The Young Turks - Netanyahu's New Scheme - June 3, 2026

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

Iran is escalating its warnings over the expanding regional conflict, while Mark Levin is now openly calling for the U.S. to arm Iranians in an effort to pressure the regime, raising fresh concerns about a wider confrontation. Meanwhile, TYT features an interview with Joe Kent as republicans try to combine Israel's military with our own. At home, Americans’ savings rate has fallen to its lowest level since 2022 as inflation continues to outpace paychecks." "Thanks to today's sponsors: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Get 40% OFF the Ground News Vantage Plan when you sign up at ground.news/tyt Stay informed without the media spin at ground.news/tyt Visit www.sleep.me/tyt to get up to $255 off your Chilipad 2.0 with code TYT Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble " Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, without further ado, why don't we give you the updates that we know of when it comes to the war against Iran? Later, we'll get into some other topics as well. Let's get to it. If it was up to the people that actually go to elections and wear the suits and you see on TV, they probably make a deal tomorrow. I don't know where you're getting this perception that Iran is stronger. Iran has no Navy left. They have lost a substantial percentage of their defense industrial base, that Iran has lost a substantial percentage of their missile launchers, and their economy is far worse today. and I mean far worse today than it was six to nine months ago. And they are looking at hundreds of billions of dollars of reconstruction costs just to get to where they were.

Mr. Rubu, you keep telling us how we're winning this war. The president keeps saying, well, the war is over. Completely annihilated. The war is not over. As much as it pains me to admit this, Senator Cory Booker is 100%. Correct. The war is not over. And what you heard from Secretary of State Marco Rubio in essentially declaring that the war

against Iran is over was not only a lie. It was a statement that he made on the same day the war against Iran escalated because as the United States continues attacking Iran, especially near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has had enough. And they've decided to strike back. And they did so by targeting Gulf countries that currently host U.S. military bases. So I'm going to kind of go through what we know in regard to Iran strikes. Lafably, both the United States and Iran still maintain that there is a ceasefire, however fragile it might be. But before I give you the details on what happened last night,

let me just be very clear that the meaning of words mean nothing at this point. Because a ceasefire pretty self-explanatory in the word itself, you ceasefire. But the Israelification of U.S. foreign policy has made it so we don't abide by ceasefires, just like Israel doesn't abide by ceasefire. So ceasefire doesn't have any real meaning at this point. But with that in mind, why don't we take some be roll of the footage of the aftermath of one of the Iranian strikes? You're actually looking at the aftermath of an Iranian strike on the Kuwait International Airport. Kuwait's military said that the strikes hit a terminal and killed at least one person. I mean, the death toll is low for now, considering the fact that this looks pretty bad.

63 others were reportedly wounded, and this does mark the first Iranian attack against a Gulf country since the IRGC and Washington agreed to a ceasefire on April 8th. Now, since then, we have read about strikes that the U.S. has carried out against Iran near the Strait of Hormuz or at Keshem Island. But it appears that the strikes that the U.S. had carried out recently is what gave Iran the motivation to attack its Gulf neighbors. So this doesn't mean that Iran broke the ceasefire. I want to be clear about that as well. Because if you read legacy media or corporate media right now, the way that they frame this makes it appear as though Iran is the one that broke the ceasefire. And so they're in the wrong and we should go back to an all-out war.

But remember, one of the terms of the ceasefire actually happened to be the ongoing offensive that Israel is carrying out in Lebanon. Now, in announcing the ceasefire deal, President Donald Trump initially said, yes, Lebanon is part of the ceasefire deal. So they must, Israel must stop attacking Lebanon in order for us to move forward. Israel never stopped attacking Lebanon. And so Iran has had enough. Okay? enough, we're not going to allow this to stand. Now, the U.S. blockade, by the way, of the Strait of Hormuz, which was the U.S. response to Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz is also an act of war.

And that was implemented and carried out through this so-called ceasefire. So that in and of itself was a violation of the ceasefire carried out by the United States. The United States also, again, struck Iran near the Strait of Hormuz and bombed Keshem Island. So Iran decided to respond. and said, you know, no more hit and runs, essentially. No more tit without a tat. Okay, so they're striking back. Things seem relatively calm today, although obviously the situation is fragile and can change at any moment.

And according to the Guardian, the latest exchange of fire began when sentcom said it targeted a tanker. The Botswana flagged M.T. Lexi on Tuesday, Setcom said, an aircraft fired a missile to disable the tanker's engine as it passed through international waters toward Iran's Karg Island near Kuwait. Now, I don't know if Trump has any idea what he's doing. And to be quite frank, I'm not sure when the U.S. military decides to strike on a vessel leaving the Iranian ports, because make no mistake about it. I mean, over the weekend, there was a 24-hour period in which 28 vessels transited freely through the Strait of Hormuz,

and each one of them paid the $2 million toll that Iran is now charging. So I believe that in some instances, this is just my speculation, I don't have evidence to back this up, so I want to be clear. But my speculation is Trump understands the absolute devastation, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is going to lead to or already has led to, when it comes to the global economy. Remember, 20% of the world's oil and gas supply transits through the Strait of Hormuz,

a third of the world's fertilizer, which farmers need to grow food, transits through the Strait of Hormuz. So not allowing any ships to pass. I mean, we would be an even worse situation than we are in right now. And the situation we are in right now is bad enough. It's already pretty bad.

And things are set to get worse. So there's a little more to get to. So you have this Botswana flagged tanker attacked by the United States. And the IRGC responded to that. And they said in a statement, late last night, the aggressive U.S. military struck an Iranian oil tanker near the strait of Hormuz with an aerial projectile causing damage to the tanker's engine room. These responses should serve as a lesson. So Iran responded with drone strikes on a passenger terminal at Kuwait's airport. They also struck Bahrain.

A statement from Iran's foreign ministry blamed Kuwait and Bahrain for the attacks, condemning what it called the colonialist use by the United States of the territory and infrastructure of countries in the region to advance its aggressive plans against Iran. Quick question. When was the last time you went to bed before midnight without, your phone lighting up your face. It turns out if you've got the news cycle on a loop in your head, it's harder to fall asleep. Here's what's actually happening. The stress, the screen time, the doom scrolling spiral, it raises your core body temperature. And a body that's too warm

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U.S. military bases. Iran wants the U.S. out of the region. And to be quite frank, I think that we have. quite a few incentives to leave the region. But it's incredibly difficult to do when one of our so-called allies is Israel is in the region and uses and abuses our military for their own advantage on a regular basis. So we'll see what happens with these Gulf allies, but what they have realized certainly through how this war has been carried out and how the U.S. has responded to Iranians and their attacks against them is that the U.S. is not their

for them when they need them for security. And the whole idea of hosting these bases in the first place is because these Gulf allies were under the assumption that the U.S. would provide a security umbrella of some sort. But that hasn't been the case. Now, CENTCOM has denied that any of Iran's strikes have actually have been carried out successfully. Video evidence would prove otherwise. But here's more of what we know. In total, in Kuwait, Iran struck an aircraft shelter at the Ali al-Sholam air base in Kuwait, a drone slash helicopter shelter at the U.S. camp burring. So that's either destroyed or has been severely damaged.

And then several warehouses at the U.S. camp burying appeared to have been damaged as well. Now, Kuwait's defense ministry spokesperson, very upset about this for obvious reasons. They don't like being attacked. He described the attack as criminal Iranian aggression, which resulted in significant material damage to the building and injuries. By the way, how is Sentcom going to respond to that? They keep denying that Iran succeeded in their attacks. Clearly, you know, there's a contradiction here with what Kuwait is saying. Kuwait also ordered a reduction in Iranian embassy staff, declared two Iranian diplomats persona non-grada, and gave them 24 hours to leave the country. So these Iranian diplomats have been expelled from Kuwait in retaliation for the Iranian strikes against these sites in Kuwait, including that airport.

So when it comes to Bahrain, another country, Gulf country that was attacked by the IRGC, well, Iran struck the U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and multiple helicopter bases. And that in particular was denied by Sentcom. But again, there is video evidence proving that that did in fact happen. Iran also struck Jordan, northern Iraq, the UAE, and the Al-UD-D-D-Ead airbase in Qatar, along with, although we don't really know the full extent of damage from those particular strikes. And as soon as we learn, of course, I'll tell you more. But Motion Razé, who is the Supreme Leader's military advisor, has threatened more. And he did so in an ex post. He says that every shot fired and every attack will be met with a deluge of missiles and drones. The aggressor will swiftly be punished. And guys, one other thing that I wanted to note, I've said this before, but it bears repeating. You know, for all the fear mongering that we hear from our media and our government in regard to Iran, oh, Iran poses such a threat, such a risk to the United States. There's a reason why Iran isn't

trying to strike the United States. It's because they don't have the capability to do it. They've never had the capability to do it. Iran has never been a threat to U.S. national security. Maybe you can make an argument that they've launched cyber wars or something like that. But as it pertains to conventional warfare, we're talking missiles, we're talking nukes, things like that. They don't have the capability. They don't have the capacity to do it. The only way they're able to retaliate against the United States is to strike U.S. bases in these Gulf countries or strike the Gulf countries that host these U.S. bases.

And that's what they've been doing. And, you know, that's the reality of the situation. We should not have gotten caught up in this war, which has provided absolutely no benefit whatsoever to the American people. But we have already spent tens of billions of dollars on this war, which has only made our quality of life, worse by driving up gas prices, which in turn will absolutely increase inflation in other sectors of the economy. There are also signs that the war is going to escalate. There were signs that the war is going to escalate over the weekend. Okay. So if you're paying attention to news over the weekend, you might have noticed that Tehran responded to U.S. forces

hitting an Iranian radar and drone site. So they responded by targeting a military base in Kuwait that it claimed was involved in that U.S. operation. But here's something else that's really important. What about Boots on the ground? Because that's something that people paying attention are very concerned about. I as an American am very concerned about. I do not want our soldiers to risk their lives by invading Iran and engaging in a war on the ground. And luckily, Trump was asked a question about that.

Here's what he's thinking. We have the strongest military in the world. Everybody knows it. You saw that where in Venezuela. You see that where they ran. I mean, their navies wiped out. Their air force is all gone. After three days, their military was virtually wiped out.

Now I have to make a determination. Do we sign a deal or we do it the other way? And the other way is not nice. What will the other way achieve, though? Certainty. It would be over. I'd rather do it the nice way from it. humanitarian standpoint.

Can you do it just with bombing? The other way? You don't have to, we don't need boots on the ground now. Well, we did it. You know, we wiped out much of their military with just bombing. We didn't put anybody on the ground. You don't want to do that just so far away. You don't want to do that if you can avoid it.

So I don't know whether you can really trust what Trump said at the tail end of that statement. We, not, no, no boots on the ground. How do you trust him? I mean, he has said so many things that he has then turned around and done the opposite of. At the same time, though, I do think that he is realizing maybe that there is no military option in ending this war, in getting the straight of Hormuz open. There just isn't. And that's not based on me. I'm not a military expert, guys.

I'm just a talk show host. But what I do is rely on the actual military experts. And I go out of my way to listen to military experts of all political stripes, including conservative military experts. Colonel Douglas McGregor is not a lefty. Colonel Daniel Davis, not a lefty. But what I find very fascinating is that they both, along with a whole host of other military experts I listen to, all agree. Joe Kent agrees. There is no military option to accomplish the objective.

that Trump laid out in the beginning of this war. So the idea of putting boots on the ground would be stupid. Only the Israelis would want that because, A, they're not risking IDF soldiers. It would be American soldiers. And B, if that operation fails to get them what they want, who cares? Who cares? They didn't lose their soldiers. But at least they tried something to see if they can get what they really want, which again is the toppling of the IRGC, whether that whether the IRGC is replaced with a different regime that's more favorable to Israel, or if Iran becomes a failed state, they don't care. So that's what's going on here.

And I'm hoping that Trump's better angels, if they exist, are kind of dominating the narrative in his head. So he doesn't make the mistake of putting boots on the ground. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said that Iran was playing with fire after the Kuwait attacks. And Trump could order a full-scale return to military action, he claims, if these negotiations fail. Now, Jeffrey Sachs, personal hero of mine, I absolutely love him. He does incredible work in the area of diplomacy. He's appeared at the UN many, many times throughout so many different conflicts. He is saying, like, we don't even really need a peace deal per se. I mean, Trump could just end it. Yeah, the Strait of Hormuz is now under the

control of Iran, but you know, you don't need to sign a peace deal in order to end what's happening right now, just walk away. And then maybe later, the U.S. and Iran can engage in diplomatic talks without Netanyahu or the Israelis breathing down our necks to secure some sort of agreement, diplomatic deal when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz. Now, do I think that's going to happen? Of course not. So we're stuck in this weird war purgatory where we have no idea where we're going. It doesn't seem like the administration knows what they're doing. And the ultimate decider appears to be Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israelis know that the main sticking point, for instance, that's preventing the peace deal, is their continued occupation and bombardment, aerial bombardment

of southern Lebanon. And Netanyahu insists on continuing that offensive campaign. On Tuesday, Lebanon's state-run national news agency reported that 30 Israeli strikes across across the south. Near the city of Saidan, rescuers recovered the bodies of six members of the same family. This is not Hezbollah, folks. This ain't Hezbollah. That included two children and a woman. Lebanon also said an Israeli strike hit a location near Beirut on Wednesday. Remember, Trump was patting himself on the back for discouraging the Israelis from attacking Beirut. Well, today, Israel attacked Beirut. So you know where this is going. And then people will turn around and say, no, no, no, no, no, no. Israel doesn't control U.S.

foreign policy. No way. No way. I mean, do those? Do those? people have any credibility right now? Seriously. But anyway, that brings us to Axios' claims that Trump had this tense phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu in which he told the prime minister that he was effing crazy and that everyone hates him. Now, both parties have been asked about that phone call on the record. Both parties have responded to whether or not that conversation took place. Let's take a look. Axios reported that you had a phone call with Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, in which you were angry with him.

You said, are you effing crazy? What are you effing doing? I helped you stay out of jail. Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms? I did. I would say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon.

You know, at some point I said, We got to step this. We got to stop it. President confirmed that he said, you're effing crazy. How did you react to that? What really happened in that call? Well, I'm not going to get into details of our conversations. We've had thousands of

well, a lot, a lot of them. And if you think this is a crisis, you should be in some other conversations. But we've always found a way. We have so many agreements. We agree on the main things. We want to get Iran, the nuclear program in Iran finished. We want to make sure that Iran doesn't pose a

threat to Israel to the Middle East to America. Did he say that you'd be in jail, if not for me? Look, I'm not going to get into the details, but he's been very vocal about the absurdity of this fake trial that I'm going through. Benjamin Enniahu continues to face prosecution for corruption, and that's not a fake trial. There are substantive and substantial allegations against him because he's a corrupt monster, along with a war criminal who should be in prison. But nonetheless, despite the fact that Israel has shown itself to be a genocidal rogue state,

I find it rich that they would fearmonger about the nuclear capabilities of any country, much less a country that doesn't even have nuclear capabilities. But with that in mind, I don't really care about this, in my opinion, fake reporting about how Trump really told Netanyahu what's what. Because at the end of the day, what matters is who is driving, which country is driving U.S. foreign policy? And it's very obviously Israel. We provide cover for their bad behavior left and right. And I want to show you the latest example of that. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was testifying before the House today, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, before Congress. And he was asked point blank, hey, what about Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons? Let's see what his response was.

Will you tell us the Congress and the American people whether Israel in fact possesses nuclear weapons? You know that that's a question that we don't, they've never acknowledged to have a nuclear program. People can have, as you know, an open source and other reporting suspicions about what they possess. If we're speaking frankly, I think most of the world assesses that they do. But they've never, they've never acknowledged that publicly. And as a feature of our foreign policy for a variety of reasons, we don't discuss it in that way either. Israel not only stole our nuclear secrets, Robert Maxwell did that. Candice Owens erred an allegation against Ben Shapiro's uncle, his father's brother,

indicating that he had stolen nuclear material and sent it over to Israel. I don't know how true that is. I looked into it a little bit. There appears to be some reporting on it. What are we doing? Why are we providing cover for a clandestine nuclear program that exists because the country that has that nuclear program stole our nuclear secrets and potentially nuclear material? And that is the country that's dragging us into a war with a different country that doesn't have nuclear weapons. But we're supposed to be afraid of Iran's nuclear weapons.

Okay, right. Right. Anyway, that's where we are right now with this war. So the situation isn't great. In the members-only bonus episode today, we're going to have Treata Parsi on. He is a bit of an expert on this issue. So he's going to help us parse through the latest updates and help us kind of predict what we can look forward to in the near future. So if you're a member, you can look forward to that today. If you're not, you can become a member by going to t.yt.com slash join. All right, we're going to take a quick break. Joe Kent joins us for the next. segment. Our audience has given us everything, so we couldn't be more connected. When we first started, people would start giving us directions and say, okay, the mics are too large, move them,

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And as I said earlier, I mean, not only do I feel that through the work I do, I'm informing our audience, but they inform me oftentimes as well. You know, they'll pitch stories to us. They'll tell us, you know, a certain perspective or angle to a story that we might have missed. And I love it. Welcome back to TYT. I'm your host, Santa Casparian. Before we get to our interview with Joe Kent, I think it's important to kind of give you some context for the discussion. So without further ado, let's get into it.

One of the senators in the American Senate said, if we had in Israel instead of an Afghanistan, we wouldn't have had to spend a trillion dollars. We would spend a fraction of a fraction of that, which is a, you know, a few billion dollars a year. but I said we don't need that either. I mean, we appreciate it. I appreciate every amount of help that America has given us over the years. But I think just as we moved away from financial aid, economic aid, we can move away now from military and move to a partnership. And that's going to happen. Israel, along with its supporters in the United States Congress, are basically trying to pull a fast one on the American people. Because while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel says he no longer wants military aid

from the American taxpayers, the truth is actually a lot more complicated than that. So today we learned that Republican Congressman Marlon Stutzman from Indiana introduced a non-binding resolution. I think the non-binding resolution part is also important to this story, so keep that in mind. But it's essentially to replace the $3.8 billion in annual military aid that we give to Israel as part of our memorandum of understanding, just basically replace that with direct weapons purchases. Now, let me just note that I'm against allowing a country that's carrying out atrocities and genocide to purchase our weapons in the first place. So that doesn't really make the situation better for me as it is. However, that's not even the whole story.

So here's what we know. In an ex post, Stutzman said the following. The alliance is entering a new era. My new resolution affirms that the United States stands with Israel, not out of obligation, but out of shared strength and shared strategic interest. Israel has come of age where our nation should contribute equally and share results equally. But Stutzman made sure to preview the proposal to Netanyahu first when he recently visited Jerusalem. And apparently Netanyahu said, I like it.

The prime minister replied after skimming through the draft house resolution. This is the direction I've been wanting to go for a long time. We want to stand on our own feet. Netanyahu added during the nearly 45 minute meeting on May 27th, which was also attended by Representative Adam Hamiday. Now, Stutzman, who is a hardcore Zionist and Israel supporter, came back to the United States and introduced this resolution, which calls for the U.S. to develop a new memorandum of understanding between the two nations that would end the $3.8 billion in annual aid Israel receives from the U.S. And instead have the nation fund its own purchases of American weapons. But what happens in a situation in which our military is intertwined with the IDF?

What happens when they basically get to be part of our military? And that appears to be the game that's being played right now. Rather than provide billions of dollars every year, what if the IDF is basically integrated into the U.S. military? And luckily, Joe Kent, who resigned from the Trump administration over the war against Iran, wrote an incredible piece that I highly recommend you all read. It's published and responsible statecraft that really tells you what's going on here. And Joe Kent joins us today to tell us a little more about his piece and what he believes is going on. I totally agree with you, by the way, Joe.

Your piece is titled U.S. Israel integration is far from America first. We cannot outsource components of our national security donations that do not share our interest. And that is exactly what this proposed scheme would do. Thank you for joining us today. with you. Thanks for having me. No problem. Thank you for doing it. I know you're on the show just last week. And so I really, really appreciate you taking the time. And I thank you for writing this piece because as soon as I saw this non-binding resolution being proposed, I knew exactly what was going on because just days earlier, this story broke about how there is a provision in the 27 National Defense Authorization Act that would integrate Israel's military into our own. Now, help our audience understand what that would entail. Yes, this is, I think, pretty clever of the pro-Israel lobby and the Israelis. Obviously, they know public sentiment against Israel is turning.

And so now they're transitioning to kind of formalize this integration. And this is different than any other relationship that we have, even with really close partners, like the Five Eyes, like the British, for example. We do some integrated training, some development with them as well, but fully integrating our technology and, especially our research and development in a lot of really key areas, too. We're not just talking about missile systems and traditional hardware. We're talking about quantum computing. We're talking about cyber technology, counter drone, the place where really the future of warfare is going. And so we're going to integrate the Israelis into this process.

And this is going to give them basically hooks, if you will, into pretty much everything that we're doing in the cutting edge of defense and technology. And so obviously there's a wide variety of just blatantly obvious issues here. The counterintelligence aspect, I think, is the most clear cut for most people to understand. This is going to give the Israelis really full access to everything that we're doing. And as we've seen with this war in Iran, us and the Israelis, sometimes we'll start off on a path together, but we will greatly diverge to our detriment. And I think the war in Iran, the fact the war power's resolution just passed in the house, that shows that public sentiment is moving away from the,

Israeli agenda. And so here come the Israelis baking this essentially into the National Defense Authorization Act, giving them the access they were about ready to probably lose in the traditional aid that we gave them. And I'm against us giving them the traditional aid, obviously for all the reasons you outline what they're doing in Gaza, just the, you know, how that relationship doesn't benefit us. However, in a traditional aid relationship, there still at least is the presumption that we giving aid to a country, we are the ones, you know, that have the domination, the dominance in the relationship. And that's a big reason why we do give aid, regardless of what anyone says, we give aid so that we can have some degree of control over what happens in most countries.

We're going to lose that with this new relationship that we have with the Israelis. We're basically going to call them a partner. We're going to call them really a part of our defense apparatus. And I think that is a major threat to our sovereignty. I think one of the things that really stands out to me, you know, historically speaking with our relationship with Israel, is that a lot of America. Americans were not informed about all the various times Israel actually worked against us. You know, you keep hearing that Israel is a special ally. But whether you're talking about USS Liberty, whether you're talking about, I mean, look,

I know that Jake Tapper attacked you for what you said about us arming terrorists in Syria at the behest of the Israelis, but that is what happened. We literally armed Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists in Syria. And ISIS has actually had a bit of a relationship with Israel. I mean, there were ISIS fighters who were receiving treatment after getting wounded in Syria. They were getting treatment in Israel. In fact, Israeli media was reporting about that at the time. And so that works against us.

Al-Qaeda attacked us on 9-11. So how does it make sense to integrate a foreign country's military into our own, given the fact that they put their interests front and center? even if that means doing wrong by their own allies. This is exactly the problem. We just have to realize that us and Israel, regardless of what we say or how comfortable we are with them, that we just have divergent agendas in many cases,

not to mention the fact that as you pointed out, the Israelis have and will work against us. And this shouldn't surprise us. Just Israel is a very small country. They are literally at war with the vast majority of their neighbors. If you just look at the history of their intelligence services, again the Israelis are pretty upfront when they actually tell you who they are the israeli intelligence services basically say we will stop at no ends we will use any deceptions we will use any means

necessary to further our nation's goals so to let these people have full access into our country is absolutely insane and i would feel the same way basically about any country but this this is something that's much different and again even with our most i'd say close partnerships we have like with the five eyes with the brits etc we don't do that this, we already have rules on the books for how we share information, how we go and purchase new technology. A lot of the people who are in support of this new part of the NDAA are going to say, well, the Israelis do a great job with tech and research and development. And to a certain extent, there's some validity to that case. But look, there's no reason why we can't go over there

and simply purchase or come up with an agreement on a case-by-case issue if there's a specific piece of technology that we want. We do that all the time all over the world. There's no reason to let them into our most secretive compartments where we're developing our own technology. So talk to me a little bit about the give and take when it would come to integrating their military with our own because there's quite a bit that they would benefit from, certainly. And they would have, by the way, they would have the ability to spy on Americans even more than they already do. I don't understand how that would benefit us in any way, shape, or form. But aside from that, what would they contribute really to our military that we can't either develop on our own or we already have?

There's nothing. And I think anyone who's going to come and say, well, the Israelis can do this one thing, you know, much better than we can. I just think that's absurd. I've heard that for years. There was an obsession for a very long time within, you know, special operations and other parts of the military that the Israelis were out there applying their trade every single day. that was something of a myth during the peace time years when I came in the military that the Israelis were in the fight every day. And so, you know, anything that came out of Israel was going to be the greatest tactic, the greatest piece of technology. We've been fighting, unfortunately, we've been fighting in the Middle East now for well over 20 years.

We have plenty of experience. America is where Silicon Valley is. I mean, we are the foundation of a lot of this tech. And so I don't think we should forget that. We should remember who we are. And if there is a development, there's a piece of technology that we need, we can develop it on our own. And we have the brain power here to do that. There's no reason why we need to go to the Israelis and say, well, you guys can just come on in.

I just think that whole argument's preposterous. We should really just be clear-eyed and just see this as yet another entry point that the Israeli intelligence services have found to get themselves deeply embedded with America. Because, again, that's in their vital national security interests for the Israelis. If they lose the support of the American government, then they're in a very, very bad way. They know they're probably going to lose the $3.8 billion. and they understand that. And so they're actually getting ahead of us by trying to build it into the NDAA now.

And that's why we need a lot of public pressure to our representatives to stop this, to get this section cut out of the NDAA. Yeah, in fact, you know, I don't typically ask our audience to do this. This is maybe the first time and I genuinely, genuinely mean it. Please call your representatives and demand that they do not vote in favor of this provision in the NDAA. they might be under the assumption that you're ignorant about this, let them know that you're not. Because the fact that the House just passed the war powers resolution, you're absolutely right, Joe, it makes it abundantly clear that they're acutely aware of the fact that 60% of Americans do not have a favorable view of Israel that's based on the latest Pew Research surveys.

And, you know, maybe if there's enough pressure applied, they'll kind of back away from this. But I do want to ask you about one specific thing that you pointed out. A few years ago, the governors of Texas and Florida were getting a lot of backlash from the Democratic Party because they had implemented a ban on Chinese nationals buying up farmland or any property or land near military bases. And by the way, I gave them props for that. I thought that was a smart thing to do. If this integration provision passes, you note that Israeli manufacturers would operate production facilities in the U.S., and basically they would oversee some of the weaponry that we build or manufacture here in the U.S. Can you tell us a little more about that and why it would be a problem? In Toronto, every arrival is a statement, and nothing says it better than this.

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I mean, this basically gives them the keys of the kingdom. And I think this being baked into the NDAA and allowing for the Israelis to come in and do joint manufacturing ventures that become programs of record. Because right now, Israeli companies, they can usually find a dual citizen. They can come to America and they can attempt to get a contract with the U.S. government. And those contracts are hard to get. They're made on case-by-case basis. however, by actually having it codified into the NDAA,

a lot of these different companies could become what we call programs of record, and that would give them basically the ability to get consistent contracts with the DOD. Then they're going to go to different parts of the country, and they're going to say, hey, we can set a manufacturing facility here, and suddenly they're going to be able to get influence with senators and with congressmen who are going to say, I'm bringing home the bacon from my district, from my state, we're creating jobs here. Again, we have to look at this from an intelligence perspective.

This is just another means of leverage and manipulation that the Israelis are going to be able to use on our government. And again, we have to ask what's the gain? Again, I just say America needs to kind of stand with our shoulder square and say, hey, we actually are the home of most of this tech. We don't need the Israelis to have a technological advantage on the battlefield. Final question for you. Stutzman is pushing for a non-binding resolution. I mean, what's the game being played with that?

I mean, is he hoping that, you know, they'll pass the resolution. It's non-binding, but they're going to, in the future, provide military aid to Israel, even with the integration of their military with our own? Yeah, I think that's just them kind of going one step at a time, incremental. Again, these guys are politically savvy. They're looking at the polling. And so I think by having it be non-binding, it doesn't sound as sticky. But again, if you get them into this defense contracting game,

they're really going to codify themselves just into the works. bury themselves even deeper. And again, that access is way more valuable than anything that we could give them in a dollar amount. And then they're also psychologically going to be able to say to us, like, no, no, no, we're not little brother getting a handout from you guys anymore. We're your partners. You need us as much as we need you. Interesting. Well, thank you so much, Joy. I really appreciate you. Not only speaking with us, but writing this piece. Keep up the great work. I appreciate it. Absolutely. Great to see you. Thank you. All right, everyone. We're going to take a brief break. And we'll be back

to talk about some other news. I want to talk a little more about where we are economically, especially as inflation rises, not just with gas prices, but in other sectors of the economy as well. We'll be right back. What's up, everyone? Thank you to DeHull, who made a very generous contribution to TYT. Pinch Dog also purchased a monthly membership. Welcome to new members. Nancy 92655 also made a contribution. And thank you to everybody who has become a new member that includes anonymous and Maxim 303. Little Marco, according to Carinola, little Marco keeps trying to say either this ain't a war or it's over

to escape the unconstitutionality of starting slash continuing any of this without congressional approval. I think that Marco Rubio is very salty over the fact that all the attention isn't focused on toppling, you know, Cuba's government, which is what his objective has been from day one. I mean, he wants to make his donors in South Florida very happy. So I think he's just like, he's maybe thinking I can like wish the end of this war into reality. But I don't think that's what's going to happen here.

The Morrison guy says Iran needs to bomb the hell out of Tel Aviv. Israel won't stop until they live in constant fear. Well, I mean, look, I've made a similar argument, actually. I don't want Israeli civilians living in constant fear, okay, despite how horrible some of them are with what they say about Arabs and, you know, their neighbors. Nonetheless, I am a little worried that they'll eventually use a nuclear weapon. What's up, everyone? Welcome back. I just want to remind you all again. It's so important to prevent Congress from passing the NDAA with that provision that would allow for the integration of Israel's military into our own military. So please call both the congressperson for your district, but also your senator, and demand that they vote down that provision. It's so important.

I mean, look, once that's approved, I don't know how you reverse that. I really don't. I mean, things are bad enough with all these unelected government employees who have been there for decades, basically the deep state that they seem to be the ones who really do pull. strings when it comes to foreign policy. These are people we didn't elect. These are people who, you know, basically get to determine what the future of U.S. foreign policy is. And we need to do something about that. And that is a Herculean task. Now imagine trying to undo the integration of a foreign country's military into our own military. Let's go to Jonathan Borgesjani, who says, I hope Joe Kent runs for president. I don't know if he'd win, but I'd love to see him

on the debate stage. I think, look, I watched a debate between Joe Kent and Norm Finkelstein yesterday on Pierce Morgan's show. I have to say, I like Norman Finkelstein. Okay, I want to be clear about that. He did say some things lately that I don't think are helpful, basically wanting to like purge the right from joining any left-wing coalition and fighting back against Israel. I just disagree with that.

But that was the debate topic between Finkelstein and Joe Kent. I really like the way Joe Kent handled it. He's just professional and he doesn't comment on things that he doesn't feel he has any expertise in. And that is rare. That is so rare to find. I don't know if I would prefer him as a president, to be honest with you, but I'm not against him running. I mean, it would be better to have some people like him run on the right as opposed to some of the other people we've been seeing run for president in the past, Certainly better than someone like Ted Cruz, who has no honor at all.

YTP Renewed says, what's with the sniffling is Trump doing cocaine? He sniffles all the time. I don't know. I don't know what it's about. We've got 37 and thriving Pakistani-American. Deepening intelligence and military integration via Section 24 of the 2027 NDAA crosses a dangerous line, fusing U.S. citizen data with foreign networks bypasses the Fourth Amendment. That's actually a really, really good point.

We are supposed to have constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. This would give the Israelis unprecedented access to our classified information and information on Americans potentially. Dallas and digital production says, I don't understand how Netanyahu is getting in deeper with the U.S. He's a war criminal wanted by the ICC. Can't they arrest him here? Yeah, of course. But will they?

No, they won't. The U.S. will not arrest Netanyahu, regardless of what the ICC says about him or regardless of what kind of warrants are out against him. That's just the fact of the matter, and it's really depressing. Okay, what's also very depressing is where we currently stand economically, and the situation looks like it's going to get a lot worse with no end in sight with the war against Iran. So without further ado, let's talk about. how bad things are right now.

Every generation before has a tremendous sacrifice, some incredible sacrifice, done what needs to be done to ensure that the following generation will be safe and free. That's why when we talk about the price of gasoline, I get very annoyed. I understand the price of gasoline is expensive and it hurts a lot of people. But you want to see real sacrifice. You look at history, our history and our history. And on a recent history, I fear that we've become weak as a society. That statement was amazing.

That was Mark Levin, an Israel firster, and a war hawk who seems to be very annoyed with the American people who are experiencing quite a bit of frustration over the price of gas. Every time they go to the pump, they notice that the price keeps rising. And that's happening in the environment in which the president they voted for campaigned on tackling affordability first and foremost. But that's really hard to do when the U.S. is fighting a war against Iran at the behest of the Israeli government. And as a result of that, Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in which 20% of the globe's oil and gas is transited through, that limits oil supply, that increases energy prices, and that has a trickle-down effect, well, I should say trickle-up effect, in causing inflation in other sectors of the economy.

People are upset and frustrated about that. Going to war with Iran benefits Americans approximately. Let me just check my notes. 0%. So Mark Levins saying that Americans are these like pathetic losers who are whining about having to make sacrifices, infuriates me to no end. It makes sense to make sacrifices for something that benefits the American people.

This doesn't benefit the American people. But it does benefit the only country that Mark Levins seems to care about. And of course, that's Israel. But anyway, why don't we check in on the economy and talk about where we're at right now? Because as we had shared with you fairly recently, there are oil barons, oil analysts, who were really, really worried about where we're headed. Now, even if the war were to end today and the strait of Hormuz were to be opened, this is what the situation would look like,

because what's kind of keeping things under control is the fact that Trump is tapping into our oil reserves. But those oil reserves are set to run out very soon by the end of summer. And that's when the ish will hit the fan. Okay, so Josh Young had posted this. Exxon is saying that oil prices will rise to $150 to $160 a barrel in coming weeks. And then he provides a screenshot for an article in which the Exxon Senior Vice President, Neil Chapman, is quoted as saying that the situation is pretty dire. He says you can debate whether that's going to hit, meaning the very low levels of our energy reserves.

Those really low levels in two weeks or three weeks. Once you get to that point, which many suspect will be by the end of the summer, then you'll see prices shoot up. The price of physical Brent oil cargoes will spike to $150 to $160 per barrel when inventories hit all-time lows in coming weeks. The executive said, that is the senior vice president of ExxonMobil. So I think he knows a thing or two about where we are right now. That's what he's describing.

and we should be worried about where we're headed because the war hasn't ended. This is his analysis if the war ends right now. So with that in mind, higher oil prices, as I said earlier, translate to more than just high gas prices at the pump. It means higher overall inflation. And it shows. So according to CNBC's latest reporting on this, the personal savings rate defined as the share of income Americans have after taxes and after they pay for all their expenses,

hit 2.6% in April. Now, what does that mean? Is that bad? Yeah, it's bad. So that was reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last Thursday. That's down from 3.2% in March and get a load of this, 5.8% a year ago. So our savings rate went from 5.8% to 2.6% to 2.6%. in a mere year. So Heather Long, who's the chief economist that Navy Federal Credit Union, spoke to CNBC and told them this. I thought 2.6% for April was a typo at first.

It is so low. Outside of revenge spend era of 2022, the personal savings rate has almost never been this low in the past 65 years. So what she's referring to or citing there is after the economy started to open up, during the COVID era. This is around 2022. Americans had just been sitting home and a lot of people had been saving because what are you going to do? You can't go out and spend money like you used to.

Everything's closed. So in 2022 when things opened up again, there was inflation because people went out into the world and they were spending like crazy, right? They had cabin fever. They're ready to have a good time. So the savings rate during that time was lower because people were spending like crazy, not really saving. They had more expenses due to their spending. Now, the reason for the record low savings rate of Americans today is inflation. So inflation grows 3.8% in April from a year earlier. And that was according to the latest numbers put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And that was the highest level since May of 2023. And then data from BLS, Bureau of Labor statistics shows that the growth in April was wage growth specifically. This is important.

Wage growth in April was 3.6% compared to the previous year. So if you have, think about this, if inflation is 3.8% and wage growth is 3.6%. That means that wages aren't keeping up with inflation, that's bad, right? That's very bad. Not according to Kevin Hassert, though, who is Hacet, who happens to be Trump's chief economic advisor. Take a look. A couple of measures of consumer confidence this week show that people are pessimistic about how things are going. University of Michigan is one of them. I know there's another you prefer. They're both showing that there is growing concern there. People feel our polling shows, too, that their personal situation is not going well and they blame President Trump's policies.

The literature shows that what people do when they're going to a midterm is they look at their pockets. They feel like, is my income higher? Is my job safe? So think about it. Initial claims for unemployment insurance have been about at the lowest they've been since the 1960s, which means that people aren't losing their jobs. Real incomes are going up. No, no, they're not going up. Real incomes are not going up and they're not keeping up with inflation. And by the way, we're at the very beginning of that. Thanks to this war. So again, inflation 3.8% in April, but wage. growth was just 3.6%. That gap will widen as this war continues. Now, the inflationary environment

was exacerbated by Trump's tariffs at first, but the war against Iran made inflation much worse. Americans continue to deal with elevated prices on a range of essentials like groceries and utilities. Gasoline has been a particular pain point since the start of the Iran war. The national average at $4.43 a gallon as of Thursday, according to AAA data. And that's as of Thursday of last week, the number, I'm sure, has increased since then. Unfortunately, Trump has learned absolutely no lessons, though, not just when it comes to the war, but more importantly, when it comes to his tariffs. You're not going to believe this.

It made me pull my hair when I saw this headline. But today, the New York Times reported that Trump aims new tariffs at 59 countries and the European Union because he hates us. He hates us. Do you understand? Trump administration officials say they plan to impose levies of up to 12.5% on countries that failed to crack down on goods made with forced labor. What? Okay. So basically, the Trump administration is using something known as Section 301 to kind of get around the fact that the Supreme Court just struck down his tariffs. They said that his tariffs are unconstitutional, that the Congress has the power of the purse. So if you want to implement tariffs, you're going to need to do it through Congress, but there is a loophole. It's known as Section 301. So it's a provision

in the U.S. Trade Act of 1974 that authorizes the president or the U.S. trade representative to investigate and impose trade sanctions on foreign countries that engage in unfair, discriminatory, or unreasonable acts. So when it comes to those 59 countries, the Trump administration is saying, yeah, forced labor. Yeah, that's the ticket. Now, mind you, here in the United States, we have story after story about child labor laws being violated, but who cares about that? We're going to pretend like we're worried about forced labor in European countries in order to slap these tariffs onto the imports coming from those countries, which does what? Does that punish those countries or does it punish the American people who are going to see additional inflation thanks to these tariffs? He hates us.

I mean, what more can you say? By the way, the gubernatorial candidate that Trump endorsed in Iowa just lost. Number one, there wasn't an Israel lobby backing him, so I'm sure that hurt him. But more importantly, the reason why he lost is because Iowa farmers not happy with Trump. Okay, first of all, the tariffs have hurt them significantly. But aside from that, they need fertilizer in order to ensure their crops grow. But fertilizer is a lot harder to come by these days and is far more expensive because a third of the world's fertilizer travels through the Strait of Hormuz, which has effectively been blocked by Iran after we decided to attack them on behalf of Israel. That is what we're dealing with right now.

So the situation with affordability is pretty dire for Americans who are increasingly turning to credit cards to be able to afford the basics. Over a third, 37% of Americans say they will have to use a credit card, buy now, pay later. This breaks my heart beyond words, or other type of loans to cover at least some of their expenses this month. And that's according to a survey conducted by nerd wallet. That includes 35% of households earning at least $100,000 a year. Your government hates you. And although credit card delinquencies are up, let's go back to our friend Kevin Hassett, Trump's economic advisor, who thinks, you know, there's actually a lot to be optimistic about.

Wall Street Journal says in the first quarter of this year, the percentage of credit card balances that were at least 90 days delinquent rose to 13.12 percent, according to data released in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That's the highest level in 15 years and the most since the period following the 2000. financial crisis, people say they're using those cards to get through necessities because they can't afford what's going on. So your message to them. Right, well, we talk to the CEOs of the credit card companies all the time and we do see some increased stress like the numbers that the Wall Street Journal quotes. But for the most part, the delinquency is

different from defaults and there's not any kind of threat, the financial threat to the credit companies that they don't feel like that they're heading towards default scenarios. It's just that people are taking a little bit longer. One of the reasons is that people are spending more on gas, but they're also spending more on everything else, not just groceries, but restaurants and so on. And I think that that's a sign that you would see when people are optimistic about the future. I mean, every single public opinion poll makes it abundantly clear that Americans are not optimistic about the future.

Trump is underwater when it comes to his approval on the economy. And that was one of the main reasons why he won the popular vote to begin with, because he purported to care about affordability. He claimed he was going to do something about inflation. He only made it worse. So Hassett is engaging in quite a bit of cope there by pretending as though the American people are like elated with our economic situation. What a joke.

And mortgage delinquencies are all. also starting to trend upward, not just 30-day delinquencies, but 90-day delinquencies are increasing as well. So in our next segment, I'll actually get into that a little more and talk about the housing market briefly. It's important to know about what's going on. The situation is not good here in the United States. And what's even more concerning is, based on everything we're seeing from the Trump administration, it doesn't really appear that Trump gives a damn about domestic policy at the moment. His attention is completely sucked up by what's happening with these foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. Disaster. So we're going to take a

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So Megan Kelly was on Sean Ryan's podcast. The episode was published this week. And I love the conversation. I listened to the whole thing. It was very, very long. But I really appreciated it. And, you know, they talked about foreign policy. They talked about the Israel lobby. They talked about Epstein files, the kind of stuff that we talk about on this show. show quite often. And you know, Megyn Kelly mentioned that the lines between the right and the left are starting to blur in some instances. And I do think that there's this growing coalition of anti-war people on both the left and the right. It doesn't mean that they agree on everything else. Obviously, they don't. But as she was talking about this, Sean Ryan was like, oh, you mean Anna Casparian? And then, you know, they said lovely things about me. And I really, really appreciate that they did that. But the reason why I'm bringing this up is because people like James Lindsay lost their

minds about it, totally lost their minds about it. It is interesting how Zionists don't want Americans to come together. It's interesting how much they want us to be divided. Because people power is real. People power can totally destroy the influence of money in politics. People power is unstoppable. You just need people to realize how unstoppable it is. And put their differences aside on other issues to work together on honestly what I believe are the biggest threats to our country today.

And yes, that does have to do with foreign influence on our government. I would feel the same way if it were, I don't know, name a country that I love that I would like actually see myself living in. If Italy had that type of influence on the United States, I would have a huge, huge problem with it. Huge. So we do need to work together to fight back and push back against Israel's influence, the deep state, corporate control, corporate greed, like all of that stuff. There are lots of right-wingers who are waking up to the fact that our system is rigged against ordinary people. Okay, when you're not able to negotiate drug prices, when it comes to our Medicare system, how are you going to tell me that's capitalism when you're not going to allow Medicare to

negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies? And you just have to like eat whatever price these companies decide to charge for their drugs. That's insane. So these are issues that I see widespread agreement on. But the reason why we've never been able to accomplish anything is because we've been so partisan-brained and we've been unwilling to work together. We're so busy fighting each other that those who control these systems of power get away with murder, get away with, you know, price gouging the American people.

So James Lindsay can go ahead and cry about it. But I do see the trend that Megan Kelly was alluding to. And I hope it continues because I do think we have the power to make this country a lot better for the American people. And that's what the goal is here. Anyway, I want to read just one comment before we move on. Let's go to, no, I'm going to read too. Jonathan Borge, Johnny says, Anna makes a good point. USA should leave and condemn as an act of good faith and see where it goes.

That's in regard to the U.S. just stopping the war. Like you don't have to have a peace agreement, just stop the war and walk away. But I don't think that's going to happen. And let's see. other person says, here we go. Staples Preferred Business Membership, built for busy business owners, because you've got bigger things to think about. With Staples Preferred, get free delivery, no minimums. Staples Preferred unlocks up to 3% back, plus 10% savings on print and exclusive wireless offers.

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Ronald Fan, hey, TYT family, N2, Solo Anna, America is in an unprecedented situation now. If we don't learn from our mistakes on the Iraq War, how can we end the war in Iran? Ronald, thank you for that comment. I totally agree with you. And thank you to all our new members. I'll read more comments in a little bit. But right now, I got to do the Shopify Live Read.

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Delinquencies in mortgages are starting to rise. here in the United States, which does go along with some of the negative economic indicators that we've been talking about on this show, including rising inflation, record, consumer debt, rising credit card debt. Now you take a look at the percentage of Americans who have mortgages who are delinquent either by 30 days or even worse, 90 days. And we are trending in a bad direction. However, I want to be clear, we are not experiencing a housing market crash, although we are seeing houses remain on the market for a far longer period of time. We're starting to see some price cuts. Let's talk a little more about the delinquencies. So the delinquency

rate for mortgage loans on one to four unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.44% of all loans outstanding at the end of the first quarter of 2026. And that's according to the Mortgage Bankers Association National Delinquency Survey. So when we talk about all mortgages, all loans, I want to be clear that we're not just talking about residential real estate. We're also in some cases talking about commercial real estate, right? But in this case, mortgage loans on one to four unit residential properties. Now, a four unit residential property is considered commercial. Usually there is a landlord who is, you know, charging tenants for their units. But let's get a little more granular with our research here.

The delinquency rate, by the way, includes loans that are at least one payment past due, but that does not include loans in the process of foreclosure. But we're going to get into foreclosures as well. So the delinquency rate was up 18 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2025 and up 40 basis points from a year ago. But what about loans that are considered seriously delinquent? And that's more than 30 days late. The non-seasonally adjusted seriously delinquent rate, the percentage of loans that are 90 days or more past due or in the process of foreclosure was 2.03%. It increased 18 basis points from last quarter and increased 40 basis points from last year. So I don't know. I mean, Trump wants to know, are you tired of winning? Is this winning?

Like, please point me in the direction of where the economy improved under his leadership, because this is not an improvement. And delinquencies were mostly concentrated in two different types of loans. FHA loans and VA loans. So VA loans, of course, are mortgages for our veterans. FHA loans for those who don't know. Those are loans where the person looking for the mortgage or who has been given a mortgage doesn't put 20% down on the property. They put less than 20% down.

But as a result of that, they have to pay for insurance. I don't recommend doing that, guys. I know people really want to buy homes. I don't think you should agree to a mortgage unless it is a conventional mortgage where you put 20% down. And I know that's really difficult for most Americans, but don't find yourself in a situation where you're, they call it house poor, where you're like literally putting all of your resources and paying your mortgage. And that's going to happen if you don't have like a nice 20% down payment on the home at least. Let's take a look at this graph because it's going to help you understand what I'm talking about a little bit better.

Oh, actually, no, let's go back. I apologize. I want to talk about the foreclosures. So the good news is that foreclosures are still very low. We don't have a ton of foreclosures happening right now. The problem is, though, that when you look at these numbers, there's every indication that we're trending in a bad direction. So the percentage of loans in the foreclosure process at the end of the first quarter of this year was 0.64%. That doesn't sound like that big of a deal. However, it was up 11 basis points from the fourth quarter of last year, 2025, and 15 basis points higher than one year ago, which shows that the rate of foreclosures is not only increasing, but also accelerating. And again, delinquencies were mostly concentrated in FHA and VA loans. And I want to show you this graph, which was put together by the Mortgage Bankers Association. What it does is it shows you the different types of loans and which ones have the most foreclosures.

So the total seasonally adjusted delinquency rate for conventional loans shown in orange actually decreased 14 basis points to 2.75% over the previous quarter. However, and this is important, delinquencies did rise compared to the previous year. So, you know, make of that what you will. But by contrast, the total FHA seasonally adjusted delinquency rate increased 36 basis points to 11.88%. And the total VA seasonally adjusted delinquency rate increased 39 basis points to almost 5%. That is not good news. And so, again, we are not experiencing a housing market crash. But what we are seeing in every element, every facet of our economy, every indicator shows that we are doing worse.

We are seeing rising inflation. We're seeing a rise in unemployment. I don't think the, I mean, it does show in some of the jobs reports. I don't think it shows the full extent of the job losses, to be quite honest with you. And then you're also starting to see increased delinquencies when it comes to mortgages and even an increase. as small as it might be, on foreclosures. Then you couple all of that with the fact that you have rising credit card debt, record consumer debt. We are not in a good position. And it's so important, guys, to understand that our current political system is not

working for us. Okay, the Democrats aren't helping us. The Republicans, certainly, they're in charge. They're not helping us. The entire focus of the Trump administration has been on foreign policy lately. And we are suffering the consequences of that. If it was foreign policy to keep the United States safe or to benefit the United States, that might be one thing.

But that's not what's going on here. We are fighting a war on behalf of a foreign country and we're getting nothing out of it. In fact, we are bankrolling it and our federal government is going deeper into federal debt as a result of that. Just some thoughts to keep in mind. All right. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll talk about Palantir and the fact that there seems to be a little bit of an uprising by its own investors. Don't miss it. Progressive entropy in our entropy in our Twitch community made a funny comment. I don't even know if I can say this, even though I said it in the context of tit for tat. But the first part of that tit for tat statement made progressive entropy laugh. This person says that they're a child. You know, it's funny because when I said they're responding with a tit to their tat, or tat to their tat.

I don't even know how I worded it. I immediately thought to myself, you know what I mean? Like the Beavis and Butthead laughing sound. Okay, anyway, 0x 6085 says, if Marco Rubio's ears are flapping like Dumbo, he's laughing. That's hilarious. You know, your ears keep growing as you age. like the rest of you stops growing, but your nose and your ears apparently keep growing because aging is the worst thing in the world. But anyway, let's go to our super chats where James,

thank you to James Kelly, as I said earlier. Master Zen 107 says, was watching CNN, was watching a CNN video posted an hour ago at 324. Thank you for time coding that for me. CNN claims they have journalists on the ground in Iran. So strange because Gaza wasn't safe. according to Israel and mainstream media, but we can send folks to Iran. Yeah, that's right. And we know the real reason why Israel won't allow journalists in Gaza. We know. We know. James Kelly writes in in our super chat section.

And thank you to all our super chatters. Your comments are always enlightening and also help to support the show. But James Kelly says, I just thought of something I heard a few months ago about giving the IDF American veteran benefits. As a veteran, I thought it was crazy, but with this NDAA, I worry that it could be true. Oh, I have no doubt that members of Congress are mulling that idea for sure. And it would be wrong to do that 100%. And thank you for your service. You fought for this country. You potentially risked your life for this country, and you deserve those benefits. You earned them. Our veterans earned them. So seeing soldiers from a foreign military benefit from them,

at some point, guys, we can't keep responding to things the way we've been responding to things because we're just getting slapped in the face left and right by our own government. They like in their own way tell us how much they hate us every single day. And we've just been so complacent for so long. I just, I don't know. I don't know what the solution is. And I desperately want to figure out a way to change what's going on. But simply being asleep at the wheel and then voting, you're not going to vote your way out of this, I don't think.

We need some real change. Sneaky Dog Inc. says, can we get a Megan Candice and Anna show? You know, I think that might have actually been the type of her take casting that would have worked because you're talking about two women who I have like deep disagreements with on a whole host of things, but like they can, like they at least know what's going on in the country. We might have different perspectives, but at least, I don't know, whatever. Let's just move on. I don't want to get myself in trouble.

So like Gillian Michaels was the head host of that. that show. She's a nightmare. She's a nightmare. Okay, like, what are you doing? Okay, don't have Sam Cedar on to debate you, girl, what are you doing? You're nuts. Like, you are crazy. You are crazy. But she did it. She did it. And I enjoyed watching it. Anyway, let's move on to our next story. I want to talk about Palantir. Palantir is under scrutiny from its own shareholders who voted today on a proposal that would force Palantir to address its alleged human rights violations. Now, what human rights violations am I referring to? Well, if you're curious, all you need to do is listen to the head of the company, Alex Carp,

who can't really stop himself from bragging about it. Mostly terrorist, that's true. Me as a frontman, offending half of America. I don't think in win-lose. I think in die. nomination. Almost nothing makes a human happier than taking the glines of cocaine away from these short sellers. I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl laced urine spraying on analysts who tried to screw us. Yeah, this whole thing online where people like law the Nazis. Like I spent a lot of time talking to Nazis, like real Nazis and like understanding

what made them tick. What's he referring to the Israelis in that last statement? Is that what he was talking about. So that's Alex Karp. He makes me want to vomit every time I hear him speak. But nonetheless, let's get back to the investors who apparently also want to vomit every time they hear this man speak. So this proposal by the investors was actually filed by the Presbyterian Church of the United States and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace both happen to be investors in Palantir. And if you're wondering, is that possible? Can like religious organizations do that? Yes, they can. So their efforts were actually also backed by Norway's $2 trillion plus sovereign wealth fund. So money talks, we're not talking about small-time investors. We're

talking about big-time investors in Palantir. And so what exactly are these organizations trying to do? What are they trying to uncover? Well, Palantir has racked up a long list, as you can imagine, of alleged human rights abuses over the years. And we'll get into what those human rights abuses are in just a moment. But first, I do want to just quickly clear up a common misconception that I myself had for the longest time about what Palantir does exactly. Okay? Because there's this misconception that they spy on Americans. But that's actually not what's happening.

In fact, our government spies on Americans, collects data. In fact, so much data that our incompetent government is unable to organize it, sift through it. You get the picture. So they have contracted that process out to Palantir. Palantir is the one who has access to that data collected by the government. And the whole reason Palantir is working or has been contracted by our government is because they're the ones who help sift through that data. that mountain of data on Americans. So it's erasing the friction that the U.S.

is experienced, the government is experiencing with all that surveillance and data they collect, but don't have the capacity to go through themselves. In other words, Palantir is enabling the government to surveillance citizens more efficiently, but Palantir isn't actually doing the surveillance themselves. Okay. Now that we got that out of the way, let's get to the human rights abuses. So in its response to the shareholder proposal, Palantir defended its work with the United States government, saying that they reject the false dichotomy presented by many tech companies that working with the military opposes human rights. To refuse to work with the U.S. military would be a failure to recognize the military's role in defending democratic institutions and rules-based orders.

Do we want to pause for laughter? Like what a joke. Okay, that is a myth. Okay, our country doesn't believe in the rules-based order. If it did, it wouldn't be enabling genocide. It wouldn't be arming Israel to commit atrocities. We don't actually believe in the rules-based order. We only pretend like we do when we want to go after a different foreign country that's doing something we don't like.

Right? The rules-based order means a lot to the Americans when it comes to right. Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But when it comes to Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon, what rules-based order? What rules-based order? No, no, it was Hezbollah. It's Hezbollah's fault. Okay, if you had the military of a foreign country occupying Texas right now, are you going to tell me that Texans are just going to stand there and take it? There'd be no resistance at all. All those gun-toting Texans would just allow a foreign actor to invade. our country and occupied? I don't think so. I don't think so. But let me continue with more of what

Palantir had to say here. This order, while imperfect, has been foundational to the protection of human rights worldwide, still referring to the so-called rules-based order. What a joke. And we assert that by engaging with the defense sector, we are positioned to help promote and support ethically defensible outcomes. You guys want to profit off of government contracts funded by American taxpayers. That is what Palantir wants to do. Please, like, you can leave me with all this BS talk about rules-based order and democracy and how you guys are doing this because you believe in doing the right thing. You guys are making money. That is what you're doing. We all know it, so don't lie to our faces about it. Now, Palantir is making a lot of money off its government

contracts. So Palantir's government revenue is expected to grow to $3.8 billion in 2026. And that number increased from just $2.4 billion a year ago. So what are we doing? And in its response to this shareholder proposal, Palantir also defended its work with ICE because of course they did, which for the record, has been a bipartisan collaboration. This is not just something that the Trump administration has done. This is something that both Democrats and Republicans have enabled. Palantir has worked with immigration and customs enforcement since the Obama administration. Notably in supporting investigations into transnational criminal organizations engaged in major criminal activity with a nexus to the border, such as human smuggling and drug trafficking. And look, to be honest with you, as long as Palantir isn't committing human rights abuses in doing that,

I don't have a problem. If their focus is on transnational gangs that cause harm to the American people, I don't have a problem with Palantir working alongside our government to do something about that. But I do have a problem with a lot of what Palantir actually does. They say that our most recent contract with ICE, which began negotiation under the Biden administration, reflects a continued commitment by Palantir to support the U.S. government. in its most central missions. But here's what I don't have a, but I don't support.

I don't support a private corporation, a company like Palantir, sifting through data on American citizens, which is what our government has basically provided a contract to Palantir to do. Palantir also stood by its partnership with the IDF. That tells me everything I need to know about Palantir. They say our work in Israel predates the October 7th,

terror attack, how does that make that any better? I don't care. And they say that it's in line with our global support of U.S. allies and liberal democracies. Again, pause for laughter. What a joke. So Palantir's CEO, Alex Karp, has publicly cheered on the worst excesses of American and Israeli military forces. So I get that they're trying to calm their investors, their shareholders down, because, you know, at the end of the day, that's the value of their stock. And they don't want these investors pulling out. But make no mistake about it. The human rights abuses are real and they've been enabled by our government.

All right. We've got to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Hi, everyone. Welcome to our social break. I'm going to read a bunch of comments. But before I do, the show doesn't end at 8.30 p.m. Eastern tonight after a bonus episode. because after our bonus episode, you can check out Happy Half Hour with Brett Erlich over at Twitch.

That's Twitch.tv slash TiT to watch Happy Half Hour. It's a fun show. It's a great way to unwind. He's a great host who can help take your mind off of some of the devastating stuff happening in the country right now. So make sure you check that out. Twitch.tv.t. All right. Let's go to our member comments. Actually, let me read some more Twitch comments since I feel like sometimes I neglect you guys and I don't do that on purpose. We just get fewer comments from Twitch. So we've got itchy brother dragon, milk, milk lemonade around the tat oil is made. I don't know what that's a reference to, but okay.

Bradshaw crew of one says 215 to 208. The House for the first time passes a bill to rein in Trump's war powers on Iran. The U.S. House has voted to invoke the War Powers Act and order an end I'm glad we moved from four minute breaks to two minute breaks because it's solved all our problems. But sometimes I miss half of your comments because we run out of time. So Bradshaw, I'm going to read your comment again. So Bradshaw is making a point about the fact that the House did pass the War Powers Act today. 215 to 208, meaning that they do want to rein in Trump's war powers as it pertains to the war against Iran.

And it was somewhat of a bipartisan rebuke. Look, it's good news. Obviously, we have to wait and see what happens in the Senate. And then, I don't know, I just, I'm so blackpilled. Even when something good happens, I'm like, okay, what's the catch? So let's just wait and see what happens. But I agree with you, it is good news. It's a good development.

Let's put it that way. All right, let's talk about George Santos because he's in the news again. You might be thinking why. Who cares about that guy? He's not in Congress anymore, luckily. But there's been a lot of news about, you know, those betting markets that are regulated differently from plain old gambling, even though they shouldn't be. And there's a lot of insider trading happening.

And this is an example of that. Let's get into it. George Santos is in the news again. In fact, he's facing an investigation for being a corrupt and dishonest hack. Again, it's amazing. So back in February, the former Republican lawmaker who merely served a single term and was expelled from Congress took to X to say this. Do we have a- I'm going to be there for the state of the union in the gallery, guys. Just chill, trolls, chill, okay? Okay, so he says he's going to be at the state of the union. Who cares? Apparently people were paying attention to that message.

Now, Santos actually did not make it to the state of the union. Bear with me, there's a point to all of this, I promise. So he posted the following the day of the event. Watching State of the Union from an airport TV was not part of the plan, FML. F my life, basically. Okay. So he thought he could make it. Then it turns out he couldn't make it.

Right. No big deal, except it is a big deal. Because it turns out, and the problem is that the prediction site, Calci, was fielding millions of dollars worth of bets on who would and would not attend the State of the Union. Now, that's a little bit of a problem when members of Congress who know whether or not they're going to attend the State of the Union are also able to make bets on Calci. and Santos had covertly, but not covertly enough, thankfully, placed bets that he would not appear after saying that he would appear. So gross. So according to NPR, three people familiar with the trade claimed that Santos misled the public and turned a profit based on that deception in the tens of thousands of dollars. The trades were reported to Kalshi, who actually, to their credit, decided to freeze Santos' account for insider trading because that appears that's what happened here, right? So even Kalshi itself opened up their own investigation into Santos.

But when asked by NPR about the investigations, Santos said it was, quote, news to me. I doubt that. I mean, look, guys, he is a pathological. liar. That is what got him in trouble in Congress in the first place. So why would anyone even ask him anything and trust that what he responds is, is what he responds with is a truth. Obviously, it's not the truth. Excuse me, guys. But, and when he was asked to confirm if he even had a Kalshi account, here's what George Santos said, I'm not saying yes, I'm not saying no. Okay. he did the bet and he engaged in insider trading on this betting platform.

And it's just, we live in hell. So perhaps the most hilarious comment from this exchange with NPR was this. Santos went on to say the co-founder of Kauci, Luana Lopez Lara, is a fellow Brazilian whom he personally knows. He said he would call her to get to the bottom of whether an investigation had been launched. The person familiar with Kalshi's investigation said Santos, the son of Brazilian immigrants, does not know Laura, a Brazilian American. This guy has a problem. There's something wrong with him. He like cannot tell the truth.

I remember when like Pierce Morgan would book him on his show. Why are you booking this guy on your show? Like how can you trust anything that comes out of his mouth? But this mistruth is decidedly on brand for Santos, who was expelled from Congress when it was determined that his campaign centered around a number of, let's be generous and say falsehoods. Because on the campaign trail, he claimed falsely the following, that his mother was working in the trade center during 9-11, that he was Jewish and his grandparents had survived the Holocaust. that he graduated in the top 1% of his college, none of which turned out to be true. And that did lead to federal probes into his campaign

and resulted in numerous felonies being brought to light. So Santos was also charged with stealing money from his donors, money laundering, and 13 counts of wire fraud. Guys, a mess, total mess. And he was ultimately sentenced to seven years in federal prison, of which he served only four months because Trump loves criminals and commuted his sentence. Of course he did. So Trump justified his decision by saying the following on truth social. George Santos was somewhat of a rogue, but there are many rogues throughout our country that aren't

forced to serve seven years in prison. Something tells me that Trump considers himself a bit of a rogue himself, right? Like, I mean, he probably looks at a schemer or a scammer, a huckster like George Santos and feels envy. I mean, he's a huckster himself. But I mean, George Santos's brazenness was pretty incredible. And to be fair, Trump is pretty brazen. Certainly in his second term, he's as corrupt as can be and he doesn't care who knows it. The current batch of charges against Santos come as lawmakers grapple with how to properly regulate prediction markets, which I'm sure they'll fail to do for two different reasons. Number one, most of them are too old to even know what's going on.

I'm just keeping it. Like Susan Collins really has no business running for re-election. She just doesn't. The woman is, I'm not trying to be cruel, but she is not doing well. You can see it. She's shaking all the time. She's much, much older than a member of Congress should be, especially when they have these health issues.

But anyway, she decided to run for re-election, and I just, I don't understand it. And so am I going to trust someone like her to decide on the right regulations for these betting markets? I don't think so. And she's just one example, by the way. I don't mean to, you know, just target one person. Congress is littered with people who have no idea what's going on in tech, don't really care to do their jobs. And the second thing is, of course, these betting markets spend handsomely on political campaigns. So if they're big donors to these lawmakers, are we going to trust that they're going to come up with the right regulations? Lawmakers in Washington have been particularly concerned about how people with insider information could manipulate the markets

and defraud other betters. In April, federal prosecutors criminally charged a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier accused of making more than $400,000 betting on the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro. So Santos's case will be an interesting bellwether as to how that fight is going. I just wouldn't hold my breath. We'll see. Anyway, let's move on to, I'm going to skip actually this next story because I want to cover it with Jank. I want to talk with Jank about what's going on with Jady Vance and what we can expect in 28 with the Republican side of the presidential election. For now, let's move on to H Block, if you don't mind Alyssa. I want to talk about what's happening with our national parks.

So if the Trump administration couldn't get any slimyer, or if you thought the Trump administration couldn't get any slimyer, well, you're in for a treat because it turns out that the administration is apparently attempting to take over $90 million in revenue from our national parks and redirect that money. to Trump's Fourth of July celebration. Okay. I have no problem with the White House engaging in Fourth of July celebrations. I welcome it. Fourth of July is lit and people should have a good time. Redirecting money from our national parks, which at this point might be the only thing our government is doing right,

for a Fourth of July celebration to the tune of $90 million should enrage all. of us. Our national parks, our state parks, our parks, period, best part of the country, enjoyed by all Americans, right, left, young, old, doesn't matter. Our national parks make me love this country even more. Okay, I just, the idea of denying them $90 million, redirecting $90 million for a single Fourth of July celebration is infuriating. But according to internal agency documents reviewed by the Washington Post, the Trump administration is diverting at least, at least 90 million from entry fees to national parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite to D.C. to fund a $1.6 million fireworks display more than five times as much as what is usually spent

on the 4th of July pyrotechnics display. Why is that? What's up with the inflation of cost there? Is someone pocketing some of that money? Really, you're going to spend $1.6 million on fireworks, on fireworks. Dude, head over to Tijuana. Okay, you can probably get the same amount of fireworks for like $50. Like, what are we doing? Anyway, there's more, though. So, again, more than five times as much as what is usually spent on the Fourth of July

PyroTechnics display. and $76 million to repair fountains. Fountains. Trump is such a bitch. And I mean that. I mean that in the actual literal definition of the word. Okay, like I've never met or seen a president who is so obsessed with interior design and freaking fountains. $76 million for fountains.

So roughly 100 national parks representing a quarter of all of our national parks do in fact collect entries. fees, as they should because most of that money is actually used to maintain the national parks and pay for the operations. So yeah, they collect a fee. The fee itself is not that expensive, but when you consider how many people visit our national parks, that money adds up. At least 20% though does go to a general fund that can go to expenses across the park system. So as of last month, at least $105 million in park fee revenue had been approved specifically for the D.C. area. Why? Oh, because Trump wants fancier fountains. Only 27 million approved for all other purposes nationwide. So they might not even get that, by the way. And according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity, they say that agency leadership told Park superintendents in one

region of the country in April that fee money would no longer be available to them because DC needed the funding due to budget constraints. Those officials offered no details on how the money would be spent. Okay, a note that senior agency officials sent to staff in April also said that parks should not expect any money from a contingency fund to cover unforeseen costs in order to cover the cost of the nation's 250th anniversary and DC beautification. So why don't we get granular here? Why don't we take a look at exactly what the Trump administration is spending that money on, right? They're denying our national park system of $90 million, $90 million that they themselves

collected in park entrance fees. Okay, what is he going to use the money for? We already know he's going to spend close to $2 million on freaking fireworks, but there's more than that. So let's take a look at this graph. So this graph, or this map, I should say, is from the post, and it actually outlines the various renovations or beautifications that the Trump administration is carrying out, specifically in D.C., mostly for the U.S.'s 250th birthday. So this includes $13 million on repairs for Lafayette Square fountain in front of the White House. $13 million to repair one or renovate one fountain. $5.7 million for the Simone Boulevard Boulevard Memorial fountain in front of the interior department.

It costs $5.7 million, really? Come on, $47 million on other unnamed fountains on the national. mall and $9.2 million to resurface the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Just leave our national parks alone, please. Is there anything? Anything the federal government won't F up. I'm serious. Don't deny them the money they need for their operations and park maintenance. So you can renovate freaking fountains. And by the way, I don't have a problem with them renovating fountains. I don't believe that it costs this much to do it. I don't believe it at at all. At all.

Obviously, Americans Ouch. So this. Frozen, Alyssa. I'm frozen. Okay. Why don't we actually? Yeah, let's move on.

I'm not frozen anymore. So this is what's going on with our money. This is what the Trump administration is up to. This is what they're doing. Why don't we take a break, Alyssa. What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the show. Apologies for that technical issue.

Since we only have a few more minutes left. for the main show before we head on over to the bonus episode for our members. Let me just read some comments. Let's go to our member comments from YouTube. Thank you to Cheesy Fingers 79 for your gifting 5 TYT memberships. David Ryder says Rubio said he never saw Trump fall asleep in a meeting. Why do they lie about these things? It's so unnecessary. Like we've all seen Trump asleep at the wheel, all of us. The guy's like about to turn 80. Of course, of course. Sometimes I'm watching a movie with my dad who's like in his 80s. He falls asleep sitting up straight all the time. It's why lie about that. Anyway, Lily's mom says, Anna, I'm old enough to remember politics before Citizens United back when right and left had to work together to get anything done. It was once and will be again, you are what the future must be. Lily's mom, thank you so much for saying that. It's been, um, a very bumpy road with, I mean, there are people who are very much interested in keeping

Americans divided. And I'm not just talking about powerful people. I'm also, which by the way, powerful people want the division more than anything. Of course, they benefit from the division. But people who have just been conditioned to believe that their tribe and defending their tribe is like the most important thing in the world. And the other side is the enemy. No, the other side, and I'm just talking about ordinary Americans, they are not your enemy. If you're already, if you're in the mindset of thinking half the country is your enemy, then we really don't have much hope for the future. We can't get anything done. We can't improve the country. We can't move toward progress. And I just don't think that's the right

way to go about things. Let's go to Jonathan Borge Johnny, who says 100% Anna, 100% give us direction, lead the way. I think that was in regard to me calling on you guys to please, please call your lawmakers, your representatives, demand that they vote down that provision in the NDAA that would integrate Israel's military with our own. Shelley Irish says, that's why it's the poor and immigrants that end up having to enlist in the military. They don't get my son.

I'll go back to Ireland. Girl, I don't know why you're not in Ireland right now. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I will say like the pushback against Israel and Ireland is so, so inspiring and enviable. I wish we had that here. Simon Moody says, if Scotland ever does separate from the UK, the unpicking of everything, military included,

will be such a difficult nitpicky process. Israel now wanting to force that onto America in reverse. You are right about that, absolutely. Justice for All says Vietnam was never declared a war. It seems like a similar scenario, obviously not as bad, or will be but could get messy. And that's in regard to Iran. I know this like new age of like special military operation,

as Russia likes to call it with Ukraine, or the Trump administration denying that we have launched a war against Iran when clearly that is what we have done. It's just stupid. And I think people are a lot smarter than our politicians, you know, give them credit for. All right. Let's go to some more Twitch comments.

Fascist Killa says the Palantir owner, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Oracle, they all look psychotic. They do. But God forbid you rub your hands in an effort to make one of them look like a villain, because apparently rubbing hands is automatically an anti-Jewish trope. Was there any heat for Mr. Burns over at The Simpsons who rubbed his hands together all the time? when he was going to do something shady, conniving, whatever. I just, I don't, anyway, whatever. Let's go do Nostra Skeptic. Sorry, I can't read your comment because we're out of time.

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