Talking Feds

By Harry Litman

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Subscribers: 856
Reviews: 11
Episodes: 350


 Dec 9, 2024
a discussion not heard on television


 Sep 11, 2023

heidi
 Jun 19, 2023
best political podcast ... always informative and candid

Chattering Chatterbox
 Nov 9, 2020
This show's first post-election episode features an all-white panel that praises the Lincoln Project and dunks on progressives. One panelist had the nerve to call AOC a chattering chatterbox. No thanks.

heidi
 Sep 11, 2020
BEST political podcast I've heard. Always informative, Great guests. Well done!

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TALKING FEDS is a roundtable discussion that brings together prominent former government officials, journalists, and special guests for a dynamic and in-depth analysis of the most pressing questions in law and politics.


Episode Date
AlieNation (Special Episode on Immigration)
Dec 23, 2024
Pardons Here, There, and Everywhere
Dec 19, 2024
Tarrifying (Special Episode on Economics)
Dec 16, 2024
Rebutting the Insurrectionary Theory of the Second Amendment
Dec 12, 2024
Kash and Burn (Special Episode on National Security)
Dec 09, 2024
Freedom, Fascism, and Donald Trump
Dec 05, 2024
Kakistocracy (look it up)
Dec 02, 2024
The Real Reason Trump Won.
Nov 28, 2024
Why We Must Have A Detailed Report of the Trump Prosecutions
Nov 26, 2024
DOJ-Jacking (Special Episode on DOJ)
Nov 25, 2024
Sen. Chris Murphy on the Election and the End of Neoliberalism
Nov 21, 2024
Will the Supreme Court Stand Up to Trump?
Nov 19, 2024
The Gaetz of Hell
Nov 18, 2024
Rick Wilson Breaks It Down and Looks Ahead
Nov 14, 2024
Apocalypse: Now.
Nov 11, 2024
Legal, but not Legitimate
Nov 07, 2024
Turning Never Trump
Nov 05, 2024
Margin of Fuhrer
Nov 04, 2024
The Speaker is In The House!
Oct 31, 2024
Margin of Terror
Oct 28, 2024
The Lawyer as Political Warrior (Talking Books with Bob Bauer)
Oct 24, 2024
Time to Panic?
Oct 21, 2024
Is Justice Ever Coming?
Oct 17, 2024
A Hurricane of Hate
Oct 14, 2024
A Second Look At The Jack Smith Brief
Oct 10, 2024
Liar Liar Pres for Hire
Oct 07, 2024
What Polls Get Wrong
Oct 03, 2024
Donald Declining
Sep 30, 2024
DOJ Insider with Preet Bharara
Sep 26, 2024
What’s that you say, Mr. Robinson?
Sep 23, 2024
“There Is No Republican Party” (recorded live with Judge Michael Luttig at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Sep 19, 2024
Talk about extreme!
Sep 16, 2024
Trailer: Introducing a New Series of 1-on-1 Conversations from Talking Feds
Sep 13, 2024
Kamala for the Prosecution (Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Sep 09, 2024
Next Question
Sep 02, 2024
300th Episode DNC Extravaganza!
Aug 26, 2024
DNC TLC
Aug 19, 2024
Walzing Kamala
Aug 12, 2024
Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies
Aug 05, 2024
The Kamala Cavalry
Jul 29, 2024
“You did it, Joe!”
Jul 22, 2024
Has Trump Evaded All Accountability?
Jul 19, 2024
Bedlam in Demland
Jul 15, 2024
Supreme S*#tStorm
Jul 08, 2024
D is for Disaster
Jul 01, 2024
Blueprint Blues
Jun 24, 2024
Trumping the Shark
Jun 17, 2024
Verdict Aversion
Jun 10, 2024
DOJ Insider: DOJ, DJT, TBD
Jun 06, 2024
A Man of Many Convictions
Jun 03, 2024
America Upside Down
May 27, 2024
Cohen the Destroyer? From Inside the Courtroom IV
May 20, 2024
Eye of the Storm: From Inside the Courtroom III
May 13, 2024
Hope & Chaos
May 06, 2024
Immunity Impunity
May 02, 2024
In the (Court)Room Where it Happens
Apr 29, 2024
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury...
Apr 22, 2024
Jury Selection, Abortion Rejection, Cannon Deflection
Apr 15, 2024
Court and Snark
Apr 08, 2024
Democracy saved! Trump in exile! (April 1 edition)
Apr 01, 2024
Trump Trials University
Mar 25, 2024
Once More With Feeling (Terrified)
Mar 18, 2024
A Country for Old Men
Mar 11, 2024
99 Problems But a Mitch Ain’t One
Mar 04, 2024
Alabama Goddam
Feb 26, 2024
Trump Change
Feb 19, 2024
A Tale of Two Cases
Feb 12, 2024
Accountability Era
Feb 05, 2024
Sore Winner, Big Loser
Jan 29, 2024
Live Bad and Profit
Jan 22, 2024
"Fraud on me!"
Jan 15, 2024
Rocky (Mountain) High Court
Jan 08, 2024
Lonelyville, USA
Jan 01, 2024
The Fentanyl Crisis Rages On
Dec 25, 2023
Investigation into an Inquiry into an Impeachment
Dec 18, 2023
Staring into the Abysses
Dec 11, 2023
No Immunity For Fraudsters!
Dec 04, 2023
DOJ insider: Trying Trump
Nov 27, 2023
Gag!
Nov 20, 2023
It's (Half) the Economy, Genius!
Nov 13, 2023
Leaning Tower of Trumps
Nov 06, 2023
From Russia with kompromat
Oct 30, 2023
Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Political Bipartisanship (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Oct 23, 2023
Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Law Enforcement (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Oct 16, 2023
Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump
Oct 09, 2023
Remembering Dianne Feinstein
Oct 05, 2023
Oyez, Oyez, Oy Vey
Oct 02, 2023
Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Journalism (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Sep 25, 2023
Hunter Gatherers
Sep 18, 2023
Remove, Remand, Repeat
Sep 11, 2023
Meadows’ Lark
Sep 04, 2023
Can Ukraine Prevail?
Aug 28, 2023
(Trump’s) Trials & (Our) Tribulations
Aug 21, 2023
A Theory of Everything: A Deep Dive Into the Fulton County Indictment
Aug 16, 2023
An Ordinary Defendant And A Special Counsel
Aug 14, 2023
Defending Donald
Aug 07, 2023
A Deep Dive into the 1/6 Indictment
Aug 02, 2023
"Any Day Now"
Jul 31, 2023
DOJ Quarterly Review: On Target
Jul 24, 2023
Et tu, Jared?
Jul 17, 2023
Nauta Chance
Jul 10, 2023
Affirmative Retraction
Jul 03, 2023
Bedminster Gabby
Jun 26, 2023
It’s Arraigning Presidents
Jun 19, 2023
Signed, Unsealed, Delivered
Jun 12, 2023
Down to the Wire
Jun 05, 2023
Contempt of Court
May 29, 2023
Default, Defraud, DeSantis
May 22, 2023
Top Gun Trial Lawyers and Their Secrets
May 15, 2023
Loneliness in America
May 08, 2023
Et tu, Mike Pence?
May 01, 2023
DOJ Insider: Indictments, Agents, Friends with Benefits
Apr 24, 2023
It's the Economy, Genius!
Apr 17, 2023
Forecast Update: Stormy and Arraign-y
Apr 10, 2023
💥Boom💥
Apr 03, 2023
Crime Fraud Expected
Mar 27, 2023
Bragging Rights & Ukraine Slights
Mar 20, 2023
National Forecast: Stormy
Mar 13, 2023
MAGA, May I?
Mar 06, 2023
Zelensky Zugzwang
Feb 27, 2023
Jack Attack & Pence Defense
Feb 20, 2023
Joe Jitsu
Feb 13, 2023
Ne Plus Ultra: Rachel Maddow on American Fascism 1940s to Today
Feb 10, 2023
Under Cover of Law
Feb 06, 2023
Groundhog Day in Washington
Jan 30, 2023
DOJ Confidential
Jan 23, 2023
Special (Counsel) Effects
Jan 16, 2023
Speaker Squeaker
Jan 09, 2023
Special Year-End Episode: How Will We Go Down in History?
Jan 02, 2023
The Very Model of a Modern Mayor
Dec 26, 2022
Referral Madness
Dec 19, 2022
Supreme Contortions
Dec 12, 2022
Oath Keepers and House Speakers
Dec 05, 2022
Public Education in Crisis
Nov 28, 2022
And Now This Special (Counsel) Announcement
Nov 21, 2022
Red Herring
Nov 14, 2022
Red Alert
Nov 07, 2022
Halloween Edition: Margin of Terror
Oct 31, 2022
Fortnight Forecast
Oct 24, 2022
Hear! Hear!
Oct 17, 2022
A MAGA Midterm?
Oct 10, 2022
Nightmare on First Street: SCOTUS Returns (Live from the Texas Tribune Festival)
Oct 03, 2022
DOJ Under the Microscope (Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)
Sep 26, 2022
Utter (Can)nonsense
Sep 19, 2022
Judge Loose Cannon
Sep 12, 2022
Troll of the Nation
Sep 05, 2022
[REDACTED]
Aug 29, 2022
The Nation’s Hidden Killer
Aug 22, 2022
Garland Crosses The Rubicon
Aug 15, 2022
Deleted texts, DOJ inspects, Kansas rejects
Aug 08, 2022
Post-Roe America: Prosecutorial Discretion Advised
Aug 01, 2022
The Horror! The Horror!
Jul 25, 2022
Blood and Gasoline
Jul 18, 2022
Patsy Baloney and Every Crime Imaginable
Jul 11, 2022
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (and Amy Coney Barrett)
Jul 04, 2022
This is (Trump’s) America
Jun 27, 2022
“Hang Mike Pence!”
Jun 20, 2022
A Republic, If We Can Keep It
Jun 13, 2022
At History’s Edge
Jun 06, 2022
Guns and Butter
May 30, 2022
Mapping Violence
May 23, 2022
DOJ: Here, There, and Everywhere
May 16, 2022
Alito’s Torpedo
May 09, 2022
Russia, Through A Glass Darkly
May 02, 2022
Ruthless Ambition Unmasked
Apr 25, 2022
Refer, Regulate, Restrict
Apr 18, 2022
Cooperation and Covert Operations
Apr 11, 2022
Current Events: Turning of the Tides?
Apr 04, 2022
Critical Republican Theory
Mar 28, 2022
Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington
Mar 21, 2022
(Economic) Life During Wartime
Mar 14, 2022
Taking Civil Rights Seriously
Mar 10, 2022
Darkest Hour 2: Midnight in Kyiv
Mar 07, 2022
Rule of Law, Rule of Outlaws
Feb 28, 2022
Facts, Feints, and the Fifth
Feb 21, 2022
DOJ: Inside the Insurrection Investigation
Feb 14, 2022
A Tale of Two Tyrants
Feb 07, 2022
Exit, Stage Center-Left
Jan 31, 2022
Slidin’ Biden and Hobbled Donald
Jan 24, 2022
Talking Filibuster
Jan 17, 2022
Happy Anniversary. I want a divorce.
Jan 10, 2022
Democratic Party 2022: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind
Jan 03, 2022
Republican Party 2022: Party Over?
Dec 27, 2021
A Very Variant Christmas
Dec 20, 2021
Economics 2021: Inflation Frustration
Dec 13, 2021
Supreme Court: Leaving Us No Choice
Dec 06, 2021
Making Ends Meat: Farmers Get Raw Deal
Nov 29, 2021
Pelosi Talks, Rittenhouse Walks, Meadows Balks
Nov 22, 2021
From the White House to the Big House to Rittenhouse
Nov 15, 2021
DOJ: Turning Up the Heat
Nov 08, 2021
Listener Q&A with Harry Litman
Nov 05, 2021
G20-20 Vision: Bringing the Good China to the Table
Nov 01, 2021
Utter Contempt: Breaking Bannon
Oct 25, 2021
Clark, Bannon and Trump: Lawsuit or Jumpsuit?
Oct 18, 2021
National Security: Beyond the Fringe
Oct 11, 2021
Courting Disaster
Oct 04, 2021
Build Back Better Bill: Biden on the Brink
Sep 27, 2021
Totalled Recall: Masks, Mandates and Manchin
Sep 20, 2021
9/11, Texas, Covid… And how was your week?
Sep 13, 2021
Texas Two Step (Backwards)
Sep 06, 2021
National Security Edition: “No Boots On the Ground to Booed On the Grounds”
Aug 30, 2021
Voting Rights: You Beto Your Life
Aug 23, 2021
Closing the Barn Door on the Stable Genius
Aug 16, 2021
DOJ: Garland Here for the Right Reasons?
Aug 09, 2021
I See Your Trillion and Raise You Climate Change
Aug 02, 2021
Bear Trap in the Bedroom: Select Committee, Infrastructure and Buried Tips
Jul 26, 2021
Foreign Affairs: Putin on the Blitz
Jul 19, 2021
S/Elect: Rights and Riots
Jul 12, 2021
The Supreme Court: Baby, Baby, Where Did Our Left Go?
Jul 05, 2021
Deal or No Deal
Jun 28, 2021
We Wish to Welcome You to Manchinland
Jun 21, 2021
Leak House
Jun 14, 2021
Oh, DeJoy! Gaetz of Hell!
Jun 07, 2021
White House Counsel: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
May 31, 2021
Commission Impossible?
May 24, 2021
Cheney of Command Disrupted
May 17, 2021
Talking Counter-Terrorism: Knock and Talk
May 10, 2021
Talking DOJ: 100 Days of Solid’Tude
May 03, 2021
Chauvin Verdict: You Do the (After) Math
Apr 26, 2021
Foreign Policy: "This Year We No %$&* Suck"
Apr 19, 2021
Gun Safety: Giving it a Real Shot
Apr 12, 2021
Chauvin-ism and the National Schism
Apr 05, 2021
The New New Deal?
Mar 29, 2021
Filibuster or Bust
Mar 22, 2021
Life begins at 50 (Days)
Mar 15, 2021
Anatomy of a Prosecution
Mar 08, 2021
The FBI: The Weather(ed) Bureau
Mar 01, 2021
Republicans On The Fence
Feb 22, 2021
Base Instincts
Feb 13, 2021
Allies Allies All Come Free
Feb 08, 2021
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Feb 01, 2021
Transition, Transition!
Jan 25, 2021
Impeaches and Crime
Jan 19, 2021
News Edition; New Sedition
Jan 11, 2021
Burning Down the House
Jan 07, 2021
The Very Model of a Modern Solicitor General
Jan 06, 2021
Georgia on my Mind
Dec 28, 2020
T-30... and Counting
Dec 21, 2020
I Never Promised you a Rose Garden Pardon
Dec 14, 2020
Purple Reign
Dec 07, 2020
National Security: 50 Days of Gray
Nov 30, 2020
Goodbye Rudy Tuesday
Nov 23, 2020
Biden Our Time
Nov 16, 2020
Welcome Back, America
Nov 09, 2020
Scenarios
Nov 05, 2020
And Yet they Persisted
Nov 02, 2020
Rounding the Corner... to what?
Oct 26, 2020
Confirming Amy... Recuse, Refuse...We Lose
Oct 19, 2020
Talking Zeds: Social Media is Our Country
Oct 15, 2020
Treasonable Doubt
Oct 12, 2020
Talking Feds Now: Positive Uncertainty
Oct 04, 2020
Judging Amy
Sep 28, 2020
Honoring RBG: May her Memory be a Revolution
Sep 21, 2020
Before She was Notorious: Clerking for Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sep 20, 2020
Homeland Insecurity: Flying Blind
Sep 14, 2020
The Vote is in the Mail: Election Protection (from the ground up)
Sep 08, 2020
Sisters in Law Special Voters Rights Edition: Use it or Lose it
Sep 03, 2020
Married to the Don
Aug 31, 2020
Conventional Wisdom: It Is What It Is
Aug 24, 2020
The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Nasty Women Vote
Aug 19, 2020
Kamala: Game On!
Aug 17, 2020
A Tale of Two Cities: Paris, Texas and Paris, France
Aug 10, 2020
Person Woman Man Economy Virus
Aug 03, 2020
A Man a Van No Plan: Portland
Jul 27, 2020
Toxic Mask-ulinity
Jul 20, 2020
Pardon Our Obstruction!
Jul 13, 2020
5-4 Roberts Plays the Long Game
Jul 06, 2020
Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams
Jul 03, 2020
The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Lowering the Barr
Jun 29, 2020
Pride and Prejudice and the Room Where It Happened
Jun 22, 2020
Talking Feds Now: The Barr-Berman Standoff
Jun 21, 2020
Trumpocalypse Nu?
Jun 15, 2020
Pouring Tear Gas on the Fire
Jun 08, 2020
Minnesota Burning
Jun 01, 2020
Memorial Day or Groundhog Day?
May 25, 2020
(Whistle) Blowin' in the Wind
May 18, 2020
Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Governor Gretchen Whitmer
May 13, 2020
In Like Flynn
May 11, 2020
Return to the Double Agent Bar and Grill: Intelligence, National Security, and the Coronavirus
May 04, 2020
A Few Choice Words: Abortion Returns to the Supreme Court
Apr 27, 2020
Law in the Time of Corona: Trump’s efforts to foil law enforcement oversight
Apr 20, 2020
Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Val Demings
Apr 16, 2020
COVID-19 & the November Election: A National Crisis in the Making
Apr 13, 2020
Tequila & Quaaludes: Trump’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus
Apr 06, 2020
Focus on American Universities: Fighting for DACA Dreamers and Coping With COVID-19
Mar 30, 2020
Governments’ Responses to COVID-19: The Good, The Bad, and The Ridiculous
Mar 23, 2020
Corona Cataclysm: a national emergency and a political wild card
Mar 16, 2020
Corona Clusterf**k
Mar 09, 2020
Was the Killing of Qasem Soleimani Legal?
Mar 02, 2020
Ignorance is Strength: Trump’s War on Fact
Feb 24, 2020
Stone Cold Disaster at DOJ
Feb 17, 2020
Has the Presidency Grown Too Powerful for the Constitution?
Feb 10, 2020
Partial Acquittal
Feb 06, 2020
Can I Get A Witness?
Feb 04, 2020
We're Lost
Jan 27, 2020
Will All Senators Now Stand
Jan 20, 2020
The Big Picture in Homeland Security: 2020 and Beyond
Jan 13, 2020
From Russia with Blood
Jan 06, 2020
Demagoguing the Border: The Trump Administration’s Treatment of Migrant Families
Dec 30, 2019
Trump Impeached: An Act of Constitutional Fidelity
Dec 23, 2019
"The Articles Are Agreed To"
Dec 16, 2019
What Will The Trial in the Senate Look Like?
Dec 09, 2019
Impeachment Academy
Dec 02, 2019
The Impeachment Week That Was: If an avalanche of evidence falls in the Congress, can Republicans hear it?
Nov 25, 2019
Sondland Testifies: The Answer is Yes
Nov 21, 2019
The Impeachment Hearings Begin
Nov 14, 2019
Deja Vu: The Trump Impeachment Through the Prism of Past Impeachments
Nov 13, 2019
The Troubled State of Voting Rights Heading into the 2020 Election
Nov 04, 2019
“Is the Dam Breaking?” Part 2-- LIVE from Politicon in Nashville, Tennessee
Oct 28, 2019
“Is the Dam Breaking?” Part 1--LIVE from Politicon in Nashville, Tennessee
Oct 28, 2019
The Federal Death Penalty
Oct 25, 2019
Get over it!
Oct 21, 2019
Bill Barr’s Justice
Oct 11, 2019
The Whistleblowers’ Moment
Oct 07, 2019
Are we f***ed?
Sep 29, 2019
Trump Agonistes
Sep 29, 2019
The Whistle is Blowing
Sep 23, 2019
McCastrophe
Sep 14, 2019
SDNY (2); still in the house
Sep 10, 2019
La Cosa SDNY: An Insider’s Guide to the Most Renowned United States Attorney’s Office
Sep 03, 2019
Left of Boom: Violent Extremism and the Law
Aug 27, 2019
The Republican Opposition
Aug 19, 2019
The Pardon Power
Aug 12, 2019
Who Fights for The People When the Government Won't?
Aug 05, 2019
The Witness Has Left The Room
Jul 26, 2019
Mooting Mueller
Jul 19, 2019
Congress's Last Stand: Mueller's Testimony
Jul 12, 2019
Trump’s Interference with the DOJ
Jul 09, 2019
“Public sentiment is everything”
Jul 06, 2019
Mueller Report Myths and Gerrymandered Maps
Jun 28, 2019
No Hope
Jun 24, 2019
Ted Talks
Jun 17, 2019
A House Divided
Jun 10, 2019
High Crimes and Misdemeanors (feat. Professor Laurence Tribe, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, and Congressman Jamie Raskin)
Jun 03, 2019
The Day Bob Mueller Spoke
May 30, 2019
Do Overs and Cover Ups
May 28, 2019
Game of Trump: A Song of Vice and Ire
May 20, 2019
The Counterintelligence Investigation: What it is, why it matters
May 14, 2019
Barr on the Rocks
May 02, 2019
Mueller in the House
Apr 26, 2019
A Deep Dive Into Murky Waters
Apr 24, 2019
The Mueller Report: And Now What?
Apr 18, 2019
Redaction Reaction
Apr 16, 2019
Report Summary: [REDACTED]
Apr 08, 2019
The Mueller We Know
Apr 01, 2019
Mueller Punts, Barr Intercepts
Mar 28, 2019
Breaking News: The Report Is In
Mar 23, 2019
Pardon Me
Mar 18, 2019
Mueller Done, Manafort Undone?
Mar 14, 2019
An Introduction
Mar 12, 2019