Ben Wittes and Anna Bower: Trump's Reparations Demand
The convicted felon was legitimately prosecuted for hoarding classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. And he was justifiably investigated over the numerous contacts he and his associates had with Russian nationals during 2016. But Trump feels he has endured so much pain and suffering from all the probing that he's owed a quarter of a billion dollars in damages from hard-working American taxpayers. Meanwhile, his hired tool of revenge, Lindsey Halligan, is hard at work pursuing really weak cases against Comey and Tish James when she's not sending mean girl texts.
Lawfare's Anna Bower and Ben Wittes join Tim Miller.
show notes
Anna on her Signal chat with Lindsey Halligan
Lawfare's Molly Roberts on the weak case against James
Ben's Substack
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Jon Favreau: Foundational Freedoms
One of the promises of this country has been the freedom to walk down the street without being harassed by the government. But even being an American citizen isn't stopping ICE agents from grabbing people with passports or IDs—and detaining them for hours. At the same time, many of the thugs and sadists who want to do the grabbing and snatching are pathetically failing basic physical fitness tests. Plus, JD is painfully unfunny, Republicans calling Democrats 'terrorists' has real world consequences, and Dems need more normal people running for office—but they should save the wild card candidates for long shot races.
Jon Favreau joins Tim Miller.
show notes
Pod Save America interview with Graham Platner
The Atlantic on "ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits"
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Michael Weiss and Karine Jean-Pierre: Low Energy Trump
Putin’s friend in the White House may be back in his safe space with his kindred spirit in Moscow, but Trump is finding that he has limited leverage on Ukraine to end the war on Putin’s terms. He wants so badly to be crowned the ‘Prince of Peace,’ but he has no vim and vigor to get there—and Zelensky actually said “No” to Trump. Meanwhile, the Gaza ceasefire looks precarious. Plus, former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on stepping away from the two-party system, the lingering anger over how Trump was allowed to win, and the fallout from emphasizing Biden’s legacy at the expense of Kamala’s ‘24 campaign.
Karine Jean-Pierre and Michael Weiss join Tim Miller.
show notes
Michael’s Substack “Foreign Office”
Story from “The Insider,” “Our people poisoned Navalny”
WSJ article on Havana Syndrome
Karine Jean-Pierre's book
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Bill Kristol: Trump Hates America
Nearly seven million Americans peacefully took to the streets out of their love for this country, and Trump in response acted out like a toddler obsessed with his own poop. Indeed, our commander-in-chief really does have more affinity for the Sharia law dictators in the sand kingdoms than he does for Saturday’s true patriots. This may be the moment when the Dems and its allies take the patriotism banner back from Republicans. Plus, the lengths the administration went to imprison immigrants in El Salvador, the Dem base wants a fight over the shutdown, and Trump keeps serving up reasons why the Trump/Russia conspiracy has survived for so long.
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
show notes
Miles Bruner's Bulwark piece on leaving the GOP
Jon Cohn on the Americans caught in the shutdown vice
The FT on the volatile Trump-Zelensky meeting last week
Bill and Sarah on a successful "No Kings"
The Post on the El Salvador prison deal
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Peter Hamby: The Mini Dictator Wants What He Wants
The administration under sticky fingers Trump is now pretending it cares about the sanctity of classified documents, while it seems that Marco Rubio is the one pushing for regime change in Venezuela. In California, the redistricting ballot measure has been seen as one of the most significant battles in the November election, but the Supreme Court may end up disrupting the Dem’s effort to retake the House next year. Plus, Democrats are winning the under-covered shutdown fight, but why is Schumer meddling in the Maine and Michigan Senate primary fights? And the right-wingers complaining about Bad Bunny are such nerd losers.
Peter Hamby joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
show notes
Peter's piece on the CA redistricting measure
Ben Wittes's Lawfare on the Bolton indictment
Book rec from Peter: "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here"
Peter's pod, "The Powers That Be: Daily"
Nate Cohn on the SCOTUS case that could hand Republicans the House
Tim's playlist
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