Campaign data guru Ken Strasma joins the podcast this week to help us understand a key part of the new Mueller indictments: that Russian hackers accessed DNC campaign analytics information in September before the 2016 election. Strasma worked on data operations for John Kerry’s campaign in 2004, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign.
TPM’s lead reporter on the Russia story, Tierney Sneed, joins us from Washington D.C. to talk through the first of Manafort’s trials, getting underway in Virginia later this month. Manafort’s sneaky attempts to push back the trial start date haven’t worked out quite the way he hoped, despite a judge who was initially sympathetic. Tierney gives us the details.
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TPM managing editor David Kurtz joins the podcast to discuss how he came to the site and how it’s grown over the years. After that, we discuss some of the big upcoming stories on TPM’s radar and how we will go about covering them.
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The New Yorker’s Adam Davidson joins us again to discuss the ongoing saga of Michael Cohen, including Cohen’s recent sit-down with ABC. Does he understand the situation he’s in? Davidson also helps break down the civil suit against the Trump Foundation.
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Today we’re talking oversight — specifically, what Congress could investigate under Democratic control. From environmental issues to civil rights lawsuits, TPM’s Matt Shuham helps us delve into the issues. Before that, we tackle a bizarre scene described in a recent New York Times report on investigative reporter Ali Watkins’ relationship with a key Senate Intelligence Committee aide.
The big DOJ Inspector General report is notable for what it omits — evidence of anti-Hillary Clinton bias at the FBI, which appears to have influenced James Comey’s actions leading up to the 2016 election. We break down some key questions the IG never addressed in his report on the Clinton email probe.
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Russia’s election meddling wasn’t restricted to the U.S. A bombshell report out of the UK over the weekend suggests that Russia also worked to swing the Brexit vote in favor of leaving the EU. We also preview two big stories to keep on your radar this week.
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Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, author of the new book “Assault on Intelligence,” discusses efforts Russia made to latch onto controversial narratives in the United States even before Donald Trump was running for President. Remember “Jade Helm”? Or Ebola coming across the southern border? Hayden, who served as NSA director and head of the CIA, examines how Russian bots propagated conspiracies that originated in the U.S.
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We just learned that President Trump dictated his son’s statement about the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting, so we decided to take a look back at what else was happening around the time that the story came out in July 2017. It turns out there is a lot of evidence that Trump’s cover story came from a private conversation Trump had with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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New Yorker writer Adam Davidson has covered some of Donald Trump’s shadiest deals. In this episode, Davidson walks through the recent global financial history that paved the way for Trump to pursue business with unsavory characters.
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