The midterms are a few months away, but why talk about the future when you can sow confusion about an election held six years ago? And why work to encourage participation when you can manufacture doubt? Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic, Laura Barrón-López of MS NOW, Stephen Hayes of The Dispatch, and Carl Hulse of The New York Times to discuss this and more.
Full Episode: Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 7/17/26
Jul. 17, 2026 AT 9:56 p.m. EDT
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Clip: Loyalty to Trump’s election claims becomes requirement for administration members
Jay Clayton, President Trump’s nominee to head the nation’s intelligence agencies, clashed with Democrats during his confirmation hearing this week. It was the latest example of members of the administration playing along with Trump’s earnest or manufactured delusions about the results of the 2020 election.
Clip: The president’s obsession with alleged election corruption
The issues facing Americans are matters of enormous domestic and international importance, including the Iran war, the Russian war against Ukraine, the future of NATO, energy prices, wildfires, the coming AI jobs crisis, and really, really bad lettuce. But what are we talking about in Washington? Our president’s obsession with alleged election corruption.
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