Day: December 8, 2025

Trump’s Billionaire Buddy Launches a Hostile Takeover To Create a Trump-Friendly Media Giant

We begin with a hostile takeover attempt by the country’s second richest billionaire apparently in cahoots with his buddy President Trump aimed at undoing the recent deal signed between Netflix and Warner Brothers which would make the Ellisons powerful owners of a Trump-friendly media giant that already owns CBS and would soon own Warner Brothers and more importantly, CNN. Joining us William Cohan, a former senior Wall Street investment banker for 17 years at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, as well as a New York Times best-selling author whose books include Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, and, most recently, Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. He is a founding partner at Puck News where his latest article we will discuss is, “Netflix’s $83B Math & The Ellison Hostile Meter”

Zelensky Meets with Europe’s Leaders Alarmed by Trump’s New National Security Strategy

Then, with Zelensky meeting today with the leaders of the UK, France and Germany who are alarmed by the Trump Administration’s new National Security Strategy that is friendly to the murderous Putin while hostile to what they call the European elite because they won’t let far-right parties into governing coalitions, we will assess why Trump and MAGA Republicans favor “strategic stability with Russia” over security for NATO. Joining us is Aram Shabanian, a national investigative reporter and the former Open-Source Information Gathering Manager at New Lines Institute. He recently taught in Non-Proliferation and Terrorism Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey where his research focused on the Cold War and contemporary histories of Eastern Europe and the Middle East and he has just returned from Kyiv. 

How Do the Democrats Take Back the House in the Face of a Partisan Supreme Court, a Serial Coup-Plotter and a Craven GOP Willing to Sell Out American Democracy?

Then finally we speak with Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He is the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America and his latest book, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It. We will discuss his article at Mother Jones, “The Roberts Court Just Helped Trump Rig the Midterms” and what the Democrats can do to ensure a victory in next November’s midterms in the face of a partisan Supreme Court, a serial coup plotter in the White House and a corrupt GOP all-too willing to obey Trump and sell out American democracy.