The Frank Figliuzzi Show
Twenty-five years in the FBI, retired as Assistant Director for Counterintelligence. Frank Figliuzzi explains how American national security actually works, and what it looks like when it breaks. Live twice a week with the people who were in the room, from Admiral William McRaven to Ty Cobb to the reporter who reopened the Epstein case, plus Frank Friday, where you ask and he answers.
Not the news. What the news means from the inside.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2026
Congressman Adam Smith is the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, and chaired it from 2019 to 2022. He was the youngest state senator in the country at 25, and has been re-elected to Congress 14 times since.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2026
Ty Cobb served as Special White House Counsel during the Mueller investigation, reporting directly to Trump for nearly a year before resigning. He’s a former federal prosecutor and Harvard and Georgetown Law graduate.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2026
Tim Whitaker was raised inside evangelicalism and homeschooled, and now argues its far-right wing has abandoned the Gospels entirely.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2026
Shenna Bellows is Maine’s Secretary of State. In 2023, she removed Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause. The Supreme Court overturned her. She’s running for re-election anyway, and has spent this year building the chain of command meant to stop a DOJ election monitor from seizing ballots before a court can intervene.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2026
Congressman Jamie Raskin, constitutional law professor and lead impeachment manager against Trump, on the Supreme Court’s Missouri redistricting decision, the effort to block Trump’s postal service executive order, and Trump’s Board of Peace, which Raskin says Congress never authorized and nobody can locate.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2026
Dean Obeidallah is a comedian, lawyer, and SiriusXM host. He was in downtown Manhattan on September 11th, 2001, and watched the towers fall from the street.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026
Sofia Kinzinger started as a staff assistant for Speaker John Boehner, then became strategic media director for Vice President Mike Pence, then press secretary at the Department of Homeland Security under Chad Wolf. She’s married to former Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who sat on the January 6th committee.
AUGUST 31, 2026
Elle Leonard is a citizen journalist who runs Red Pencil Transcripts, working with podcasts, documentary filmmakers, and major newspapers. She’s become one of the most closely followed researchers on the Epstein files.
AUGUST 26, 2026
Adrian Fontes is Arizona’s Secretary of State, a Marine Corps veteran, and cousin to Nevada’s Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, who appeared on this show two weeks earlier.
AUGUST 24, 2026
Admiral William McRaven commanded the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. Now the retired four-star admiral and former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command sits down with former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi for a candid conversation about President Trump, Iran, America’s military, our alliances — and the meaning of American leadership.
AUGUST 19, 2026
AUGUST 17, 2026
Frank Figliuzzi sits down with Chris Line, Legal Counsel and Rapid Response Counsel for the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), to examine the growing collision between Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, churches, government power and the 2026 midterm elections.
AUGUST 12, 2026
Cisco Aguilar is Nevada’s Secretary of State, the first Latino elected to the office in state history. He’s undefeated in court against the Trump administration on election-related challenges, 21-0 on cases over voter data alone.
AUGUST 10, 2026
Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and an MSNBC contributor. His most recent books are America, USA: How Race Shadows the
Nation’s Anniversaries and We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For.
AUGUST 5, 2026
Jill Wine-Banks was a Watergate prosecutor and later served as General Counsel of the United States Army, overseeing the largest law firm in the world. Her book is The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President.
AUGUST 3, 2026
Juliet Jeske runs Decoding Fox News on Substack, watching upwards of 25 hours of Fox programming a week so her subscribers don’t have to. She started as an amateur researcher tracking the Proud Boys, whose material led to a criminal prosecution, before turning her attention to Fox full time.
JULY 29, 2026
Elizabeth Goitein is Senior Director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, a nationally recognized expert on presidential emergency powers, government surveillance, and secrecy.
JULY 27, 2026
Asha Rangappa is a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, a former FBI special agent, and author of the Freedom Academy on Substack. Her upcoming book is Uncompromised: Activating Your Moral Compass in an Age of Complicity.
JULY 22, 2026
Dr. Vin Gupta is a pulmonologist, public health physician, and former senior medical contributor for MSNBC. He is Managing Director of Health Innovation at Phelps and Phillips and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington.
JULY 20, 2026
JULY 15, 2026
Kait Justice is a self-taught researcher who publishes Downwind of Truth on Substack, connecting the Epstein financial network to people currently in power, alongside her ongoing work on GE’s PCB contamination in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts.
JULY 13, 2026
Stacey Young spent 18 years as a DOJ attorney across five presidential administrations before founding Justice Connection, which now supports over 16,000 DOJ and FBI employees purged since the start of this administration.
JULY 8, 2026
Jena Griswold is Colorado’s Secretary of State and the Democratic nominee for state Attorney General. In 2021 she oversaw the investigation that led to Mesa County clerk Tina Peters’ conviction on four felonies and three misdemeanors for compromising voting equipment to chase Trump’s stolen-election claims. Governor Polis commuted her sentence this year.
JULY 6, 2026
Charlie Sykes is a longtime MSNBC contributor, founder of The Bulwark, and now writes To the Contrary on Substack. He spent decades as a conservative talk radio host in Wisconsin before becoming one of the most prominent Never Trump voices in media.CHARLIE SYKES
JULY 1, 2026
Kristofer Goldsmith served as a forward observer in the Army, deploying to Iraq in 2005. He’s now CEO of Task Force Butler and founder of Valor Media Network, and his research has helped lead to the prosecution of nearly a dozen neo-Nazis.
JUNE 29, 2026
Senator Richard Blumenthal serves on the Armed Services, Homeland Security, Judiciary, and Veterans Affairs Committees. He’s sponsoring the Major Richard Star Act, which would end a policy that docks combat-disabled veterans’ retirement pay dollar for dollar against their disability benefits.
JUNE 24, 2026
Maz Jobrani was born in Tehran, raised in California, and has spent 28 years as a stand-up comedian after dropping out of a UCLA political science PhD program. His most recent Netflix special is Immigrant.MAZ JOBRANI
JUNE 22, 2026
Juliette Kayyem is a national security analyst for CNN and a lecturer at Harvard, and previously served as DHS Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs and Massachusetts’s first Undersecretary for Homeland Security.
JUNE 17, 2026
Michael Bennett is Associate Vice Chancellor for Data Science and AI Strategy at the University of Illinois Chicago, with a background spanning physics, law, and technology studies.
JUNE 15, 2026
Senator Mark Warner is Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and former governor of Virginia.
JUNE 10, 2026
Congressman Jim Himes represents Connecticut’s 4th district and is the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
JUNE 8, 2026
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JUNE 3, 2026
JUNE 1, 2026
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MAY 27, 2026
Barbara McQuade served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan for seven years, is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and is an NBC/MSNBC legal analyst. Her new book is The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government.
MAY 23, 2026
Adam Kinzinger is a former Congressman from Illinois, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard, and was one of two Republicans on the January 6th committee. His new children’s book is That’s What Heroes Do, and he’s the subject of the documentary The Last Republican.
APRIL 22, 2026
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor at NYU and author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. She publishes Lucid on Substack and advises Protect Democracy.
APRIL 15, 2026
Jenn Budd served as a Border Patrol agent for six years before resigning in protest. She’s the author of Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist and the new primer ICE: What Everyone Needs to Know, and appears in the HBO documentary Critical Incident.
APRIL 11, 2026
Maya Wiley is President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of over 240 organizations founded in 1950. She previously served as counsel to the Mayor of New York City and ran for mayor herself.
APRIL 8, 2026
Scott MacFarlane is chief Washington correspondent and anchor for Midas Touch. He previously covered the Justice Department for CBS News and was an NBC affiliate reporter in DC, winning 20 Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Awards along the way.
FEBRUAY 27, 2026
Rich Logis is the founder of Leaving MAGA and the author of One Betrayal Too Many: Why I Left MAGA. He was a MAGA activist and writer for outlets including Breitbart and The Federalist before leaving the movement in 2022.