Bob Schiefffer, formerly host of “Face The Nation” has a podcast now featuring interviews with reporters who are covering the White House. This one is with Glenn Thrush of the NYT, many of them provide background information on individuals and the politics of the White House that helps to understand WTF is happening.
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Thanks @SEPTGUY, I moved your separate posting to be with our ongoing list of podcasts here. I love Bob Schieffer and had no idea he was on the airwaves, I’m excited to check it out!
NPR’s It’s Been a Minute brings me joy
New Podcast from Preet Bharara – just launched today! It’s excellent and insightful interview today with Leon Panetta, as well as his take on his job offer and subsequent firing by Trump.
Stay Tuned with Preet
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This week’s Episode of Pod Save the World was excellent if you haven’t listened yet, make a little time. The episode covers a lot more than the Far-Right, really helped me understand the Iran Deal in relation to our European allies.
The Rise of the European Far-Right
Tommy talks with Europe expert Dr. Karen Donfried about the German elections and the rise of the far-right AfD party. They also discuss why Russian hacking efforts didn’t work in Germany, what European capitals will do if Trump pulls out of the Iran deal, and how they view his war of words with North Korea.
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Some guy with a blog and a cat that writes a daily recap about politics now has a podcast. I heard he’s very nice… and handsome.
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@matt the podcast is great. Love the short format, the read is excellent, the intro tells you want it’s about and the it has a strong tag back to the site. Great job, now let’s go market guys, everyone spread the word! 
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wanna provide a link?
Go to the App store and search for Stitcher and then download the free app.
It was more for everybody else… this is a thread of links to interesting podcasts.
Mega news coming from the Pod Save America guys! Including a new podcast (Crooked Conversations)!
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Crooked Media has THREE new pods, people!
First up, Majority 54 with Jason Kander! Jason Kander is the first millennial elected to a state-wide office, as a Democrat in a red-state. He’s best known as the “guy who put together a guy blindfolded in a TV commercial”.
“He’s traveling the country to help the 54% of us who didn’t vote for Donald Trump talk to those of us who did about the most divisive issues in our country.”
(Will update once the other pods are live on their site!)
Great new podcast from Slate – Slow Burn: A Podcast about Watergate
It attempts to answer the question: if we are living through the next Watergate, would we even know?
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I can’t recommend The New Washington enough from The New York Times! I listened to the Hannity episode last night and it’s scary how much influence he has on this presidency. Have a listen
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NPR’s podcast Embedded has been laying out the entire case against Trump this season, from possible collusion to obstruction of justice. Well worth a listen.
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Was just going to recommend this. Also Chapo Trap House and The Daily Zeitgeist are two, long form podcasts that are worth the listen.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-gun-show/
I had not heard this episode before yesterday. It’s very informative with background on 1 - when the NRA turned from primarily being a gun safety organization into a political organization (they actually were considering leaving the Washington area and moving to Colorado ) and 2 - how they ignore the second part of the 2nd Amendment that refers to ‘militias’ and left it out in the quote that’s published in their headquarters. OTOH the reference to militias vs. the citizen was a primary thrust in the legal argument before the Supreme Court, Scalia had a lot of influence it seems, on the opinion issued by the court.
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Fantastic episode!