Part 1 – Money in Politics

Guest: Sheila Krumholz is the Executive Director at the Center for Responsive Politics. The Center for Responsive Politics is an independent nonprofit research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy, The Center runs the website OpenSecrets.org, which is a comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available to the public.

Part 2 – Donald Trump V The United States

Guest: Michael S. Schmidt is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington correspondent for The New York Times. Over his fifteen years at the Times, he has covered the investigations of the Trump presidency, the Pentagon, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the war in Iraq.