Podcast appearances and mentions of Bob Woodward

President Biden said, “It's unlikely in the minds of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia. But we'll see." NATO is planning to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the incident. CNN Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance is in Przewodów. He tells Anderson Cooper what they know about the missile and how people are reacting. Plus, legendary journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein join AC360 to discuss former President Trump's third presidential run.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Another special interview show! First John talks about Biden speaking in Egypt at the COP 27 Climate Summit in Egypt. Then he chats with Rachel in L.A. about current victories in Ukraine as they expelled Russia forces from Kherson and meeting up at The Sexy Liberal Save Democracy Tour. Next John interviews constitutional attorney Andrew Seidel about laws, SCOTUS, and his new book "American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom". Then finally the big interview with legendary journalist Bob Woodward. They discuss revelations in Bob's new audio book "The Trump Tapes" which is a compilation of 20 recorded interviews with Trump and others in his cabinet that shows an up-close, unvarnished self-portrait of Trump and his presidency.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today is the Midterm Extravaganza bonanza Part II ! Joining me are Dahlia Lithwick, Noel Casler and David Daley   Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Dahlia Lithwick is the senior legal correspondent at Slate and host of Amicus, Slate's award-winning biweekly podcast about the law.  Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October, 2018. Get Her Book Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America Noel Casler is best known for his outspoken commentary on Twitter, and unveiling truths in his weekly Car Rant's about his 25 years experience behind the scenes in live television and in the music industry. Noel spent six seasons working directly with the Trump family on “Celebrity Apprentice,” and toured with many musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Crosby, Stills & Nash and many others. These experiences inform and guide his work as a stand-up comedian giving him a unique perspective and many first hand stories to draw upon, making his humor both captivating and hilarious. Noel's tweets and Car Rant's are often cited by Joy Reid on MSNBC and various other news programs. Videos of his stand-up routines have reached millions, especially his revelations about working with the Trump family.  David Daley is a senior fellow for FairVote and the author of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy, which helped spark the recent drive to reform gerrymandering. Dave's second book, Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy, chronicles the victories and defeats in state efforts to reform elections and uphold voting rights. A frequent lecturer and media source about gerrymandering, he is the former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, and the former CEO and publisher of the Connecticut News Project. He is a digital media fellow at the Wilson Center for the Humanities and the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New York magazine, the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, Details, and he's been on CNN and NPR. When writing for the Hartford Courant, he helped identify Mark Felt as the "Deep Throat" source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.    Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page  

Journalist Bob Woodward discusses revelations from his audiobook "The Trump Tapes,” shares his thoughts on where former Pres. Trump stands with the GOP and who he compares Trump's letters with Kim Jong Un to “teenage love letters.” Then, Congressmen-elect Maxwell Alejandro Frost – who's the first Gen-Z member elected into Congress – says America needs "younger people in our government" and explains what he thinks Florida Democrats need to do some “soul searching” after the midterms. In Hot Topics, the co-hosts weigh in on Trump's reaction to the midterm elections and question if self-confidence grows with age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Washington Post Live anchor Leigh Ann Caldwell speaks with Bob Woodward, associate editor at The Washington Post, about his new audiobook, “The Trump Tapes,” his warning about the former president and his assessment of the state of American democracy heading into the midterms. Conversation recorded on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.

American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom by Andrew L Seidel Is a fight against equality and for privilege a fight for religious supremacy? Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional attorney and author of the critically acclaimed book The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American, dives into the debate on religious liberty, the modern attempt to weaponize religious freedom, and the Supreme Court's role in that “crusade.” Seidel examines some of the key Supreme Court cases of the last thirty years—including Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple), Trump v. Hawaii (the anti-Muslim travel ban case), American Legion v. American Humanist Association (related to a group maintaining a 40-foot Christian cross on government-owned land), and Tandon v. Newsom (a Santa Clara Bible group exempted from Covid health restrictions), as well as the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade—and how a hallowed legal protection, freedom of religion, has been turned into a tool to advance privilege and impose religion on others. This is a meticulously researched and deeply insightful account of our political landscape with a foreword provided by noted constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, author of The Case Against the Supreme Court. The issue of church versus state is more relevant than ever in today's political climate and with the conservative majority status of the current Supreme Court. This book is a standout on the shelf for fans of Michelle Alexander, Bob Woodward, and Christopher Hitchens. Readers looking for critiques of the rise of Christian nationalism, like Jesus and John Wayne, and examinations like How Democracies Die will devour Seidel's analysis.

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, October 27 and reports on the closing arguments both parties are making in the last 12 days of the midterms. Plus, new development in one of the criminal probes into Donald Trump as video shows Trump lawyers entering a federal courthouse in Washington. Obama veterans David Plouffe and Chai Komanduri join, as well as veteran journalist Bob Woodward on explosive audio tapes of interviews with Donald Trump, and NC Senate candidate Cheri Beasley.

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump acknowledged to Bob Woodward that Kim Jong-Un letters were “top secret.” Also, Pennsylvania Republicans move to restrict abortion access. Plus, new polls have J.D. Vance and Rep. Tim Ryan are tied in the Ohio Senate race. And President Biden is focused on delivering for the American people. Bob Woodward, Rep. Brendan Boyle, Mandy Steele, Rep. Tim Ryan, and Jen O'Malley Dillon join Lawrence O'Donnell.

Nicolle Wallace discusses the Justice Department's request to a federal judge to force the two top lawyers from the former president's administration to provide additional grand jury testimony, how national extremist groups are targeting local elections, a conversation with Bob Woodward about his new audiobook which present raw tape of his 20 interviews with the former president and more.  Joined by: Harry Litman, Carol Leonnig, Mary McCord, Franklin Foer, John Micek, Mini Timmaraju, Fatima Goss Graves, Kim Atkins Stohr, Matt Dowd, Cornell Belcher and Bob Woodward. 

Jackie & Dunlap on Kanye West, Bob Woodward, Tubeville, Trump tapes, Adidas, Bocephus, people with guns outside ballot boxes.  Sponsors: Boo Boo Britches http://patreon.com/redstateupdate "The Magic Cowboy" courtesy Seth Timbs. New album "Easy Answers" at https://sethtimbs.bandcamp.com Red State Update theme "Tasty Sorghum Biscuit" by William Sherry:  https://open.spotify.com/track/74j2AyMM9Qy2VhSQDajhfn 

Bill and Phil examine data on the uniquely hostile language of the 139 House Republicans who challenged the Electoral College vote, listen to audio of Donald Trump from Bob Woodward's new book, break down new polling data on American's attitudes on U.S. foreign policy, and close by playing a game of “What's More Upsetting?”

[Explicit Language] Reasons for optimism this week. IMF predicts big drop in inflation soon. The Florida gubernatorial debate between Ron DeSantis and Charlie Crist. DeSantis freezes when challenged on whether he'll serve a 4-year term. DeSantis isn't ready for prime time, and more people agree with Bob. Trump threatens reporters with prison rape. Trump told Bob Woodward that he'd roll out a COVID plan after it was too late. Michael Cohen agrees with Bob that Trump will not run. Larry Kudlow's prediction about Liz Truss. Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in prison. With Buzz Burbank, music by Dave Molter, Matt Springfield, and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

David Waldman is back! David returns from a whirlwind 4-day tour of Philadelphia, where everyone was in good cheer and some even more so. Also, it's another week, so another mass school shooting starts us off. David got out of Philly in the nick of time. Team Trump is moving in to steal the ‘22 midterms and plot the theft of ‘24. Election deniers are on track to win 189 midterm races and will even deny their own elections if they need to. Of the 12 Republican-held districts that swung to minority White recently, 10 were represented by objectors. As more Whites go, more election deniers move in. Angry White election denying whack-a-doodles are now taking over the GQP, but they are really eyeing the whole US. They haven't quite figured out the details, but are certain they bought those guns for some reason.  Whatever that reason is, it's probably “Democrats”. Michael Caputo was once a smashmouth politician and hopes you'd be nice enough to please allow him another swing. On the other hand, one of Marco Rubio's white nationalist operatives learned about smashmouth politics firsthand, and probably a couple of feet as well. Bob Woodward has 20 interviews filled with insane Trump babbling that you can now listen to in your car. It's probably not the craziest things people have heard, though. Steve KG Bannon finally goes to jail, but not for long enough, and he still hasn't gone. Merrick Garland hasn't locked Donald up either, but he has charged 13 Chinese spies. A judge has dismissed the first of 19 fraud cases Ron DeSantis was using to scare people out of voting. Joan McCarter asserts that we need to get out the vote and explains in harrowing detail exactly why we need to take this seriously and make up for our shadowy billionaire deficit.

Les contamos todo sobre el nuevo primer ministro, cuya fortuna es mayor que la del rey Carlos III. De Xi Jinping hablamos con Pablo Díez, corresponsal del "ABC" de Madrid. Y repasamos algunas entrevistas de Trump con Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward, author of “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump”, joins to discuss the recordings in which Trump talked about national security secrets, his relationship with Kim Jong Un, and his handling of the Covid pandemic. He tells Jake Tapper why he thinks Trump is an “Unparalleled danger”, and that the only time Trump wouldn't answer a question was about whether he would peacefully leave office if he lost the 2020 election. Later, Woodward's fellow Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein joins, and the three discuss Trump's influence and future, and compare his presidency with Nixon's.Rep. Mike Turner joins to discuss The White House's dismissal of Russia's claim Ukraine is planning a dirty bomb attack, President Zelensky suggesting Russia is helping Iran with its nuclear program in exchange for drones, and how House Republicans may resist a big Ukraine funding package if Democrats add unrelated spending.Hosted by Jake TapperTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Sam and Emma host Raymond Craib, Professor of History of Cornell University, to discuss his recent book Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. First, Sam and Emma dive into updates on early voting and the GOP's abandonment of New Hampshire, before diving into Biden finally centering GOP cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his talking points. Professor Raymond Craib then joins as he jumps right into his “big tent” definition of libertarianism, ranging from the neoliberal politics of Hayek and Friedman to Murray Rothbard's complete reliance on private contracts in his theory, with the Ayn Rands and Ludwig von Miseses falling somewhere in between. After walking through the distinct roles the state can play along this spectrum – particularly in protecting individuals from direct violence and in their private property rights – Sam, Emma, and Professor Craib tackle the disregard for the inherent violence and expropriation of primitive accumulation that sets the stage for the rights libertarians supposedly respect. This brings Professor Craib to the progression of attempts at libertarian Utopia and the constant need for colonial measures of expropriation to begin these attempts, first taking on Michael Oliver's experiments attempting to lay claim to foreign lands for his new utopia via domestic law and insurrectionist attempts at secession, before diving into the more contemporary version of this libertarian colonial utopia, Sam, Emma, and Raymond parse through Paul Romer's “Charter Cities,” and how he essentially created a system of finance-backed feudalism that inevitably created an incredibly precarious system. They wrap up the interview by assessing the future of these mass-scale speculative real estate grifts, and what role the Big Tech monopolists will play when these grifts are right in their wheelhouse. And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma dive into Bob Woodward's continuing leaks from the Trump years, as Trump claims to be the only one to look into Kim Jong un's eyes and truly understand him, and Nicholas from Silicon Valley explores the disappointing conclusion to the January 6th hearings. Olivia from Las Vegas discusses the recent bout of mail-in-ballot-related crime in the city, and launches a greater conversation on voter intimidation, Kowalski celebrates MR as the Holidays approach, and Dr. Oz continues to dig his own grave. Dylan from New Mexico talks about Santa Fe's housing crisis, and Tucker Carlson cackles as Kari Lake #owns a CNN reporter, plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Raymond's book here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1242 Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Check out today's sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Some things in life we like to pick out for ourselves - so we know we've got the one that's best for us - like cuts of steak or mattresses. What if you could do the same for hiring - choose your ideal candidate before they even apply? That's where ZipRecruiter's ‘Invite to Apply' comes in - it gives YOU, as the hiring manager, the power to pick your favorites from top candidates. According to ZipRecruiter Internal Data, jobs where employers use ZipRecruiter's ‘Invite to Apply' get on average two and a half times more candidates — which helps make for a faster hiring process. See for yourself! Just go to this exclusive web address, https://www.ziprecruiter.com/majority to try ZipRecruiter for free! Cozy Earth: One out of three Americans report being sleep deprived, and their sheets could be the problem. Luckily Cozy Earth provides the SOFTEST, MOST LUXURIOUS and BEST-TEMPERATURE REGULATING sheets. Cozy Earth has been featured on Oprah's Most Favorite Things List Four Years in a Row! Made from super soft viscose from bamboo, Cozy Earth Sheets breathe so you sleep at the perfect temperature all year round.  And for a limited time, SAVE 35% on Cozy Earth Bedding. Go to https://cozyearth.com/and enter my special promo code MAJORITY at checkout to SAVE 35% now. Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

Howie Kurtz on the FBI finding classified documents on Iran's nuclear program at Mar-a-Lago, Bob Woodward releasing new audio book with hours of Trump interviews and midterm voters focusing on the economy and crime over abortion issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosted by Jane Pauley. In our cover story, Kristine Johnson talks with Formula One racers about the sport's increasing popularity in the U.S. Also: John Dickerson and Bob Woodward discuss the Washington Post reporter's conversations with former President Donald Trump, now available in an audiobook; Rita Braver interviews novelist John Irving; Anthony Mason sits down with rocker Nathaniel Rateliff; Tracy Smith talks with comedian Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias; Martha Teichner explores the legacy of New York City urban planner Robert Moses; and we look back at Ed Bradley's 2004 "60 Minutes" report on the murder of Emmett Till.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Scott always says that the shows with the fewest links are the hardest to write summaries for. But that's just because he cares about quality! Ha ha! I've always wondered how it would go if we just skipped the narrative and just told you straight up what the links were, and then knocked off for the day. Hmm... I imagine it would go a little something like this: First, we revisited and finished the WaPo's story on how the racial disparity in COVID deaths eventually flipped. Then, we read the NYT Magazine's profile of Murdery Traitor Greene. And then, about the new audiobook Bob Woodward cobbled out of his TFG tapes, including his reading of Kim Jong Un's very strongly love letters. So, whaddya think?

The Biden DOJ leaks more news to Bloomberg, claiming that prosecutors have enough information for criminal charges against Trump for obstruction. Bob Woodward leaks new interviews with Trump as the media claims they have the smoking gun. #TrumpRaid #Maralago #BobWoodwardDonald Trump reacts to Nancy Pelosi' uninvestigated threat towards a sitting President. Pelosi confirmed to NBC she meant it! Meanwhile, Trump sits for a deposition in a defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. Liz Cheney promises a subpoena is coming and they will pursue it fully while Bill Barr says Igor Danchenko was found not guilty because these cases are "hard."#TrumpReacts #NancyPelosi #J6President Biden announces he is draining even more oil from the Nation's strategic supplies as Elections heat up. The media asks if this is political, as Karine Jean Pierre tries to explain. Stacey Abrams says if prices are high, try getting an abortion while Kari Lake confirms retirement accounts are evaporating away.#BidenDisaster #StaceyAbrams #KariLakeMembers-only Afterparty & More: https://watchingthewatchers.locals.comLinks & Mindmaps: https://linktr.ee/robertgouveiaWe Help Good People: https://www.rrlawaz.comMindmap Software: https://www.mindmeister.com/?r=1185699#Trump #Pelosi #Biden

Ben and Tommy cover the latest from Ukraine, the ongoing disaster that is the Liz Truss-led Tory government in the UK, how former US military officials are making big money in Saudi Arabia, China's party congress, the Iran protests, BTS joins the military, Biden's surprising new proposals on Venezuela and Haiti, and some comedy via Bob Woodward and Jared Kushner. Then Tommy talks with the New York Times Magazine's Robert Draper about his new book, Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost its Mind, and about the Iraq war.

EPISODE 57: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: "It is THE commercial: 'You're damn right gas prices are rising again,' Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama or somebody says as THE commercial begins. 'Because the bone-cutting Saudis and the genocidal Russians and their Republican prostitutes here are raising your gas prices, deliberately.' THE commercial then runs through the rest of the Republican platform for the midterms." (4:27) But even as Kevin McCarthy goes on the record threatening another Debt Ceiling Crisis as a lever to cut Social Security and Medicare, THE commercial doesn't exist. (6:32) There could be a dozen versions of THE commercial - the one where the FBI perp-walks the child pornographer only to have Marjorie Trailer Park Greene swoop in and defund the Bureau and free the suspect. Or the one with Trump, on tape, handing Woodward the Kim Jong Un letters and saying "Oh, those are so top secret. Don't say I gave them to you!" (8:11) But with 20 days left until the midterms we are still hung up on safe arguments and with being better than the fascists. We have 20 days! Where is the urgency? Where is THE COMMERCIAL? B-Block (15:11) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Hitchcock, in Georgia. (16:02) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Marco Rubio's argument against Drop Boxes: They could blow up! And speaking of blowing up, there's John Durham (18:10) IN SPORTS: Amazon buys an NFL game for Black Friday, and did the Jerry Jones-Bob Kraft swearfest have a...happy ending? (20:22) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Tudor Dixon vows to stop "Critical Race Training" in Michigan, and competes with an Idaho lobbyist who compares drag shows to blackface, and the Fox News dingbat who says nobody who hasn't had a child can talk about abortion, for the honors. C-Block (24:45) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: It's 38 years since I left Channel 5 in Boston, and had to say farewell to the man who gave me one of the best pieces of advice I ever received. As a hundred fans appeared out of nowhere to cheer him, I asked anchorman Chet Curtis "how do you get USED to this?" His priceless advice: "DON'T."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CNN has exclusively obtained a copy of Bob Woodward's new audiobook, which includes more than eight hours of the journalist's raw interviews with former President Trump. The conversations give an insight into the former President's worldview, including explaining his rationale for meeting with Kim Jong Un and his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel got her hands on the recordings and tells Anderson Cooper about a recurring theme she heard in many of the interviews. Plus, midterm elections are just three weeks away and early voting has already started in some states. CNN Senior Data Reporter Harry Enten joins AC360 to discuss the latest polling and why he thinks it's "probably going to be a good year for Republicans."  Guests: Jamie Gangel, Harry Enten Airdate: October 18, 2022.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

CNN Tonight's coverage continues with the panel discussing legendary journalist Bob Woodward's audiobook of 20 interviews he conducted with then President Donald Trump from 2016 to 2020 - and it's a goldmine. Plus, a National Institutes of Health study links chemical hair straightening to uterine cancer, lawyers for George Floyd's daughter draft a cease and desist letter to Kanye West, and Trump's deposition in E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit is imminent.Talk show hosts Mark Davis and Bill Press join to discuss what voters are telling them as the GOP and Democrats ramp-up their final midterm appeals. Plus, Marco Rubio and Val Demings spar in their first and only debate of the Florida Senate race, and polls show Gen X is leaning towards the GOP heading into the midterms.Hosted by Laura Coates and Alysin Camerota.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Body cam footage is released from arrests of Floridians accused of voter fraud and apprehended by Governor Ron DeSantis' "Election Police" and questions are raised about their being approved and certified as registered voters before voting and Bob Woodward releases excerpts from his forthcoming audio book, "The Trump Tapes".

President Joe Biden promised to push for an abortion rights law if Democrats retain control of Congress after the midterms. Legendary journalist Bob Woodward is releasing a new audiobook with hours of interviews with former President Donald Trump – we'll preview some of the recordings. Authorities have arrested a man who's considered a person of interest in connection to the killings of four men in Oklahoma. WNBA star Brittney Griner is celebrating her 32nd birthday behind bars in Russia. Lastly, Girl Scouts of America received its largest donation ever from an individual.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Drone attacks cause blackouts across Ukraine as Russia targets more power plants and escalates civilian suffering. Also, a CNN exclusive on the Trump tapes. Hear some of then President Trump's revealing recorded interviews with journalist Bob Woodward. Plus, as early voting sets records in Georgia, the high stakes midterm election is only three weeks away.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

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Arguably, the most famous story of Watergate, save Richard Nixon's resignation itself, is that of the famous Washington Post secret source, My Friend, Mr. X, or better known thanks to the movie and book "All the President's Men" as Deep Throat. He turned out to be the number 2 man at the FBI, W. Mark Felt.  Felt denied it for decades even though he was among the list of suspects and he only came forward due to his family pushing him for what appears to be a payday long after Felt himself was capable of making the decision on his own.But the decision of Mark Felt and his family to step forward also flushed out another man, also in his advanced years, near death due to pancreatic cancer, who had paid a horrible price for a role in Watergate that he had not asked for, nor deserved to have played.  L. Patrick Gray was the Acting Director of the FBI following the death of J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover had led the Bureau for nearly a half century and as his health began to fade a power struggle for who would replace him had emerged. When Hoover died, just a month before the break in, Richard Nixon seized the moment to reign in the Bureau that under Hoover had become a power source for its director.It was in making that play that Nixon turned to Pat Gray so that a new leader, without a dog in the fight for control of the Bureau, could take control and clean house. Gray however soon found himself not only dealing with  intrigue within the FBI but intrigue outside of it as well.  He was barely on the job a month before he was mislead by the White House Counsel to the President and was being spied on and undermined by his number 2 man at the Bureau. In this episode we look at both men and how their stories are intertwined, and also how aggrandizing one man's role in Watergate led to the destruction of the other man. Gray has seen his name sullied as an untrustworthy pawn of the White House, who destroyed important Watergate investigation files by throwing them in the Potomac River. In reality, Gray was an honest man whose only real crime was in believing in the people around him. He was mislead into destroying documents that were found in Howard Hunt's safe, but the materials were both not related to Watergate , and while forged,  had content  in them that was actually true.  All of this cost Gray his chance to be the Director of the FBI, a job he had done well, and wanted to continue serve in.  It was certainly a high price for him to pay.  L. Patrick Gray was, in the end,  the truly innocent man of Watergate. In this episode we look at both the story of Mark Felt and Patrick Gray.  *** For more information please go to the following website ShepardonWatergate,comSupport My WorkIf you love the show, the easiest way to show your support is by leaving us a positive rating with a review. You can also tell your family and friends about " Randal Wallace Presents : Nixon and Watergate " tooThe Lowcountry Gullah PodcastTheculture, history and traditions podcast where Gullah Geechee culture lives!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol ProbioticBreaks down the byproduct of alcohol responsible for rough mornings after drinking.Brand

How a Sector of the GOP Defines Deplorable. The host for this show is Tim Apicella. The guest is Cynthia Lee Sinclair. What could destroy a political career not so long ago? Monkey Business. That was the name of the boat Gennifer Flowers was photographed sitting on the lap of Democratic Candidate Gary Hart. It was enough for followers to turn away as they had expected standards of how a candidate should behave. Fast forward to the beginning of Trump's bid for president: a Hollywood Access video describing his love of sexually groping women, calling war heroes and gold star families as non-heroes, setting a policy to rip children away from the arms of parents at the boarder, calling WWI veterans 'suckers and losers', overtly lying about the deadly nature of COVID19 (but admitting to journalist Bob Woodward the truth), denying his election loss, and willing to bully officials to find 11,780 votes and incite thousands to attack the Capital. So, why hasn't the MAGA GOP turned away from Trump? What is it about FL Gov. DeSantis's stunt to dump legal asylum seekers to Martha's Vineyard that MAGA GOP admire? The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6kJ276rzD7XCodasnTPPCOG Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories at https://thinktechadvisories.blogspot.com.

THEY WERE DOIN' A GOLF A BLOCK (1:46) SPECIAL COMMENT: That wasn't a secret Trump Crime Family meeting at the golf course: They were doin' a GOLF (2:10) No matter who captioned the photos "Trump with Devin Nunes and Sean Hannity" it was Trump with his VP/Golf Courses and Director of Grounds. (3:35) I have witnessed Trump do this in one of his New York apartment buildings: he likes to show his employees how to do the jobs they are actually experts at. (5:40) It seemed to dovetail: 40 subpoenas! Dan Scavino! Boris Epshteyn! Seized phones! Of course they were meeting at a golf course! They were afraid of wiretaps, and everybody had their phones seized! Nope. They were doin' a GOLF (6:16) And they weren't trying to fix the Special Master case because it looks like the judge has realized she's screwed up and may walk it back. (9:08) After he lost the election Trump told people he wouldn't leave the White House. Why are we only finding this out now? Because Maggie Haberman held it for months (maybe longer) for her new book: "I'M NOT GOING TO REPORT ANY OF THIS UNTIL I GET A BOOK DEAL!" This is the third time Haberman has done this with this book alone. She joins Bob Woodward, Robert Costa, Jon Karl, and others as reporters who refused to report. (13:00) But Haberman's case is so egregious we need to know what ELSE she might be suppressing. So I think The House January 6th Committee should subpoena her to find out what she knows - or what she WILL know later when the damn book comes out. B BLOCK (16:49) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Willow (18:06) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: J6 Committee may invite Pence and Trump today, possible new PA Secretary of State goes full 9/11 Truther, and no one was injured at the Emmys. (21:35) IN SPORTS: The continuing shame of Mike Trout's anonymity, and the death of Queen Elizabeth messes with the weekly European soccer championship. (22:38) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Fox's Faulkner Freaks, Ronda Santis bribes voters, Matt Gaetz mocks his opponent's autistic son. C BLOCK (28:10) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The day my appendix burst and it was 48 hours before I knew it so I kept working and I beat CNN in the ratings anyway and I learned how to tell Rush-To-The-Hospital Appendix Pain from the other kind so I can tell thee and John Cleese reminded me it happened to him too and to milk it for all it was worth: "You and I were dying of septicemia!"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Right now there is a lot of attention on former President's Trumps Mar-a-Largo home FBI search, but 50 years ago the media was swarming to report on a different presidential scandal. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Watergate breaking news. In that half-century, has the growing hunger for fast-paced news outrun our need for restraint in reporting? Boyd breaks down the lessons he has learned from Journalist Bob Woodward, who helped break the Watergate story, on how when it comes to life and reporting, ‘restraint always works.'  ‘Inside Sources with Boyd Matheson,' former opinion editor at Deseret News, takes you inside the latest political news and current events, providing higher ground for today's discussions. Listen live Monday through Friday from 1 to 3 pm at 1160 AM and 102.7 FM, online at KSLNewsradio.com, or on the app. Listen on-demand as a podcast on your favorite platform or web browser. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Forty-eight years ago today, Richard Milhous Nixon became the first American president to resign from office. This event forever changed the political worldview of America's citizens. In this episode of Celluloid Pudding we discuss the dizzying, thrilling and fantastic film based on the tireless investigative work of renowned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who uncovered the illegal actions carried out by individuals at the highest levels of government, and exposed their corruption to the American people. The exquisite film based on these discoveries has been an inspiration to aspiring journalists since its release in 1976. All the President's Men is an enduring and riveting classic. We enjoyed our discussion and we're particularly honored and excited about our fantastic guest and dear friend, Martin Kady II, who just so happens to be the Editorial Director for Politico. Please join us as we wind our way through the unique streets of 1970's DC via the ground-breaking film, and through the eyes of a denizen of Washington DC, a journalist of the highest degree, Marty Kady. Wear some comfortable shoes for this sprint through the lives of investigative journalists Woodward, Bernstein, and Kady! For more about Politico, and Marty's work there, check out https://subscriber.politicopro.com/staff/martin-kady-ii. Here's a terrific piece from WaPo that recounts Robert Redford's personal investment in All the President's Men, and the intrigues, foils, and drama surrounding the scriptwriting process: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/all-the-presidents-men-robert-redford-woodward-bernstein/. And here's a gripping 40 year anniversary panel discussion that addresses the importance of the press during the so-called "Saturday Night Massacre" that put Nixon on the fast track to impeachment or resignation. https://youtu.be/GMAP0jZmlno.

Congressman Mike Levin, (D-San Diego) calls the passage by the U.S. Senate Sunday of a sweeping climate, health and tax bill, “historic.” He joins Midday Edition to talk about some of the contents of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Then, we speak to veteran journalist Bob Woodward who will be in San Diego for a talk at Balboa Theatre on Aug. 14 called “How We Got Here: Lessons From Ten Presidents.” Also, KPBS has a new news director. Terence Shepherd, whose first day is Monday, shares his vision for the station. And, plans to construct new border barriers at Friendship Park remain on pause following criticism from the public and politicians of the changes. Next, farmworkers from across the state have joined the "March for the Governor's Signature," a 335-mile trek from Kern County to Sacramento to show support for a voting rights bill. Plus, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it made abortion access especially challenging for women in the military. Finally we revisit an interview with San Diego writer Lizz Huerta who will be speaking at The San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books on August 20.

Bob Woodward/ the genius of John Belushi (6:40)/ how do you make this movie work? (9:00)/ The singing talents of Michael Chiklis (16:30)/ The outrage in the plot (22:44)/ Ray Sharkey (33:14)/ do we recommend this? (39:00)

Ex-stripper Heidi Rikan was working for the mob in Washington, DC. White House Call Girl tells how a call girl operation she was running at the time led to the Watergate break-in, which brought down Tricky Dick Nixon himself.Needless to say, this is not part of the usual Watergate story that has come down to us over the decades. It is also only fair to point out that this version of the story might be dismissed out of hand as being dangerous "revisionist" history. If you're not careful, you might end up being called a conspiracy theorist.You can also be called crazy—which is what happened to a young lawyer named Phillip Bailley, one of the principal witnesses to this ignored bit of American history. When he was foolish enough to blow the whistle on Rikan and her call girl ring, he was locked up at St. Elizabeth's, the District of Columbia's mental hospital, in the ward for the criminally insane.For forty years we've only heard the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein perspective on Watergate. Now we've got the photographs for the revisionist model. What's more, we've got Heidi's little black book.White House Call Girl was published last season in an eBook edition only. The paperback edition includes new information on the murder of call girl—and playmate of Vice President Spiro Agnew—Pat Adams. With the help of newly-released FBI documents, we fill in more of the blanks in this long-suppressed story.2 years ago #call, #ed, #girl:, #house, #opperman, #real, #report, #spreaker, #story, #the,

Ex-stripper Heidi Rikan was working for the mob in Washington, DC. White House Call Girl tells how a call girl operation she was running at the time led to the Watergate break-in, which brought down Tricky Dick Nixon himself. Needless to say, this is not part of the usual Watergate story that has come down to us over the decades. It is also only fair to point out that this version of the story might be dismissed out of hand as being dangerous "revisionist" history. If you're not careful, you might end up being called a conspiracy theorist. You can also be called crazy—which is what happened to a young lawyer named Phillip Bailley, one of the principal witnesses to this ignored bit of American history. When he was foolish enough to blow the whistle on Rikan and her call girl ring, he was locked up at St. Elizabeth's, the District of Columbia's mental hospital, in the ward for the criminally insane. For forty years we've only heard the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein perspective on Watergate. Now we've got the photographs for the revisionist model. What's more, we've got Heidi's little black book. White House Call Girl was published last season in an eBook edition only. The paperback edition includes new information on the murder of call girl—and playmate of Vice President Spiro Agnew—Pat Adams. With the help of newly-released FBI documents, we fill in more of the blanks in this long-suppressed story. 2 years ago #call, #ed, #girl:, #house, #opperman, #real, #report, #spreaker, #story, #the,

The Late Show Pod Show is BACK from break with this all new extended episode! Stephen checks on our friends in Europe who are experiencing a record-setting heat wave, and announces that The Late Show will broadcast LIVE this Thursday after the next public hearing by the Jan. 6th Committee. The great Billy Crystal returns to The Late Show in this Pod Show extended interview and shares some of his trademark impressions, including a spot-on Bob Woodward by way of Carol Channing. Stick around for more with Billy Crystal and check him out on Broadway starring in, “Mr. Saturday Night,” now playing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jennifer Senior was a long-time staff writer at New York magazine and a daily book critic for the NYT. Her own book is the bestseller, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood. She’s now a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she won the 2022 Pulitzer for “What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind,” a story about 9/11. But in this episode we primarily focus on her essay, “It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart.”You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player above (or click the dropdown menu to add the Dishcast to your podcast feed). For two clips of our convo — on why friends with different politics are increasingly rare, on how Jesus died for his friends — pop over to our YouTube page. A new transcript is up in honor of what we are still learning about Trump’s attempted violent coup: Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on the perpetual peril of Trump. Below is a segment of that convo — probably the most significant one we’ve had on the Dishcast yet:Turning to the debate over abortion in the ashes of Roe, a reader dissents:I’m having a hard time understanding why you’re so misleading about abortion rights in the US compared to other nations, and naive about protection of the other rights under the 14th Amendment. Germany allows abortions up to 12 weeks for any reason, but what’s remarkable about Germany is not the 12-week mark, but that Germany offers pre-natal care, child care, employment guarantees, etc. that make it much easier for a woman if she chooses to go through with her pregnancy. The US doesn’t have anything like this. And even with the new right in America pretending to hop on board the social insurance train, passing any laws in a conservative-majority Congress that would provide more social services to pregnant women would deliberately NOT address or protect the right of a woman to control her own fertility — that is, to decide to have a child or not. In other words, the interests of a woman’s bodily autonomy and reproductive control would be denied. That makes women, on the whole, unable to live freely in society. But we don’t have to hop over to Europe to run a comparison. Canada protects abortion rights for any reason, with most clinics providing the procedure up to 23 weeks. This aligns with the (previous) fetal viability cutoff that Roe protected. And recently Mexico decriminalized abortion entirely, which paves the way for full, legal abortion rights.The US is now the regressive anomaly, not the progressive outlier you insist we are. And your idea that abortion can just be decided via democracy is cute — maybe that would’ve been true in the past — but SCOTUS could care less about the legislative process. You only have to look at their recent gun decision to realize that. You should make these things clear when you discuss abortion, instead of conveniently obfuscating the context and facts.As far as your confidence that the other rights under the 14th Amendment — gay marriage, access to contraception, etc. — will stand firm, I’m not sure why. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney-Barrett evoked stare decisis in their confirmation hearings, and this turned out to be a shameless lie from all of them. With the conservative majority in place, they could then take up the Dobbs case and use it to overturn Roe entirely — stare decisis be damned.Alito left the door open to address Obergefell, etc. in his draft opinion, so why would you think Thomas taking it a step further is just him “trolling”? The majority of Americans wanted Roe left in place; its provisions were the compromise that balanced the interests of the woman with that of the fetus that you incorrectly thought was lacking. (Listen to Ezra Klein’s podcast with court expert Dahlia Lithwick to understand why that is). Yet despite its popularity, Roe was struck down. The majority of Americans support gay marriage. But the conservative court has publicly stated now that they don't care about what Americans want or think. Alito and Thomas have clearly said what they're willing to go after next. Kavanaugh playing footsie with the idea that those other rights are safe is just another lie that you are too willing to fall for, as I was too willing to think they wouldn't, in the end, touch Roe.As far as healthcare access in Germany, Katie Herzog made that point during our “Real Time” appearance last Friday:From a “Real Time” watcher:I disagree with you on quite a few issues, but appreciated your level-headed commentary on Bill Maher’s show. You’re one of the only people I saw today who forcefully made the point that the SCOTUS decision still allows for action by Congress — it’s a crucial point that has been totally lost in this discussion.From another fan of Bill’s show:I appreciated your take pointing out that the US is the only country that has made abortion rights a constitutional right, and I do understand your argument that this is something that needs to be decided through the democratic process. But I’m wondering if perhaps, on a deeper level, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. Your attitude has been for a long time that America is unique, exceptional, in its supposed commitment to individual freedom, as reflected in its constitution. Doesn’t that imply that enshrining personal rights in its constitution is in fact a perfect evocation to our country’s exceptionalism, what sets it apart from the cynical bickering and proceduralism of European parliamentary systems?I believe in democracy, tempered by constitutional restraints. So the kind of judicial supremacy you seem to be advocating seems outside that. I repeat that I would not have repealed Roe, for stare decisis and social stability reasons. But for the same reason, I wouldn’t have voted for it in 1973. I also believe that the Court could approximate your vision, in defending minority rights. But women are hardly a minority, and many women — at about the same rate as men — want abortion to be illegal.Many more dissents, and other reader comments on abortion, here. That roundup addressed the concern over stare decisis that readers keep bringing up. As I wrote then:Yes, I worry about stare decisis — but it is not an absolute bar to changing precedents. Akhil Amar, the renowned constitutional scholar at Yale, rebuts the same argument. Amar also just appeared on Bari’s podcast, in an episode titled, “The Yale Law Professor Who Is Anti-Roe But Pro-Choice” — a great listen.Bari addressed the Dobbs decision in her new piece, “The Post-Roe Era Begins.” Another reader looks at the legislative route:I think President Biden and the Democrats as a whole would be in a far better position with voters today if over the past 18 months they had taken that same “small bites” approach on a variety of other issues: border security, election reform and just about any other challenge where they now have nothing to show the American voters because they approached those issues if they had significant majorities in each house. They could even take this “small bites” approach right now on the abortion issue, given (as you’ve documented) that the vast majority of Americans favor access to abortions with reasonable restrictions. Instead, Chuck Schumer runs a bill that’s even more permissive than Roe.I know it’s naïve to think we can take politics out of policymaking, but maybe, given the election hand they were dealt, it would have been good politics to pursue progress over progressivism. Right now they’d be running on a far different record (one of being the adults in the room) and could present a much stronger claim for leading our nation. Instead, they wasted a lot of time and opportunity pretending they had the clout to adopt the entire far-left progressive agenda.Another reader delves into the Court precedents that Democrats are wringing their hands over:You wrote about Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell: “Thomas also concedes that there could be other constitutional defenses for these previous decisions beyond ‘substantive due process.’”There is one defense, at least. The 14th Amendment has a due process clause and an equal protection clause. When Casey upheld Roe, the right to abortion was based upon due process, not equal protection. Dobbs found that due process did not guarantee the right to abortion. Equal protection of the laws is different. If a state allows an opposite-sex couple to marry or have sex, but bans a similarly situated same-sex couple from doing so, then equal protection of the laws is denied based upon sex, in violation of the 14th Amendment. If there were a state where females were banned from obtaining abortions but males were specifically permitted to have abortions, then that would be a denial of equal protection, based upon sex. But there is, of course, no world in which that would happen, and if there were, the state could simply ban males from having abortions as well and cure the equal-protection problem. Obergefell was based upon both due process and equal protection, so if due process is removed we still have equal protection. Lawrence was decided on due process alone, but it easily could be upheld based upon equal protection. (Justice O’Connor, in concurring in the ruling, said she would have relied upon equal protection instead of due process.) So Lawrence and Obergefell seem safe. Griswold does not seem safe under equal protection, but it may be safe under other provisions, although no state is currently seriously trying to ban the sale of contraceptives. Although Bostock was a decision based upon the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and not on the Constitution, Gorsuch ruled that the law that banned sex discrimination in employment applied to gays and transgender people. His reasoning was that if you fire a female employee for being married to a women but don’t fire a male employee for being married to a woman, then you are discriminating based upon the employee’s sex. There is a very strong argument that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause works similarly. I broadly agree with this. Speaking of the transgender debate, a parent writes:While I generally agree with your balanced approach, I think you are still missing what is fueling the alarm on the right. As a parent of a 14 year old, I’m very aware of the extraordinary confusion that some teens now face because of the mainstream promotion of gender identities. For many kids, all this is harmless and ridiculous, and they tune it out. For a very tiny number of kids, this information may be extremely necessary, and perhaps even lifesaving, so they don’t feel so alone.  But unfortunately, I believe there is a quite significant number of kids that have come to believe that all their teen problems will be solved if they simply lop off a few body parts. A few days ago I caught up with a friend who is a wreck because her 14-year-old daughter asked if she could cut off her breasts. This girl has some issues with body anxiety and acceptance, like the majority of teen girls, and has now decided she can avoid all the bad aspects of maturing into a woman by simply becoming a man, which in her mind is closer to remaining a girl, which is what she really wants. The mother is trying to help every way she can, and is about as caring and progressive as a parent can possibly be. But you have to understand how parents today are simply helpless to combat the flood of bizarre, foolish, and/or utterly toxic information that their kids find on the internet, or in social media with their classmates. We entirely ban our 14-year-old from all social media, and from all internet sites except for those needed for school, because we have seen time and time again how kids’ lives are getting wrecked from all that sludge. Most parents are simply not equipped to handle it. Many aren’t able to police their child as thoroughly as we do, and for those on the right with kids, I believe this very real damage has caused some to turn to any platform such as QAnon or other fringe groups that can make sense of this real trauma and harm to their kids. If you don’t have kids, it’s very easy to dismiss this as hysteria. But if you are aware of what's happening to kids nowadays, it’s truly terrifying.Lisa Selin Davis would agree; her new piece on Substack is titled, “It’s a Terrifying Time to Have a Gender-Questioning Kid.” And I completely understand where the reader is coming from. I find the relentless promotion of concepts derived from critical gender and critical queer theory to be destabilizing to kids’ identities, lives and happiness. These woke fanatics are taking the real experience of less than a half percent of the population and imposing it as if it is some kind of choice for everyone else. This is called “inclusion.” It is actually “indoctrination.”Telling an impressionable gay boy he might be a girl throws a wrench into his psychological development, adding confusion, possible generating bodily mutilation. Making all of this as cool as possible — as so many teachers and schools now do — is downright disturbing. The whole idea that all children can choose their pronouns because the tiniest proportion have gender dysphoria is a form of insanity. But it’s an insanity based on critical theory whose goal is the dismantling of all norms, and deconstruction of objective reality by calling it a function of “white supremacy.” This next reader has “a theory I’ve wanted to float by you”:I’m increasingly becoming of the opinion that the modern trans/gender movement is the twisted offspring of something in the gay rights movement that we thought was a good thing but actually wasn’t: the notion that someone is “born that way.” Today, we increasingly feel the need to diagnose children who were “born a certain way” and then provide medical interventions for something that is aggressively conflating the physical and the mental. (I’m using the historical Abrahamic distinction between the two here, sure there’s a philosophical debate about whether or not this distinction exists.) And that makes perfect sense if you think that the foundation of acceptability for these immutable identities is determined at birth — we have medicine in service of zeitgeist.I think the original sin here is going with “what we could get done” in the gay rights movement and stopping before we finished the job — of letting everyone know that these are preferences, and you need to respect and love people regardless of the choices they make and not just because they “can’t help it” because they were “born that way.” If we were to do away with this biological imperative driving identity, we’d end up with what we should really be striving for: radical acceptance of personal choices, and deconstruction of gender roles and stereotypes without engaging in pseudoscience.The trouble with this argument, I think, is that it doesn’t reflect the experience of most gay people. We do not “choose” our orientation. That is the key point — whether that lack of choice is due to biology or early childhood or something else is irrelevant. And genuinely trans people do not choose to be trans either. It’s a profound disjunction between the sex they feel they are and the sex they actually are. It also may be caused by any number of things. But it is involuntary.The queer left rejects this view entirely — because, in their view, there is no underlying reality to human beings, biological or psychological. It’s all about “narratives” driven by “systems of power,” and being gay or trans is infinitely malleable. That’s why they continuously use a slur word for gays — “queer” — to deconstruct homosexuality itself, and turn it merely into one of many ways in which to dismantle liberal society. I regard the “queer left” as dangerous as the far right in its belief that involuntary homosexual orientation doesn’t exist. Lastly, a listener “would like to make a couple of suggestions for Dishcast guests”:1) Razib Khan — he has been blogging for 20 years on genetics, particularly ancient population movements (e.g. Denisovans and Yamnaya). His Unsupervised Learning is currently the second-highest-paid science substack after Scott Alexander. To give you a flavour, his post on the genetic history of Ashkenazi Jews was very popular. Khan also does culture war stuff, mostly because he is a scientist and believes in truth and science. He has subsequently been the subject of controversy, as you can see from his Wikipedia page — which isn’t really fair, but gives you a flavor. His post “Applying IQ to IQ: Selecting for smarts is important” is the kind of thing that gets him in trouble. He is my favourite public intellectual, in large part because he combines actual hardcore science information with anti-woke skepticism. And he is just generally a very smart and interesting guy. Though I’m a fan of his substack, I’d like to hear him on your podcast because I’d like to find out more about Razib as a person, how he feels about the controversies, etc.2) Claire Fox — Baroness Fox of Buckley — is a former communist turned libertarian and Brexiteer, once a member of European Parliament and now a life peer in the House of Lords. Her Twitter feed gives a pretty good idea of her interests and views. Here are some clips on cancel culture in higher education; single-sex spaces for women; and a libertarian view on smoking. She broadly belongs to the British “TERF island” of gender-critical feminists. I know you’ve had Kathleen Stock on your podcast already, but Fox’s background, libertarian views and current membership in the House of Lords make her particularly interesting.I know Razib and deeply admire him and his intellectual courage. And it’s true that, in real life, he’s a hoot, a lively conversationalist, with an amazing life story. Because of his views about the science of genetics and human populations, he is, of course, anathema to the woke left. One good reason to invite him on. Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

With inflation and rising gas prices still top of mind for many Americans, George goes one-on-one with Treasury Secretary Janey Yellen about the Biden administration's plans for the economy and whether a recession is looming. Then, as the nation tunes in to the January 6th hearings ongoing in the House, George speaks with committee member Representative Adam Kinzinger about the investigation. And 50 years after the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, legendary journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reflect on their reporting and how it echoes today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this CBS News audio special, 60 Minutes presenter Lesley Stahl and Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein relive how their revelations exposed Nixon's abuse of presidential power. CBS News is revealing the archives covering the break-in at the Watergate Hotel to mark the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal. Hear rare outtakes, exclusive archival interviews, and new firsthand accounts from both the Nixon administration as well as those who investigated the groundbreaking crime. Watergate: High Crimes in the White House is now available to stream on Paramount+.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Former President Trump lashed out at the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol calling them “con artists.” Trump also called his former Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Bill Barr “weak.” Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego was at the Capitol on the day of the insurrection. He tells AC360 why the American people should be paying attention to what the committee is saying, despite the President's repeated attacks. Plus, journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein join AC360 on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in to discuss how they think it compares to what they're seeing play out now with the January 6 hearings.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

In this CBS News audio special, 60 Minutes presenter Lesley Stahl and Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein relive how their revelations exposed Nixon's abuse of presidential power. CBS News is revealing the archives covering the break-in at the Watergate Hotel to mark the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal. Hear rare outtakes, exclusive archival interviews, and new firsthand accounts from both the Nixon administration as well as those who investigated the groundbreaking crime. Watergate: High Crimes in the White House is now available to stream on Paramount+.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this CBS News audio special, 60 Minutes presenter Lesley Stahl and Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein relive how their revelations exposed Nixon's abuse of presidential power. CBS News is revealing the archives covering the break-in at the Watergate Hotel to mark the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal. Hear rare outtakes, exclusive archival interviews, and new firsthand accounts from both the Nixon administration as well as those who investigated the groundbreaking crime. Watergate: High Crimes in the White House is now available to stream on Paramount+.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fifty years ago today, five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, located in the posh Watergate building in D.C. Nobody knew it at the time, but the break-in was the first in a series of events that spiraled into the Watergate scandal, and eventually, the downfall of President Richard M. Nixon. For many people, their memories of this event have become encapsulated in a movie: the iconic 1976 film “All the President's Men.” Based on the book by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the film follows the pair as they dig into the break-in and crack open the scandal, tracing the source of the burglary back to the White House. Ann Hornaday, The Post's film critic, calls the movie a metonym for Watergate — a stand-in for this entire period in history — “that from the moment it opened seemed to fuse seamlessly with private memory and collective myth.”Today, guest host and media reporter Elahe Izadi talks with Ann about what it means for a film to function in this way. And, we hear a dramatization of a deleted scene from an early draft of the screenplay, as Ann reveals that the classic we know almost didn't exist. Read more:Film critic Ann Hornaday explains how “All the President's Men” went from buddy flick to masterpiece in her Washington Post Magazine story.

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Wednesday on the NewsHour, families of victims testify before Congress, pleading with lawmakers to act in the wake of multiple mass shootings. Then, we break down the outcomes of crucial primaries in California and six other states and what they mean for the general election. Plus, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reflect on the Watergate scandal and parallels to former President Trump. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Next week is the 50th anniversary of the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, an event that would bring down a U.S. president. The reporters at the heart of uncovering the Watergate scandal have reissued their book "All the President's Men" with a new forward drawing parallels to former President Trump. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein join Judy Woodruff to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward reflect on their bond 50 years after the Watergate story began. Plus, Biden senior adviser Gene Sperling explains the administration's media blitz about the economy; San Antonio Express-News executive editor Nora Lopez says officials are stonewalling the press in Uvalde; and Brian Stelter reports on CNN setting a higher standard for "breaking news." To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy