{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily","slug":"the-daily-743229","podcast_index_feed_id":743229,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/54nAGcIl","website_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7f2f4c05-9c2f-4deb-82b7-b538062bc22d/73549bf1-94b3-40ff-8aeb-b4054848ec1b/3000x3000/the-daily-album-art-original.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The New York Times","episode_count":2932,"summary":"This is what the news should sound like. The biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world. Hosted by Michael Barbaro, Rachel Abrams and Natalie Kitroeff. Twenty minutes a day, six days a week, ready by 6 a.m. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T20:18:13.372418+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-743229"},"episode":{"title":"From Trump’s Attorney to Attorney General: The Rise of Todd Blanche","slug":"from-trump-s-attorney-to-attorney-general-the-rise-of-todd-blanche","published_at":"2026-07-15T09:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-743229/from-trump-s-attorney-to-attorney-general-the-rise-of-todd-blanche","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-743229","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/03d8b493-87fc-4bd1-931f-8a8e9b945d8a/episodes/c9038279-bbfd-4889-940c-bbc27297e929/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=03d8b493-87fc-4bd1-931f-8a8e9b945d8a&awEpisodeId=c9038279-bbfd-4889-940c-bbc27297e929&feed=54nAGcIl","summary":"To be confirmed as the next attorney general, Todd Blanche must convince members of the U.S. Senate that as political as the Department of Justice has become, it would be even worse without him on top. As his confirmation hearing begins, Glenn Thrush, a Justice Department reporter for The New York Times, recounts the unlikely story of how Mr. Blanche became President Trump’s legal enforcer.","meta_description":"To be confirmed as the next attorney general, Todd Blanche must convince members of the U.S. Senate that as political as the Department of Justice has bec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1797,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-743229/episodes/from-trump-s-attorney-to-attorney-general-the-rise-of-todd-blanche/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-743229/from-trump-s-attorney-to-attorney-general-the-rise-of-todd-blanche.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}