Brought to you by Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi, the Intergenerational Politics Podcast tackles the issues facing our nation, asks the questions you want to be answered, and most importantly, engages all generations in politics. Jill Wine-Banks is the only woman to have served on the Watergate prosecution team, is an MSNBC Legal Analyst, and is the author of “The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President.” Victor Shi is a sophomore at UCLA, the youngest delegate for Joe Biden in Illinois, former organizer on the Biden for President campaign, and an advocate for democratic reform.
217: The Lawyer Who Declined to Represent Donald Trump Has Bad News For Trump & his Lawyers
Nov 15, 2023
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Donald Trump's trials are well underway and we are getting a glimpse into what he's like as a witness. Today, we bring you a lawyer who used to represent Rudy Giuliani and who turned down a request to be Donald Trump’s lawyer in the Mar-a-Lago search case. He is Jon Sale, who is now a partner at Nelson Mullins in Florida. Jon also previously served on the Watergate Prosecution team with Jill, as an assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York and in the District of Connecticut, and has recently appeared on virtually every TV network. He also supports the use of cameras in the Courtroom, which we talk about.
216: What You Need to Know About The Israel-Hamas War - with Admiral John Kirby
Nov 08, 2023
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John Kirby is the Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council. Since the Hamas attack on Israel, John has been the face of this administration’s public-facing response and he has been doing a phenomenal job explaining how President Biden is responding. Prior to his current position, John served in the US Navy as a rear admiral, was the Spokesperson for the State Department under President Obama from 2015 to 2017, and was the Press Secretary at the Pentagon for the first year and a half of the Biden administration.
215: January 6th Police Officer Harry Dunn SLAMS Republican Election Lies
Nov 01, 2023
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Harry Dunn is an American police officer and author. He has served in the United States Capitol Police since 2008. Dunn was one of many victims of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, and testified with his colleagues in front of the House Select January 6 Committee in 2021. He has received the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Citizens Medal.
214: Why Our Media is Failing Us with John Harwood
Oct 25, 2023
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John Harwood, is Editor at Large for CNBC covering Washington and hosts the CNBC Digital original video series “Speakeasy with John Harwood.” Harwood was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and grew up in the Maryland suburbs outside of the nation’s capital. He has been around journalism and politics all his life; his first trip on a presidential campaign press plane came when he was 11 years old and accompanied his father, then a political reporter for The Washington Post. While still in high school, he began his journalism career as a copy boy at The Washington Star. He studied history and economics at Duke University and graduated magna cum laude in 1978. Harwood subsequently joined The St. Petersburg Times, reporting on police, investigative projects, local government and politics. Later he became state capital correspondent in Tallahassee, Washington correspondent and political editor. While covering national politics, he also traveled extensively to South Africa, where he covered deepening unrest against the apartheid regime. In 1989, Harwood was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he spent the 1989-90 academic year. In 1991, he joined The Wall Street Journal as White House correspondent, covering the administration of George H. W. Bush. Later Harwood reported on Congress. In 1997, he became The Wall Street Journal’spolitical editor and chief political correspondent. While at The Wall Street Journal, Harwood wrote the newspaper’s political column, “Washington Wire,” and oversaw the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. In March 2006, he joined CNBC as Chief Washington Correspondent. In addition to CNBC, Harwood offers political analysis on NBC and NPR, among others. Harwood has covered each of the last nine presidential elections.
213: Political Courage with Cassidy Hutchinson & Alex Butterfield
Oct 18, 2023
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Join Victor & Jill for a very special one off show with Cassidy Hutchinson and Alex Butterfield, how they both made the decision to testify against a president 50 years apart and how their friendship has blossomed.
212: The World in Disarray with Raja Krishnamoorthi
Oct 11, 2023
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi was elected to Congress in 2016 and is now in his fourth term representing Illinois’ 8th District, which includes Chicago’s west and northwest suburbs as well as the 41st ward of the city. He serves as Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, making him the first South Asian American in history to lead a Congressional Committee. He also serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability as a member of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs. The Congressman is a Vice-Chair of the Equality Caucus and Co-Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Immigration Task Force. In addition, he is the founder and Chairman of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus to End the Youth Vaping Epidemic and the bipartisan Solar Caucus.
211: Going after Ken Paxton with Joe Jaworski
Oct 04, 2023
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Joe's twitter bio: Native Texan, Husband, Father, Lawyer, Drummer for “Other Bright Colors”, Mediator at The Jaworski Law Firm, former Mayor of Galveston, TX
210: The State of our Democracy with Heather Cox Richardson
Sep 27, 2023
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Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian, author and educator. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians
209: How Tommy Tuberville is destroying the military with Norm Ornstein
Sep 20, 2023
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Norman Ornstein is an American political scientist and an Emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., conservative think tank. He is the co-author of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism
208: Why there should be cameras in the courtroom with Anthony Coley
Sep 13, 2023
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During the first two years of the Biden Administration, Anthony Coley led public affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice and served as Attorney General Merrick Garland’s chief spokesman
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