Omnishambles

This week, we discuss what it’s like operating as a Washington lobbyist in the Donald Trump era. Fortunately, we have Barry Bennett, a former Trump adviser and longtime Republican operative, to take us through the gory details, what it was like working for The Donald, and how President Trump changed and repopulated the “Swamp” that he campaigned to destroy with extreme prejudice.

This week’s guest: Adam Jentleson, Public Affairs Director at Democracy Forward and former Deputy Chief of Staff to former Senator Harry Reid. This week we discuss the latest policy debates pulling the Democratic Party sharper to its left, how to separate the noise from the actual substance with candidates such as Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, and lastly, we try to solve the age-old puzzle: How do you make discussions about the costs and benefits of nuking the filibuster sexy??

Today's guest is Jason Miller, a former top Trump campaign adviser, who, among other things, talks about the time when Donald Trump called one of his favorite athletes—New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady—to wish him a happy birthday and to give him a gentle ribbing.

This week we welcome our very first guest from the upper ranks of Trumpworld: Marc Short, President Donald Trump's former legislative affairs director and a current Miller Center senior fellow at the University of Virginia. Marc talks about his experience working in the Trump White House, the advice he would give Republicans and Democrats today caught in the border-wall and immigration standoff, what "the administration should have done from the start," and why he believes Trump's emergency declaration is now all but an inevitability.

A debate over how to define reality in the news, amidst the chaos over the BuzzFeed report and the Covington kids case.

A breakdown of the latest Trump-Russia bombshells that detonated over the weekend, from an FBI probe to shutdown chaos. This and more in an all-new OMNISHAMBLES.

On this week’s episode of Omnishambles: The Wall, 2020 and how long the government shutdown might last.

On this week’s episode of Omnishambles, host Sam Stein welcomes The Daily Beast’s White House and Trumpworld reporting duo Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng. The topic of outrage and fascination for this week is President Donald Trump’s lead attorney for the Russia probe, Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who refers to Suebsaeng as “Mr. Swin.”

John Kelly is out. What dashing figure will replace him in Washington’s most glamorous job, White House Chief of Staff? All that and more in this week’s edition of OMNISHAMBLES.

A one-time children’s book author and the "least lovable snitch" in all of Trumpland. Those are just two of the characters who pop up in this week's OMNISHAMBLES, The Daily Beast’s podcast that tries to make sense of the weird, weird Trump era.  

President Trump is once again demanding cash to build his border wall. But does he really want it? Like, really?

Do you read the news coming out of D.C. and wonder “How the hell did this happen?” If so, Omnishambles is for you. Join The Daily Beast’s D.C. Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich and Politics Editor Sam Stein every Monday as they try to make sense of the chaos in Washington, with a rotating cast of your favorite voices from The Beast. They’ll set you up for the week and share the interesting little nuggets that often get left on the cutting room floor.