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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

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Overview

On “Trumpland with Alex Wagner,” Alex travels the country talking with the people on the frontlines of Trump’s policies and promises. For the first 100 days of the new administration, she’s taking a break from the anchor’s chair to get out into the field to bring you conversations you can't always find on TV. You’ll get a 360 degree-view of what’s happening both at home and abroad now that Donald Trump is once again president of the United States. Subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen ad-free.

305 Episodes

The Purge

As the Trump administration guts the federal workforce, we head to DC to speak with the people at the center of the story.

Transcribed - Published: 6 February 2025

The Raids… and the Resistance

The Trump administration launches a nationwide immigration crackdown with brutal outcomes and hidden, lasting consequences

Transcribed - Published: 30 January 2025

Pardon the Insurrection

Trump’s issues January 6th pardons. What the inmates, their families, and the victims have to say.

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Introducing “Trumpland with Alex Wagner”

Alex Wagner hits the road to cover Trump's first 100 days on her new podcast series “Trumpland with Alex Wagner.”

Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2025

Trump team's bad faith changes political calculus

Rachel Maddow remarks on the qualitative difference in the type of people Donald Trump is staffing his new administration with compared to his first administration and the fact that their deliberate antagonism and abuse of power means many political norms are not applicable.

Transcribed - Published: 18 January 2025

Johnson swaps out House Intel chair for Trump loyalist, raising national security concerns

In an unusual move, House Speaker Mike Johnson removed Rep. Mike Turner, the Republican head of the House Intelligence committee and replaced him with Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., someone with greater fealty to Donald Trump. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi joins Alex Wagner to discuss.

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

Reality is tougher than Senate confirmation in Bondi's aim to do Trump's bidding

Pam Bondi appears likely to become the kind of attorney general Donald Trump wished for through his entire first term: absolute fealty and commitment to his avenging his petty grievances. But while her spirit is willing, the lack of a factual basis for many of Trump's vendettas is likely to put her at risk of leaving Trump disappointed and unfulfilled. David Rohde, NBC News national security editor, discusses with Alex Wagner.

Transcribed - Published: 16 January 2025

Hegseth squirms as Democrats hammer poor character, weak qualifications to be defense secretary

Though clearly prepared in advance with techniques to avoid addressing the many concerns raised about his qualifications to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth still struggled as Democrats unloaded questions about his serial infidelities, sexual assault accusations, drinking problem, lack of leadership experience and other shortcomings at his confirmation hearing. Senator Tim Kaine talks with Alex Wagner about why Donald Trump has made a mistake in choosing Fox News personality Hegseth.

Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2025

The truth about why fire hydrants lost pressure and ran dry during the Los Angeles fires

Martin Adams, former general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, blows up some right-wing myths about the water supply in Pacific Palisades, and talks with Alex Wagner about the realities of municipal water systems and ideas for adapting a system built for occasional residential fires to deal with a large scale, community-wide fire.

Transcribed - Published: 11 January 2025

Insurance companies can't afford to deny climate change; coverage scarce in most-affected areas

The increasing risk and destruction from climate-related disasters is so plain that in some states where climate-driven fires and storms are especially devastating, some insurers are withdrawing coverage for flooding and fires. Jeff Goodell, climate journalist and author of "The Heat Will Kill You First," talks with Alex Wagner about how climate-driven disasters are forcing a change in how we live.

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

Catastrophic California wildfires too big a crisis for small man, Donald Trump

Still weeks away from returning to office, Donald Trump is showing himself to be as petty and vindictive as he was in his first term, turning the tragic, devastating wildfire crisis in Los Angeles into a political gotcha game with distorted lies and accusations.

Transcribed - Published: 9 January 2025

'Obviously ridiculous': Trump veers into bizarre fixation on adding neighboring countries as states

Alex Wagner takes a closer look at the roots of Donald Trump's fixation of re-taking possession of the Panama Canal and adding Greenland and Canada as new American territories, and whether there is cause for concern in Trump's expansionist inclinations despite the his inherent goofiness.

Transcribed - Published: 8 January 2025

'Felon president'?: Judge won't let Trump skate on guilty verdict; sets sentencing date

Judge Juan Merchan denied Donald Trump's motion to dismiss his hush money case in New York and scheduled a sentencing for January 10th, which could mean that Donald Trump will officially be a felon when he is sworn in as president. Lisa Rubin, MSNBC legal correspondent, and Kristy Greenberg, former federal prosecutor, explain what options Trump has left and what is likely to happen.

Transcribed - Published: 4 January 2025

'The find out phase': Rep. Crockett spares no sympathy for Johnson facing GOP chaos

Rep. Jasmine Crockett talks with Ali Velshi about the Republican chaos threatening to entangle House Speaker Mike Johnson in a familiar, embarrassing fight to retain the speakership into the new Congress with a tiny majority and having squandered the good will of his colleagues across the aisle who might otherwise save him.

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025

Donald Trump introduces farcical foreign policy ideas into already dangerous international setting

A special two hour edition of Alex Wagner Tonight.

Transcribed - Published: 28 December 2024

Greed and gray areas: Cryptocurrency seems inherently appealing to Trump; a wildcard in his new term

Plus, Trump's anti-immigration plans face resource challenge at the state level

Transcribed - Published: 25 December 2024

House Speaker Musk?!? Republicans fall in line as Elon trumps Trump

Republicans are mired in chaos and infighting as they humiliate themselves on the national stage again without being able to pass a spending bill to keep the federal government open. Elon Musk is only making matters worse, but that hasn't deterred a faction of the Republican Party from wanting to give him a more formal leadership role. Musk, meanwhile, is only a portion of the corporate feeding frenzy taking advantage of Donald Trump's weaknesses.

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2024

Democrats watch as 'Co-president' Musk leads Trump in destroying Johnson on spending bill

After Elon Musk expressed his opposition to a new spending bill, Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters followed suit, undermining House Speaker Mike Johnson and steering the U.S. toward a federal government shutdown. Meanwhile, Democrats are stepping away from the Republican chaos, leaving the GOP stuck in its own inability to govern.

Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2024

Trump exposes his real motivation with ill-considered lawsuit against newspaper

Donald Trump is pressing his grievances with the media through lawsuits, but his case against the Des Moines Register over poll results he didn't like is so poorly conceived from a legal standpoint that his real goal of using the court system as an intimidation weapon is hard to miss.

Transcribed - Published: 18 December 2024

Trump moves to steamroll Senate Republicans in bid to build 'disruptive' administration

As some Senate Republicans recoil at some of Donald Trump's more extreme picks to serve in his administration, Trump is turning up the pressure on anyone who would dare defy him. Eric Cortellessa, staff writer for Time, and Tara Palmeri, senior political correspondent for Puck News, discuss.

Transcribed - Published: 14 December 2024

Trump already walking back core campaign promise on prices, inflation

Despite making a promise of lowering prices an inflation a central part of his presidential campaign, and admitting that that promise was key to his being elected, Donald Trump is now waffling on whether that's even possible. Michelle Goldberg, columnist for the New York Times, and Faiz Shakir, founder and executive director of More Perfect Union, talk with Alex Wagner about Trump's walk back and what his post-election rhetoric suggests about his actual economic priorities.

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2024

Trump's FBI pick to bring 'deep state' paranoia to organization he holds in contempt

Alex Wagner reports on Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, who espouses conspiracy theories about the "deep state" and describes the organization he is potentially about to lead as essentially corrupt. Plus, the shifting of voters within the groups that make up the Democratic Party coalition in the 2024 election are prompting a new consideration of how to understand voting blocs like Latino voters and Black voters and women voters and whether those groupings are as relevant as they once were, and as relevant as public policy would suggest. Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, discusses.

Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2024

Court ruling sends jolt through the core of U.S. conservatives, Fox News 'Trump staffing agency'

A move by Rupert Murdoch to secure the conservative editorial leadership of his media empire, including Fox News, the New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal in the U.S., in the hands of his son Lachlan, was dealt a blow by a judge who accused the Murdochs of acting in bad faith. Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of Media Matters discusses with Alex Wagner the significance of the ruling to the future of conservatism and MAGAism in the U.S.

Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2024

Democrats shuffle leadership in prep for Trump fight; Raskin takes mantle of democratic lodestar

Rep. Jamie Raskin talks with Alex Wagner about the race between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Gerry Connolly for the Democratic Party's top spot on the powerful House Oversight Committee. Raskin left his spot on that committee to become the ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, and explains that the leadership shuffle is about gearing up for the fight against Donald Trump's capricious agenda.

Transcribed - Published: 7 December 2024

Open for business: Trump abandons pretense of ethics for second term

Donald Trump has made clear that his company will be pursuing business opportunities in other countries while he is president and making decisions about the relationship between the U.S. and those countries. Meanwhile the people he is choosing to run his administration are consistently conflicted with responsibilities that overlap with their own interests.

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2024

Warren shows how Trump's poor choice of defense secretary threatens U.S. military readiness

So much attention has been devoted to the personal shortcomings of Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, that there hasn't been room to look at his opinions on key issues for the military, including the role of women. Senator Elizabeth Warren, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, talks with Alex Wagner about why Hegseth's views could threaten U.S. military recruitment goals.

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2024

Why reports of excessive drinking may be the one scandal Donald Trump cares about

While Donald Trump's most extreme picks to serve in his administration are struggling in the spotlight, Trump's revenge agenda is likely to survive even if the nominations of some of his preferred foot soldiers do not. In light of Trump's enthusiasm for payback that could take the form of baseless criminal prosecution, some people are encouraging President Biden to issue pardons to Trump critics, particularly those on the black list of Trump's choice to lead the FBI, Kash Patel.

Transcribed - Published: 4 December 2024

'Laughable': Trump's fraud case not likely to change despite dubious plea from his lawyer

Even as Donald Trump continues to secure his corruption of the federal government, he remains powerless to escape his civil fraud judgment in New York.

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2024

Yikes! Industries warn of devastating effects of Trump's tariffs; Trump ignores his own poor record

Despite having seen how tariffs raised consumer prices in his first term, Donald Trump is determined to start new trade wars with significant tariffs on Mexico and Canada while at the same time deporting a sizeable portion of the U.S. workforce against the warnings of the farming and construction industries.

Transcribed - Published: 27 November 2024

'Some kind of terrifying game show': Trump releases avalanche of new Cabinet picks

Alex Wagner reports on a litany of new Cabinet picks announced by Donald Trump on Friday evening.

Transcribed - Published: 23 November 2024

Trump suffers cold dose of reality with Gaetz failure, but learned lessons are questionable

With the collapse of Matt Gaetz's bid for attorney general, attention is shifting to Donald Trump's other nominees and whether Trump is hitting the limits of his political power with such flawed Cabinet picks.

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024

Supreme Court's anti-affirmative action ruling could backfire as Trump brings religious culture war to schools

Alex Wagner explores how Donald Trump's true goal of wreaking havoc on the federal government is well served by his Cabinet picks even if they are unqualified to run the departments they would be in charge of.

Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2024

'Flood the zone': Trump's clown car Cabinet attempts to overwhelm the limits of public attention

Alex Wagner looks at how Donald Trump has returned to the tactic Steve Bannon described as "flood the zone," by overwhelming the capacity of the media and the public at large to process the sheer volume of inappropriate behavior and decisions that might have caused a bigger scandal in isolation.

Transcribed - Published: 20 November 2024

Not even in office yet, Trump scrambles to bury Cabinet picks' scandals

As Donald Trump bullies Washington Republicans into submission with ridiculous Cabinet picks, President Joe Biden is working to bolster the guard rails of the judiciary as much as he can before his time in office runs out.

Transcribed - Published: 16 November 2024

'Bonus karmic justice': The Onion purchases Infowars assets with help from Sandy Hook families

Alex Wagner takes a closer look at the dubious cast of characters Donald Trump is elevating to his Cabinet, from Tulsi Gabbard to Matt Gaetz, to RFK Jr.

Transcribed - Published: 15 November 2024

'I was shocked': Trump may have gone too far with Gaetz elevation to attorney general

After a day of absurd selections for the top levels of his administration, it is clear that Donald Trump is testing the loyalty of Senate Republicans to blindly do his bidding. Alex Wagner talks with her guests about the reaction to a potential Attorney General Matt Gaetz or Defense Secretary Hegseth.

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2024

'Grim and glum': Trump malice toward federal institutions felt most acutely at DOJ

Alex Wagner looks at expectations for the new Trump regime, from his cabinet appointments to his plan for "mass deportations," to his attacks on federal government agencies.

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2024

The real V.P.? Musk deeply involved in Trump transition as Trump takes steps toward oligarchy

Plus, How the Roberts Supreme Court embraced MAGA and paved the way for Trump's autocratic ambitions

Transcribed - Published: 9 November 2024

Trump hopes for House majority but Republican chaos may be insurmountable

Plus, 'Women have to find each other': Election exposes deep political rift among white women

Transcribed - Published: 8 November 2024

'How did this happen?': Alex Wagner examines the MAGA themes that drew voters to Trump

Plus, Abortion rights ballot measures confirm public support but confound with Trump voter crossover

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2024

Vote counting schedules and bellwether blobs: Steve Kornacki previews Election Night expectations

On the last episode of Alex Wagner Tonight before Election Day, Alex Wagner looks at the remarkable campaign Kamala Harris has pulled together in a very short amount of time, and talks with guests about the final days of election day and what it means about the United State of America that someone as flawed as Donald Trump still enjoys the support of half of the country's voters.

Transcribed - Published: 2 November 2024

Trump struggles to reach beyond his base as Harris plies swing state voters

The name of the game in the final days of the 2024 election is "get out the vote." While Donald Trump struggles to find a way to communicate to anyone who isn't already in his thrall, Kamala Harris combines a rigorous ground game with a steady effort to expand her reach, especially in swing states. Ali Velshi takes a closer look at Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina.

Transcribed - Published: 1 November 2024

Whispering women strategize Trump's downfall with vital rights at stake

Joy Red co-hosts with Alex Wagner in a "Your Vote, Your Power" election special broadcast looking at the rights and freedom for women that are at stake in the 2024 election.

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2024

'Donald Trump is a time traveler': Jordan Klepper exposes the view from the Magaverse

Plus, Will the Trump team's latest insult to Puerto Ricans actually cost him votes? Victor Martinez thinks it will.

Transcribed - Published: 30 October 2024

'No one is immune': Ifill cautions political players trying to suck up to Trump

Plus, Harris emphasizes election's national stakes, even in states that don't swing

Transcribed - Published: 26 October 2024

Barack Obama shreds Donald Trump for trying to take credit for Obama-era accomplishments

Plus, Democrats see hopeful signs in early voting patterns

Transcribed - Published: 25 October 2024

Audio tapes put Trump affinity for Hitler into new focus

Plus, American men pose complex challenge for Democrats against allure of Republican toxicity

Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2024

Making magic in the margins: Parties extend unusual voter outreach in tight Pennsylvania

Plus, is America ready to elect a woman president?

Transcribed - Published: 23 October 2024

'Why aren't people more alarmed?': As Trump becomes more extreme, Americans get used to it

Plus, Echoing anti-Trump trend, some Texas Republicans flip to Allred over Cruz

Transcribed - Published: 19 October 2024

'She's ballin', he's stallin'': Trump fading in campaign's home stretch

Plus, Sanders highlights missing message to shore up union vote for Harris

Transcribed - Published: 18 October 2024

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