How the Dems victories affect shutdown, presidential aspirations and everything else.

My federal judge classmate tells Trump he cannot send national guard troops to Portland. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Richard Read explains Judge Karin Imergut’s ruling.

A Senate veteran and former chief of staff says the shutdown is high-risk for Democrats because of Russell Vought is hiding in the tall grass.

Few embody the rules of accurate and fair journalism more than Balz, who covered presidential campaigns for 40-plus years and understands why voters went to Trump better than anyone. Why? Because he talks to them all the time, on the ground, with a reporter’s eye and ear. We may not see the likes of him again. So I had to talk to him!

Journalist Nina Burleigh dissects the strange world of two sexual predators.

You win wars with armies. Bombs don’t work. And they only piss off the people you bomb for another generation. (Iran) Nuclear weapons scholar Ward Wilson joins me. 

Who do you talk to when you have just watched the best tennis match in history? Your local tennis pro of course. Breaking down Sinner vs. Alcaraz at the French Open with Daron Forohar.

As Trump attacks Harvard, small liberal arts colleges reassess their purpose. The president of Amherst College says this reckoning has been coming for a long time. The answer is a return to core values of critical thinking and hard truths. Amherst President Michael Elliott is one of the leaders and breaks it down.

How does an ancient game with sticks tell us about ourselves? The story of how we stole the game from the native people and then stopped them from playing teaches us a deep and abiding lesson about ourselves and our crimes. Thanks to some champions of a cause, native people might play in the Olympics. The wrong can never be righted. But we can learn our history and move in a better direction. Author S.L. Price from Sports Illustrated spent seven years and 350 interviews to write The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse. The question is: Which country?

Call it what you will. The new book FIGHT - Inside the Wildest battle for the White House - has the first draft of history on why Biden ran again and how his handlers kept the truth about his age from getting out and handing the election to Trump. It is a decision we will be living with for a generation. Co-Author Amie Parnes joins Kevin for the details.

⁠Amie's book, FIGHT, available now.