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2WAY Week In Review

Conversations like no other….

Mark Halperin

Oct 25

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Katy Balls, Washington Editor for The Times, joined to share her reporting on Steve Bannon’s setting up for a third Trump term, while Ryan Girdusky and the 2WAY audience unpacked the high emotions in New York City’s mayoral race—and the overlooked school board races that matter most in the lives of students and parents—on “2WAY Tonight.”

THIS WEEK

Meghan McCain talked Florida politics with Erika Donalds.

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Bridget Phetasy’s asking what a lot of Americans are thinking — will you ever be able to afford a home?

Find out on the latest episode of “Real America.”

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Michael Moynihan sat down with Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of The Summer of Our Discontent, to analyze the period from 2020 to the present on a new episode of “The Moynihan Report.”

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Michael LaRosa — former aide to First Lady Jill Biden — stepped in for Dan on the latest episode of “The Group Chat.”

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Ryan Glasspiegel joins Ethan Strauss on “Random Offense” to break down the massive NBA gambling investigation rocking the league.

“NEXT UP”

I kick off the latest episode of “Next Up” with a reported monologue on Washington’s latest drama: the uproar over Donald Trump’s White House ballroom.

How did a construction project become the Left’s newest moral crisis? I unpack what it reveals about the lasting Trump fixation in politics and the press.

Then Republican Whip Tom Emmer joins me to explain why the Republicans think they’re winning the shutdown messaging war—and how the East Wing “demolition” captures Washington’s obsession with optics over outcomes.

Finally, Democratic strategist Matt Bennett and I dig into what the ballroom backlash exposes about his party’s deeper challenges and how Democrats can reconnect with voters before 2028.

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I opened Tuesday’s show unpacking why Trump’s presidency still dominates America’s political mood—before Meghan McCain and Ben Ferguson joined me to tackle everything from foreign policy to media reform and the fight for credibility in Washington:

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