Latest Michael isikoff Podcast Episodes
S4E30: Episode 2: "The Mystery of the Moscow Signal"
Conspiracyland - September 15, 2022 08:55 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThe second installment of the series examines the Cold War mystery over suspected microwave attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and how Pentagon fears about such bombardments heavily influenced the initial response to Havana Syndrome. It features interviews with John Fitzsimmons, the ...
S4E29: Bonus Episode 1: "A Cuban Doctor's Diagnosis"
Conspiracyland - September 14, 2022 08:56 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThis first bonus episode features an interview with Mitchell Valdes Sosa, the director of the Cuban Center for Neuroscience, who offers his own diagnosis of what is behind the Havana Syndrome symptoms. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ht...
S4E28: Episode 1: "A Broken Heart"
Conspiracyland - September 14, 2022 08:55 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn the first installment of the series, Isikoff and his producer Mark Seman travel to Cuba where they interview Johana Ruth Tablada de la Torre, the deputy director for U.S. affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry about how the reports of Havana Syndrome were viewed by the country's leade...
Kabul Falling (w/ Nelufar Hedayat & Bradley Hope)
Skullduggery - September 12, 2022 16:17 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsIt was 21 years ago this week that 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hi-jacked commercial airplanes and crashed them in to the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon killing nearly three thousand Americans. That murderous act prompted the US Government to invade Afghanistan and where Taliban rulers w...
Biden’s FDR Playbook (w/ Jonathan Darman)
Skullduggery - September 09, 2022 20:35 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsThere's no President that Joe Biden and his aides like to compare themselves to more than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After all, FDR and his new deal transformed the American economy and helped rescue the country from The Great Depression, providing a model for the transformative polici...
Trump and the Espionage Act (with Bradley Moss)
Skullduggery - August 29, 2022 20:37 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings“I have finally seen enough. Donald Trump will be indicted by a federal grand jury.” So wrote national security lawyer Bradley Moss, our guest, in a column for the Daily Beast after release of a heavily redacted FBI affidavit detailing the justification for the extraordinary search of D...
The Afghan Tragedy: One Year Later (w/ Elliot Ackerman)
Skullduggery - August 15, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsOne year ago this week, the United States hastily pulled out of Afghanistan, an ignoble end to a twenty year experiment in nation building. As armed Taliban fighters swarmed into government buildings and took over the country, the world was privy to gut wrenching scenes as thousands of ...
The Mar-a-Lago Raid (w/ Mary McCord & Dana Milbank)
Skullduggery - August 09, 2022 20:46 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsOn a Monday morning in August, the United States Justice Department as well as the FBI, may have crossed the proverbial rubicon. For the first time in American history, agents showed up unannounced at the home of a former President of the United States in a court authorized search for c...
DOJ’s 1/6 Dilemma (w/ Mary McCord
Skullduggery - July 22, 2022 17:18 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsMany chilling images and voices were displayed by the January 6th Committee on Thursday Night including audio tapes of some of the rioters talking among themselves about hunting down and possibly even killing members of Congress. The Rioters wreaked havoc on the US Capitol, smashing windows, de...
The Sycophants of Trump World (w/ Mark Leibovich)
Skullduggery - July 21, 2022 01:31 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings"The point with Trump is he's in on the joke." So said South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham about his odd relationship with the 45th President as quoted by veteran journalist Mark Leibovich in his new book Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the price of admissi...
The Jan 6 Georgia Connection (w/ Charlie Bailey)
Skullduggery - July 14, 2022 18:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsLiz Cheney dropped one more nugget at the end of Tuesday’s January 6th Committee hearing, new evidence that Donald Trump may be contacting witnesses who are being called to testify in an apparent effort to influence what they might say. If true, it’s a federal crime. And Cheney’s statem...
Tim Miller’s Road to Hell (w/ Tim Miller)
Skullduggery - July 01, 2022 23:31 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings"Nobody on planet earth was more horrified by the notion of Donald Trump as President." So writes Tim Miller in his new book Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell. Miller was a longtime GOP operative, a spinmeister, a dirt disher, who worked for the McCain and Ro...
Cloud Cuckooland (w/ Alex Holder)
Skullduggery - June 29, 2022 20:57 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings"We're going to get charged with every crime imaginable." So said the White House Counsel, Patrick Cipollone on January 6th to White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson. The 26 year old former Deputy to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Hutchinson presented some of the most jaw dropping testim...
The end of Roe (w/ David Kaplan & Don Ayer)
Skullduggery - June 25, 2022 00:36 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2K ratingsOn Friday, the most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades came down, a 6-3 ruling overturning Roe v Wade. For nearly half a century women have had a Constitutional right to abortion, now they don't. Because, as Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion, Roe was, "egre...
January 6th: Will it matter? (w/ Julie Pace & Stephen Engelberg)
Skullduggery - June 23, 2022 01:33 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings"Do you know what it feels like to have the President of the United States target you?" Those were the haunting words of Ruby Freeman, an election worker in Fulton County Georgia describing to the January 6th Committee what it was like when Donald Trump and his allies spread grotesque l...
January 6th Committee Delivers (w/ Hugo Lowell)
Skullduggery - June 17, 2022 23:51 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsAn excerpt from the video taped testimony of Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann revealed this past Thursday described a phone call he got from John Eastman the day after Jan 6th in which the supposed constitutional scholar was unrepentant. Still clinging to the idea somehow some w...
The "definitely intoxicated" Rudy Giuliani (w/ Matthew Miller & Sol Wisenberg)
Skullduggery - June 13, 2022 23:37 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsAn excerpt from one of the video clips played at Monday's January 6th Committee Hearing in which Donald Trump's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, recounts the debate that went on within the White House on election night. Stepien and other top campaign aides were telling Trump to hold off ...
Buried Treasure: The CIA's Watergate Moment (w/ Jeff Morley)
Skullduggery - June 13, 2022 16:14 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings“Stay the hell out of it!” Those were the key words from the so-called smoking gun tape, the conversation between Richard Nixon and his Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman about how to get the FBI to back off its investigation into the Watergate break-in that occurred fifty years ago this week,...
Holder: Democracy is on the Line (w/ Eric Holder)
Skullduggery - June 10, 2022 20:40 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsCongresswoman Liz Cheney Thursday night laid out the case that Donald Trump orchestrated an attempted coup to block the peaceful transfer of power. And then sat back and watched in apparent approval while his supporters ransacked the US Capitol. It was the opening night of six public he...
Jan. 6th’s Primetime Moment (w/ Norm Eisen & Tom LoBianco)
Skullduggery - June 07, 2022 21:23 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsThey may be the most anticipated and consequential of congressional hearings in decades. After eleven months of work and over one thousand interviews the committee investigating the January 6th 2021 attack on the US Capitol will premiere this week in primetime on Thursday at 8pm. With a...
Secrets of Gay Washington (w/ James Kirchick)
Skullduggery - May 31, 2022 22:01 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsUniquely Nasty, a Yahoo News documentary from 2015, explored the little known story of the US Government’s relentless persecution of gays in the Cold War era, focusing in part on how the FBI under Hoover’s direction, tracked the names of tens of thousands of suspected gays and lesbians ...
Tragedy in Texas (w/ Ryan Busse)
Skullduggery - May 26, 2022 00:19 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsConnecticut Senator Chris Murphy addressed the Senate on Tuesday afternoon after the gut-wrenching news out of Texas. Another school massacre in which twenty-two people were killed, nineteen of them young children. Murphy could barely control himself. It was in his state where ten years...
Trump’s Georgia Bust (w/ Brian Robinson & Chris Huttman)
Skullduggery - May 25, 2022 22:56 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger spoke to a small group of supporters Tuesday night explaining how he pulled off his surprise victory for re-election over a Donald Trump backed opponent. It was a truly extraordinary comeback for Raffensperger, barley a year ago his chance...
Things Are About To Get "Wild" (w/ Andrea Bernstein & Ilya Marritz)
Skullduggery - May 17, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsThe new podcast series Will Be Wild focuses on the run up to and the aftermath of the January 6th assault on the US Capitol. It's a deeply reported and at time astonishing series that explores the violent undercurrents that were circulating amongst far-right circles in the years leading...
We've Got It On Tape (w/ Jonathan Martin & Alex Burns)
Skullduggery - May 13, 2022 03:14 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsRecent tapes of Senator Lindsay Graham talking to New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin on the afternoon of Jan. 6th, 2021 have now been released. It reaffirms what many Republicans were thinking that day about the riot that Donald Trump had just unleashed upon the US Capitol. And exp...
The Leak & Battle Over Abortion (w/ Josh Gerstein & Carolyn Shapiro)
Skullduggery - May 11, 2022 03:36 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2K ratingsPolitico dropped a bombshell story that stung the political and legal world last week after obtaining a leaked draft opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that would appear to be an overturning of Roe v Wade, the 1973 opinion that gave women the constitutional right to a...
LIVE from Politics & Prose (w/ Bob Woodward, Carol Leonnig, & George Conway)
Skullduggery - April 29, 2022 15:50 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2K ratingsAs hundreds of reports gather for this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner, there's one burning issue that remains a lively topic of discussion and debate. Will Donald Trump finally be indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election? To address that question, we assembled ...
Will Trump help Ohio's Vance Advance? (w/ Tom LoBianco and Kyle Kondik)
Skullduggery - April 25, 2022 23:28 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsJD Vance spoke recently at a Donald Trump rally in Delaware County Ohio last weekend. He was publicly boasting about the endorsement he had just gotten from "the big man," touting his newfound benefactor as the future 47th President of the United States. Trump's backing of Vance, author...
Buried Treasure: The Trials of Harry Truman (w/ Jeffrey Frank)
Skullduggery - April 22, 2022 21:13 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsIn March,1947 Harry Truman delivered to a joint session of Congress one of the most consequential foreign policy speeches ever given by a U.S. President. It was the speech in which Truman announced his plans to deliver aid to two embattled countries --Greece and Turkey-- threatened by i...
Does the US have a Ukraine Endgame? (w/ Derek Chollet)
Skullduggery - April 19, 2022 21:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsThe battle for Donbas has begun. This week fresh Russian troops poured into the eastern region of Ukraine in what is shaping up as a major offensive aimed at ceasing full control of a substantial slice of the embattled country. At the same time, Vladimir Putin's forces appear to be inte...
Related Michael isikoff Topics