Power Play

The former director of national intelligence has emerged publicly as one of President Donald Trump’s foremost critics and he wants you to know that no matter how much Trump rants about the “Russia hoax,” the 2016 hacking was not only real and aimed at electing Trump, but constituted a major victory for a dangerous foreign adversary.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man until he was jailed for a decade by Vladimir Putin, joins The Global Politico to discuss opposing Putin, the price he paid, and the current status of the liberal resistance. Plus, author and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum joins the show to discuss similarities between Stalin and Putin, dissidence in Russia and the extent of Putin's power. 

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Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton sits down with Susan Glasser to discuss the role of President Trump's national security team and the course of action advisers should take if they disagree with the president, the senator's thinking on an Iran strategy, and how Trump's foreign policy is keeping in a bipartisan tradition that started with Truman in 1945. 

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The Global Politico dives into North Korea this week with Admiral Dennis Blair, the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, and Ambassador Chris Hill, the last senior American to negotiate with the North Koreans. With fire, fury and war panic reverberating across the country, Susan Glasser examines how worried Americans should be, the nuances of negotiating, and options for America's path forward. 

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On this week's episode of The Global Politico, a group of leading Democrat leaders and strategists reconvene a year later to debate their election losses, the diagnosis of why Trump beat them in 2016, and how much to stake themselves on an oust-him-at-all-costs strategy now. Their internal battles may not be as sexy as the unprecedented hostile takeover of the GOP by an outsider president not beholden to it – yet they are just as consequential. 

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Jeh Johnson, former Homeland Security chief, on the many crises, natural and otherwise, of the Trump era. President Trump has yet to name a replacement as secretary of Homeland Security. Not only that, he appears nowhere close to doing so and has not even interviewed any candidates for the job. Big mistake, argues Jeh Johnson, who served as the Obama administration's DHS chief until Trump's inauguration in January. 

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A look back on the first seven months of the Trump administration, Susan Glasser walks through ten lessons we've learned about Donald Trump's foreign policy philosophy since he took office. 

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This week The Global Politico examines whether America and Russia are really doomed to clash on the world stage, how we got Vladimir Putin so wrong — and what’s next for the Kremlin leader. Is it a new Cold War? Are we Russian hands too obsessed with making Putin and his country a boogie man in American politics today? 

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The Republican Party under President Trump is a party divided, one at war with itself. Torn between a leader who came to office vowing to drain the Washington swamp – and the swamp creatures in his own party who now run both houses of Congress. This week, The Global Politico convened two groups of Republicans - a group of party insiders here in Washington, the ones Trump and Company are throwing the bombs at, and a group of pro-Trump Republicans who want a war with Mitch McConnell and then some.

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Hannah Dreier joins The Global Politico this week to recount her experience covering the Venezuela crisis, as an AP correspondent. She takes listeners inside what it is like to live through complete upheaval and the crazy things you get used to when your home is falling apart. Hannah was robbed, snatched by the secret police and bought Cheerios on the black market. This is a story about an oil rich country that has lines for bread and milk and toilet paper, the world’s highest crime rate, the world’s highest inflation rate.

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