Posts Tagged ‘ Talking Feds ’

Mar 1, 2021 Podcasts, Talking Feds

Three of the country’s most prominent and thoughtful experts on the FBI –Frank Figliuzzi, Andy McCabe, and Asha Rangappa– discuss the damage the last four years inflicted on the FBI and what the Bureau now needs to do, including to respond to the grave threat of domestic terrorism.

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Nov 28, 2020 Podcasts, Talking Feds

In this special national security episode, Frank Figliuzzi, Sam Vinograd, Josh Campbell, & Kate Brannen trade notes on what Biden’s new team projects about his national security operation; how to repair the damage that 4 years of Trump rule has inflicted on our national security institutions; Trump’s attempt to install his operatives at DoD and NSA; and more.

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Nov 23, 2020 Podcasts, Talking Feds

Charter feds Frank Figliuzzi, Paul Fishman, and Amy Jeffress discuss the costs to national security and the country of Trump’s hopeless campaign to block President-Elect Biden’s formal transition and then analyze what Biden’s initial decisions indicate about his coming Administration.

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Sep 14, 2020 Podcasts, Talking Feds

Convening on the 19th anniversary of 9/11, fed regulars Frank Figliuzzi, David Frum, and Juliette Kayyem take stock of the most pressing threats to the homeland; the largely fictitious threats that the President continues to proffer; and the consequences for the country of the divide between the two.

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Aug 24, 2020 Podcasts, Talking Feds

It was the week when the Democrats formally selected their standard bearers in the 1st-ever virtual convention, and feds Laura Jarrett, Frank Figliuzzi, & Matt Miller assess the Convention and the Dems’ message.

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Jul 27, 2020 Podcasts, Talking Feds

In a week in which President Trump effectively declared war on designated American cities, a classic group of charter Feds — Frank Figliuzzi, Paul Fishman, and Joyce Vance — join Harry to break it all dow

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May 4, 2020 Podcasts, Talking Feds

Four of the nation’s premier experts in counter-intelligence and national security—Kate Brannen, Frank Figliuzzi, Juliette Kayyem, and Sam Vinograd—reconvene without Harry at the virtual Double Agent Bar & Grill, for a no-holds-barred discussion of the most troubling and important aspects of the virus. The 4 cut to the core in a rich and freewheeling conversation about the grave dangers that the virus, and Trump’s inept handling of it, pose to the US’s security and our standing in the world.

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Feb 6, 2020 Podcasts, Talking Feds

In this special Talking Feds Now! episode, taped hours after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump, Frank Figliuzzi, Glenn Kirshner, and Barb McQuade join Harry with initial reactions and analysis. Is the verdict an unalloyed triumph, as Trump’s ardent defenders proclaim, or inconclusive given the failure to even present evidence? To what extent did the defection of Senator Romney take the luster off the verdict? And what should we now expect by way of continuing oversight in the House?

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Jan 13, 2020 Podcasts, Talking Feds

Three of the country’s premier experts in national security — Frank Figliuzzi, Malcolm Nance, and Juliette Kayyem—in frank, unmediated discussion about the new threats to the nation heading into the 2020 election. The Russian intervention in 2016 presents a sinister, existential hazard that calls for the same kind of paradigm shift in homeland security that the 2001 attacks required in intelligence. And the Administration’s hostility to career professionals makes the threats that more keen.

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Oct 21, 2019 Podcasts, Talking Feds

After a blockbuster week in both Congress and the Southern District of New York, Feds Frank Figliuzzi, Barb McQuade, and Elie Honig join Harry to assess the damage against the President and his country lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Several witnesses gave forceful closed-door testimony about the President’s turning over Ukraine foreign policy to Giuliani, who apparently executed a scheme designed to further Trump’s political interests to the derogation of the country’s national security interests. None of the witnesses might have drawn as much blood, however, as Trump’s own acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who acknowledge before the camera that a quid pro quo had occurred. The Feds consider whether removal is now on the table, and also the repercussions of a potential indictment of Giuliani by his old office.

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