Speaker
Tim Miller
Appearances over time
7 episodes
Episodes
7
Bill Kristol: Trump Wants All-out Kleptocracy
Clint Smith: Make America What It Set Out to Be
Susan Glasser: Our Money-Grubbing President
Maggie Haberman: A Gross and Messy White House
David French: The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Should've Been 9-0
John Dickerson: When the Media Helps Rewrite Reality
Jane Coaston: POTUS's Racism Notches Another Win
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Secretary Hegseth has blocked or delayed the promotion of more than 12 Black and female senior military officers since taking office.
The Supreme Court ruling on TPS stripped legal status from over 300,000 Haitians who had fled their country under humanitarian protections.
Trump's investment accounts made 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases one day before he announced the pause on Liberation Day tariffs.
The Supreme Court struck down Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship in a 6-3 decision, with Gorsuch as the surprising third dissent.
Trump's financial disclosures revealed he made at least $2.2 billion since returning to the presidency, vastly exceeding his pre-presidency wealth.
Nine protesters at the Prairieland ICE facility received sentences ranging from 30 to 100 years under Trump's material-support-for-terrorism executive order.
Trump had a 45-day legal deadline to report those stock transactions but did not abide by it.
Trump claimed the Slaughter ruling was 'the greatest increase in presidential power in 100 years,' overruling 90 years of precedent on independent agency heads.
The US government is actively doing critical minerals deals worth ~$9 billion with at least 14 companies that have financial ties to Trump or Lutnick.
Trump has $14 million in personal hotel licensing deals in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, creating direct conflicts of interest with his foreign policy decisions involving those nations.
Daniel 'Dez' Sanchez Estrada was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to 30 years for moving a box of anarchist zines from his home — he did not attend the protest.
The total value of critical minerals deals benefiting Trump-connected companies stands at approximately $9 billion.
Trump publicly defended his children having inside information about virtually every business deal because of his presidency, saying 'we don't have to care about it.'
The Supreme Court struck down 6-3 limits on coordinated spending between candidates and party committees, another extension of Citizens United.
Dell's stock surged after Trump urged Americans from the Oval Office to buy Dell stock, where Michael Dell had contributed to the Trump accounts.
Vice President JD Vance tried stand-up comedy in front of service members on July 4th weekend, delivering a whataboutism riff about Biden falling on stairs. It landed with near-silence. Tim Miller and Susan Glasser note the irony: Trump is visibly aging before our eyes, falling asleep on camera repeatedly, and Vance is making the comparison himself.
The entire post-Watergate anti-corruption architecture — contribution limits, disclosure requirements, restrictions on unaccountable cash — has been effectively gutted by the Supreme Court. Susan Glasser traces the arc from Spiro Agnew taking literal cash payoffs to today's billions flowing to Trump with no legal consequence.
Trump's financial disclosures revealed he earned at least $2.2 billion since returning to office — mostly from crypto and foreign investment deals. This dwarfs anything Hunter Biden or any prior president's family ever did, and it's happening in real time with zero accountability.
Qatar gifted Trump a $400 million plane — a hand-me-down the emirate no longer wanted — and U.S. taxpayers then paid hundreds of millions more to upgrade it for presidential use. Trump plans to keep it personally via his presidential library. Meanwhile, Qatar is a key player in the Iran conflict and Hamas negotiations that Trump is actively managing.
Trump visited the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library and spoke to an AI hologram of Roosevelt. The contrast was devastating: Roosevelt fought Gilded Age billionaires, created national parks, and championed immigrants. Trump enables oligarchs, guts environmental protections, and deports immigrants. Susan Glasser calls them near-polar opposites.
Trump refused to renew the USMCA — a trade deal he called the best ever — replacing it with yearly shakedowns of Canada and Mexico. Susan Glasser explains this isn't just chaos: it's Trump's monarchical view of economic governance, where all deals flow through him personally, and unpredictability is the point.
The Trump-Iran memorandum of understanding has been called a landmark ceasefire, but firing between the two sides has continued. Iran treats the Strait of Hormuz as a spigot to turn on and off for leverage, and no meaningful nuclear talks have begun. Susan Glasser is skeptical any long-term peace deal emerges.
A Gallup poll found only 53% of Americans can summon any sense of pride in being American as the country turns 250. Susan Glasser connects this to the inversion of the American dream under Trump — the Pottersville president — but argues giving in is not the answer.
Pete Hegseth secured the Defense Secretary job through his on-air advocacy to prevent service members accused of civilian atrocities in Iraq from being held accountable. Trump overruled his own military chain of command to accommodate Hegseth's position. This history, Susan Glasser argues, explains his approach to the school bombing in Iran.
Trump plans a major July 4th speech on the National Mall in 104-to-107-degree heat with no chairs and possibly no water allowed. Susan Glasser predicts low turnout and a pre-written crowd-size grievance Truth Social post to follow. Tim Miller notes the festivities have been so sparse that a man in an Uncle Sam costume got arrested mid-livestream.
JD Vance told Laura Ingraham his Catholic faith motivates him to protect the dignity of 'normal Americans' — while defending policies that have imprisoned thousands of immigrants in ICE facilities without process. Susan Glasser notes that the current Pope has become the most effective rebuttal to Vance's warped theology.
Cameron Kasky was in Maine without his anxiety medication the day after a major New York Times scandal story dropped on Graham Plattner. He expected chaos. Instead, the energy was overwhelmingly positive — because in Maine, where everyone knows everyone, the 'revelations' were already known. A poll shows Plattner down just 3 to Collins.
Stop looking for a John Kelly or Jim Mattis in this White House. Rubio is constantly in the West Wing, in and out of the press secretary's office, and by Haberman's eyewitness account, loving every minute of it. He's dual-hatted as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor specifically because he wants to be near Trump — not to restrain him.
Losing in 2020 was the best thing that ever happened to Trump's power. He avoided post-pandemic inflation and the Afghanistan withdrawal, became a martyr figure through indictments and assassination attempts, and returned to the White House with an iron grip on his party that a consecutive second term never would have produced.
Russia has suffered an estimated 1.4 million casualties in Ukraine — deaths and serious injuries combined. This surpasses the Napoleonic Wars and is Russia's deadliest conflict since WWII. Susan Glasser argues this level of human destruction carries inherent instability, but warns that hardline successors to Putin could be even worse.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Government 50%
- News 17%
- Society & Culture 17%
- History 8%
- Technology 8%
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