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About this episode

Jon Lovett discusses midterm strategies and journalism challenges with guests in Washington, DC.

Lovett or Leave It just flew into Washington, DC and boy is the FBI Director tired! Lovett is joined by Senator Chris Murphy to talk winning the midterms in the face of AI slop and AI SuperPACs. Then MSNow's Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels debate how journalists can stand up to Trump when they share a ballroom this weekend, and we answer a few tough questions facing Democrats. Finally, the rant wheel spins and a sold out crowd at the Lincoln Theatre shares a few second thoughts. What a night. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

People in this episode

Host: Jon Lovett

Guests: Chris Murphy, Symone Sanders Townsend, Eugene Daniels

Topics covered

• midterms
• AI
• journalism
• Trump
• politics
• debate
• comedy

Keywords

• midterms
• AI SuperPACs
• journalism
• Trump
• debate
• politics
• FBI
• Washington DC
• comedy
• Lovett or Leave It

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI, MSNow, Crooked Media

Places: Washington, DC, Lincoln Theatre

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