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

June 19, 2026 21 mins
In breaking news,  Mass. Fed. Judge Kelly has refused to block her own order commanding the Trump Administration in 3 weeks time to put history BACK in place in 60 national parks, to stop Trump writing out of history slavery and how we treated the Native American peoples. Popok explains that even thought the appellate Third Circuit in Philadelphia just ruled that Trump could rip down panels memorializing the enslaved people Ge...
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The DOJ and Todd Blanche just got caught trying to pay off criminal defendants wrongly indicted for protesting in Chicago, by agreeing to pay all their attorneys fees if they just go away and don't examine whether a conspiracy occurred among the White House, Todd Blanche and local prosecutors to indict them in the first place.  Popok reports on the defendants new motion that tells Judge Perry they will gladly take the money, b...
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Popok examines a new motion filed by the Broadview 6 counsel demanding that Judge Perry appoint a special counsel to investigate and prosecute the Chicago US Attorneys' Office AND possibly Todd Blanche for prosecutorial misconduct, as Judge Coleman in the same courthouse considers sanctioning the Government and doing the same, as Judge Williams in Miami considers finding that Blanche and others defrauded the Court! Subscribe: htt...
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Popok reports on Trump, so out of sorts at the G7 Summit, that even his enemies are wondering whether he is sick, had to learn that his own Fed Reserve Chair, handpicked to cut interest rates to fix Trump's failed economy, has refused to cut rates at his first meeting, sending the Stock market into a tailspin. Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to ht...
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Epstein Survivors are livid over Todd Blanche's nomination as AG considering his "leadership" role in the coverup, and have met with House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer to lay out the case against Blanche, the DOJ and FBI, and the 14 men identified in the files that need to be investigated.  Popok, in an interview with a Survivor Leader Dani Benski who was in the private meeting, reports that immediately after the meet...
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With 2 huge wins for the rule of law in the last week, Democracy Forward continues a long string of losses for Trump on some of his most depraved and un-american policies, including funding insurrectionists who attacked law enforcement, and rewriting slavery and mistreatment of native americans out of history.  Popok is joined by Democracy Forward's leader Skye Perryman to break down Judge Brinkema's order indefinitely blockin...
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Popok reports on the Secret Service being furious that FBI Dir. Kash Patel posted a "stolen valor" social media post BEFORE all UFC250 drone plot assailants had been captured and before the indictment unsealed, undermining the investigation and putting law enforcement in harm's way. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ...
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Popok hosts the award-winning Intersection Podcast, breaking down the NYT leak and Trump mole hunt, an update to the Trump slush fund, Kash Patel in hot water once again, Trump’s DOJ going after Gov. Newsom. Popok is also joined by special guest Dani Bensky, Epstein survivor and a leader of the survivor movement on Epstein updates. All this and more at the intersection of law and politics. Shopify: Sign up for your one-do...
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Popok reports on Trump's lying to the American People about the true cost of the vanity project Ballroom, which now stands at $600m with half paid by the taxpayers, up from 6 months ago when it was $200m and paid by private donors.  And as it balloons to $1 billion or more an appellate court is considering whether to shut down the Ballroom altogether! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become ...
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The Trump Administration is reportedly in "freak out" mode about the New York Times "Inside the White House Freak Over the Epstein Files" article and its implication that someone among the 11 senior officials in the room (and some that phoned it in literally), may have RECORDED the conversation and leaked the transcript and recording to the New York Times!  Popok updates this fast moving story.For free and unbiased Medicare he...
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Popok reports on Judge Coleman, a Chicago Federal Judge, setting an emergency hearing this week to examine whether the DOJ's US Attorney in Chicago, Andrew Boutrous committed ethical violations that warrant sanctions agains the office, as a follow up to her calling the DOJ dismissing an indictment against 2 criminal defendants in a $800 million fraud ring so suspicious that it has opened "Pandora's box" and won't accomplish what th...
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On every personal vanity project Trump has launched, from the Ballroom, to his face on money, to the Arch, to the Slush Fund, and the Iran War, the American People have risen up in new polling and have joined Robert DeNiro's birthday message to Trump: Shut the "Legal AF" UP!  Popok takes a close look at the polls showing that Trump and MAGA have "lost" America and its voters, as his enablers and handlers let him pursue project...
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Popok brings to light a little reported lawsuit against Trump's former private criminal lawyer and AG Nominee Todd Blanche, where he is accused of FORGERY, overbilling clients, and failing to mount a proper criminal defense, for 2 clients' convicted of 16 counts of mail and wire fraud. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/...
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Popok reports on the ghost of Pam Bondi continue to scar the proud reputation of the US Attorney Office's around the the US, as the once proud Chicago US Attorney's Office is called out by Federal Judges and 111 former office prosecutors, as being corrupt and unethical, including willing to dismiss indictments with prejudice  as directed by the White House in Billion Dollar medical insurance fraud schemes rather than produce r...
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Popok ties together Trump's phony announcement that he has a "Deal" with Iran on his birthday -- when he doesn't; the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turning "Iranian Flag Green" in honor of the "Deal;" Americans chanting "Free the Tarp" that's blocking the court ordered forced removal of  Trump's name from the Kennedy Center; as fighters and viewers abandon the UFC fight in his honor at the White House. Subscribe: https://w...
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Popok briefs on breaking news of the DC Appeals Court 3 judge panel refusing to stop Trump’s name coming off the Kennedy Center. 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: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsk...
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Popok reports on Senior Judge Brinkema's scathing order BLOCKING the Trump "slush fund" unless  AG Blanche and Treasury Sec Bessent file a sworn affidavit that they have really killed the fund and won't use it to pay out any money. He also ties it together with Miami Fed. Judge Williams next move to possibly declare the Fund a product of fraud on the Court! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Be...
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In breaking news, Trump' s lawyers have intentionally refused to respond to Federal Judge William's order that they answer to the charges of "fraud on the court" and "deception" on the Court in their settlement of the Trump v. IRS case that led to the creation of the "anti weaponization fund" and settlement documents granting Trump and his family a "super pardon."  Popok reviews the filing and reports that it is woefully insuf...
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States' Attorneys' General, like California's Rob Bonta, are confident that they have what it takes, joined with public interest groups, to stop Trump's assault on the sacred right to vote, before voting starts and while it is happening.  AG Bonta joins Popok for an exclusive interview and briefing debunking Trump and his allies' voter fraud claims, filing 71 cases and counting against the Administration with 80 percent winnin...
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Popok reports on Judge Cooper not only refusing to block his order that Trump's name needs to come down from the Kennedy Center ASAP, but also found that Trump is "perpetuating" "unlawful government conduct".  While at the same time Judge Mehta next door made a ruling that impacts Trump's birthday bash at the White House on Sunday. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF ...
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