{"podcast":{"title":"The Tara Palmeri Show","slug":"the-tara-palmeri-show-7313277","podcast_index_feed_id":7313277,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/thetarapalmerishow","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/2752238a-2058-11f0-ab29-137fd2d0370e/image/e6b90ba68a5d318a9e9a593ddd57f402.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"TaraPalmeri.com","episode_count":296,"summary":"Welcome to The Tara Palmeri Show! Tara Palmeri is one of the most feared and fearless political journalists. As a deeply-sourced reporter, she brings her audience inside the machinations of the highest level of power. Her quick wit and unvarnished reporting goes beyond the headlines, offering a deeper understanding of the intrigues of the permanent political class. This show is not about platitudes. Rather it's about what’s really happening at the highest levels of power and the inside conversation. Tara has covered national politics and foreign affairs for fifteen years. She was formerly a White House Correspondent for ABC News, where she covered the first Trump administration. She was the Chief National Correspondent for POLITICO during the Biden administration. She has been a political analyst for CNBC, CBS and CNN. She’s also worked for the Washington Examiner, the New York Post, POLITICO Europe and Puck, and she hosted The Ringer's election podcast \"Somebody's Gotta Win.\" Tara also hosted two acclaimed podcasts on Jeffrey Epstein called \"Broken: Jeffrey Epstein\" and \"Power: The Maxwells.\" Subscribe to her weekly newsletter The Red Letter on Substack Support her independent jo…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T20:20:50.307364+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tara-palmeri-show-7313277"},"episode":{"title":"White House MELTDOWN Over Epstein Files w/ Legal AF's Michael Popok","slug":"white-house-meltdown-over-epstein-files-w-legal-af-s-michael-popok","published_at":"2026-06-11T18:16:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tara-palmeri-show-7313277/white-house-meltdown-over-epstein-files-w-legal-af-s-michael-popok","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tara-palmeri-show-7313277","url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/JhoQDAATtO1l0y8tdKNa/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL8437750079.mp3","audio_url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/JhoQDAATtO1l0y8tdKNa/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL8437750079.mp3","summary":"Tara Palmeri is joined by attorney Michael Popok of Legal AF to break down the explosive new reporting from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan — an excerpt from their book \"Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump\" that pulls back the curtain on the White House's \"summer of Epstein.\" While the administration publicly dismissed the Epstein story as a hoax and a \"Democratic witch hunt,\" Haberman and Swan reveal that Trump's top officials were repeatedly huddling in the Situation Room — the SCIF normally reserved for national security crises — trying to contain the fallout. Tara and Michael walk through who was in the room (Todd Blanche, Susie Wiles, Kash Patel, JD Vance) and who wasn't (Trump himself, left outside the door; Bondi and Patel phoning in), and unpack the verbatim quotes that suggest someone was taking meticulous notes or recording — and the mole hunt that will follow. They get into Blanche's stunning plan to interview a convicted child sex trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell, and dangle a pardon; Pam Bondi's chaotic binder rollout; the sworn FBI 302 alleging abuse by Trump; the redacted emails connecting Trump and Epstein through their lawyers; and why JD Vance, eyeing 2028, was the lone voice for transparency. Michael lays out the realistic odds of impeachment for Todd Blanche and others, while Tara connects the dots to the polling collapse, the \"wag the dog\" timing of the Iran escalation, and Michael Wolff's tapes and the missing contents of Epstein's safe. As Haberman and Swan write: Trump could break institutions and bend the world's richest men to his will — \"but he could not, it turned out, make Jeffrey Epstein disappear.\" Thanks to Ground News for sponsoring the show! 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