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Next Up with Mark Halperin

Mark Halperin Talks James Comey, Washington Post, and Charlie Kirk on "After Party"

Next Up with Mark Halperin

MK Media

News, Daily News, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this special episode of "After Party with Emily Jashinsky," featuring a long-form interview with "Next Up" host Mark Halperin, about The Washington Post, the Comey indictment, the terrible comments from Ta-Nehisi Coates about Charlie Kirk, and more. Subscribe now to Emily's "After Party": Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/after-party-with-emily-jashinsky/id1821493726 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0szVa30NjGYsyIzzBoBCtJ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AfterPartyEmily?sub_confirmation=1

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0:00.0

Welcome to After Party, everyone, coming to you on the tail end of a very long newsday with an absolutely packed show.

0:15.8

Mark Halperin is going to join us in just one moment.

0:19.0

First, coming up, you can expect us to dive into a little bit

0:22.6

from that Netanyahu press conference.

0:24.6

It actually turned out not to be much of a press conference.

0:27.6

Trust me, I was there standing in a very overcrowded room

0:31.6

with other reporters for two hours and then there were no questions.

0:35.6

But actually, the fact that there were no questions I think tells us some interesting stuff

0:39.3

about the deal.

0:40.3

We're going to get to that with Mark Halperin in just one moment.

0:43.3

We're also going to talk about whether or not we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg

0:48.3

when it comes to potential charges against James Comey.

0:51.3

Connell Harris continues to make the rounds earning a rebuke from the Washington Post

0:56.5

editorial board. Tana Housey Coates has called Charlie Kirk a hate monger, believe it or not.

1:02.5

The Washington Post, speaking of which, the Washington Post's first interview given by their new

1:07.6

opinion editor, I have some tea in that direction that I might be willing to spill if you stick around for the rest of the episode.

1:13.6

Was given to Fox News. Rosie O'Donnell is losing her mind. That's not fair to say. Rosie O'Donnell lost her mind a long time ago, but she's revealing new tidbits from her conversations with her therapist, and so was Nicole Wallace. I am going to, at the end of the episode, deconstruct a New York Times article on Charlie Kirk, just bit by bit. I'm going to dissect it, so that'll be fun. It'll be a sort of academic exercise. We'll make a night of it. And J.K. Rowling is reacting to those Emma Watson comments that we reacted to last week.

1:47.0

But without any further ado, let's go ahead and bring in Mark Halperin, who of course is the editor-in-chief of Two-Way, the host of Next Up with Mark Halperin, I'm Megan Kelly's MK Media, and apparently a night gym goer, because if you're listening to this, you're missing that Mark has a treadmill behind him with some exercise equipment.

2:07.6

So kind of embarrassing.

2:10.1

I picked out of an outfit for the show weeks ago.

2:13.5

And then over the weekend, went to boardwalk in New Jersey, ate a lot of funnel cakes.

2:19.9

And long story short, the only way I could put on the outfit I wanted to wear was if I went to the gym for about three days before the meeting.

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