I'm Maria Kannakova and I'm Nate Silver and our new podcast Risky Business is a show about making better decisions.

We're both journalists who moonlight as poker players and that's the lens we're going to use to approach this entire show.

We're going to be discussing everything from high-stakes poker to personal questions.

Like whether I should call a plumber or fix my shower myself.

And of course we'll be talking about the election too.

Listen on the I-Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Trump is and always has been a con man seller of various things that benefit himself.

We'll stop.

And yet, Mark Burnett comes along and makes up a character which doesn't resemble him at all in the apprentice.

And most people who watch the apprentice like him, Trump knowing a good thing when he sees it,

just kept digging at it that your fired thing in him metastasized into knowing well if I'm really evil about people

if I tease out their most vulnerable personal characteristics, not only will it excite them, but it'll excite my audience.

On Fire and Fury the podcast, billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, dishes on Donald Trump.

Listen to the full episode of Fire and Fury on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome, it is a verdict with Ted Cruz and it's the week in review. Ben Ferguson with you and we had some major stories this week that you may have missed.

First up, voters, you've heard it before about the idea of draining the swamp.

What does it actually look like this time with the Trump presidency and will it be different than 2016?

The answer is yes and will explain just how big of a difference it could be.

Also Kamala Harris was cornered about lying to the American people on the cognitive

decline of Joe Biden. She now has a new date when she says she noticed a

difference but also defended him as being a brilliant man. It didn't go well in an NBC interview and

we're gonna play that for you. And finally Kamla Harris just days away from

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