It\’s been a wild ride. The news didn\’t take a break in 2019 and we\’ve done our best to help you stay on top of all of the developments. We\’re so grateful to all of our listeners, panelists, guests and experts that have spent time listening and providing insightful analysis of this year\’s global events.
We won\’t be producing a new episode until January 6, but we will provide two \”Best Of Deep State Radio\” episodes, as well as summaries of all the shows we produced in 2019.
The year began with our government eleven days into a shutdown that would last for 35 days, the longest in government shutdown in U.S. history. It also provided a glimmer of hope in the form of congressional oversight that had been missing the previous two years as the Democrats flipped the House of Representatives in the November elections. Here\’s what we were talking about in January. If you\’re new to Deep State Radio, you can subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts.
2019: THE YEAR IN REVIEW, PART I–“WAR: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?”
As we have learned, these days years seem much longer than they used to. So, as a special service to Deep State nation, your favorite podsters are providing you with all of 2019 in two compact 45 minute episodes. The first looks at what is going to happen internationally in the year ahead. And it’ll be a full year–with everything from military confrontation between the US and China in the South China Sea to the collapse of Venezuela, the US still in Syria by year end and not a single mile of new wall built on our southern border. Join Kori Schake of IISS, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law, David Sanger of the NY Times and Ed Luce of the Financial Times for a great new episode…and the introduction of…Deep State Dog.
2019: THE YEAR IN REVIEW, PART II–“THE WORST YEAR OF DONALD TRUMP’S LIFE”
In this, our second year in review episode for the year ahead we look at US domestic developments in the next 12 months. The bad news is–they’re pretty bleak. The good news is–we tell them to you in advance so you can sleep through the whole year or just settle into a drunken stupor. Join Rosa Brooks, Kori Schake, Ed Luce, David Sanger and Deep State Dog for a great conversation about what will surely be the very worst year in Donald Trump’s life.
GEN. MARK HERTLING: THE NATION MAY NEED A TRUMP EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE…BUT FOR HOW LONG?
General Mark Hertling served for 37 years in the U.S. military, rising to become Commanding General of the U.S. Army Europe. Since his retirement, he has become well-known as a commentator on television and on social media. He discusses what went wrong between Trump and “his generals”, the current level of dysfunction within the U.S. national security establishment, its impact on our allies, our security and morale in the military. He also speculates as to whether or not, it may actually be helpful for the U.S. to have a president like Donald Trump every so often–in much the same way that a heart-attack may help a smoker give up cigarettes. Don’t miss this wide-ranging and incisive discussion.
WELL, IF IT ISN’T A BRAND NEW BOUNCING BABY CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!
We’re finally getting there folks. It is not the government shutdown. It is not the hyper-politicization of everything. But thanks to Donald Trump and recent revelations about the Russia probe, we may be getting to a point where even persnickety legal experts like our own Rosa Brooks acknowledge that America is on the verge of a constitutional crisis. A big one. The likes of which we haven’t seen in decades. Join Rosa, Kori Schake of IISS, David Sanger of the New York Times and Evelyn Farkas of the German Marshall Fund for a discussion of the latest bombshells that have helped bring the impending crisis into clearer view.
ROOMBA FOR PRESIDENT 2020
Trump may be a disaster as a person and as a president. But he may also be triggering a rebirth in American political thought and a flowering of new policy ideas. The progressive branch of the Democratic Party is in the lead at the moment, but with so many areas demanding rethinking, the ferment may spread and we may all be the beneficiaries. How? Tune in to our discussion among Georgetown’s Rosa Brooks, the Financial Times’ Ed Luce, IISS’s Kori Schake and the New York Times’ David Sanger to discuss new ideas, why they’re happening and why their may be a silver lining to the shit storm we are dealing with every day.
THE RACIST-IN-CHIEF MARKS ANOTHER MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
Donald Trump has the figure and muscle tone of a baby whale but he moved through the MLK Memorial in Washington on Monday like Usain Bolt. Traveling with the equally intolerant and odious Mike Pence, the U.S. president was in and out of the memorial in two minutes. But he went. Which our own Kori Schake says speaks to the power of norms in our society and is a good thing. Even better, the rapidly accelerating role for diverse voices in American politics–a trend that gained a big boost with the November elections and another when Cardi B entered the government shutdown debate over the weekend. Join Kori and guest Joe Cirincione for a discussion of these trends plus–next steps with North Korea on the latest DSR.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: “TRUTH POWER” AND THE SHIFTING ROLE OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
For more than 30 years, John McLaughlin has been one of the most thoughtful and trusted minds in the U.S. Intelligence Community rising to be Acting Director of Central Intelligence and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. He sees no precedent for the period we are in, the threats we face both internally and externally nor the challenges these present for the intelligence community or the country. From a new National Intelligence Strategy that directly challenges the president and his policies to the sweeping success Putin has had undercutting the West’s alliances and our vulnerability to future such attacks, our conversation with him is bracing and essential listening. Join us.
WILL THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BE THE HIGH WATER MARK FOR THE REST OF THE TRUMP YEARS?
If the shutdown in Washington drags on and with it animosity between the political parties grows, will the remainder of Trump’s first term be marked by gridlock in DC…and a president forced to turn overseas to make his mark? What might that mark be? Pulling troops out of S. Korea? Breaking up NATO? War with Iran? Kori Schake of IISS, Ed Luce of the Financial Times and Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund discuss these and even worse possibilities. This is a good one to listen to from your backyard bunker or silo. Tune in! Good times!
TALES IN WAGGING THE DOG: I’LL TRADE YOU ROGER STONE FOR NICOLAS MADURO
What does that have to do with Stone? Listen in to Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law, Kori Schake of IISS, David Sanger of the NY Times and Ed Luce of the Financial Times to learn the answer (if the title didn’t give it away.)
REP. TED LIEU: WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA IN CONGRESSIONAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS OVERSIGHT
Congressman Ted Lieu of California, is one of the smartest, hardest working members of the U.S. Congress. A member of the Democratic Leadership, Lieu, brings an undergraduate degree in computer science from Stanford, a magna cum laude law degree from Georgetown where he edited the law review, a background as an Air Force J.A.G. officer, an on-going role as colonel in the Air Force reserve and extensive legislative experience in California to his current work on the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees. He has been an outspoken critic of President Trump and his enablers in the U.S. Congress and is leading the new Democratic majority’s efforts to uncover the truth about Trump’s ties to the Russians, the Chinese, the Saudis and others who may have responded to the “For Sale” sign the president put up on the front lawn at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He breaks news about the new oversight agenda of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and where he sees the multiple investigations into Team Trump heading. He also outlines the positive agenda the Democrats in the House are advancing and the leadership strengths of both Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Kamala Harris, whose presidential candidacy he recently endorsed. Don’t miss this conversation with one of the rising stars of the U.S. Congress and the Democratic Party.
