Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 1/30/26
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Washington Week
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For the second time in his many weeks, Donald Trump has backed away from an unpopular policy. |
| 0:06.0 | Last week, it was Greenland. This week, the ICE operation in Minneapolis where federal agents killed yet another protester. |
| 0:13.0 | But it is also true that once he gets an idea in his head, tariffs, for example, the idea doesn't go away. |
| 0:19.0 | So will he come back to the notion of invading the sovereign |
| 0:21.6 | territory of Denmark and will he escalate tensions once again in Minneapolis? We'll discuss this |
| 0:27.2 | and more next. Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. We have a lot to talk about |
| 0:36.1 | tonight. It's been another semi-hillucinatory week |
| 0:39.2 | in America. Just yesterday, the former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested for covering a protest |
| 0:44.6 | inside a church in Minneapolis. We'll talk about the First Amendment implications with that. |
| 0:49.2 | And even stranger, you'll never guess who showed up at the Fulton County, Georgia Election |
| 0:53.6 | Center with the FBI. Okay, I'll tell you, Tulsi Gabb up at the Fulton County Georgia Election Center with the FBI. |
| 0:55.1 | Okay, I'll tell you. Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. |
| 0:59.3 | Gabbard and the FBI are on the hunt for proof that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. |
| 1:04.0 | Soon after Gabbard showed up, and by the way, could you imagine any previous administration |
| 1:08.8 | in which the Director of National Intelligence or the Director of the CIA involved him or herself in domestic law enforcement related to elections? |
| 1:17.1 | Donald Trump reposted a claim on his social media platform that Italian military satellites had been used to hack into U.S. voting machines to help Joe Biden. |
| 1:27.1 | Completely normal stuff. With me to talk about |
| 1:30.2 | these issues and everything else, Susan Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker. |
| 1:35.6 | Stephen Hayes is the editor of the dispatch. Zolankano Young's is a White House correspondent at the New York |
| 1:40.9 | Times, and Tolu Oloranipa is a staff writer at the Atlantic and the co-author of |
| 1:45.9 | His Name is George Floyd, One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice. |
| 1:51.8 | Thank you all for being here. |
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