moving on.
Read MoreThe ReidOut with Joy Reid 1/25/2021
Read MoreAmerican Voices with Alicia Menendez 1/24/2021
Read MoreWe spoke to Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump’s former personal assistant and White House Communications Director, a position he held for just 11 days before being fired. Known as the "Mooch," he is now an outspoken critic of Trump and the Founder and Managing Partner of Skybridge. We talked with Anthony about his getting lured to the White House and his insights from that time, where he thinks the Republican Party goes from here, what he thinks Trump will do post-presidency, and the challenges facing the Biden administration because of the mess Trump created and the last minute impediments he left behind.
Read MoreNew York Attorney General Letitia James is someone who will loom large in Donald Trump’s life once he leaves office as she is currently conducting a civil investigation into President Trump and his business. Hosts Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi ask her about holding Trump accountable for inciting an insurrection and other matters, the role that states can play in doing so, and what specifically Attorney General James is doing to uphold the premise of our justice system that no one is above the law. Victor also asks her advice for his generation about careers in public service.
Read MoreAmerican Voices with Alicia Menendez 1/16/2021
Read MoreSaturday AM with Linda Mottram 1/16/2021
Read MoreIn this important episode, Frank Figliuzzi, former, MSNBC National Security Contributor and former Assistant Director of counterintelligence at the FBI, joins Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi to discuss the Capitol's insurrection on January 6th, how it happened, what is being done by the FBI now to figure out how such an event happened and hold rioters accountable, and Frank's new book “The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence," which is a wonderful book and available anywhere books are sold.
Read MoreFareed Zakaria, the host of CNN’s flagship international affairs show, "GPS," and a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, joins hosts Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi for a discussion on his latest book, “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World," which is available wherever you purchase your books.
Read MoreThe Week with Joshua Johnson 1/10/2021
Read MoreKathleen Sebelius, former HHS Secretary under President Obama from 2009 to 2014, Governor of Kansas from 2009 to 2014, and CEO of Sebelius Resources LLC, joins Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi for a discussion on everything related to covid, the vaccine, and the challenges facing the Biden administration as it works to suppress the covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreWith Georgia on all our minds, Tom Perez, Chair of the DNC and former US Labor Secretary, joins Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi for an emergency episode. He helps us understand the state of race in the all-important Georgia Senate runoff races and what Democrats are doing to turn out the vote in the final home stretch.
Read MoreHarry Reid, former U.S. Senator of Nevada from 1987 to 2017 and Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015, joins hosts Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi for a packed episode on the power of the Senate Majority Leader, Republicans in Congress, Mitch McConnell, the January 6th certification of the Electoral College results, reforms to the Senate, and advice for rising leaders.
Read More2020 has been wild and at many times, awful. In this episode, hosts Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi record a special New Year's episode, reflecting on the highlights of 2020, their appreciation for all of our listeners and viewers, and what they look forward to about 2021.
Read MoreJack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School Professor, co-founder of Lawfare, President George W. Bush’s Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004 and Special Counsel to DoD from 2002-2003, join Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi. Together, we discuss “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” a book that Professor Goldsmith co-wrote, which explores the issues raised by Trump’s presidency and solutions to fix them. His co-author is Bob Bauer, President Obama’s White House Counsel, and like Goldsmith, Bauer is a law professor, but at NYU.
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