The Smerconish Podcast

Should cash bail - allowing a person arrested to pay money for release before trial - be eliminated? Michael gets expertise from Brooklyn Law School Professor Jocelyn Simenson, author of the forthcoming book "Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration." Original air date 20 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for in...

Michael offers his thoughts on the record $787.5 million settlement that FOX News will pay to Dominion Voting Systems, wrapping up the defamation lawsuit before it goes to trial. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael gets expertise from NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos on two shootings that happened in Missouri and upstate New York, where the victims both arrived at homes by mistake while searching for an address, and they were both shot by the respective homeowners. Were the shootings racially or otherwise motivated? Listen for the full story. Original air date 18 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast...

CNN Senior Reporter Edward Isaac Dovere joins Michael in discussing the 2024 presidential race and potential challengers to President Biden on the Democratic side. Original air date 17 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael began hosting "The Michael Smerconish Program" on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 on "tax day" - April 15th, 2013. He celebrated on air today reminiscing on how he came to SiriusXM, and welcomed a special in studio audience. Original air date 14 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for a...

As Michael read in and learned about Jack Teixeira, who was arrested on charges related to the latest classified document leak on Discord, he thought of NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway, and his theories on how society is failing young men. Original air date 14 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collectio...

Michael offers a commentary on the latest revelations about the recently leaked classified documents released on Discord by someone named "O.G." Original air date 13 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael welcomes expertise today from longtime First Amendment attorney Lee Levine, who has represented media companies in his career, the day before jury selection begins in the defamation lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems has brought against FOX News in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Original air date 12 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswiz...

To combat gun violence, should we use harm reduction efforts like we do for other dangers that affect the population, like cars and cigarettes? Michael talks with New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof, who has written about this in his piece "A Smarter Way to Reduce Gun Deaths." Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about o...

Michael welcomes Republican pollster and strategist Frank Luntz on his New York Times op-ed, "How To Make Trump Go Away." Original air date 10 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael offers a commentary on the expulsion of two democratic state legislators by Republicans in Tennessee. Original air date 7 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael offers a commentary on the FOX vs Dominion Voting Systems case, where a judge just ruled that 92-year old FOX Chair Rupert Murdoch must testify. Original air date 6 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael offers thoughts on the arraignment of former President Donald Trump on 34 felony charges, following District Attorney Alvin Bragg unsealing the indictment. Original air date 5 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael offers thoughts just ahead of former President Trump's arraignment in New York City, where he both wishes for cameras in the court room so we could all watch, and, with the potential of a gag order being placed on the former president, what exactly does that mean? A great explainer from former federal proseuctor Duncan Levin. Original air date 4 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz...

Michael offers thoughts on new polling that has come out in the wake of the indictment of former President Donald Trump, and gets smart analysis from Anthony Coley, Former Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice and Former Senior Advisor to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Original air date 3 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswi...

Is the indictment of former President Trump by Alvin Bragg political? Michael offers thoughts, and welcomes Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo to to the conversation. Original air date 31 March 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Wall Street Journal reporter and editor Aaron Zitner joins Michael to report on their latest WSJ-NORC poll, "America Pulls Back From Values That Once Defined It. Original air date 30 March 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What would The McLaughlin Group say about Donald Trump vs. Ron DeSantis? Michael recreates a conversation in the style of the long-running public affairs show with Mark Halperin, based on his Wide World of News newsletter. Original air date 29 March 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertis...

Michael offers thoughts about how the latest school shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, TN, is being covered, in particularly how the transgender community is being talked about, since the shooter was identified as transgender. Original air date 28 March 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal da...

Michael offers a commentary as strikes and protests against a proposed judicial overhaul in Israel continue to rise up. Plus, his conversation from two weeks ago with Carnegie Endowment Senior Fellow Aaron David Miller is included today for some excellent context. Original air date 27 March 2023, Miller interview aired 10 March 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswiz...

UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh joins Michael to discuss a striking down of a Seattle ban on landlords' inquiring about prospective tenants' criminal histories, which Volokh wrote about at Reason.com. Volokh is the Gary T. Schwarz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA. Original air date 24 March 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our...

There is SO much to keep track of relative to former President Donald Trump and the various investigations. Everyone is racing to the finish line to an indictment, and a lot is about to happen. Michael offers his thoughts. Original air date 23 March 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertis...

Michael talks to crisis management expert and attorney Lanny Davis, who is representing former Trump advisor Michael Cohen, ahead of the Manhattan District Attorney possibly indicting former President Trump in connection with hush money payments paid to Stormy Daniels. Original air date 22 March 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our c...

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, or ESG for short. What is ESG? Listen for a great explainer from Alex Friedman, CEO and Co-Founder of Novata. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

As a new week begins with news of a possible indictment in New York of former President Donald Trump in connection with hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels, former federal prosecutor and CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig discusses the case with Michael, and how it is not a very strong one. Honig is the author of "Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It" which was released in Feb...