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Episodes
Showing 20 of 320- How rising oil prices are foiling Trump’s energy policy5/8/202631 min
- How Trump is undermining the fight against public corruption5/7/202618 min
- Trump approval is worst ever in new poll5/6/202615 min
- Is the Strait of Hormuz Trump’s biggest political headache?5/5/202617 min
- Efforts to renew key spy program keep failing in Congress5/4/202619 min
- Trump’s retribution tour: Comey, Indiana Republicans, and ABC5/1/202626 min
- Florida passes new House map; Mills exits Maine Senate race4/30/202620 min
- Supreme Court deals another blow to Voting Rights Act4/29/202619 min
- Trump mulls a Spirit Airlines bailout. Is this capitalism?4/28/202621 min
- DOJ charges suspect in White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting4/27/202616 min
- Trump, Vance evacuated after shots fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner4/26/202653 min
- DOJ drops Fed chair probe to cap a busy week in politics4/24/202627 min
- Civil rights group says federal charges are political4/23/202617 min
- Virginia beats back Trump's redistricting gamble4/22/202620 min
- Trump backs psychedelic drug treatments4/21/202618 min
- Does the president own presidential records?4/20/202621 min
- Why Democrats have little leverage to reform ICE4/17/202627 min
- These Georgia swing voters do not like the Iran war4/16/202614 min
- Where Swalwell’s exit leaves the California governor’s race4/15/202621 min
- The president versus the pope4/14/202623 min