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52 Episodes 2006 - 2006
Episode 1
Fri, Jan 6, 2006 30 mins
Topics include lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea; President Bush's Iraq War strategy; Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's stroke; the Alito Supreme Court nomination hearings.
Episode 2
Fri, Jan 13, 2006 30 mins
Topics include the decision of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) to step aside from House leadership; the scandal involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff; the Samuel Alito Jr. Supreme Court hearings; the domestic-surveillance program.
Episode 3
Fri, Jan 20, 2006 30 mins
Topics include Supreme Court decisions on assisted suicide and abortion parental-notification; public opinion on abortion; the Medicare prescription-drug program; and lobbying-reform proposals.
Episode 4
Fri, Jan 27, 2006 30 mins
Topics include the Hamas victory in Palestinian elections; the progress of President Bush's push to spread democracy around the globe; the White House defense of domestic surveillance; a preview of the State of the Union address.
Episode 5
Fri, Feb 3, 2006 30 mins
Topics include a look at President Bush's State of the Union address; midterm election issues facing the president and Congress; diplomatic solutions to Iran's nuclear weapons; the selection of Rep. John Boehner (R - Ohio) to replace Tom DeLay as House majority leader.
Episode 6
Fri, Feb 10, 2006 30 mins
Topics include protests following cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad; the president's 2007 budget and priorities; the surveillance program; proposals for lobbying reform.
Episode 7
Fri, Feb 17, 2006 30 mins
Topics include Vice President Cheyney's hunting accident; criticism of the Department of Homeland Security regarding Hurricane Katrina; and international pressure on Iran to relinquish nuclear plans.
Episode 8
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 30 mins
Topics include the management of U.S. ports; political implications of the port deal; the possibility of civil war in Iraq; the Supreme Court's decision to hear the late-term abortion case.
Episode 9
Fri, Mar 3, 2006 30 mins
Topics include the U.S.-India nuclear deal; President Bush and the conservative agenda; the Republican consensus on national security; the Texas Congressional districting case before the Supreme Court.
Episode 10
Fri, Mar 10, 2006 30 mins
Topics include Thursday's decision by a Dubai-owned company to drop plans to take over U.S. port operations. Also, growing tension between the U.S. and Tehran concerning Iran's nuclear program.
Episode 11
Fri, Mar 17, 2006 30 mins
Subjects include Operation Swarmer, described as the largest air assault in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion began. Also, a look at President Bush's poor approval ratings.
Episode 12
Fri, Mar 24, 2006 30 mins
Topics include the week's events in Iraq; President Bush's domestic and foreign agendas; Congressional races in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio and Illinois; fiscal responsibility.
Episode 13
Fri, Mar 31, 2006 30 mins
Topics include immigration reform; lobbying reform; and the resignation of Andrew Card as White House chief of staff.
Episode 14
Fri, Apr 7, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the revelation that President Bush may have authorized I. Lewis Libby to leak classified information; immigration reform; the legacy of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas); Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.).
Episode 15
Fri, Apr 14, 2006 30 mins
Topics include Iran and uranium; the CIA leak investigation; the death-penalty phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial; former military members speaking out against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Episode 16
Fri, Apr 21, 2006 29 mins
Topics include changes in the White House; talks between President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao; the possible impact of rising gas prices on Bush's popularity.
Episode 17
Fri, Apr 28, 2006 29 mins
Topics include surging gas prices; Iraq's new government; the Senate-panel recommendation to replace FEMA with a new agency; and Washington leaks.
Episode 18
Fri, May 5, 2006 27 mins
Topics include gas prices and their impact on midterm elections; the immigration demonstrations; bird flu and the national pandemic-response strategy; the Zacarias Moussaoui trial and verdict.
Episode 19
Fri, May 12, 2006 27 mins
Topics include national security; the president's plummeting poll numbers; the tax-cut bill; Iran's nuclear threat.
Episode 20
Fri, May 19, 2006 27 mins
Topics include President's Bush immigration plan; Gen. Michael Hayden's confirmation hearings; the NSA's domestic phone database and the CIA and U.S. intelligence.
Episode 21
Fri, May 26, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the FBI raid of Rep. William Jefferson's office; safeguarding veterans' personal data in the wake of a major database theft; the Senate bill to change immigration laws; British Prime Minister Tony Blair's meeting with President Bush.
Episode 22
Fri, Jun 2, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the alleged massacre in Haditha; President Bush's decision to order ethical training for U.S. troops in Iraq; Iraqi-insurgent attacks; new Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; the nuclear tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
Episode 23
Fri, Jun 9, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; the arrests of 17 suspected terrorists in Canada; the debate over flag-burning.
Episode 24
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 27 mins
Included: President Bush's visit to Iraq to meet with Iraqi government officials; and special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's decision not to indict Karl Rove in the case involving the leak of a CIA agent's name to the media. Also: the president's approval rating in recent polls.
Episode 25
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 27 mins
The Senate debate over withdrawing troops from Iraq is discussed with the Washington Post's Dan Balz and Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times. Also: Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times on the Supreme Court's ruling that upholds the rights of employees to sue employers for acts of retaliation; and the Wall Street Journal's Jeanne Cummings on the Jack Abramoff scandal.
Episode 26
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the Supreme Court decision on the president overstepping his powers regarding military tribunals and Guantanamo Bay detainees; the court's decision on a Texas redistricting plan; the New York Times.
Episode 27
Fri, Jul 7, 2006 27 mins
Topic: Is Politics Broken? Panelists include James Bennet (The Atlantic); Andrea Mitchell, of NBC News; Time magazine's Priscilla Painton. From Colorado's Aspen Ideas Festival.
Episode 28
Fri, Jul 14, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the Middle East's escalating violence; the Bush administration's decision to reverse its detainee policy; the Voting Rights Act; and Sen. Joe Lieberman's decision to run as an independent if he fails to win Connecticut's Democratic primary.
Episode 29
Fri, Jul 21, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the Mideast crisis; the veto of the stem-cell-research funding bill; President Bush's speech to the NAACP.
Episode 30
Fri, Jul 28, 2006 30 mins
A round-table discussion of President Bush's foreign-and-domestic policy agendas and how they're impacted by the war in Iraq and the Mideast crisis. Also: how overseas hostilities impact American politics and voters' opinions.
Episode 31
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the Mideast crisis; escalating violence in Iraq; and issues facing Congress, involving the minimum wage, pension-law changes and estate tax.
Episode 32
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the foiled terrorist plot in Britain; the state of U.S. homeland security; Sen. Joe Lieberman's decision to run as an Independent; escalating violence in Iraq; the redeployment of American troops in Iraq.
Episode 33
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 30 mins
Topics include the Mideast cease-fire; Iraq's escalating violence; the impact on homeland security of the foiled terrorist plot in England; the re-election campaign of Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.).
Episode 34
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the Mideast cease-fire; efforts to end the nuclear standoff with Iran; Gulf Coast conditions a year after Hurricane Katrina; and the U.S. housing market.
Episode 35
Fri, Sep 1, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the 2006 elections and how they may be impacted by the "Bush factor," the war on terror, immigration, and the economy.
Episode 36
Fri, Sep 8, 2006 27 mins
Topics include CIA prisons; the politics behind President Bush's acknowledgement of the prisons; key issues on the House and Senate agendas; America since 9/11.
Episode 37
Fri, Sep 15, 2006 27 mins
Topics include President Bush's national-security policy; Democratic campaign spending; Bush's focus on terrorism and Iraq; Vice President Cheney's role in national security.
Episode 38
Fri, Sep 22, 2006 27 mins
Topics include President Bush, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at the UN; Gen. John Abizaid's announcement regarding U.S. troops in Iraq; polls on the president's approval ratings.
Episode 39
Fri, Sep 29, 2006 27 mins
Topics include terror suspects' interrogations; the declassified National Intelligence Estimate; Bill Clinton's criticisms of the the Bush administration; how elections may be influenced by housing and stock markets and gas prices.
Episode 40
Fri, Oct 6, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the Mark Foley scandal; the roles of Bill Clinton and Karl Rowe in midterm elections.
Episode 41
Fri, Oct 13, 2006 27 mins
Topics include sanctions against North Korea; the Congressional-page scandal; and public support for the Iraq War.
Episode 42
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 27 mins
Topics include North Korea's nuclear test; violence in Iraq; political strategies preceding the midterm elections.
Episode 43
Fri, Oct 27, 2006 27 mins
Topics include President Bush's remarks on the situation in Iraq; the 2006 election.
Episode 44
Fri, Nov 3, 2006 27 mins
Topics include President Bush's cross-country campaign to help the GOP retain control of Congress; the impact of scandals and Iraq on midterm elections; the key races; electronic voting machines.
Episode 45
Fri, Nov 10, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the midterm elections; Capitol Hill and Pentagon changes; political implications for 2008; possibilities of a new bipartisanship in Washington, D.C.
Episode 46
Fri, Nov 17, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the Congressional divide on U.S. policy in Iraq; the new Democratic and Republican leadership in Congress; how the elections may affect the 2008 presidential election; how the Democratic control of Congress could change the Capitol Hill environmental agenda.
Episode 47
Fri, Nov 24, 2006 27 mins
Topics include President Bush's trip to Asia and his slated meeting with Iraq's prime minister; how former White House loyalists have become critics; options pertaining to U.S. troops in Iraq; Iran's plan to hold a summit.
Episode 48
Fri, Dec 1, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the outcome of President Bush's meeting with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Malaki; the Iraq study group's recommendation concerning a gradual troop withdrawal.
Episode 49
Fri, Dec 8, 2006 27 mins
Topics include the Iraq Study Group; Robert Gates' confirmation; a Supreme Court case involving public schools.
Episode 50
Fri, Dec 15, 2006 27 mins
Topics include polls concerning the Iraq War; why some want U.S. troops to remain in Iraq; Sen. Tim Johnson's brain surgery; Barack Obama; recruiting people for key posts at the end of an administration.
Episode 51
Fri, Dec 22, 2006 27 mins
Topics include President Bush and Iraq; the tension between Israel and the Palestinians and its impact on Iraq; a look at the 2008 presidential campaign.
Episode 52
Fri, Dec 29, 2006 27 mins
A look back at 2006. Also: remembering former President Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006).