Nov. 21, 2024 5:36 p.m. EST
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, November 22, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Trump Transition: President-elect Donald Trump continued to announce more unconventional candidates to fill key roles in his cabinet, just as former Rep. Matt Gaetz, his most controversial nominee, has withdrawn from consideration for attorney general. Gaetz's announcement came as Pete Hegseth, another embattled hand-picked Trump nominee, was on Capitol Hill, meeting with Republ...
Nov. 15, 2024 3:56 p.m. EST
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, November 15, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Trump’s Controversial Cabinet and Transition of Power: President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration is taking shape after announcing this week a series of controversial cabinet picks, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard as the director of National Intelligence and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary. Trump also made his firs...
Nov. 07, 2024 2:58 p.m. EST
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, November 8, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Trump’s Historic Win & Democrats in Disarray Donald Trump’s historic victory this week was propelled by a broad, diverse alignment of voters who rejected conventional Republican and Democratic views. The results left many Democrats at a loss, trying to make sense of where their party went wrong. We examine Trump's win, expectations for his second term, and reactions from the res...
Oct. 31, 2024 7:51 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, November 1, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: The Final Stretch: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump make their closing arguments as they barnstorm key swing states in the final days of the race for president. The former president spent the week casting doubt on the election results and arguing a Harris win will be a continuation of the Biden presidency. For her part, the vice president cast Trump as a threat to democracy in her...
Oct. 25, 2024 3:05 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, October 25, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Election Countdown: Election Day is just around the corner and Kamala Harris has ramped up her attacks on Donald Trump, recently calling him a “fascist”. This comes after Jeffrey Goldberg reported this week that Trump’s former chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, told him that the former president once said, “I need the kind of Generals that Hitler had." We will take a close look at...
Oct. 18, 2024 4:25 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, October 18, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Closing Arguments and Hamas’ Leader Killed: With just over two weeks to go until Election Day, political rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are fine tuning their closing arguments and ramping up their rhetoric in an effort to motivate their bases while persuading critical voters needed to win the White House. And, what the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar means for the war i...
Oct. 10, 2024 5:51 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, October 11, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: The Final Stretch and Senate State of Play : With less than a month to go until Election Day, and early voting underway in all but a handful of states, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are targeting key voters who are critical to winning the White House. The former President has rallies scheduled in blue states, while some Democrats are sounding the alarm that the Vice President’s...
Oct. 04, 2024 3:20 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, October 4, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Rising Middle East Tensions and The Final Stretch The first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel is just days away and tensions in the Middle East are at an all time high, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to respond to Iran’s recent retaliatory missile strikes. Concerns of a potential region wide conflict come at a critical time as Kamala Harris...
Sep. 26, 2024 8:44 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, September 27, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: State of the Race: With less than six weeks to go until Election Day, immigration takes center stage as political rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain locked in a tight race. Vice President Harris heads to the southern border for the first time since becoming the Democratic nominee, while former President Trump faces backlash for his unfounded accusations against Haiti...
Sep. 20, 2024 4:48 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, September 20, 2024 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Political Trauma, Vote 2024 and Government Funding: For the second time in just over two months, Donald Trump faced an apparent assassination attempt - this time as he golfed in Florida. This week the former president claimed, without evidence, that comments from his political rivals prompted the latest incident. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris spent her week courting ...
