Podcasts

Power Breakfast Podcast

What can you expect from the day ahead on Capitol Hill? CNC gets behind the scenes and beyond the spin with a fresh morning jolt of political caffeine that reveals the inner workings of the nation’s capital. What do I need to know today from Washington? How does it affect me? Why should I care? In two minutes, Capitol News Connection’s Todd Zwillich tells you what we’ll all be talking about later at the water cooler.
Local Jews remember an international victim
By: Todd Zwillich
Length: 1:59 minutes (1.82 MB)

Rabbi Nochom Light was a close friend of an couple killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks last week. His Anne Arundel congregation holds a memorial tonight.

Power Breakfast
By: Todd Zwillich
Length: 1:55 minutes (1.76 MB)

Some members of Congress are preparing for another visit from automotive industry leaders, while others are looking over the federal employee health insurance plan as costs are rising.

Prohibition's history in the capitol
By: Todd Zwillich
Length: 2:02 minutes (1.86 MB)

This week marks the 75th anniversary of prohibition's repeal. Legend has it senators once went to extremes to hide their contraband liquor.

Mark Warner comes to Capitol Hill
By: Todd Zwillich
Length: 2:01 minutes (946.57 KB)

Virginia Gov. Mark Warner is about to be sworn in as a freshman senator. We sat down with him in his temporary senate office.

Power Breakfast
By: Todd Zwillich
Length: 2:01 minutes (1.85 MB)

Todd Zwillich meets with Congressman Elect Gerry Connolly. The former Fairfax County Chairman discusses local issues he plans to address during his first session.

News Item Podcast

A man who risked his life for the right to vote
By: Melinda Wittstock
Length: 3:22 minutes (1.54 MB)

He risked his life for a vote. Now Georgia Congressman John Lewis has witnessed something he never dared believe he would see in his lifetime: the first African American President. He says words are hard to find, but tears plentiful.

Barack Obama elected President in a landslide
By: Melinda Wittstock
Length: 9:56 minutes (4.55 MB)

America turns a page on a bitter history: Barack Obama, the self described "skinny guy with a funny name" is the President-elect. The millions of voters who waited for hours in line have given the Obama a big mandate for change. Expectations will be high. Tonight his Republican opponent John McCain fought tears as he conceded defeat and acknowledged an historic moment.

Feature Podcast

This Week in Congress - Nov. 17-21
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 3:56 minutes (1.8 MB)

The newly elected members of Congress arrived this week. One frugal Utah Congressman is getting a lot of media attention and so is the auto industry.

A day of reckoning for Joe Lieberman
By: Todd Zwillich & Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 1:58 minutes (1.81 MB)

 Sen. Joseph Lieberman backed John McCain and even said some unkind things about Barack Obama during the presidential campaign. Today he finds out the price for those moves in a private meeting with his Democratic colleagues. Meanwhile the new class of the 111th Congress is in town, including one freshman who’s out to save himself some money. 

This Week in Congress: Bailout picture gets murkier
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 4:00 minutes (3.67 MB)

Grumblings about how the bailout is playing out…  Unresolved election outcomes in the Senate and leadership challenges in the House… Free speech, religion and other simple matters in the Supreme Court.

Answer Podcast