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Talking Feds

Autocracy Live!

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A week in which America suddenly came to look like classic autocratic regimes with the removal from TV of late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, and more enforced exiles to come, for the simple sin of displeasing Trump. A trenchant panel of Bill Kristol and Juliette Kayyem take stock of this nightmarish development, as well as Trump’s effort to destroy the independence of the Fed, and the increasingly checkered and controversial on-the-job performance of FBI director Kash Patel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Talking Fed's, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests.

1:14.7

For a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day, I'm Harry Littman.

1:21.5

It must be nice to live in a country where popular entertainers can't get fired because they displeased the president.

1:29.1

But that's no longer the United States of America.

1:33.0

In a jagged line running from the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to a pretty

1:38.8

mild reference to Maga in a Jimmy Kimmel monologue, Kimmel found himself instantly out of a job this week.

1:48.0

Kimmel's sacking deepened the bitterness and polarization in the country, especially after

1:54.1

Trump weighed in and called it great news, and it suddenly became hard to tell the difference

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