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Just Ask the Question Podcast

Just Ask the Question is a unique and provocative look at the news in today’s headlines. Playboy White House correspondent and CNN political analyst Brian Karem hosts a conversation with newsmakers across the spectrum, asking the hardest questions and engaging them in deep conversation about issues that matter to all of us. Just Ask the Question is an unedited conversation with those in the public eye who influence life in the United States. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever heard.

EP:187 - Author David Pepper joins us to discuss his new book "Saving Democracy"

69 hours 48 mins; June 03, 2023

EP 186: The Deal of the Century, Ron DeSantis crashes on Twitter, the MAGA Republicans eat their own and we answer your letters . . .

77 hours 28 mins; May 29, 2023

EP 185:Speaker McCarthy begs for Biden's return, VP Harris blows chance to school Repubs and Desantis plays the stalking horse

77 hours 15 mins; May 21, 2023

EP 184: Hal Sparks - comedy, free speech and why Donald Trump and bath salts are a match made in heaven

101 hours 54 mins; May 17, 2023

EP 183: Just Ask The Press - The TrumpTown Hall, the George Santos indictment and the (shudder) Debt Ceiling

75 hours 54 mins; May 15, 2023

EP 182: Just Ask The Question - Joel Rubin on the imminence of a nuclear Iran

55 mins; May 13, 2023

EP 181: Just Ask The Press - The Debt Ceiling, the 14th amendment, Donald Trump has more lives than a cat and Biden trails him in the polls

69 hours 55 mins; May 08, 2023

EP 180: Pence testifies, Biden gets a cheat sheet, Donald gets rolled in court and more!

75 hours 48 mins; May 01, 2023

EP 179: Jerry Saltz - banning books, NFTs, and the problems in today's politics

69 hours 49 mins; April 27, 2023

Ep 178: Just Ask The Press - Dominion settlement, Fox News and Elon's Blue Check fiasco

76 hours 12 mins; April 25, 2023

EP 177: Just Ask The Question - Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn joins us!

49 mins; April 23, 2023

EP 176: Just Ask The Press - The "No Accountability" edition

72 hours 46 mins; April 17, 2023

EP 175: Guns. Ammo. Abortion. Former presidential candidate and Tea-Party Congressman Joe Walsh talks finding common ground on abortion and gun control.

55 mins; April 13, 2023

EP 174: Just Ask The Press - Clarence Thomas, Jim Jordan, The Tennessee Three and much more!

69 hours 49 mins; April 10, 2023

EP: 173 - Former labor lobbyist turned comedy star Jenny Yang talks politics, comedy... and her future presidential run?

48 mins; April 06, 2023

EP 172: JATP - Breaking down the Trump Indictments, the war in Ukraine... and Hunter Bidens laptop?

72 hours 48 mins; April 03, 2023

Ep: 171 - Former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry - is it time to end live press briefings?

52 mins; March 30, 2023

EP 170: Has Donald Trump stolen all of the attention again?

65 hours 3 mins; March 27, 2023

EP 169: Did Ronald Reagan try to steal an election and strike a deal with Iran?

71 hours 14 mins; March 20, 2023

EP:168 Will Donald Trump finally be indicted? Mike Pence is a hypocrite and much more

69 hours 1 min; March 14, 2023

EP 167: CPAC, strange legislation in Florida and the weirdest people to ever serve in Congress!

63 hours 7 mins; March 06, 2023

EP 166: Joe Biden in Kyiv, Rep. Scott Perry setback in federal court, the top ten power brokers in D.C and more!

66 hours 53 mins; February 27, 2023

EP 165: Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange's brother - talks "Ithaka", press freedom and much more

52 mins; February 23, 2023

EP164: FOX sinks, Trump creeps while Congress resembles the Great Chicago Fire - Where's the cow?

62 hours 13 mins; February 19, 2023

EP 163: Steven Van Zandt. The State of the Union. Trump/ Haley's political love affair and UFO's

68 hours 43 mins; February 13, 2023

EP 162: High altitude balloons, The State of the Union address AND much more!

77 hours 16 mins; February 06, 2023

EP:161 - The Tyre Nichols tape. Did the media cover this issue well? How about the war in Ukraine?

67 hours 6 mins; January 30, 2023

EP 160: Santos may face charges, Biden brings in new chief of staff and the NFL playoffs continue

74 hours 34 mins; January 23, 2023

Episode 159: Matt Gaetz vs McCarthy, will it lead to a government shutdown?

68 hours 38 mins; January 11, 2023

Episode 158: Happy Festivus! What were this years most underreported stories?

55 mins; December 26, 2022

Episode 157: Has Elon Musk lost his damn mind? And will Kevin McCarthy be the new speaker of the House?

56 mins; December 18, 2022

Episode 156: Did Sen. Sinema just screw the Democrats? And how screwed up is the White House press corps?

62 hours 51 mins; December 12, 2022

Episode 155: Dissolving the U.S. Constitution, siding with seditionists, and can the press screw up the coverage of these events even more?

72 hours 32 mins; December 05, 2022

Episode 154: Just Ask The Press - Trump's taxes and were the midterms really that good for the Dems?

58 mins; November 29, 2022

Episode 153: JATP - Donald Trump back on Twitter. Special prosecutor investigating Trump. Abrams vs. The United States and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

53 mins; November 21, 2022

Episode 152: JATP News in review - Midterms, Indictments and Tom Brady

66 hours 56 mins; November 14, 2022

Episode 151: JATP - Mid-term elections are Tuesday. How bad has the media coverage been and will Donald Trump be announcing his candidacy for 2024 soon?

68 hours 19 mins; November 06, 2022

Episode 150: JATP - The attack on Paul Pelosi. The investigation of Donald Trump. Biden missing in action. Are we living in a Dystopia?

61 hours 7 mins; October 30, 2022

Episode 149" JATP News in review - Will the Democrats keep control of the House and Senate?

61 hours 29 mins; October 23, 2022

Episode 148: JATP News - Will Donald Trump show up and answer the Jan. 6 subpoena?

71 hours 28 mins; October 18, 2022

Episode 147: Michael Cohen tells us about his new book "Revenge"

54 mins; October 10, 2022

Episode 146: Jaime Raskin - What's next for Donald Trump and the United States?

48 mins; October 05, 2022

Episode 145: Just Ask The Press - Donald Trump's impending indictment, Biden the gaffe machine, and is the NFL manufacturing chaos?

78 hours 2 mins; October 03, 2022

Episode 144: Should the government be able to yank the security clearances of the people who put their lives on the line for their country without proper due process - on a mere whim?

49 mins; September 27, 2022

Episode 143: Just Ask The Press - What's going on in Donald Trump's six cases of legal woe?

71 hours 29 mins; September 25, 2022

Episode 142: Just Ask The Press - The DOJ appeal of the special master, and why does the coverage of the queen suck?

69 hours 23 mins; September 19, 2022

Episode 141: Ruth Ben-Ghiat - Is the U.S. destined to be an authoritarian state?

62 hours 42 mins; September 16, 2022

Episode 140: JATP - Is the Special Master ruling a real victory for Donald Trump - and will it mean the end of the Trump DOJ investigation?

63 hours 19 mins; September 13, 2022

Episode 139: George Hahn - Joins us today on JATQ to talk about coming out, getting in, Donald Trump and why he wanted to be so thin - at least for one scene with Cynthia Nixon

64 hours 42 mins; August 31, 2022

Episode 138: Just Ask The Press - Can Donald Trump face RICO charges? Is there enough available to charge him for espionage because of the government documents found at Mar-A-Lago?

71 hours 30 mins; August 28, 2022

Episode 137: Is the press free? Will Mark Meadows get off free? Will Lyndsey Graham get a free pass?

70 hours 29 mins; August 21, 2022

Episode 136: Joel Rubin - What the hell is going to happen in the Midterms?

55 mins; August 19, 2022

Episode 135: Just Ask The Press - Is this truly the beginning of the end of Donald Trump? What did he take and why? Who snitched?

75 hours 54 mins; August 15, 2022

Episode 134: Just Ask The Press - Should we just drop the investigation into Jan 6 and move on?

64 hours 23 mins; August 01, 2022

Episode 133: Just Ask The Press - A wrap up on the Season One Finale of the Jan. 6 Hearings

70 hours 4 mins; July 24, 2022

Episode 132: Michael Zeldin and John T. Bennett - Can Trump be indicted? And for what?

61 hours 58 mins; July 18, 2022

Episode 131: Just Ask The Press - Michael Zeldin and John T. Bennett - What to expect from Jan. 6 hearings this week.

50 mins; July 10, 2022

Episode 130: Mary Trump - Will the Jan. 6 hearings lead to indictments?

66 hours 20 mins; June 30, 2022

Episode 129: John Fugelsang - Jan. 6th, The Beatles and Matthew McConaughey?

61 hours 5 mins; June 13, 2022

Episode 128: Kathy Griffin - Trump, Jan 6th and what does Kathy think of Depp vs Heard?

62 hours 54 mins; June 11, 2022

Episode 127: Norm Eisen - How do you defeat Trumpery?

54 mins; May 19, 2022

Episode 126: Sam Donaldson and Jim Acosta - How can you improve White House reporting?

84 hours 57 mins; May 03, 2022

Episode 125: Alexander Vindman - What’s the real story in Ukraine?

65 hours 37 mins; April 26, 2022

Episode 124: What was it like in Ukraine?

41 mins; April 05, 2022

Episode 123: UKRAINE SPECIAL EDITION with guest Joel Wasserman - Can Ukraine survive?

49 mins; February 27, 2022

Episode 122: Joe Walsh - What do liberals not get?

60 hours 34 mins; February 24, 2022

Episode 121: Michael Zeldin - Will eating and flushing sensitive papers lead to prison for Trump?

62 hours 5 mins; February 15, 2022

Episode 120: Lucian K Truscott IV - Lucian talks about the Holocaust, Journalism and the StoneWall uprising.

78 hours 12 mins; February 04, 2022

Episode 119: Free The Press - Special Episode - How do we fix the American news media?

55 mins; January 21, 2022

Episode 118: Steve Rosenbaum - Has Islamophobia turned the study of 9/11 into a cartoon?

70 hours 53 mins; January 10, 2022

Episode 117: Jackie Martling - has America lost its sense of humor?

89 hours 36 mins; December 15, 2021

Episode 116: J.D. Durkin, the Host of Cheddar's "None of the Above" - Top 10 Tv shows/Stories

58 mins; December 07, 2021

Episode 115: Fall Best of JATQ podcast

71 hours 37 mins; November 26, 2021

Episode 114: Mary Trump - what do we need to do as a country to stop the fascism of the GOP?

66 hours 30 mins; November 06, 2021

Episode 113: Michael Zeldin - What's next with prosecuting Steve Bannon in Congress?

56 mins; October 28, 2021

Episode 112: Dr. Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny, how do citizens participate and uphold their democracy?

72 hours 5 mins; October 21, 2021

Episode 111: Free speech attorney Nora Benavidez - Is our freedom of speech in jeopardy?

46 mins; October 13, 2021

Episode 110: Dr. Stephen Hoffman - Which was handled better - The 1918 or 2021 pandemic?

69 hours 30 mins; October 05, 2021

Episode 109: Former FBI investigator Mark Rossini - 9/11 twenty years later

67 hours 37 mins; September 08, 2021

Episode 108: Officer Harry Dunn - How close did the insurrectionists come to capturing the Capitol?

61 hours 24 mins; August 31, 2021

Episode 107: Dean Obeidallah - What would you change about politics in America?

73 hours 28 mins; August 24, 2021

Episode 106: Mark Zaid - Will the January 6th Commission lead to indictments?

66 hours 4 mins; August 16, 2021

Episode 105: Police Chief Tom Manger - How do you prepare for an insurrection?

66 hours 20 mins; August 10, 2021

Episode 104: John Fugelsang - Where in the Bible is the GOP agenda?

68 hours 22 mins; August 02, 2021

Episode 103: Chip Franklin - how screwed are radio and politics?

70 hours 56 mins; July 20, 2021

Episode 102: Kurt Bardella - Do we live in a dystopia?

56 mins; July 14, 2021

Episode 101: Joe Walsh - Is Donald Trump on the verge of irrelevancy?

57 mins; June 30, 2021

Episode 100: Michael Zeldin - Will Donald Trump be indicted?

41 mins; June 22, 2021

Episode 99: Rep. Eric Swalwell - Were you surprised?

30 mins; June 15, 2021

Episode 98: Michael Steele - Is the Republican party on a Bataan death march to non-existence?

67 hours 48 mins; May 28, 2021

Episode 97: Michael Cohen - Why does the GOP continue to kiss Donalds...ring?!

56 mins; May 18, 2021

Episode 96: Baratunde Thurston - How do you citizen? Gratitude for Liz Cheney?

65 hours 40 mins; May 13, 2021

Episode 95: Rex Chapman - What did Sacha Baron Cohen want?

65 hours 29 mins; April 20, 2021

Episode 94: Claudia Black - How can you deal with trauma? What's the importance of pineapple?

84 hours 9 mins; April 07, 2021

Episode 93: Jason Miller - How can someone work for Donald Trump?

54 mins; March 31, 2021

Episode 92: John T. Bennett - What should we expect out of Joe Biden's first press conference?

80 hours 7 mins; March 23, 2021

Episode 91: Wajahat Ali - What are the problems of being a minority author in the United States?

66 hours 53 mins; March 16, 2021

Episode 90: Meidas Touch - What's wrong with American Democracy? How do we fix it?

57 mins; March 09, 2021

Episode 89: Adam Parkhomenko - Are people being fair to Biden?

64 hours 17 mins; March 05, 2021

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