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Ronan Farrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and contributing writer to The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the impact of rulings made this week by Judge Juan Merchan in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, where he faces thirty-four felony counts for falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels around the time of the 2016 election. Farrow explains why two other hush-money payments, made to former Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, are central to the Manhattan District Attorney’s case. As Farrow explains, “the coverup is ultimately a much, much bigger story than any of the underlying things being covered up would have been.”
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Trump’s Vindictive Second-Term Agenda
We've Been Wrong to Worry About Deepfakes (So Far)
Will the Government Rein in Amazon?
The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election
Inside the Democratic Party’s Rift Over Israel and Gaza
Sybrina Fulton: “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Anybody’s Son”
Clarence Thomas’s R.V. Loan and Supreme Court Scrutiny
Tim Scott, and the Republican Party’s Vexed Relationship with Race
Is there a Path Forward for Israel and Gaza?
Mike Johnson and the Power of the Big Lie
Why Jim Jordan Is Still “the Man for the Moment”
Spike Lee on His “Dream Project”
Joe Biden’s Bear-Hug Diplomacy in Israel
What Is Hamas’s Strategy?
Rodrigo Duterte’s Deadly Promise
“It’s Just an Impossible Situation”: Tragedy in Israel and Gaza
Al Gore on the Solution to the Climate Crisis
Inside Matt Gaetz’s Congressional Coup
Should Biden Push for Regime Change in Russia?
Remembering Dianne Feinstein, and Biden Clashes With The Hard Right
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