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This week, Liz Preza and Joshua Holland marvel at what long, bizarre year the last week has been as Trump's goofy yet Machiavellian efforts to compel Ukraine to fabricate a controversy around Joe Biden has put Republicans on the defensive. 

 

Then we're joined by Randall Eliason, a legal scholar at George Washington University Law School and contributor to The Washington Post to talk about the legal ramifications of all of this. Spoiler alert: It goes a lot further than campaign finance violations. 

This week, we look at what may shape up as a game-changing story of intrigue as Democrats wrangle with Trump's partisan intelligence chief over a whistleblower that appears to have some damaging information about the president*. 

 

Then we're joined by Vox.com Senior Correspondent Ian Millhiser to discuss the renewed controversy surrounding Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and look at how Democrats might respond to a judicial system that has been captured to a significant degree by the Republican Party. Court-packing may be an option, but it's not the only approach they should consider.