The Morning Meeting

📅 Friday, August 21, 2026

TODAY’S TOPICS:

The Bessent economy.

Data center politics.

Health care cost politics.

Trump in South Carolina.

Vance in Ohio.

Iran.

Peggy Noonan and the Trump legacy.

Democrats ’28.

The Bidens.

Winners and losers of the week and what to look for this weekend.

The Morning Meeting is a live weekday political news program featuring analysis and debate from Mark Halperin, Larry O’Connor, and Kevin Walling, plus questions and commentary from members of the 2WAY community.

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📅 Thursday, August 20, 2026

TODAY’S TOPICS:

Bessent buyback.

Iran.

North Korea.

South Carolina Senate.

Florida Senate.

Debates about debates.

Debt and deficit.

AOC ’28.

Ossoff ’28.

The Morning Meeting is a live weekday political news program featuring analysis and debate from Mark Halperin, Larry O’Connor, and Kevin Walling, plus questions and commentary from members of the 2WAY community.

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The Morning Meeting (TMM)Mark Halperin, Larry O’Connor, and Kevin Walling break down what the latest election results in Florida and Alaska mean for the 2026 midterms, the growing political fight over artificial intelligence, renewed scrutiny surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci, and President Trump’s increasingly complicated foreign-policy challenges involving Iran, Canada, and North Korea.

TODAY’S TOPICS:
Lessons from Florida.

Lessons from Alaska.

South Carolina Senate.

Fauci.

Canada.

Iran.

North Korea.

Harp aftermath?

Josh Shapiro and data centers.

The Morning Meeting is a live weekday political news program featuring analysis and debate from Mark Halperin, Larry O’Connor, and Kevin Walling, plus questions and commentary from members of the 2WAY community.

📅 Wednesday, August 19, 2026
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The Morning Meeting (TMM)Mark Halperin, Larry O'Connor, and Kevin Walling are live on The Morning Meeting with a day full of Trump-versus-everyone stories: White House officials' personal attacks on Sen. Jon Ossoff after he questioned President Trump's relationship with aide Natalie Harp at a Georgia rally, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showing Trump's approval rating at its lowest point yet, the fallout from his order to scale back military exercises with South Korea, the administration's push to shore up endangered Iowa races, and the White House's attacks on CNN's Kristen Holmes over her questions in the Oval Office.

TODAY'S TOPICS:

TRUMP VERSUS OSSOFF

TRUMP VERSUS PUBLIC OPINION

TRUMP VERSUS IOWA

TRUMP VERSUS TEHRAN

TRUMP VERSUS OMAN

TRUMP VERSUS SEOUL

TRUMP VERSUS KRISTEN HOLMES

📅 Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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Topics:

Tuesday’s primaries.

Iowa governor.

Ohio Senate.

What can Democrats win in a Blue tsunami?

Voter registration and GOTV.

CBS News poll on socialism and Democrats.

Woke 1.0.

Iran.

Korea.

Ossoff ’28.

Buttigieg ‘28.

Shapiro ‘28.

Newsom ‘28.

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