Unanimous Dissent

In this episode, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before the Senate and displays a shocking lack of knowledge on the government’s terror watch lists. The two Sams explain why this doesn’t bode well for the Democrats’ latest gun control proposals.Also, the State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report, and it’s hoping to avoid the same controversy and charges of politicization that plagued the report last year. Finally, Ryan Cooper, a columnist at The Week is on to talk about the complicated relationship the US has with its own antitrust laws. Plus, at the end of the show, someone gets thrown in the garbage can.

In this episode, Hillary Clinton’s ongoing FBI investigation is preventing her campaign from hitting Donald Trump on his many transgressions. Should Democrats be experiencing buyer’s remorse? Plus, the two Sams discuss the possibility of a Puerto Rexit.Also, a new study shows that Washington, DC local politics are dominated by rich, white people. The author of that report, Sean McElwee, a policy analyst at Demos Action, is on to talk about unequal influence in the nation’s capital and all around the country. And, Ted Cruz gives Trump a run for his money in the race to be the most Islamophobic politician in the US. Imraan Siddiqui, CAIR Arizona’s Executive Director comes on to discuss a conspiracy-mongering congressional hearing held earlier this week by Cruz.

As the two most unpopular candidates for president in American history get set to square off, the two Sam’s wonder what the country did to deserve such weak choices.Also, International Business Times reporter Brendan James stops by to discuss the latest Never Trumpers, including a former bigwig Republican who has turned toward Hillary Clinton. Should Democrats worry about warmongers and corporatists supporting their candidate?And finally, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is taking a stand against Senators who want to expand the surveillance power of the NSA. He claims a certain measure under consideration in the upper chamber would allow the feds to spy on our thoughts.

In this episode, the two Sams take a look at how the Democratic Party platform is coming together, and how Bernie Sanders is trying to drag the party to the left.Also the Supreme Court struck down a Texas anti-abortion law. Associate Editor at the DCist Rachel Kurzius explains what this means for womens’ access to reproductive health services. The Unanimous Dissent team also tackles the Puerto Rico debt crisis, stolen CIA arms shipments, and the corporatization of the US National Park Service.

In today’s episode, Sam Sacks and Sam Knight digest what just happened with the Brexit vote in the UK. Economist Mark Weisbrot with the Center for Economic and Policy Research joins in to offer some insight on what lies ahead.Questions linger over what sort of interactions the FBI had with Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen. Author and journalist Max Blumenthal is on to discuss the bureau’s counter-terror tactics, and speculate whether agents may have helped radicalize Mateen. And finally, Democrats staged a 25-hour sit-in last week to get a vote on gun control. But have they undercut their efforts by hitching their proposals to secret terrorist watch-lists? There used to be a time when Democrats opposed the trappings of the national security state, when George W. Bush was president.