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The Damage Report with John Iadarola: Season 1

22 episodes Premiered Nov 28, 2018 Updated Aug 21, 2026
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S1·E1 Mytharc

November 28, 2018

Nov 28, 2018

Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith wins Mississippi special Senate election

S1·E2 Core

November 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen makes a plea deal with Robert Mueller

S1·E3 Core

November 30, 2018

Nov 30, 2018

First bill from House Democrats tackles voting rights, campaign finance, and anti-corruption

S1·E4 Core

December 3, 2018

Dec 3, 2018

Allegations of GOP voter fraud in North Carolina's 9th District

S1·E5 Core

December 4, 2018

Dec 4, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez encourages the government to fight climate change as ambitiously as moonshot

S1·E6 Core

December 5, 2018

Dec 5, 2018

Wisconsin Republicans vote to weaken powers of new governor

S1·E8 Core

December 7, 2018

Dec 7, 2018

Donald Trump nominates William Barr as next Attorney General

S1·E9 Core

December 10, 2018

Dec 10, 2018

The US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to reject climate pledge

S1·E10 Core

December 11, 2018

Dec 11, 2018

Donald Trump is reportedly calling to increase the Pentagon budget to $750 billion. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi clash with Donald Trump about border security in the Oval Office.

S1·E11 Core

December 12, 2018

Dec 12, 2018

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison. A Columbia student who went on a racist tirade claims he's not racist. Establishment Democrats back o

S1·E12 Core

December 13, 2018

Dec 13, 2018

Trump speaks out on Michael Cohen's sentencing, denying ever directing him to make payments. Hassan El-Tayyab, co-director of Just Foreign Policy, on Senate's vote regarding involv

S1·E13 Mytharc

December 14, 2018

Dec 14, 2018

On the sixth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting that took 26 lives, the elementary school is evacuated for a bomb threat. A seven-year-old migrant dies from dehydration and sho

S1·E14 Mytharc

December 17, 2018

Dec 17, 2018

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to leave his position at the end of the year. Chris Ryan, founder of The Motherf**ker Awards, on climate talks. Donald Trump's Twitter rant on SNL's e

S1·E15 Core

December 18, 2018

Dec 18, 2018

Michael Flynn's sentencing is postponed until 2019. Donald Trump shuts down Trump Foundation under court supervision. Poll released by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communicat

S1·E16 Core

December 19, 2018

Dec 19, 2018

The Senate votes to pass the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform bill. Donald Trump tweets that he does not want a concrete border wall, but rather a see-through wall made of

S1·E17 Core

December 20, 2018

Dec 20, 2018

Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General, William Barr, sent a memo that warned about potential consequences of Mueller investigation. In 1991, a newspaper reported that Donald Tru

S1·E18 Core

December 21, 2018

Dec 21, 2018

House passes bill that includes border wall funding after Donald Trump threatens government shutdown. A GoFundMe created to crowdfund Trump's border wall raised $12.6m in four days

S1·E19 Mytharc

December 26, 2018

Dec 26, 2018

John Iadarola awards The Dumb-dies, Year in Campaign Ads and Standouts from 2018.

S1·E20 Core

December 27, 2018

Dec 27, 2018

We wrap up the year with a special retrospective on all the damage done in 2018. Friend of the show Jules Suzdaltsev looks back on memorable moments of 2018. Friend of the show Fra

S1·E21 Mytharc

December 28, 2018

Dec 28, 2018

John Iadarola shares his favorite interviews of the year!

S1·E22 Mytharc

December 31, 2018

Dec 31, 2018

Guest Richard Ojeda shares his presidential platform, Elizabeth Warren launches an exploratory committee, Louis CK's standup set leaks, Trump starts workday at 11am, Ken Klippenste

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