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The ex-speechwriter for Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former editor-in-chief at the Daily Beast on discourse and journalism in the age of Trump -- on the very week he joins CNN ... and CNN joins AT&T. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

The Economist's David Rennie on the magazine's cover on Trump's unprecedented summit with the ruler of North Korea. The U.S. made huge concessions and alienated allies. Will the Hermit Kingdom really change?

Fox Business Network's Charlie Gasparino on his decades of covering fellow New Yorker Donald Trump -- and how he went from being Manhattan's Self-Promoter-in-Chief to U.S. Commander-in-Chief. Charlie talks about Trump's takeover of the GOP, a tense encounter with small hands and Republicans' chances in November and beyond.

Mark Twain, the legendary author, could have been America's first cocaine kingpin; he was an inept land speculator and precious-metals prospector; he lost money on dumb contraptions and a protein supplement derived from pig feed. All great fodder for my guest, Alan Pell Crawford, author of How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain.

Re-posting from 2014: the journey of Nelson Aguilar....a kid smuggled out of Castro's Cuba and into Miami, where he became a notorious cocaine dealer. His story is a metaphor for the many things that have gone wrong between Havana and Washington.

In the mid 1990s, high schooler Andrew Ross Sorkin begged his way into the New York Times building, offering to photocopy and staple for free. Accidentally assigned a byline, he hung around the Times long enough to become the paper's star Wall Street correspondent and founder of DealBook; CNBC co-host; bestselling financial-crisis author and co-creator of the Showtime hit "Billions." He discusses his journey.

Jimmy O. Yang (Jian-Yang on HBO's "Silicon Valley") is selling out comedy venues across the map and landing movie roles. The Hong Kong-born funnyman talks about ditching his miserable financial services job, making ends meet by driving Uber and bouncing at clubs... and his new memoir, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents.

Former chief State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin on U.S. diplomacy in the wake of Obama's pullbacks and Trump's do-it-yourself decision-making. We discuss Syria, Iran, Russia, the demoralized State Department and Trump's grand meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-un.

Saurabh Madaan on his journey from India to Google to value investing. In January, the polymath was named managing director at Markel, where he is being mentored by Warren Buffett disciple Tom Gayner.

Donna Shalala, former Secretary of Health & Human Services and president of the University of Miami, is running for U.S. Congress. Up for grabs: an open seat in Miami long held by the GOP. We talked about Democrats' leadership vacuum, Trump's peculiar appeal to blue-collar voters -- and South Florida vs the opioid epidemic and sea-level rise.

Bestselling author and screenwriter T.J. English (Havana Nocturne, The Westies, NYPD Blue) on the Cuban-American bolita mob's evolution from the wreckage of the Cold War -- the subject of his new book, The Corporation. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Richmond City Councilman Parker Agelasto on his campaign to pass a cigarette tax to raise money for the city's crumbling schools. This is far easier said than done in the hometown of the nation's biggest tobacco company.

Famous investor Tom Dorsey (founder of Dorsey Wright, which Nasdaq bought in 2015) on the lessons of his more than four decades of working on and with Wall Street. Can you really beat the market? How much diversification is too much? We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

The story of Ironclad Coffee Roasters, a Virginia upstart that is taking the plunge into the cafe business -- with the help of family & friends and even crowdfunding. How do you win business vs corporate giants? How to clear a profit on a cup of coffee? How do you decide what to pay yourself? We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Ed Zitron, PR executive and author of the book Fire Your Publicist, dishes on the rampant bullshattery and worst practices of the public relations industry. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio, iTunes: FullDRadio.com