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On Washington Post Live’s First Look, associate editor Jonathan Capehart speaks with The Post’s Mary Ilyushina, Ramesh Ponnuru and Jennifer Rubin about the aftermath of the Wagner rebellion, the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action and President Biden's latest economic me ... Show More

On Washington Post Live’s First Look, associate editor Jonathan Capehart speaks with The Post’s Toluse Olorunnipa, E.J. Dionne and Hugh Hewitt about the U.S. strategy in Asia, Hunter Biden’s guilty plea, and renewed questions around ethics rules for justices of the Supreme Court. ... Show More

On Washington Post Live’s “First Look,” associate editor Jonathan Capehart speaks with The Post’s Jacqueline Alemany, Megan McArdle and Jennifer Rubin about the legal and political challenges facing Donald Trump regarding his latest indictment and Ukraine’s counteroffensive again ... Show More

Senior politics reporter Aaron Blake talks with The Washington Post’s chief correspondent covering national politics, Dan Balz, and national security reporter Abigail Hauslohner about new reporting this week about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth’s continued use of Signal, ... Show More

Flanked by half his cabinet and citing crimes against a DOGE staffer, Donald Trump announces that he’s deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and federalizing the city’s police department. Jon and Lovett react to Trump's desperate show of force, then break down his new ... Show More

Judges, including one of his own Supreme Court appointees, are trying to rein President Trump in. In return, Trump is threatening to impeach judges. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey and Devan Schwartz, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered ... Show More

This week, President Trump proposed two deals that would require allies to put his needs ahead of their own.Times’ Journalists Michael Barbaro, Catie Edmonson, Maggie Haberman, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs discuss how, in both cases, Trump got what he wanted.Guest: Catie Edmondson, a c ... Show More

Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, and Tulsi Gabbard, his nominee for intelligence chief, had their hearings on Capitol Hill. Will they be confirmed? Then, a look back at President Trump's first two weeks in office. This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, j ... Show More

On Friday, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in an explosive televised Oval Office meeting and abruptly cut short a visit that was meant to help coordinate a plan for peace.Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for ... Show More

Warning: This episode contains strong language.In President Trump’s second term, Laura Loomer has emerged as the most influential outside adviser, telling the president whom to fire and shaping major policy decisions.Ken Bensinger, who covers media and politics, explains how a so ... Show More

Caving to a pressure campaign from Donald Trump's FCC, Disney pulls Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air. Jon and Dan are joined by newly minted Crooked contributor Alex Wagner to discuss Trump's attacks on Kimmel and his new lawsuit against The New York Times, the impending takeover ... Show More

This week, the White House said it would pick which reporters would get access to Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the US president has sued several press outlets for what he considers unfair coverage. Can the media do its job in this political landscape? The FT’s Washington bureau chief ... Show More

The internet enjoys a brief freakout about the possibility that Trump might be dead. (He isn't.) Senators from both parties press RFK Jr. on his dismantling of the CDC and his accelerating war on vaccines. Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein hold a press conference on Capitol Hill to an ... Show More