CM-BlueButterfly May 18, 2024 Share May 18, 2024 Quote CNN doc series that delves into various scandals. The first season of 6 episodes premiered earlier this year and is currently streaming on Max. CNN has renewed the series, with the second season premiering in 2025 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/
DanaK May 18, 2024 Share May 18, 2024 In Season 1, Jake covered the following scandals: Ep 1: Rob Blagojevich - former Governor of Illinois who had a corruption scandal trying to sell former President Obama’s Senate seat. Jake interviews Blagojevich Ep 2: Mark Sanford - former South Carolina governor who disappeared for a bit to go see his mistress in Argentina I think and the cover story was he was just hiking the Appalachian Trail. Jake interviews Sanford Ep 3: John Edwards - former Democratic candidate for president who cheated on his wife with Rielle Hunter and they had a baby. Jake interviews Hunter Ep 4: Eliot Spitzer - former NY Governor who was revealed to be a client of sex workers after a sting operation. Jake interviews Spitzer’s former mentor and closest friend Ep 5: Jim McGreevey - former New Jersey Governor who came out of the closet and resigned after a corruption scandal including hiring a boyfriend to work for him. Jake interviews McGreevey Ep 6: Valerie Plame - former overt CIA agent outed by the George W. Bush administration after her husband criticized the administration’s rationale for going to war in Iraq. Jake interviews Plame I haven’t seen the last episode yet, but overall it was an interesting season, with Jake even rethinking how he felt about some of the scandals he covered The press release for the ordering of the second season doesn’t indicate specific scandals to be covered, but I’ll post it to be complete https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2024/05/15/cnn-orders-a-second-season-of-cnn-original-series-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/ 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8372404
CAM May 23, 2024 Share May 23, 2024 Good to hear. I thought the series was well done. Will definitely be interesting to see what scandals are covered next season. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8377053
DanaK May 23, 2024 Share May 23, 2024 5 hours ago, CAM said: Good to hear. I thought the series was well done. Will definitely be interesting to see what scandals are covered next season. I did find Rielle Hunter to be a pretty interesting interview in Episode 3. I was disappointed Jake didn't interview John Edwards for that episode, or Spitzer in Episode 4 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8377342
CAM May 23, 2024 Share May 23, 2024 5 hours ago, DanaK said: I did find Rielle Hunter to be a pretty interesting interview in Episode 3. I was disappointed Jake didn't interview John Edwards for that episode, or Spitzer in Episode 4 Yeah, agreed. It would have been interesting to hear their thoughts about their scandals after all these years have passed and if they would have handled things differently. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8377596
DanielleBowden June 12, 2024 Share June 12, 2024 I had forgotten about some of these scandals. Well done series. Looking forward to the second season. It was interesting to see the level of self-sabotage especially with Spitzer, McGreevy and Sanford. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8391508
DanaK February 6 Share February 6 Season 2 premieres Sunday March 9, probably at 9pm ET. Jake Tapper reveals in the below article the scandals and subjects that will be covered for the 6 episode second season and they sound interesting https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cnns-jake-tapper-united-states-of-scandal-sesaon-2-1236298776/ Quote The six-episode second season of “Scandal” will include interviews between Tapper and Anita Hill, to scrutinize the Supreme Court nomination process of Clarence Thomas; former Ohio congressman Bob Ney regarding corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff; Anna Delvey, the scam artist; Floyd Landis, about the downfall of biker Lance Armstrong; former Senator Larry Pressler about ABSCAM; and Sherron Watkins, who raised alarms about corporate fraud at Enron. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8574272
Sarah 103 February 10 Share February 10 New trailer/promo for season 2. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8577170
CAM February 10 Share February 10 Looking forward to the new season, just wish media would stop giving Anna Delvey the time of day. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8577236
Sarah 103 February 10 Share February 10 2 hours ago, CAM said: Looking forward to the new season, just wish media would stop giving Anna Delvey the time of day. This question is coming from a place of pure curiosity and nothing else: Is there a story you would rather see them cover instead of Anna Delvy? It seems like the parameters are an American news story/scandal from the 21st century that most CNN viewers would have a vague awareness of. (As in, you say the name and people say "I sort of remember that" as opposed to "Who or what was that?") Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8577355
CAM February 11 Share February 11 21 hours ago, Sarah 103 said: This question is coming from a place of pure curiosity and nothing else: Is there a story you would rather see them cover instead of Anna Delvy? Honestly no idea who would have been better, but just feels like her case is a different level compared to the other scandals that this show covers; at least based on what I've seen/know. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8578086
DanaK March 6 Share March 6 Just to note, Jake Tapper was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night and talked about the 2nd season. A clip from the ABSCAM episode was shown and they talked about it and that they each had senators caught up in that investigation Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8599820
DanaK March 8 Share March 8 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8601700
Sarah 103 March 10 Share March 10 From the ABSCAM episode: I realize this a totally small random thing but I loved the FBI not having the budget to order Plaza room service and only being able to afford deli, which lead to the team trying to come up with a plausible reason why the emissary of a sheik was ordering bagels and cream cheese. Also, I'm too young to remember ABSCAM so I appreciated the historical background and explanation for why a wealthy sheik was the character/persona used in the scam. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8603377
DanaK March 10 Share March 10 I missed the episode because of a DVR/cable issue so I’ll have to catch it via On Demand. I am old enough to remember the ABSCAM scandal, but I don’t recall many of the details so the episode should be interesting Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8603478
DanaK March 11 Share March 11 Finally watched the episode via On Demand. It was definitely interesting. I’m torn on whether this was entrapment. I suppose it could be if the politicians were randomly chosen and weren’t already suspected. The FBI has tightened its rules on undercover ops. And the Supreme Court has watered down being able to prosecute bribery. But at least Senator Menendez recently got convicted Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8604100
DanaK March 17 Share March 17 Ah Enron. What utter sleazebags, especially when they manipulated California’s energy and purposely caused at least some (all?) of the state’s blackouts at the time just to make money. I had forgotten some of the details over the years so this was an interesting episode to catch up on that stuff. I worked for the Federal government for 32 years so I never had an opportunity to put all my 401k into my company’s stock. But I’m a cautious person by nature and have felt I wouldn’t do that. Sadly many Enron employees did invest much of their 401ks in Enron stock and lost everything while the guys on top made millions. And as Jake said at the end, we have not really learned our lesson on avoiding scandals and preventing new ones 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8609443
DanaK March 17 Share March 17 Next Sunday’s topic revisits Anita Hill’s testimony during Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation hearing where she testified he sexually harassed her. Jake will talk to Anita herself Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8609998
DanaK March 24 Share March 24 Poor Prof. Hill having to go through that Judiciary Cmte testimony. It seemed clear then as I watched the testimonies and it was repeated here that the Senators rushed through the process and just wanted to get Clarence Thomas’ nomination done. And as pointed out, a similar thing happened with Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination and the accusation(s) against him. At least the treatment of Hill spurred a lot of women to seek office afterwards. As for Justice Thomas, I don’t believe he’s been accused of any other harassment after he was on the Supreme Court, but he certainly has had recent episodes of apparent corruption and some very backward ideas of undoing several SC decisions that pushed social progress forwards. Next week Jake looks at the downfall of Lance Armstrong Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8615210
DanaK Yest. at 11:28 AM Share Yest. at 11:28 AM (edited) Interesting episode on Lance Armstrong, but I’m not sure it added much of anything new. Except maybe Jake’s comment at the end on how a sponsor for the next big scandal of someone they sponsor will react, whether to ignore it or not until they have to take action. Too many of Armstrong’s sponsors ignored the growing scandal until they couldn’t anymore. It probably seems more obvious after the fact that the sheer number of Armstrong’s sponsors insulated him from the rumors of doping for far longer than they might otherwise Edited Yest. at 11:32 AM by DanaK Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8621747
DanaK Yest. at 05:57 PM Share Yest. at 05:57 PM Next week is on conwoman Anna Delvey Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/147286-united-states-of-scandal-with-jake-tapper/#findComment-8622014
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