Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

More than a month after Election Day, and the result has been made official. But just because Biden's win is now concrete, it doesn't mean Trump will concede defeat. On Today's Show:Anita Kumar, White House correspondent and associate editor at Politico and Rebecca Green, professor of law at William & Mary and co-director of its Election Law Program, talk about the latest national political news.

Opinion columnist Jonathan Capehart has a new Sunday morning show on MSNBC. So how will he cover the news and politics in a post-Trump America? On Today's Show:Jonathan Capehart, Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist, opinion columnist and editorial board member of The Washington Post and now the new host of MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, which premieres this Sunday, December 13th from 10AM to noon ET on MSNBC, talks about the latest political headlines and what viewers should expect from The Sunday Show.

With Trump's ongoing efforts to overturn the election, it's worth asking: does he really want to change the result? Or is he sowing strategic chaos? On Today's Show:Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Man Who Ran Washington: the Life and Times of Jim Baker III (Doubleday, 2020), talks about the latest national political news.

We've reached "safe harbor," a point on the calendar where Congress is bound by federal law to accept the results of the Electoral College, which votes next week. On Today's Show:What is "safe harbor day" and what does it mean for President Trump's efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 Election? Aaron Blake, Washington Post senior political reporter, discusses this and other national political news of the day.  

How is the medical profession handling the latest surge in COVID cases? How should the rest of us change our behavior around it? On Today's Show:Wafaa El-Sadr, university professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University, the director of ICAP at Columbia University, and director of the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School of Public Health, talks about the latest COVID surge, and how frontline workers are fighting back the second wave.

With COVID cases rising around the country, and the policy conversation turning to vaccine distribution, we take a look at who'll get the first doses, and who might still be skeptical of it. On Today's Show: Dara Kass, MD, emergency medicine physician at Columbia University Medical Center and Yahoo News medical contributor, talks about the latest numbers and the latest on vaccine development and distribution.

Thousands are still jobless due to the COVID pandemic and unemployment supplements ended months ago. Should those who need it expect Congress to step up in its next session? On Today's Show:Rep. Adriano Espaillat, U.S. Representative (D, NY-13), talks about the COVID surge in his district (and everywhere), plus the latest on where the next coronavirus relief bill stands, as economic aid to millions of people is about to run out and the pandemic is still wreaking havoc on people's health and the economy.

As the Biden administration continues to take shape, the executive branch is filling up with familiar faces. We check in on how progressives are feeling about the appointees? On Today's Show:Karthik Ganapathy, progressive communications consultant who recently advised Charles Booker’s US Senate campaign, served as a spokesperson for Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Keith Ellison, and the climate change campaign organization 350.org and Katrina vanden Heuvel editorial director and publisher of The Nation magazine, on Biden’s cabinet picks and where progressives go from here.

It's the first Supreme Court session with a new conservative majority, and there's three politically charged issues on the docket. This week, we get our first good look at the new SCOTUS on COVID precautions v. religious freedom, counting everyone v. counting citizens in the Census, and baseless fraud allegations v. a legitimate election. On Today's Show:Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, talks about recent and upcoming Supreme Court court hearings on three crucial issues to democracy.

John Podesta ran Obama's transition team in 2008. So what does he think of Biden's cabinet nominees? And what do progressives think about the incoming Biden administration? On Today's Show:John Podesta, former senior advisor to Presidents Clinton and Obama, talks about President-elect Biden's transition, including his cabinet appointments, and specifically, how the Biden administration will tackle climate change.