Tell Me It's Going To Be OK

Of course it was Trump on the pussy grabbing tape. Despite reports that The President is now denying it, the other guy on that Access Hollywood bus, Billy Bush has exploded back into the public eye this week to insist that it was indeed Donald Trump's voice saying those vile things. Plus, a thoughtful listener question that has both Amelia and Mia intrigued, and Amelia shares a juicy snippet of in...

Christmas has officially come early. Over the weekend, Former Trump Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in January. That's right. Flynn has flipped. As part of a plea bargain with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Flynn is agreeing to tell him anything and everything he wants to know. Mia and Amelia pickup the phone in a flurry to deep dive on what this means, and who's...

It's official. The President has decided he no longer wants the infamous Access Hollywood (pussy grabbing) tape to be a thing, so he's branded it 'Fake News'. Also, Time magazine phoned and asked Trump whether he'd like to be their Person Of The Year for 2017, which is all good and well except for the fact no one can verify this save Trump himself. Elsewhere, in a press conference intended to than...

IT'S THE PEOPLE'S SHOW. This week, we put the feelers out on our Facebook page to see if there were any topics you wanted us to delve into and the responses were overwhelming. Rachel Corbett is filling in for Mia Freedman, and leads Amelia Lester down a Mike Pence-shaped rabbit hole as they discuss what the Vice President stands for, and whether it's true a Pence Presidency would be worse than a T...

Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore is the latest powerful man to face allegations of sexual assault. So what's the backstory? How did he get himself into this mess, and why isn't Trump in there with him? Plus, Bill Clinton in the age of Weinstein. Why do we seem so able to forgive him when Monica Lewinsky was only an intern during their affair? Amelia, is back, finally, to deep-dive with Mia. Sho...

After a mass shooting in Texas, Trump was forced to comfort a nation in mourning for the third time in a month. So is this the time to talk about gun violence? Not according to the leader of the free world. Plus, it's officially been one whole year since we waited with baited breath for the first female President, only to have our hopes shattered into a million tiny pieces. How are we feeling 12 m...

Leigh Sales is the queen of political journalism and while the news she reports on isn't fake, she acknowledges there's a lot of news out there that is. Leigh has revamped her 2009 personal essay, On Doubt , to explore the role doubt played in the election of Donald Trump and she joins Mia Freedman to discuss how we've gotten ourselves into such a mess. Show notes Your host is  Mia Freedman &...

Here we go. Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and business associate, Rick Gates, have been indicted on charges stemming from Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Is Manafort headed to jail? And, can we really tie their alleged collusion to Trump himself? Plus, campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos separately pleaded guilty to lying to investigators. Is it poss...

WE FOUND AMELIA. Sort of. She's somewhere in London. This week, Trump's found a new enemy to bicker with on Twitter: Myesha Johnson. She's the wife of Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed serving his country in Niger last week. So, how has Trump managed to turn a national tragedy into a political feud with a Gold Star family? And why was Johnson in Niger in the first place? Plus, is the President...

What would you ask if you had 45 minutes with Hillary Clinton? Australia's best investigative journalist, Sarah Ferguson, had that opportunity and we had a million questions about how she decided what questions to ask. Is Hillary OK? Was Huma Abedin there? Are we going to be OK? The interview aired on Four Corners on Monday 16th October and in this episode, Sarah's in the studio with Mia and guest...

The President wants to compare IQ test scores with the man who called him a moron. Pass the popcorn. Plus, there’s more evidence to show just how Russia weaponised Facebook to swing the election away from Hillary and towards Putin’s BFF, Donald Trump. Not only did their anti-Hillary Facebook ads reach millions of people, they also created fake groups to spout their lies and enlisted so...

With Las Vegas reeling and the media distracted, Trump decided to say some politically incorrect things in Puerto Rico during a failed mission to the Hurricane-stricken country. And remember Megyn Kelly? She was the journalist who Trump accused of having her period during his campaign, after she asked him a difficult question. She's made a move out of the political sphere and into the world of mor...

Today, America is reeling from what looks to be the worst mass shooting in its history. A gunman opened fire during a concert at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Hotel yesterday, and the death toll is currently 59 with an astonishing 527 injured and currently being treated in hospitals throughout Las Vegas. Mia and Amelia recorded this special episode to debrief on the deadliest mass shooting in US history...

Why are American footballers 'taking a knee' and why is Trump calling them 'sons of bitches'? Plus, Weiner. He's going to jail for sexting with a teenager but when you think about it, he's very likely responsible for the end of the world as we know it. And what's going on with Facebook and Russia? Has Mark Zuckerberg created a beast that even he can no longer control? Show Notes Your hosts are Ame...

What Happened. That's the title of Hillary Clinton's new book, which is big punch in the guts of a book that delivers everything we'd hoped. Amelia and Mia debrief on the most talked-about parts of the book, from what Bill said to her in the car after she lost, how she faced Trump on inauguration day and how she's been using yoga and wine as therapy. Plus, why did Trump invite Democrat leaders to...

Trump is having a quiet week. Which is perfect for us, because we need a moment to talk about Jared and Ivanka ('Javanka'). The 'first daughter' and her husband were tremendously present during the campaign, and have remained so during Trump's first few months in office. But... to be honest, they're a bit of a laughing stock. What are their actual jobs? Do they have any responsibilities? And how m...

Hurricane Harvey came and went, sucking media attention away from Trump and his circus for the first time since he became President. Melania wore some shoes deemed inappropriate for disaster relief. Trump thanked a crowd of flood-stricken Texans for their love and support... of him. And while all that was happening, a wave was in motion to rescind Obama's DACA policy. Farewell to the dreamers. Won...

David Gillespie is an expert when it comes to diagnosing and dealing with psychopaths. The Australian lawyer, and author of the new book  Taming Toxic People,  has a brilliantly enlightening conversation with Mia this week about Donald Trump. Show Notes Your host is  Mia Freedman. This episode is produced by Luca Lavigne . We read everything about Trump so you don’t have to. H...

And, another one bites the dust. On Friday August 18th, Donald Trump ceremoniously fired his Chief of Strategy, Steve Bannon. If you're not familiar with Bannon, he was the former Head of Breitbart media, who Trump hired late in his Presidential campaign. Relieved of his White House duties, Bannon darted straight back to Breitbart and proceeded to badmouth Trump's presidency. So what does all this...

First came the threat of Nuclear War, now white supremacists are marching loudly and proudly in the streets of US city Charlottesville. A woman was murdered and people were carrying swastika flags. And yet it has taken President Donald Trump exactly two days to condemn these actions. So why were the supremacists wearing Make America Great Again hats? And why did it take Trump so long to address th...

Shit just got real. Donald Trump is meant to be on vacation. Except it’s not really a vacation because he never does what people think. In a press statement that was meant to be about something else entirely, Trump suddenly veered wildly off script and, well, practically threatened to nuke Kim Jong-un and North Korea. This is a country who, for years, has threatened to launch missiles or con...

First Sean Spicer left. Then Reince Priebus got fired. Then today, The Mooch was out the door. So what the heck is going on? Who is this new guy John Kelly? And why is Trump acting like he is still running The Apprentice? How did this happen in the space of 10 days? Amelia is back from her honeymoon to explain what is going down, and how The Mooch went so wrong, so quickly. Is it going to be okay...

Zoe Daniel is the ABC’s US Correspondent in Washington. She’s often in the press briefing room you see on TV - when the cameras are rolling - in the White House. She’s right there, in the front row of history - although not necessarily in a good way. So what’s it like covering Trump? What on earth did he say to a group of 15,000 boy scouts? And who exactly is The Mooch and...

Exclusive:  In a series of early morning tweets, President Donald Trump announced - seemingly out of nowhere - a new policy banning Transgender people from the US military. The only reason given being the military 'cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption' transgender people entail. Nice. So what does it mean? And what toll will it take on the 15,000 trans people cu...

Mia has a spring in her step this week. Mainly because Donald Trump Junior has been busted making potential deals with Russia, but also because Donald Trump Senior (the one who is President) has gone to ground. What does all this mean? Award-winning American journalist Sara James joins us to explain what the heck is going on in Washington, and what all this collusion means... Show Notes Your host...