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Back to SearchLA wants to recall its most progressive prosecutor. Inside the DA’s hostile office
Episode 370
THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: GEORGE GASCÓN — Gascón was elected district attorney of Los Angeles County in November 2020 with 54% of the vote.
“I won hand…
3 years, 8 months ago
Why haven’t there been more Cassidy Hutchinsons?
Episode 369
The question of why so few Republicans have stepped forward to testify about what they heard and saw in the Trump White House, is very much at the he…
3 years, 9 months ago
New Jan. 6 witness: Trump had mystery call with Putin
Episode 367
If documentary filmmaker Alex Holder’s memory is accurate, Donald Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin just minutes after the news broke that t…
3 years, 9 months ago
Director’s cut: What else did Judge Luttig have to say about Jan. 6 in his interview
Episode 365
J. Michael Luttig is the former federal appeals court judge who advised Vice President Mike Pence that the VP had no authority to reject electors on …
3 years, 9 months ago
He defied Trump and still survived a GOP primary
Episode 364
This week in the GOP primary for South Dakota’s at-large district, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) defeated a challenger from his right who claimed he wa…
3 years, 10 months ago
Will the GOP control Congress for the next decade?
Episode 363
There’s at least a few people in the Democratic establishment who have hope for the midterms. They’re the redistricting experts, people like Kelly Bu…
3 years, 10 months ago
Will ‘extremism’ fracture the GOP? Cheney vs. Trump in Wyoming
Episode 362
Trump-backed candidates have lost recently in Georgia, Nebraska, North Carolina and Idaho. The biggest caveat about how the lessons of other states m…
3 years, 10 months ago
The GOP rancher trying to save Idaho from the far right
Episode 361
Jennifer Ellis is the face of the movement that handed Donald Trump his biggest defeat of the year. She leads Take Back Idaho, a political action com…
3 years, 10 months ago
'He absolutely betrayed me': Steve Schmidt tells all about John McCain
Episode 360
This week on “Playbook Deep Dive,” we sat down over Zoom with Steve Schmidt, the architect of the late Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential run, to h…
3 years, 10 months ago
Lifting the curtain on SCOTUS with a POLITICO reporter who broke the Roe story
Episode 359
This week on Playbook Deep Dive, POLITICO’s Peter Canellos talks with our own Josh Gerstein, who broke this week’s massive news that the Supreme Cour…
3 years, 11 months ago