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Omnishambles The Daily Beast
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Do you read the news coming out of D.C. and wonder “How the hell did this happen?” If so, Omnishambles is for you.
Join The Daily Beast’s D.C. Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich and Politics Editor Sam Stein every Monday as they try to make sense of the chaos in Washington, with a rotating cast of your favorite voices from The Beast. They’ll set you up for the week and share the interesting little nuggets that often get left on the cutting room floor.
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A Washington Lobbyist Dishes on the Trump Swamp He Helped Create
This week, we discuss what it’s like operating as a Washington lobbyist in the Donald Trump era. Fortunately, we have Barry Bennett, a former Trump adviser and longtime Republican operative, to take us through the gory details, what it was like working for The Donald, and how President Trump changed and repopulated the “Swamp” that he campaigned to destroy with extreme prejudice.
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Why Liberals Should Want to Nuke The Filibuster
This week’s guest: Adam Jentleson, Public Affairs Director at Democracy Forward and former Deputy Chief of Staff to former Senator Harry Reid.
This week we discuss the latest policy debates pulling the Democratic Party sharper to its left, how to separate the noise from the actual substance with candidates such as Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, and lastly, we try to solve the age-old puzzle: How do you make discussions about the costs and benefits of nuking the filibuster sexy?? -
Trump Called Tom Brady for His Birthday to Joke that ‘Ivanka Chose Jared’
Today's guest is Jason Miller, a former top Trump campaign adviser, who, among other things, talks about the time when Donald Trump called one of his favorite athletes—New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady—to wish him a happy birthday and to give him a gentle ribbing.
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Here's Some Advice From a Former Trump White House Staffer
This week we welcome our very first guest from the upper ranks of Trumpworld: Marc Short, President Donald Trump's former legislative affairs director and a current Miller Center senior fellow at the University of Virginia. Marc talks about his experience working in the Trump White House, the advice he would give Republicans and Democrats today caught in the border-wall and immigration standoff, what "the administration should have done from the start," and why he believes Trump's emergency declaration is now all but an inevitability.
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Is This 'The Onion' Or Headlines in the Trump Era?
A debate over how to define reality in the news, amidst the chaos over the BuzzFeed report and the Covington kids case.
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Shutdown Trump Officials Coming to Work in Pajamas
A breakdown of the latest Trump-Russia bombshells that detonated over the weekend, from an FBI probe to shutdown chaos. This and more in an all-new OMNISHAMBLES.
Customer Reviews
I heart Sam Stein
Great show - but better with Sam
What Panet...
The interview of the former trump staffer was a total waste of time.
Aside from the facts that he talked too fast, his enormous ego dominated the conversation and his all too obvious ignorance and bias obscured the issues, you did not challenge him. You threw softballs!
There are much better podcasts around. Please listen to the podcasts sponsored by msnbc as examples of the finest in investigative reporting. Learn from people like Rachel Maddow, Chuck Rosenberg and Chris Hayes.
What planet are these guys on?
Listened to pc ‘lobbyist dishes’ there is NO ethical or moral sense here... no consciousness that Trump and his myrmidons have initiated policies that have and will harm more people here and over the rest of the planet...dead children, peoples homes swept away, farmers who are being kept afloat by government subsidies, taking away the protections that guard the health of the land and the people.
It is no wonder with people like this running the show we are moving more and more quickly towards disaster.