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Talking Feds

Talking Feds is a roundtable discussion that brings together prominent former government officials, journalists, and special guests for a dynamic and in-depth analysis of the most pressing questions in law and politics.

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00:52:10

Fear & Loathing at DOJ

Talking Feds ·

2025/04/07

For this special episode, we go inside the DOJ, or as close as we can, w/ the help of 2 of the country’s most respected reporters, Devlin Barrett and Evan Perez, and a recent DOJ exile, Stacey Young, who has an organization to help her erstwhile colleagues.

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00:29:28

A new abundance agenda for the Democratic Party

Talking Feds ·

2025/04/03

Harry talks with Jake Auchincloss, a relatively young Demoratic member of the House who is drawing a lot of attention for his ideas about how the Party needs to proceed to win back a majority of the American people.

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00:58:18

Hegsethive Pride

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/31

After revealing details of a military operation on a Signal group chat that included a reporter, the Administration circled the wagons, minimizing the episode & declining to undertake a real investigation.

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00:23:24

Beware the Coming Republican Voting Rights Legislation

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/27

Harry talks with Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, about the possibly imminent introduction by House of the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility” (SAVE) Act.

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00:48:19

Capitulation Nation

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/24

The week featured the expansion of Trump’s shakedowns of prominent sectors of civil society.

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00:46:54

Steven Pinker Knows Everything

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/20

Harry sits down with Steven Pinker, who wears many intellectual hats, all well: linguist, psychologist, political philosopher, historian, and social critic, for starters.

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00:53:32

ClusterChuck

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/17

A roundtable of 3 great commentators--Josh Marshall, Charlie Sykes, and Ali Vitali--assesses the state of play in politics and U.S. society after 2 months of hyper-aggressive moves by Donald Trump.

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00:21:56

The view from New Jersey…and Washington DC

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/13

Harry talks to Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, whose extensive experience includes a long stint in the Navy as a helicopter pilot and Russian policy officer, a stretch in the US Attorney’s office, and a current candidacy for New Jersey governor.

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01:04:49

A House Misguided

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/10

Our monthly all-contrarian episode with Norm Eisen, Jen Rubin, & Katie Phang first analyzes Trump’s address to Congress, which clocked in at about 2 hours and featured a series of lies and low blows.

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00:24:32

Trump’s Disastrous Assault on U.S Soft Power

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/06

Harry talks with Max Boot about his latest article, “US soft power took decades to build. Trump is dismantling it in weeks.”

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01:03:34

"Anyone Unhappy With Elon?"

Talking Feds ·

2025/03/03

Tara Setmayer, Bob Shrum, and Jacob Weisberg join Harry to analyze the party-line House budget that seems DOA in the Senate; tension within the Executive Branch over Elon Musk; growing popular opposition to the Administration and especially to Musk’s untethered and unaccounted role; and more.

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00:27:32

Jamie Raskin and the Constitutional Cavalry

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/27

Harry talks once again with constitutional patriot and House Oversight Committee member Jamie Raskin about the tight spot we are in after just one month of Trump rule.

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00:55:29

Trump Breaks the World

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/24

It’s time for our periodic episode on foreign policy, in fact the nick of time, b/c while we’ve been chiefly focused on the damage Trump has done to domestic constitutional rules, he’s been taking as big a sledgehammer to longstanding foreign policy relationships.

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00:25:21

What will happen to consumers under Trump?

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/20

Harry talks with Rich Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, about the Bureau’s achievements for American consumers and the concerns that its functions now may slow dramatically or even stop.

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00:29:25

The politics of DOJ and the law of DOGE

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/19

It’s our regular mash-up with none other than Molly Jong-Fast, in which Molly fires legal question that have been occupying her at Harry, and Harry reciprocates with political questions for Molly.

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00:54:25

“Not anything any of us ever expected to see in America"

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/17

Trump continued to bend the political system to his will, but the courts and his own Dept of Justice pushed back. Alisyn Camerota, Norm Ornstein, & Jacob Weisberg join Harry to assess Trump’s checkered week.

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00:24:17

THURSDAY NIGHT MASSACRE AT THE DOJ

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/14

Harry talks to Kristy Greenberg, former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the Southern District of New York, about the burgeoning scandal involving the resignation of the acting United States Attorney and multiple other officials in her office and at Main Justice.

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00:56:04

Talking San Diego presents Chris Hayes With His #1...

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/13

In the latest conversation in the Talking San Diego series, Harry sits down with Chris Hayes before a live San Diego audience on the evening when Hayes’s new book, “The Sirens’ Call,” was named to the top position on the New York Times’s Bestseller List.

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00:22:26

Jeff Toobin Talks Righteous and Corrupt Pardons

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/11

Harry sits down with Jeff Toobin on the day of the publication of Toobin’s latest book, “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy.”

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00:44:15

Too Many Musks on the Field

Talking Feds ·

2025/02/10

An all-contrarian roundtable—Paul Krugman, Norm Eisen, and Jen Rubin—chronicles the first signs of pushback against Trump’s constitutional assaults and analyzes the vacuous tariffs initiatives.

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