Exactly one month ago, the worlds of several thousand LA County residents were turned upside down ... when violent winds stoked massive fires that left a trail of unprecedented destruction. Tonight we will bring you the survival stories of six people who lost everything during the January 7th fires ... three residents of the Pacific Palisades, and three residents of Altadena. We'll ask about processing and overcoming the trauma, about their dealings with insurance companies and the government .....
Feb 08, 2025•57 min
This is a story about historic fires, survival, and what promises to be monumental efforts to rebuild and flourish in an often hostile environment where danger lurks with every gust of wind. In short, it is a story about ourselves. As tens of thousands of L.A. County residents spent the last two weeks trying to stay alive and keep their homes from burning to the ground, there was little time to think about how these fires will change the complexion of our region. But as the flames die down and w...
Jan 25, 2025•1 hr 56 min
We dive into the brewing Republican civil war over whether businesses should be hiring foreign workers over American workers. Then we look back at four years ago today--January 6th, 2021--and whether President-elect Trump and the MAGA movement actually won that day.
Jan 06, 2025•19 min
We talk with two top constitutional experts about concern from some Democrats that Republicans could force a Constitutional Convention
Dec 20, 2024•20 min
32 days to go before Donald Trump takes over as President of the United States ... although considering how the last couple of days have gone, one would be forgiven thinking he's already moved into the White House! Thanks for counting down with us ... on today's Countdown 2025: We'll examine the chaos unfolding in Congress ... where the government is set to close down tomorrow night and Republicans can't decide if it's Donald Trump, Mike Johnson or Elon Musk in charge. We'll be talking with a Re...
Dec 19, 2024•21 min
33 days to go before Joe Biden departs the White House ... and Donald Trump moves in for a second run at America's top job. Thank you for counting down the days with us. On today's Countdown 2024: Donald Trump and his allies have perfected the art of intimidation through lawsuits ... and even before his second term has begun, the president-elect is already seeing the results of defamation threats. We'll ask whether journalists and critics will be forced to cower. And, even though it's technicall...
Dec 19, 2024•21 min
34 days to go in the Trump transition ... thank you for counting down the days with us. On today's Countdown 2024: Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson is with us to preview the strategy for resisting Donald Trump ... a second time around. And we get a preview into the Trump administration's immigration policy playbook from the people who helped to write it at the Heritage Foundation.
Dec 18, 2024•21 min
35 days to go before Donald Trump is sworn back into the office of the presidency ... thank you for counting down these transition days with us. On today's show: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would bring all kinds of baggage with him to Health and Human Services, if he's confirmed as the department's next secretary ... but the biggest worry with Kennedy is his history of anti-vaccine advocacy. So we'll hear from an FDA advisor who is hoping that Kennedy doesn't come anywhere close to vaccine policy. And...
Dec 17, 2024•20 min
38 days to go in the Trump transition ... thank you for counting down the days with us. On today's show: we're getting the other side of the passionate debate over gender-affirming care for transgender youth, an issue that will likely be front-and-center during the next four years. And ... ? why is the Trump administration seriously considering axing several of the nation's banking regulatory agencies?
Dec 13, 2024•21 min
39 days to go before Donald Trump takes the oath of office and moves back into the White House. Thank you for counting down the transition with us. Mike Simpson pulling double duty today, sitting in for BOTH Margaret Carrero and Charles Feldman. On today's Countdown 2024: Current FBI director Christopher Wray made it easy on Donald Trump, announcing his retirement at the end of Joe Biden's term and saving the president-elect from the chore of firing him when he takes office next month. Is this t...
Dec 12, 2024•20 min
It's an even 40-days left in the Trump transition .... thank you for counting down the days to inauguration with us. On today's Countdown 2024: According to President-elect Donald Trump, Congresswoman Zoe [Z-OH] Lofgren and the rest of her January 6th committee members belong in jail ... so we're asking the Congresswoman herself if she's feeling worried or intimidated about the threat of imprisonment. Then ... the president-elect put forward a national investment policy, of sorts: spend 1-billio...
Dec 12, 2024•20 min
41 more days to go until Donald Trump reoccupies the White House ... thank you for counting down the transition with us. On today's Countdown 2024: the American media is heading into a second Trump administration in a state of transition and uncertainty. With legacy outlets losing their audience and advertisers ... and nontraditional media, like podcasts and TikToks, gaining new prominence ... the ability, and willingness, to investigate the president-elect and hold him to account could be wanin...
Dec 10, 2024•20 min
42 more days to go until the Trump transition becomes the second Trump administration ... thank you for counting down the days with us. On today's Countdown 2024: Elon Musk spent nearly a quarter-BILLION-dollars of his own money to help Donald Trump get elected to the presidency ... so now what does he want in return for his investment? We'll look at Trump's cabinet stuffed with billionaires. And the president-elect said in an interview over the weekend that he will get rid of birthright citizen...
Dec 09, 2024•21 min
President-elect Trump has promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants once he gets back into the White House. But how realistic is this? And how will this impact certain immigrants protected by a special program? While Trump talks tough, the action might not be as strong as he says. We get into the realities of the situation and talk to a person who could be sent to a country she doesn't even really know.
Dec 06, 2024•20 min
46 more days until Donald Trump is back in the White House ... thank you for counting down the days with us, as we keep a close watch over this important transition. On today's Countdown 2024: whether it's Pete Hegseth, Ron DeSantis or someone else entirely that ends up leading the Defense Department in the Trump administration, MAGA-world has big changes planned for the American military--we'll take a closer look at those plans. And ... ? why are the donors financing the Trump transition being ...
Dec 06, 2024•21 min
47 days to go until the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, reoccupies the White House ... thank you for counting down the days with us. On today's Countdown 2024: if Donald Trump's threats are to be taken seriously, no country is safe from having the Trump administration slap a tariff on its imports ... but how will that impact prices on every day goods ... and are trade wars indeed "good and easy to win" like the president-elect says? And we'll look at a pivotal transgender medi...
Dec 05, 2024•22 min
48 days left in the transition from Joe Biden to Donald Trump in the White House, when there is never a dull moment ... thank you for joining us in counting down the days to inauguration. On today's Countdown 2024: For California's newest U.S. Senator Adam Schiff, it all has to feel like deja vu ... albeit with a new job in a new chamber. The man who played the starring role of public enemy number one for Donald Trump and all of his supporters from 2016 to 2020 is preparing for the sequel ... we...
Dec 04, 2024•20 min
49 days to go in what has already been a controversial and messy transition from Joe Biden to Donald Trump ... thank you for joining us in the count down to inauguration. On today's Countdown 2024: We're talking with a pair of former White House attorneys to help digest two different events over the last couple of days--one from the outgoing Biden administration and one from the incoming Trump administration--that illustrates how far traditional political norms and standards have broken down in ...
Dec 03, 2024•21 min
55 days to go until inauguration day ushers Donald Trump back into the White House for the second time ... thank you for counting down the days with me and Larry Perel, sitting in today for Margaret Carrero. On today's Countdown 2024: Politics and family haven't been a good mix for generations ... but something about Donald Trump has turbo-charged those age-old family debates, and not in a good way. Today we'll hear about the various ways people are bracing for, or outright avoiding, talking pol...
Nov 27, 2024•19 min
56 days left in our post-election transitional period until the second Trump administration gets going ... thank you for counting down with us. On today's Countdown 2024: Democrats can't afford to spend too much time licking their wounds after losing to Donald Trump, as the president-elect is wasting no time putting together a potentially extremist cabinet and enacting a sweeping agenda. So we'll talk with an influential pair of Democrats ... a former U.S. Labor Secretary and the former co-chair...
Nov 26, 2024•20 min
59 days left in the transition from Democrats to Republicans in charge .... from Biden to Trump. Thank you for counting down with us. On today's Countdown 2024: Nathan Hochman dispatched with George Gascon rather easily three weeks ago, on his way to winning the Los Angeles County District Attorney's race ... as voters here showed their strong preference for a more strictly law-and-order approach for the county's chief prosecutor. But now comes the hard part for the District Attorney-elect: deli...
Nov 22, 2024•21 min
60 days to go until Donald Trump is sworn back into office ... and if the next 60 days are anything like these last three weeks since election day ... you're going to want to stick with us on Countdown! On today's Countdown 2024: Matt Gaetz is OUT as the nominee to become the country's next attorney general ... much more coming up on this big development. And ... normally reliable Democratic voters in big cities across the country voted for Trump in record numbers on November 5th, spooking Democ...
Nov 22, 2024•20 min
61 days to go until inauguration day and Donald Trump is sworn in as the nation's 47th president ... thank you for counting down the transition with us. On today's Countdown 2024: President-elect Trump couldn't be more clear in his priorities when it comes to the nation's environment and energy policy. Trump believes climate change is a hoax, and he wants to "drill baby drill," even though the U.S. is already the chief global producer of oil and natural gas. So we'll DRILL down on both these iss...
Nov 21, 2024•21 min
62 days to go in the country's transition to a second Trump presidency ... thank you for counting down with us. On today's Countdown 2024: The incoming Republican controlled Congress will face several early tests from the Trump administration, all centered around one core, constitutional question: How much of their power are they willing to cede to President Donald Trump, who seems very eager to seize it? We'll put that question to the Republican Congressman elected to take over Kevin McCarthy's...
Nov 19, 2024•21 min
63 days to go until the transition is complete and Donald Trump is sworn back into the presidency ... thank you for counting down with us. On today's Countdown 2024: Back in 2016 when Donald Trump first won the presidency and had a Republican House and Senate, conservatives were giddy ... but couldn't really pull off the sweeping transformation of the federal government for which they were hoping. This time both the president-elect and his MAGA faithful are determined to charge full steam ahead ...
Nov 18, 2024•20 min
66 days to go until Donald Trump officially re-takes the reigns of power at the White House ... thank you for counting down this complicated transition period with us. On today's Countdown 2024: The promises from president-elect Trump and several other Republicans to kill off the U.S. Department of Education came early and often during the campaign ... so now that he's back in charge, can he actually shut down a sprawling federal agency overseeing the public educations of some 50-million America...
Nov 15, 2024•20 min
The transition to a new president and a new controlling party in Washington D.C. marches on ... with 67 days left to go before Donald Trump is sworn back into office. Thank you for counting down this post-election period with us. On today's Countdown 2024: Donald Trump's nomination of controversial Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz has a lot of people worried that Trump will follow through on his threats to use the Justice Department to exact revenge on his political enemies ... so we're talking wi...
Nov 15, 2024•21 min
68 days to go until January 20th, when Donald Trump will be sworn into the presidency to serve a second term ... thanks for sticking with us as we cover this complicated period of transition. On today's Countdown 2024: we're focusing on foreign and military policy under the incoming Trump administration ... which means asking about the fate of Ukraine, the fate of NATO and whether a Fox News host is up to the task of leading the world's biggest and most advanced military.
Nov 14, 2024•19 min
One week ago today Americans made their choice to send Donald Trump back to the White House ... and we're tracking the 69 days until the president-elect is sworn back into office. Hope your election hangover has eased a bit over the last week! On today's Countdown 2024: We'll look at why Donald Trump's victory and Kamala Harris's defeat were generations in the making because of deep-seeded economic patterns in this country ... and ask whether Trump can do anything to change those patterns. And w...
Nov 12, 2024•21 min
Almost one week after election day, we are now an even 70 days away until Donald Trump is sworn in to become the 47th president of the United States ... thanks for sticking with us as we countdown towards another landmark for the country. On today's show: President-elect Trump consistently promised two things on the campaign trail over the last year: Sweeping, across the board tariffs ... and broad tax cuts for just about every segment of the economy. Can he now pull off those pledges and what w...
Nov 11, 2024•19 min
