Victoria Taft
The Adult in the Room
Victoria Taft is The Adult in the Room Who Sets You Straight on Life, News, Politics. Talking to the most interesting people in the news. The News Sherpa You Didn't Know You Needed.
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Episodes
Untruth & Consequences: The Fearful Railroading of Derek Chauvin with Alpha News' Liz Collin 18.03.2025 57:26
Alpha News Senior Reporter Liz Collin has been following the circus surrounding the death of George Floyd for over 5 years, and now her team at Alpha have released a devastating documentary about the subsequent trial of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was accused of murdering Floyd with an alleged illegal restraint. But the Alpha team dug below the surface of what the public saw at t...
The Best Disinfectant: John Eastman and the Question of Lawfare 21.01.2025 28:06
Attorney & legal scholar John Eastman served as an advisor to Donald Trump's campaign team during the 2020 election cycle. After questions were raised about the validity of the election results in many locations, Eastman proposed a path for the team to contest the results. Now, for submitting what many of his supporters say was merely a thought exercise at worst, Eastman is facing indictme...
Targeted: Chris Burgard's Investigation Adventure 06.01.2025 1:12:48
Director Chris Burgard and Actor Nick Searcy released two documentaries on the infamous January 6, 2001 Capitol riots, exposing how federal law enforcement acted with both malice & incompetence in the course of their investigation. Subsequently, they were both targeted by those same departments. Burgard joins the program to discuss, in his own words, his dealings with federal officials and the...
Let There Be Peace on Earth: Another Christmas at War in Ukraine with Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny 20.12.2024 51:57
Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny of the New Life Church in Kiev has spent the first half of the holiday season here in the United States, meeting with political figures and influential leaders of faith in order to tell firsthand the stories of his people. Thousands of soldiers and conscripts have perished in Russia's attempted takeover of the eastern part of Ukraine. Cities destroyed. Families left homeles...
Ballotgrounds: The War for Election Integrity with Special Guest Cleta Mitchell 17.12.2024 49:17
Cleta Mitchell rose to prominence in the political world when she helped Tea Party groups fight back against the Obama-era IRS and their invasive and opaque decisions regarding who and who isn't considered a nonprofit. Then, under the Trump Administration, she led the questioning of the ballot tabulation in the state of Georgia in 2020. Now, with Trump returning to the White House, she joins Victo...
Power Play: Brinksmanship with America's Energy with Power The Future's Daniel Turner 28.11.2024 1:03:02
With less than 60 days left until Trump returns to office, speculation abounds that current President Joe Biden will use the remainder of his lame duck term to shove through unpopular legislation, pardons, or executive orders. And none may be more concerning than the Democrats' demands for a "climate emergency" declaration, which would treat climate change the same way we treat war and the COVID p...
Called to Serve: A Look at Trump’s Planned Military Policy with Ret. Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata 21.11.2024 38:03
Retired US Army Brigadier General Anthony Tata joins the show to discuss one of the hottest topics of this year's election, President-Elect Donald Trump's military policy. From nominating former US Army Major and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to the position of Secretary of Defense to his planned review process for top-level military leadership, Trump's new ideas for streamlining our forces are both...
The Countdown Begins: Jake Lang's Wait for Freedom 13.11.2024 45:26
Jake Lang is currently in federal custody in Washington, DC while awaiting trial for his role in the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol. Now, with the re-election of Donald Trump, he hopes he will finally be released after spending more than 3 years waiting to learn his legal fate. He returns to the podcast to talk about his hopes for release and describe his treatment while in the federal det...
Election 2024: Analyzing the Red Wave with Ron Coleman 12.11.2024 49:53
IP & civil rights attorney Ron Coleman returns to talk about the biggest political story in decades, Donald Trump's dominant victory in the 2024 Presidential Election, along with Republicans seizing control of the Senate and maintaining their hold on the House of Representatives...a GOP sweep that contradicted nearly every poll, every prediction, and every statistic. How did the media and Demo...
Best Laid Plans: The Continuing Plot Against Donald Trump with Lee Smith 25.10.2024 31:31
Lee Smith is a former senior editor at The Weekly Standard, the former Editor-in-Chief of The Village Voice Literary Supplement, and has written for such esteemed publications as The New York Times, The Hudson Review, Ecco Press, Atheneum, Grand Street, GQ, and Talk. Now, he joins Victoria to discuss his newest book, Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth, and the Fight for the Republic, as well...
Reaping Renewal: The Joy of Regenerative Agriculture with Mollie Engelhart 19.10.2024 1:23:15
Mollie Engelhart has one of the most eclectic backgrounds you may ever meet. She grew up on a farm in upstate New York before heading to California to study film at the prestigious, Disney-founded California Institute of the Arts. From there, she worked in A&R at Sony and became a recording artist herself, before taking on a new challenge by founding the vegan restaurants KindKreme and Sage. B...
Climate Despots: Using Climate Change to Remove Your Rights with Marc Morano 09.10.2024 36:51
Author & ClimateDepot.com founder Marc Morano joins Victoria to talk about the Biden/Harris administration's plans to declare a "climate emergency," using the same emergency powers granted in crises like the 9/11 terror attacks and the COVID pandemic to curtail the rights and finances of ordinary Americans. And in the wake of the devastating hurricane-caused disasters in Florida, Georgia, the...
Rapp Session with New York Times Bestselling Author Don Bentley 22.09.2024 49:01
Apache helicopter pilot. FBI Special Agent. SWAT officer. Bestselling author. Don Bentley has worn many hats in his lifetime. But now he's taken on one of the biggest challenges of his life: continuing the story of Vince Flynn's legendary CIA counter-terrorism agent, Mitch Rapp. In his new novel, Bentley turns back the clock to tell the tale of one of Mitch's most vital missions: gathe...
Election Fraud: The Risks Revealed with J. Christian Adams 06.09.2024 44:05
J. Christian Adams returns to the program to talk about a number of topics including the investigation into the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, as well as Trump's New York convictions. But his primary focus as President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation is election integrity, and he has some very serious concerns. He details the organization's research into illegal voters and...
Project 2025: Separating Fact from Fiction 22.08.2024 1:40:46
One of the biggest controversies of the 2024 election season has been "Project 2025," a proposed policy roadmap formulated by a team at the Heritage Foundation to guide the Trump administration's first year in office if re-elected. The project garnered so much negative publicity from the mainstream press that the Trump campaign publicly distanced itself from the contents and the proj...
BONUS EPISODE: Buying in to the New MAGA Deal with Peter Navarro 30.07.2024 27:34
Economist, author, and former Democrat Peter Navarro was one of Donald Trump’s most critical advisors during his campaign and administration, helping to shape White House trade policy. He was among the first outside the scientific community to see the looming danger of the 2020 pandemic and its economic implications, as well as the overall threat of China on the world stage. Just under two weeks a...
Blind Faith: The Collapse of America's Intelligence Sector with J. Michael Waller 26.07.2024 1:49:50
J. Michael Waller is Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy, and a leading expert in the fields of foreign propaganda, political warfare, psychological warfare, and subversion. But he never thought he'd have to be exercising that expertise within his own country. He once worked for the CIA in Central America and provided essential analysis in the wake of the fall of the...
A Brief Word with James Rosen 15.06.2024 37:57
Newsmax Chief White House Correspondent James Rosen joins Victoria with a fun and enlightening conversation about life in the White House briefing room, what it's like to be the de facto arch-nemesis of Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and his career as an author, namely his multi-volume biography of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as well as his research into the facts beyon...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Lawlessness & the Consequences Thereof with John Lott 31.05.2024 33:05
Studies by government agencies and academic institutions insist that crime is dropping, but for many Americans it sure doesn't seem that way. Major cities are becoming retail deserts as grocery stores, pharmacies & major brand stores flee rising retail theft. City street "takeovers" result in property damage and violence. Police departments are outmanned and underfunded, with len...
Barbarians at the Gate: Demanding Accountability for the Leftist Fringe with Gregg Schumacher 24.05.2024 1:12:01
Gregg Schumacher's family started one of the first and most prestigious furrier companies in the Pacific Northwest, Portland's Schumacher Furs. Now it no longer exists as a business in the city of its birth, thanks to a targeted harassment campaign from mainstream activists like PeTA and their violently extremist cousins, the Animal Liberation Front. The city government refused to help. Th...
Weathering Stormy: The New York Trump Trial Circus with Mike Davis of the Article III Project 17.05.2024 34:25
The Article III Project's Mike Davis returns for a wild episode, all about the New York trial against former President Donald Trump for allegedly falsifying corporate financial records so that his lawyer & "fixer," Michael Cohen, could deliver secret hush-money payments to adult actress Stormy Daniels. Davis explains (in very colorful terms) why he thinks the charges are bogus an...
The Promise of Blood - Seven Months of War in the Holy Land with Fleur Hassan-Nahoum 10.05.2024 35:28
More than half a year has passed since terrorists operating from Gaza raided border settlements in Israel, killing hundreds as they lay in their homes and on the grounds of a music festival organized to promote peaceful coexistence. 132 people still remain counted as hostages of Hamas. Meanwhile, in the US, entitled college students have taken to college campuses to denounce Israel and even call f...
The Postmodern Prophets: Questioning the Cult of Climate Change with Dr. Roy Spencer 26.04.2024 1:01:14
Dr. Roy Spencer has an extensive scientific pedigree. He's a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama - Huntsville, and the US Science Team leader for the AMSR-E aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. He's been lauded by the American Meteorological Society for his groundbreaking work monitoring Earth's temperature fluctuations. So when he expresses a scientifically-backed h...
The View From Above: Perspectives on America with Lord Conrad Black 27.03.2024 1:30:29
Publisher. Author. Raconteur. These are all terms that apply to the guest of this episode, but to his peers in the UK's House of Lords, he is Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour. The former publisher of the Daily Telegraph (UK), the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, and the National Post (Canada), he has a unique perspective both as a northerly neighbor and a British Lord. On...
The Scarcity of Trust: Espionage, Fiction and the Blurred Lines Between with Special Guest Jeffrey S. Stephens 18.03.2024 56:57
Attorney & author Jeffrey Stephens is the creator of the Nick Reagan & Jordan Sandor espionage book series. As a writer of spy thrillers, he has a unique perspective on spycraft, America's intelligence sector, and the roles that both government and business are increasingly playing in the personal lives of citizens & consumers. He joins the program to discuss is fiction work and ho...
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