Stay Tuned with Preet

Stay Tuned with Preet

Join former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as he breaks down legal topics in the news and engages thought leaders in a podcast about power, policy, and justice. From CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Episodes

Vindictive Prosecution? Comey & Abrego Garcia

October 7, 2025 • 15 mins
The FBI has reportedly discussed staging a “perp walk” with former FBI Director Jim Comey. In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the legality of publicly arresting a high-profile criminal defendant and how this spectacle could help Comey’s defense. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss the next steps in the Comey prosecution. They also break down a federal judge’s opinion in K...
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Trump’s Plan for Gaza (with Antony Blinken)

October 2, 2025 • 69 mins
Antony Blinken was the 71st Secretary of State, serving under President Joe Biden. As the nation’s top diplomat, he worked on restoring U.S. ties with allies and multilateral institutions following Trump’s first term. He also led U.S. aid responses in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s war in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack. Both of those wars rage on today. Secretary Blinken joins Preet to discuss Trump’s ...
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Is the Comey Prosecution Fatally Flawed?

September 30, 2025 • 14 mins
Is the Jim Comey indictment fatally flawed? In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the weaknesses in the case against the former FBI Director, who was charged with making a false statement and obstructing a congressional proceeding. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce further discuss the Comey prosecution. They also break down the Justice Department’s decision to close an investigati...
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James Comey Indicted

September 26, 2025 • 60 mins
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia has indicted former FBI Director James Comey on charges of making a false statement to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. In this recording from a Substack livestream, Preet and Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney and co-host of the Insider podcast, share their reactions to the Comey indictment and the danger of politicizing law enforcement, describing it as ...
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Common Knowledge in the Trump Era (with Steven Pinker)

September 25, 2025 • 67 mins
How does common knowledge become… common knowledge? Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist and professor at Harvard University. He joins Preet to discuss his latest book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life, about how shared awareness shapes norms and shifts collective behavior.  Then, Preet answers your questions about America’s very first law enforc...
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Trump Ramps Up Retribution

September 22, 2025 • 13 mins
Why is President Trump’s recent Truth Social post directed at Attorney General Pam Bondi so dangerous? In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the president’s post urging AG Bondi to prosecute political rivals and what it reveals about Trump’s attitude toward his opponents.  In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down Charlie Kirk’s assassination, from the investigation and charges...
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How to Investigate a President (with Elie Honig)

September 18, 2025 • 45 mins
Ever wonder how special counsel investigations really work, and what goes on behind the scenes? Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Stay Tuned contributor Elie Honig offers insider access to the key players in his latest book, When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ’s Pursuit of the President, from Nixon to Trump. It is a riveting account of six modern special counsel cases compiled through dozens...
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SCOTUS’ Game of Chicken with Trump (with Dahlia Lithwick)

September 16, 2025 • 12 mins
How is the Supreme Court emboldening President Trump's continuing expansion of power? In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Joyce Vance discusses the “appeasement theory” with Dahlia Lithwick, the Slate senior editor and host of the Amicus podcast. In the full episode, Joyce and Dahlia break down which cases to look out for in the Court’s upcoming term, how politics and culture wars are factoring into the Court’s decisio...
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Guns, Law, and the Culture War (with John Feinblatt and Adam Winkler)

September 11, 2025 • 66 mins
Programming Note: This conversation was recorded on Monday, 9/8, before the horrific and tragic killing of political activist Charlie Kirk. Gun violence is among the leading causes of death for children and teens in the United States. News of yet another mass shooting breaks almost weekly. And still, gun reform remains fiercely partisan. It is indeed a cultural flashpoint in a country that feels as divided and polarized as ever. ...
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Trump’s America: Do We All Need to Carry Papers Now?

September 9, 2025 • 10 mins
In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the Supreme Court ruling that loosened restrictions on immigration raids in Los Angeles, allowing ICE to make stops based on factors like ethnicity. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down: – A federal judge’s ruling that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles was unlawful;  – A federal appeals court ruling, w...
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Is Trump an Economic Despot? (with Daron Acemoglu)

September 4, 2025 • 70 mins
What comes first, a prosperous economy or stable democratic institutions? Nobel Prize-winning economist and MIT professor Daron Acemoglu joins Preet to discuss the economic stakes of shifting institutional norms in the U.S. He weighs in on President Trump’s decision to fire key personnel at the Federal Reserve and Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as the announcement that the government will take a roughly 10% equity stake in Int...
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Can Trump Do Whatever He Wants?

September 2, 2025 • 12 mins
In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss President Donald Trump’s threats that he will deploy National Guard troops to major cities. Trump has already done this in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles and has floated doing the same in Chicago, New York, and Baltimore.  In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down Trump’s efforts to expand the National Guard’s role in D.C. law enforcemen...
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Raging Moderates: How Trump Could Win a Nobel Peace Prize (ft. Hillary Clinton)

August 28, 2025 • 71 mins
Preet's out this week, so we're excited to share an episode of Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov, which we think listeners of Stay Tuned will enjoy. We'll be back next week! Jessica Tarlov sits down for a wide-ranging conversation with Hillary Clinton to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. They explore how Donald Trump could attempt to broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, how Democra...
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With Putin, Trump Bends the Knee (with Tom Nichols)

August 21, 2025 • 69 mins
Trump’s recent meetings with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have raised urgent questions about America’s role in global affairs and the future of the war in Ukraine. Atlantic staff writer and national security expert Tom Nichols joins Preet to break down what’s at stake: the fragility of Western unity, the history behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and whether Trump can—or even wants to—deliver peace. They also discuss De...
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Law & Order, Hold the Law

August 19, 2025 • 11 mins
In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the agreement between the D.C. government and the Trump administration, facilitated by a federal judge, preserving the local government’s authority over its police force. The resolution stemmed from the D.C. Attorney General’s lawsuit challenging Trump’s takeover of the District’s police and his deployment of the National Guard. In the full episo...
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Why Good Laws Aren’t Enough (with Martha Minow)

August 14, 2025 • 66 mins
Should the law be more forgiving? Martha Minow, former dean of Harvard Law School, joins Preet for a wide-ranging conversation on what justice means today—inside and beyond the courtroom. They discuss the erosion of public trust in the legal system, the dangers of outcome-driven thinking, and why Minow believes we can’t “achieve” justice. Plus, they explore how self-interest in the Trump era has eroded our institutions, from the Su...
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Trump's DC Police Takeover

August 12, 2025 • 11 mins
Does President Trump have the legal authority to put Washington, D.C.’s police under federal control? In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss Trump’s executive order declaring a crime emergency in DC to seize control of the city’s police and deploy the National Guard. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss:  – A federal judge’s decision to reject the Trump administration’s reque...
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Can Democrats Win Back Rural America? (with Joe Kennedy III)

August 7, 2025 • 69 mins
Joe Kennedy III is trying to rebuild Democratic power from the ground up—in places where the party has long been written off. The former Massachusetts congressman joins Preet to talk about his work with the Groundwork Project, an organization supporting grassroots organizing in rural America. They discuss what it means to do politics outside the spotlight, his disagreements with his uncle RFK Jr., and how Kennedy is navigating lega...
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Is Being Undocumented a Crime?

August 5, 2025 • 13 mins
What does it mean to be undocumented? And is it always illegal? In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss whether violations of immigration law are treated as civil offenses or criminal acts under U.S. law. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down a new bill in Congress that would ban lawmakers from trading stocks. Plus, why president Donald Trump is exempt from the bill. CAFE In...
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DOJ's Shifting Sands on Epstein (with Mimi Rocah, Elie Honig & Asha Rangappa)

July 31, 2025 • 55 mins
Donald Trump and the Justice Department are at the center of bipartisan furor over the case files of Jeffrey Epstein and the administration’s about-face on publicly releasing them. Preet is joined by former Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah, former Assistant US Attorney Elie Honig, and lawyer and former FBI agent Asha Rangappa to discuss what’s potentially unfolding behind closed doors at the Justice Department. They also br...
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