Mea Culpa

Mea Culpa welcomes back Rick Wilson, longtime Republican political strategist, turned Lincoln Project co-founder, and zealous anti-Trump activist. You can find his weekly editorials in The Daily Beast. Wilson has also been published in The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, and Rolling Stone to name a few, He makes regular appearances on CNN and MSNBC Also, Wilson’s #1 New York Times, best-selle...

I can’t think of a better guest for today’s episode than my good friend Norm Eisen. And when I say good friend, I mean it. This man believed in me when many did not. He has encouraged me since the beginning of this journey to take a stand and continue to tell the truth… which makes perfect sense because Norm is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings and an expert on law, ethics, and an...

Archived Episode with Kris Goldsmith Kris Goldsmith guest today is fighting the good fight for us all, Kris Goldsmith. Goldsmith is an Iraq combat Vet and dedicated hunter of fascists. He’s also an investigator, instructor, and champion of veteran's rights. His company, Sparverius, detects and disrupts disinformation and domestic extremism. And also, check out the “community response guide” at Gol...

I’m fortunate to call our next guest a friend…Harry Dunn. Dunn has been a member of the Capitol Police since 2008 and is one of the heroes forged by the January 6th insurrection. He’s since won the Presidential Citizen’s Medal, The Congressional Gold Medal, and the Capitol Police Service Award. And now he’s written a fantastic new book, “Standing My Ground, A Capitol Police Officer’s Fight for Acc...

It’s a great honor to have my busy friend George Conway on the show. Conway, a brilliant lawyer, writer, and political commentator is now a fixture on news programs on MSNBC, NBC, and CNN. He’s also one of the founders of the Lincoln Project — a conservative who crossed over for the good of the country, Conway has been a very effective thorn in the former president’s side. Here to talk about Trump...

Today we welcome back our good friend Tara Setmayer from the Lincoln Project. Setmayer is a former  CNN  political commentator, a contributor to  ABC News, and a former GOP Communications Director on  Capitol Hill. She's appeared on  ABC's  The View, ABC's  Good Morning America, and HBO's  Real Time with Bill Maher. In 2020, she joined  The Lincoln Project as a senior advisor and now hosts the liv...

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Today we welcome Malcolm Nance. Nance is a career US Navy terrorism intelligence collector, code breaker, and interrogator with wide-ranging field and combat experience in the Middle East and elsewhere. Nance is a counterterrorism analyst for MSNBC. And the author of numerous books including his latest, “They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insu...

We welcome back to our show, Dash Dobrofsky. Dash is a film producer and Tik-Toker with millions of monthly views. He’s also the authorand personality behind the best-selling newsletter ‘The Gen Z Perspective’— look for it on Substack. Today, we will be getting some of Dobrofsky’s valuable Gen Z perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome back to our show, Dash Dobrofsky. Dash is a film producer and Tik-Toker with millions of monthly views. He’s also the author and personality behind the best-selling newsletter ‘The Gen Z Perspective’ look for it on Substack. Today, we will get some of Dobrofsky’s valuable Gen Z perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome back to Mea Culpa the prolific, Jill Wine-Banks. Jill appears regularly as an MSNBC Legal Analyst. She has written numerous OpEds for NBC.com, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Politico, and the Huffington Post, to name a few. Wine-Banks was formerly a U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor specializing in Organized Crime. And was one of only three Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutors...

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From our archives a very special guest, John Dean. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970’s. Dean served as White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. In that position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent scandal and cover-up. Referre...

Today we welcome back to our show, political satirist and digital comedian, Walter Masterson, a progressive video content creator who has turned trolling the whole MAGA shit-show into an art form. The video he shot while working on the frontlines during the January 6th insurrection has been instrumental in helping the FBI apprehend rioters who were stupid enough to brag about their crimes on tape....

We welcome back to the show, Tony Schwartz. A former columnist for The New York Post, and associate editor at Newsweek, he was also a reporter for The New York Times, and staff writer at New York Magazine and Esquire. In 1985, Schwartz began interviewing Donald Trump to ghostwrite Trump: “The Art of the Deal” for which he was given co-author credit. Art of the Deal was published in 1987 and some s...

Our guest today is former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Glenn Kirschner - he’s an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and the host of the popular podcast, Justice Matters. Drawing from his 30 years as a federal prosecutor, homicide prosecutor, and Army JAG, Kirschner is with us to help us make sense of Trump’s legal trials and errors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we welcome for the first time, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps”Sullivan, the creators and stars of the popular podcast “I’ve Had It”. They first took the world by storm with their Bravo series “Sweet Home Oklahoma” — where they exported their idyllic hometown for all it was worth. Their brand is “no feelings spared” as they approach the burning issues of the moment. Or at least the issues th...

Today we welcome back to the show, journalist and author, Dave Marcus. Soon after graduating from Brown, Marcus wrote an article for Vanity Fair. It was a look at the final months of his nefarious cousin Roy Cohn. The same Roy Cohn who was Donald Trump’s mentor and fixer. Since then, Dave has been warning Americans about the ways Cohn taught Trump to lie, steal, and misuse the judicial system. Mar...

Our guest this week is my good friend, Joe Walsh. Joe is a podcaster, radio host, columnist, and Republican elected to the House of Representatives in 2011 from Illinois’s 8th District. He also ran for president and then blew up his life when he spoke out against the MAGA cult and gave Trump the two-finger salute. Be sure to check out Joe’s popular political podcast, “White Flag” with Joe Walsh wh...

Today I welcome my friend Donny Deutsch, he’s a branding and marketing specialist and popular television personality on all the major networks. But look for him daily on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. Deutsch is the former Chairman of the advertising firm Deutsch Inc. He has penned two business motivation books, “Often Wrong, Never in Doubt” and “THE BIG IDEA: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come...

Today we welcome for the first time, Dan Alexander. Alexander is a senior editor at Forbes where he leads the magazine's coverage of Donald Trump. Twice a year Alexander is responsible for putting together Forbes estimate of Donald Trump's net worth. And we all know that’s a tough job. Alexander is also the author of  White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business. He’s...

My special guest today is my good friend, Lev Parnas. Lev is a Soviet-born businessman who along with Rudy Giuliani and Igor Fruman played a central role in the campaign to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump’s political rivals…including the Biden’s. Parnas then worked with federal prosecutors to bring down both Giuliani and Trump. And ended up serving a 20-month sentence for crimes related. Lev...

We welcome to the show for the first-time, journalist and political commentator, John Avlon. Avlon is a senior political analyst and anchor at CNN and was the editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast from 2013 to 2018. Avlon is also a Democrat running for a House Seat in New York’s 1st Congressional District, and he’s here to talk about the issues surrounding the 2024 election. Lea...