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Episode 18: Heavily Redacted

October 10, 2018

Andy and Rich discuss an accusation that the FBI was limited in its Kavanaugh investigation, look into a troubling insurance policy, and much more.

Latest Episodes

Episode 17: Accusations and Rumors

October 3, 2018

Andy and Rich focus on Kavanaugh, the NYT story on Trump’s taxes, and Rod Rosenstein.

Episode 16: What’s the Point?

September 28, 2018

Andy and Rich break down yesterday’s hearings, explaining the wrongful demands for an FBI investigation, the point of the proceedings, and much more

Episode 15: The Cycle of Chaos

September 19, 2018

The Kavanaugh accusations, developments in the Manafort trial, and whether or not Trump could pardon Manafort.

Episode 14: Where’s the Crime?

September 12, 2018

Andy and Rich discuss developments in the case of former FBI agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page and analyze ongoing FISA abuses.

Episode 13: Three Lawyers Walk Into a Bar…

August 30, 2018

Three personalities with deep ties to Trump and the Russia allegations: Bruce Ohr, Michael Cohen, and Don McGahn.

Episode 12: The Guilty and The Victorious

August 22, 2018

Andy and Rich discuss the damage done by Michael Cohen pleading guilty, Trump’s need for forthrightness in dealing with the Cohen outcome, and more.

Episode 11: From High Clearance to No Clearance

August 16, 2018

Donald Trump strips John Brennan of his security clearance, the ongoing trial of Paul Manafort, and more.

Episode 10: Trump Tower Turmoil

August 8, 2018

Andy and Rich discuss the latest information about the Trump Tower meeting, and continue considering the ongoing Manafort trial.

Episode 9: Tweets, Trials, and Tower Meetings

August 2, 2018

Andy and Rich are back this week with a full roster of topics.

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Law & the Courts

A Terrible College Case Shows the High Cost of ‘Believe Women’

By David French

Through much of the last month, the American people have been treated to a version of the emotional and ideological argument that’s dominated the American academy for much of the last ten years. The argument goes something like this: Women rarely lie about rape. Thus, the failure of criminal or civil justice ... Read More

U.S.

Hillary Clinton Says Bill’s Accusers Don’t Fit into #MeToo

By Katherine Timpf

Hillary Clinton insisted that the sexual-assault allegations against her husband are nothing like the accusations that have been levied against Brett Kavanaugh -- suggesting that Bill’s accusers are not examples of victims who must be believed as part of the #MeToo movement. “There’s a very significant ... Read More

Politics & Policy

Who Will Save Democrats from Their Leaders?

By Andrew C. McCarthy

‘When they go low” . . . that’s where they are sure to find Eric Holder. Sometimes, the former attorney general is excusing hard-Left, unrepentant, anti-American FALN separatists by helping a Democratic president spring them from imprisonment for their terrorist crimes. Sometimes, he is helping a ... Read More

PC Culture

‘White Women’ Becomes a Disparaging Term

By Kyle Smith

Using “white men” as a putdown is no longer extreme enough for the Left. Now it is moving on to doing the same for “white women.” How rapidly this transpired. It was less than two years ago that the approximately 98.7 percent of white women working in media who were openly rooting for Hillary Clinton ... Read More

Politics & Policy

The Beatification of Beto

By Jim Geraghty

The media’s treatment of Texas Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke wasn’t the most egregiously unfair coverage of the past year -- that would be the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh -- but it ranks among 2018’s most annoying. The endless glowing profiles of O’Rourke in every publication from Vanity Fair to ... Read More

Politics & Policy

The World Keeps Not Ending

By Kevin D. Williamson

We were not supposed to have made it this far. George Orwell saw night descending on us in 1984. Orwell was, on paper, a radical, but in his heart he was an old-fashioned English liberal. He dreamed of socialism but feared socialists. He feared them because he knew them. I was in the sixth grade in 1984, but I ... Read More

U.S.

The Black Men Who Identify with Brett Kavanaugh Understand the Stakes

By David French

Earlier today, freshly minted Atlantic writer Jemele Hill published a piece that broke new ground in the Brett Kavanaugh debate. She revealed that, in her experience, black men were more sympathetic to Kavanaugh than she anticipated: On Tuesday night, I was in an auditorium with 100 black men in the city of ... Read More