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Tim O'Brien, Executive Editor at Bloomberg View and Bloomberg Gadfly and Trump expert joins Merrill Brown on this episode of Media Download to discuss the incoming administration, Trumps transition into the White House, the prospect of conflicts of interest throughout a Trump presidency, his family and his cabinet.

Engineer: Jenna Inganamort

Producers: Sam Flesher & Melissa Negron

Social Media: Brandon Simanski

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Carroll Bogert, President of The Marshall Project joins Merrill Brown on this episode of Media Download, to discuss her nonprofit news organization, the state of criminal justice and criminal justice reform, prisons, the election of Donald Trump and her work in building a news organization from scratch.

Engineer/board op: Jessica Conroy

Producers: Brandon Simanski & Nicole Hom

Social Strategy: Brandon Simanski

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Monica Crowley, columnist and online opinion editor at the Washington Times best known as a political commentator on Fox News, joins Merrill Brown to discuss president-elect Donald J. Trump.

Engineer: Austin Resnick

Producer: Kevin Rabanal

Social Media: Brandon Simanski

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Hari Sreenivasan, anchor and senior correspondent of PBS NewsHour joins Merrill Brown to pay tribute to the late Gwen Ifill, one of the most gifted print and television journalists of our time.

Engineer: James Coffey

Producer: Brendan Clonan

Social Media: Brandon Simanski

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Tim O'Brien, Executive Editor at Bloomberg Gadfly & Bloomberg View executive editor, one of the world’s top experts on the background and sensibility of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump joins Merrill Brown on this episode of Media Download.

Hear his take on the campaign’s final days and on how Trump will react to its outcome. O'Brien is the author of "Trump Nation, the Art of Being the Donald", an investigative look at Trumps’s businesses, his net worth and his business practices. A decade ago Trump sued O’Brien for $5 Billion over the book although the case was thrown out of court and a new edition of O’Brien’s book was published last summer. Tim has also been an editor and writer for the New York Times, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Talk Magazine.

Engineer: Melissa Negron

Producer: Jenna Inganamort

Social Strategy: Brandon Simanski & Sam Flesher

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Arnon Mishkin, director of the Fox News elections decision team will be calling the race for the network on November 8. He joins Merrill Brown to discuss the wide disparity at the polls for both presidential candidates.

Engineer: Nicole Hom | Nick Franciosa

Producers: Brandon Simanski

Social Strategy: Jenna Inganamort

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Jonathan Greenblatt, President of the Anti-Defamation League, joins Merrill Brown to discuss a study the ADL is releasing this week detailing the harassment and threats of over 800 journalists who have reported on Republican nominee Donald Trump and as a direct result, have been recipients of hate speech and threats over social media, as this current divisive campaign enters its final three weeks.

Engineer: Kevin Rabanal

Producers: Austin Resnick and Brendan McClonan

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Jonathan Alter joins us just a few days away from the third and final debate on Oct. 19. We’re counting down to four weeks from today when Election Day ends the longest and most intensely dramatic presidential campaign, perhaps in American history. Jonathan Alter is a best-selling author, MSNBC analyst, and DailyBeast columnist. He also co-hosts Sirius XM’s " Alter Family Politics" and today he’s here to help bring some context to the second debate and the release of what is likely to be just a first batch of previously undisclosed Donald Trump audios.

Engineer: Shawn Latham

Producer: James Coffey

Social Media: Brandon Simanski

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

NYCC is expecting 180,000 fans to pack the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan this week in a yearly pilgrimage to the Javits Center for the biggest Comic Con around the world. This convention that began in 2006 by taking one hall in the basement of the Javits Center has not only taken every square inch of the building but they have been forced to expand to three other venues around the city. Aub Driver, currently Director of Publicity at Digital Trends, and former manager of publicity at Dark Horse Comics has seen the growth of NYCC and shares with us some insights into the huge popularity of these events and what we can expect from NYCC 2016.

Engineer: Sam Flesher

Producer: Jenna Inganamort

Social Strategy: Melissa Negron & Brandon Simanski

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Dan Sforzas, Managing Editor for The Record (North Jersey), soon to be leading The Record's investigative team, joins Merrill Brown to talk about the latest on the #Bridgegate trial.

Background: a top political appointee of Governor Chris Christie and his former deputy chief of staff, are both facing felony charges over what prosecutors say was a criminal scheme to inflict gridlock traffic in the town of Fort Lee, as a political vendetta on the town's mayor for not endorsing Christie's re-election.

Engineer/ Board Op: Brandon Simanski & Sam Flescher

Producer: Jessica Conroy & Nicole Hom

Executive producer: Anabella Poland