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Freight of the Union
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - December 22, 2020 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsYes, whatever you ordered online is taking longer than usual to be delivered. Be patient. Listen to our podcast while you wait. Your shipment will get to you. Eventually. America's shipping networks are literally and figuratively filled to the brim. More people are shopping online beca...
Electoral College Clarity
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - December 15, 2020 07:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIf projections from news organizations felt insufficient and certified election results from state officials did not convince you, the electoral college has spoken. On Monday, 538 electors in 50 states and the District of Columbia confirmed Joe Biden will be the next president. Biden's...
Our Hunger
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - December 08, 2020 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsMore Americans are hungry now than at any time since the Great Depression. Let that sink in. The uptick is yet another awful consequence of the covid outbreak. Watch the evening newscasts recently and you've probably seen lines of vehicles snaked around stadium parking lots-turned-f...
COVID-19 Vaccines
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - November 24, 2020 04:57 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThis month, three major vaccine developers reported preliminary data showing their covid-19 vaccines were highly successful in protecting participants in late-stage clinical trials. This news may feel like a lone bright spot in a year of ugly - and deadly - pandemic-related headlines. ...
Contested Elections
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - November 17, 2020 05:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsFor those who lived through it, the presidential election of 2000, might seem comparable to what is going on now. It is not. Then, fewer than 600 votes in Florida separated George W. Bush and Al Gore. Voter intent was in dispute (hanging chads anyone?). The election hung on the outco...
The 46th President
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - November 10, 2020 05:32 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsElection night in America is usually just that. A night. Just one night. Not in 2020. Not in a pandemic-afflicted year when so few things seem normal. This is the story of the people at CBS News who brought you Election 2020 coverage that started on Tuesday and ended Saturday. At 11:...
The Fax Machine Election
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - November 03, 2020 04:28 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThe last time an incumbent president lost re-election, Google, Netflix and friend weren't verbs. The year was 1992. And it was Major's first time covering a presidential race - incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush against Arkansas Governor and Democratic upstart Bill Clinton. Let's be...
Election Fever
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - October 27, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsAmerica is voting. And it's doing it in record numbers. With a week to go before Election Day, early voting totals have eclipsed 2016 levels. Turn out in Texas is already 82% of overall participation four years ago. In Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, it's 66%. Experts predict turno...
Is This Robert Bork's Supreme Court?
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - October 20, 2020 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratings"To Bork" someone, according Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, is "to attack or defeat (a nominee or candidate for public office) unfairly through an organized campaign of harsh public criticism or vilification." The phrase entered the lexicon after Ronald Reagan's nominee to the Su...
Presidential Health
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - October 13, 2020 03:03 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsPresident Trump's campaign stop in Florida Monday marked the first time he'd left the White House after checking into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ten days earlier. The president announced his positive covid-19 test result on October 2nd. Thereafter, his doctors provided...
Polls, Projections and Winners
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - October 06, 2020 03:56 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsAttention political junkies: we are taking a poll. How many of you like to know trends and results of the presidential race on election night? How about who’s up or who’s down during the race? Or what sorts of voters voted for a given candidate? If you answered yes to any of those ques...
Can The President Do That?
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - September 29, 2020 04:03 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsDuring his convention speech in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump proclaimed, "Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it." Not congress, nor the courts, nor the states or any other institution we vest with power. Just a would-be President Trump. The bound...
Presidential Debates: The White Hot Arena
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - September 22, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIn one week, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will meet on the same stage in Cleveland for the first of three presidential debates this fall. In a political year marked by so much that is abnormal, the debates should finally look like something recognizable. ...
Mega Sports Equinox
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - September 15, 2020 03:06 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsOn March 11th, the sports world - led by the NBA - started to shut down. Coronavirus fears prompted the NCAA to cancel March Madness. The Masters was postponed. Baseball, hockey and basketball, put on hold. What followed was perhaps the quietest spell in modern sports history. By mids...
Planes, Trains and COVID-19
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - September 08, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThe economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic are all around us - millions out of work, businesses shuttered for good, gridlock on Capitol Hill preventing more aid from flowing to those in need. The trillion-dollar travel industry has been hit as hard as any. International rou...
The March
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - September 01, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsFifty seven years after Martin Luther King, Jr. led the March on Washington for civil and voting rights legislation, protesters returned to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last week to demand justice for African Americans killed by police. The event, organized by King's oldest son Mar...
Lost Summer
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - August 25, 2020 03:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratings8 months into the coronavirus pandemic, Major explores the question: was this a lost summer? It was certainly a summer of loss. Carefree summer fun, travel, social gatherings: lost. Students' ability to learn: lost. Millions of jobs: lost. Tens of thousands of lives: lost. On Episode ...
Crossover Voters
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - August 18, 2020 10:33 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThe Democratic convention Monday night featured four prominent Republicans who will be casting ballots this fall for former vice president Joe Biden. Critical to Donald Trump's election in 2016 was a coalition of Democrats - especially in the industrial midwest - who abandoned their par...
School Daze
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - August 11, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIt is perhaps the biggest question on the minds of Americans these days. How can we re-open schools safely? After just a few days of in-person classes at North Paulding High School in Georgia, and photos that showed crowded hallways with maskless students, the school shut down for a tw...
Unconventional Conventions
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - August 04, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsUnder normal circumstances, delegates would be dancing in Charlotte and Milwaukee in a matter of days. But in the era of coronavirus, gone are the balloon drops, the back slapping, the ladder climbing and the back stabbing. Instead, social distancing, masks, hand washing and uncertain...
Voting in a Pandemic
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - July 28, 2020 03:15 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThe 2020 election is less than a hundred days away. And the coronavirus pandemic shows few signs of abating. Americans have voted during world wars, recessions and the last pandemic. So how to uphold the most basic tenet of democracy this November? Join CBS News Chief Washington Corre...
Introducing: The Debrief with Major Garrett
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - July 21, 2020 18:34 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsWe can't slow down the torrents of news bulletins, but we can go deeper than the breathless headlines of the day. That's what The Debrief with Major Garrett aims to - context, history, clarity. Every new show promises something new. We promise something enduring. How'd we get here? Wher...
June 26: Ed O'Keefe on How Biden Became the Presumptive Nominee
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - June 26, 2020 20:35 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIn the final weekly episode of 'Debriefing the Campaign,' Major is joined by CBS News Political Correspondent Ed O'Keefe to discuss the week’s news like Tuesday’s primaries as well as the bigger picture of how former Vice President Joe Biden prevailed over a historically large field of ...
June 25: GOP Leaders Shift the Narrative on COVID-19
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - June 26, 2020 00:03 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsOn Thursday, Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said there is no second wave of coronavirus because America is still the in grip of the first wave with increasing rates of infections and hospitalizations. President Trump while traveling in ...
June 24: A Record High in New COVID-19 Cases
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - June 24, 2020 23:50 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsOn Wednesday, the United States saw its highest number of new coronavirus cases since April. President Trump, however, said on Tuesday in Phoenix, Arizona that the virus was “going away.” On the Hill, Senate Democrats refused to let Republicans proceed with debate on their police refor...
June 23: Testing is No Laughing Matter
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - June 23, 2020 23:33 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsOn his way to Arizona to inspect the border wall on Tuesday, President Trump told reporters he was not kidding when he said during a campaign rally that he had asked the administration to “slow the testing down” despite aides insisting he was joking. Dr. Anthony Fauci warned in a con...
June 22: After Tulsa
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - June 23, 2020 00:35 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIn a conference call Monday, Vice President Mike Pence told governors that the administration will continue to work with states on testing. At a campaign rally on Saturday, President Trump had called testing a "double-edged sword," as the more tests that are performed, the more new case...
June 20th: Ed O'Keefe on Biden's VP Choices and Trump's Tulsa Rally
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - June 20, 2020 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIn the latest episode of 'Debriefing the Campaign,' CBS News Political Correspondent Ed O'Keefe joins Major to discuss his interview with Senator Amy Klobuchar who decided to take herself out of the running for Biden’s Vice Presidential pick and encouraged the former Vice President to p...
June 19th: Juneteenth in Trump's America
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - June 19, 2020 23:58 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsJune 19th--also known as Juneteenth--celebrates the official end of slavery in the United States. Although the Emancipation Proclamation declaring the end of slavery came into effect on January 1, 1863, it wasn't until June 19, 1865 that slaves in Texas learned they were free. 155 year...
June 18th: President Trump Spars with SCOTUS as his Tulsa Rally Looms
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - June 18, 2020 23:49 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThe Supreme Court ruled to uphold the DACA program in a decision Thursday that said the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the program was unlawful. The decision prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to America by their parents illegal...
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