The Intersection with Michael Popok

The Intersection with Michael Popok

The Intersection with Michael Popok is a weekly one-hour podcast focused on trusted, topical commentary exploring how the law intersects with and shapes people’s daily lives—including their Constitutionally protected rights and their civic, economic, and political worlds. The Intersection is hosted and curated by Michael Popok, co-founder of the top-ranked Legal AF podcast and YouTube channel. Popok is one of the most viewed and downloaded independent content creators, with over 50 million monthly downloads and views, and nearly 1 billion views overall. The Intersection was also one of the top-ranked YouTube podcasts in the platform’s newly released podcast rankings, placing in the top two among all legal and political podcasts on YouTube. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience as a renowned national trial lawyer and global corporate executive, Popok makes the law—and its role in our lives—easy to comprehend and entertaining. He teaches his audience, using his unique brand of humor and communication skills honed through years of jury work, to think like a lawyer while learning the secrets of the court system and the craft of lawyering. The result is a refreshing, no-holds-barred show that’s equal parts TED Talk, law school class, insider view of courtroom tactics, and pop culture seminar—all rolled into a one-hour podcast presented by the MeidasTouch Network.

Episodes

August 6, 2026 17 mins
Popok reports on the breaking news that Judge Gayles a Miami Federal Judge has BLOCKED Trump's efforts to conduct baseless discovery to abuse the Wall Street Journal, indicating that is likely that he is going to dismiss the shakedown lawsuit about Trump's alleged pornographic submission to the Epstein Birthday Book. For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to htt...
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Popok is joined by Democracy Forward's leader Skye Perryman for an exclusive interview about new developments in their case against Blanche and the DOJ before Fed. Judge Brinkema and why that case may be the one that breaks the camel's back, or at least leads to Blanche's nomination failing.  Popok and Skye also outline what the audience can do RIGHT NOW to make sure Blanche's nomination fails! https://democracyforward.org/ac...
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In stunning and breaking news, GOP Senator Collins of Maine, in a fight for her political life in Maine, and likely in response to passionate "closing arguments" against Todd Blanche's confirmation by Senate Democrats yesterday, has declared she is a "NO" vote on Blanche, putting his confirmation in serious doubt.  Popok reports. Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for l...
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Justice and the rule of law don’t go on holiday and neither does the Intersection podcast as Popok reports from his travels on: the Block Blanche movement moving aggressively to the Senate floor; 35 former federal judges firing back at Blanche and Trump in a brand new court filing; Capitol One forced by Trump to tell the world they suspected that Trump and his family may be money launderers or worse; the Reflecting Pool scand...
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Popok reports on Trump publicly supporting Rep. Max Miller of Ohio, a MAGA enthusiast who has been accused by both his X Wife of terrible physical abuse including of his 2 year old daughter, but also by a US Senator who is is x father in law, and by a former Trump White House Communications Director.   Yet Melania encouraged one of the abusers before the last campaign to seek police intervention, but her silence is deafen...
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Popok explains why the Capital one disclosure that Donald Trump and his family were suspected of possible money, laundering or anti-terrorist activities when they decided to close their 300 Bank accounts as a series of cascading impacts on other cases involving Donald Trump, including his civil fraud case, the extension of a quarter appointed monitor over the Trump organization and even his BBC defamation case. For free and unbias...
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Popok reports on the breaking news that embattled Attorney General Nominee Todd Blanche has rescinded ONLY the Jan6 "weaponization" fund but refuses to also rescind what he obviously promised Trump: That he would be granted by Blanche immunity from past tax and audit and criminal investigations, giving Trump a gift worth 100s of millions of dollars and letting Trump get away with tax evasion. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Le...
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Popok reports on Breaking News that Capital One, in its latest federal court filing against Trump and his family, has revealed that the real reason it closed more than 300 of Trump and his family's bank accounts was due to suspected money laundering. Drawing on his background in anti-money laundering and financial services, Popok explains just how devastating this revelation truly is. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN...
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Popok reports on Trump urging his DOJ to continue using fake and manufactured evidence to mislead a grand jury into criminally indicting his enemies and targets, even after the DOJ confesses that the indictment must be dismissed because of false representations. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/...
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In breaking news, a new Trump filing in his IRS lawsuit case indicates to Popok that Trump is either intentionally undercutting Todd Blanche's ability to get the votes he needs to be AG by filing an appeal to have his Jan6 fund and release declared lawful to keep it alive, or Blanche knew about the new filing and just lied to 2 Senators he needs to get confirmed!  Popok breaks it down. Ro: Go to https://RO.CO/INTERSECTION to ...
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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and a member of the Senate  judiciary committee and fierce  opponent  of Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney General joins Popok to give our Legal AF audience a real time update about the Republicans  futile  attempt to round up enough votes to vote Blanche out of committee. Popok and the Senator also reveal what is really driving the nomination, and question whether Trump...
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Popok reports in breaking news in 2 major developments in Katie Phang's preliminary injunction case against Todd Blanche and his continued failure to produce the Epstein files required by an Act of Congress and an Order of Judge Sullivan, and one of the Epstein Victims coming forward to try to intervene in the case. Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you he...
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Popok reports on Trump's lawyers misleading a Judge and missing a critical deadline, leading her to order ALL of Trump's private tax and business records since "January 1, 2023 to present" to be immediately turned over to the BBC to allow them to defend against Trump's claims of billions of damages.  Had Trump actually filed what he claimed he was going to last week, he may have avoided having the boom lowered on him, but that...
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Popok reports on the House Judiciary Committee being urged to call Baron Trump to testify under oath about the true nature of his relationship with disgraced Tate Brothers manospehere podcasters and indicted sex traffickers and why Trump has used the Administration to cover up for their crimes! Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to https://Smalls.com...
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Popok reports on the fast moving developments about mail in ballots coursing through two separate federal appeals courts and now the United States Supreme Court, as Trump tries to get the High at Court to bail him out on mail and ballot blocking and the abuse of the postal device. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJ...
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Popok reports on a newly leaked brief Trump has filed with the US Supreme Court to avoid paying E Jean Carroll the more than $90 million he owes her for sex abuse, arguing that he may owe it but he has immunity! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: htt...
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Popok is back at The Intersection podcast and from the road covering: The Block Blanche movement including an exclusive interview with Former Fed Judge Mark Wolf; 35 former fed judges including Judge Wolf telling a federal judge they don’t want money for Trump and Blanche being sanctioned for bad faith, they want justice; Barron Trump at the center of a call for an investigation into a second child sec trafficking ring connec...
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Popok explains that Former FBI Dir. and public Trump critic, James Comey is in the process of filing a series of fiery motions addressed to his criminal indictment for effectively "liking" someone else's social media post about removing the President from office, the now infamous "8647" seashell indictment approved by Todd Blanche, and the first motion to dismiss has now been filed.  Popok explains that between now and Au...
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Popok reports on the breaking news of a new civil rights class action suit brought against major Trump donors and election deniers that run a multi billion dollar government paid for transportation network for Homeland Security and ICE and who flew the three planes and dropped off 200 men to be tortured upon arrival in El Salvador!  Popok explains that going after US Companies who profit from Trump's civil rights abuse and tor...
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Popok comments on new reporting from Bloomberg, piecing together the international child sex trafficking crime spree conducted by Trump's best friend Epstein, including 3700 flights (averaging more than 1 per day) for 10 YEARS, all booked by his long time assistant through an American Express travel manager, who also helped the assistant conduct likely visa fraud.  The ring spanned 6 properties and cities, dozens of countries,...
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