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The Asset
In 2016, Donald Trump conspired with a foreign government to become President of the United States. On July 25, 2019, with the 2020 election around the corner, he decided to do it again.The first time around, it was collusion, aiding and abetting Russia’s attack on American democracy. The second tim...
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Chapter 5: The Jefferson Administration
John Adams hosts Thomas Jefferson one last time on his final night in the White House, and the two men confront the meaning of party, power, and the p...
Chapter 4: The Adams Administration
John Adams becomes President after narrowly defeating Thomas Jefferson in 1796, and the uneasy partnership between the two men is tested by cabinet po...
Chapter 3: The Washington Administration
After The American Revolution, George Washington becomes the first President of the United States, John Adams is swept into the vice presidency, and T...
Oceans Apart
From the producers of The Asset.
During the American Revolution, John Adams leaves Braintree for a dangerous crossing to France, while Thomas...
Chapter 1: Declaration
From The Asset team: Patriarchs.
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This first episode begins at the end, then rewinds to before the Revolutionary War, at th...
Patriarchs
The Asset team is releasing a 6-part audio drama Patriarchs. As the United States approaches 250 years of independence, the nation is asking hard qu...
Trump’s Historic Unpopularity: Majority See Him as a Dangerous Dictator
In this eye-opening episode, Jim Wallis and Robert P. Jones dive deep into the latest poll data revealing President Trump’s unprecedented negative app...
Courts Under Siege: Dahlia Lithwick on Trump's Judicial Threats & Democracy's Future
In this very speacial episode of The Asset, legal journalist Dahlia Lithwick (Slate’s Amicus podcast) exposes how Trump’s second-term agenda—and cases...
Millions will Starve and Millions will Die
In the aftermath of the virtual destruction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), millions will starve and millions will...
Fighting Trump's Immigration Policies in Court
In this very special guest episode from Social Justice Warrior icon Rev. Jim Wallis, we examine one of Donald Trump's biggest legal battles regarding...
American Heretics: Donald Trump and White Christian Nationalists Spread the False White Gospel
Donald Trump and White Christian Nationalists have formed an unholy alliance to pervert the main tenets of Christianity to manifest their unbridled de...
Stoppable: Building 1200
On this very special episode of The Asset, we showcase an episode of the newest podcast from the creative team that produced The Asset. Subscribe here...
Stoppable: We Have a Visitor
On this very special episode of The Asset, we showcase an episode of the newest podcast from the creative team that produced The Asset. Subscribe here...
Stoppable: Strangers Welcome
On this very special episode of The Asset, we showcase an episode of the newest podcast from the creative team that produced The Asset. Subscribe here...
Stoppable: "Be Careful"
On this very special episode of The Asset, we showcase an episode of the newest podcast from the creative team that produced The Asset. Subscribe here...
Stoppable: Murder/Suicide
On this very special episode of The Asset, we showcase an episode of the newest podcast from the creative team that produced The Asset. Subscribe her...
Stoppable
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From the team that produced The Asset, District Productive presents Stoppable, the true crime podcast that explores the...
Max Bergmann and Daniella Leger on Russia's History of Failure in Ukraine
In a cross-over event with The Tent podcast for the the CAP Action Fund, Tent host Daniella Leger interviews The Asset host, Max Bergmann.
"When...
A Shadow Falls on our Democracy
In Season 1 of the Unconventional Threat-- one of our other podcasts produced in partnership with the non-partisan organization Keep Our Republic--we...
What Happened?
Max Bergmann sits down with Paul "Woody" Woodhull, the co-creator of The Asset podcast and president of the progressive podcast network, District Prod...
Election Day Special: Too Big to Rig
President Trump on mail-in ballots: “A whole big scam.”
Vice-President Joe Biden on claims of voter fraud: “He’s trying to undermine the electio...
Epilogue: Rehashing
In the year since season one of The Asset concluded, we have learned a lot. There are tell all books about the Mueller investigation, explosive new re...
Threats Foreign and Domestic
In this very special episode of The Asset, host Max Bergmann introduces a new podcast, Unconventional Threat from The Asset's production team, Distric...
Trump vs. Intelligence
In this bonus episode of The Asset Robert Draper, a writer at large for New York Times Magazine and the author of How the Bush Administration took Ame...
Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference
Max Bergmann, the Executive Director of the Moscow Project speaks with historian and author David Shimer about the alarming and disturbing pattern of...
Exclusive Interview with Senator Mark Warner
The Moscow Project Executive Director Max Bergmann sits down with Senator Mark Warner, Vice-Chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence, for an excl...
Made To Fail
In this special episode of The Asset, we are showcasing a new podcast from our friends at the Sixteen Thirty Fund: Made to Fail.
From health car...
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West
Max Bergmann interviews The Guardian's Luke Harding about how Russia has sought to undermine the West by interfering and corrupting the politics of th...
The Michael Flynn Story
In this very special episode of The Asset, Max Bergmann brings us the back story of Michael Flynn's rise within the Trump adminstration and breaks dow...
BONUS-The Truth about Vladmir Putin's Reign of International Terror
Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan risk their lives every day to expose the truth about Vladamir Putin's murder spree...
BONUS-Donald Trump's First Impeachment Trial
Now that Donald Trump's first Impeachment Trial has wrapped up, Max Bergmann and Peter Ogburn discuss what was lost and gained in the trial and the pa...
What's Next?
Max Bergmann, the host of the Asset Podcast, assesses the Impeachment Trial to date and handicaps what's ahead, as the end of Donald Trump's trial bef...
BONUS- O What a Tangled Web
In this teaser episode of This Week in Impeachment, Max Bergmann breaks down the the latest news of Parnas and Pence.
In the full episode availa...
BONUS -- I is for Impeachment
Max Bergmann, Executive Director of The Moscow Project and host of The Asset podcast, blazes the trail that could lead to a trial in the Senate with f...
Impeaching
Earlier in Season 2, we explained the backstory to the Ukraine scandal, tracing Trump’s efforts to extort a foreign government for his own personal ga...
BONUS-"Follow the Trail of Dead Russians" Part 2
"Follow the Trail of Dead Russians" was the advice given by national security expert Clint Watts when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committ...
BONUS-"Follow the Trail of Dead Russians"
"Follow the Trail of Dead Russians" was the advice given by national security expert Clint Watts when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committ...
BONUS-Excerpt of The Asset's Exclusive Interview with Calder Walton, general editor of the Cambridge History of Espionage and Intelligence: What You Need to Know About Russian Spying
Max Bergmann, host of the Asset Podcast, sits down with Calder Walton, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and general edi...
BONUS - This Week in Impeachment: November 25, 2019
Producer Peter Ogburn sits down with host Max Bergmann to find out what happened This Week in Impeachment. We discuss the stunning testimonies of Fion...
Extortion
On July 25, 2019, Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and asked him for a favor: a public announcement of investigations into Trump’s...