The Young Turks - Presidential Temper Tantrum - June 8, 2026

Episode Date: June 9, 2026

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Well, hello. Welcome to TYT. I'm your host, Anna Kasparian. Jake Guger is out for the week, but we have a lineup of incredible co-ho for the rest of the week, which I know you guys will absolutely enjoy. And later on in today's show for our. members during the bonus episode, of course, we will be having Dr. Trita Parsi on to kind of give us some of the more granular details as it pertains to the ongoing war against Iran. He is just a fantastic guest. I really enjoyed my conversation with him just last week. So we're bringing him back on for our members tonight.

So if you are a member, you can look forward to that. If you are not a member, though, you can help support the show and get all sorts of perks, including interviews first or exclusive members only content by going to tyt.com slash join. But if you're not a member and you can't afford it, I mean, look, I totally understand that. Please make sure you guys are taking care of yourselves, your families, and your personal finances before anything else. But for those of you who are able to support the show by becoming members, thank you. Another way you can support is by liking and sharing the stream if you're watching us live. Later on in the program, we're going to talk about a bunch of other really incredible and important stories, including two separate

intelligence report showing that the Israelis are spying on us and posing so much of a counterintelligence threat that they are in some cases worse than our worst enemies. I'm not kidding. This is not something I am saying or pulling out of my ass. This is something that was in intelligence reports, which we're going to get at in just a few minutes. Later on to the show, we're also going to of course give you updates on the escalation with Iran over the weekend. So that story's complicated, so bear with me as I kind of go through all of it. We're also going to talk about Ben Shapiro attacking me. I will be responding to his attacks. That will happen later in the show an hour two. So let's stop wasting time. Let's get into it.

Here we go. A few weeks ago, Donald Trump put out on social media that he'd forbidden the Israelis to attack the southern part of Lebanon. That had no impact. This is not a ceasefire. This is a return to war. We were told that he had said that the Israelis were going to turn their troops back from the southern part of Lebanon because he had spoken to Benjamin Netanyahu. There was no sign again that that had any impact. And we should be very clear here. The ceasefire is over. It was an embarrassing weekend for the United States of America, as Trump on multiple occasions demanded that the Israelis avoid striking Beirut Lebanon in order to avoid escalation in the war. against Iran, because Iran, of course, said that striking Beirut would be their red line. Israel went ahead and struck Lebanon, not just southern Lebanon, but the capital of Beirut.

And Iran made good on its promise. So there was a massive escalation over the weekend, but making matters worse, the entire global community was able to see just how weak the president of the United States is in the face of Israeli aggression. Now, Iran and Israel did trade strikes over the weekend after the Israeli defense forces struck the Lebanese capital of Beirut, which again, Iran made clear was their red line. And so let's actually start with those strikes on Beirut, which took place on Saturday. On Saturday and into Sunday afternoon, just this past weekend, at least 20 Lebanese were killed in intensified Israeli strikes. So then on Sunday, Israel began to strike Beirut's southern suburbs, which Trump had repeatedly demanded that Netanyahu

avoid doing. Remember, there was that Axios report from Barack Ravid, where Trump said that nobody likes you, Netanyahu in a phone call with the prime minister, and called him effing crazy. Now, Trump later confirmed that he did in fact say that, but does that really matter when at the end of the day, the Israelis are going to do what the Israelis want to do? And you, President of the United States, Donald Trump, you are still going to green light tens of billions of dollars in military aid and weaponry to a country, to a government that doesn't respect you, doesn't respect the American people, and only uses and abuses us in order to expand its borders and carry out genocide in some cases, as we're talking about Gaza. and, you know, all sorts of war crimes and atrocities and other parts of the Middle East, including, you know, attempting to expand into Lebanese territory. Now, here's what we know based on Dave DeKamps reporting over at anti-war.com, two apartment buildings were struck in the suburb of Dahlia. These strikes were carried out without any advance notice for civilians to evacuate.

Let me read that part to you guys again, because the Israelis who purport to have the most moral army keep saying, well, we give, we give civilians ample warnings so they can evacuate. That didn't happen in this case. The strikes were carried out without any advance notice for civilians to evacuate. At least two people were killed in the attacks and 20 others were wounded. Remember, these are just the strikes in Dahlia, the suburb of Beirut. And that's according to the Lebanese health ministry. The wounded included at least four women and for children because what would the Israelis be if they weren't attempting to slaughter women and children? And even though the Israelis have slaughtered thousands of his own people, President

Joseph Aoun of Lebanon had a sit down interview with Amampur for CNN. And he basically says, I don't want the IRGC's help. Because remember, the IRGC is saying, we will not agree to a peace deal. unless the bombing of Lebanon by the Israelis stops and stops for good. And Joseph Aoude, in response to that, says this. I or GCC is the Iranian Revolution Guard court that they don't agree with this. They don't approve this agreement. The what happened. It's not your country.

It's our country. It's our obligation. It's not your job to interfere into our country. I reject the statement totally because our. people being killed, our people being, our house is being destroyed. They are using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in their negotiation with the United States. It's unacceptable. And here also, Hezbollah must understand that. Hasballah must understand that no other way but to sit and talk, no other way to solve this problem and to save what's left except through negotiations.

and diplomacy. So considering the fact that the IRGC seems to be far more concerned about the well-being of the Lebanese people and more importantly, the borders of Lebanon, I was just like to ask the president of Lebanon what he is saying he's going to do in the face of Israeli aggression and their attempts to expand their borders. I'd like to know what his plan is, because the Lebanese military is weak as hell, they They can't defend Lebanon. The only defense that we've seen is by the IRGC-backed Hezbollah groups within southern Lebanon,

fighting back, attempting to get the occupation, the Israeli occupation done over with, get them out of the country. What is Joseph Aoun doing? What is he doing? I want to know. And for all of the anti-Hesbullah Lebanese people who are totally in favor of carrying out Israel's agenda of completely demilitarizing Lebanon so they have no means of self-defense, of disarming Hezbollah, I'd like to ask them, maybe you're under the impression that you're

good and safe because you're not in southern Lebanon. Maybe you're under that impression. But for the people of Beirut, how did that work out for you? Is anyone really under the impression that without a way of defending itself, the Israelis are just going to respect Lebanese borders and they're not going to act the way they've been acting, not just over the last few years, but historically for several decades. This is not the first time Israel has attempted to occupy Lebanon, as we all know. And in fact, Hezbollah was able to end an 18-year Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. But I'm supposed to believe that they're just merely terrible terrorists and we should fight tooth and nail to disarmes.

them so Lebanon has absolutely no means of defending itself or its borders. Okay, Joseph Aoun is an embarrassment, but luckily he's not my president. Unfortunately, my president is far worse. Anyway, with that in mind, let's go back to the fighting between Iran and Israel. So as I mentioned, Israel strikes Beirut. That was the red line for Iran. And so as a result, the IRGC responds, and here's how they do so. The IRGC said that it targeted Israel's Ramat David Air Base with ballistic missiles and that Israel must stop its attacks on Lebanon. O'U, Aoun must be very upset about that. Oh, the IRGC is telling the Israelis to stop attacking my country. How dare they? By the way, I should know this is the first time that Iran has retaliated against Israel over its strikes on a third country, in this case, Lebanon.

So later in the bonus episode of the show for our members, I'll be speaking to. to Dr. Trita Parcy about what this means in terms of the new security alignments within the Middle East. However, Tehran had already warned Israel, again, a week ago, that whenever there is an attack on Beirut or the southern suburbs of Beirut, there's going to be retaliation, and in fact, retaliation took place. So Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gavir, absolutely freaked out that Iran would make good on their promise and retainer. retaliate against Israel. So in response to that, he said, tonight Tehran must burn. To which I say, for all of the pro-Israel Iranian diaspora in the United States who were egging on this war

against their homeland, does that sound like the words of a liberator who's looking to liberate the people of Iran? But nonetheless, at one point, Yemen also joined in the fighting. Again, this is all happening over the weekend. So Israel was taking hits from the IRGC, from Hezbollah, and the Houthis. And then Trump demanded that Israel avoid retaliation in response to Iran's retaliation. He wanted things to de-escalate because it does appear as though Trump wants a deal, but he doesn't realize he can't have his cake and eat it to. The Israelis do not want him to make a peace deal, which is why they intentionally struck Beirut knowing it was Iran's red line. So Trump is basically saying, please de-escalate, de-escalate.

And the one thing that was also different this time around is that the United States did not join in the strikes against Iran as Israel was striking Iran. So to me, that tells me that Trump actually does want to de-escalate, but it's impossible to do it with Israel as your ally. That's just the truth of the matter. So there's a lot more to get to. Now, several media outlets, including Israel's Channel 12, are reporting that Trump basically called Netanyahu and told him, do not respond to Iran's strikes. Israel responded to Iran's strikes. So Axios, Barack Reveed, said that Trump told him that he did

not want the diplomatic process to blow up because of Iran's attack on Israel. The Iranian strikes didn't hurt anybody, he said. Hopefully Israel is not going to retaliate. If BB strikes them back, it's just going to keep going like that at least 47 years or the last 3,000 years. I don't know if Trump is trying to make like an anti-Israel joke there. I mean, maybe, but the whole, it was promised to us 3,000 years ago is a joke that people who are critical of Israel typically make online.

But anyway, Trump also made similar statements on. on Fox News. Take a look. President Trump is calling on both sides to stop shooting. He would like to see a return to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end the regional conflict. When I spoke with the president last night, he told me he was not happy that the Israelis struck the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Now shortly after Iran launched their salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel, the president, President Trump spoke to the financial times and said,

said that Benjamin Netanyahu will have to accept any deal that the United States negotiates with Iran because it is he who calls the shots. He says Netanyahu won't have any choice. I call the shots. I call the shots. He doesn't call the shots. Sure, buddy. Whatever helps you sleep at night, but we all see what's happening.

We all see the truth. This is so embarrassing. Additionally, Trump said that the Iranian strikes didn't change his desire to reach a peace deal with Tehran saying, quote, it's not going to have any impact on the deal. We'll see how it ends up. But the missile strikes on Israel were attacks that did not kick at all. It's one of those things that's been going for 3,000 years or 47 years, depending on how you count.

So he debuted the 3,000 years thing earlier and then repeats it in an interview with the financial times. But I just want to really emphasize something. The very last part of that statement, where he specifically said, says, actually not the last part, in the middle of that statement, he said, but the missile strikes on Israel were attacks that did not kick at all. I'm not sure that's true. Now, Israel claimed that they intercepted every single Iranian missile. I know for a fact that's not true. Here's Crystal Ball explaining what I mean. You hear the sirens and this is very significant because you see the missile coming in. You see the attempted interception, which failed.

And then this is a what appears to be a strike to the ground inside of Haifa, which also Sagar belies, you know, Israel is claiming that they were able to intercept all of these. It does not look that that was the case. Now we know that there's a pretty extreme censorship in Israel as it pertains to any damage or suffering that they have had to bear as a result of this disastrous and stupid war. But make no mistake, these interceptors don't work every single time. And aside from that, even when missiles are being intercepted, you have to think about the, you know, wreckage of those missiles falling onto, you know, properties, potentially human beings after getting intercepted. Now, in the case of Israel, most people are sent over to their bunkers to await the attacks and then come out when it's safe. So we don't know if there have been any casualties. So far, I haven't seen any reports of casualties. But to say that every missile was intercepted is laughable because that's not the case. And more importantly, guys, Israel's running out of missile interceptors. And the missile interceptors they do have are not able to deal with some of the drones that Hezbollah is using against the IDF.

So the way wars are carried out and the type of weaponry that's used is is changing, evolving. And while Israel on one hand would like to pretend as though they are like, the most powerful because they have a military superpower like the United States backing them. Fact of the matter is, the U.S. has depleted its own weaponry. We have not kept up clearly with the impact of drone warfare as it's being used by Hezbollah and other groups. So that's making the situation a lot more complicated and a lot more dangerous for Israel as it continues carrying out attacks against its neighbors. So think about that. At one point over the weekend, they have the Who Thu,

the IRGC and Hezbollah attacking at the same time. So I'd like to ask the Israelis, do you feel safe? Is this your idea of safety? Because all that Israel has carried out over the last few years has made Israel less safe. But who knows? Maybe that was on purpose. Maybe as Trita Parsy and I were talking about last week, that's going to be used as justification to potentially carry out a nuclear strike against the IRC.

Because remember, Israel does have nuclear weapons. and it is an unhinged country that just carried out a genocide. And they have the audacity to fearmonger about the IRGC's non-existent nuclear weapons. But we continue. Because what this war has revealed more than anything to so many Americans and players across the globe is that, you know, the U.S. is much weaker in the face of Israel's demands, Israel's wars, Israel's aggression. In fact, Alan Fisher, who's the chief U.S. correspondent for Al Jazeera, explains exactly what I mean in greater detail. Take a look at this.

A few weeks ago, Donald Trump put out on social media that he'd forbidden the Israelis to attack the southern part of Lebanon. That had no impact. And then, of course, we were told that he had said that the Israelis were going to turn their troops back from the southern part of Lebanon and because he had spoken to Benjamin Netanyahu, there was no sign again that that had any impact. So when Donald Trump makes these statements, it's clear that the Israelis may be given tacit agreement on the phone, but their operational procedures are much different.

And again, the idea that Donald Trump could, in his words, call the shots and accept Benjamin Netanyahu, forced Benjamin Netanyahu to accept any deal that is done with Iran, doesn't quite understand the politics in Israel, Israel and particularly the opposition that Netanyahu would face if he was seen to be doing the United States bidding. In fact, one leading opposition leader has said in the last few hours that it would effectively reduce the idea of Israel not being a sovereign state to a mere satellite of the United

States. Did you guys catch that? Did you catch how insane and insulting it is for Israel to bitch and moan about its own sovereignty? how the Israelis demand to carry out warfare, however, and whenever they'd like without the U.S. weighing in, okay, then how about you guys stop taking our money? How about you guys stop engaging in weasily behavior to try to merge the disgusting, bloodthirsty IDF with our own military? It's amazing to me. It's like they're constantly, Net Yahoo keeps visiting the United States with this freaking handout, okay? Like a freaking freeway off-ran panhandler.

And then they have the audacity, be like, oh, our sovereignty, our sovereign. A sovereign country can defend itself. So if you can't defend yourselves without U.S. money and U.S. weaponry being handed to you like a gift, then you're not a sovereign country. The second they stop accepting our money, the second they stop demanding aid from the United States, then maybe I'll respect Israel as a sovereign country. For now, though, Israel should be considered our bitch. Instead, the United States is Israel's bitch.

How does that make sense? How many Americans are happy with the fact that we are shelling out tens of billions of dollars to be Israel's bitch? So meanwhile, U.S. sovereignty apparently doesn't matter at all. And Israel did retaliate and started striking Iran. But today it appears that things have kind of died down a little bit. And I think Trump's unwillingness to join in on the strikes against Iran does have something to do with it. So I'm fair. Okay, I loathe what he has done to this country. I loathe his foreign policy. But in this very narrow area, I will give him credit for not striking Iran alongside the Israelis, because that would have escalated the situation.

Now, Netanyahu, by the way, let me just say Israel dispatch jets overnight that hit Iranian air defense systems. And of course, a chemical plant in the Mashar region. And that's according to Israeli officials. So they went after a petrochemical plant. Great. That's going to definitely further impact the economy, not just for Iran, but globally. And then Netanyahu justified their attacks by basically saying the only thing he knows how to say, or the only thing he knows how to do, which is lie. So pay close attention to

what he says here and how insane, unhinged, and contradictory it is within the same sentence. Take a look. Over night, Israel carried out a historic first blow to prevent a nuclear attack on Israel. I reiterate my commitment. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. You struck Iran to prevent a nuclear attack and then proceeded to say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Okay. Total clown show.

By the way, there are some reports now within Israeli media, of course, about how So the Israelis might turn on Benjamin Netanyahu in an effort to rebrand themselves as individuals who are not genocidal monsters. It wasn't Israel's fault. It's just this bloodthirsty, disgusting prime minister that we had. It's not going to work because it's not just Benjamin Netanyahu. Okay. The public opinion polls show it. Various high-level officials within the Knesset can't stop themselves from posting disturbing bloodthirsty comments. about various groups of people on social media. The IDF, for whatever reason, seems to have a weird kink with posting their own war crimes

on social media, which is how we found out about the desecration of, you know, Christian symbols in Lebanon, including that Jesus statue. Like, your rebranding effort isn't going to work. The only thing that can help Israel's image is if, you know, they stop attempting to expand their borders and slaughtering innocent people to do it. But they can't stop themselves from doing that. So good luck with your rebranding project. But back to this story, today Iran's armed forces had announced a suspension of its military operations.

So I think that's a mistake, to be honest with you. I don't know why they're doing this. I think it was a mistake that they agreed to the ceasefire in the first place. As we all knew that, you know, Israel was running out of interceptors. Israel wants the war, give them the war. Mark Levin was freaking out on social media just last night about how like, oh, there were calls to stop. up the war, how dare they? I agree with you, Mark. I totally agree with you. I think Iran should reengage. I think they should reengage what you want, right? Israelis will be so safe. Now,

as we all know, Iran does have more cards to play. Iranian state media, citing an advisor to Iran's supreme leader reported Monday that Tehran would now or now would block the Bob al-Mandeb straight, okay? So that's on top of its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, if, if Israel escalates its attacks. The latest, and this is the news as of right now, right this moment, obviously it's subject to change. It does appear that Israel has stopped its attacks on Iran as well. So what happens if Trump is, you know, what happens if Trump's supposed efforts at reaching a peace deal with Iran don't work out? The F.T. asked him about that. Trump said he would consider a commander raid on Iran.

Okay, buddy. And then he says, number one, it would mean that possibly we would go in and take care of the rest of the place that we didn't take care of militarily. I mean, you don't have a military option, which is why you didn't take care of it militarily. But I digress. He continues to say, or it would just mean that we would keep the blockade on Iran because the blockade has been probably more powerful than any attack that was ever made on that country. The blockade on the strait of Iran punishes the entire global community.

It destroys the global economy. So sure, you could argue it hurts the Iranians. It makes it difficult for them to transit ships through the strait. But it also means that potentially no ships with cargo transit the strait. And that's not good. So here we are. That's the latest with the war against Iran.

Engaging in this war in the first place was a disaster, and it seems like there's no end in sight. So it is what it is. We got to take a break. We'll be right back. I love cows. All right, everyone. Welcome to our first social break of the day. That was a quick turnaround, huh? Quick turnaround.

You see me. All right, let's go to our member section where the Burruzan guy says, Islam isn't 3,000 years old. How the hell have they been fighting with Israel for that long? He doesn't, I mean, are you expecting him to make sense? Like, I don't expect him to make any sense. I think he was making a reference to a common joke that people make about Israel on social. It's a meme.

Like, oh, that land was promised to me 3,000 years ago. Like, that's a common meme that you'll see about Israel. So I don't know if he was trying to make a joke there or what, but he said that in two different occasions. Ecclectic miscellaneous says Trump honestly thought he was the one in charge. Netanyahu bombing Iran after. Trump told him not to made it clear that BB's the one making the decision still. Okay, you're right about that. Also, there are all sorts of people. I'm not going to name names because I love them and I don't want them to think I'm attacking them because I'm not. I just

don't understand their rationale. There are reporters who I commonly reference and cite on the show, who I love. They're amazing. I have heard them now in different contexts, different debates say, no, no, no, Israel doesn't control our government. No, we don't think that. 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 cannot get into deep sleep. You're not just tired because the news is exhausting. You're tired because of the news is exhausting. You're

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Elaborate, please. Like how? How can you make that argument when Trump says don't do this and then Netanyahu does it? How are you going to argue that when Trump says we're close to a peace deal and then Netanyahu, along with the Israelis, do anything and everything necessary to sabotage peace? Come on. Come on, please. I just, I'm not buying it.

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Trump holds a toy joystick yelling tremendous airstrike. I ordered it behind the curtain. BB vampire rolls eyes and mute Trump's mics. Let him think he's in charge while we do the real genocide. Trump smiles. Nobody presses buttons like me. I mean, it's not that off. That does appear to be what's happening.

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Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview. Well, President Donald Trump stormed out of an interview with Kristen Welker, Jillian Michael style, of course, while on Meet the Press. Now, things got pretty spicy as Welker pressed the president on multiple things, including the ongoing war against Iran. which Trump repeatedly claimed is not in fact a war. I just, listen, I got, I understood the original rationale for why Trump didn't want to call it a war. He claimed, not he, but, you know, the thinking was you need Congress to authorize a war. And if you call it a war, you're confirming that you went to war without getting authorization from Congress. Trump doesn't care about Congress.

He doesn't care about Congress at all. He doesn't care about our institutions or the rule of law. I think that's pretty clear at this point. What Trump does care about is attempting to maintain this very fractured coalition that he has had a hard time maintaining. Because he did promise over and over again that he would not start any new wars. And he did exactly that. But he thinks that maybe there's a loophole if you don't call it a war. It's very much a war.

Like we slaughtered 175 children at an elementary school in Manab, Iran in the opening salvos. Please, okay. But anyway, here's how he squared the circle of we're not really at war with Iran. Your secretary of state, Marco Rubio said that the war had concluded. And yet just this week, Iran attacked U.S. allies in the region, calling it retaliation for a set of U.S. airstrikes. Is the United States at war with Iran? Well, they've been largely decapitated, and I call it a military exercise because people would rather have it called that. It's not a big war for us. It's not the most powerful military in the world. I built it. There is a naval

blockade in place, which technically is an act of war under international law. So is this a war as long is there's a naval blockade in place? Well, we have a blockade. It's been extremely effective. And the reason we have it is they try to blockade and now we blockaded them. And as you know, they're losing $400 to $500 million a day. It's not sustainable for them. They have an economy that's shot in addition to everything else. Okay, we're at war against Iran at the behest of Israel.

I shouldn't be more factual and honest with the American people compared to the president of the United States, but here we are. We are at war with Iran and the blockade has not. been successful because what the blockade has managed to do is it's kind of amazing. I do have to give Trump credit for managing to do something that is kind of impossible. Because through the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. blockade specifically, Trump has managed to both continue destroying the global economy, which we can all experience at the gas pump here in the United States, while also creating a situation in which some

ships do get through the Strait of Hormuz, even with the U.S. blockade intact. So you might recall just a few weekends ago, I had shared with you that 28 Chinese vessels were able to transit through the Strait of Hormuz, unarmed, untouched. I'm sorry, they were not all Chinese vessels. Let me be clear about that. I don't want to misspeak. But some of them were transiting cargo to China. but 28, within a 24-hour period a few weekends ago, each vessel paid the $2 million toll. So Iran is kind of making money off of this war in some ways, right, by collecting that toll.

And at the same time, I mean, by controlling the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has been able to ensure that there's economic pain on not just Americans, but everyone globally. And that drums up pressure to get this to stop, right? To get the war to end. Anyway, it's just amazing to me that he thinks like, oh, no, no, I'm totally killing it. Totally killing it. I did the blockade. I did the blockade.

Everything's great. You're in a quagmire homeboy. Like, you are in a lot of trouble. And as a result of that, the entire global community is in a lot of trouble, economically speaking, not just in regard to energy, you know, oil, liquefied natural gas, being unable to transit through the Strait of Hormuz as freely as before. But we're suffering economically. We're starting to see the very beginning phases of it because a third of the world's fertilizer

transits through the Strait of Hormuz. So American farmers are having a hard time getting their hands on the fertilizer necessary to grow their crops. What do you think that translates to? Higher food prices. Later, Welker did grill President Trump on how negotiations are going with Iran, she wondered if Iran was or has. Like her whole thing, and I think this is actually a really great question.

Her whole thing is, you know, you keep talking about how the Iranians are begging to meet for a peace deal. So why isn't there a peace deal yet? Let's take a look. You have been saying for months, Mr. President, that Iran is begging to make a deal. They are so desperate to make a deal. Why haven't they made a deal with you yet? Because they, it's a very hard thing for them. They've had great independents.

They've dealt with very weak and ineffective leadership on behalf of the United States and other countries, frankly, that were, that allowed them to get away with murder. And I don't, I think they can't believe they're in the situation where they've been virtually decapitated. But if they're so desperate, Mr. President, why haven't they said yes to the terms you're proposing? They're proud. There are things they never thought they'd be doing that they're going to have to do.

They've got no choice. It's just, it's so amazing. So, Walker, like, repeatedly asked Trump why he would go to war with Iran rather than, you know, renegotiate the JCPOA. That was the Iran nuclear deal that former president Barack Obama managed to accomplish. And to be sure, Obama's foreign policy was garbage. But this was the one thing that stood out as Obama accomplished something positive for the future of the United States, for the future of the Middle East. I mean, there are checks to ensure that Iran isn't enriching uranium to a point where they're able to build nuclear weapons.

It was a way for the United States to ensure that Iran doesn't have any nuclear capabilities without us having to go to war with them, without anyone having to go to war with them. But of course, as we all know, Israel doesn't care about nuclear weapons because they're nuclear arm themselves. Israel just wants a failed state in Iran so they can expand their borders unchallenged. They think with Iran intact, with the IRGC in place, they will continue supporting proxy groups that serve as resistance to Israeli aggression. We can't have that. How are we going to carry out the Greater Israel project if we have a powerful force within the Middle East that's preventing us from doing what we really want to do? That's what that's really about. So here you have Kristen Welker. Maybe she is read in on the reality of the situation. Maybe not. Maybe she's genuinely naive and she's asking an honest, innocent question. Mr. Trump, why wouldn't she just renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal? And Trump led a very interesting admission. slip right before weather, literal weather, like rain, thunderstorms interrupted the interview. Take a look.

You promised that you were going to negotiate a better deal. Do you wish you've done it in your first term when you ripped it up at that before you ripped up the deal? No, they weren't ready. No, this is much better. This is much better. If I would have done it in my first term, Israel wouldn't have been ready. Hear that sound, that sound, thunder, lightning, rain. Is that going to interrupt, guys?

Okay. People will understand. We're in a farm. Israel wouldn't have been ready. Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Israel wouldn't be ready for what?

How about Israel stop attempting to expand its borders? How about Israel stop killing innocent people? The IRGC is not interested in attacking Israel unless Israel attacks them or their allies. So this is not a difficult thing to do. There was no indication that Iran was going to attack Israel, that an attack was imminent. But Trump was stupid enough to get goaded into a war against Iran at Israel's behalf anyway. I don't give a damn about what Israel is or isn't ready for. This is Israel's mess.

This is also the United States' mess, thanks to our gullible, idiotic, incompetent president, and now we're in a quagmire. So if you're going to allow the desires and the wants of the Israeli government to lead your foreign policy, then you're going to make the worst decisions. And that's what we're seeing here. Neither Trump nor Welker followed up on that topic. But Welker did press Trump on his promise during his campaigning, of course, to avoid starting any new wars, which Trump is now claiming he never stated. So you're saying you didn't break your promise. And yet, Mr. President, in your first term, you held to that promise. And it was so fundamental to who you were as a candidate to a first-term

president. What changed? Because you insisted no new wars. I didn't guarantee no war. Why would I have been? I built the strongest military in the world. I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment, we had nothing. I built a tremendous military. Biden gave a lot of it away,

but it's still a relatively small portion compared to what I built. But you said it over and over again, Mr. President. Why would I build the military? Now, I didn't want to use this, but I'm doing you and everybody else a big favor. In the midst of the greatest stock market in history, in the midst of the most successful country,

because as you know, in the last time we were dead country, Trump not only claimed multiple times repeatedly that he would start no new wars. He also falsely claimed that he ended like eight wars, which wasn't true. He failed in ending the war in Ukraine. And the other thing that he lied about on the campaign trail is he claimed that he wanted to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse, including in the Pentagon. But that didn't happen, did it?

Instead, we got a president who is saying to the American people and to Congress that a trillion dollars allocated for the National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon funding bill, not enough. Trillion dollars, not enough. He's asking for $1.5 trillion. He is a liar. And the American people who voted for him, unfortunately, did get hoodwaked. Some people have woken up. Others have decided to remain in the cult as they pay those exorbitant gas prices at the pump and experience what we're all experiencing at the grocery store. Congratulations. I hope you're enjoying your little cult. We got to take a break. But when we come back, I want to tell you about the second half of Trump's interview with Welker because they got into some other topics, including rigged elections. Oh, you don't want to miss that. That's when he started to get really irritated and eventually stormed off the set. So stick around for that. We'll be right back. Welcome back everybody in our super chat section. We have IDF kills children.

That's the handle. Why do Israeli spit on Christians in Israel? We need to ban Metzitsa. Oh, yeah, I know, I know. Okay, so this person is talking specifically about, I don't know how common it is to be honest with you. I remember covering a story about it years ago, but it's direct oral suctioning of the foreskin of babies when they're doing circumcision. Anyway, there have been cases of infants getting diseases from that. They should ban that practice, in my opinion.

Anyway, I don't want to talk about that or think about it. It gives me the creeps. Okay. And yeah, it gives me the creeps. I get it. It's a religious practice. I don't give a damn. It is super creepy and should not happen.

Okay, you shouldn't have adult men doing that to infants. All right, let's go to our members. Sorry, like that really threw me off. And I just, all right, so let's go to YouTube members where Mark Francis says, the U.S. needs to stop giving Israel guns and money. The U.S. is allowing this disqualifying behavior. Yes, absolutely, I agree with you. Frank Thorn says, smash that button and share TYT everywhere.

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You want to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest. Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview. President Trump had a contentious interview with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. Not only did they talk about Trump's pretty disastrous foreign policy, where he managed to contradict himself again and again, they also talked about rigged elections. Now, the interview started to break down when Welker asked Trump about the $1.8 billion dollar anti-weaponization slush fund that it appears he's now backing off of because of Republican

opposition. In fact, Republican opposition basically stopped that project in its tracks. And it might be one of the few things that I'm going to give Republican Congress people some credit on because it was a $1.8 billion slush fund to be funded by American taxpayers. And there was going to be no transparency in who would get awarded that money. It was supposed to benefit people who were victims of the Biden administration's lawfare, including January 6 people. But nonetheless, that slush fund doesn't appear to be happening.

Then the wheels really started to come off during this interview when Trump got into his usual complaints about the 2020 election. I can't believe he's still getting into it, but he does. And then Trump also stated that California's elections are rigged. Now look, before I continue, I need to give you my spiel about California and how we conduct our elections. The way we conduct our elections is a joke. It should not take weeks to figure out who won in our state and local elections. Or even when we do the count for the presidential elections, like it takes much longer in California compared to other states. Why are we so incompetent here in California?

Because here's the thing, when it takes this long to tally the votes, can you really blame people for wondering if the election is rigged in some way? So I'm going to explain to you why it gives the appearance of rigging in just a moment. Do I think that there's evidence of rigging? I don't. But I do think that taking this long to tally the votes, I do think the way we carry out our mail-in ballots, and I'm not against mail-in ballots. But I think the way we count the mail-in ballots or the deadline for the mail-in ballots, how that delays the final results of the election is a problem. And so I actually do sympathize with people who are very upset, including Republicans across the country who are like, I don't know, is that mayoral race in California rigged? I do not believe it's rigged. But I do think that the way we do things here in California is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. We're supposed to be the wealthiest state in the country. What is this? Anyway, now, Trump states that California's state elections are rigged. without any evidence. And for context, voting closed last Tuesday. And California is still working on counting the ballots, believe it or not. So the Los Angeles mayoral candidate, who you might be familiar with, Spencer Pratt, former reality star, he's the most right wing of the leading

candidates. The others include incumbent mayoral candidate, Karen Bass, who has been disastrous. And then the other challenger is Nithia Rahman, a current city council member who is even more disastrous than Karen Vass. Yeah, I said it. I live in her district. I'm not interested in hearing anyone from Brooklyn tell me she's amazing. She's not amazing. Okay. Under her leadership, the same corner in my neighborhood has seen endless drug overdose deaths.

Deats. This woman lives in a freaking. an ivory tower, giant mansion in Hollywood with her TV writer husband, and has the gated, by the way, lots of security, and then has the audacity to tell Angelinos that we don't need cops. She's a joke. She's a joke. But hey, you know, since she's the most far left, we're just going to assume that she's a better candidate. All the candidates, not my favorite. I would rather have Karen Bass reelected than have Nithia Raman. Nithia Raman needs to go. That's my view of Nithia Rahman.

Total disaster. And I do not like Karen Bass. So this gives you a sense of how much I've loathed Nithia Rahman's leadership here in the district she represents, the district I live in. And if you're an Angelino living in Beverly Hills or West Hollywood and you're not, you're not a victim of her leadership, I'd like you to shut up. But anyway, let's keep going. So basically what ended up happening was after the election, day, it appeared that Spencer Pratt was going to have a face off with Karen Bass, right? So Karen Bass had the most votes. It looked like Spencer Pratt had the second most votes. Since

didn't look like Karen Bass was going to get 50% of the votes or higher, there's going to be a runoff between the two best performing candidates, right? It looked like it was going to be Spencer Pratt and Karen Bass. But as they were reading or counting more and more of the ballots, It turns out that Mithia Rahman pulled ahead and now Pratt is stating that the election was rigged and Trump is echoing those claims. I again do not believe the election was rigged. We live in a very, very blue part of the country. And people here are not as engaged in politics as I wish they were. And so they vote based on party lines.

They see Republican. They vote against it. So I'm not surprised by these results as they're kind of developing, as news is developing about the results. All that aside, let's watch Trump crash out about this. The election was rigged. It was a dirty election. And it's happening again right now in California. It's happening right now in California.

Right now it's looking, look at what's happening in California. It's four days in California. In California, it's, no, they're not there. They're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. But you've never presented evidence that it was rigged. Let's keep talking about. I want to talk about Todd Lynch. You have more evidence.

There's more evidence than ever presented. Let's talk about your elections in this country. We're like a third world country. Your elections are crooked and you're crooked and meet the press is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. But Mr. President. You're one-sided crooked network.

So let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time. Mr. President, let's please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. I've traveled all the way to Wisconsin. I've traveled all the way to Wisconsin. on and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time.

You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest. Listen, you traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview. BetMGM, an official sports betting partner of the National Hockey League, has everything you need for 2026 Stanley Cup playoff action. Hockey fans in Canada can place live bets every game during the quest for the cup. Create same game parleyes, take player props, and place futures on the 2026 Stanley Cup champion.

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I don't like the way our, you know, ballots are counted here in California. I think it takes way too long to know what the results are. So when the results on the night of election day make it appear as though there's going to be a runoff between incumbent Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt. And then a day later, you see Nithia Rahman pull ahead and basically, kick Spencer Pratt out of the chances of a runoff race, people start asking questions. And it's okay to ask those questions. But if you're going to claim, if you're going to declare that it's a rigged election, you have to provide some evidence of that.

So this morning, CNN's Harry Anton responded to the claims of voter fraud, and he argued that if the Democratic establishment really wanted to rig the election, they would have been rigging it in favor of Spencer Pratt. So let's hear his argument. I'll fill in the blanks. This is the dumbest conspiracy theory I have ever heard because the Democratic establishment and Karen Bass wanted Spencer Pratt and the runoff. They don't want any part of do with Nithia Rahman.

Why is that? Because just take a look here. Okay, Mayor Randolph polls Bass versus opponent versus Pratt. Bass would a crush Pratt by 18 points. That's what the polling showed. Look at how she does against Nithia Raman. On the other hand, Raman is ahead by four points. Bass has a real race on her hand, if in fact Rahman is the one who advances, and of course the Democratic establishment is backing Karen Bass, but versus Spencer Pratt. She was crushing him.

Rahman is actually decently liked by L.A. City voters. Look at this. Okay, Nithia Rahman, plus five on the net favorability rating. Karen Bass, way under water at minus 22 points. You basically just need someone who's half decently well-liked to be favored or at least have a real shot against the incumbent Karen Bass. Spencer Pratt, on the other hand, look at that. He's a lot. He's even less like than Carabas. He's 32 points underwater. Arienton's argument is a strong one. That being said, it depresses me to no end because people are upset with Karen Bass for legitimate reasons in the entirety of LA County.

Now she is the mayor of LA City, but if you live in LA County, you know what Karen Bass's leadership looks like. And it ain't great the way she handled the fires in the Pacific Palace. was a disaster and she was caught lying multiple times. That being said, I still think she'd be better than Nithia Rahman, but since Nithia Rahman doesn't have as much of a stank from all voters in L.A. City, because not everyone in L.A. City has been represented by her as a city council member, they have no idea. They have no idea how she basically is Karen Bass on steroids, but they're about to find out if she wins. So no hope in L.A.

I'm just keeping it 100. No hope. This woman has a super adversarial relationship with anyone who just wants to feel safe in their own city. So congratulations, L.A. It looks like Nithia Raman is likely to win, and I'm not happy about it, but it is what it is. I'd rather have Karen Bass reelected than have Nithia Raman elected. So depressing. Okay, anyway, let's move on.

So I wanted to just quickly talk about one more story before we go to our second. to our second hour because it appears that our special ally likes to abuse us, yet we still consider that I'm a special ally. So let's talk about what I mean. Israel has been intensifying, it's spying on U.S. officials, and that's according to recent intelligence reports, not just one intelligence report, two separate intelligence reports. So much of this spying has been so intense that senior U.S. officials are saying that the aggressiveness of the Israeli intelligence collection on top U.S. officials during the second Trump term has been unhinged. That's the word they used, unhinged. This is a country that our soldiers recently died for to fight their war against Iran.

This is a country that has been given on the books over $330 billion in military aid, $330,000, I'm sorry, $330 billion in military aid to this country. We fought their war, spent $8 trillion fighting Middle Eastern wars for Israel. They have the audacity to spy on our top U.S. officials. So let's get into the details. The reports include concerns that Israel has. stepped up its efforts to eavesdrop on senior American officials, including Steve Whitkoff, President Trump's top negotiator, Elbridge Kobe, the Pentagon's top policy official,

and one of his main deputies, Michael DeMino. Now, Colby is in charge of Pentagon policy in the Middle East, and he also happens to be one of the prominent proponents inside the U.S. government who wants restrained foreign policy, so you can understand why the Israelis want to spy on Kobe, right? The report says that counterintelligence incidents began increasing in late 2024, which is perfect. Trump had just gotten elected,

so they can look forward to getting away with murder with absolutely no repercussions or, you know, consequences. I mean, Biden wasn't much better. The Biden administration did press Israel by the way, to curb some of their genocidal acts in Gaza. So that was actually what sparked intensified Israeli spying on the United States. And then it continued into 2025 as the Trump administration weighed plans or weighed options on attacking Iran. So this is our special ally.

Now, last year, officers from Shinbet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency were discovered to have tried to plant a listening device in a secret service vehicle. Why would they do that? Could it be to spy on the president of the United States? Special ally, right? Super special ally, trying to bug a special, you know, service vehicle. A secret service vehicle, I apologize. Then there was also a separate intelligence report.

This one was done by the Defense Intelligence Agency, along with other military intelligence officers. This report said that the counterintelligence threat level posed by Israel had been increased in recent weeks to the top level from high to critical. The report outlines various efforts by Israel to spy on American military personnel and government officials. By the way, I don't know if you guys ever make any note of the sources that I'm citing in these graphics. But let's put that last one up again because I want to make sure you know, where this is coming from. It's not coming from some dissident website. It's not coming from the

intercept. It's not coming from Glenn Greenwald. This is the New York Times. This is the New York Times reporting it. Barnes and Schmidt, they put this piece out over the weekend. NBC News is the second legacy media outlet to also report a very similar story. So what? Am I, are the Israelis going to now claim that the New York Times is a pro Hamas rag. Is that what they're going to claim? You know, a paper that has provided cover for Israeli aggression, war crimes, genocide over and over and over again, is that what they're going to claim? And by the way, this isn't in the opinion or column section. This is straight news reporting. But I continue. Now, what else do we know? Well, American defense personnel in Israel detected that software,

to tap their communications had been surreptitiously installed on their phones. And this reminds me of John Kiraku, who on multiple occasions in various podcast interviews, said that during his time working for the CIA, everyone knew that the Israelis were spying on Americans. So they tried to prevent Israelis from going to certain, you know, government buildings because they were worried about them bugging the buildings. How is that a special ally? So right now we have Israeli military officers working side by side with the United States at Central Command because Trump decided to enter a war against Iran with Israel at Israel's behest, which is insane.

That shouldn't be allowed. And we are sharing a massive amount of tactical and operational information with Israel already. So why are they spying on us? And apparently it's just not enough. Anything you do for Israel, it's never enough. It's kind of like loyalty to Trump. All these various politicians who get in bed with Trump and they think, like, I'll come out the other end better for doing this. You know, I'll have better opportunities.

I'll be able to carry out my political ambitions. What typically tends to happen is Trump will go a little too far. He'll get tweaked. And the people doing the tweaking have their entire careers destroyed, which is great. They deserve it. Because when you bow to corruption, you deserve to have your career destroyed. You have no place serving the American people. Now, a senior American official said that Israel is looking for insights into Trump's strategy

and shifting stances on the peace talks with Iran. In other words, Israel doesn't want peace with Iran. They would like the United States to be stuck in a war with Iran. So as a result, they're trying to spy in on private conversations involving the president of the United States in order to sabotage potential peace agreements. And they've done a great job at that. So congratulations. By the way, I mean, it does show that Israel will go to great lengths to gather intelligence. Some of the assassination strikes that Israel carried out in Iran way ahead of the war showed that they have the capacity and capability. to do very targeted strikes to the point where they can use missiles that will travel through

an apartment window and strike a specific commander or nuclear scientist that they're targeting. Oh, but when it comes to Gaza, they have to level the place because Hamas is allegedly using people as humans shields, right? Okay. Now, Israel denied the reports, but if an Israeli is speaking, you should just assume they're lying. Nonetheless, U.S. official said that in some respects, the counterintelligence warning is no surprise. Israel has long engaged in aggressive intelligence collection operations against both its enemies and its allies, as does the United States. However, the same report, this is the most important part, noted that in 2021, IDF intelligence officers were caught planting listening devices at defense intelligence agency headquarters.

And here's another thing. This is super important. Israel's counterintelligence threat level is now higher than any other ally and higher than some adversarial countries. Meaning in some cases, Israel spies on us more than our own enemies do. And that's supposed to be a special ally that we have sacrificed blood and treasure for. So if you're wondering whether the Trump administration has sold us out, oh yeah, they sold us out. It's just that they've done it at a more extreme extent compared to previous administrations, who also sold us out. So the real question here is, what are Americans going to do to get their country back because what we've been doing hasn't been working. And so if your first reaction to

building coalitions to do something about this is absolute disgust and disdain, how about you step aside? Because the real Americans who actually want to do something to protect this country and its sovereignty are ready to fight, ready to get together, ready to find solutions. I can't stomach living like this, knowing that our hard-earned money is going to a country that should be considered an adversary. That does it for the first hour. When we come back, there's so much more to get to.

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my life based on your religion. I don't care what the Bible says. You have every right in the world. All those women who identify with your religion have every right in the world to not get an abortion, to not take birth control. But they do not have the right to dictate my life and what I decide to do with my body. I don't care about your goddamn religion. I'm so tired of having non-stop conversations about what the Bible says.

You live your life in the way that you interpret the Bible. Again, I don't care, but you don't get to take the Bible and tell me, while the Bible says this, in this chapter and this verse, I don't care. I don't care, I don't believe in it, and I have the right based on our constitution to not believe in it. Has been left on skate. Ain't a whole lot left? I don't know why they need any more bomb.

Let us be clear. The United States provided $18 billion in military aid to Israel. Netanyahu indiscriminate bombardment have killed more than 50,000 civilians, 60% of whom are women, children, paramedics and journalists. All of this is against. human decency. You don't starve children with absolutely no humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. It is a war crime. It is illegal for the United States government to provide Israel with more offensive weapons. History will not forgive us. We've been on our phones too much. I feel like we just

need to touch grass or something. I told you. I mean, you know what? Let's actually do it. Let's touch the grass. Andrew Yang? It's not racist, right? It's him. Yes, it is I. Andrew Yang out here giving money away, as usual.

Wait, but literally? Do you use a phone? Noble mobile will cut your wireless bill in half every month, and you get paid even more if you log off, look up, and touch grass. Oh, I actually have some grass. I don't think that's a kind of grass. Not that kind of grass, unfortunately. Wait, what the...

Whoa. I guess that kind of grass works too. All grass works. All grass and we get cash? Did you see that? Babe. That didn't rain, go. Make it rain. That didn't rain so good. But now it's raining good. Corruption, injustice, the system is rigged against you. Every day, we're blasted by a flurry of terrible news from every angle, which can make it challenging to stay positive and know how to fight back. The damage report is your solution. I'm John Adrola, and my daily morning show cuts through the noise and exposes the real damage being done to our country, the world, and how we can fight back against it. Corporate greed crushing workers, we'll name names. Politicians selling you out for their corporate overlords, we've got the receipts. Climate disaster, economic collapse, the rise of

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friends, Jillian Michaels, Dr. Drew, and those people. Like, his, His Jubilee performance was so bad that he needed to try to do some PR, some damage control, and he's only made the matter worse. So we'll tell you how a little later in the show. But for now, I actually wanted to focus on someone else. And not someone else is Ben Shapiro. You're not seeing Tucker Carlson's favorite candidates win wide scale across America. You're not seeing that happen.

You're not seeing the Republican Party embrace the politics, the bizarre, conspiratorial, anti-Israel, you're not seeing that happen from the Republican Party. You're seeing them excise. Now they're out there making common cause with Anna Kasparian. Oh, I'm sorry. Thoughts and prayers, Ben. I'm sure it's difficult for you to stomach that. However, Ben Shapiro has been crashing out over a portion of the right fracturing off from the Trump base due to the fact that he ran on one thing and did something entirely different. He claimed that he would start no new wars and decided to start a war on behalf of Israel. He had said that he would want the release of the Epstein files and then engaged in a cover-up, which Ben Shapiro and other Zionists in the country seemed to

defend pretty vociferously. And so as a result of that, the portion of the Trump base, who believed Trump, who actually did care about these issues, turned on him. Most of them are anonymous people who might have voted for Trump three times in a row. But there are also some pretty prominent media figures who have turned on Trump. And despite the fact that they have explained why over and over again, people like Ben Shapiro continue to trash them as nothing more than grifters, because that's what you do when you don't have any substance to your argument. So the left and right uniting against Israel is really what these individuals are worried about. People like Ben, he directs his ire toward Megan Kelly and Sean Ryan.

And I wish I was on a fly on the wall when Ben Shapiro watched this moment for the first time because this is what he's having a temper tantrum about. The line between left and right is merging. You know, like there's something rising out of the middle of that that is far less partisan. You're talking about Anna Casparian. Yeah, I love her. It's awesome. I love her.

I do too. She's awesome. People think of me as a Republican, but I haven't been a Republican in over 20 years. I was a registered Democrat when I was fresh out of school. And then I was a registered Republican for a few years when I was like right around when I joined Fox News. And then I quickly realized, like, I don't want to wear either of these team jerseys. I'm against both of these guys. And I registered as an independent.

I don't know, it's back at like 2004 or someplace around there, which I have been ever since. Now, in regard to what Megan Kelly had to say there about her own political identity, you know, Ben Shapiro and Kelly's detractors make the point that, oh, she just kind of goes wherever the wind is blowing. You know, right now it's hip. It's hot to attack Israel. And it's profitable to attack Israel. Really? I've lost money attacking Israel because the Israel lobby is powerful enough to literally get people fired from their jobs if they just ever so lightly tweak Israel, even a little bit. So the grifting allegation makes no sense, but the allegation about Megan Kelly going wherever the wind is blowing, I went back and I actually watched Sean Ryan's interview on Megan Kelly's show. I believe it was in 2024. So obviously, years before the episode you just watched aired. And she said something very similar.

The fact of the matter is, these partisan lines don't make sense. Where does someone go if they are a little more conservative, socially speaking, but are very, very left wing in their economic views? Which party do you go to? The fact of the matter is, if you poll ordinary Americans, most Americans happen to be a hodgepodge of both political identities, And as you get older, as you're more and more engaged in the political world and you're keeping track of what's going on, you realize how complicated things get.

Because I look at the Democratic Party and there's a lot I don't like about it. I look at the Republican Party, there's a lot I don't like about it. But there's a lot that I like from both sides, to be honest with you. I mean, it depends on which faction on the right we're talking about here. The fact of the matter is living under a two-party system makes it impossible to say anything about yourself depending on which party you're registered for. So I actually believe Megan Kelly because ever so often that liberal side of her would come out like when she asked Donald Trump a question about how he treats women during the

2016 elections. She asked a question and framed it in a way someone on the left would. And she suffered some consequences for that because Trump didn't like it and accused her of bleeding out of her, you know what. So anyway, I just wanted to show that with you. Thank you to Megan Kelly and Sean Ryan for saying they love me. I did not expect that at all. And as you guys know if you're a regular viewer of the show, it's not like I hold back when I criticize Megan Kelly. I've disagreed with her on a number of things, including her comments about the Super Bowl halftime show performance and her comments in regard to Renee Good and Alex Prettie. I criticized her about or critiqued her on this show. But here's the difference, okay? I'm willing to sit down and have a conversation with her because I think she's good faith.

And I get that it's easy to cut people off the second you have a disagreement with them, but I don't play those games anymore. I used to and I think that was a mistake. And so I feel better informed and I feel I make stronger arguments when I'm willing to sit down with people that I have disagreements with. Ben Shapiro, though, has been on an endless international tour attempting to destroy Megan Kelly because Megan Kelly refused to trash Candace Owens. Like this is high school level garbage, by the way. So with that in mind, here's how Ben Shapiro responded to that segment. Megan Kelly appeared with Sean Ryan. So Sean Ryan is a conspiracy-ridden podcaster for those who don't know.

He's kind of one of these podcast bros who doesn't know anything but purports to have conspiratorial knowledge over world events. Despite the fact that his political takes are, shall we say that they? have the informed maturity of a potato. So Megan Kelly and Sean Ryan, who again are making cause with Anna Casparian. Anna is as pro-abortion as it is possible to be, as pro-anti-American regimes that is possible to be. But at least she hates Israel, which is the real thing that Megan is doing right here because she believes that that is the future wave. They're all going to make common cause. They'll form a new, when they say metal, they mean a new fringe. You know, Megan Kelly actually did not turn on Israel until like the Israel.

real lobby and people like Ben Shapiro started hounding her for refusing to reject Candice Owens, refusing to purge Candace Owens from her life. You know what that did to Megan Kelly? That made her question whether she might have been misled about Israel. And then she started doing a little more digging than she typically would do. So remember, she came up over at Fox News, where there's like wall-to-wall pro-Israel propaganda. And when you exist in an environment like that, regardless of what the political bias is, and that's the only perspective you are exposed to,

basically what happens is you don't really question it and you just kind of move about your day, move about your life. I've had that happen with me on some issues. And then reality slaps you in the face and you wonder, what's really going on here? She started doing a little bit of digging and realized how parasitic our relationship with Israel happens to be. And I commend her for that because she has taken a lot of pain, a lot of attacks for looking into it and saying, I think I was wrong.

I think I changed my mind. I think I was misled into hating Muslims. And Shapiro, you know, like that. Now, let's go to Sean Ryan for a second because, first of all, Ben Shapiro calling Sean Ryan, an unintelligent person who has like the brain of a potato is hilarious to me because Sean Ryan was literally a, he's a former Navy SEAL number one, which is no joke. That's definitely an accomplishment. And I don't listen to every episode of this podcast, but I listen to a lot of it.

He does not have the cognitive abilities of a potato. And his show is not about conspiracy theories. his show is actually about reaching out to veterans who are struggling with various struggles, whether it be PTSD, you know, whether it be adjusting or having a difficult time adjusting to life after service. He also talks about the Epstein files. I think that's probably what Ben Shapiro was referring to when he talks about conspiracy theories. But one thing I know about Sean Ryan is he means what he says.

and he cares deeply about doing something about child sex trafficking. So when it became abundantly clear that the Trump administration was engaged in a cover-up as it pertains to the Epstein files, he was upset. Because guess what? He's actually an honest person who means it when he says he cares about something. Shapiro only cares about one thing. We all know that. And we all know that because for a guy who claims I hate America, he has no problem calling for all sorts of policies that are beneficial to a foreign country at the detriment of the American people.

I'll give you a few examples. Ben Shapiro likes to fancy himself a fiscal conservative. But he's only a fiscal conservative when it comes to, you know, Social Security, a program that we the people have paid into, that we fund. He says, oh, it's contributing to our deficit. It's contributing to our debt. And it is true that the Social Security program is now giving out benefits, more benefits than we're taking in in funding. but you can easily solve that by lifting the Social Security tax cap, which overwhelmingly has been benefiting the wealthiest people in this country. Just lift the cap. Not that difficult.

And if you do a comparative analysis, you'll notice that what has contributed to our debt more than anything has been the endless foreign wars. The United States continues to fight on behalf of Israel, $8 trillion to fight Israel's wars in the Middle East. after 9-11. And that tally keeps increasing, of course, as we fight Iran on behalf of Israel. So explain to me how Ben Shapiro loves America more than I do. When he wants to deny the American people the very benefits that they paid into, but you'll never hear a peep when it comes to funding Israel's wars. That money is well spent, isn't it, Ben? There's more. There's more.

Let's talk a little bit about what Ben had to say in regard to the Republican Party and their views on Israel. Because he's wrong. In fact, Pew Research, this is a survey that we've cited many times, but 60% of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew Research, up from 53% last year. In both political parties, Democrats and Republicans, majorities of adults under the age of adults under the age of now rate Israel and Netanyahu negatively. You know, convenient that he left that out of his commentary, right? In fact, Brookings just put out a new survey, a poll to gauge how Americans are feeling about the Iran war.

Let's focus on Republicans because what they had to say was super revealing. So the question is, in your opinion, what has been the overall impact of the war so far on American interests at home and abroad. American interest, not Israeli interests, American interests. And when it comes to that question, it turns out that Republicans assess it as more negative, 33% than positive 25%. There's more. Let's look at the next one.

In your opinion, what has been the outcome of the war that the U.S. and Israel initiated on Iran on February 28th, 2026. I'm going to focus on Republicans because that's what we're debating about here, right? So 39% of Republicans say that the U.S. has already won the war, which is laughable. 39% is a very small percentage of Republicans. One percent say that Iran has already won the war or is winning. 24% say neither side has won or is winning. 16% say it's too early to say, 21% say I don't know. So this idea that you have a united front in the Republican party as it pertains to their perception of Israel, their support of Israel, Ben Shapiro is wrong. And he knows he's wrong. And he's lashing out because he's seeing prominent people on the right

media figures who have some of the top podcasts and shows in the country speaking out openly against the precious country that he loves, obviously more than he loves America. Other things that I just want to mention real quickly. Has he spoken out at all about the idea of merging the bloodthirsty IDF with our military, you know, Section 224 in the National Defense Authorization Act? Is he at all worried about that? Of course not. Of course not.

Of course, the whole point of Section 224 is to ensure that Israel is able to exploit our military and its resources with less transparency because the American people don't want to have this relationship with Israel. They want to stop sending Israel billions of dollars every single year as part of the memorandum of understanding. So Netanyahu comes out and he says, we don't want to take money from the United States anymore. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Homeboy is drafting up a provision in the next National Defense Authorization Act to ensure that we merge our militaries. That way, you don't have to worry about an MOU. We just get to exploit the U.S. military as we please. Does Shapiro have anything to say about that? No, of course not.

Of course not. Has he posted anything about the two, not one, two separate intelligence reports that found Israeli spying on U.S. officials so intense, so extreme, so aggressive, that Israel is now spying on us more, more intensely than our adversaries. Does Ben have anything to say about that? Because I'm pissed about that. Ben Shapiro doesn't seem pissed. He hasn't even mentioned it. So who loves America more, Ben? And whatever you do, whatever you do, whatever you do. I'm telling you, do not do this. Do not look up the Apollo affair of the 1960s when Zellman Shapiro, Ben Shapiro's uncle,

was the president of the nuclear materials and equipment corporation in Apollo, Pennsylvania, where hundreds of kilograms of highly enriched uranium just went missing. Don't look that up. Don't look that up. Don't look up the NSA archives as I did. Don't look up the declassified FBI documents on that. Because Ben seems to come from a long line of individuals, family members, who seem to prioritize and value Israel before the United States.

So don't you dare tell me that I'm anti-American because I refuse to bow down to Israel. Because I refuse to call whoever Israel claims as a terrorist, a terrorist. I think Israel is full of terrorists, terrorists. And I think Ben is full of crap. The freaking balls on that guy to insult Sean Ryan who went to wars, fought in wars that we shouldn't have even been involved in, but we were involved in them at the behest of Israel. Sit down, Ben, and shut up.

All right, let's go to break. We'll be right back. I am scary. I am threatening. And that was buying Shapiro. All right, everybody. I did not expect to get as enraged as I did during that story. All right, let's go to our Twitch section. AJ Nestor says Trump's best play could easily be to just say enough with Israel and shut it down and let them reveal whatever they reveal. That would be his best play.

I don't think he's going to do that, though. Like, I would not hold my breath on that. Ryu Raul says, that's a good enough reason. I want the Knicks to win for the history of it. and because I want to see what happens in New York City. Sure. I don't even know who the Knicks are, who are the Knicks playing?

Or it's basketball, right? Okay, anyway, bird and dragon says, I got to bet that the word Israel in, I got to bet that the word Israel is in the first five sentences. I don't know if that's a reference to me and what I choose to cover or if it's something else, but yeah, we're going to cover Israel a lot on the show because they're involved in every major issue that's happening in the country right now, with the exception to some extent of the

immigration policies that Trump has carried out. Crafty Kethar says anyone who has to say, I am the king, is no king at all. That's so true. That is so true, you're referring to Trump saying, like, I call the shots. Sure, buddy. Metal Turtles 571, too bad Trump can't ever speak for himself. I don't know. He seems to try to speak for himself all the time and then manages to dig himself. into various holes, but I mean, before we move on over to F Block, threat assessment, just to be clear, I just wanted to respond to a few comments in our member section. First off, we have Sid Life, 365, who says that Ben should move to Israel. I hear that he has a house there. He should move to Israel. But, you know, it's harder to lobby our government to do Israel's bidding, I guess,

when you're living in Israel and you're not here taking up meetings with the White House and stuff like that. Frank Thorne says, smash that button and share TYT everywhere. Thank you. Screet Gill says, I hope Jank does something fun. I think he was so hurt being banned from the UK. He didn't deserve it. I agree he didn't deserve it. You know, Hassan Piker has been, you know, going on various shows to defend himself. And actually, you know what? LBC, which is an outlet in the UK, in the very beginning of the Gaza genocide, was doing some pretty good coverage. Then they fired one of their hosts, Sangita, for asking some difficult questions of the Israelis. And ever since then, their shows seem to provide cover for Israel's war crimes. It's pretty depressing. So check out those

interviews featuring Jank and Haas. I think they've been doing a pretty good job defending themselves. I haven't watched most of Haas's appearances, only a little bit, clips here and there. I have watched Jenks, though, and he did a really good job. He is doing something fun. I don't want to disclose what he's up to because the lobby's insane. And we just have to be a little more protective of our personal lives, I guess, because they're terrorist demons. Anyway, let's get to our next story.

Pro-Israel Republicans are having a tough time deciding whether or not Tucker Carlson poses a threat. In fact, some of them are concerned that the former Fox News host is considering a presidential run in 2028, and he does have a significant amount of popularity among conservative voters. So if that does happen, he would be a formidable opponent to any pro-Israel candidate. Nonetheless, I do want to talk a little bit about what's going on behind the scenes, because at the Republican Jewish Coalition gala last November, so this is like about six months, ago, seven months ago, there was a palpable concern, a complete panic over anti-Semitism

erupting from within the right wing in America. And Senator Ted Cruz at the time said the following. In the last six months, I've seen more anti-Semitism on the right than I had in my entire life. That's hilarious and I don't believe it. But nonetheless, without naming any names directly. Cruz then took shots at Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, with whom he had just had a pretty contentious and embarrassing debate with. That was the now notorious interview with Tucker Carlson where Ted Cruz had a hard time answering questions about his unwavering support for a foreign country. Now Cruz rounded out his complaints by saying this. And as for me, I choose to stand with you.

I choose to stand with Israel and I choose to stand with America. But when the same group reconvened just this past weekend on Sunday, they struck a different tone, which I found fascinating. They might be emboldened by a series of A-PAC victories recently in various elections, primary elections, of course. That included the ousting of Thomas Massey. You also had the resignation of Marjorie Taylor Green, who was a pretty vociferous Israel critic toward the end of her congressional career.

And then you, you know, you have Joe Kent leaving the White House resigning, which I don't think the Israel lobby had much to do with, but I'm sure they're very, very happy with that. Nonetheless, here's the CEO of the Republican Jewish coalition. His name is Matt Brooks. And here's what he had to say just this past weekend. We have been strong and vocal in confronting the poisonous anti-Syenne. Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric coming from people like Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens, and Nick Fuentes. Whether it comes from the far left or the far right, whether it's wrapped in America First language

or dressed up as social commentary, anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is when you hate a group of Jewish people because they're Jewish. when you discriminate against them, when you are okay with people harming that, whatever. It's when you are targeting a group of people based on their ethnicity, based on their race, based on their immutable characteristics. Zionism is a political belief. No one is born a Zionist. People are brainwashed into being Zionists, but they're not born to be Zionists.

Just keep that in mind. After throwing shade at Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, he also went on to applaud the Republican Party on its handling of Israel's detractors. Take a listen. Being anti-Israel in today's Republican Party is not, unlike the Democratic Party, a path to success. It needs to be, though. It needs to be. So the American people have a decision to make here. And I do think it makes sense to for the first time be a single issue voter. Do you want to live in a sovereign country or not? Do you want our elected representatives, our lawmakers, our president to consistently side with Israel and its interests at the detriment of the American people? But it's a simple question.

I don't give a damn about Israel. Just like, do I care about other countries? sure, but not as much as I care about my own. And I do hate Israel. How could you not? Especially as an American, especially as someone who has carried the brunt of what Israel does in the Middle East, whether you're Palestinian, whether you're an Iranian, Lebanese, Syria, Syrian. I mean, it's just the list goes on, not Iraq. The list goes on and on and on and on. So yeah, a lot of people hate Israel. That doesn't mean they hate Jewish people.

Just because you insist on calling it a Jewish state, just because you insist on trying to build an ethno state doesn't mean that all Jews are implicated in that. And it doesn't mean that all Jewish people buy into the Zionist slop that clowns at this conference have bought into. Hating Israel is not the same as being an anti-Semite. So Brooks also bragged to raucous applause about the RJC spending $5 million in the race against Thomas Massey. But don't tell Shabos Kestenbaum that, right? Because Shabos would have you believe that the Israel lobby had no role, had no role at all, at all, right?

And then you hear Brooks bragging about it. He described the experience into the race as a right worth having and a victory worth celebrating, and a right worth having, meaning right-wing politicians who get down on their knees and pleasure, Israel. That's the right that he's talking about. But some on the right are not as convinced. And in fact, some are worried that Israel's critics have been, haven't been sufficiently purged from the Republican Party, and they specifically cite Tucker Carlson. So Carlson has been seen as one of Israel's most vocal critics.

And I think that's a fair label. He has been very vocal for good reason. I agree with a lot of what he has to say about Israel these days. And he did experience an uptick in popularity because guess what? The American people like truth tellers. And they can usually suss out in authenticity. In the case of Dr. Carlson, he's pretty authentic when he's talking about Israel. Others argue that.

So I'll give you an example of some of the people speaking out. Orrin Siegel, the ADL's vice president of counter extremism and intelligence, let's all pause for laughter. There's nothing more extreme in the country right now than Zionists. He said in an interview with JTA that his organization's biggest worry regarding Carlson is not merely his relationship with any conservative or elected officials, but also the normalization of his views. Okay, let me be clear. Tucker Carlson did not normalize these views. Israel's behavior normalized these views. You think people are sitting around waiting to hear what Tucker Carlson tells them to think? Or could it be that the American people have viewed endless videos of Israel's slaughter campaigns in sovereign countries or in Palestinian territory?

Israel's behavior has normalized the perspective that people like me share on the share on this show. show almost on a daily basis at this point in regard to Israel. Just stop slaughtering kids, stop killing innocent, stop trying to steal land. It's not that hard, but they can't help themselves. So if you're going to do that, then you're going to have to deal with the criticism. But here's the thing, Zionists want their cake and eat it too. They want to do whatever they want. Endless suffering carried out by the IDF, endless slaughter carried out by the IDF. And that's not good enough. On top of that, we all have to sit around. and talk about how great Israel is and never criticize them. No, no, I don't play that game.

And most Americans don't. We like to express ourselves. So pattern recognition is real. And the pattern I've recognized is that the Israeli government is full of war criminals, bloodthirsty, greedy, and doesn't value human life unless we're talking about other Zionist Jews. not Jews, just Zionish Jews. So others argue that Tugger's influence within the right has begun to wane. So look, Randy Fine, who's a disgraceful, disgusting hog of a congressman said, reminded the audience at the RJC event held in Manhattan on Sunday that in his speech to the RJC in November, he'd called Carlson the most dangerous anti-Semite in America. Now he said, I don't know that that's true. anymore. Now Fine has a different person in his crosshairs. He now believes the country's most

dangerous anti-Semite is Zoran Mamdani, New York City's anti-Zionist mayor. In contrast, he said Carlson's impact had only plummeted in the past half year. Quote, I think that brand has been destroyed in the last six months, he wrote, attributing the change to politicians like himself, calling Carlson out, as well as the damage he has done to himself. whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better. But Fines's assessment could be way off. In fact, I think it is way off because despite expressing no interest, Tucker Carlson has floated the possibility of running for president in 2028.

And look, during an interview with Russian television just last week, Candice Owens said that she would support him if he threw his name in the hat. He says, I would love for him to run. I would gratefully get behind someone like Tucker Carlson. And, you know, he showed, look, polymarket is not a good indicator of what's actually going on. So I'm not even going to go to that. I thought about it. There was a polymarket story about how, you know, bunch of people in this betting market are betting that, you know, he will secure a victory in the 2028 presidential campaign or primary, I should say. Still, if Tucker decided to run, he has to contend with serious turtles, as the RJC CEO, Matt Brooks said. There's only one party where American Jews can be proudly pro-Israel, and that is the Republican Party.

And those who imperil that will have to come through the RJC first. Well, I hope we all get to experience and witness that fight. I don't know if we will. I don't know if Tucker Carlson is going to run in 2028. But I'm sorry. We don't have a single party where you can safely be anti-Israel. The Democrats aren't as cucked as the Republicans are, at least rhetorically speaking, but they're pretty cucked through their actions, aren't they?

I mean, you can name a handful of Democrats who would go against Israel and everything Israel desires. I don't even know if I can name a handful. I know Roqana's one of them. I know that Rashida Tilibe is another one. Ilhan Omar is another one. I'm supposed to pretend that AOC would push back against Israel aggressively. I don't believe it. But okay, slim pickings, right? So I just, I don't think these people realize how delusional they are. I don't think they realize that everything they do runs counter to what their agenda is. They want Americans to love Israel, but all of their actions, all of their behavior, including pushing pretty aggressively to censor Americans who are critical of Israel, makes Americans hate Israel more. But they're too dumb

to realize it and they keep doing it. And honestly, for my purposes, I think that's great. Keep doing it. Because I'd love to live in a sovereign country. Ideally, one that has no relationship with Israel whatsoever. Anyway, all right. Do we have to take it to the break? I kind of lost track of time, Melissa. Okay, we're going to take one more break, guys.

And then when we come back, there's so much I want to cover. I don't know. I got to be picky because we're running out of time. But come right back. You're double my age. Just shut up. Oh, what a big man you are. You're shy.

All right, everybody. Welcome back to the shows. Screet Gill in our YouTube member section says Benocide Shapiro paying Israel $4 billion a year is a bargain. Dumpster Trump, I'm doing you a favor by increasing prices on gas and everything. Short term gain. Short term, I'm short term paying for long term gain, right? Now and then again says the government has to say now we're filming hovering metal breach balls all over our cities. It's crazy. No really. It's effing crazy. I know. Titan of Olympus says, how's it going to YT fam?

Man, we are truly enduring dark times. We sure are. Silver Edge says Israel doesn't want our aid anymore because they own us now. And they're too cheap to give it to them. Let's go to Gargwold Dragon who says, I will always feel bad for regular Jewish people. Yep, I totally agree. My absolute best friend since childhood is Jewish. And I hate that every time Netanyahu opens is disgusting.

war criminal mouth. He claims he's doing this for the Jewish population. No, plenty of Jewish people, absolutely abhor the Zionist project. Got a friend from Israel and now, and no, a family victimized on 10-7, neither of them wants this. Yes, and thank you for writing in and sharing that, because I think that gets lost in this back and forth between anti-Zionists and the Israeli government slash pro-Zionists in the U.S. The Zionists don't represent the entire Jewish population. I know that because when they come across an anti-Zionish Jew, they treat them like trash.

Just take a look at how Mark Levine is treating Dave Smith, who, whatever you might think about him, is a deeply decent person. I want to welcome all our new members, including Cuddy McStab, fun, very fun name. We've got Union Man, Sleepy Dragon, And then two anonymous people who just purchased memberships. Thank you so much for supporting the show.

I'm really looking forward to my interview with Trita Parsi in the member's only bonus tonight. Make sure you guys tune in. Now with that in mind, let's do one more story because I wanted to give you an update on warrantless wiretapping, which is a problem. The Trump administration has now thrown a monkey wrench into its plans to authorize more warrantless, Yes, warrantless surveillance of the American people. You know what that means? That means allowing government officials to spy on Americans without getting a warrant from a judge first.

And that monkey wrench, by the way, is Bull. Well, Bull is actually a perfect name, but Bill Pulte. Bill Pulte. That name's been coming up a lot lately. So let's talk about that. So this all has to do with Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Act, also known as FISA. So section 702 allows the federal government to spy on people overseas

who are utilizing American communication systems. But there's a huge catch. Well, on the surface, it appears as though they're spying on foreigners in other countries. The reality is those individuals might be speaking to American citizens. So if those foreigners are in contact with Americans, then our government gets to spy on said Americans. If you are talking to a foreigner outside the country, maybe it's a family member or something like that. Under Section 702, the federal government can listen in on your conversation without a warrant from a judge, which is unconstitutional. That falls under the category of unreasonable search. and seizures, they shouldn't do that, but they've been doing that. And Section 702 keeps getting renewed

every time it expires. Now, unfortunately, Section 702 has historically enjoyed bipartisan support over the years, but it needs to be reapproved by Congress before Friday of this week, which makes the story very timely, very important. Trump right now is pushing very aggressively to make sure that that doesn't happen, that it does not expire. He wants it to be renewed. So he is pushing for Congress to renew it. And in March, he stated the following. When used properly, FISA is an effective tool to keep American safe. The fact is, whether you like FISA or not, it is extremely important to our military. So President Donald Trump, who famously was furious when he found out that the Obama administration was spying in on him during his 2016 campaign is now saying

that the American people should be spied on because this is an incredibly important tool. Noted, noted. I mean, obviously Trump has shown on multiple occasions that what's good for the goose is not good for the gander. So he expects special treatment, of course, but for our purposes, spy away. On Sunday, Secretary of War, Pete Hegzeth went to bat for Section 702 because, of course, he did. At a time of growing threats around the world, Congress should be strengthening the tools that protect our nation, not weakening them. Reauthorizing Section 702 is about protecting Americans' privacy and protecting American security, right? I'm sure you're very worried about Americans' privacy and security, Hegseth. He finishes that off with We Can and Must Do both, right?

I've never felt less safe in terms of national security under the leadership of Donald Trump and the weekend anchor at Fox who had a drinking problem and was very abusive to his former wife. But anyway, allegedly, other Republican senators who have opposed an extension for Section 702 include John Kennedy, Josh Hawley, Rand Paul. Those are the Republicans, among others. But But until very recently, it seemed as though Section 702 would still be reauthorized, like very little challenge to that, right? However, Trump decided to appoint Bill Pulte as Tulsi Gabbard's successor as the Director of National Intelligence.

And it appears that Republicans are worried about that, and it's making them rethink Section 702. So Pulte, who now serves as the acting director of national intelligence, is widely seen as unqualified for his role because it turns out that he's, you know, unqualified for his role. Like, Homeboy is a real estate developer with no intelligence experience whatsoever. None. Like, what are we doing? What are we doing? He's before this, he was working in the Trump administration and will continue working in the Trump administration on housing regulations. So, look, Trump has given some mixed signals on Pulte.

So on one hand, he has suggested that Pulte is only a temporary stopgap until we find a replacement for Tulsi Gabbard, you know, real successor to Gabbard. But on the other hand, Trump seems excited at the idea of Pulte investigating claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election because Trump is a child, he's the current president and can't let 2020 go. So who knows? Who knows? All we do know is that right now, Pulte is the acting DNI. And so either way, Section 702's friendly, you know, 702 friendly Democrats have also revolted after Pulte's nomination. But I give them no credit. These people are total clowns. If you're a Democrat who decided to green light our federal government spying on American citizens without a

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So now Senate Democrats have pulled their support for the extension. Now they have. Except John Fetterman, because among the members of Congress who will be remembered in the trash bin of history, Fetterman is like a prime candidate, like prime example of that. So time will tell what happens to Section 702. I don't know if there are enough votes to avoid reauthorizing it, but we will have some more updates as this story develops. Now in the bonus episode for our members,

which we're going to head over to in just a minute, I will be interviewing Treata Parsi. He's the co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible State crap. He is also an expert on Iran and is always a good interview. So I have a lot to ask. I'm so curious what he has to say. So stick around for that if you're a member. If you're not a member, you can become one and listen to that interview by going to t.yat.com slash join. Asimov's profit in our member section says, Iran using Lebanon like this is important because it proves if the U.S. can control Israel so that if Iran signs a deal, they know that the U.S. is in firm control of Israel.

Everyone knows that Israel is in control of the United States. Okay, like everyone knows that. How else do you explain Trump torpedoing his own presidency, his own approval ratings by entering a war at the behest of Israel? How else do you describe shelling out tens of billions of dollars to Israel, even as they're spying on us, spying on U.S. officials, according to two separate intelligence reports? I think that Iran wants to stop the war in Lebanon because if there's a war in Lebanon, it can easily spread back into Iran. So there are practical reasons why Iran wants that fighting to stop. Also, Iran supports Hezbollah.

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