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Impolitic with John Heilemann

Michael Beschloss

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

John Heilemann talks with Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian, host of Fireside History with Michael Beschloss on Peacock/MSNBC, and author of ten books focusing on occupants of the Oval Office – Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and more. Heilemann and Beschloss discuss Joe Biden’s handling of Russia-Ukraine war, and why Biden isn’t benefitting politically from his leadership on the world stage; the ongoing risk of Russia deploying nuclear weapons and the lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis; and how foreign policy crises have reshaped American presidencies from World War II's effect on the legacies of FDR and Truman to Vietnam's on LBJ's. They also discuss the historic dimensions of Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court, along with Mitch McConnell’s hint that, if Republicans take control of the Senate, he might take the unprecedented step of denying Biden the opportunity to put another justice -- any justice, under any circumstances -- to SCOTUS. 

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Hey everyone, John Heilman here and welcome to Hell in High Water. My podcast for the recount

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about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon with big ups to my pal Rizza,

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1:07.1

Last week was one of those split screen weeks in our politics with two massive stories playing

1:11.7

out on the world stage concurrently and in parallel. On one screen, the war in Ukraine,

1:17.1

descending into a deeper and more dismaying miasma of cruelty, brutality, and misery on the

1:22.5

orders of Vladimir Putin, as televised images and accounts of Russia's depravity in Bukka were

1:28.1

enough to induce feelings of both outrage and nausea among any morally censate person who saw or

1:33.3

heard them and caused Ukrainian President Zelensky to declare that Putin had done more than

1:38.3

commit war crimes but was guilty of pursuing a policy of quote genocide. On the other screen,

1:46.1

the vastly more uplifting and inspiring picture of Judge Katanjee Brown Jackson being confirmed by

1:51.8

the United States Senate 53-47 to replace Scotus Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires in June,

1:59.4

making Brown Jackson after 232 years and 115 prior appointments the first black woman

2:06.0

to occupy a seat on the highest court in the land. Where these two stories intersect and overlap,

2:11.7

of course, is in the White House where Joe Biden is grappling on a daily and sometimes hourly

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