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Join former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as he breaks down legal topics in the news and engages thought leaders in a podcast about power, policy, and justice. From CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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Tough Love

Alexandra Banks

Mentioned 5 months ago

Democrats Done Playing Nice (with Susan Rice)

Susan Rice mentioned writing her memoir, 'Tough Love,' where she discussed instances where colleagues tried to undermine her professionally. She noted that readers would need to read the book to find out the specific stories and names mentioned.

I wrote a whole book. I wrote a memoir, Preet, called Tough Love, My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. And in there, I mentioned a few.

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Autocracy, Inc.

Anne Applebaum

Mentioned 5 months ago

Trump's Radical Reign (with Anne Applebaum)

This recent book examined how modern autocracies cooperate to maintain their power structures.

She's also the author of several books, including most recently Autocracy, Inc., which examines how modern autocracies cooperate to maintain power.

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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Mentioned 5 months ago

Trump's Radical Reign (with Anne Applebaum)

The book by the American philosopher was mentioned as context for his refusal to pay a Massachusetts poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican-American war.

Henry David Thoreau, remember him? He was an American philosopher best known for his book On Walden Pond.

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Barbarians at the Gate

Bryan Burrough

Mentioned 8 months ago

The 1929 Stock Market Crash: Can It Happen Again? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)

This book was mentioned as an example of a compelling narrative where the reader felt immersed in the room during the events discussed.

And I always love those stories, you know, Den of Thieves, Barbarians at the Gate, where you really felt immersed like you were in the room.

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1929

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Mentioned 8 months ago

The 1929 Stock Market Crash: Can It Happen Again? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)

This was Andrew Ross Sorkin's long-awaited second book, which drew on eight years of research and access to never-before-seen historical documents to provide a vivid and deeply reported account of the 1929 stock market crash.

Last month, he released his long-awaited second book, 1929, Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation.

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The Great Crash, 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith

Mentioned 8 months ago

The 1929 Stock Market Crash: Can It Happen Again? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)

This was cited as the classic famous book about the 1929 period, written by an economist, offering a perspective on economic cycles and systems.

You know, there was a great book that was written in the 1950s by John Galbraith called The Great Crash. It's sort of the classic famous book about this period. It was written by Galbraith and he was an economist. And so it sort of has a, you know, an economist perspective.

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The Day the Bubble Burst

Gordon Thomas

Mentioned 8 months ago

The 1929 Stock Market Crash: Can It Happen Again? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)

This book from the 1970s was mentioned as being very much focused on the October period and the year of 1929.

There was a great book in the 1970s called The Day of the Bubble Burst that was very much focused on the October period and the year of 1929 more than anything else.

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Injustice

Carol Leonnig

Mentioned 8 months ago

Vanquishing Justice at DOJ (with Carol Leonnig & Aaron Davis)

The book was described as great but heartbreaking, detailing the weakening and undermining of the Justice Department under Donald Trump's first presidency. It offered a full history and included new, scoopy details about what happened inside the DOJ on January 6th.

Now they're out with a new book, Injustice - How politics and fear vanquished America's Justice Department.

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Doing Justice

Preet Bharara

Mentioned 8 months ago

Elections: From Mamdani to Trump (with Astead Herndon)

The host mentioned this book was available in paperback and owned ten copies, suggesting it was a significant work for him concerning life as a federal prosecutor.

Doing Justice by Preet Bharara. I know it's a little early for Christmas, but not too early. Still available in paperback. Give it a shot.

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The Torture Memos

David Cole

Mentioned 8 months ago

Trump Admin Ramps Up Airstrikes (with Barb McQuade)

This memo, sometimes referred to as the 'torture memo,' was created by John Yoo and blessed the torture of Al Qaeda prisoners to extract information relevant to combating terrorism.

So there was some controversy about a couple of things. One was a memo sometimes referred to as the torture memo by John Yoo that blessed the torture of Al Qaeda prisoners to extract information that might be useful in combating terrorism.

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Interference

Aaron Zebley

Mentioned 1 year ago

Inside the Mueller Report (with Aaron Zebley & Andrew Goldstein)

Written by Aaron Zebley, Andrew Goldstein, and James Quarles, this book provides a behind-the-scenes account of the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. It details major decisions, the politicization of national security, and reflections on the team's experience.

the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion

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Vote With Your Phone

Bradley Tusk

Mentioned 1 year ago

What If We Could Vote With Our Phones? (with Bradley Tusk)

The author details his Mobile Voting Project, explaining his belief that increased voter turnout, facilitated by mobile voting, would lead to a less broken political system with more consensus.

He's the author of the new book, Vote With Your Phone, Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot at Saving Democracy.

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Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

It was one of the books that was mentioned to have been challenged or banned in some schools and libraries in the past winter.

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

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Episode: The “Perfectly Imperfect” Mayor (with Eric Adams)

It was one of the books that was mentioned to have been challenged or banned in some schools and libraries in the past winter.

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

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Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer

A Memoir

It was one of the books that was listed as being challenged or banned in some schools and libraries.

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And Genderqueer by Maya Kobaib, just to name a few.

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Episode: The “Perfectly Imperfect” Mayor (with Eric Adams)

It was one of the books that was listed as being challenged or banned in some schools and libraries.

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And Genderqueer by Maya Kobaib, just to name a few.

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Daniel Yergin

The Prize

The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power

It was discussed as a definitive history of the oil industry, written in 1990, and was frequently referenced throughout the podcast.

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His 1990 book, The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, is widely recognized as the definitive history of the oil industry.

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Episode: The Price and Politics of Oil (with Daniel Yergin)

It was discussed as a definitive history of the oil industry, written in 1990, and was frequently referenced throughout the podcast.

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His 1990 book, The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, is widely recognized as the definitive history of the oil industry.

When I was writing The Prize on investigating high gasoline prices was in 1923.

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Daniel Yergin

The New Map

Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

It was mentioned that the book discussed energy, climate, and the clash of nations, focusing on Russia, Ukraine, and China's geopolitical roles.

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Secondly, and the one that I do write about in The New Map is I was at this thing called the St. Petersburg International Energy Forum.

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Episode: The Price and Politics of Oil (with Daniel Yergin)

It was mentioned that the book discussed energy, climate, and the clash of nations, focusing on Russia, Ukraine, and China's geopolitical roles.

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Secondly, and the one that I do write about in The New Map is I was at this thing called the St. Petersburg International Energy Forum.

And there's a picture in The New Map of the first Nord Stream pipeline being built, and it shows Chancellor Merkel and the EU people and then Russian President Medvedev all with big smiles on their face, you know, turning the knobs, the wheel to start the flow of gas into Germany.

Well, I think there were maybe two or three is that geopolitics is going to continue to interact with energy. I spent a lot of time in the book actually focused on Putin, Russia, Ukraine, and natural gas in Europe.

The other thing I spent a lot of time in the book on was China, the US, and energy and geopolitics.

The other is that we're in an energy transition, trying to do it in a more compressed time than in the past, and to be realistic about the challenges and what has to be done.

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Zarin Madiyha

The Story Of Us

Tim Urban's upcoming book, it had been in the works for 5 years and was causing him a lot of anxiety due to the lack of a strict deadline to motivate him.

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Bluto, the book, has been punching me around for five straight years right now.

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Tim Urban's upcoming book, it had been in the works for 5 years and was causing him a lot of anxiety due to the lack of a strict deadline to motivate him.

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Bluto, the book, has been punching me around for five straight years right now.

The only reason I ever was able to write a book was they were pretty strict about it.

Well, the problem is that other... authors told me, which I wish they hadn't, they told me, you know, those deadlines are now everyone, everyone misses their deadline.

Yeah, that's right. The panic monster has not shown up.

I've had to make some crazy bets with friends to try to create a panic monster.

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Charles Jacobs

Betrayal

The Failure of American Jewish Leadership

It provided an inside look at the Trump presidency's chaotic final months, focusing on events that led up to January 6th, and included many scoops from sources within the administration.

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It's called Betrayal, the final act of the Trump Show.

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It provided an inside look at the Trump presidency's chaotic final months, focusing on events that led up to January 6th, and included many scoops from sources within the administration.

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It's called Betrayal, the final act of the Trump Show.

You have a, I guess, not so new book out, Betrayal, the final act of the Trump show.

I wrote both of my books, you know, Front Row of the Trump Show and Betrayal, because I had a story that I wanted to tell.

The book is Betrayal, the final act of the Trump show.

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Denise Siegel

High Flight - Journal

Famous Aviation Poem by J. Magee, Jr

The poem was discussed in detail. It was mentioned how it was written by a young pilot during WWII and later used by Ronald Reagan in a speech about the Challenger disaster. The poem is now inscribed on the Challenger Memorial.

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"The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future and we'll continue to follow them."

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Episode: What Is College Worth? (with Lee Bollinger)

The poem was discussed in detail. It was mentioned how it was written by a young pilot during WWII and later used by Ronald Reagan in a speech about the Challenger disaster. The poem is now inscribed on the Challenger Memorial.

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"The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future and we'll continue to follow them."

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings.

Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of.

...put out my hand and touched the face of God.

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Peter O'Mahoney

Saving Justice

A Tex Hunter Novel (Tex Hunter Series Book 5)

It was mentioned in the context of a statement by Jim Comey who suggested that the next U.S. attorney general under Joe Biden should not pursue a criminal investigation of Donald Trump, focusing on healing and moving on.

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He talks about healing and moving on. I respect Jim Comey. I used to work with Jim Comey. He's done some controversial things in more recent years, but I respect his good faith and also respectfully d...

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It was mentioned in the context of a statement by Jim Comey who suggested that the next U.S. attorney general under Joe Biden should not pursue a criminal investigation of Donald Trump, focusing on healing and moving on.

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He talks about healing and moving on. I respect Jim Comey. I used to work with Jim Comey. He's done some controversial things in more recent years, but I respect his good faith and also respectfully disagree with him and others who say that with respect to Donald Trump, we should move on.

He wrote, the next U.S. attorney general under Joe Biden should not pursue a criminal investigation of Donald Trump. Although those cases might be righteous in a vacuum, the mission of the next attorney general must be fostering the trust of the American people.

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Ira Katznelson

When Affirmative Action Was White

An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

It was cited in the context of discussing the lasting effects of discrimination against African-Americans, highlighting that post-World War II initiatives like the GI Bill were designed to benefit white Americans over Black Americans.

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What the United States did in that post-World War II period was the equivalent of a Marshall Plan for white Americans. And when that carries on over generations, you have profound effects of lasting d...

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It was cited in the context of discussing the lasting effects of discrimination against African-Americans, highlighting that post-World War II initiatives like the GI Bill were designed to benefit white Americans over Black Americans.

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What the United States did in that post-World War II period was the equivalent of a Marshall Plan for white Americans. And when that carries on over generations, you have profound effects of lasting discrimination.

as one of my colleagues has put it in a book called When Affirmative Action Was White, Ira Katznelson, distinguished political scientist, historian, and colleague here.

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Indra Nooyi

My Life in Full

Work, Family, and Our Future

Indra Nooyi discussed the process of writing her memoir, 'My Life in Full', which details her journey from India to corporate America, balancing work and family, and the challenges of being a woman CEO.

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It's a tremendous amount of work. Anybody contemplating a book should be ready for months and months and months of hard work to get the book right.

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Episode: Lonely at the Top (with Indra Nooyi)

Indra Nooyi discussed the process of writing her memoir, 'My Life in Full', which details her journey from India to corporate America, balancing work and family, and the challenges of being a woman CEO.

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It's a tremendous amount of work. Anybody contemplating a book should be ready for months and months and months of hard work to get the book right.

It's a book with stories supported by history, lessons derived from it.

I believe in the American story because it is my story.

I wouldn't be sitting lunching with you if I'd come to the UK.

I'm going with a science preach and if the science says that I need eight hours of sleep, I've got to inch my way to eight hours.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart

Preet Bharara shared the inspiring story of an 8-year-old boy named Dylan who wrote and illustrated a book, 'The Adventures of Dylan Helbig's Christmas', which became popular at his local library and attracted publisher interest.

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I covered this part and covered the back with my body and just snuck it in.

— Episode: Lonely at the Top (with Indra Nooyi)

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Episode: Lonely at the Top (with Indra Nooyi)

Preet Bharara shared the inspiring story of an 8-year-old boy named Dylan who wrote and illustrated a book, 'The Adventures of Dylan Helbig's Christmas', which became popular at his local library and attracted publisher interest.

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I covered this part and covered the back with my body and just snuck it in.

Dylan's book became one of the most sought-after works at the library.

publishers have even expressed interest in officially publishing the book,

the library has even given Dylan its first ever Houdini Award for Best Young Novelist, an award they created just for him.

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Laura Coates

Just Pursuit

A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

It was described as terrific and focused on the author's experiences as a Black prosecutor, including the moral and ethical dilemmas she encountered while pursuing justice.

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The pursuit of justice creates injustice.

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It was described as terrific and focused on the author's experiences as a Black prosecutor, including the moral and ethical dilemmas she encountered while pursuing justice.

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The pursuit of justice creates injustice.

Justice is not binary. It's complicated.

My race always informed my objectivity. It is precisely because I am a black woman that the blackness of a defendant was never an indictment.

I value my role as a CNN legal analyst because education is my form of activism.

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Betty Cayouette

One Last Shot

Bill Barr's book was mentioned in passing, as he was in the news and had a book coming out soon. It was not discussed further in the podcast.

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Barr has managed to sort of sit outside of the limelight for the last couple of weeks, but he has a book to sell in the next few weeks, doesn't he? Let's not mention his book.

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Episode: CAFE Insider Sample 1/25: "The Kraken's Kraken"

Bill Barr's book was mentioned in passing, as he was in the news and had a book coming out soon. It was not discussed further in the podcast.

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Barr has managed to sort of sit outside of the limelight for the last couple of weeks, but he has a book to sell in the next few weeks, doesn't he? Let's not mention his book.

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Masha Gessen

The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)

How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

It was discussed in the context of a sociological study about the 'Soviet person' and how totalitarian adaptations have persisted throughout generations in Russia, despite the fall of the Soviet Union.

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russia never fully made the choice to break with its past There was never an investigation and reckoning with state terror people who were engaged in state terror were never officially disavowed They...

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Episode: Unpacking The Russian Threat (with Masha Gessen)

It was discussed in the context of a sociological study about the 'Soviet person' and how totalitarian adaptations have persisted throughout generations in Russia, despite the fall of the Soviet Union.

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russia never fully made the choice to break with its past There was never an investigation and reckoning with state terror people who were engaged in state terror were never officially disavowed They were even allowed to continue to serve in high state offices

Essentially the same people who are running the soviet union Are running what we refer to as post-soviet russia?

putin has an idea It is self-aggrandizing and absurd on the face of it that if he stepped away Russia would fall apart And so he has to carry this burden and for his labors he deserves to have the yachts and the palaces and all that But he is doing it for his country

trump doesn't even have that delusion It's all power and money in their purest form And you could dig as deep as you want. You would never find a shred of responsibility

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Roger McNamee

Zucked

Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Roger McNamee's 2019 book, detailing the Facebook catastrophe, was discussed, particularly in relation to his earlier mentorship of Mark Zuckerberg and his change of heart.

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I think many of our listeners will know who you are because of the book that you wrote in 2019 about Mark Zuckerberg. It's called, just so our listeners know exactly where you stand on Facebook,

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Roger McNamee's 2019 book, detailing the Facebook catastrophe, was discussed, particularly in relation to his earlier mentorship of Mark Zuckerberg and his change of heart.

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I think many of our listeners will know who you are because of the book that you wrote in 2019 about Mark Zuckerberg. It's called, just so our listeners know exactly where you stand on Facebook, Zucked, Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.

The thing that you don't hear in the book is that there's an F-bomb roughly every third word in the first sentence of the book.

When I wrote my book, 2018, I'm going, hey, look, if you allow Facebook groups to go unregulated and they have all this insanity, you're eventually going to have an insurrection.

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Adam Schiff

Midnight in Washington

How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

It was described as a behind-the-scenes look into the investigation into Trump's abuses of power, covering issues from Russia and Ukraine to January 6th. The author discussed it and its subtitle, emphasizing that the fight for democracy is ongoing.

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Schiff has written a book, his first, Midnight in Washington, How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.

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Episode: Inside the Fight for Democracy (with Adam Schiff)

It was described as a behind-the-scenes look into the investigation into Trump's abuses of power, covering issues from Russia and Ukraine to January 6th. The author discussed it and its subtitle, emphasizing that the fight for democracy is ongoing.

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Schiff has written a book, his first, Midnight in Washington, How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.

So you've written this very good and important book. We had to solve a lot of supply chain issues to get copies here. So please buy it in currency or crypto or whatever you have. Midnight in Washington, How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.

And as you and I discussed on the phone last week, I think the most important part of that subtitle is the last three words, and still could.

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