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Mea Culpa

Lock Your Windows, Nuclear Testing Starts Tomorrow + A Conversation with Michael Steele

Mea Culpa

Michael Cohen

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Michael Steele, former RNC Chair, MSNBC analyst, and host of The Michael Steele Podcast, for a blistering breakdown of Trump’s latest authoritarian moves. We dig into his push to end the Senate filibuster, the demolition of the White House’s East Wing to build his ballroom, and the GOP’s complicity in his escalating power grab. Steele explains how the Supreme Court has become a political enforcement arm under Trump’s shadow and how his own party has lost its moral compass. From the potential rollback of marriage equality to the normalization of authoritarian control, this episode sounds the alarm on the collapse of Republican restraint and the rise of a Trump America. Thanks to our sponsors: Leesa: Go to https://Leesa.com for 25% off mattresses PLUS get an extra $50 off with promo code COHEN Soul: Go to https://GetSoul.com and use code: COHEN to get 40% OFF your order! Found: Open your FREE Found account now at https://Found.com Subscribe to Michael's Substack: https://therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/ Subscribe to Michael's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMichaelCohenShow Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalBeatdown Add the Mea Culpa podcast feed: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen Add the Political Beatdown podcast feed: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is my may-a-go-bye. Oh, baby, don't lie for me. If I tell you my story, don't cry for me.

0:39.0

I did my time that's fun by me.

0:41.3

This is my fairer co-bo.

0:46.2

This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the one and only Mayor Culper podcast right

0:51.3

here on the Mighty Midas Touch Network.

0:53.7

So look for all future episodes of the show behind the Blue Banner icon, and I'm really

0:58.0

truly thankful that you hear, but because of you, we've now exceeded 500 million downloads

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to date.

1:04.6

So again, thank you.

1:06.3

But now for the news.

1:08.3

Now let me say this as clearly as I can.

1:13.1

What we're watching, it's not gridlock, it's demolition. Trump's demand that the Seneca go nuclear on the filibuster to end this government

1:19.4

shutdown, it's not about reopening the government or feeding hungry families. It's about power,

1:25.7

raw, unrestrained, and authoritarian. And it's a test to see just how much

1:31.6

of America is willing to burn so that he could rule from the ashes. Let me be clear. The filibuster,

1:38.9

you know, that old and perfect Senate relic, has always been a speedbub against tyranny. You don't destroy it unless your

1:47.0

goal is control, not compromise. And Trump, once again, is proving that he doesn't care about governance.

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