Airports on ICE
The TPM Show with Josh and Kate
Talking Points Memo
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Kate and Josh talk airports in crisis, Trump's bewildering political calculus and, believe it or not, an optimistic vision of what a post-Trump world could look like.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Marshall and this is the Josh Marshall podcast featuring Kate Riga. |
| 0:24.7 | We are recording at our normal time, Wednesdays, just a few minutes after 12 noon. |
| 0:30.1 | And before we get started, I want to go over a couple things that we have talked about the last few episodes. |
| 0:35.3 | First of all, we are still in the midst of our annual membership drive here at TPM. |
| 0:40.4 | If you are a listener to the podcast, but you are not a member of TPM, please consider joining us, supporting the work we do, supporting what makes the podcast possible. |
| 0:50.6 | There's a link in the show notes for this episode, but you can also just come over to |
| 0:54.2 | talking points memo.com. Then the other thing is we have a live version of the podcast coming up |
| 1:00.4 | on April 8th, down in Austin, Texas. You know, I was going to say, which is true, that I'm, |
| 1:06.0 | I'm so looking forward to it. It's changed a bit in the sense that like, I'm totally looking |
| 1:10.6 | forward to this event. I'm not looking forward to getting to It's changed a bit in the sense that like, I'm totally looking forward to |
| 1:11.1 | this event. I'm not looking forward to getting to this event, right? I had a thing a few days ago |
| 1:16.5 | where I said, like, I wish I hadn't overcome my arophobia, right? Because I used to be able to |
| 1:22.8 | like ignore these things about what's going on at the airports and stuff like that. And actually, as a |
| 1:28.7 | recovering aerophobe, I especially don't like when we sort of seem to be nudging back into the |
| 1:35.0 | commercial air crash era. You know, we had something like there was a period of like, I think it was like |
| 1:40.0 | 16 years where there were no flight fatalities in the United States, which is absolutely remarkable |
| 1:47.2 | and let's keep it up. But we do have this situation in the nation's airports. And that's a good |
| 1:52.0 | segue to the first thing we are going to talk about because we're going to talk about what |
| 1:57.8 | is up with the TSA and with these delays. |
| 2:01.6 | And this is actually, this is very much in motion because I think we're about to hear |
| 2:06.1 | from Kate. |
| 2:07.1 | She'll have more of an understanding of this. |
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