Stay Tuned with Preet

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Join former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as he breaks down legal topics in the news and engages thought leaders in a podcast about power, policy, and justice.
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The Grand Old Trump Party (...

12.07.2023

How has Donald Trump maintained his hold on the Republican Party? ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl joins Preet to discuss his new book, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party. The two ...

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12.07.2023 The Grand Old Trump Party (with Jonathan Karl) How has Donald Trump maintained his hold on the Republican Party? ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl joins Preet to discuss his new book, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party. The two ...
12.05.2023 CAFE Insider 12/5: Trump’s Immunity Defenses In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the ruling by a panel of D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judges that held that presidential immunity does not shield former President Donald Trump from ...
12.04.2023 The Indian Assassination Plot (with John Carlin) Last week in New York, federal prosecutors announced murder-for-hire charges against an Indian national, Nikhil Gupta, who allegedly paid a DEA agent posing as a hitman to assassinate, on U.S. soil, a Sikh attorney and political activist, who is a ...
11.30.2023 A Tech Resurrection Story (with Kara Swisher) What does the recent chaos at OpenAI say about the state of—and fears about—the development of artificial intelligence? Kara Swisher is the host of the popular podcasts On with Kara Swisher and Pivot and has been a leading voice on ...
11.28.2023 CAFE Insider 11/28: Another Rights Rollback In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that held that only the federal government, not private litigants, could bring lawsuits under Section 2 of the ...
11.27.2023 In Brief: Televised Trump Trial? (with Adam Liptak) Will former President Trump’s federal criminal trial for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election be televised? Trump wants the broadcast. Media companies want the broadcast. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office, citing a federal prohibition, decidedly does not want the ...
11.21.2023 CAFE Insider 11/21: Gobble Gobble, Gag Order In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the oral arguments heard by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in former President Donald Trump’s challenge to the gag order imposed in his federal ...
11.20.2023 In Brief: Case Closed? (with Barry Berke) In a recent op-ed, Preet brought attention to a little-known double standard in the criminal justice system. It’s common practice for prosecutors to inform high-profile targets of investigations that a case is closed. But such courtesy is seldom extended to ...
11.16.2023 Unraveling Foreign Affairs (with Fareed Zakaria) Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and a foreign affairs columnist at the Washington Post. He joins Preet to discuss the regional and global dynamics of the Israel-Hamas War, the appropriate role for the United States ...
11.14.2023 CAFE Insider 11/14: Supreme Conduct & Trump Trials In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the Supreme Court’s newly adopted Code of Conduct. In the full episode, they discuss the leaked video of former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis’ proffer session ...
11.13.2023 In Brief: Biden’s AI Order (with Tom Wheeler) President Biden recently issued a sweeping executive order on the safety and security of artificial intelligence. What will that mean for the developing technology? Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler joins Preet to discuss the implications of the order and the ...
11.09.2023 Quantum Leap (with Sean Carroll) Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist who serves as a Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Carroll strives to convey complicated physics concepts in accessible terms on his Mindscape podcast and in his popular books, including last ...
11.07.2023 CAFE Insider 11/7: Trump Takes the Stand In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down former President Donald Trump’s testimony in his civil fraud trial in New York. In the full episode, they further discuss Trump’s civil fraud trial, including ...
11.06.2023 In Brief: Who’s Speaker Mike Johnson? (with Annie Karni) House Republicans finally elected a new speaker: Mike Johnson, a little-known representative from Louisiana. New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni joins Preet to discuss the Speaker’s chaotic rise to power, and what his election says about the state of ...
11.02.2023 Achieving Greatness (with Adam Grant) Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist renowned for his work on motivation and unlocking human potential. He’s a professor at Wharton, host of the podcast ReThinking, and author of five New York Times-bestsellers. He joins Preet to discuss his new ...
10.31.2023 CAFE Insider 10/31: Trick or Trump In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss former President Donald Trump’s motions to dismiss the criminal charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith in the election interference case. In the full episode, Preet ...
10.30.2023 Protecting Kidfluencers (with Jessica Maddox) Illinois recently became the first state in the U.S. to ensure that underage social media influencers are properly compensated for their work. The new child labor law creates a right for individuals age 18 or older to sue their parents ...
10.26.2023 Looking Ahead in the Israel-Hamas War (with Richard Haass) Richard Haass is a veteran diplomat and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, following a 20-year tenure leading the non-partisan think tank. He is also the author of many books, including his most recent The Bill of Obligations: ...
10.24.2023 CAFE Insider 10/24: Pled In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the implications of plea deals that Donald Trump’s co-defendants, lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, struck with prosecutors in the Georgia election interference case, ...
10.23.2023 In Brief: Catching Tupac’s Killer (with Greg Kading) Greg Kading is a former LAPD detective who led a task force that investigated the 1990s murders of famed arch-rival rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. In 2009, Kading secured the initial confession from Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who was ...
10.19.2023 Israel Update & Flawed Justice (with Dan Senor and Adam Benforado) This week, Stay Tuned departs from its original format. In lieu of listener questions, Preet first talks with Dan Senor, author and former foreign policy advisor to President George W. Bush, about the Israel-Gaza war. Then, Preet interviews Drexel University ...
10.17.2023 CAFE Insider 10/17: Super(seding) Tuesday In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss a federal grand jury’s indictment of Rep. George Santos on ten new criminal charges, including aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, and making false statements to the ...
10.13.2023 In Brief: The Israel-Hamas War (with Aaron David Miller) Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former State Department advisor on Middle East policy and Israeli-Palestinian peace process joins Preet to discuss the big questions emerging around Israel-Hamas war. Stay Tuned in Brief ...
10.12.2023 America’s Poverty Problem (with Matthew Desmond) Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University, where he specializes in the study of poverty. His 2016 book Evicted won the Pulitzer Prize for its incisive examination of poverty and housing policy in America. He joins Preet ...
10.10.2023 CAFE Insider 10/10: Fraud & Bribery In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden as part of the classified documents probe. They also break down the reporting by ABC News that ...
10.09.2023 In Brief: Ousting McCarthy (with John F. Harris) John F. Harris is the co-founder and Global Editor-in-Chief of Politico, where he has written about former Speaker McCarthy’s tumultuous Speakership in his “Altitude” column. Harris joins Preet to discuss why insurgent GOP Representatives ousted McCarthy last week – and ...
10.05.2023 State of Our Health (with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy) Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joins Preet to discuss his role and pressing public health issues, including America’s loneliness epidemic, the use of AI in healthcare, and the rise of health misinformation. Plus, former president Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial has ...
10.03.2023 CAFE Insider 10/3: A New SCOTUS Term (with Dahlia Lithwick) This week on the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce preview the upcoming Supreme Court term with SCOTUS expert Dahlia Lithwick. She’s a senior editor at Slate, where she writes about the courts and the law, and hosts the legal ...
10.02.2023 In Brief: The New Cancer Moonshot (with Dr. Renee Wegrzyn) Dr. Renee Wegrzyn is the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, (ARPA-H), a new federal agency with a $2.5 billion budget. Modeled after DARPA, the agency is tasked with taking big risks in biomedical research that ...
09.28.2023 Democracy Awakened (with Heather Cox Richardson) Heather Cox Richardson, a Boston College history professor and author of the “Letters From An American,” newsletter, joins Preet to discuss her new book, “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.” They discuss the origins of the terms “liberal” ...
09.26.2023 CAFE Insider 9/26: Trump’s To-Do Lists (with Joyce Vance and Elie Honig) This week on the CAFE Insider podcast, Joyce Vance is joined by guest co-host Elie Honig while Preet is out. Elie served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, and he is now a CAFE ...
09.25.2023 In Brief: Migrants & Right to Shelter (with Errol Louis) Errol Louis is the host of NY1’s Inside City Hall and the podcast “You Decide with Errol Louis.” He joins Preet to discuss New York City’s recent influx in migrants. Since last spring, over 113,000 migrants have arrived in the ...
09.21.2023 Global Power Plays (with Ian Bremmer) Ian Bremmer is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, a political risk consulting firm, and GZERO Media. He joins Preet to discuss the geopolitics around the recent G20 summit, the relationships between Biden, Xi, and Putin, and the shifting ...
09.19.2023 CAFE Insider 9/19: The President and His Son In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the indictment of Hunter Biden on three federal gun charges in a case brought by special counsel David Weiss. In the full episode, Preet and ...
09.18.2023 In Brief: AI, Fake Drake & IP (with Nilay Patel) Nilay Patel is the Editor-in-Chief of The Verge, and host of the Decoder podcast. He joins Preet to discuss the risks that artificial intelligence poses to intellectual property rights, and the recent slew of lawsuits filed against AI developers, accusing ...
09.14.2023 Revisionist Gun History (with Malcolm Gladwell) Malcolm Gladwell is a bestselling author and longtime New Yorker staff writer. He’s also the co-founder and president of the audio-production company Pushkin Industries, where he hosts Revisionist History, a podcast about things “overlooked and misunderstood.” He joins me to ...
09.12.2023 CAFE Insider 9/12: “Karma Is…” In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the Fulton County, Georgia special purpose grand jury’s newly unsealed report from the Trump election interference investigation, which revealed that jurors recommended charges against Senator ...
09.11.2023 The 22-Year 9/11 Trial Delay (with Carol Rosenberg) Carol Rosenberg is a senior reporter at The New York Times who’s been reporting on Guantanamo Bay and the legal proceedings of the accused 9/11 terrorists for more than two decades. She joins Preet to discuss why the five suspects, ...
09.07.2023 Losing Our Religion (with Ryan Burge) How does religion influence our politics? Preet speaks with Ryan Burge, a pastor, data analyst, and political science professor at Eastern Illinois University focused on religion and politics. They discuss the rapid decrease in American religious affiliation, how religious groups ...
09.05.2023 CAFE Insider 9/5: Musical Trials In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the speedy trial demands filed by some of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia prosecution. They also break down Trump’s opposition to the expedited ...
08.31.2023 Revisiting Politics, Punditry, and Restaurants (with Frank Bruni) Longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni joins Preet to discuss a few of his favorite topics: food, politics, and language. Bruni also talks about an unusual medical ailment that inspired him to write a book, and how AI tools ...
08.28.2023 In Brief: When We Nuked Ourselves (with Tina Cordova) After the US army tested the world’s first nuclear bomb in New Mexico in 1945, residents of the surrounding area suffered severe health issues due to radioactive fallout. Last month, the Senate passed an amendment to the Radiation Exposure Compensation ...
08.24.2023 The Indictment State of Mind (with Chuck Rosenberg) Chuck Rosenberg, a veteran of the Justice Department, has held many roles including US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Acting Administrator of the DEA, and Chief of Staff and Counsel to two FBI Directors. He and Preet discuss ...
08.22.2023 CAFE Insider 8/22: Georgia on My Mind In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s notice of removal to transfer the criminal case against him in Georgia to federal court and stop ...
08.21.2023 In Brief: A Room Temperature Super-what? (with Richard Greene) False alarms sounded recently about the discovery of a room temperature superconductor by way of a material called LK-99. Since then, there has been a surge in interest in the topic: what exactly is a room temperature superconductor? How would ...
08.17.2023 Has the Economy Turned a Corner? (with Greg Ip) Greg Ip is the chief economics commentator at The Wall Street Journal and has reported on the economy for decades. He and Preet discuss the likelihood of a US recession, whether inflation will stay contained, and President Biden’s strategy to ...
08.15.2023 CAFE Insider 8/15: The 4th Indictment To listen to a free special episode of CAFE Insider discussing the 4th indictment of Donald Trump, head to cafe.com/Georgia and enter your email. In this episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the Fulton County, Georgia indictment of ...
08.14.2023 In Brief: Mississippi’s “Cruel & Unusual” Voting Ban (with Sean Morales-Doyle) The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down Mississippi’s lifetime felon voting ban. The court held that the Jim Crow-era law violates the 8th Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment.” What could this new legal ...
08.10.2023 Can Anyone Beat Trump? (with Margaret Hoover) Margaret Hoover is a political commentator and host of Firing Line, the PBS weekly public affairs show started by the conservative icon William F. Buckley in 1966. Hoover also served as associate director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the White House ...
08.08.2023 CAFE Insider 8/8: Protective Orders & Trump Defenses In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss two issues from Donald Trump’s 2020 election criminal case making the headlines: (1) whether a judge should adopt the government’s version of a protective order to ...

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