The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Jen Psaki tackles the biggest issues of the week and features one-on-one interviews with newsmakers.
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- Robert Malley2 eps
- Graham Platner2 eps
- Jim Messina2 eps
Also: Sarah Fitzpatrick, Jake Sullivan, Adm. John Kirby, Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock, Ben Rhodes, Dan Pfieffer, Quentin Fulks, Pete Buttigieg, Chuck Rocha, Todd Blanche, James Comey, John Brennan, Senator Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Glenn Kirshner, Alex Tabet, Rep. Robert Garcia
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- 🇺🇸United States · PoliticsHOME#14355K to 1.9M
- 🇨🇦Canada · Politics#1811K to 60K
- 🇮🇩ID · Politics#117.4K to 39K
- 🇧🇷Brazil · Politics#464.1K to 22K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Politics#333.8K to 20K
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407K to 2.2M🎙 Daily cadence·441 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
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1.4M to 7.2M🇺🇸87%🇨🇦3%🇮🇩2%+6 more - Active Followers
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746K to 3.9M
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/28/26 | 'Downright stupid': Trump gets DOJ corruption he wanted but competence still eludes him | October 27, 2026; 9pm: Jen examines Trump’s Justice Department failures, election-related legal fights, Elon Musk’s role in Texas politics, and new reporting on Donald Trump Jr.’s Mongolia hunting trip with a Putin-linked Russian oligarch. Jamie Raskin, Gina Hinojosa, and Rahm Emanuel discuss accountability, corruption, and what the final week before the midterms could mean. | 41m 40s | ||||||
| 10/27/26 | After Obama humiliates Trump, an odd choice to push back | October 26, 2026; 9pm: Jen breaks down Trump and allies’ closing midterm message, from attacks over Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke to DOJ election lawsuits, Comey charges, and claims of corruption. Ben Rhodes, Mark Elias, and Adam Hamilton discuss anti-corruption politics, voting-rights legal fights, and why Kansas has become unexpectedly competitive. | 41m 53s | ||||||
| 10/24/26 | Desperate Trump takes first steps toward undermining midterm election results | October 23, 2026; 9pm: Jen breaks down the Justice Department’s Alaska election lawsuit with Mark Elias, the fallout from Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad with Josh Turek, and Kansas Republicans crossing party lines against Roger Marshall with Bill Graves. The episode highlights how late-stage election fights, candidate controversies, and bipartisan defections are shaping key Senate and governor races. | 41m 06s | ||||||
| 10/23/26 | Trump Corruption, Women’s Power, and the Fight for the Midterms | October 22, 2026; 9pm: This episode examines Trump-era corruption, attacks on women seeking power, election threats, and the midterm fight in Mississippi. Guests Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Sarah Longwell, and Scott Colom discuss misogyny, voter backlash, voting rights, and how Democrats can connect corruption to everyday costs. | 41m 07s | ||||||
| 10/22/26 | Team Trump running on depravity in midterms' closing weeks | October 21, 2026; 9pm: Jen examines Republican closing messages on Vladimir Putin, Amy Acton, Camp Lejeune veterans, and alleged Trump corruption, with guests Wes Moore, Mitch Landrieu, and Miles Taylor. The key takeaway is that corruption and political cruelty are defining the final stretch before the midterm elections. | 42m 47s | ||||||
| 10/21/26 | 'ABSOLUTE STUNNER': New corruption scandal rocks Trump just weeks before midterms | October 20, 2026; 9pm: Jen covers rising Democratic turnout and fundraising, Republican attack politics, alleged Trump pardon influence, and Elon Musk’s role in Texas politics. Guests Senator Raphael Warnock, Liz Oyer, Mary Peltola, and Rep. Greg Casar weigh in on early voting, corruption, Alaska’s Senate race, and the midterm stakes. | 41m 17s | ||||||
| 10/17/26 | Trump Vetting Chaos, Corruption Politics, and Starlink in Ukraine | October 16, 2026; 9pm: Michael Steele examines Trump White House turmoil after Katie Zachariah’s short-lived press secretary role, the politics of corruption and campaign money, and questions over Starshield access for Ukraine. Guests George Conway, Chuck Rocha, Rob Flaherty, Mark Hertling, and Brian Poindexter connect the stories to midterm stakes and voter backlash. | 42m 48s | ||||||
| 10/16/26 | Bend School Shooting and DOJ’s Fight Over California Voter Rolls | October 15, 2026 9p.m. ET - Jen Psaki covers breaking news of a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, where three children, a teacher, and the suspected shooter were killed. | 40m 04s | ||||||
| 10/15/26 | Psaki: MAGA candidates should answer for Trump's unhinged nonsense | October 14, 2026 - Jen Psaki shares pieces of Donald Trump's speech at a rally in Arizona and makes the case that the media should not ignore the bizarre things he says and should ask the candidates who support him to explicitly endorse his statements. | 41m 25s | ||||||
| 10/14/26 | 'Oh, Katie': Psaki lets loose on Trump's new press secretary | October 13, 2026 - Jen Psaki reacts to Katie Zacharia's first day as Donald Trump's press secretary, the mockery she made of the press briefing, and Donald Trump's efforts to normalize a compliant press. | 42m 05s | ||||||
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| 10/11/26 |  Together in Texas: Part 2 | Together In Texas: We the People 2026. Part Two. | 42m 41s | ||||||
| 10/11/26 |  Together in Texas: Part 1 | Together In Texas: We the People 2026. Part One. | 44m 43s | ||||||
| 10/10/26 | Trump backstabs allies, breaks sanctions for sudden Russian diesel deal | October 9, 2026 - Jen Psaki reports on Donald Trump giving Russian President Vladimir Putin another big boost by dropping sanctions to allow Russia to move more diesel fuel to market and suggested the U.S. would be among the buyers. Trump even thanked Putin even though the diesel release is not expected to be enough to change global diesel prices, but will yield billions for Russia to spend on its war against ostensible U.S. ally, Ukraine. Brett McGurk, former White House coordinator for the Middle East, joins to discuss. | 41m 42s | ||||||
| 10/9/26 | Psaki: It's not just Trump's curse. GOP put flawed candidates in tight races. | October 8, 2026 - Jen Psaki explains that while a popular president may be able to carry a lackluster candidate with the help of local partisanship, the combination of Donald Trump's abysmal public approval and deeply flawed Republican candidates appears to not only be tipping races toward Democrats, but also changing the minds of voters who might have previously voted Republican by reflex. | 41m 50s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 | HOT MESS: Report says Guilfoyle begged for money, offered favors ahead of confirmation | October 7, 2026 - Jen Psaki relays new reporting from the Wall Street Journal that Kimberly Guilfoyle, former Fox News host, former Donald Trump Jr. fiance, and current U.S. ambassador to Greece, struggled with debt, begged a Trump donor for $100,000 to pay off her credit card bill, and offered to use her influence in the Trump administration to do favors for the donor ahead of her confirmation hearing. | 42m 37s | ||||||
| 10/7/26 | Jen Psaki live from Maine on the road to the midterms | October 6, 2026 - Jen Psaki hosts the Briefing live from Maine, immediately following the debate between Senate candidates Troy Jackson and Susan Collins. | 47m 36s | ||||||
| 10/3/26 | Local news busts Trump on empty economic promises | When Donald Trump boasts that a new steel plant is already under construction in Iowa, who better to check the veracity of that claim than the people in Iowa who live where the plant is supposedly being built? Jen Psaki shares examples of Donald Trump making promises on the campaign trail that have no basis in reality as far as the people most closely connected to the news can tell. | 46m 30s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 | Trump meme coin hype sputters as his public approval tanks | Jen Psaki explains that Donald Trump is hosting another dinner in support of his cryptocurrency meme coin, ignoring the fact that his own followers took massive losses investing in the coin, with many openly disparaging him for it. | 42m 16s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 | 'Clown' Hegseth makes a fool of himself with fixation on superficial priorities | September 30, 2026 - Despite the increasingly dangerous global security environment, made even more dangerous by Donald Trump's inexplicable war on Iran and Pete Hegseth's mismanagement of it, Hegseth has devoted his attention to prioritizing a cartoonish image of what it means to be an American servicemember. Michael Steele discusses with veterans Rep. Pat Ryan and Rep. Chris Deluzio. | 43m 04s | ||||||
| 9/30/26 | Smug GOP senator faceplants with humiliating 'gotcha' failure | Jen Psaki shares the events at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in which Republican Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had caught former special counsel Jack Smith in a perjury gotcha only to be called out for his spectacular failure by Senator Amy Klobuchar who pointed out that Schmitt's blind spot for women's sports led him into what Psaki describes as a "slow-moving self-implosion" leaving Smith unscathed and unflapped. | 41m 33s | ||||||
| 9/26/26 | Trump's hypocrisy compounds his humiliation in sucking up to China's President Xi | September 25, 2026 - Jen Psaki unearths past video of Donald Trump decrying state dinners, especially with China, and contrasts them with Donald Trump's literal red carpet treatment of China's President Xi, embarrassing himself and the United States with his fawning admiration. Former U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan joins to discuss. | 42m 41s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 | Psaki: Trump admiration for dictators seen in his attacks on media | September 24, 2026 - As Donald Trump ban on members of the media whose coverage he doesn't like continues to play out in court, Jen Psaki points out that the media model Trump seems to most want to emulate is that of the dictators he admires. | 41m 54s | ||||||
| 9/24/26 | How we know Donald Trump is freaking out about his disastrous poll numbers | September 23, 2026 - Jen Psaki points out that the last time Donald Trump lost his cool and tried to ban a member of the news media from the White House he had just been clobbered by a blue wave midterm and his political power was at a nadir. Polling shows him to be even worse off now than he was then. Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN who successfully challenged being banned from the White House in Trump's first term, joins to discuss why Trump's bad news makes him angry at the news media. | 41m 51s | ||||||
| 9/23/26 | Psaki lays waste to bogus GOP talking points on press freedom | While Donald Trump banning news organizations from the White House because he doesn't like their coverage is objectively inexcusable in the United States of America, Republicans are nonetheless trying their hardest to make excuses for Trump. Jen Psaki dismantles them with facts and context. | 41m 51s | ||||||
| 9/19/26 | Psaki: Trump can't hide by attacking the free press | Jen Psaki reviews the history of American presidents clashing with members of the press but still respecting their First Amendment role, and reports on Donald Trump's declaration that he is banning MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House. Trump previously lost a legal challenge to banning a member of the press, and Psaki notes that Trump's war on the free press hasn't prevented the press from continuing to cover him and his administration. | 40m 48s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 | Donald Trumpmidterm elections+3 | Hakeem Jeffries | Fox News | — | TrumpHakeem Jeffries+5 | — | 42m 29s | ||
| 9/10/26 | Donald TrumpRepublican convention+3 | — | Republican | Texas | TrumpRepublican convention+3 | — | 41m 19s | ||
| 9/9/26 | Republican talking pointspolitical strategy+3 | — | Republicanscrazy | — | Republicanstalking points+4 | — | 41m 35s | ||
| 9/4/26 | TrumpIran+3 | Nancy LacoreChris Deluzio | U.S. Navy | IranCongress | TrumpIran+5 | — | 41m 31s | ||
| 9/4/26 | JD VanceDonald Trump+4 | — | RepublicansCongress+1 | IranMiddle East | JD VanceDonald Trump+5 | — | 42m 04s | ||
| 9/2/26 | military leadershippolitical purge+3 | Rahm Emanuel | U.S. militaryObama White House | — | Pete HegsethDonald Trump+5 | — | 42m 22s | ||
| 8/29/26 | tech accountabilitypolitical pressure+3 | Rob FlahertyJesse Lehrich | Donald TrumpDemocrats+1 | — | tech executivesTrump+5 | — | 41m 14s | ||
| 8/28/26 | Florida politicspolitical scandal+3 | — | Florida grand jury | Florida | Florida politicsmoney laundering+3 | — | 41m 35s | ||
| 8/27/26 | midterm electionsRepublican challenges+3 | David Plouffe | 2008 campaign | — | midterm electionsDonald Trump+5 | — | 41m 51s | ||
| 8/26/26 | Senate raceTrump+3 | Jim Messina | BulwarkObama | South Carolina | TrumpSenate race+5 | — | 40m 22s | ||
| 7/21/26 | Trump administrationwar with Iran+3 | Mark Kelly | — | Iran | TrumpIran+5 | — | 41m 25s | ||
| 7/18/26 | election securitymedia coverage+5 | — | RussiaChina | — | Trumpelection speech+5 | — | 41m 23s | ||
| 7/17/26 | Trump's document dumpU.S. election security+3 | Michael FeinbergKen Dilanian+1 | Federal Bureau of InvestigationU.S. election security | — | Trumpelection security+3 | — | 48m 33s | ||
| 7/16/26 | Trump nomineesSenate confirmation hearings+3 | — | Senate | — | Trumpnominees+6 | — | 41m 18s | ||
| 7/15/26 | Republicansmidterm elections+4 | — | ICE | — | RepublicansTrump+4 | — | 41m 14s | ||
| 7/13/26 | humoraudio memoir+3 | Billy Eichner | Billy on Billy: An Audio Memoir | — | Jen PsakiBilly Eichner+3 | — | 1h 13m 42s | ||
| 7/11/26 | staffing choicespolitical consequences+3 | — | FBI | Iran | Donald Trumpstaffing+5 | — | 41m 04s | ||
| 7/10/26 | Donald Trumppower dynamics+3 | Maggie Haberman | New York TimesRegime Change | — | Maggie HabermanDonald Trump+5 | — | 41m 37s | ||
| 7/9/26 | Donald TrumpNATO meeting+4 | — | NATO | Turkey | Donald TrumpNATO+4 | — | 42m 11s | ||
| 7/8/26 | voter fraudTexas politics+3 | Zach Despart | Texas TribuneProPublica | — | Ken Paxtonvoter fraud+5 | — | 41m 04s | ||
| 6/13/26 | legal issuesTrump administration+3 | Glenn Kirshner | Trump administration | Kennedy CenterWashington, D.C. | TrumpKennedy Center+6 | — | 40m 54s | ||
| 6/12/26 | Trump's policiesvoter sentiment+3 | Alex Tabet | MS NOW | Iran | Trumppolling data+3 | — | 41m 03s | ||
| 6/11/26 | White House responseJeffrey Epstein+3 | Rep. Robert Garcia | New York Times | — | Epstein filesTrump White House+3 | — | 40m 43s | ||
| 6/10/26 | Senate electionDemocratic primary+3 | Graham Platner | Democratic Party | MaineWashington, D.C. | Graham PlatnerSusan Collins+3 | — | 49m 57s | ||
| 6/6/26 | Trumpdonations+3 | — | Public Citizen | — | Trumpballroom+4 | — | 41m 44s | ||
| 6/5/26 | national securityintelligence+4 | John Brennan | CIAnational intelligence | — | Donald TrumpJohn Brennan+5 | — | 41m 41s | ||
| 6/4/26 | Trump administrationpolitical appointments+3 | Senator Adam Schiff | Federal Housing Finance AgencyRepublicans | — | TrumpBill Pulte+5 | — | 42m 02s | ||
| 6/3/26 | Senate raceDemocrats+3 | Jon Ossoff | Federal Housing Finance Agency | — | Jon OssoffTrump+5 | — | 41m 57s | ||
| 5/30/26 | legal issuesDonald Trump+3 | — | IRS | — | legal failuresDonald Trump+3 | — | 42m 05s | ||
| 5/29/26 | impeachment inquirypolitical reporting+3 | — | Pro PublicaWhite House | — | impeachmentTrump Jr.+3 | — | 42m 10s | ||
| 5/28/26 | IranTrump+5 | Robert Malley | U.S. media | IranU.S.+1 | IranTrump+6 | — | 43m 15s | ||
| 5/27/26 | TrumpRepublican Party+3 | Jim MessinaChuck Rocha | Republican PartyBarack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign+1 | — | TrumpRepublican Party+6 | — | 43m 10s | ||
| 5/22/26 | TrumpRepublican senators+4 | — | RepublicanTrump's slush fund | American | TrumpRepublican senators+4 | — | 41m 26s | ||
| 5/21/26 | Republican politicsDonald Trump+3 | — | RepublicansYolo Caucus | — | TrumpRepublicans+5 | — | 41m 02s | ||
| 5/20/26 | TrumpSenate hearing+3 | Todd Blanche | Senate Appropriations CommitteeDonald Trump | — | TrumpSenate hearing+3 | — | 41m 13s | ||
| 5/16/26 | Trump campaignChina relations+3 | — | — | China | TrumpChina+4 | — | 41m 35s | ||
| 5/15/26 | FBITrump administration+4 | James Comey | FBITrump administration | — | FBIJames Comey+5 | — | 42m 41s | ||
| 5/14/26 | political convenienceanti-fraud talking points+4 | — | IRS | China | JD VanceTrump+5 | — | 41m 03s | ||
| 5/9/26 | Voting RightsRedistricting+3 | Dan PfiefferQuentin Fulks | Pod Save AmericaSupreme Court+1 | — | DemocratsHouse elections+3 | — | 41m 22s | ||
| 5/8/26 | gas pricesTrump administration+3 | — | Trump administration | United States | Trumpgas prices+3 | — | 41m 59s | ||
| 5/7/26 | political targetingTrump administration+3 | — | Justice DepartmentFBI | — | political targetingTrump+5 | — | 42m 03s | ||
| 5/6/26 | political adjustmentsTrump's relevance+3 | Pete Buttigieg | Republican | South Bend, Indiana | Pete ButtigiegDonald Trump+3 | — | 41m 38s | ||
| 5/2/26 | Trump corruptionDemocratic candidates+3 | Ben Rhodes | Obama | — | Trumpcorruption+5 | — | 41m 22s | ||
| 5/1/26 | Senate raceDonald Trump+3 | Graham Platner | Democratic Party | Maine | Graham PlatnerSenate+3 | — | 40m 57s | ||
| 4/30/26 | Supreme Court rulingBlack representation+5 | Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock | Supreme Court | Congress | Supreme CourtBlack representation+8 | — | 41m 57s | ||
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| 4/22/26 | Virginia electionsredistricting+3 | — | RepublicanIran | Virginia | Virginiaredistricting+5 | — | 42m 11s | ||
| 4/18/26 | FBIKash Patel+4 | Sarah Fitzpatrick | FBIThe Atlantic | — | Kash PatelFBI+5 | — | 41m 17s | ||
| 4/17/26 | political signsTrump's support+3 | — | — | — | Trumppolitics+5 | — | 40m 36s | ||
| 4/16/26 | IranDonald Trump+4 | Jake Sullivan | MS NOWThe Briefing with Jen Psaki | — | politicsIran+5 | — | 41m 19s | ||
| 4/15/26 | Donald TrumpRepublican Party+4 | — | Republicans | — | Donald Trumpgas prices+5 | — | 41m 40s | ||
| 4/11/26 | global economyIran negotiations+3 | Adm. John KirbyRobert Malley | Pentagon | PakistanIran | JD VanceDonald Trump+5 | — | 51m 13s | ||
| 4/10/26 | Melania TrumpJeffrey Epstein+3 | — | Donald Trump | — | Melania TrumpJeffrey Epstein+5 | — | 41m 38s | ||
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Chart history for The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Peaked at #8 in MY, top 10 in 2 of 50 tracked markets, currently #8 in MY.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| MY | — | #8 | #8 | — |
| NG | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| ID | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| United States | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| KE | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| Canada | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| South Africa | — | #26 | #26 | — |
| IS | — | #31 | #31 | — |
| Australia | — | #33 | #33 | — |
| Ireland | — | #33 | #33 | — |
| Japan | — | #34 | #34 | — |
| TH | — | #37 | #37 | — |
| Finland | — | #39 | #39 | — |
| SG | — | #39 | #39 | — |
| HK | — | #40 | #40 | — |
| VN | — | #42 | #42 | — |
| United States | — | #43 | #43 | — |
| AE | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| Brazil | — | #46 | #46 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #48 | #48 | — |
Chart Positions
50 placements across 38 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 38 markets.