A discussion with First Amendment Attorney Ted Boutrous on the problems brought about by the Trump administration. Ted Boutrous was named an “Attorney of the Year” by both the California Lawyer and the San Francisco Recorder. In 2019, the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals named Mr. Boutrous one of the 100 best lawyers in California for the sixteenth year in a row. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-...
Nov 10, 2020•54 min•Ep. 72
Michael Zeldin has served as a TV legal analyst since 1996, covering the OJ Simpson murder trial, Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation, Clinton impeachment proceedings, Gore v. Bush court challenges, and the Mueller Special Counsel investigation. During his tenure in the U.S. Department of Justice, he held various senior positions, including: Deputy Chief, Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section; Chief, Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Offices; and Special Counsel for Money Laundering Matters to ...
Nov 06, 2020•48 min•Ep. 71
In her new book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" Mary Trump a psychologist and niece of President Donald Trump tells us all about growing up in the Trump family and how Donald Trump came to be who he is today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 70
Joe Lockhart is a political strategist, a CNN analyst, and former press secretary to Bill Clinton who served during the Clinton impeachment. He is also a former press spokesman for the NFL and has a unique love for Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder. He joins us on "Just ask the Question" to talk about the tenuous nature of Democracy and the Trump impeachment inquiry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 69
John Knox is an internationally recognized expert on human rights law and international environmental law. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the first United Nations Independent Expert, and from 2015 to 2018, as its first Special Rapporteur, on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Oct 13, 2020•54 min•Ep. 68
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Oct 07, 2020•58 min•Ep. 67
In her new book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" Mary Trump a psychologist and niece of President Donald Trump tells us all about growing up in the Trump family and how Donald Trump came to be who he is today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Sep 30, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 66
What should the GOP look like? Anthony Scaramucci is the former Communications Director of the Donald Trump White House who infamously served for 11 days. He's an outspoken investor, die-hard Catholic and old school Republican who has joined other Republicans in denouncing Donald Trump. He imagines a GOP with a "big tent" strategy and one that helps, doesn't hurt the working class. He talks about that and much more in this edition of "Just Ask the Question." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c...
Sep 23, 2020•52 min•Ep. 65
Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 64
S.V. Dáte is the senior White House correspondent at HuffPost. When he recently asked President Donald Trump if he regretted his continual lying. His new work, The Useful Idiot, captures Trump's failed management of the coronavirus pandemic and his corruption of the Republican Party. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 07, 2020•57 min•Ep. 64
We're happy to welcome back an old friend to Just Ask the Question. Norm Eisen is the author of "Case for the American People". He served as a counsel for the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment process of President Donald J. Trump in 2020. He is also a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He served as White House Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform, United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and board chair of Citizens...
Sep 01, 2020•43 min•Ep. 63
What's wrong with Donald Trump? In her new book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" Mary Trump a psychologist and niece of President Donald Trump tells us all about growing up in the Trump family and how Donald Trump came to be who he is today. Four takeaways from this interview: 1. Donald Trump has played his entire life to an audience of one - his dead father. 2. Donald Trump has no self-esteem. 3. Donald Trump has played a role dictated to him by...
Aug 07, 2020•58 min•Ep. 62
"...Trump has no self esteem" check out a quick clip from our podcast interview with Mary Trump. The full episode releases tomorrow! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Aug 07, 2020•16 sec•Ep. 61
Paul Schwartz is a former federal employee and government manager. He's also a columnist and author. He joins us on Just Ask the Question to talk about his latest book: Trump, The Shell Game: The Conning of America. He discusses the problems brought about by the Trump administration and how Trump is deconstructing the federal government. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Aug 02, 2020•40 min•Ep. 60
Michael Zeldin has served as a TV legal analyst since 1996, covering the OJ Simpson murder trial, Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation, Clinton impeachment proceedings, Gore v. Bush court challenges, and the Mueller Special Counsel investigation. During his tenure in the U.S. Department of Justice, he held various senior positions, including: Deputy Chief, Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section; Chief, Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Offices; and Special Counsel for Money Laundering Matters to ...
Jul 26, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 59
Joe Lockhart is a political strategist, a CNN analyst, and former press secretary to Bill Clinton who served during the Clinton impeachment. He is also a former press spokesman for the NFL and has a unique love for Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder. He joins us on "Just ask the Question" to talk about the tenuous nature of Democracy and the Trump impeachment inquiry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info....
Jul 22, 2020•58 min•Ep. 58
Dr. Hoffman has over 30 years of experience building and managing large, successful research and development programs. From 1987-2001 he was malaria program director, Naval Medical Research Center, where his team were leaders in subunit malaria vaccine development and sequencing the Plasmodium falciparum genome and published the first studies in the world showing DNA vaccines elicited killer T cells in humans. In 2001 he joined Celera Genomics as Sr. VP biologics and created a program to utilize...
Jul 03, 2020•53 min•Ep. 57
Michael Zeldin has served as a TV legal analyst since 1996, covering the OJ Simpson murder trial, Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation, Clinton impeachment proceedings, Gore v. Bush court challenges, and the Mueller Special Counsel investigation. During his tenure in the U.S. Department of Justice, he held various senior positions, including: Deputy Chief, Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section; Chief, Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Offices; and Special Counsel for Money Laundering Matters to ...
Jun 26, 2020•53 min•Ep. 56
Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning journalist, speaker, author and philanthropist who anchors and produces the Hearst Television political magazine program “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien.” O’Brien, founder and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, also reports for HBO Real Sports, the PBS NewsHour, WebMD and has authored two books. She has appeared on networks, Fox and Oxygen and anchored and reported for NBC, MSNBC and CNN. She has won numerous awards, including three Emmys, the George Pea...
Jun 15, 2020•48 min•Ep. 55
Tom Manger is the recently retired former police chief from Montgomery County Maryland, and the past president of the Major Cities Police Chief's Association. During his 42 years in law enforcement he worked with three different presidential administrations. In this special podcast he talks about the need for public discipline for police officers, acknowledges police departments have to do a better job weeding out racist cops and talks about the process of building trust with minority communitie...
Jun 09, 2020•52 min•Ep. 54
Reed Galen is an independent political strategist who has formerly worked for George W Bush, Sen John McCain and Gov Arnold Scharzenneger. He left the Republican Party in 2016 and has spent the last three years dedicated to the political reform movement, creating a better system for all voters. The Lincoln Project is a group of anti-Trump republicans who are focused on getting rid of Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box. Their viral video "Mourning in America" has garnered more than 20 million i...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 53
Dokhi Fassihian, RSF USA Executive Director Dokhi Fassihian is the executive director of Reporters Without Borders USA (RSF USA). Before joining RSF, she led the Middle East and North Africa division at Freedom House where she oversaw the organization's regional portfolio. Fassihian also led the Democracy Coalition Project, where she monitored the state of democracy and human rights around the world and tracked the foreign policies of governments on international human rights priorities. She has...
May 25, 2020•53 min•Ep. 52
After getting to play the role of a real life James Bond, Naveed accepted a commission in the U.S. Navy as a reserve intelligence where he served with the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Defense Innovation Unit. He went on to become an MSNBC Intelligence Analyst, a Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a special contributor for the Military Times and a reoccurring guest on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. He has briefed the House Permanent Select Co...
May 16, 2020•44 min•Ep. 51
Dena Grayson, MD, PhD is a physician, researcher, and expert on Ebola and other viral pandemic threats. Her biomedical research has focused on the development of new medicines to treat serious diseases including cancer, Ebola, Yellow Fever, and rare genetic diseases, and FDA-approved medicines for high cholesterol and hereditary angioedema. In 2016, she ran as a Democrat to represent Florida’s 9th Congressional district. Dr. Grayson’s insightful commentary regarding the deadly Coronavirus pandem...
May 11, 2020•42 min•Ep. 50
Mark Zaid is one of the best known attorneys in Washington, D.C., with a practice focused on national security law, freedom of speech constitutional claims, and government accountability. In 1998 he founded the James Madison Project, an organization dedicated to reducing government secrecy. He represented two of the Whistle Blowers in the Ukrainian case that led to Donald Trump's impeachment. He's represented the Daily Caller, Democrats, Republicans - and even the host of this show. Today he tal...
Mar 12, 2020•53 min•Ep. 49
Do the ends justify the means? Alice Stewart is a Christian conservative political activist often seen on CNN. A former television reporter, she worked for governor Mike Huckabee in Arkansas. She is a GOP stalwart who voted for President Donald Trump and believes the United States is a Christian nation. She sat down with us on "Just Ask The Question" to talk about why she supports Donald Trump - though she's not too fond of him. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...
Mar 04, 2020•58 min•Ep. 48
Adam Parkhomenko is a former Field Director of the Democratic party, worked to elect Hillary Clinton and is currently a Democratic Strategist. In this episode of "Just Ask The Question," we talk about Democratic Debates, the Bernie Sanders phenomenon, the follow up to impeachment and the chances of Democrats beating Trump in 2020. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Feb 26, 2020•38 min•Ep. 47
Michael Zeldin joins us this week for a recurring segment on the Trump impeachment and what happens now that he has been acquitted. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Feb 12, 2020•50 min•Ep. 46
Rep. Eric Swalwell from CA was briefly a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. During one of the first debates he infamously challenged former Vice President Joe Biden about passing the torch of leadership to a younger generation. Here he talks about the country post-impeachment and the challenges facing the country going forward. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Feb 04, 2020•26 min•Ep. 45
Join us this week on "Just Ask The Question" as we review last week's impeachment proceedings and outline the Republican defense of President Donald Trump. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 44
