The David Pakman Show

--On the Show: --Andrew Bustamante, former covert CIA officer and founder of the Everyday Espionage training platforms, joins David to discuss the truth about espionage, clandestine skills useful in everyday life, and much more --A blockbuster report from Buzzfeed News exposes the full scope of Donald Trump's Moscow Trump Tower plan, which he, Rudy Giuliani, and others have been claiming contained no specific plan or serious negotiations, while in reality there was a letter of intent,...

--On the Show: --Tom Gjelten, Religion and Belief Correspondent for NPR News and author of the book "A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story," joins David to discuss the history of immigration to the United States and how it relates to the modern debate around immigration policy, Donald Trump's border wall proposal, and more --Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani admits that Donald Trump worked on the Trump Tower Moscow project for an extended period of time, then...

--On the Show: --Our long form deep dive into the Iraqi Dinar foreign currency scam being bolstered by Donald Trump's presidency --A blockbuster Buzzfeed News report claims that Donald Trump directed his attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, but a statement from Robert Mueller calls the details of the report into question --Despite every opportunity, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley doesn't deny that Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, and Trump attorney Rudy...

--On the Show: --The next day after T-Mobile announced a merger with Sprint, top executives from the telephone service company booked rooms at Donald Trump's Washington DC hotel --AT&T announces it's firing 700 workers, despite benefiting greatly from the Trump tax bill and net neutrality getting gutted --Caller wonders if President Trump will actually pull troops out of Syria --Caller does a PSA on chronic fatigue syndrome --Caller questions if the economy will crash as a result of...

--On the Show: --Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, and author of the book "We the People. How the Constitution is a Progressive Document That Can Be Adapted to the 21st Century," joins David to discuss Constitutional originalism --In the biggest goalpost move we can remember, Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani now claims that he never denied Russian collusion took place, but adds that it wasn't Trump himself who was...

--On the Show: --Marianne Cooper, sociologist at Stanford University and author of the book "Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times," joins David to discuss how to assess how the economy is working for families, income inequality, and much more --Looking at engineering reports about Donald Trump's US-Mexico border walls reveals it would be an expensive and ineffective disaster --This week's Hatriot Mail --Fox News host Sean Hannity goes full on deep state conspiracy theorist on his...

--On the Show: --Charles Derber, public sociologist and author of the new book "Moving Beyond Fear: Upending the Security Tales in Capitalism, Fascism, and Democracy," joins David to discuss how "security" is used for political purposes, inequality, meritocracy, and much more --President Donald Trump denies working for the Russians on live television, yet another step in the insanity that is the Trump administration political status quo --Donald Trump confiscated notes from his...

--On the Show: --Keri Blakinger is a criminal justice reporter for the Houston Chronicle and other publications who previously spent two years in correctional facilities, now exposing problems within them, and she joins David to discuss the truth about the massive problems at American jails and prisons --A New York Times article reveals that an investigation was opened into whether President Donald Trump is a Russian asset, and the FBI was suspicious of this dating all the way back to the...

--On the Show: --Classic Interview: James Kilgore, who spent six years in prison for murder during an April 1975 bank robbery, joins David to discuss the many problems with the mass incarceration system in the US --New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces that the city will start guaranteeing healthcare for all, regardless of ability to pay, including undocumented immigrants, at an expected total cost of $100 million per year, equivalent to 0.11% of New York City's budget --Caller...

--On the Show: --Jason Stanley, Yale University professor and author of "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them," and also of "How Propaganda Works," joins David to discuss authoritarianism, propaganda, and much more --Ratings for Donald Trump's fake crisis border wall address were not as high as for the Democratic rebuttal to the speech by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer --Even Fox News' Shepard Smith fact-checked Donald Trump lie-riddled propaganda border wall speech --Notable...

--On the Show: --Dr. Nathalie Marechal, writer, researcher, and activist working on internet policy and human rights advocacy, joins David to discuss the dark side of so-called "targeted advertising" --Review and analysis of Donald Trump's bogus prime-time fearmongering immigration crisis border wall address to the nation --Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is resigning, raising all sorts of new questions about the future of special prosecutor Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia...

--On the Show: –The conclusion to our interview with, Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and political critic, who joins David to discuss Trump’s economy, tariffs, the stock market, the border wall, and much more --Donald Trump will commandeer television channels to tout an imaginary immigration "crisis" to justify securing funding for his US-Mexico border wall, and television channels are complicit --A new report reveals that Donald Trump did not understand how a shutdown...

--On the Show: --Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and political critic, joins David to discuss Trump's economy, tariffs, the stock market, and much more --A judge has granted an extension to Robert Mueller's Trump Russia investigation grand jury, meaning the investigation will continue for up to an additional six months --After President Donald Trump announced that US troops would be leaving Syria, Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton makes it clear that the US is...

--On the Show: --Within hours of taking over control of the House of Representatives, Democrats pass a bill to end the government shutdown without providing funding for Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall --House Democrats are sworn in with Nancy Pelosi becoming Speaker of the House, and the Donald Trump investigations start immediately --Conspiracy theorist Stefan Molyneux has been talking about David quite a bit after their recent Twitter dispute --Caller thinks Republican lawmakers...

--On the Show: --Abdullah Sharif, author of "Return to Kabul, An Afghan American's Odyssey in Afghanistan and Sardar, From Afghanistan's Golden Age to Carnage," joins David to discuss the American military presence in Afghanistan, why neither Trump nor Obama have been able to leave, and more --The Trump shutdown is exposed, obviously, as political posturing with no real solutions on the horizon --In a new interview on the eve of becoming Speaker of the House, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi...

--On the Show: --Bryant Welch, clinical psychologist and author of "State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind," joins David to discuss why voters are so vulnerable to manipulation and propaganda --Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is running for President in 2020, announcing the formal start of an exploratory committee --A look at the political and ideological differences between 2020 Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and...

VACATION DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM NOVEMBER 5, 2018 --On the Show: --Will Sommer, tech reporter for The Daily Beast and author of "The Right Richter" newsletter on conservative media, joins David to discuss the recently failed attempt to smear special prosecutor Robert Mueller with false sexual assault allegations from women --It is increasingly pointless for media to spend time fact-checking Donald Trump because the right has decided that facts themselves have no authority and are...

VACATION DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM OCTOBER 31, 2018 --On the Show: --Nicole Mafi, daughter of polygamous Mormon cult leader Paul Kingston and author of "The Leader's Daughter," joins David to discuss her upbringing within and eventual departure from the cult --A smear campaign is uncovered which sought to pay women to make false sexual assault allegations against special prosecutor Robert Mueller --After the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania synagogue tragedy, Vice President Mike Pence finds the...

--On the Show: --A new report from McClatchy DC claims that a cell phone signal puts convicted Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen near Prague at the time claimed by the Christopher Steele Trump Russia dossier, despite Cohen's denials --A hilarious behind-the-scenes video of Jordan Peterson talking to Donald Trump Jr, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Charlie Kirk makes the rounds --2018 has been an incredible year for The David Pakman Show --Caller questions what Bernie Sanders would be able to...

--On the Show: –The conclusion to our interview with Richard Ojeda, highly decorated 24-year Army veteran, West Virginia State Senator, and Democratic 2020 Presidential candidate, who joins David to discuss the state of American politics and his 2020 presidential campaign --A discussion of less common activism tactics, including strategic defaulting, class-action suits, mass rallies, stopping non-necessary financial consumption, withholding payments and more --Donald Trump bone-headedly...