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Powerhouse Politics

Headliner interviews and in-depth looks at the people and events shaping U.S. politics. Hosted by ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl and Political Director Rick Klein.

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The Apparent Winner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

After nearly 50 years in public life and three tries for the White House, former Vice President Joe Biden is the apparent winner of the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump in a v...

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An Extraordinary Couple of Days from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A win isn't the same as a mandate. Waiting for a win is messier -- especially in volatile times. On the day after the day after Election Day, the math and the map clearly favor former Vice Presiden...

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Election Update: The 'Blue Shift' Begins from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

President Trump led Wisconsin and Michigan for much of last night. But as mail votes are counted, vote totals there now show Joe Biden with the lead. However, Biden has a long way to go in Georgia ...

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Election Day: What To Watch For from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Election Day arrives as a referendum on the man who has dominated the national conversation for four-plus years: President Donald J. Trump. We don't know when or how it will end. Former Vice Presid...

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Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LaRose from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ohio's Secretary of State, Frank LaRose joins to talk about the voting, tabulation and reporting processes for his state. LaRose also discusses election security and COVID safety measures at pollin...

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Remarkable Voter Turnout from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Everyone's paying attention and everyone's getting out there to vote." With just six days to go before Election Day, that's what Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, tells Powerhouse Po...

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Candidates Make Their Closing Arguments from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The second and final debate was a study in contrasts from the first. One thing that didn't change, though, was President Donald Trump's attempts to make former Vice President Joe Biden out as a cor...

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Trump vs. Fauci from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"He wants to listen to Dr. Fauci," President Donald Trump told a crowd in Arizona Monday afternoon, the mention of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s name drawing boos from the crowd. It takes head-spinning logic...

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Bonus: Dr. Anthony Fauci from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Guest: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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About That Conspiracy Theory Tweet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Never one to let a wild conspiracy theory pass him by, President Donald Trump Tuesday stoked division online, while otherwise removing himself from the national conversation taking place in local g...

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"Enough is Enough" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Up until Wednesday evening, former Defense Secretary James Mattis has stayed mostly silent since resigning from his post in December 2018. But triggered by the "unfolding events" in the aftermath o...

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Wild Allegations from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

First, President Donald Trump sees no reason there can't be a convention with "full attendance" this summer and he also sees "no way" that election results can be trusted this fall. Then, Senator J...

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The Presidents Club from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

President Donald Trump has never needed an excuse to go after his predecessor. New dynamics are complicating those attacks. Former President Barack Obama is starting to respond and he’s not alone. ...

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'Not Everybody Should Get A Test' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A nation headed in different directions in the midst of a pandemic has a political climate where events may as well be popping up in alternate realities. The reopening debate is breaking along red-...

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Mr. Doom and Gloom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Two big things are happening at the same time. A scared nation is in the midst of a terrible public-health crisis with no end in sight, while a restless nation pushes toward resuming life as we onc...

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Testing Limits from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When Vice President Mike Pence, the head of the nation's coronavirus task force, visited the Mayo Clinic Tuesday in Minnesota and greeted patients, he did so without wearing a face mask, even thoug...

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Questions Without Answers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Whether in the White House Briefing Room or Rose Garden, President Trump has been taking to the podium daily to update the American people on the response to this global pandemic, but many of the ...

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Bonus: NJ Gov. Phil Murphy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As the U.S. economy continued to worsen dramatically with another staggering jobless claims report out Thursday, President Donald Trump is preparing to make a major push to reopen parts of the coun...

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Checks and Balances from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Donald J. Trump's name will be printed in the memo line of the stimulus checks being sent out to American workers beginning this week. Meanwhile President Trump let out a little slack Tuesday in t...

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Race Against Time from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As the vast majority of us continue to work from home during this crisis, again we find Jon Karl and Rick Klein joining the podcast from isolation. The discussion begins just moments after Sen. Ber...

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"Front Row at the Trump Show" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

He’s known and covered Donald Trump longer than any other White House reporter.  ABC News’ Chief White House correspondent and Powerhouse Politics co-host, Jonathan Karl has just published a new bo...

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Human Life or Economic Life? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If President Donald Trump has already made fateful choices in the new coronavirus crisis, wait for what's to come. Trump appears unwilling if not unlikely to wait on the advice of medical professio...

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"A Wartime President" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tuesday's races marked big wins for the former vice president, whose delegate lead is now in the realm of being virtually insurmountable. Meanwhile, President Trump’s administration looks for solut...

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Biden's Blowout from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The end is in sight for the Democratic primary campaign. The next move in this race belongs to Sen. Bernie Sanders, and him alone. But it's looking like a quieter close all around -- and not just b...

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"Unity Requires You To Eliminate the Vitriol" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The clock on bipartisanship is already ticking down. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is saying a vote on a budget resolution could come as early as next week -- before the Senate impeachment t...

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Steps Ahead from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joe Biden today takes the oath of office on the same steps where just two weeks ago we saw violence and unrest. ABC News Political Director Rick Klein co-hosts this episode with ABC's newly promote...

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"A Fatal Condition" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ten is either a huge number or a stunningly small one, depending on one's views of the state of partisanship and President Donald Trump's culpability for his words and actions. Guest: Frank Luntz, ...

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"Stop Trying To Stoke Fears for Fame" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

President Donald Trump is about to become the first president to be impeached twice. The second one, while unlikely to drive him from office early, will almost certainly be the one that matters the...

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Shocking But Not Surprising from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this special edition of Powerhouse Politics, Jon and Rick break down the events that unfolded in United States Capitol this week, discuss some new reporting from behind the scenes in the White H...

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"The Pressure Is Enormous" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It’s clear how part of the story will end. President-elect Joe Biden will prevail over President Donald Trump again and perhaps for the final time. But the final public act of the post-election spe...

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"All Necessary Precautions" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It's been eight short but incredibly long days since the first presidential debate. Since then, President Donald Trump has struggled to denounce white supremacism; refused to commit to accepting th...

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Closing The Book On 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the final episode of 2020, ABC News Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl and ABC News Political Director Rick Klein take a look at the extraordinary final days and weeks of Donald Trump...

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An Absolute Chaotic Mess from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The man a rival once warned would be a "chaos president" got a chaotic debate -- a wildly disjoined affair where both candidates insulted more than they explained. But almost as a throwaway topic, ...

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Flipping The White House from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On January 20th, the White House itself will undergo a major transformation as one President departs and a new one moves in to the People's House. Journalist and author, Kate Andersen Brower joins ...

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Debate Preview: Biden vs. Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A tale of two campaigns is emerging ahead of the first face-to-face meeting in the general election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night on the president...

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"Respectful in Public and Very Clear in Private" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Many Democrats might laugh at the idea that Sen. Mitch McConnell or any Republican deserves credit for acknowledging a reality that's been apparent for weeks, and simply stating that Biden is presi...

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"The Bloom Is Off The Rose" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There are about 40 days to go until Election Day, and this week the United States reached a grim milestone as the number of Americans who have died from coronavirus tops 200,000. Meanwhile, Preside...

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"This Is Not for the Faint of Heart" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It doesn't get as much notice amid the Trump show -- or, rightfully, in the midst in the dark phase of the pandemic. But intra-party rumblings about diversity and experience are more than backgroun...

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"Without Victory, There Is No Survival" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

ABC News' Tuesday night town hall with President Donald Trump showed a few different sides of the president, and found him comparing his own leadership during the coronavirus pandemic to that of Wi...

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"This Has To Stop" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

To be a Republican who believes President Donald Trump and his lawyers at the moment is to believe that he's been betrayed by yet another attorney general, the GOP governors of Arizona and Georgia,...

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Trump And The Media from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eight weeks from Tuesday is Election Day. Labor Day weekend was overtaken by anonymous quotes offered by former administration insiders, as published in The Atlantic. While former Vice President Jo...

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"This is Crazy. This is Nuts." from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the days and weeks following the 2020 election the Trump campaign has been filing lawsuits in battleground states where the race has been extremely close. Former NJ Governor and longtime ally of...

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Blocked Bulletin from DHS from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In early July the Department of Homeland Security withheld publication of an intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement agencies of a Russian scheme to promote “allegations about the poor mental...

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"This Is Not A Search For The Truth" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It's getting real now. From the top down and from the bottom up, the consequences of President Donald Trump and his Republican Party continuing to defy reality are making themselves evident. Trump ...

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"A Fair Shake" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A rising GOP star, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks to "Powerhouse Politics" about his speech at the Republican National Convention, Joe Biden's comments about race, and the status o...

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Jim Gray: "Talking to GOATs" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jim Gray has won twelve National Sports Emmy Awards, interviewing the greatest of all time athletes from Muhammad Ali to Tom Brady. He has also interviewed nine US Presidents from Richard Nixon to ...

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Law and Order (Again) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As President Trump prepares to accept the GOP nomination on the final night of the Republican National Convention, unrest grows from the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting and the landfall of Hu...

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Creating Doubt from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

To rekindle an infamous discussion, taking President Donald Trump literally at this precarious moment means the president believes the election was rigged against him; that he believes he received ...

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The Trump Show from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Trump family took center stage on the second night of the Republican National Convention, with Eric and Tiffany giving speeches before Melania’s keynote from the Rose Garden. Start Here, the d...

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A Turn Toward Optimism? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

While Sen. Tim Scott’s “From Cotton to Congress” speech offered an optimistic view of the country's future at the Republican National Convention, others spoke more to grievances. GUEST: Political ...

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"More Optimistic and Less Dire" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

With the start of the Republican National Convention, President Trump’s campaign seeks to offer its vision of a second term. GUEST: ABC News contributor Gov. Chris Christie Start Here, the daily ...

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Biden and Bannon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On the day Joe Biden is expected to accept the Democratic nomination for president, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon is arrested and indicted on charges of fraud.  GUEST: Kate Bedingfield...

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A Virtual Roll Call from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The second night of the Democratic National Convention featured a touching testimonial from Dr. Jill Biden, wife of presidential hopeful Joe Biden. A virtual roll call brought the audience to diffe...

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A Convention Unlike Any Other from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the COVID-19 era, political conventions are going to be very different. With the Democratic convention starting up this week, Democrats will seek to show the country their vision of the next few...

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Harris Makes History from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The safest choice made history. Former Vice President Joe Biden may have landed where he started, but he ends his running-mate process having traveled a far-reaching distance -- for his campaign an...

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"It Is What It Is" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

President Donald Trump is offering bundles of conflicting messaging and misinformation -- contradicting medical experts, political professionals and even himself on issues as varied as the importan...

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Blame America First? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

President Trump has confirmed that during a recent call with Russian president Vladimir Putin, he did not discuss intelligence reports that Russia had offered bounties to the Taliban for the killin...

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It's Not An "Unlimited License" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The remarkable federal crackdown playing out in Portland, Oregon - with threats of much more to come in other cities - speaks more to President Donald Trump's reelection strategy than anything surr...

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The Briefing Room from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In a recent op-ed, outgoing president of the White House Correspondents Association and co-host of this podcast, Jonathan Karl said, "the merits of the [White House] briefings over the years can be...

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"I Didn't Listen to My Experts" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We're seeing huge fundraising numbers in many down-ballot races, Kanye West says he's running for President of the United States, and when it comes to the nation's coronavirus response, President T...

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"If It's Indefensible, It's Indefensible" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Vice President Joe Biden makes an appearance on the campaign trail, and political consultant Frank Luntz evaluates the effectiveness of President Donald Trump's messaging in the presidential...

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Primary Colors from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Election day might be over in Kentucky and New York, but now the real wait begins for results. Some of the outcomes, expected next week, might just reflect how much the country is shifting to meet ...

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"Americans Want Law and Order" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Nearly three weeks after the death of George Floyd, Trump on Tuesday met with American families who have also had loved ones killed by police officers. In signing his executive order, he made it cl...

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Biden and Bannon from 2020-08-20T20:07

On the day Joe Biden is expected to accept the Democratic nomination for president, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon is arrested and indicted on charges of fraud.  GUEST: Kate Bedingfield...

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Biden and Bannon from 2020-08-20T20:07

On the day Joe Biden is expected to accept the Democratic nomination for president, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon is arrested and indicted on charges of fraud.  GUEST: Kate Bedingfield...

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