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Michael Steele on How Biden Should Respond to Trump and to Kenosha

Aug 29, 2020

Michael Steele is the former lieutenant governor of Maryland who went on to become chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011. He’s a regular mainstay on MSNBC these days, and is a possible candidate for governor in the future in Maryland. 


I met Mike in 2006 when I covered the Maryland...


Frank LaRose, Ohio's Top Elections Official, GOP official, Warns That a Single Law is Going to Delay Election Results in other Midwest Swing States

Aug 28, 2020

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, said that in his state mail-in ballots will be among the first ballots counted on the night of the election. This is because Ohio law allows election clerks to process mail-in ballots as they arrive in the weeks and days before the election, so they’re ready to be...


Top Republican Elections Official Who Has Advised Vice President Pence Says Trump Voting Fraud Claims are "Not Feasible"

Aug 23, 2020

Michael G. Adams is Kentucky's Secretary of State, the top elections official in that state. He is a Harvard Law graduate who was a senior lawyer at the Justice Department in the George W. Bush administration. He built a private practice over the last 15 years advising major Republican clients on how to navigate the...


Howard Dean on the Democratic Convention: "All We Have to Do Is Be Ourselves"

Aug 17, 2020

As Democrats get set to start the first virtual party convention in history, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean talks about what he thinks the party needs to accomplish this week.


Dean was governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003, and nearly won the Democratic nomination for president in 2004. He...


The Pure Pleasure of Speaking with Bill Buford, author of "Dirt", about food, writing, and adventure

Aug 6, 2020

Bill Buford is an author, chef, and adventurer. I've read his two latest books in the last year.


Dirt, released in 2006, was the first half of an epic narrative that’s taken up the last two decades or so of Bill’s life. It starts with him asking to be let into the kitchen of a high-end restaurant in New York,...