{"podcast":{"title":"Legal AF by MeidasTouch","slug":"legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007","podcast_index_feed_id":4140007,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/legalaf","website_url":"https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/legalaf","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/9c838774-fae2-11eb-b9fa-3779cf8063b2/image/bb4ea460e5c868ccd24a7a6df9f65958.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Meidas Media Network","episode_count":1984,"summary":"Hosted by MeidasTouch founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas, national trial lawyer strategist, Michael Popok, and former Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Legal AF (Legal Analysis Friends) is a hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at this week’s most compelling developments at the intersection of law and politics. Executive Produced by Meidas Media Network. Enjoy new full-length episodes every Wednesday and Sunday and occasional shorter breaking legal news hits throughout the week.","last_synced_at":"2026-10-01T02:20:07.632028+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007"},"episode":{"title":"Blanche Faces Pressure as DOJ Misses Deadline in Katie Phang’s Epstein Files Case and Faces Default Judgment","slug":"blanche-faces-pressure-as-doj-misses-deadline-in-katie-phang-s-epstein-files-case-and-faces-default-judgment","published_at":"2026-08-25T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007/blanche-faces-pressure-as-doj-misses-deadline-in-katie-phang-s-epstein-files-case-and-faces-default-judgment","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/pdst.fm/e/arttrk.com/p/MMN23/claritaspod.com/measure/mgln.ai/e/1058/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH1747385489.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/pdst.fm/e/arttrk.com/p/MMN23/claritaspod.com/measure/mgln.ai/e/1058/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH1747385489.mp3","summary":"Popok is joined by Public Integrity Project's Brendan Ballou for exclusive updates for our LAF audience about a) Katie Phang's successful case against Todd Blanche and the DOJ about the hidden Epstein Files, as the DOJ BLOWS a series of deadlines; and 2) updates in the new suit against Trump \"insider trading\" public information through his Truth Social platform using government employees like Natalie Harp! https://publicintegrityproject.org/ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Popok is joined by Public Integrity Project's Brendan Ballou for exclusive updates for our LAF audience about a) Katie Phang's successful case against Tod…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1580,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007/episodes/blanche-faces-pressure-as-doj-misses-deadline-in-katie-phang-s-epstein-files-case-and-faces-default-judgment/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007/blanche-faces-pressure-as-doj-misses-deadline-in-katie-phang-s-epstein-files-case-and-faces-default-judgment.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}