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Extreme Mortman
Original political stories inspired by current events. A weekly fix for political junkies combining compelling clips from the C-SPAN archives (iconic and obscure), history, trivia – and often a healthy helping of comedy.
Episodes
Extreme MortmanEpisode 79: Veterans Day with Executive Director of Army National Military Cemeteries Karen Durham-Aguilera
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th Month of 1918 the major hostilities of World War I formally ended…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 78: Campaign 2018 with Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor for NBC News
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: Tuesday is election day and control of both the House and Senate are at stake. NBC News Senior Political Editor…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 77: Wilson Center Program Director of Middle East Affairs Aaron David Miller on U.S. and Saudi Arabia Relations
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: Since 1933 The United States and Saudi Arabia have held full diplomatic relations with each other….despite one…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 76: Author, Columnist, and Professor Steven Pearlstein on the United States Economy
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: It was one of the most significant financial meltdowns since the Great Depression. In September 2008 President…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 75: Former RNC Chairman and Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on Midterms, the Republican Party, and Politics
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: Our guest is a man who knows both how to play the game of politics and who knows all the players in the game…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 74: What is going on with Brexit? The Heritage Foundation's Nile Gardiner talks trade, borders, and Brussels
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: It has been more than two years since voters in Great Britain voted to withdraw from the European Union. That…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 73: NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell on her career, covering seven presidents, and the state of journalism in America
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: When Andrea Mitchell began her career in journalism, there were three major networks and three evening news…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 72: Is the United States in a trade with China? China expert Dr. Michael Pillsbury of the Hudson Insitute joins us to give his perspectives.
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: Are we witnessing the beginning of a trade war between the United States and China? Or is it the new business…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 71: FEMA: What is it and how does it operate with Former FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest is Former Director of FEMA Joe Allbaugh. He explains what the agency does and how it helps communities…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 70: Key Midterm Senate Elections with Kyle Kondik of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest is Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor for Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia. With only two…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 69: The Steele Dossier with Vox Senior Correspondent Matthew Yglesias
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest Matthew Yglesias, Vox Co-Founder and Senior Correspondent focusing on politics and the economy. He…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 68: 1968 Politics with former LBJ Appointments Secretary James Jones
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest is James Jones, former Appointments Secretary to President Lyndon Johnson, former Democratic…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 67: Solving the Federal Spending Crisis with Former OMB Director Alice Rivlin
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest is former Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and Founding Director of the…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 66: The Press and the Presidency with Former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest is former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry. He joins us to talk about the relationship between…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 65: Dean Ronald Weich of The University of Baltimore Law School
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest is Ronald Weich, Dean of the University of Balitmore Law School. He joins us to talk about the Supreme…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 64: Ahman Majidyar of The Middle East Institute
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and expert on Iran, Ahman Majidyar. From the Shah's…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 63: New York University Law Professor Melissa Murray
Our guest on this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly is New York University Law Professor Melissa Murray. She walks us through two primary cases on abortion, Roe…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 62: Author and Columnist George Will
Our guest on this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly is author and Washington Post columnist George Will. He joins us to talk about why baseball is the perfect…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 61: Author and Columnist Michael Cohen
Our guest on this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly is author and Boston Globe contributor Michael Cohen. He joins us to talk about the summer of 1968 and his…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 60: White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
Our guest on this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly is White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. She joins us to talk about President Trump's relationship with…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 59: Georgetown Univeristy Law Professor Susan Low Bloch
The presidential pardon is a source of consideration, debate, and discussion. Ultmately the decision comes down to one person, the President. But does he…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 58: Martha Kumar of the White House Transition Project
This week's guest is Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project and professor emeritus at Towson University in Maryland. She joins us…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 57: Jean Lee on the rise of the Kim family
Our guest this week is Jean H Lee. She talked about her Esquire article "Inside Kim Jong-Un's Bloody Scramble to Kill Off His Family". This interview was taped…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 55: Jason Rezaian
This week's guest is Washington Post Global Opinion Writer Jason Rezaian. In 2012 he moved to Iran, serving as the Washington Post foreign affairs…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 56: Maya MacGuineas on the Debt and Deficit
Our guest this week is the Maya MacGuineas, She is the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the head of the Campaign to Fix the…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 54: Cokie Roberts
This week we revist our January conversation with ABC Contributor Cokie Roberts. We sit down with her to discuss the relationship between The White House and…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 53: James Acton
Our guest on this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast is James Actor. He is the Co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program and a senior fellow at the…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 52: Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe
Our guest on this episode is former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. Governor McAuliffe first entered the political circuit at the age of 23 as Former…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 51: George Condon
Our guest on this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast is George Condon, White House Correspondent for the National Journal and a past President of the White…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 50: Sen. David Perdue (R-GA)
Our guest this week on C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast is Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue. Elected in 2014, Senator Perdue is a Fortune 500 businessman and…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 49: Nina Jankowicz
Our guest this week is Nina Jankowicz, a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. She joins us to talk about the North Atlantic Trade Alliance, commonly known as…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 48: Sheila Tate
Our guest this week is Sheila Tate, she provides a close look at Former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Shelia Tate served as Mrs. Reagan's press secretary from 1981…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 46: Dennis Wilder
Our guest this week is Dennis Wilder...a former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs at the National Security Council…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 45: John Lawrence
Our guest this week is John Lawrence, a veteran congressional hill staffer who retired after 38 years in Congress. Including a tenture as Chief of Staff to…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 44: James Jones
Our guest this week is James Jones, a former Member of Congress and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Our conversation focuses on 50 years ago when Ambassador Jones…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 43: Christopher Glazek
Our guest this week is Christopher Glazek of Esquire Magazine, who's piece titled "The Secretive Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis," focuses on the…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 42: Peter Irons
This week our guest is Peter Irons, a retired Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego and the author of the book "A People's History of the Supreme…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 41: Matt Schlapp
This week our guest is American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp. C-PAC is the oldest conservative lobbying organization in the country. Later this month…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 39: Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell on Infrastructure
This week: This week we take at the state of America's infrastructure with former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. He's also the co-founder of Building…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 40: Former Head of the Justice Department's National Security Division
This week we speak with David Kris, former head of the Justice Department's National Security Division and an expert on FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 38: Cokie Roberts on Congress
This week: Our guest this is week is Cokie Roberts, a political commentator for ABC News and National Public Radio and the author of six New York Times…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 37: Michael Beschloss on the LBJ Tapes
This week: The LBJ tapes- President Lyndon Baines Johnson and the audio recordings made during his presidency. We spoke with presidential historian and author…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 36: Bruce Riedel on Saudi Arabia
This week we take a look at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with Bruce Riedel. He is a senior fellow and director of the Brookings Intelligence Project at the…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 35: William Doyle on the History of Guns in the U.S.
This week we look at the history of guns in America with Author William Doyle. He's the written a number of books including, "American Gun: A History of the…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 34: Ambassador Gary Locke on China and the U.S.
This week we look at the history of on U.S.-China relations from President Nixon's historic visit in 1972 through today. We get the perspective of Ambassador…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 33: Michael McCann on Sports and the Federal Government
This week we're joined by Michael McCann for a discussion on the history of the federal government's involvement with college and professional sports. He is…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 32: Blaine Harden on the Korean War
This week author and journalist Blaine Harden joins us to discuss his book 'King of Spies,' and how the Korean Peninsula continues to be impacted by a war…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 31: Steve Liesman on the Stock Market and Your Money
This week we're joined by CNBC Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman for a crash-course on economics, focusing on how the federal government and stock market…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 30: C-SPAN Executive Chairman Brian Lamb on the Creation of C-SPAN Radio
C-SPAN Radio was launched on October 9th, 1997. To mark the 20th anniversary, we spoke with C-SPAN Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Brian Lamb about the…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 29: David McCabe on Regulating Technology Companies
This week we examine the debate over regulating some of the biggest tech companies in the world including Facebook, Google and Amazon. Our guest is David…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 28: Sam Greene on Vladimir Putin
This week we look into the background of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Sam Greene, the Director of the Russia Institute at King`s College London. We…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 27: Dr. Jill Hagenkord on Precision Medicine and Genetic Testing
This week we discuss precision medicine and genetic testing with Dr. Jill Hagenkord, Chief Medical Officer at Color Genomics, which provides genetic testing…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 26: Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on the War in Afghanistan
President Trump recently announced his plans for the War in Afghanistan, including the deployment of additional US troops to the country. This week we look at…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 25: Jean H. Lee on the Rise and Rule of North Korea's Kim Dynasty
As tensions with North Korea rise, this week we examine the history of that country's ruling Kim family. We spoke to Jean H Lee, author of "Kings of Communism…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 24: Francisco Toro on the Crisis in Venezuela
Earlier this month, President Trump addressed the deepening political and economic crises in Venezuela stating that the U.S. may consider "military options" if…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 23: Robert Kahn on North Korea Sanctions
Earlier this month, the 15-member U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose strict new sanctions on North Korea in response to that country's ongoing…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 22: Bill Browder on the Magnitsky Act and Putin's Russia
Businessman and author Bill Browder was once one of Russia's top foreign investors, but in 2005 he was kicked out of the country and labeled a national…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 21: Joseph Califano Jr. on the 1967 Detroit Riots
50 years ago this week, the 1967 Detroit Riots began. They lasted over five days in July, ignited by long-simmering racial tensions. podcast we look back at…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 20: Henry Olsen on Reagan-Era Tax Reform
This week we look at President Reagan's efforts to reform the tax code in the 1980's with Henry Olse, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center…
Extreme MortmanEpisode 19: Jeffrey Rosen on the Declaration of Independence and American democracy.
Our guest this week is Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The Declaration of Independence is part of the…