{"podcast":{"title":"The Nicole Sandler Show","slug":"the-nicole-sandler-show-1065430","podcast_index_feed_id":1065430,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/429b466d-2f7b-460f-83ce-324188da64b7","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/the-nicole-sandler-show","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/8/31/21/48ba9fa0-122b-4527-af7d-ac1b6b56edcc_b887121123d1b67ab7844ba7d21e7edc.jpg","author":"Nicole Sandler","episode_count":279,"summary":"Speaking Truth to Power from a progressive point of view with the irreverence it demands NicoleSandler.com ( https://nicolesandler.com/ )","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T10:20:09.002124+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nicole-sandler-show-1065430"},"episode":{"title":"Nicole Sandler Watched the Senate Confirmation Hearings So You Didn't Have To","slug":"nicole-sandler-watched-the-senate-confirmation-hearings-so-you-didn-t-have-to","published_at":"2026-07-15T23:36:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nicole-sandler-show-1065430/nicole-sandler-watched-the-senate-confirmation-hearings-so-you-didn-t-have-to","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nicole-sandler-show-1065430","url":"https://nicolesandler.com/7-15-26","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/7d5828f9-c661-4b68-bf0b-0e519c68bf4a/stream.mp3","summary":"Today was a Senate confirmation hearing double-header — Todd Blanche in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee for his Attorney General confirmation, and Jay Clayton in front of Senate Intelligence for Director of National Intelligence. I had five monitors going and I still barely kept up. Blanche early on said the quiet part out loud by literally calling himself Trump's lawyer, got lost in a circle of double negatives while talk about the Epstein survivors (and insisted on calling them victims), and got pressed hard on a $50,000 payment to Tom Homan nobody will explain. Clayton, meanwhile, spent his hearing refusing — repeatedly — to answer who won the 2020 election, while Senator Ossoff, skillfully and patiently. would not let it go. And I invoked my old friend Howie Klein, who fought valiantly on this show for more progressives in Congress - a stance I was right there with him for, as I hoped he'd understand my stance in being opposed to Kai Newkirk challenging Greg Stanton's safe Blue seat in the district next door to mine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy","meta_description":"Today was a Senate confirmation hearing double-header — Todd Blanche in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee for his Attorney General confirmation, and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4543,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-nicole-sandler-show-1065430/episodes/nicole-sandler-watched-the-senate-confirmation-hearings-so-you-didn-t-have-to/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nicole-sandler-show-1065430/nicole-sandler-watched-the-senate-confirmation-hearings-so-you-didn-t-have-to.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}