{"podcast":{"title":"The Beat with Ari Melber","slug":"the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451","podcast_index_feed_id":743451,"rss_url":"https://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber","website_url":"https://www.ms.now/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/bac1b529-5924-47d7-a26e-2bb1c59c1103/74d0c257-fe33-4fb8-958a-b992b3d3dfc5/3000x3000/ms-20now-20rebrand-tb-3000x3000.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Ari Melber, MS NOW","episode_count":1146,"summary":"Ari Melber delivers the biggest political and news stories of the day, with interviews and original reporting from around the nation. An Emmy-winning journalist, attorney and former Senate staffer, Melber cuts through the spin and the noise to tell you what's really happening. Real news, every night.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T10:20:46.746896+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451"},"episode":{"title":"BONUS: Trump slush fund and Democracy talk with Andrew Weissmann and Maya Wiley","slug":"bonus-trump-slush-fund-and-democracy-talk-with-andrew-weissmann-and-maya-wiley","published_at":"2026-06-01T21:16:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/bonus-trump-slush-fund-and-democracy-talk-with-andrew-weissmann-and-maya-wiley","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451","url":"https://www.ms.now/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/injector.simplecastaudio.com/d41147e2-9082-47cd-909a-165d88b1e209/episodes/cd698e83-7d0d-4a50-b914-22f3c755b57a/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=d41147e2-9082-47cd-909a-165d88b1e209&awEpisodeId=cd698e83-7d0d-4a50-b914-22f3c755b57a&feed=TA5rXVG0","summary":"BONUS: In this podcast extra, Ari Melber reports on President Trump's slush fund and speaks with Andrew Weissmann about legal ways to stop the unprecedented plot, plus some lighter conversation on law, vocabulary, and his new book. Maya Wiley joins for a separate conversation on Democracy and the significance of “No Kings” protests These new interviews are a Beat bonus from our podcast series “The B-Side.” Real talk and Ari’s extended conversations off air.","meta_description":"BONUS: In this podcast extra, Ari Melber reports on President Trump's slush fund and speaks with Andrew Weissmann about legal ways to stop the unprecedent…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1366,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/episodes/bonus-trump-slush-fund-and-democracy-talk-with-andrew-weissmann-and-maya-wiley/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/bonus-trump-slush-fund-and-democracy-talk-with-andrew-weissmann-and-maya-wiley.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}