Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
Roben Farzad
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Jul 15, 2018 • 45min
Rethinking the Democrats
John Prideaux, U.S. editor of The Economist, on the many doubts and hard questions the Democrats face in the era of Pres. Trump and GOP domination of Capitol Hill. During Barack Obama's two terms in the White House, his party gave up more than 1,000 seats across Congress, state legislatures and governors' mansions. Where to now?

Jul 10, 2018 • 44min
RBG Goes to Hollywood
How filmmaker Julie Cohen brought octogenarian Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the big screen in "RBG," one of this year's hit documentaries.

Jul 3, 2018 • 44min
The Resilience of Adele McClure
How a girl who grew up hungry, frequently homeless and generally deprived of a normal childhood became student body president of her college of 32,000 -- and then a top policy adviser to Virginia's lieutenant governor. The story of Adele McClure.

Jun 24, 2018 • 43min
John Avlon Goes to CNN
The ex-speechwriter for Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former editor-in-chief at the Daily Beast on discourse and journalism in the age of Trump -- on the very week he joins CNN ... and CNN joins AT&T.
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Jun 17, 2018 • 33min
"Kim Jong Won"
The Economist's David Rennie on the magazine's cover on Trump's unprecedented summit with the ruler of North Korea. The U.S. made huge concessions and alienated allies. Will the Hermit Kingdom really change?

Jun 7, 2018 • 43min
Alpha Charlie Gasparino
Fox Business Network's Charlie Gasparino on his decades of covering fellow New Yorker Donald Trump -- and how he went from being Manhattan's Self-Promoter-in-Chief to U.S. Commander-in-Chief. Charlie talks about Trump's takeover of the GOP, a tense encounter with small hands and Republicans' chances in November and beyond.

May 26, 2018 • 36min
The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, the legendary author, could have been America's first cocaine kingpin; he was an inept land speculator and precious-metals prospector; he lost money on dumb contraptions and a protein supplement derived from pig feed. All great fodder for my guest, Alan Pell Crawford, author of How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain.

May 21, 2018 • 57min
The Miseducation of Nelson Aguilar
Re-posting from 2014: the journey of Nelson Aguilar....a kid smuggled out of Castro's Cuba and into Miami, where he became a notorious cocaine dealer. His story is a metaphor for the many things that have gone wrong between Havana and Washington.

May 13, 2018 • 44min
A Random Walk Down Sorkin
In the mid 1990s, high schooler Andrew Ross Sorkin begged his way into the New York Times building, offering to photocopy and staple for free. Accidentally assigned a byline, he hung around the Times long enough to become the paper's star Wall Street correspondent and founder of DealBook; CNBC co-host; bestselling financial-crisis author and co-creator of the Showtime hit "Billions." He discusses his journey.

Apr 29, 2018 • 41min
Jimmy O. Yang's Breakout
Jimmy O. Yang (Jian-Yang on HBO's "Silicon Valley") is selling out comedy venues across the map and landing movie roles. The Hong Kong-born funnyman talks about ditching his miserable financial services job, making ends meet by driving Uber and bouncing at clubs... and his new memoir, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents.


