West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democratic Congress members brutally cross-examined Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oklahoma schools have been ordered to teach Trump's 2020 election lies in the state’s new MAGA curriculum; the Black vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board is unexpectedly removed from his position because of DEI; and, a federal appeals court upheld the racketeering convictions of former MAGA Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and an ex-lobbyist in a $60 million bribery scandal.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the top two US trade officials will meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland in the first major talks since Trump sparked his impertinent trade war; and, Friedrich Merz won lawmakers’ appro