{"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":1849,"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":"2026-07-19T08:21:53.566819+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007"},"episode":{"title":"Popok and Don Lemon Analyze Trump DOJ Tactics, Media Pressure, and Newsom Probe","slug":"popok-and-don-lemon-analyze-trump-doj-tactics-media-pressure-and-newsom-probe","published_at":"2026-06-20T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007/popok-and-don-lemon-analyze-trump-doj-tactics-media-pressure-and-newsom-probe","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/MTH3254535872.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/MTH3254535872.mp3","summary":"Popok is joined by journalist extraordinaire Don Lemon to give his unique perspective of the Trump Administration's possible use of criminal investigations and indictments against the NYT based on their reporting supported by what looks to be secretly recorded conversations in the Situation Room; Governor Newsom getting ahead of the story of his investigation, and Federal Judges vigilant against grand jury abuse by the Trump DOJ. https://www.youtube.com/@TheDonLemonShow/videos https://substack.com/@donlemon 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 journalist extraordinaire Don Lemon to give his unique perspective of the Trump Administration's possible use of criminal investigation…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2261,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/legal-af-by-meidastouch-4140007/episodes/popok-and-don-lemon-analyze-trump-doj-tactics-media-pressure-and-newsom-probe/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/popok-and-don-lemon-analyze-trump-doj-tactics-media-pressure-and-newsom-probe.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}