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Transcript: America’s Three Media Crises and How to Fix Them
That’s not good for diversity. And so most democracies figure out ways to diversify media ownership, to make sure that you have a wide…
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Transcript: MTG Humiliates Trump over Reiner as MAGA Crackup Worsens
Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own son who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and their…
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Transcript: Trump Tirades on Econ Go Awry as GOP Panics: “Disaster!”
Sargent: You wrote in your piece that Trump is uniquely vulnerable here for other reasons as well. First, he campaigned as a populist. And…
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Transcript: Why Trump May Never Be Popular Again
Is this pervasive sense that we have to win the white guys so deep that the party is informally signaling: if you’re not…
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Transcript: Trump Explodes over Cratering Polls as GOP Losses Worsen
This is over the last couple of weeks. Trump said about Somalia there: “If you look at Somalia, they’re taking over Minnesota. We are not…
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Transcript: Trump in Fury as GOPers Quietly Defy His Plot to Rig 2026
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Transcript: Hegseth Case on Strike Collapsing as Damning New Leaks Hit
Bridgeman: Well, the thing to keep in mind here is that there’s absolutely nothing, no set of facts, right, that you could look at that…
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Transcript: Indiana Republicans Could Block Trump’s Gerrymandering
Hunley: Well, so for one, we really want to keep like communities together, and the maps that we passed here in Indiana during our last…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult Defending New Racist Tirade
But more than anything, more than just like, I think, Somalis, this is another blatant attack on immigrant communities. Obviously, any…
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Transcript: The State Where Trump Voters Have Serious Buyer’s Remorse
McMorrow: Yeah, I think that’s a great point. Because you can’t just be talking in buzzwords. You have to make it real. I was at a UA…
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Transcript: Angry Trump Loses 2026 Plot as GOP Panics: “Flashing Red”
Sargent: Well, we had the Washington Post also reporting that Republicans privately fear that the pool of vulnerable GOP incumbents is…
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Transcript: Trump White House Rages at Pop Star Who Nailed MAGA “Evil”
Because there are certainly enough people who do think that way—who have been taught to feel that the people who oppose them, whether it’s…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Loses Plot as Boat Bombing Scandal Worsens
Sargent: Yeah, I want to throw this in here, Jen. You got at this in your piece. But Jack Goldsmith—who is not exactly a liberal; he was…
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Transcript: Trump’s Hold on the GOP Has Never Been Weaker
Bacon: Right. They don’t care about high prices. They care about helping their elite friends. Donegan: For you means he’s going to lower…
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Transcript: Trump Fury Erupts at NYT as Mental Decline Visibly Worsens
Lurie: Well, first of all, I think we’re past the point of having a strain of authoritarianism. It doesn’t mean that we are Putin’s…
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Transcript: Trump Erupts in Crazed Tirade over 2026 as GOP Panic Grows
But I just want to bear down on this one point, Monica. Trump’s takeover of the GOP was supposed to be about a rejection of GOP…
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Transcript: It’s Sanders v. Schumer in Several Key Dem Primaries
Now why wouldn’t you say it was blue? Well, because you’re worried about what some folks who are dead set about shifting our politics to…
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Transcript: Trump Spiral Worsens as Push to Jail Foes Backfires Badly
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Transcript: Anti-Blackness Is at the Heart of Trump’s Toxic Politics
Crenshaw: Change what money can do. I think that is—that’s all behind what campaign finance reform was all about. We’re inheriting a world…
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Transcript: Trump Is Weak and Failing, and Media Is Finally Saying So
Marcotte: No, I think that’s exactly right. A couple years ago, I did some reporting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, about a school board…
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Kashoggi's widow and Democrats demand release of a call transcript with Trump and Saudi crown prince
The widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi called Friday for the release of the transcript of a 2019 phone call that President…
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Transcript: Trump’s Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Backfires Badly
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 21 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Transcript: Trump’s Anti-Affordability Agenda Hits Colleges
This is a lightly edited transcript of the November 18 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following…
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Transcript: Trump’s Fury at Prices Goes Wild as Crushing New Polls Hit
But the funny thing is, if you want to fix prices, this isn’t the way to do it, is it? No, it’s not. Bessent, who has the reputation of…