Republican strategist Rick Wilson, author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, talks to Chris Riback about Donald Trump, who he calls “the worst president ever.”
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Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell joins Chris Riback on this episode to help us better understand Trumponomics — and whether bad economics might just be good politics.
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After the most humiliating week of Donald Trump’s presidency, former NATO Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins Chris Riback for a discussion of what just happened and the damage Trump is doing to the U.S. position in the world.
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Brian Abrams, author of Obama: An Oral History, joins Chris Riback for a discussion on the Obama years — and how understanding them are critical to understanding politics today.
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Dan Pfeiffer, former Obama White House communications director, co-host of Pod Save America and author of Yes We (Still) Can, joins Chris Riback for a discussion of what comes next for Democrats in the Trump era.
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Steven Brill, author of Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall — and Those Fighting to Reverse It, joins Chris Riback on Political Wire Conversations for a discussion on what’s wrong with the United States.
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GOP strategist Scott Jennings joins Chris Riback on Political Wire Conversatons for a discussion on the current state of the Republican party.
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Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman joins Chris Riback for a discussion about the confidential 20-page memo by President Trump’s lawyers which argued that he can stop special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
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If you know Bill Browder’s story already, you surely won’t mind hearing his conversation with Chris Riback. It’s extraordinary.
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General Michael Hayden, former CIA director and author of The Assault on Intelligence, joins Chris Riback for a conversation on U.S. national security in an age of lies. It’s a great, though unsettling, conversation.
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Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report joins Chris Riback for a good discussion of the 2018 midterm elections.
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It’s New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s last day in office. He spoke to Chris Riback while he was still packing up his office. They talked about why he removed statues from his city that honored the Confederacy, his new book, and of course the question many have for him: Are you running for president?
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Ronan Farrow, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, talks with Chris Riback about the shrinking, but also the militarization, of U.S. foreign policy.
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Stuart Eizenstat, author of President Carter: The White House Years, talks to Chris Riback about President Jimmy Carter. Was he an ineffective, overwhelmed outsider who oversaw four of the worst years in our history, or one of the most consequential presidents in modern history?
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Asha Rangappa, a former FBI special agent and frequent CNN contributor, joins Chris Riback for a great discussion about where special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is going and where it might end up.
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Jennifer Palmieri, former Hillary Clinton communications director and author of Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World, joins Chris Riback for a great discussion of what the first woman president needs to know.
Rather than dwell on the results of the 2016 election, Palmieri turns the experience into something very empowering for future female leaders.
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Rick Hasen, author of The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, joins Chris Riback for a discussion of Scalia’s complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptor of the nation’s highest court.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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