Katie Porter Snaps, Pam Bondi's Senate Roast, MTG Gets Praise From CNN, and “Lucky” Leland Vittert

Next Up with Mark Halperin

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News, Daily News, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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It’s been one of the most unintentionally hilarious weeks in politics — and Mark Halperin can’t resist a good laugh. He kicks off today’s show with the top five most outrageous stories and viral moments of the week: Katie Porter’s on-camera meltdowns, Pam Bondi’s Senate roast, and CNN suddenly embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene as their new favorite source for “the most trusted name in news,” and much more. Then, longtime news anchor and bestselling author Leland Vittert joins Mark to discuss Born Lucky — the story behind his extraordinary life, the readers it’s moved, and why Mark says it’s a book every parent should read. Finally, legendary restaurateur Drew Nieporent — the man behind Nobu and some of the world’s most iconic dining rooms — reveals the secret ingredients behind his success, reflects on working with Robert De Niro, and shares the lessons (and laughter) that come with creating culinary history. Forward Mobile: Help protect the American vaping industry before it’s too late! Visit https://vaportechnology.org Chapter: For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 262-454-0503 or go to https://askchapter.org/mark Disclaimer: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and standalone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don't directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all your options.

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0:00.0	Welcome in, everybody. This is Next Up. It's Thursday. Grateful to you for coming back. All Nexters are welcome here and appreciate how this show is growing with your help. I'm Mark Alpert, editor-in-chief of the live interactive video platform two-way and the host here of this program. I try to bring you every week, my exclusive reporting analysis, the top
0:22.6	news, all the stories that matter most. So all of us together can have a good sense of what's
0:28.0	coming next up. Next up today, two friends of mine, both of whom have written really good
0:33.6	new books. And I'm so excited for them, so proud of them and so eager to share with you their
0:39.9	stories first Leland Vittert he's the news nation's chief Washington anchor and the author of a bit
0:47.1	of a memoir it's called born lucky and it's about how he and his family struggled to deal with
0:52.7	society telling him that his autism would hold him back.
0:56.2	And it's an incredible story for any parent who has a kid who struggles in one way or another.
1:01.7	I think you'll be inspired by it. And I think you'll learn a lot about fortitude and perseverance.
1:06.5	And then my friend, Drew Neeprant, who is the impresario of 40 restaurants around New York, around the world, including Nobu, New York, one of my favorites.
1:15.9	He's the author of a book called I'm Not Trying to Be Difficult.
1:18.3	It tells the story of one of the most important industries in the world, the restaurant business, great war stories and a great way to understand how to build a small business of any type and how to deal with big
1:28.2	personalities, which is something in a lot of industries you know how to do. I'm super eager to
1:33.1	introduce you to both of my friends and to introduce you to their books. But first, here's my new
1:39.2	reported monologue on what's going on right now. Five outrageous and hilarious things that have just happened.
1:45.8	This is a tough time.
1:47.0	You know, my reported monologue from last episode about Barry Weiss.
1:51.4	Got a lot of attention.
1:52.8	I'm grateful for that.
1:53.6	I always like my work to get some notice.
1:55.0	And most I heard from people who were very complimentary,
1:58.5	including lots of friends at CBS who said,
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