Hot Mics with Billy Bush

Justin Baldoni's legal team responds to Blake Lively's $8 million legal fee request, calling itbloated, poorly documented, and stretched far beyond the actual defamation claim —including hundreds of thousands in redacted charges and expenses with no receipts. Plus,Wayfarer Studios chairman Steve Sarowitz breaks his silence in a new podcast interview,addressing the toll of the legal battle. Then, the Amy Griffin saga takes new turns: sworndeclarations from Griffin's ghostwriter and a new witness surface, conflicting localaccounts from Griffin's hometown emerge, and Billy uncovers the surprising reality-TV pastof Dominic Price, the man at the center of the alleged story-gathering scheme. Plus, Billypreviews Peacock's "Five Star Weekend" and the moral dilemma at its core.

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Billy reacts to the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham, reportedly from an aorticdissection just hours after a call with President Trump, and revisits Graham's dramaticpolitical reversal on Trump alongside Hunter Biden's viral tribute. Then, Billy digs into thestrategist behind Graham Platner's rise and collapse — Daniel Moraff, the 31-year-oldoperative who recruited Platner, secured Bernie Sanders' endorsement, and is now facinghis own scrutiny over past allegations of misconduct on a prior campaign. Plus, the AmyGriffin legal saga escalates as new sworn declarations corroborate Jolene Altum's claims,while Griffin's own private investigators reportedly found no independent evidence backingher story. Billy also breaks down this year's Emmy nominations and can't get over theflopping epidemic ruining the World Cup.

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Justin Baldoni and his wife post their first public statement since the Blake Lively legal saga— heavy on gratitude, but with a pointed line about how "an unjust fight" got "disguised as afight for women." Billy breaks down the subtext. Then, Graham Platner officially suspendshis Senate campaign as new details emerge, including a Nazi-adjacent tattoo controversyand reports he spent his final days calling ex-girlfriends hoping someone would go onrecord in his defense. Plus, the Amy Griffin memoir scandal deepens dramatically: a newsworn declaration from a group-home coworker claims she personally heard Jane Doedescribe the exact assault details years before Griffin's book was published, undercuttingGriffin's claim that the story is hers alone. Billy digs into the timeline discrepancies, theanonymous postcard Griffin cites as her only corroboration, and why the case may hingeon a mysterious teacher who vanished decades ago.

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Argentina and Messi stage a stunning comeback against Egypt, and Billy makes the casefor why he's the GOAT of "real football." Then, the Graham Platner story deepens as asecond woman, Lindsay Fifield, comes forward alleging a pattern of controlling and volatilebehavior from the Maine Senate candidate — as Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders bothcall for him to exit the race and a major Democratic PAC threatens to pull $24 million infunding. Plus, Spencer Pratt's post-mayoral-race pivot into political advocacy, and thedeepening legal battle around Amy Griffin's bestselling memoir "The Tell" — where awoman identified as Jane Doe alleges Griffin's account of childhood sexual abuse mirrorsher own experience, not Griffin's, and has filed sworn testimony to back it up. Griffin hascountersued for defamation, denying the claims. Billy digs into how a story oncechampioned by Oprah, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Reese Witherspoon has become one of themessiest publishing scandals in years.

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Billy's nursing a rough morning after Team USA got blown out by Belgium — andquestioning whether it was worth it for Trump to personally call FIFA's president to get acontroversial red card overturned so the US could play at full strength. Spoiler: they still gotdemolished. And, is the Graham Platner campaign finished? As a new accuser comes forward with a serious allegation against the Maine Senate candidate, Billy digs into whythe political fallout — Elizabeth Warren, Planned Parenthood, and his own allies pullingsupport — looks less like a moral reckoning and more like a campaign reading its ownpolling. Plus, new numbers on how much the Trump family has made off crypto whileinvestors take the losses, a Kazakhstan tungsten mining deal involving Don Jr. and Eric,questions about where the money's really coming from behind America's "Freedom 250"celebration, Zohran Mamdani's rent control math problem, and whether Amy Coney Barrettdeserves the "turncoat" label for a mail-in voting ruling that split from the otherconservatives on the bench.

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