This week on The Buried Lede: WE'RE BACK!!! With winners for the week and rave faves and our guest IndieWire's Anne Thompson to prognosticate Oscar hopefuls and assess the temperature in Hollywood

This week on The Buried Lede: Kavanaugh's on the bench, and we're not. Trump is President and we're not. As a refuge from the current kerfuffle we turn to our friend Ian Brown, currently reporting on Cannabis business in Canadian in anticipation of Oct. 17 national legalization. (With excuses for poor sound quality as Ian was out in the field)

This week on The Buried Lede: Trump and the Cohen and Manafort convictions (hard to find on Fox News); corrupt Cali GOP'er Duncan Hunter; deported Nazi guard; Nate Jackson runs to daylight

This week on The Buried Lede: Moonves, Manafort, Trump, and our weekly raves as we welcome our guest Anita Chabria from the Sacromento Bee who's calling in from Redding CA, covering the fires there.

This week on The Buried Lede: Trump tapes are just the latest in a carnival of head-spinning stories that we explore, as we welcome our guest David Margolick who has written a book about Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, as we recall the 50th anniversary of the murders of both, and the way they each transformed the other and our nation.

The Buried Lede : Beyond the Bylines with Fred Schruers and Tom Teicholz and guest David Hirshey on soccer's World Cup

This week Fred and Tom search out the Buried Lede in Trumpworld and in stories around the world as we welcome our guest foreign correspondent Rory Carroll, who is The Guardian's West Coast Correspondent

This week on The Buried Lede: We reminisce about Philip Roth, and we welcome our guest journalist, novelist, TV writer Karl Taro Greenfeld to talk about his career and his new novel "True."

This week on The Buried Lede: Fred and Tom talk North Korea, Iran, The US Embassy in Jerusalem, Gaza, Tom Wolfe, our weekly raves and welcome Richard Berke, the executive editor of STAT and STAT news, a thriving science, medical and pharma publication that is breaking stories and doing deep dives on issues affecting all of us.

This week on The Buried Lede: Comey makes the rounds, Cohen stays public, investigation into the death of Malta journalist stalls, Pulitzer's are awarded and we welcome our guest Kyle Pope the editor-in-chief Of Columbia Journalism Review (CJR).