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The David Pakman Show

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The David Pakman Show is one of the most-watched independent progressive programs in the country. Hosted by David Pakman, the show offers a fresh perspective on the stories shaping our world through thoughtful commentary and compelling interviews with our nation’s leaders. With new episodes dropping every weekday, David delivers sharp, insightful, and fact-based analysis on politics, current events, and social issues. Whether you're looking for deep dives into major political events, in-depth conversations with experts and newsmakers, or sharp-witted breakdowns of the latest headlines, The David Pakman Show has you covered

Episodes

7/24/23: GOP polling shakeup as Pence, Trump, DeSantis all humiliated

-- On the Show: -- In new 2024 Republican polling, Donald Trump is down, Ron DeSantis is down, and Vivek Ramaswamy is gaining -- New polling shows Donald Trump losing to Joe Biden, even if Joe Manchin runs third party under the "No Labels" heading -- If Donald Trump were to run third party in 2024, he would immediately destroy the chances of the Republican Party -- Donald Trump might be charged like a mobster under racketeering law, based on new reporting -- Donald Trump is asked about religion ...

Jul 24, 20231 hr 3 min

7/21/23: No Labels is a disaster, the real 2-tiered justice system

-- On the Show: -- No Labels wants to fund a third-party "centrist" candidate in 2024 -- George Santos gets the terms of his bail modified to better allow him to shop and go out to eat -- Caller really likes the show -- Caller talks about private air travel's impact on the climate -- Caller wonders if Trump believes the nonsense he talks about -- Caller suspects Ron DeSantis is more dangerous than Donald Trump -- Caller questions the veracity of the Trump "they came to me with tears in their eye...

Jul 21, 20231 hr 2 min

7/20/23: Whistleblower hearing goes wrong, DeSantis living in 2020

-- On the Show: -- Matt Lewis, Senior Columnist for The Daily Beast and author of the new book "Filthy Rich Politicians: The Swamp Creatures, Latte Liberals, and Ruling-Class Elites Cashing in on America," joins David to discuss the book and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3rsZa5c -- The Republican "IRS whistleblower" hearings go horribly wrong, backfiring terribly -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis continues slamming non-existent vaccine mandates as his campaign crumbles...

Jul 20, 20231 hr 2 min

7/19/23: Trump criminally notified, 3rd arrest imminent, DeSantis fails interview

-- On the Show: -- Failed former President Donald Trump is notified he is a criminal target of special prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6 investigation -- Failed former President Donald Trump announces that he will be arrested again -- Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump Jr complain and flip out about Donald Trump's seemingly imminent third arrest -- The fake Michigan Donald Trump electors have been criminally charged -- Donald Trump's Fox News town hall was s...

Jul 19, 20231 hr 1 min

7/18/23: DeSantis accused of staged events, Chris Christie 3rd place in NH

-- On the Show: -- John Kiriakou, former CIA officer who blew the whistle on post-9/11 CIA torture, discusses with David when Rudy Giuliani allegedly quoted him "$2 million" for a presidential pardon from Donald Trump -- MAGA is panicking over Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's seat as her opponent, Adam Frisch, raised three times more money than she did -- Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis' recent campaign events raise questions about whether protes...

Jul 18, 20231 hr 6 min

7/17/23: Biden fundraising explodes, RFK Jr loses it

-- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden's Q1 fundraising blowout saw him raise more than twice what Donald Trump raised, and more than every Republican candidate combined -- Robert F Kennedy Jr is caught on video saying that COVID is "ethnically targeted" at whites and blacks and to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie continues to go after Donald Trump, and Trump is increasingly triggered and terrified by it -- 2024 Republican president...

Jul 17, 20231 hr 2 min

7/14/23: Biden expected to outlive Trump, George Santos compares himself to Rosa Parks

-- On the Show: -- An actuarial analysis expects Joe Biden to outlive Donald Trump, despite Biden being older -- Disgraced Republican Congressman George Santos compares himself to Rosa Parks in his latest disgusting statement -- Caller wants the Democratic Party to listen to the concerns of black Americans more -- Caller talks about a Trump or DeSantis presidency's effect on trans people -- Caller explains the scenario of Trump losing the primary and then running third party -- Caller asks about...

Jul 14, 20231 hr 2 min

7/13/23: Fox News brutally sued again, FBI hearings implode

-- On the Show: -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, internationally acclaimed historian, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, and author of "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," joins David to discuss the authoritarian slide of the Republican Party, and much more. Get her book: https://amzn.to/3JW3aSq -- Republican FBI hearings, meant to make FBI Director Christopher Wray look bad, backfire spectacularly -- Fox News is hit with another major lawsuit, this time from Ray Epps, who has ...

Jul 13, 20231 hr 4 min

7/12/23: DeSantis failing, Christie punding Trump as inflation declines massively

-- On the Show: -- The conclusion to David's interview with Richard Dawkins, renowned evolutionary biologist who has revolutionized our understanding of genes, memes, and the origins of life, and host of the podcast The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins -- Inflation declines again to 3% year over year, the lowest since March of 2021 -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie once against goes after Donald Trump -- A Trump supporter says she never sees homeless Hispanic people,...

Jul 12, 20231 hr 2 min

7/11/23: Richard Dawkins on the show, Republican defends white nationalist

-- On the Show: -- Richard Dawkins, renowned evolutionary biologist who has revolutionized our understanding of genes, memes, and the origins of life, and host of the podcast The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins, joins David to discuss a number of important issues -- A discussion of the instinct to "check out" and stop paying attention to the political and news world -- Larry Nassar, the former sports medicine doctor convicted of serial child molestation and rape, is stabbed multiple times...

Jul 11, 20231 hr 2 min

7/10/23: Newsom brutal, Clarence Thomas corrupt, Trump malfunctions, Biden economy keeps going

-- On the Show: -- Rosie O'Donnell, television icon, actress, comedian, and host of the podcast Onward with Rosie O'Donnell, joins David to discuss American politics, Trump, Biden, Gavin Newsom, and much more -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is accused of even more corruption through receiving gifts -- California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom says that Fox News contributes to the mental health crisis in the United States -- Fox News host Steve Doocy goes off script again, admitting th...

Jul 10, 20231 hr 3 min

7/7/23: Armed man tries going to Obama's house, Trump desperate for protests

-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump posted what was supposedly Barack Obama's home address, and a man showed up with a gun -- Donald Trump is increasingly desperate for people to protest in the streets for him, but he is struggling to find willing participants -- Caller talks about the politicization of the Supreme Court -- Caller is a former right-winger who was reformed by watching TDPS -- Caller compares Ron DeSantis to Donald Trump -- Caller suspects Ron DeSantis isn't ready for primetime -- Cal...

Jul 07, 20231 hr 5 min

7/6/23: White House cocaine hysteria as jobs numbers double expectation

-- On the Show: -- June jobs numbers are stunning, with 497,000 new jobs created despite an expectation of only 220,000 -- Donald Trump's fundraising explodes, raising $35 million in the 2nd quarter of 2023 -- Mark Zuckerberg's Meta releases its Twitter competitor Threads, immediately triggering Elon Musk, but we wonder whether this is the right direction for social media in general -- Cocaine has been found at the White House in a visitors room accessible to members of the public taking tours o...

Jul 06, 20231 hr 1 min

7/5/23: More crimes, more boos, more interviews

-- On the Show: -- Dr. Ami Klin, Director of the Marcus Autism Center at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare in Atlanta, joins David to discuss autism, including prevalence, diagnosis, causes, treatment, and much more -- Failed former President Donald Trump reportedly shared secrets on the Mar-a-Lago patio -- In yet another line of possible investigation, Donald Trump reportedly trying pressuring Doug Ducey, the then-Governor of Arizona, to overturn the results in 2020 ...

Jul 05, 20231 hr 4 min

7/4/23: Is this what the country will look like until 2025? (CLASSIC EPISODE FROM 5/22/23)

INDEPENDENCE DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM MAY 22, 2023 -- On the Show: -- An increasingly desperate Ron DeSantis is now telling Republican donors that Donald Trump "can't win" in 2024 -- The NAACP warns black and LGBT folks not to travel to Florida as it is increasingly hostile to minority groups -- An absolutely disgusting interview with an anti-transgender mom on CNN goes terribly -- Fox News host Laura Ingraham casually mentions that a story she and the network pushed for days about undocumente...

Jul 04, 202359 min

7/3/23: Biden whistleblower evaporates, Trump facing 45 more charges

-- On the Show: -- Jamie Raskin presents a transcript of the alleged Joe Biden "bribery" "whistleblower" admitting he never spoke to Joe Biden -- Fox News host Sandra Smith asks former Trump staffer Larry Kudlow to explain why the economy is actually terrible under Joe Biden, and Kudlow is unable to do so -- Donald Trump is reportedly facing up to 45 additional charges related to the classified documents fiasco -- Failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake wildly claims that she...

Jul 03, 20231 hr 3 min

6/30/23: Trump demanded documents back, Fox host off script on Biden crimes

-- On the Show: -- The Supreme Court rejects race-based affirmative action at colleges as unconstitutional -- A new report reveals that failed former President Donald Trump demanded "my documents" back despite being warned by lawyers that he would be indicted -- Fox News host Steve Doocy briefly interjects logic and reason, explaining that there is no actual evidence at this time that President Joe Biden committed any crimes -- Caller discusses Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential run -- Caller ...

Jun 30, 202359 min

6/29/23: Bidenomics speech explodes, Trump fantasized about Ivanka

-- On the Show: -- Eliezer Yudkowsky, Founder and Senior Research Fellow of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, joins David to discuss artificial intelligence, machine learning, and much more -- President Joe Biden delivers a major speech on Bidenomics in Chicago, crushing the nonsense of right wing trickle down economics -- Due to concerns about President Joe Biden's indented face, the White House makes a medical disclosure about Biden wearing a CPAP mask for sleep apnea -- 20324 Democ...

Jun 29, 20231 hr 4 min

6/28/23: Howard Stern endorses David Pakman, Trump crumbles, DeSantis pathetic

-- On the Show: -- Ron DeSantis doesn't answer a question about Donald Trump and the January 6 riots by saying that since he wasn't in DC that day, he doesn't know what happened -- Donald Trump glitches badly when confronted by a reporter in New Hampshire about the leaked recording in which he admits to crimes -- Donald Trump gives a speech in New Hampshire that goes terribly -- Donald Trump now claims that he wasn't actually showing anyone documents when he refers to showing people documents in...

Jun 28, 202359 min

6/27/23: Insane Trump audio leak, RFK Jr explains vaccine view

-- On the Show: -- Joe Berkowitz, a writer whose work has been featured in Vulture, The New Yorker, and Fast Company, joins David to discuss his Daily Beast article, "When Did the 'F*ck Your Feelings' Crowd Get So Triggered?" -- Donald Trump's third, and possibly fourth arrests may be imminently forthcoming, one federal and the other at the state level in Georgia -- CNN obtains audio of Donald Trump talking about knowingly classified documents after his presidency, and the audio is incredibly da...

Jun 27, 20231 hr 4 min

6/26/23: Putin coup fails, Bobby Kennedy gains, Christie explains Trump's weight

-- On the Show: -- Russian President Vladimir Putin survives a coup attempt by Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner Group for now, but the question is what happens next -- We discuss whether scientists and doctors should debate antivaxxers in the context of the recent conflict between Joe Rogan, Dr. Peter Hotez, Elon Musk, and others -- A look at the pros and cons of 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, who is obese, exp...

Jun 26, 20231 hr

6/23/23: Trump attacks opponents, DeSantis squirms

-- On the Show: -- Luke Beasley, host of The Luke Beasley Show and TDPS correspondent, fills in for David -- Georgie election official Ruby Freeman is cleared of false election fraud claims made by Donald Trump and his allies -- The hearings put together by House Republicans keep backfiring on them tremendously -- Ron DeSantis struggles to answer whether he'd support Trump if Trump goes on to win the Republican nomination -- Donald Trump lashes out at Republican candidates saying "sometimes you ...

Jun 23, 20231 hr 3 min

6/22/23: Trump malfunctions in Fox interview, MTG and Boebert clash

-- On the Show: -- Luke Beasley, host of The Luke Beasley Show and TDPS correspondent, fills in for David -- Tim Scott does a Fox News town hall -- Donald Trump gets cornered on his death penalty for drug dealers policy during a Fox News interview with Bret Baier -- Trump continues to struggle when talking about the COVID-19 vaccines to his right-wing base -- Chris Christie mocks Trump over his federal indictment -- Lauren Boebert introduces articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden --...

Jun 22, 20231 hr 5 min

6/21/23: Trump incriminates himself, Biden shouldn't pardon him

-- On the Show: -- Producer Pat Ford fills in for David -- Donald Trump admits to multiple crimes during his Fox News interview with Bret Baier -- Hunter Biden accepts a plea deal in his case regarding tax crimes and a gun charge -- Former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr calls his former boss a "consummate narcissist" who puts "his own ego above everything else" -- Why Joe Biden should not pardon Donald Trump -- Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson take issue wit...

Jun 21, 20231 hr 3 min

6/20/23: DeSantis WON'T STOP as GOP fumbles Biden "crimes," Trump faces prison

-- On the Show: -- The College Board isn't putting up with Ron DeSantis's plan to scrub AP classes of LGBT topics -- Republicans James Comer and Marjorie Taylor Greene admit they don't know if there are tapes of Joe Biden receiving bribes -- Ron DeSantis defends Donald Trump over his latest criminal charges and deflects to talking about Hillary Clinton's emails -- Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik claims Biden "committed multiple criminal acts" -- Trump supporters sound confused about what...

Jun 20, 20231 hr 4 min

6/19/23: Tucker finally speaks out, Disney sues DeSantis (CLASSIC EPISODE FROM 4/27/23)

JUNETEENTH / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM APRIL 27, 2023 -- On the Show: -- Max Burns, Democratic strategist and Founder of Third Degree Strategies, joins David to discuss his article which argues that we have reached a "tipping point" on guns and gun violence -- Disney sues Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for his politically motivated crusade to destroy them -- Fired Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson breaks his silence in a cringeworthy video filmed with Carlson dressed as if he still has a...

Jun 19, 202357 min

6/16/23: Republicans panic as Biden leads new poll

-- On the Show: -- Republicans are increasingly panicking that Donald Trump's multiple arrests may doom them -- Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 4 in a new national election poll -- Despite saying he would buy everyone food at Miami Cuban restaurant Versailles, Donald Trump did not actually pay for anyone's food -- Caller asks about critical thinking and the right-wing -- Caller wonders why there are Republicans running against Trump -- Caller talks about the possibility of Trump going to prison ...

Jun 16, 20231 hr 1 min

6/15/23: Miami Mayor enters race as MAGA supporters explain themselves

-- On the Show: -- Eric Levitz, writer about politics and economics for New York Magazine, joins David to discuss his recent piece “Blaming ‘Capitalism’ Is Not an Alternative to Solving Problems” -- Republican chaos as another Florida Republican, this time Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, announces he is running for the Republican presidential nomination -- Fox News interviews 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie and clearly doesn't want to hear the truth from him -- PBS holds a focu...

Jun 15, 20231 hr 4 min

6/14/23: Trump arrested, immediately admits to crimes in sick speech

-- On the Show: -- Failed former President Donald Trump is arrested on 37 felony counts, pleading not guilty -- Donald Trump admits to crimes during a post-arrest speed in Bedminster, New Jersey -- Luke Beasley was on the ground in Miami, Florida for Donald Trump's arrest, interviewing a number of his supporters -- Absolutely sick and deranged Trump supporters surround the Miami, Florida courthouse at which Donald Trump was arrested -- Republicans are increasingly turning on Donald Trump after h...

Jun 14, 20231 hr 4 min

6/13/23: Trump arrest TODAY, inflation hits 2 year low

-- On the Show: -- Reece Peck, Associate Professor at the City University of New York and author of the book "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class," joins David to discuss the right wing's dominance of messaging, media, rhetoric, and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/43T7ysL -- Inflation drops to its lowest level in two years, bottoming out at 4% over the last 12 months, but Republicans are still complaining -- Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom appears on Fox News' Ha...

Jun 13, 20231 hr 5 min