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Join Andrew Weissmann, NYU Law Professor, former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, and MSNBC commentator, as he sits down with veteran journalist Warren Olney on America at a Crossroads. They discuss the state of democracy, the rule of law, and the implications of ongoing legal battles. Weissmann, author of the New York Times bestseller Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation, offers his expert insights on the current legal landscape.#AmericaAtACrossroads #AndrewWeissmann #WarrenOlney #RuleOfLaw #MuellerInvestigation #MainJustice #LegalAnalysis #CurrentEvents
Douglas Brinkley is a Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He has received seven honorary doctorates in American Studies. He has authored more than 25 books, including several highly acclaimed presidential biographies. Six of his books were named New York Times “Notable Books of the Year” and seven became New York Times bestsellers. The New York Historical Society selected Brinkley as their official U.S. Presidential Historian. He is on the Board of Trustees at Brevard College and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. He is a member of the Century Association, Council of Foreign relations and James Madison Council on the Library of Congress.
In this week's America at a Crossroads, political strategist Sarah Longwell and attorney George Conway join veteran journalist Warren Olney for a candid, forward-looking conversation about where the country is headed. Amid deep polarization and political uncertainty, they explore signs of optimism, the resilience of democratic institutions, and what it will take to secure a better future for the United States.
Join legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Patt Morrison for a timely and thought-provoking discussion on the future of the American justice system. As political pressures mount and public trust wavers, they explore whether our legal institutions can withstand today's unprecedented challenges.
Susan B. Glasser writes Letter from Biden's Washington for The New Yorker. She previously served as editor of Politico during the 2016 election cycle, founding editor of Politico Magazine, and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine — earning three National Magazine Awards during her tenure.Madeleine Brand is the host of the award-winning daily news and culture show Press Play on KCRW, where she covers national and local stories through a Southern California lens. She's also the co-host of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW's popular legal affairs podcast.
Can we reclaim a common truth in the age of social media? In this America at a Crossroads conversation, human rights expert Michael Posner joins journalist Madeleine Brand to discuss how social media shapes democracy, the spread of misinformation, and what can be done to restore trust in facts.
In this episode of America at a Crossroads, UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky joins journalist Larry Mantle to discuss the possibility of a constitutional convention and other important constitutional issues shaping the country today.
In this week's America at a Crossroads conversation, legal expert and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance joins award-winning journalist Patt Morrison to explore the evolving challenges facing the American justice system.From the increasing politicization of the courts to the resilience of democratic institutions, Vance and Morrison discuss how legal norms are being tested and what it means for the future of justice in the U.S.
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America's democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy.Register for our upcoming programs at jewsunitedfordemocracy.org/events/
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America's democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy.Register for our upcoming programs at jewsunitedfordemocracy.org/events/
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America's democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy.Register for our upcoming programs at jewsunitedfordemocracy.org/events/
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America's democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy.
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America's democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy.Register for our upcoming programs at jewsunitedfordemocracy.org/events/
Jennifer Rubin is an American political commentator who writes opinion columns for The Washing Post. Previously she worked at Commentary, PJ Media, Human Events, and The Weekly Standard. Her work has been published in media outlets including Politico, New York Post, New York Daily News, National Review, and The Jerusalem Post. A conservative political commentator throughout most of her career, she became a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and in September 2020, she announced that she no longer identified as a conservative.
During this America at a Crossroads program, Patt Morrison, veteran LA Timescolumnist and winner of a Pulitzer, many Golden Mikes and multiple EmmyAwards, will engage January 6 Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn in conversationabout the January 6 insurrection. Dunn has been one of the most prominent andessential voices regarding the truth of what happened in and around the Capitolon January 6.Harry Anthony Dunn served in the United States Capitol Police and was one of many police officers present during the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. During the attack, Dunn was stationed outside the Capitol. Once the Capitol was breached, Dunn was called inside to guard a stairwell with injured officers and to guard Speaker Pelosi's office. He interacted with rioters extensively that day. Officer Dunn testified in front of the House Select January 6 Committee. He also testified at the 2022 trial of the Oath Keepers for seditious conspiracy for their actions relating to the Capitol attack. Dunn's heroic conduct on January 6 earned him a Congressional Gold Medal.Officer Dunn recently wrote a NY Times best-selling memoir entitled Standing MyGround which has been called a “must-read.”This is sure to be a stimulating and informative hour intended to provide insight into the insurrection from the perspective of someone whose fists were bloodied and whose life was threatened on that dark day.
This America at a Crossroads program will feature Ron Brownstein,one of the country's foremost political journalists and analysts, inconversation with award winning veteran NPR-affiliate LAist radio talkshow journalist, Larry Mantle. With less than 4 weeks before electionday, the program will focus on up-to-the-minute current events relatedto Election 2024.Brownstein is a senior political analyst for CNN and a senior editor atThe Atlantic. He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for hiscoverage of presidential campaigns and the author or editor of sevenbooks. There may be no political pundit with greater insight, depth ofexperience, and knowledge about all aspects of the current electionthan Ron Brownstein. He is conversant with the nuances of polls andthe voting practices of rural as well we urban Americans—from thesmallest American town to the largest American cities. It will be ahighly informative as well as entertaining hour—we promise!
RICK HASEN is one of the country's foremost experts on Americanelection law, campaign finance, voting rights, voter suppression, andtransitions of power. In conversation with the highly awardedbroadcast journalist Warren Olney, Rick will provide his analysis onthe state of the current election with emphasis on efforts at votersuppression, legal cases impacting on voting rights, ballot counting,and challenges to election outcomes. Warren and Rick will discussthe prospects of a repeat of the events of the attack on the Capitol onJanuary 6, 2021.RICK HASEN is a professor of Law at UCLA Law and the Director ofUCLA Law's Safeguarding Democracy Project. He was a foundingeditor of the quarterly Election Law Journal, a peer reviewedpublication on election law. He runs Election Law Blog and is theauthor of 6 critically reviewed books including A Real Right to Vote:How a Constitutional Amendment can Safeguard AmericanDemocracy.Warren Olney was the host and executive producer of the naitonallsyndicated weekday afternoon program “To The Point.” He has beenhonored with nearly 40 awards for his work.
BOB SHRUM AND MICHAEL MURPHY are arguably amongst the mostrespected and experienced political analysts and pundits of our time.Both have extensive experience working on numerous presidentialcampaigns over the past many decades. In conversation with PattMorrison of the LA Times, who has won the Pulitzer, six Emmys and adozen Golden Mike awards, Bob and Mike will share their honest andalways insightful thoughts and predictions about the upcomingelections.Bob, a Democratic consultant, consulted to the George McGovern,Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, to the Gore-Lieberman and Kerry-Edwardscampaigns. He strategized 30 winning Senate campaigns, 8 winninggubernatorial campaigns, and for scores of winning mayoralcampaigns in every major city in America. Currently, Bob is theDirector of the Center for the Political Future and the Carmen H. andLouis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the University ofSouthern California (USC).Mike, a Republican consultant, consulted to John McCain, MittRomney, Jeb Bush, Tommy Thompson, Arnold Schwarzenegger,Christie Whitman, and many more at all levels of government. Mike, avocal critic of MAGA and Donald Trump, is Co-Director of the USCCenter for the Political Future.
Aside from being America's most prolific, acclaimed, and respecteddocumentary film maker, Ken Burns is an astute observer ofAmerican political life, both past and present. Known for his doggedcommitment to pursuing the truth through locating and uncoveringprimary source documents, Ken Burns has had dramatic influencenot only as the greatest documentarian of the day, but also as aninfluential thinker and analyst of American life.In this America at a Crossroads program Pulitzer Prize winning writer,columnist and broadcast journalist, Patt Morrison, will engage withKen Burns, the country's greatest filmmaker and popular historian,about the current state of American life, politics and where, throughhis special lens, he sees America headed.
This program features the dynamic duo of two renowned journalistswho have covered national politics, elections and presidencies fordecades. They will be discussing their observations and analysis ofthe 2024 Elections in conversation with Madeleine Brand of NPR'saffiliate KCRW.Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New YorkTimes and a political analyst for MSNBC Baker has covered fivepresidencies: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald J.Trump and now Joe Biden. There are few reporters who are moreconversant than Peter Baker with presidencies and presidential politicsSusan Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washingtonpublications, including Politico, where she founded the award-winning Politico Magazine, and Foreign Policy, which won three NationalMagazine Awards, among other honors, during her tenure as editor inchief. Previously, she worked at the Washington Post as editor for nationalnews and oversaw coverage of the impeachment of Bill Clinton, served asa reporter covering the intersection of money and politics, spent four yearsas the Post's Moscow co-bureau chief, and covered the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan. She edited Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, early in hercareer.
Sarah Longwell, a Republican political strategist, is the founder andproducer of The Bulwark, a conservative anti-Trump news and opinionwebsite launched in 2018. Together with Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes,Sarah has consistently presented outstanding podcasts, programming andarticles for Republican never-Trumpers, a movement which Longwellhelped to form and continues to lead. Longwell is the founder ofRepublican Voters Against Trump, which spent millions of dollars to defeatthen-President Donald Trump in 2020. She also heads Republicans for theRule of Law which advocated for the impeachment and removal of Trumpin 2019. Sarah Longwell, and The Bulwark continue to pursue theirmission of warning of the dangers to our democracy posed by MAGA andTrump.Simon Rosenberg is a highly regarded Democratic political strategist andcommentator with more than 3 decades of experience in national politicsand television news. He has built a new home for his political analysis,commentary, and live political discussions at Hopium Chronicles, anengaging new project on the Substack media platform. In 2022 Rosenbergwas the single political analyst who refuted the notion that the 2022 electionwould result in a “red wave”…and he got it right.Simon and Sarah were guests on America at a Crossroads in December,2023 looking ahead to the 2024 elections. Now that the 2024 elections areupon us, we have asked them to return to take A Close(r)Look at the2024 Elections. It will be fun, exciting and informative. Moderated byLAists' Larry Mantle
Friday, August 23rd 2024Today, we have the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Elon Musk's Twitter has revealed its investors in a court filing; a Tennessee man was indicted for threatening to kill President Biden, Vice President Harris, and former President Obama on Twitter; the DoJ says it will move ahead with an obstruction charge despite the Supreme Court ruling; RFJ Jr is set to drop out of the race and endorse Donald Trump; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.Guests:John Fugelsanghttps://www.johnfugelsang.com/tmehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-john-fugelsang-podcast/id1464094232The Sexy Liberal Save The World Comedy Tourhttps://sexyliberal.comHarry DunnStanding my ground book Standing My Ground A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th By Harry Dunn (Hatchet Book Group)https://www.instagram.com/libradunnStoriesElon Musk's X reveals investors in court filing (Washington Post)DOJ says it will move ahead with Jan. 6 trial on obstruction count even after SCOTUS ruling (WUSA 9)RFK Jr. expected to drop out of race by end of week, plans to endorse Trump: Sources (ABC News)Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe to Lawyers, Guns, And MoneyAd-free premium feed: https://lawyersgunsandmoney.supercast.comSubscribe for free everywhere else:https://lawyersgunsandmoney.simplecast.com/episodes/1-miami-1985Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill https://muellershewrote.substack.comhttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://www.threads.net/@muellershewrotehttps://www.tiktok.com/@muellershewrotehttps://instagram.com/muellershewroteDana Goldberghttps://twitter.com/DGComedyhttps://www.instagram.com/dgcomedyhttps://www.facebook.com/dgcomedyhttps://danagoldberg.comHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/From The Good NewsDoc Ellen's Nature Photography (docellensnaturephotography.com)https://www.threads.net/@dreamingsongsphotoshttps://autobuyingconsultingllc.comCOMING CLEAN Novel (Regal House)Minnesota's health insurance marketplace (MNSure) Live Show Ticket Links:https://allisongill.com (for all tickets and show dates)Saturday August 24 San Francisco, CA https://tinyurl.com/Beans-SF Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/OrPatreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts
Congressman Adam Schiff with Larry Mantle [Conversation continues with Zev Yaroslavsky and Larry Mantle at 38:00]
Reports surfaced a few weeks ago that the supreme court justice Samuel Alito had flown an upside-down US flag outside his home days after insurrectionists flew similar flags when they stormed the Capitol on 6 January 2021. Alito has blamed his wife, saying he wanted her to take down the flag down after a dispute with neighbours. Democrats want Alito to recuse himself from any supreme court case involving 6 January, but he has refused to do so. Jonathan Freedland speaks to Amanda Marcotte of Salon about whether this latest scandal is proof that the supreme court is incapable of being unbiased
Janet Napolitano with Patt Morrison | How safe are we? A frank assessment of the condition of our homeland security.
Original Air Date: July 23, 2022 This week features University of Michigan law professor, co-host of the #SistersinLaw podcast and MSNBC legal analysis royalty, Barbara McQuade. Marissa and Barbara go deep on the January 6 commission's prime-time hearing, from Josh Hawley's gazelle-like leaps to the stunning revelation that the vice-president's Secret Service detail was afraid they would be killed protecting him. Barbara also shares evidence that could prove Trump committed involuntary manslaughter and explains how to get a recalcitrant witness to talk. (Yoo-hoo, Mark Meadows!) Meanwhile, Marissa bakes chocolate-chocolate-chocolate chip cookies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices