We had two great conversations this week on the Political Wire podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or RSS to get episodes automatically downloaded.

Listen to Chuck Todd on Gov. Chris Christie’s ability to survive scandal:

Listen to Steve Kornacki on what’s really behind Christie’s Bridgegate:

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Steve Kornacki, host of MSNBC’s “Up With Steve Kornacki,” is our guest on the Political Wire podcast.

We take an in-depth look at Gov. Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal, theories as to why it happened and why Democrats might be the key to the governor’s political survival.

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Chuck Todd, Chief White House correspondent for NBC News and one of the smartest guys in politics, is our guest on the Political Wire podcast.

Topics include the ability of Gov. Chris Christie to survive the “Bridgegate” scandal, the 2014 midterm elections and the politics of NSA surveillance.

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Joe Trippi, political consultant and media strategist, is our guest on the latest episode of the Political Wire podcast. He gives a great look at the upcoming midterm elections, the future of the Democratic party and how technology might upend the two political parties.

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Frank Rich, Writer-at-Large at New York magazine and Executive Producer of HBO’s Veep, joins us on the Political Wire podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on the narrative behind our politics.

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John Sides, political scientist and founder of The Monkey Cage, joins us on the Political Wire podcast
for an interesting discussion about his new book, The Gamble, and his early forecast for the 2014 midterm elections.

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Stuart Stevens, chief strategist for Mitt Romney in 2012, joins us on the Political Wire podcast for an inside look at a presidential campaign and a candid discussion of what worked and what didn’t. It’s a fascinating discussion.

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Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin joins us on the Political Wire podcast for a terrific conversation about her new book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

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Mark Halperin, the co-author of Double Down: Game Change 2012, is our guest on today’s episode of the Political Wire podcast. It was a great conversation.

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Larry Sabato is our guest on the latest episode of the Political Wire podcast. We talked about the dynamics of the 2014 midterm elections and took an early look at the 2016 presidential contenders.

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We spoke with Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe and author of The Right Path, on the latest episode of the Political Wire podcast on how Republicans can make their way back to the White House.

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What is it about presidential second terms? Each of the last four two-term Presidents – Bush, Clinton, Reagan and Nixon – had extremely tough second terms.

We asked presidential historian Michael Beschloss on the latest episode of the Political Wire podcast.

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A perfect way to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is to listen to presidential historian Michael Beschloss. He was our guest on the latest episode of the Political Wire podcast.

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Jeff Greenfield talks about his new book, If Kennedy Lived on the latest episode of the Political Wire podcast. 

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Jeff Greenfield, one of the wisest political analysts around, is our guest on the Political Wire podcast.

The back and forth and ups and downs of the last few weeks in Washington, D.C. make for terrific political theater but Greenfield warns that predicting how it’s going to play out in 2014 or 2016 is not that easy.

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Gov. Howard Dean was our guest on the latest episode of the Political Wire podcast.

It’s a fascinating interview with the former DNC Chairman on the political problems facing Democrats and the White House over the implementation of Obamacare.

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Ezra Klein is our guest on the latest Political Wire podcast, discussing the policy and political ramifications of the disastrous roll out of the Obamacare digital infrastructure.

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The latest episode of the Political Wire podcast features Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute on our new age of political extremism.

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