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From our archives a very special guest, John Dean. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970’s. Dean served as White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. In that position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent scandal and cover-up. Referred to as the "master manipulator of the cover-up" by the FBI, Dean’s testimony before the House was watched by some 80 million Americans. Granted immunity, Dean laid out in stunning detail and intricacy how the President not only knew about but orchestrated the break-in and burglary of the DNC. He ultimately was sentenced to one year in Federal Prison, but emerged from the experience as a changed and soulful individual. Dean renounced his former politics and started a second life as an author and speaker. He’s penned five books about Watergate and 10 books in total; including his most recent tome, Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and his Followers. Dean is now the last man standing from that era, He is the last connection between this nation’s authoritarian past and present.
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Today we welcome back to our show, political satirist and digital comedian, Walter Masterson, a progressive video content creator who has turned trolling the whole MAGA shit-show into an art form. The video he shot while working on the frontlines during the January 6th insurrection has been instrumental in helping the FBI apprehend rioters who were stupid enough to brag about their crimes on tape. Walt’s even brave enough to interact with users who both love and hate him on Twitch and Snapchat. Masterson has been trolling anti-abortion groups and been following the conversation happening now on college campuses.
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We welcome back to the show, Tony Schwartz. A former columnist for The New York Post, and associate editor at Newsweek, he was also a reporter for The New York Times, and staff writer at New York Magazine and Esquire. In 1985, Schwartz began interviewing Donald Trump to ghostwrite Trump: “The Art of the Deal” for which he was given co-author credit. Art of the Deal was published in 1987 and some say it’s what sold Trump to the public as a successful businessman. Tony is here today to talk about how Trump ticks and just how traumatizing his current legal predicaments are bound to be.
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Our guest today is former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Glenn Kirschner - he’s an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and the host of the popular podcast, Justice Matters. Drawing from his 30 years as a federal prosecutor, homicide prosecutor, and Army JAG, Kirschner is with us to help us make sense of Trump’s legal trials and errors.
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Today we welcome for the first time, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps”Sullivan, the creators and stars of the popular podcast “I’ve Had It”. They first took the world by storm with their Bravo series “Sweet Home Oklahoma” — where they exported their idyllic hometown for all it was worth. Their brand is “no feelings spared” as they approach the burning issues of the moment. Or at least the issues that burn them the most. Don’t ask them to bring a casserole to your event or to celebrate international snow cone day with you, because they’ve HAD IT.
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Today we welcome back to the show, journalist and author, Dave Marcus. Soon after graduating from Brown, Marcus wrote an article for Vanity Fair. It was a look at the final months of his nefarious cousin Roy Cohn. The same Roy Cohn who was Donald Trump’s mentor and fixer. Since then, Dave has been warning Americans about the ways Cohn taught Trump to lie, steal, and misuse the judicial system. Marcus has written several books and shared the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, for a series about violence against women. Today, we will talk to Dave about how Trump is now mimicking Cohn’s lawless approach to the law in courtrooms across the country.
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