The David Pakman Show

-- On the Show: -- Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is, by far, the most dangerous and extreme Speaker in modern political history -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is interviewed by NBC's Kristen Welker and the interview goes horribly wrong for DeSantis -- Failed former President Donald Trump forgets what city he is in during an event in Sioux City, Iowa, yet anot...

-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump seemingly violates his gag order again, calling the judge in the New York case "radical left" and one of the witnesses a "sleaze bag" -- Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell claims prosecutors extorted her into taking a plea deal -- Caller talks about the possibility that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn't try to stop Hamas's attack -- Caller asks how t...

-- On the Show: -- 22 are dead and 50 injured in a horrifying mass shooting in Maine -- Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity's plan to not get shot includes martial arts -- Republicans elect MAGA extremist election denier Congressman Mike Johnson to be Speaker of the House and Donald Trump takes credit for it -- Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz correctly points out that MAGA is still in power, as e...

-- On the Show: -- Greg Lukianoff, First Amendment attorney, President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and co-author of "The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution," joins David to discuss speech, cancel culture, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/45LUINm -- Another Republican "frontrunn...

-- On the Show: -- Neil Howe, acclaimed historian, economist, demographer, and the New York Times bestselling author of "The Fourth Turning is Here" joins David to discuss Strauss-Howe generational theory. Get the book: https://amzn.to/493VbNU -- An updated framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace -- Republicans seem to have forgotten that they were going to impeach President Joe Biden -- Candace O...

-- On the Show: -- The Republican Party continues in crisis, now seeing nine different candidates for Speaker of the House as they are unable to coalesce behind any one candidate -- President Joe Biden's speech a few days ago was so good, that even Fox News hosts and anchors have no choice but to admit it -- New audio reveals billionaire Anthony Pratt admitting that President Donald Trump revealed...

-- On the Show: -- Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit election interference in Georgia -- Antisemitic right-winger Elijah Schaffer attempts to use David's content to generate even more antisemitism -- Failed former President Donald Trump's criminal trial -- one or more of them -- might be televised live globally -- Caller compares Do...

-- On the Show: -- Jonathan Conyers, author of "I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here," entrepreneur, and neonatal pediatric specialist known by many as one of the best speech and debate coaches, joins David to discuss debating and influencing people. Get the book: https://amzn.to/46Ep6L8 -- After initial reports blamed Israel for the bombing of a hospital in Gaza, all evidence now points to Palestinians,...

-- On the Show: -- A hospital in Gaza is bombed and blame is traded about who is responsible, Israel, Hamas, or Islamic Jihad -- Republican Congressman Jim Jordan loses the first House Speaker vote, despite Trump's confidence that Jordan will win -- A stunning new poll appears to confirm that Robert F. Kennedy Jr running as an independent is bad for Donald Trump and good for Joe Biden -- Elon Musk...

-- On the Show: -- Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker whose latest project "The American Buffalo," catalogs the animal's 10,000 history in the United States, and talks with David about his approach and method when producing documentaries -- A random 6-year-old boy has been murdered in Chicago because he is Muslim, and his mom was also injured -- Bloodthirsty Fox News host Jesse Watters gets shut dow...

-- On the Show: -- The latest on the Hamas-Israel conflict, including Joe Biden's latest requests of Israel, the almost-cancellation of David, the notice to Gazans to head south, and much more -- Failed former President Donald Trump forgets who is President, is corrected by Brian Kilmeade, and blames Hamas terror on a "stollen" election -- Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, appears on the L...

-- On the Show: -- New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez faces new changes of accepting bribes on behalf of a foreign government -- Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville falls down the stairs exiting an airplane after making fun of President Biden for falling numerous times -- Prosecutors claim they can prove Donald Trump's motive in the classified documents case -- Caller asks about voter turnout in the 202...

-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump loses again, this time seeing his pick for Speaker of the House, Jim Jordan, lose to Steve Scalise among the Republican conference -- A discussion of Eric Levitz's New York Magazine article, "A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed" -- Some Republicans turn on lying Republican Congressman George Santos after a superseding indictment is piled onto the ch...

-- On the Show: -- Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of the book "Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point," joins David to discuss democracy, his book, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3RUdFuf -- Hamas has reportedly murdered more than 40 babies, including beheading some, in the attack on Israel -- Hamas is hold...

-- On the Show: -- Both the MAGA right and the far left react disgustingly to the Hamas attack on Israel in which the death toll has or soon will surpass 1000 -- Failed former President Donald Trump's Israel-related information leak is now under scrutiny after the Hamas attack on Israel -- Donald Trump says "hummus" attacked Israel in a bonkers series of speeches in Iowa -- MAGA Trumpists are now...

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM AUGUST 8, 2023 -- On the Show: -- Julia Keller, author of the book "Quitting: A Life Strategy: The Myth of Perseverance," joins David to discuss the history of quitting, social connotations, when quitting is the right thing to do, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/44XCTvm -- The 2024 Republican primary remains all Donald Trump, as Ron DeSan...

-- On the Show: -- Rudy Giuliani denies his alcoholism at a strange press conference where he also announces that he is suing Joe Biden -- A legal expert believes that it's likely Donald Trump's properties will be auctioned off after his fraud trial -- Callers asks about the future of the Republican Party after Donald Trump -- Caller discusses Joe Biden's reelection chances -- Caller talks about e...

-- On the Show: -- Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joins David to discuss electric vehicles, renewable energy, public transit, his viral moments on Fox News and during Congressional hearings, and much more -- Radical Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, as well as Congressman Steve Scalise, announce that they are running for the newly-vacated position of Speaker of the House -- According...

-- On the Show: -- Total chaos hits the House of Representatives as eight Republicans join Democrats in a vote that has removed Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House -- Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy delivers an outrageous press conference after being ousted as Speaker -- MAGA Republicans are rallying around the idea of failed former President Donald Trump for Speaker of the House --...

-- On the Show: -- Taylor Lorenz, columnist for the Washington Post and author of the new book "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet," joins David to discuss the world of influencing and modern social media. Get the book: https://amzn.to/45arpny -- Fox News host Charles Payne tells a stunning number of lies about electric vehicles in a very short amount...

-- On the Show: -- Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein passes away at age 90, and Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom has named Laphonza Butler as Feinstein's replacement -- Texas Governor Greg Abbott says Texas will pursue a border wall on the border with the US state of New Mexico -- Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace fails hard when asked by right-wing Fox host Maria Bartiromo for a si...

-- On the Show: -- New polling shows that Republicans see Donald Trump as more of a "person of faith" than even Mitt Romney, whose Mormon identity is the most recognizable thing about him -- Ken Blackwell, a Republican with a history of making it harder to vote, says that automatic voter registration actually takes away people's rights in an unintelligible rant -- Caller worries the term "social d...

-- On the Show: -- Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks and author of the new book "Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It" joins David to make the case that Joe Biden cannot possibly win re-election in 2024, and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/46uUwmK -- Despite not even attending, Donald Trump easily wins the 2nd Republican presi...

-- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden joins striking UAW workers on the picket line and delivers encouraging remarks to them -- California doubles taxes on guns and ammunition to pay for school security -- A judge rules that Donald Trump committed fraud in his business dealings and orders the dissolution of the Trump Organization -- Failed former President Donald Trump absolutely loses his mind o...

-- On the Show: -- Yascha Mounk, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, founder of the digital magazine Persuasion, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic, Host of the Good Fight podcast, and author of the new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time," joins David to discuss what Mounk claims is the left's turn towards identitarianism. G...