Day: July 22, 2025

The Good Christian Mike Johnson Shuts Down the House to Protect the Best Friend of a Pedophile and Child Sex Trafficker

We begin with the self-proclaimed pious Christian Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shutting down Congress to avoid having to vote on a bipartisan resolution to make the Epstein files public in order to protect a president whose best friend was a pedophile and sex trafficker of underage girls, many of whose victims claim he them shared with Donald Trump. We try to assess a possible breaking point with the MAGA base as these blatant coverups proceed with reports now surfacing that Trump’s DOJ is trying to make a deal with Ghislaine Maxwell to name only Democrats on Epstein’s alleged client list. Joining us is Mike Lofgren, who formerly spent twenty-eight years working in Congress as a Republican aide, sixteen of which as a senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted. His latest article at Salon is “America slides into totalitarianism – and it won’t be easy to reverse.”

The Decline of the Intelligence Community Trying to Survive an Anti-Intellectual Regime  

Then, as Trump dumbs down America while living in his own reality, not the real one, we investigate the decline of the Intelligence Community trying to survive an anti-intellectual regime and speak with Tim Weiner, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and former reporter for The New York Times where he covered national security issues and investigative projects focusing on the Central Intelligence Agency, the military, foreign policy, weapons of mass destruction and terrorist groups. His book Legacy of Ashes, which chronicles the CIA, won the 2007 National Book Award and was a bestseller and he is also the author of One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon, and his latest book, just out is, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.