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Join Puck’s chief political columnist, MSNBC/NBC News national affairs analyst, and best-selling author John Heilemann as he roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the people who shape and shift our culture: icons and up-and-comers, incumbents and insurgents, moguls and machers in the overlapping worlds of politics, entertainment, tech, business, sports, media, and beyond. The conversations are rich and revealing, unrehearsed and unexpected … and reliably impolitic.
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- Yesterday1h 17m
Nicolle Wallace: Happy Election Day from the No Handwringing Zone
John welcomes back Nicolle Wallace, host of Deadline: White House on MS NOW and The Best People podcast, for their traditional Election Day hang. After seeing Donald Trump’s homestretch performance on the campaign trail, Nicolle argues that Trump no longer cares about politics or the fate of his party (with the exception of Jon Husted’s rock-hard heine); advises Democrats to resist their usual handwringing and overthinking; weighs in on Haley Stevens’s mental/emotional stability; tosses flowers to Jon Osoff and James Talarico; trashes the “whiny wimps” of MAGA and the manosphere; and predicts that Trump’s inevitable efforts to overturn the results of the midterms will wind up in the Supreme Court.
- 2 days ago1h 42m
Tim Miller: The World According to Tim — 2026 Midterms Edition
John welcomes back Tim Miller, host of The Bulwark Daily Podcast, for our penultimate pre-midterms episode. In a discussion broken into four parts – what he’s psyched about, worried about, pissed off about, and what’s cracking him up – Tim waxes rhapsodic about Adam Hamilton; frets that the polls are all wrong; heaps scorn on Mike Rogers, Vivek Ramaswamy, and J.D. Vance; and cackles over Clay Travis’s Cheesecake Factory fabulism and Iowa GOP House candidate Joe Mitchell’s risible effort to ego-fluff Donald Trump (and subsequent leaked-video humiliation). John and Tim also compare notes on a Republican gubernatorial candidate’s investment in a manufacturer of “high-tech penis rings”—only to discover that one of them has come armed with receipts.
- 5 days ago1h 19m
Iowapalooza, Pt. 2: Matt Paul on the Hawkeye State’s Potential Rhapsody in Blue
John welcomes Des Moines-based Democratic strategist Matt Paul for the second installment of a special two-part episode on the midterm elections in Iowa. A longtime adviser to former two-term Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack who also served as Iowa state director on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Paul argues that despite all appearances over the past 10 years—during which the Hawkeye State voted three times for Donald Trump (and by a 12-point margin in 2024)—Iowa has simply been masquerading as a red state; that the results on November 3 will, at a minimum, signal its return to its natural purple hue; and may wind up marking the beginning of the end of the Trump era.
- 1 weeks ago1h 8m
Iowapalooza, Pt. 1: Dave Kochel on Democrats’ Potential Hopium O.D. in the Hawkeye State
John welcomes longtime Republican strategist Dave Kochel for the first part of a special doubleheader on the midterm elections in Iowa—and whether the state that launched Barack Obama may be about to swing back to blue after ten years of dominance by Donald Trump’s G.O.P. An Iowa native who ran Mitt Romney’s caucus operations in 2008 and 2012, confidant to former six-term governor Terry Branstad and current two-termer Kim Reynolds, and adviser to Senate candidate Ashley Hinson and congressman Zach Nunn, Kochel argues that while his party is facing fierce political headwinds, Democrats are too optimistic about their prospects in a state where the blue team’s brand remains borderline toxic.
- 1 weeks ago1h 16m
Carville & Begala: “We’re Gonna Win in Places We Didn’t Know We Had Candidates”
John welcomes longtime Democratic consulting partners and Clinton 1992 icons James Carville & Paul Begala to discuss their party’s prospects in the midterm elections. James and Paul argue that the House is rapidly shifting from a blue wave to a blue wipeout; that Democratic optimism about flipping Senate seats in deep red states (Alaska, Kansas, South Carolina and even Mississippi) is warranted, even as their side is danger of losing on more hospitable territory (Michigan, Maine, and even Minnesota). They also offer theories as to why Donald Trump can't stop talking about Ohio GOP Senator Jon Husted’s ass.
- 2 weeks ago1h 19m
Dave Wasserman: The Red Undertow is Turning Into a Riptide
John welcomes Cook Political Report election guru Dave Wasserman to discuss the outlook for the midterms. Wasserman argues that rising prices, an unpopular war, voters’ increasing focus on government corruption, and Republicans’ failure to distance themselves from Donald Trump have put them in an “impossible position” two weeks out from Election Day; Trump’s record-low approval ratings, coupled with his insistence on making the election a referendum on himself, are making his party’s already dire situation even worse; the GOP’s mid-decade redistricting gambit has ended up yielding next to nothing; and Democrats are all but guaranteed to retake the House (potentially picking up north of 20 seats) and narrow favorites to recapture the Senate, too.
- 2 weeks ago1h 21m
Neera Tanden: J.D. Vance’s Projections, Hasan Piker's Fixations & the Battle for the Democratic Party
John welcomes Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, to discuss the midterm elections and the fierce fights among the Democratic Party’s warring factions. Tanden explains the combination of factors that she believes will lead to a thorough repudiation of Donald Trump and the GOP on November 3; why the unexpected strength of Democratic Senate candidates in ruby red states such as Alaska, Kansas, and Iowa illuminate a path to consigning MAGA to the dustbin of history; and her view of the place the DSA should have in the big-tent coalition her party needs to build. She also offers what she claims will be her final words on her ongoing feud with leftist streamer Hasan Piker.
- 3 weeks ago1h 28m
Anand Giridharadas: Jordan Neely, Daniel Penny, Donald Trump & The Politics of Abandonment
John welcomes journalist Anand Giridharadas to discuss his new best-selling book, “Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City,” about the death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway train after being placed in a chokehold by another passenger, Daniel Penny. Anand explains what drew him to the headline-making story of Neely, a homeless, mentally ill Black man, and the white Long Islander who subdued him, that became a Rorschach test for the country’s political and racial tribes; and how despite their conflicting views of public order in post-pandemic America, those tribes are animated by a shared sense of abandonment by the institutions meant to protect and serve us all, which Giridharadas argues is the defining emotion of our time.
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Join Puck’s chief political columnist, MSNBC/NBC News national affairs analyst, and best-selling author John Heilemann as he roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the people who shape and shift our culture: icons and up-and-comers, incumbents and insurgents, moguls and machers in the overlapping worlds of politics, entertainment, tech, business, sports, media, and beyond. The conversations are rich and revealing, unrehearsed and unexpected … and reliably impolitic.
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