Six Questions with Steven Beschloss

The election ends in less than two weeks, but its impacts will ripple outward for a long time, whether it goes as we think it will or not. Steven welcomes Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI Assistant Director and host of Lincoln Square's The Frank Figliuzzi Show, to talk about the threats we face and what comes next.

We're in the home stretch of the most consequential elections of our lifetimes, and everything depends on our ability to show up en masse. Nobody knows about showing up better than Ezra Levin, the founder of Indivisible and one of the organizers of the No Kings events that have energized the American opposition to Trump (that's us, btw). He joins Steven Beschloss to discuss the importance of showi...

Steven welcomes author Anand Giridharadas, whose new book 'MAN IN THE MIRROR' is an intimate and deeply reported story of what happened when two Americans from dramatically different walks of life met on a subway in New York. The complicated story ends in tragedy, but it is quintessentially American, and reflective of our current moment.

Few on the left have been attacked as viciously and brazenly as President Biden's son, Hunter Biden. He joins Steven Beschloss to talk about the attacks, his sobriety, and this current moment in American politics (and what comes next).

Author and journalist David Corn joins Steven to talk about his latest book and dispel the 'Russia Hoax' hoax. Is Trump a useful idiot? Well...

Mainstream legacy media is broken at a time when we could really, really use it. But journalists like Scott MacFarlane are proving that good reporting can still exist, and now without pressure from billionaires. MacFarlane joins Steven to talk about how holding power to account depends on a truly independent media ecosystem.

Stuart Stevens came up as one of the most effective strategists in the Republican Party. He helped elect George W. Bush, and worked with candidates like Mitt Romney and many, many others. He was also among the first to jump ship in the Trump years. His book, "It Was All a Lie," remains one of the most essential reads for understanding our current political moment. He joins Steven to talk very cand...

Barb McQuade joins Steven Beschloss to talk justice, the path forward, and her new book, 'The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government.'

In this episode of Six Questions, Stephen Beschloss interviews independent journalist and former prosecutor Katie Phang about her ongoing legal battle against the Department of Justice and new Attorney General Todd Blanche. Phang explains her decision to sue Trump’s DOJ to force the release of heavily redacted Epstein files, noting that as an independent reporter, filing a lawsuit was a neces...

Times are tough. There’s no question about it. A $400 emergency expense could set a family back for months, an economic reality for many Americans. Some saw Donald Trump’s message in 2024 and decided to take a chance, thinking things would be better. But they’re learning the hard way that this strongman’s message was lies and his own policies are setting them back. And in this persistent pain, pro...

There are nearly 400 million guns circulating in America — more than one for every man, woman, and child — and 263 mass shootings already in 2026. Yet the carnage has all but vanished from the news. Steven asks Shannon Watts, who founded Moms Demand Action the day after Sandy Hook, what it will take to break through. Watts rejects the idea that Americans have gone numb. "No parent would accept tha...

The election meddling Trump keeps talking about is coming from inside the White House. Indeed, the meddling has already begun, but how far will he and his accomplices go to subvert the will of the people this November? Steven Beschloss welcomes Miles Taylor, a man who has seen the inner workings of a Trump administration from the inside. Taylor served as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Ho...

The nomination of Todd Blanche is the next low point in the deterioration of our justice system. Glenn Kirschner joins Steven to talk about accountability, the destruction of the Justice Department, and how we might start to put it all back together.

Steven Beschloss sits down with Alexander Vindman, the retired Army lieutenant colonel who blew the whistle on Donald Trump's Ukraine call, now running for the U.S. Senate in Florida. In six questions, they talk about why he's stepping back into the arena, what duty cost him the first time, his journey from refugee to the White House, and the responsibilities of citizenship in America's 250th year...

Intelligence and counterterrorism veteran Malcolm Nance joins Steven Beschloss for Six Questions and doesn't mince words: America, he warns, is in "mortal, mortal danger." Nance lays out why Trump has accelerated the dismantling of the CIA, FBI, and DNI — installing loyalists like Bill Pulte to turn the intelligence community into a tool for hunting political enemies — and argues that the real mot...

This week, Steven welcomed Andrew Weissmann to Six Questions to talk about lying. His new book, Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America, is a bestseller for a reason. The lying that our president and politicians have been engaged in is becoming foundational to their project. Lying is no longer the edge case. It is the norm. Weissman, a veteran federal prosecutor and MSNOW legal...

Eddie Glaude Jr.'s new book, 'America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries,' is a clear-eyed and beautifully written discussion not only of race in America, but of race right now in America. This summer, America's 250th, we have a unique chance to reckon with our past and imagine a better way forward. Steven welcomed Glaude with Six Questions, including, are Trump's victories just...

George Conway is an American attorney, political commentator, and infamous anti-Trump conservative-turned-Democrat who is now running for Congress in New York on a platform of accountability. While other Dems hedge on the need for investigations, Conway says that the base layer of our Democracy is our ability to hold the powerful and corrupt responsible for their actions. Steven has questions (six...

In the premiere of Six Questions with Steven Beschloss, journalist and America, America author Steven Beschloss sits down with Mary Trump — clinical psychologist, bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough, and Donald Trump's niece — for an urgent diagnostic conversation about the president's mental capacity and what his unraveling means for the country. Is Donald Trump's cognitive decline ac...

Steven Beschloss and Lincoln Square Media present Six Questions with Steven Beschloss, bringing the ideas behind the news, in an age of chaos and cruelty. Each episode, Steven Beschloss brings an expert guest into a compelling conversation — one necessary issue, in fearless pursuit of honesty, understanding, truth, and yes, hope, in the ongoing fight for democracy’s future. Premier's Thursday, Jun...