Popok is back on the award-winning Intersection podcast and providing running commentary on this week’s legal and political breaking stories including 1) the Kennedy Center trustees vote to close it down unless a Judge let’s Trump put his name on it; 2) the Supreme Court rules against Trump on mail in ballots and who can use them; 3) Kash Patel is roasted by the Senate Judiciary Committee so bad
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s night unraveling as major developments pile up, including new reports involving the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, Trump unleashing a barrage of increasingly erratic social media posts, and Attorney General Todd Blanche holding a bizarre press conference as the chaos continues to escalate.
One of the things I’m known for is getting into it with right-wingers on CNN roundtables, but the OG woman of distinction who does this so beautifully, is Jessica Tarlov on Fox's roundtable show The Five. I’m having Jessica on to talk about this moment in history, but also how we talk about it without losing our minds. Her new book I Disagree: Winning Arguments without Losing Friends, is exactly w
In the ultimate trolling, Canada has invited major US financial services companies and funds to Toronto for this week’s first of its kind Investment Summit, as US Banks consider investing trillions of dollars to help Canada beat Trump! Popok reports on Canada also reminding the investment world that they, not the US, are a “stable and reliable” trading partner in contrast to Trump’s erratic polic
A bombshell ProPublica investigation reveals that a Russian oligarch close to Putin secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Don Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting a private island and paying for the fireworks. Dina Doll reports on this and the statement just put out by Don Jr. and his wife Bettina confirming their close relationship with the oligarch.
On this episode of Meidas Defense, host Joe Plenzler sits down with The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood to examine what we’ve learned about Al-Qaeda 25 years after 9/11. They discuss Osama bin Laden’s real strategy behind the attacks, how the U.S. response reshaped Al-Qaeda, the current state of the organization, and the major strategic mistakes America made in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wood also explains why
