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One bigly unindicted co-conspirator and other bunches of them, including some in Epstein files now

Trump's efforts to lean on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reminiscent of the way Nixon created a team of secret investigators, known as "the plumbers," to find incriminating or embarrassing evidence about his enemies, said Ken Hughes, a leading Watergate authority and research specialist at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Ken Hughes

Presidential Cabinet

Trump Had the Firepower. Iran Had the Strategy.

Eric welcomes back friend of the show Professor Hal Brands, the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. The two discuss Hal's recent work, beginning with his column in Bloomberg dissecting the key strategic errors that Trump has made in the ongoing war with Iran.

Eric Edelman

Reinforcing Article I with Institutional Investments

A defining attribute of our democracy is the balance of power across three branches of government. Policymaking, representation, and enforcement are more stable when responsibilities are distributed and power is equally apportioned. In order for this great experiment to function properly, all three branches need to have the strength required to perform and hold their counterparts accountable.

SoRelle W. Gaynor

Iconic political cartoonist’s work lives on at UVA Library

“He captured the fraudulence of Nixon’s ‘peace with honor’ in Vietnam by portraying him as a magician who couldn’t pull a dove out of a hat, finding nothing but a bomb-wielding bird of prey,” Hughes said. “Oliphant’s Watergate cartoons captured Nixon’s menace and bathos, his yearning for greatness undone by his lack of goodness.”

Ken Hughes

When facing allegations of bad behavior, are there red lines for politicians?

"On the campaign trail, everything is fair game,” says Lawless. “If you have behaved poorly, or if there are people who allege that you behaved poorly, and you can’t refute those allegations, you’re not entitled to anything.”

Jennifer Lawless