In this first-ever two-part episode of Hell & High Water, Heilemann and Render discuss race and police violence, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Georgia's outsized role in the 2020 election, Ice Cube, Kanye West, Dave Chappelle, and much, much more. "News Items Podcast" is based on the influential "News Items" daily newsletter founded and run by Ellis, a longtime veteran of the news business. In this special two-part episode, Heilemann and Van Zandt discuss his early musical influences, the foundations of his best friendship with Springsteen, the extraordinary albums they made together in the 1970sBorn to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The Riverand the painful breakup that caused Van Zandt to commit "career suicide" by leaving the band on the brink of its becoming the biggest rock act in the world; his solo career as a musician and political activist, in particular his crucial part in the movement to dismantle the apartheid regime in South Africa; his unlikely emergence as a beloved actor in the role of Silvio Dante opposite James Gandolfini in David Chase's acclaimed HBO mobster series; and his reconciliation with Springsteen and return to the E Street Band two decades after his departure. The never-ending pandemic, the routine mass shootings, the climate literally and figuratively on fire; the economy first battered by recession, then ravaged by inflation; an angry electorate, armed to the teeth and addled by conspiracy theories, as our democracy teeters on the brink, with Donald Trump still working overtime to push the whole thing off a cliff. Finally, Heilemann asks Sorkin to list his top five Wall Street films, and the two men riff on the unique place that the financial masters of the universe occupy in popular culture as objects of fascination, fetishism, reverence, and revulsion in roughly equal measure. Stream new episodes of The Circus Sundays on SHOWTIME.
An award-winning journalist and author of Pride Before the Fall, he is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired, Finally, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, who represents Massachusetts 4th District, explains why he declared on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021. The story of John Brown and Harpers Ferry is a pivotal piece of American history that's neither well-known nor well-understood to the extent it's known or understood at all. Today, Moms Demand Action is part of Everytown For Gun Safety and a political juggernaut, deploying tens of thousands of volunteers and tens of millions of dollars to support candidates, legislative campaigns, and corporate reform efforts. They discuss how the industry is threatened with extinction, not just because of the virus and its implications, but because of structural flaws that existed even before the pandemic. By continuing or choosing OK, you accept that we and our partners use cookies to improve our website's performance and provide you with a customized user experience, including by measuring website traffic and deliver ads that are more relevant to you and your interests. Every week, Litman and Shakir and their guests reporters, activists, operatives explore the internal debates and external strategies of Democratic Party and the issues facing America's fragile democratic process through a progressive lens. In which John Heilemann talks with Fiona Hill, the former national security official in Donald Trump's White House who made headlines with her testimony in the hearings over the Ukraine scandal that led to his first impeachment. Joe Biden. Edited, mixed and mastered by Brad Stratton. See acast.com/privacy for more information. In which John Heilemann talks with Kara Swisher, arguably the preeminent chronicler (and frequent critic) of the companies, personalities, and culture of Silicon Valley and the technology world writ large. Heilemann spent time in California this week covering Gov. Heilemann and Schreiber discuss the actor's close bond with his maternal grandfather, a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant, and how that relationship and his Ukrainian roots helped motivate him to start BlueCheck; Schreiber's experience feeding refugees in Poland with chef and World Central Kitchen founder JosAndrs; and his assessment of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine's prospects in the war with Russia. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Osterholm also reflects on his reputation in some quarters as Dr. Doom, and suggests one reason for continued optimism about the future no matter how grim the news on the Covid front may be: dogs. When Watts launched her advocacy group as a simple Facebook page in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting in December 2012, she had just 75 friends on the site but grand ambitions, boundless energy, and infinite chutzpah. John Heilemann talks with Jason Kander, an army veteran and former secretary of state of Missouri who was oneof the Democratic Party's brightest young risingstars until his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder causedhim to walk away from politics four years ago. Hosted by Mark McKinnon, Jennifer Palmieri, and John Heilemann. What ensues is a genuinely improvised and authentic conversation filled with laughter and newfound knowledge to feed the SmartLess mind. Hosted on Acast. | Hell & High Water, This Was His Genuine View Of Donald Trump" | Hell & High Water, President Biden Can Beat Trump, But Can He Beat Trumpism? Try it free! Baker and Glasser both long-time, much-admired Washington reporters, spouses, and co-authors of previous books on Vladimir Putin's Russia and the life of James A. Baker III discuss their thesis that Trump is the sole POTUS in history who never saw national unity as a goal, and in fact sought to profit politically from dividing the country; how Trump's 2017 inaugural address, with its invocation of "American carnage," augured the darkness (and strangeness) that would follow; Trump's disregard and disdain for democratic and institutional norms, from his politicization of the Justice Department and efforts to co-opt the military to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election; how his foreign policy came closer than anyone knew to leading to armed (even nuclear) conflict and diplomatic chaos (including a U.S. exit from NATO) abroad; the transactional nature of Trump's relationship with his wife, Melania; and the mind-bending experience of interviewing Trump for the book and finding his mental stability as questionable as many of his top advisers did. Josh and Chuck have you covered. Palmieri and Brzezinski discuss how Mika "walks the walk" when it comes to supporting women. During the 2016 election season, Heilemann served as a managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and host of the MSNBC and Bloomberg TV program "With All Due Respect. Palmieri spent more than two decades as a big-time political and communications strategist, serving as communications director for Barack Obama's White House and Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Drs. Support More. On Hell and High Water, John Heilemann host of Showtime's The Circus, co-author of Game Change, and national affairs analyst for MSNBC explores this In 2010, he founded a non-profit now known as CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) to mobilize emergency workers and distribute aid in Haiti after a devastating earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince that January. Hosted on Acast. In which John Heilemann talks with John Ellis and Rebecca Darst, co-hosts of "News Items Podcast," a new daily show from The Recount. In 1859, Brown, a militant white abolitionist and religious zealot, led a raid on the federal armory in that small Virginia (now West Virginia) town to acquire weapons and spark a slave revolt to end the peculiar institution and cleanse America of its original sin. Heilemann and Jackson discuss his journey from growing up in Cairo, Illinois to becoming a bona fide theater and television star; how the traumas of Covid-19 and the post-George Floyd racial reckoning impacted the creative community; how Broadway is faring as it prepares for its long-awaited reopening in September; how Hamilton reflected the political zeitgeist of the Obama era but remains relevant today, and how it felt to perform at the White House for the first Black president; and his pride at seeing the hit Broadway musical In the Heights, in which he played a key role (Benny), turned into a splashy Hollywood film that is among the first to be widely released in movie theaters in the wake of the pandemic. In this two-part episode, Heilemann talks with Horn and Wilson about Trumps role in one of most terrible weeks in modern American political history, in which the US Capitol was stormed by far-right insurrectionists; the move to impeach him for a second time or remove him from office via the 25th Amendment; his banishment from Twitter (news that broke while the episode was being recorded); and the clear and present danger he poses to the country in final days as president. But, most importantly for the purposes of this podcast, shes a dear friend of Heilemanns. They also discuss Scarborough's new book, Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization," and what Biden can learn from Truman's presidency. (Duh.). They discuss the late RBG, the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, the high stakes at play and why Neal is still optimistic about the future of the Supreme Court. The never-ending pandemic, the routine mass shootings, the climate literally and figuratively on fire; the economy first battered by recession, then ravaged by inflation; an angry electorate, armed to the teeth and addled by conspiracy theories, as our democracy teeters on the brink, with Donald Trump still working overtime to push the whole thing off a cliff. In which John Heilemann talks with Jeff Goldblum, venerable and venerated actor, chart-topping jazz musician, and enigmatic cultural icon. Only on In which John Heilemann talks with Christopher Jackson, the Tony award-nominated and Grammy and Emmy award-winning actor, singer, musician, and composer best known for playing George Washington in the original Broadway cast of Hamilton. Psaki also admits that no one was more surprised than her to see her regular smackdowns (aka, #psakibombs) of reporters trading in bullshit or bad faith turn into a social-media sensation. Currently adistinguishedresearchfellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, anon-residentfellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, and a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC,Wattsis the author of Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News., Watts first came to national prominence as one of the first experts to raise concerns about Russian online activityduringthe 2016 presidential campaign. Heilemann and Nichols assess the state of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putins calculations in the face of the Russian military's inability to win a swift and decisive victory, and the emerging consensus in the West that war has reached what could prove to be a protracted and bloody stalemate; how President Zelenskyy has wielded a masterful media strategy to galvanize support around the world and dominate the information battlefield; and the difficult decisions facing Joe Biden and the NATO alliance as Zelenskyy warns that we may already have entered World War III. In which John Heilemann talks with Dr. Vin Gupta and Dr. Leana Wen, two public health rising stars who have emerged as influential and indispensable voices on Covid-19 in the past year. Over the course of the past four decades, Robert Reich has worn a multitude of hats: professor and professional idea merchant; federal official in three presidential administrations, candidate for governor of Massachusetts, and economic adviser to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders; author of 18 books, creator of heralded documentaries, and wildly popular social media dynamo. Lawrence Lessig and Laurence Tribe are among the most important and influential legal minds of this or any era. Executive Producer is Adam Caplan. You can read more about the purposes for which we and our partners use cookies and manage your cookie settings by visiting our, Series Finale: Bob Costa and Mark McKinnon, Episode 25: Doug Heye + Jonathan Karl + Susan King, Episode 21: Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters. Follow John Heilemann on Instagram and The Circus on Instagram On this weeks episode of Hell & High Water, Heilemann brings Penn on to discuss the fight against COVID, Penns activism and acting career, and the lasting cultural significance of Jeff Spicoli, his character in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High.". Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America a self-described accidental activist who, in less than a decade, went from being a stay-at-home mother in Indiana to the face of a national grassroots movement with more active members than the National Rifle Association.