Grant is joined by the Bipartisan Policy Center's Michael Thorning. Thorning is the director of structural democracy at the nonpartisan think tank and the lead writer of a brand new series called Congress at a Crossroads.

He and Grant talk about why Congress is so broken, how it got here, and what can be done to fix it before it's too late.

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Grant is joined by Liz Dye from the Law and Chaos Podcast to talk about the shenanigans coming from the Attorney General's office. AG Pam Bondi is trying to meddle with state bar associations so DOJ attorneys can't face discipline for doing things they would normally face discipline for. Liz explains how it all traces back to a guy named Ed Martin, one of the DOJ's hottest dumpster fires.

PLUS, they talk about what doing this could mean for lawyers stuck trying to defend DHS, military lawyers thrown into civilian courts, and maybe follow through on Trump's election plans.

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Grant gives an update on the war in Iran after a new report shows the US did in fact bomb a girls' school, Iran chooses to start deploying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, new US intel finds Trump has been lying about the Iraninan regime being weakened and a Senate briefing on the outlook of the war looks bleak.

THEN, what does the FBI want with Arizona's election trash? The DOJ just took custody of records of a chaotically doomed audit from election deniers in 2020 that found not only was there no fraud and Joe Biden won, but he won by more than they thought, so what is the FBI doing?

Grant explains why it's tied to the president's plans to undermine the midterms and he has the latest on the SAVE America Act in the Senate.

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