United States of Scandal

Jake speaks with the still-defiant former Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, to try to decode truth from spin in this legendary tale of one of the most corrupt politicians from America’s most corrupt state.

In a uniquely personal episode, Jake unpacks the “Appalachian Trail” scandal of his friend and former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and explores the difference between the politician and the man underneath.

Jake has a candid conversation with Rielle Hunter, the “other woman” in the scandal around former Senator John Edwards. What began as a tabloid rumor about a campaign affair and a lovechild snowballed to primetime news and a federal trial.

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's career imploded when he was revealed to be the infamous Client #9 during a sex worker sting. Jake charts the rise and fall of a potential president with Spitzer’s former mentor and closest friend.

Jake speaks to Jim McGreevey, the former golden boy of New Jersey politics who became a national icon when he came out as gay and resigned the Governorship in the same speech. But was there more to his story?

Jake sits down with Valerie Plame, a former covert CIA spy, outed by her own government, after her husband blew the whistle on the Bush administration’s faulty rationale for the war in Iraq.