Live Streams with Fanone

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Don and I go back to the worst day of my life and trace how we ended up here — the aftermath, the threats, the moments that changed our careers, and the first conversation that turned into a friendship. No spin, no scripts, just two people comparing scars and talking about what it costs to keep telling the tru...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com What does “law and order” really mean when the cameras are off? Maya and I sit down with Rosa Brooks to pull apart the tactics behind the slogan — from protest crackdowns and loyalty tests to the quiet policy moves that make bad policing harder to fix and good policing harder to do. What we get into: * How “to...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com House hardliners aren’t “fighting waste.” They’re manufacturing a crisis and sending the bill to vets, workers, and families — then fundraising off the wreckage. David Hogg breaks down the playbook; Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells you what can actually move in the Senate and what’s pure theater. Jump in, hear the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Last month’s live, we called out the duck-and-cover routine in legacy news and why the public trust is migrating to people doing the work without a corporate leash. Don Lemon and Jim Acosta pulled the curtain on newsroom fear, access games, and how “neutrality” gets used to dodge the truth. Hit play, jump in t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Last week we took it into a room full of students at UVA. No filters, no studio safety net — just hard questions about truth, power, and what it costs to tell the story straight. Jim and I went deep on January 6th, media courage, and how you hold the line when careers and clicks push the other way. The Q&A got...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Three days into the government shutdown, the talking points were flying faster than the facts. Republicans call it “fiscal responsibility.” Democrats call it “hostage politics.” But what we called it tonight — with CNN’s Jim Acosta — is exactly what it is: manufactured chaos . We broke down how the MAGA moveme...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com The TRUTH Behind Trump’s Shutdown Chaos & Military Power Grab I went live with two powerful voices — Jolly Good Ginger and USMC Angry Veteran — to cut through the noise and get real about what’s happening in America right now. We broke down:- Trump’s government shutdown chaos and the communities it hurts most....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This week on The Lemon-Cohen Report , Don Lemon and Michael Cohen were joined by Michael Fanone for a conversation that cut through the noise and went straight to the headlines shaping Washington. The discussion covered: * The latest on the Epstein files and the pressure building on Congress. * Nancy Mace’s re...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Adam Kinzinger. Glenn Kirschner. Frank Figliuzzi. Voices who’ve been inside the fight — in Congress, in the courts, in the FBI, and now on the ballot. Together, we pulled back the curtain on what’s really happening inside American law enforcement right now: ⚖️ The weaponization of policing🕵️ The FBI’s leadersh...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I joined while driving my daughters to soccer practice — real life colliding with the news cycle. And in between the politics, Jim and I took a beat to announce something new: Fanone merch. That moment said a lot about what this show really is. Yes, it’s about politics, accountability, and truth. But it’s also...

This livestream brought together Jim Acosta, Mehdi Hasan, Lauren Windsor, Tommy Christopher, and me. It was one of those episodes where the headlines were moving fast — Trump in the spotlight, disinformation spreading, and politics bending under the weight of it all. Each of us came at it from a different angle: journalism, activism, lived experience. The through-line was the same — how do you cut...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com On this livestream, Don Lemon sat down with a series of voices — Tara Palmeri, Jolly Good Ginger, Mike Nellis, Glenn Kirschner, and me. Each conversation circled the same themes: foreign policy, Trump’s chaos, and the pressure points building at home. Don and I talked about the “No Kings” protest. The organize...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This livestream with Jim Acosta, Ezra, Gabe, and me covered a lot of ground — the politics of the moment, Trump’s chaos, and the state of democracy. On one level, it’s laughable. On another, it’s deadly serious. Because that kind of anti-science garbage has become part of the political bloodstream. Politicians...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Don Lemon and I took a step back to talk about the state of the country — not just the politics, but the culture that keeps shaping it. Because when you look at Donald Trump, you don’t just see a politician. You see a man whose misogyny has always been out in the open. The language. The insults. The bragging....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This week, I sat down with Michael Cohen to talk about something that isn’t getting enough attention: how Trump is quietly reshaping American policing — not through local reform, but federal control. In D.C., it started at Union Station. A supposed “crime crackdown” turned into a federal occupation. Local poli...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This livestream with Jim Acosta and Sarah Matthews came at a moment when Trump still dominated the headlines and the January 6th hearings were forcing America to confront the truth. But it was at the end of the episode, when Jim and I took a step back, that the conversation cut deepest. We talked about what Re...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com On Jim Acosta’s live show, Michael Cohen went first, laying out his perspective on Trump’s chaos and DOGE. Then I joined Jim to talk about what that chaos looks like on the ground. And I shared something, a bomb threat I’d received. That’s what standing up to Trump and his movement brings. It’s not just argume...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com That’s the difference between watching events unfold on TV and standing in the middle of them. For me, January 6th isn’t just history. It’s memory. It’s scars. And when I talk about it, I’m not speaking in hypotheticals. I’m telling you what it felt like to be there, fighting to hold a line while democracy its...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com When Don Lemon and I went live for this conversation, the headlines were dominated by Trump’s foreign policy stumbles and the chaos his inner circle was fueling at home. We talked about Netanyahu testing Trump on the world stage — and how obvious it was that Trump was afraid to stand up to strongmen leaders. T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Glenn spent decades as a federal prosecutor. I spent nearly 20 years as a cop. Both of us have seen this country at its best and at its worst. We talked about where we are right now — the Trump trials, the rot in our political system, and the reality that the threats we faced on January 6th haven’t gone away....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Sometimes you’ve just gotta grab a couple of chairs, crack open a beer, and let the conversation wander. That’s exactly what Peter and I did in this episode of BYOB with the Fanone Bros. — no scripts, no filters, just two brothers talking politics, life, and everything in between from the front porch. It’s equ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Beer in hand, needle buzzing — probably not the smartest setup for talking politics. But sometimes the best conversations happen in the least polished places. This one’s about passion, culture, and the kind of truth you don’t get in a studio. Become a paid subscribe to watch the full episode here. Subscribe No...

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The Jim Acosta Show with Congressman Robert Garcia, Michael Fanone, and Julian Zelizer Back in April, Jim Acosta and I sat down with Congressman Robert Garcia and Julian Zelizer for a wide-ranging conversation on Trump, power, and the future of our democracy. It’s Throwback Thursday now — but this episode proves some conversations never really get old. 👉 Watch the full discussion here and see why...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com The Jim Acosta Show with Olivia Troye and Michael Fanone This one’s unforgettable, a throwback to Olivia Troye showing up in a taco hat, and Jim and I couldn’t resist diving into Trump’s so-called “tariff” threats — and how, true to form, he always chickens out when it’s time to follow through. It was funny in...