About this episode

The episode discusses the nature of confirmation hearings as political theater and touches on a White House leak investigation.

SEND ME A TEXT MESSAGE NOW Some political stories make you shake your head. Others make you wonder if anyone in Washington is even pretending anymore. This week, I take on confirmation hearings that increasingly feel like political theater, where everyone already knows how the vote will end before the first question is even asked. At what point does the performance become more important than the process? Then there’s a White House leak investigation that reportedly reached the point where off...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Alan Wolf

Topics covered

• confirmation hearings
• political theater
• White House leak investigation
• 2020 election
• politics

Keywords

• confirmation hearings
• political theater
• Trump
• 2020 election
• Washington
• politics
• leak investigation

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Organizations: Washington

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