Speaker
Katty Kay
Appearances over time
7 episodes
Episodes
7
The Secret To Asking For A Pay Raise (Mika Brzezinski)
202. Is Trump Rigging the World Cup?
200. Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Will Backfire
199. White House Shouting Match: Is Trump Sabotaging His Own Party?
198. Trump's War On Europe: No Way Back?
197. Vance Vs Hegseth: Who Takes the Fall for Trump’s Iran Deal?
196. Trump’s Iran Deal: One Big American Failure?
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
BetterHelp's 2026 State of Stigma report found 85% of Americans believe getting mental health support is wise.
At least 13 Americans died and 500 were injured during the military campaign against Iran that preceded the deal.
Katty Kay cites research showing 60% of women say they have never asked for a pay raise, setting them back financially from the very start of their careers.
Trump set 6 stated goals for the Iran operation; by Katty Kay's count, only a couple were substantially achieved.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed Trump two 6-3 immigration victories, authored by Justice Alito, clearing the path to remove roughly a million people from the US.
Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill that had a veto-proof majority, holding it hostage to the SAVE Act, leaving a staged signing ceremony abandoned on Capitol Hill.
Despite widespread belief in therapy, 74% of surveyed Americans think society discourages people from seeking mental health support.
Alongside 13 American deaths, 500 US service members were injured during the conflict with Iran that led to the Versailles deal.
The two Supreme Court rulings combined are estimated to affect roughly a million people who could face deportation from the United States.
Only 50% of women report having regular check-ins with their managers, compared to higher rates for men, reflecting a structural support gap.
In a shouting match with Trump, Senator Bill Cassidy confronted the president over his claim that the Iran war would last only 4 weeks — it lasted 4 months.
20% of companies now place low or no priority on women's advancement, and that figure rises to 30% for women of color.
Today only 51% of American adults think the American dream still holds for them, a dramatic decline from the optimism of the 1950s and '60s.
Obama's JCPOA nuclear deal was 150 pages long and took 20 months to negotiate, with exhaustive verification processes — the new deal is a two-page memo.
The United States spent $80 billion on the military campaign against Iran before signing the deal at Versailles.
Trump is a cue ball that smashes the Democrats into 15 different directions. Scaramucci's verdict is stark: until Democrats coordinate around one candidate and stop feeding internal ideological warfare, Trump will keep controlling them remotely — the same way Putin runs Trump.
JD Vance went on Bill Maher's show and got blistered — and Scaramucci, who dislikes Vance, gave him credit for it. AOC and Kamala Harris both declined invitations. The lesson: going into hostile territory and taking the heat is a political skill that Democrats have abandoned and that cost them 2024.
AT&T, the largest monopoly in American history, was sitting on the technology that created Netflix, Facebook, and the entire internet. It had no incentive to release it while charging $4 a minute for long-distance calls. Judge Harold Greene's 1984 breakup freed it all. The lesson: monopolies kill innovation, and today's tech giants are doing the same thing.
For the first time since the 1930s, America faces simultaneous low migration and near-record low birth rates. That combination shrinks the tax base, reduces the workforce, and heaps the cost of an ageing population onto fewer young workers — exactly the opposite of what the immigration crackdown's cheerleaders promise.
Einstein wrote to FDR offering to help build the atomic bomb — and America said yes. Anthony Scaramucci asks whether an increasingly xenophobic America would still attract that letter. If the next global crisis produces an Einstein, where will he or she write?
On America's 250th birthday, only 51% of adults believe the American dream still holds for them. Belief peaked in the 1950s and '60s, cratered in 2008, and has never recovered — a quiet crisis of national self-confidence that no parade or fireworks display can disguise.
Pew Research's 250th anniversary snapshot of America is brutal: only 29% are satisfied with the country's direction, 19% think the Founders would be pleased, and two-thirds reach for negative words when asked to describe the US. Yet 81% still want to live here.
The top 20% of Americans control 87% of the country's wealth. Scaramucci argues this isn't the result of hard work — it's a feedback loop between the ultra-rich and government, fuelled by Citizens United money buying politicians who then deliver tax cuts and corporate welfare.
Presidential historian Jon Meacham's verdict is unambiguous: no republic in history has survived without a middle class. The Pew data showing America's shrinking middle isn't just a sad statistic — it is, Katty Kay argues, a structural warning about the survivability of the American experiment itself.
The Democrats and Republicans are a duopoly — the Demo-publicans — who pay lip service to working Americans but offer no real policy solutions. Scaramucci's hope is a younger crop of data-dependent, less ideological politicians who will end Citizens United, limit gerrymandering, restore DOJ independence, and expand earned income tax credits.
Vance showed up at the Nixon Library to declare Watergate a 'nothing burger.' Katty Kay's read: he's pre-emptively minimising corruption so that whatever investigations follow the midterms look like a deep-state hit job rather than legitimate accountability — exactly what Trump has been saying about Nixon for 25 years.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed Trump two sweeping 6-3 immigration victories, ending Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and limiting asylum applications to those already on US soil. Together they could put roughly a million people on a path to deportation.
Katty Kay's advice to every Republican who has cleared their primary: you are now in the YOLO caucus. Distance yourself from the White House, raise your own money, and run on your own record. The president's approval is at rock bottom, Washington looks like crazy town, and your only path to reelection is to make voters forget you were ever associated with any of it.
After Trump's Capitol meltdown, Senate Majority Leader Jon Thune — tall, suited, stone-faced — turned and walked in the exact opposite direction of the president. No words needed. That body language is the most eloquent statement yet that the Republican Party's leadership has had enough.
Megyn Kelly told Haitian migrants to 'go back to fucking Haiti' on her show. Meanwhile, factory managers in Springfield were begging for more Haitian workers — punctual, drug-free, harder-working than native-born Americans, they said. The gap between the pundit class and economic reality on immigration has never been wider.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Government 33%
- News 33%
- Society & Culture 20%
- Sports 7%
- Business 4%
- History 3%
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