Talking Feds

By Harry Litman | L.A. Times Studios

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Talking Feds is a roundtable discussion that brings together some of the most well-known former prosecutors in the country for a dynamic and entertaining analysis of the most pressing questions in today's high-profile criminal cases, including the Mueller probe and related investigations.

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Republicans On The Fence

02.22.2021

A stellar set of guests—Lawrence O’Donnell, Ashley Parker, and Norm Eisen—join Harry for a bottom-line assessment of the impeachment, an analysis of the GOP sturm und drang, a look at the first lawsuit against the former president, and a preview ...

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02.22.2021 Republicans On The Fence A stellar set of guests—Lawrence O’Donnell, Ashley Parker, and Norm Eisen—join Harry for a bottom-line assessment of the impeachment, an analysis of the GOP sturm und drang, a look at the first lawsuit against the former president, and a preview ...
02.13.2021 Base Instincts As the evidence in the second impeachment trial draws to a close, an expert panel of legal and congressional experts – Matt Miller, Norm Ornstein, and Hakeem Jeffries, who served as a House Manager in the previous impeachment trial – ...
02.08.2021 Allies Allies All Come Free After 4 years of aberrant foreign policy that saw the US bully our allies and coddle our enemies, the Biden Administration faces a different herculean task trying to right the ship of state, with the complication of China’s arrival as ...
02.01.2021 Won’t Get Fooled Again The debris from the Trump years litters the political landscape, and it’s a herculean task to try to clean up the mess and repair our constitutional foundations, but where to begin and who has the political will and interest to ...
01.25.2021 Transition, Transition! Three veterans of the heady first few days of a new Administration – Dee Dee Myers (Clinton), David Frum (George W. Bush), and Valerie Jarrett (Obama) – join Harry to analyze and critique the Biden Administration’s first few days and ...
01.19.2021 Impeaches and Crime In another barnburner week, in which the first-ever second impeachment of a President was only one of several huge stories, Natasha Bertrand, Norm Ornstein, and former Senator Al Franken join Harry to break down the fallout from the storming of ...
01.11.2021 News Edition; New Sedition On the most tumultuous week of the Trump presidency, and one of the most in US history, Congressmen Eric Swalwell, George Conway, & Laura Jarrett join Harry to discuss whether the President can hang on for 12 days to finish ...
01.07.2021 Burning Down the House In this special Talking Feds Now, Harry convenes with Andrew Weissmann, Sam Vinograd, Jennifer Rodgers, and Steve Vladeck to discuss one of the most harrowing and memorable days of our lifetime, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
01.06.2021 The Very Model of a Modern Solicitor General This week we expect Biden will announce his selections for DOJ brass, including solicitor general, the executive branch's lawyer in the Supreme Court; and in this special episode recorded last year at George Washington University, we go beyond the basics ...
12.28.2020 Georgia on my Mind A fantastic panel combining local and national knowledge, experience, and political savvy – former Columbus, GA mayor Teresa Tomlinson, new Congresswoman Elect Nikema Williams, DNC Chair Tom Perez, and Democratic strategist extraordinaire Bob Shrum – join Harry to describe the ...
12.21.2020 T-30... and Counting In a week when the virus hit ravaging new levels and we learned of a huge new hack; but also in which people first began to get the vaccine and key leaders in Congress recognized Biden’s election, Congressman Ted Lieu, ...
12.14.2020 I Never Promised you a Rose Garden Pardon Three highly experienced prosecutors and DOJ veterans: Jen Rodgers, Mimi Rocah (now the DA for Westchester County), and Andrew Weissmann join Harry to discuss the potential charges against Hunter Biden and then conjectures whether President Trump’s lobbying campaign to state ...
12.07.2020 Purple Reign With the virus spiking ever upwards and a winter that promises to be the most challenging time in US public health history, a phenomenal set of guests —Senator Michael Bennett, Natasha Bertrand, and Fareed Zakaria—join Harry to look ahead at ...
11.30.2020 National Security: 50 Days of Gray In this special national security episode, Frank Figliuzzi, Sam Vinograd, Josh Campbell, & Kate Brannen trade notes on what Biden’s new team projects about his national security operation; how to repair the damage that 4 years of Trump rule has ...
11.23.2020 Goodbye Rudy Tuesday Charter feds Frank Figliuzzi, Paul Fishman, and Amy Jeffress discuss the costs to national security and the country of Trump’s hopeless campaign to block President-Elect Biden's formal transition and then analyze what Biden’s initial decisions indicate about his coming Administration.
11.16.2020 Biden Our Time Peter Baker, Laura Jarrett and Robert Raben join Harry to discuss a strange and troubling week when President Trump, abetted by cabinet members and Senate Republicans, hunkered down and refused to allow President-Elect Joe Biden to begin a transition.
11.09.2020 Welcome Back, America In the wake of the call of the election for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Feds Natasha Bertrand, Joe Lockhart, and Mike Murphy review Biden’s winning strategy and turn to the challenges the new Administration inherits, offering some surprising conclusions ...
11.05.2020 Scenarios The day after the contested Presidential election, Feds Matt Miller, Melissa Murray, and Norm Ornstein convene to explain just where the country is and where we’re headed.
11.02.2020 And Yet they Persisted A powerhouse crew of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Congress Member Adam Schiff and Kristen Clarke, President of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, join Harry to take final stock of the political landscape just before the election.
10.26.2020 Rounding the Corner... to what? In the wake of the final presidential debate, Vanita Gupta, Matt Miller, and Congressman Jamie Raskin join Harry to analyze the candidates’ final messages and anticipate what possible bumps may lie on the short ride to the finish line.
10.19.2020 Confirming Amy... Recuse, Refuse...We Lose With two weeks to go until the election, Al Franken, Dahlia Lithwick and Bill Kristol join Harry and take up first the confirmation hearings for soon-to-be Justice Barrett.
10.15.2020 Talking Zeds: Social Media is Our Country In this special bonus episode, Harry sits down with four young voters and leaders -- Xiye Bastida, Victor Shi, Bianca Vivion Brooks, and Ziad Ahmed -- to discuss climate change, the Supreme Court, intersectional politics, the electoral college, and why ...
10.12.2020 Treasonable Doubt Michael Steele, Laura Jarrett, & Steve Vladeck join Harry on a week when President Trump returned to the White House from Walter Reed hospital and proceeded to act even more erratically than usual. They then take up the DOJ’s change ...
10.04.2020 Talking Feds Now: Positive Uncertainty Recorded on Friday, in the wake of the mind-blowing revelation that both the President and the First Lady have tested positive for COVID 19, Laura Coates, Norm Orenstein, and Michael Schmidt join Harry to analyze the dizzying questions of law, ...
09.28.2020 Judging Amy Convening in the wake of President Trump’s selection of Judge Amy Comey Barrett for the Sup Ct vacancy caused by Justice Ginsburg’s death, Feds Dahlia Lithwick, Joe Lockhart, and Bret Stephens analyze Barrett’s qualifications and the politics surrounding her confirmation.
09.21.2020 Honoring RBG: May her Memory be a Revolution This episode features Feds Natasha Bertrand, former Senator Al Franken, and Matt Miller delving into a discussion about RBG’s death and its implications, tthe stark, Orwellian divide between the true facts about the virus, the DOJ, and misinformation on the ...
09.20.2020 Before She was Notorious: Clerking for Ruth Bader Ginsburg In this special bonus Talking Feds: Women at the Table, three #Sistersinlaw, all clerks to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, come together to describe what Justice Ginsburg really was like as a mentor, judge, spouse, and improbable pop culture hero.
09.14.2020 Homeland Insecurity: Flying Blind Convening on the 19th anniversary of 9/11, fed regulars Frank Figliuzzi, David Frum, and Juliette Kayyem take stock of the most pressing threats to the homeland; the largely fictitious threats that the President continues to proffer; and the consequences for ...
09.08.2020 The Vote is in the Mail: Election Protection (from the ground up) A dream team of Democratic Party leaders -- Marc Elias, the leading lawyer in the country for election protection, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Congresswoman Katie Porter -- join Talking Feds host Harry Litman to discuss the gargantuan efforts afoot to ...
09.03.2020 Sisters in Law Special Voters Rights Edition: Use it or Lose it In Part 2 of a special bonus edition of Talking Feds commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, Jill Wine-Banks, Joyce Vance, and Barbara McQuade speak with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational ...
08.31.2020 Married to the Don In the wake of the Republican convention and the renomination of President Trump, MSNBC host Chris Hayes, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, and author Jeff Toobin join Harry for a 360° review of the Convention and what it portends about the Republicans’ ...
08.24.2020 Conventional Wisdom: It Is What It Is It was the week when the Democrats formally selected their standard bearers in the 1st-ever virtual convention, and feds Laura Jarrett, Frank Figliuzzi, & Matt Miller assess the Convention and the Dems’ message.
08.19.2020 The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Nasty Women Vote In part one of this special Sisters-in-Law edition of Talking Feds commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote, Jill Wine-Banks, Joyce Vance, and Barbara McQuade speak with civil rights attorney Vanita Gupta and ...
08.17.2020 Kamala: Game On! In a week dominated by Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s selection of California Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate, Jonathan Alter, Joe Lockhart, Asha Rangappa, and Harry discuss the behind-the-scenes selection of Harris and then proceed to evaluate the ...
08.10.2020 A Tale of Two Cities: Paris, Texas and Paris, France Charter Feds and DOJ alumni Amy Jeffress, Ron Klain, and Matt Miller join Harry to analyze the US’s abysmal record controlling the virus.
08.03.2020 Person Woman Man Economy Virus Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, journalist EJ Dionne, and Congressman Jamie Raskin join Harry to assess and analyze a week of wretched news.
07.27.2020 A Man a Van No Plan: Portland In a week in which President Trump effectively declared war on designated American cities, a classic group of charter Feds -- Frank Figliuzzi, Paul Fishman, and Joyce Vance -- join Harry to break it all down.
07.20.2020 Toxic Mask-ulinity Congressman Joaquin Castro, Zerlina Maxwell, and Max Boot join Harry to break down a week in which the virus roared back to all-time highs in many states.
07.13.2020 Pardon Our Obstruction! Congressman Adam Schiff, Barbara McQuade, and Jennifer Rubin join Harry to discuss Roger Stone, the Supreme Court's final decisions, and the House hearing with ousted SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman.
07.06.2020 5-4 Roberts Plays the Long Game The Supreme Court issued two momentous opinions last week – but the press coverage only appreciated one of them. A phenomenal panel – Dahlia Lithwick, Ron Klain, and Larry Tribe – joins Harry to break down the Court’s abortion decision ...
07.03.2020 Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams In our continuing series of 1-on-1 interviews with political leaders who are mentioned as possible running mates for Joe Biden, Harry spoke with Stacey Abrams, who as Democratic candidate for Georgia governor in 2018 garnered the highest number of Democratic ...
06.29.2020 The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Lowering the Barr In this special edition of Talking Feds, Joyce Vance hosts a conversation with Maya Wiley, Barbara McQuade, and Jill Wine-Banks to discuss police reform, the Barr-Berman debacle, and voter suppression.
06.22.2020 Pride and Prejudice and the Room Where It Happened Peter Baker, Laura Jarrett, and Juliette Kayyem (with a sidebar from Frances McDormand) join Harry on a banner week in which the Supreme Court issued two decisions bringing joy to the DACA dreamers and LGBTQ citizens; former national security adviser ...
06.21.2020 Talking Feds Now: The Barr-Berman Standoff It was an extraordinary 24 hours, even by the measure of this DOJ. AG Barr announced Friday evening that SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman was resigning; but Berman responded saying he was doing nothing of the kind.
06.15.2020 Trumpocalypse Nu? Minnesota native sons Al Franken and Norm Ornstein join David Frum and Harry on a week that saw the protests from Minneapolis consolidate into an international movement
06.08.2020 Pouring Tear Gas on the Fire As worldwide demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd stretched into their tenth day, Feds Roy Austin, Barb McQuade, and Jen Rubin join Harry to discuss the state of play in the case against the 4 officers charged in the ...
06.01.2020 Minnesota Burning In a week that began with turbulence and ended on the edge of anarchy, Natasha Bertrand, Matt Miller, and Senator Barbara Boxer join Harry to make sense of the unfolding dramas in Minnesota, DC, and around the country.
05.25.2020 Memorial Day or Groundhog Day? Four charter feds, ex-prosecutors and government officials all -- Paul Fishman, Maya Wiley, Barbara McQuade, and Harry – convene in a classic home-for-Memorial-Day Talking Feds.
05.18.2020 (Whistle) Blowin' in the Wind After a week with dramatic action on multiple fronts – testimony by Fauci and Bright; Trump’s “unmasking” charge and Obamagate trope; abysmal economic news; and the specter of criminal charges against Senator Richard Burr—feds Aaron Blake, David Gura, and Asha ...
05.13.2020 Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Governor Gretchen Whitmer In our continuing series of 1-on-1 interviews with political leaders who are prominently mentioned as possible running mates for Joe Biden, Harry spoke with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Whitmer has drawn fire from Trump and extremist protesters for her relatively ...

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Talking Feds episodes:

Republicans On The Fence

Base Instincts

Allies Allies All Come Free

Won’t Get Fooled Again

Transition, Transition!

Impeaches and Crime

News Edition; New Sedition

Burning Down the House

The Very Model of a Modern Solicitor General

Georgia on my Mind

T-30... and Counting

I Never Promised you a Rose Garden Pardon

Purple Reign

National Security: 50 Days of Gray

Goodbye Rudy Tuesday

Biden Our Time

Welcome Back, America

Scenarios

And Yet they Persisted

Rounding the Corner... to what?

Confirming Amy... Recuse, Refuse...We Lose

Talking Zeds: Social Media is Our Country

Treasonable Doubt

Talking Feds Now: Positive Uncertainty

Judging Amy

Honoring RBG: May her Memory be a Revolution

Before She was Notorious: Clerking for Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Homeland Insecurity: Flying Blind

The Vote is in the Mail: Election Protection (from the ground up)

Sisters in Law Special Voters Rights Edition: Use it or Lose it

Married to the Don

Conventional Wisdom: It Is What It Is

The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Nasty Women Vote

Kamala: Game On!

A Tale of Two Cities: Paris, Texas and Paris, France

Person Woman Man Economy Virus

A Man a Van No Plan: Portland

Toxic Mask-ulinity

Pardon Our Obstruction!

5-4 Roberts Plays the Long Game

Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams

The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Lowering the Barr

Pride and Prejudice and the Room Where It Happened

Talking Feds Now: The Barr-Berman Standoff

Trumpocalypse Nu?

Pouring Tear Gas on the Fire

Minnesota Burning

Memorial Day or Groundhog Day?

(Whistle) Blowin' in the Wind

Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Governor Gretchen Whitmer

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