Day: April 29, 2026

A Craven Creep Auditioning For a Mob Boss Who Wants a Consigliere Not an Attorney General 

We begin with the former head of the FBI James Comey turning himself in today to face disgracefully bogus charges manufactured by a craven, crawling creep who is auditioning to become the next head of the Department of Pedophile Protection for the mob boss with an obsessive hatred of Comey and an insatiable lust for revenge who wants a consigliere, not an Attorney General. Joining us is Harry Litman, a former United States attorney and deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department. A professor of constitutional law and national security law at the University of California San Diego and University of California Los Angeles. He is the host of the Talking San Diego speaker series, and the Executive Producer & host of the Talking Feds podcast as well as author of the Talking Feds Substack. He is also a senior legal columnist at The New Republic and his latest article at Talking Feds is ““Seashellgate” is Going Exactly Nowhere.”

The Fulfillment of John Roberts Long Crusade To Give Republicans An Advantage By Undoing Voting Rights For Minorities

Then we look into the Supreme Court’s fulfillment of Chief Justice John Roberts’ long crusade to undo voting rights for minorities in order to give Republicans an undeserved advantage on a rigged electoral playing field. Joining us is Dr. Michael McDonald, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is a principal investigator on the Public Mapping Project, a project to encourage public participation in redistricting, and also is the Director of the United States Election Project. His latest book is From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election and he does regular voting analysis of the 2026 elections for the US Election Project at michaelmcdonald.substack.com

While Insulting House Democrats and Republicans, Hegseth Asks For an Extra $1.5 Trillion

Then finally we assess the success of Defense Secretary Hegseth’s testimony today before the House Armed Services Committee where he asked for a trillion and a half dollars more for his “war-fighting” budget at the same time insulting members saying that the “biggest adversary” now is the “defeatist words” of congressional Democrats and some Republicans who criticize the conflict when it is only two months old. Joining us is Thomas Nichols, a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College who previously taught international relations and Soviet/Russian affairs at Dartmouth College and Georgetown University. He is the author of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters and his latest book is Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy. He is currently a staff writer at The Atlantic where his latest article is “We Cannot Harden the World Against Every Attacker.”