Cage Match Inside the White House
Pod Save America
Pod Save America
4.5 • 87.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
As Trump prepares for his UFC match on the White House lawn, Politico reports that "knives are out" inside the White House, with staffers reeling from a president "increasingly frustrated with everyone, from his own team to the Senate." Jon and Alex discuss the toxic workplace and then break down the rest of the news, including Trump's on-again, off-again relationship with Iranian negotiators, incredible new details about how the White House handled its Epstein crisis, and Trump admitting that he "love[s] the inflation." Then, veteran political journalist Ron Brownstein talks to Jon about the Democrats' chances of taking the House and Senate in November.
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| 1:31.7 | And I'm Alex Wagner. |
| 1:33.0 | Two weeks in a row. |
| 1:34.8 | Baby. |
| 1:35.7 | You know, I'm really glad when you said I want to do a special Knicks-focused episode of Pod. |
| 1:40.9 | That is what I said. |
| 1:41.5 | I was like, who will even know where we're going to be? |
| 2:03.1 | But it turns out, very fortuitous, happy to just talk about the Nix on this podcast. Thanks for inviting me, John. Congratulations. That was, I had nothing to do with it. I had, um, I had some excellent timing because I put the boys to bed. And then I went downstairs and I turned the game on at the beginning of the fourth quarter when the run started. |
| 2:06.2 | Fuck you with your Pacific Standard time. |
| 2:06.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 2:09.4 | It's watching sports West Coast time. |
| 2:13.7 | Not that I ever do because I have two young children, but is the best. |
| 2:14.4 | It is the best. You're so lucky. |
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