Dan Pfeiffer and Alyssa Mastromonaco

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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John Heilemann talks with Alyssa Mastromonaco and Dan Pfeiffer, both former senior advisers to Barack Obama in the White House and on his two presidential campaigns, both best-selling authors, and both members of the Crooked Media team. Heilemann spoke with Mastromonaco and Pfeiffer just hours after the historic Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson that overturned Roe v. Wade. They discuss the political implications of the decision and how Democrats might combat its effects; the possibility that Republicans ultimately aim to ban abortion nationwide; the profound erosion of the public legitimacy of the Supreme Court and Mitch McConnell's role in that development; and the apparent lies by Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh regarding Roe during their Senate confirmation hearings. They also assess the impact of the January 6 committee's hearings and Matthew McConaughey's emotional remarks at the White House about the Uvalde school massacre. And Pfeiffer gets in a few words (too few ... he'll be back on the pod with more) about his new book, Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, John Hyelman here and welcome to Helen Highwater.
0:18.0	I'm Mike Kessler, the recount about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon and
0:22.0	man never has it felt more like we are on the edge, maybe even over the edge of Armageddon.
0:27.2	Big ups to my pal Rizza, the presiding genius behind the set of Utein Clan and the producer
0:30.8	of our dope theme music and I'm here on the Monday after the Friday when the United States
0:37.8	Supreme Court struck down.
0:39.2	Robi Wade as law of the land and grace, my friend, my window into the Generation Z people
0:45.4	also have this be a woman and is really the co-founder of this podcast.
0:49.4	I'm curious about, as we sit here on this Monday, having had a little time to absorb
0:53.2	what happened on Friday.
0:54.8	How are you feeling about a world with our own?
0:58.3	I feel prepared to fight and energize to move forward with what we can do to protect
1:06.3	the rights of women because we had 53 days between the leaked opinion and the actual decision
1:14.8	to grieve and to prepare for the emotional weight of this.
1:19.5	So that's something that I chose to do with a little bit of foresight and unfortunately
1:23.7	something that a lot of our leaders did not seem to do.
1:27.0	So that's where the frustration comes in.
1:29.2	So I say I had already grieved it but I am now frustrated and ready to fight.
1:35.3	Frustrated and you got the gloves on, ready to go out and get in the ring and start throwing
1:39.0	haymakers.
1:40.0	As you did on a number of social platforms including Instagram and TikTok over the weekend,
1:43.7	anybody who wants to hear graces, thoughts in the moment about this should go and check
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