Stay Tuned with Preet

This week on the CAFE Insider podcast, Barb McQuade guest co-hosts with Joyce Vance while Preet is traveling. Barb served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. She is now a CAFE contributor, a law professor at the University of Michigan law school, and a legal analyst for NBC News & MSNBC. In this sample from the episode, Joyce and Barb discuss the reports th...

Should Trump be pardoned? And what’s taking SDNY’s investigation of Giuliani so long? Preet answers listener questions.  Then, Preet interviews Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University and a leading First Amendment scholar. Bollinger is the named defendant in two landmark Supreme Court cases on affirmative action. Now, as the Court weighs banning the consideration of race in college adm...

Former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (ret.), and lawyer Michael Avenatti are making headlines this week. In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce discuss reports that Trump took presidential documents to Mar-a-Lago instead of giving them to the National Archives, as required by the Presidential Records Act. They also break...

What strategic factors does a prosecutor consider before bringing charges? What legal consequences could Trump face for the various statements he’s made regarding January 6th? Preet answers listener questions. Then, Preet interviews Indra Nooyi, the former Chair and CEO of PepsiCo, who became the first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 500 company in 2006. Nooyi talks about the social...

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the January 6th Committee, and the federal hate crimes case against the men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery are making headlines this week.  In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce discuss a judge’s decision to reject a plea deal in the federal hate crimes case against Arbery’s killers, who were already convicted of murder in a Georgia...

In a special episode of CAFE Insider, Preet and Joyce discuss Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court, and reflect on his legacy. President Biden now faces the tough question of nominating Breyer’s replacement. Who will it be? What will the confirmation process look like? And what does it mean for the Court? To listen to the full episode for free, head to cafe.com/breyer and sig...

Might Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema switch parties? What are the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the January 6 Committee to obtain certain Trump White House documents? Preet answers listener questions.  Then, Preet interviews Laura Coates, Senior Legal Analyst and anchor at CNN. They discuss Coates’ new book Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight For Fairness, the struggle...

Ivanka Trump, Bill Barr, and Sidney Powell are back in the news. Meanwhile, multiple investigations into Donald Trump — in both New York state and Georgia — are ramping up. In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce break down a draft executive order to seize voting machines and appoint a special counsel to probe the 2020 election, which was reportedly included in a tranche of T...

What do the January 6 Committee’s subpoenas to Rudy Giuliani and other Trump lawyers say about the progress of the investigation? What did we learn from New York AG Letitia James’ late-night court filing accusing the Trump family of “fraudulent or misleading” practices? Preet answers listener questions. Then, Preet interviews Masha Gessen, author and staff writer at The New Yorker. They discuss th...

The Texas synagogue hostage situation, Aafia Siddiqui’s conviction, seditious conspiracy charges against the Oath Keepers, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, and Rep. Matt Gaetz are making headlines this week.  In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce discuss the FBI’s response to the hostage situation and the demand made by the hostage-taker that Pakistani neuroscientist A...

Linda Dunikoski, the Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Cobb County DA’s Office who served as the lead prosecutor in the trial of the three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, speaks with Preet about the case.  Dunikoski discusses several of her key strategic choices, including why she decided not to emphasize Arbery’s race to the jury. She also talks about her relationship to the Arbery family...

Attorney General Merrick Garland, the January 6th committee, former President Donald Trump, and Fox News host Sean Hannity are making headlines this week. In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce break down the likelihood that Trump becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2023 if Republicans take control of the chamber after the midterm election. In the full episode...

What happens to the January 6th Committee’s investigation if Democrats lose the House in November? What does it mean that Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump have been subpoenaed by the New York AG? Preet answers listener questions. Then, Preet interviews Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group, a leading political risk and research firm. They discuss Eurasia’s annual top global risks report and...

The one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, the NY Attorney General’s and Manhattan District Attorney’s investigations into Trump’s business dealings, and the Elizabeth Holmes and Ghislaine Maxwell convictions are making headlines this week. In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce break down the likelihood that the instigators of the January 6th attack, includin...

In honor of the late Harry Reid, who died December 28, 2021, a broadcast of Preet's interview with the former Nevada Senator, who rose from humble beginnings in the mining town of Searchlight, Nevada, to become one of the most consequential Senate Majority Leaders in American history. The interview originally aired on February 7th, 2019. The episode begins with Preet’s reflection on the life and l...

Another year. An insurrection. A new president. A continuing global pandemic. Disheartening Supreme Court cases. Historic trials and verdicts. Moments of horror, and moments of pride. In this episode, Preet looks back on some of his conversations on Stay Tuned and the CAFE Insider podcast that defined this complicated, hard, and at-times-hopeful year.  All of us at CAFE wish you a happy New Year,...

In this special episode of the CAFE Insider podcast recorded on November 16, Joyce speaks with prominent technology investor Roger McNamee. CAFE Insider is usually behind the paywall, but we’re taking it down for this episode due to popular demand.  The conversation centers around the threat Facebook poses to democracy, and what happened when McNamee confronted Mark Zuckerberg following the 2016 e...

If Bannon and Meadows are convicted, what kind of sentences would they face? Could the January 6th Committee come to conclusions without interviewing particular witnesses? Preet addresses those questions from listeners, including one with a not-so-cheery answer: What is he most concerned about heading into 2022? Then, Preet interviews Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer at the Washington Post and th...

The January 6th committee, Mark Meadows, and the future of abortion are making the headlines this week. In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce break down former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s efforts to avoid complying with a subpoena from the January 6th committee. They also break down the information Meadows supplied to the committee, including a PowerPoint pres...

What role does the support staff play during government investigations and prosecutions? What is the scope of protections granted by the 5th Amendment? Preet answers listener questions. Then, Preet interviews Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Seattle, the Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.  For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/politics-as-activism-...

Supreme Court abortion oral arguments, the January 6th committee, and the Oxford High School shooting are making the headlines this week. In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce break down oral arguments in the high-profile abortion case in which Mississippi is asking the Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Will the Court uphold the Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 1...

Preet answers listener questions about Michael Cohen’s assertion that former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is “not the key” to the Manhattan DA’s investigation. He also addresses the news that former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows has decided to cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack.  Then, Preet interviews Scott Galloway, professor of marketi...

The Ahmaud Arbery murder, the Supreme Court abortion cases, and the Ghislaine Maxwell trial are making the headlines this week. In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce break down the murder convictions for the three men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, the potential issues the defense could raise on appeal, and the pending federal hate crime charges against the men. In the full epis...

Preet interviewed Rep. Adam Schiff for a live event at Cooper Union in New York City on Monday, November 22nd. Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee and the lead manager in the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, is out with a book called Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.  For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://...

Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal and the Ahmaud Arbery killing trial are making the headlines this week. In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce discuss the strength of Rittenhouse’s self-defense arguments and the rise of vigilantism. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down the impact of video evidence at the Rittenhouse trial and the judge’s handling of the case, which h...