172: Dark Money

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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News Commentary, Politics, Government, News, National

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🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode exploring the pernicious effects of dark money on our politics, James and Al welcome Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, investigative journalist Jane Mayer, and former AZ AG Terry Goddard. They dive into how dark money is corrupting our political parties, the Supreme Court, and our electoral systems, while naming some of the biggest offenders. More importantly, they also share the ways we can fight back!

Email your questions to James and Al at [email protected] or tweet them to @politicon. Make sure to include your city, we love to hear where you’re from!

Get More From This Week’s Guests:

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse:
Twitter | Senate.gov | Congress.gov | YouTube | Author of “The Scheme” & Other Books

Jane Mayer:
Twitter | The New Yorker | Author of “Dark Money” & Other Books

Former AZ AG & Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard:
Twitter | Central Arizona Project | Goddard Law PLC | Ballotpedia | StopDarkMoney.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.
0:15.4	This week our guests are brilliant authors on the influence of darker secret money, Senator
0:21.3	Sheldon Whitehouse and investigative journalist and New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer and Terry
0:26.8	Goddard of Arizona who just shepherded through a ban on dark money in that state.
0:32.0	Remember we love taking your questions so right to politicswarrowmagemail.com or send a
0:37.3	tweet to App Pliticon for next week's show.
0:39.6	We'll get to as many as we can but don't forget to tell us where you're from.
0:43.1	And please check out the links to our sponsors.
0:45.5	Real paper, ExpressVPN and Miracle Brand and the Show Notes.
0:49.7	We thank you for supporting our sponsors.
0:51.7	It helps make this podcast happen.
0:53.6	Please tell your friends about us and reminding to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
0:58.2	Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.
1:01.1	Hey James, we're going to do something a little bit differently today because the subject
1:05.4	is so important.
1:07.2	Dark money, the billions of dollars of secret money poured into influence American politics.
1:12.0	And our first guest is Roniwin, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and his fourth term is new book,
1:17.4	Scheme, How the Right Wing Use Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, written with Jennifer
1:23.2	Mueller.
1:24.2	Senator, you write the Supreme Court is the court that dark money built.
1:29.4	Secret on this close money.
1:30.4	Tell us about that.
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