Breaking!!! The Election Nightmare Has Already Started + A Conversation with Norm Eisen

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

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News, Politics

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Mea Culpa welcomes back to the show our good friend, Norm Eisen. There’s pretty much nothing going on in politics today that he doesn’t have an opinion about. His recent book, "Overcoming Trumpery” is a great read, especially as we get into the midterms and watch Republican candidates try to mimic Trumpian tactics to get elected. Eisen is a CNN Legal Analyst. And the founder and executive chair of “States United Democracy Center”, a nonpartisan organization advancing free, fair, and secure elections. Eisen served as special counsel to President Barack Obama on ethics and government reform. In that role, he was dubbed “Mr. No” and the “Ethics Czar” because he's well known for his tough anti-corruption approach to governance. Eisen is also active with the Brookings Institute and other groups working to expose the myriad of ways Trump and his cronies broke the law and attempted to overturn the 2020 election. Eisen is also working with the Brookings Institute to help Ukraine recover and progress now and hopefully post Putin’s war. As we always say, Eisen is a witness to history. Michael and Norm dig deep into the upcoming midterms, the rise of antisemitism, and Trump's legal woes.

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0:00.0	Hello Los Angeles friends. This is your last chance to get your tickets for the very first Mioculpa Live.
0:11.8	Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1st, 7 p.m. at the L. Ray Theater in Los Angeles.
0:16.8	Come hang out with Michael and the hilarious Kathy Griffin, Harry Lippman, former Deputy Attorney General,
0:22.1	and former Oathkeeper's National spokesman, Jason Van Tatenhove.
0:26.0	It's going to be an amazing night.
0:28.4	Really, you don't want to miss it.
0:30.4	So go get your tickets right now at the LRA.com.
0:33.8	Or grab a link on any of Michael's social handles or in this episode description. Now on with the show. This is my Mayacopa.
0:59.6	This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayaculpa podcast.
1:03.4	There are other things to worry about other than the midterms.
1:05.0	I mean, kind of sort of.
1:08.4	We're having the worst flu season in well over a decade.
1:13.0	School kids are two years behind in math and English due to the pandemic. There's Ukraine. I mean, you can always worry about Ukraine. And then of course,
1:18.6	there's Elon Musk's official takeover of Twitter and his accompanying tweet. Let the good times roll.
1:25.4	Not sure if he meant that to be funny, but ironically, we may see the return of Trump to Twitter Monday just a week and change before the midterms.
1:34.3	So I guess the joke is on us.
1:36.3	And the chief twit, as Musk now refers to himself, is just getting started.
1:41.3	One day before he's expected to officially take over Twitter,
1:45.0	Elon Musk walked back his previous promise to remove most moderation on the site,
1:50.0	reassuring advertisers that it would not become a free-for-all hellscape
1:53.0	where anything can be said with no consequences.
1:56.0	Musk also visited Twitter's offices carrying a kitchen sink,
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