171: Dan Balz - Washington Post Chief Correspondent and Former US Attorney Harry Litman

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🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 charges in his NYC hush money trial. What does that mean for his future? We get the latest from our legal expert Harry Litman. Plus, longtime political reporter Dan Balz from the Washington Post joins for a wide ranging political discussion! Will these convictions help or hurt Trump? We also discuss the state of the Presidential race and what President Biden's strengths and weaknesses are as election season ramps up.

Read Harry's coverage of the Trump trial for the LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/people/harry-litman

Read Dan Balz' latest in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/dan-balz/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change.
0:09.4	Dan Balls, chief correspondent of the Washington Post, is back with us.
0:13.2	And as spectacular as his last one was, this one just confirms Dan's status as the second
0:19.6	best political reporter in the country.
0:21.8	The best being Ron Brownstein of the Atlantic Monthly.
0:25.8	I've never had Ron on.
0:27.1	I don't know why.
0:27.9	But Dan is not a poor man's Ron Brownstein by any means.
0:32.9	No, Dan is magnificent in his own right.
0:35.4	And I think this winning, delightful conversation proves that
0:39.4	the Al Franken podcast can more than make up for the stinkers we produce on a somewhat
0:44.9	regular basis. Now, this is a great one, and we have what I call a wide-ranging conversation
0:50.9	showing not just Dan's encyclopedic breath of knowledge, but mine as well.
0:57.5	It's a nice conversation. Also, and this is a new one for the Al Franken podcast,
1:02.7	Harry Littman, who did a fabulous podcast for us last week on the Trump trial, is coming right back
1:08.5	to comment on the verdict.
1:16.4	This has never happened before, not even Norm Ornstein, who in the early years of the podcast I had developed and over-reliance on, admittedly, not even Norm Ornstein has done two in a row.
1:23.8	But Harry did the analysis of the Trump trial last week, and now he's on to talk about the verdict.
1:29.8	So let's go right to Harry Littman and the guilty verdict after which you'll be treated to Dan Balls.
1:40.8	We talked a couple nights ago and you thought that the verdict would come in Friday at
1:46.6	4.30, because you were a prosecutor, and you said juries often on Fridays at 4.30,
1:52.7	decide, hmm, we could have the weekend. It was a day earlier. Were you surprised that it came in so fast?
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