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Talking Feds

Carte Blanche and an Inside Strait

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Government, Politics

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With Trump's two-week ceasefire hanging in the balance, Harry turns to Kristy Greenberg, Jason Kander, and Jasmine Wright to make sense of a week of reversals and u-turns for Donald Trump. What are the new revelations about how Trump decided to strike Iran? And if the status quo stands, will the U.S. have lost its war of choice? Can new Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche do any better than Pam Bondi at sating Trump's appetite for retribution? And what do another pair of Democratic overperformances in off-cycle elections augur for November?  Mentioned in this episode: Courtside with Kristy Greenberg: https://www.youtube.com/@CourtsidewithKG  Jason's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/majority-54/id1309354521  Jasmine's reporting: https://www.notus.org/jasmine-wright New York Times reporting on Trump's decision to go to war with Iran: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5

Welcome to Talking Fed's, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.

0:38.3

I'm Harry Lintman.

0:40.3

After standing down from his apocalyptic threats,

0:44.3

Trump announced a fragile and bumpy ceasefire with Iran.

0:50.3

For the moment, the bombs have stopped falling on Iran, but whether negotiations can bring a lasting end to the fighting,

0:58.1

and whether the U.S. will actually emerge safer and stronger from the conflict are far from clear.

1:06.4

Meanwhile, Trump's crusade against enemies at home got a fresh face, with Todd Blanche taking

1:12.9

the reins at the Department of Justice.

1:16.0

Blanche immediately signaled his guiding star, total obedience to Trump.

1:22.4

As if to emphasize the point, the department debuted a new retribution case, this time against January 6th witness

1:30.3

Cassidy Hutchinson. But Bondi hasn't fully left her tenure behind. Democrats insist that she's still

1:38.1

on the hook for testimony on her handling of the Epstein scandal. Beyond Washington, another pair of special elections saw huge swings toward the Democrats.

1:50.7

There's a growing sense that they hold a dominant hand for the coming elections.

1:55.5

As one White House source told a national magazine,

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