Don’t miss an episode of the Political Junkie! Find out how to listen to our podcast.
Even without the filibuster, it still took a while for President Trump’s cabinet to get confirmed. So just how hard is it to get through the confirmation process? Linda Chavez, who was President George W. Bush’s choice to head up the Labor Department in 2001 talks about her experience. Chavez was forced to withdraw her …
The torrent of political headlines since 2017 began has been enough to bend anybody out of shape, political junkies included. So perhaps it’s not surprising that Ken Rudin underwent back surgery this week, and is now recuperating. But we couldn’t go the entire month without recapping last week’s dramatic testimony by former FBI Director James …
Whoever scheduled former FBI Director James Comey to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on a Thursday clearly had one goal: to mess up the Political Junkie’s recording schedule. Don’t they know we record the show on Wednesday? So instead, we chose to take a look back at three other famous congressional hearings that changed …
In 2005, Mark Felt, a former top FBI official, unveiled what was one of the biggest political secrets in history — that he was Deep Throat, the secretive source that gave information to the Washington Post’s Woodward and Bernstein that helped bring down President Nixon during the Watergate scandal. But if Felt’s confession answered the …
President Trump seems to be having a successful foreign trip, his first since his inauguration, but back home there are still questions about alleged ties to Russia and whether he has tried to block any investigation. Lisa Desjardins of PBS’ NewsHour focuses on the controversies facing Trump, as well as the latest on his budget package he …
There has been no shortage of comparisons between President Trump and his firing of FBI Director James Comey with what happened during Watergate. But Tom Davis, the former Republican congressman from Virginia who knows the thinking inside the GOP, says we have a way to go before such linkages can be made. But just in case people …
The House passage of the American Health Care Act has a long way to go before it becomes law, and it’s premature to say with any certainty how voters in 2018 will react to it. But one member of Congress who was faced with a tough vote was Marjorie Margolies, a freshman Democrat from Pennsylvania. Her …
2016 may not have been John Kasich’s favorite year. The Ohio governor sought the GOP presidential nomination but won only one primary, that of his home state. He refused to attend his own party’s convention or endorse Donald Trump’s candidacy. But he is not going away quietly. He has a new book out, calling for civility not …
As President Trump is about to reach his one-hundredth day in office — and after touting that he has accomplished more than any other president in that time period — NPR’s Mara Liasson offers a scorecard and a reality check. Bernie Sanders and DNC chair Tom Perez are on a national tour promoting the Democratic Party and …
The hype over the special congressional election in Georgia’s 6th District was almost unbearable. What did it mean for Trump? Or for the battle over the House in 2018? Still, for all the millions of dollars spent, it’s not clear what the message was. Greg Giroux of Bloomberg News reports on not only what’s in store for …