The not-really-a-State-of-the-Union on Tuesday night was notable more for the self-destructive shenanigans of the Democrats in the Capitol than it was for the rhetoric of Donald Trump. We break it all down. Give a listen.
The tariffs now imposed on Mexico, Canada, and China threaten to hit Americans in the pocketbook, and given the results of the last election, we discuss why the president would be pursuing this policy when he should be doing what he can to lower prices. And where should "honor" enter into it when talking about American commitments and American alliances? Give a listen.
What's with all the "sex worker" talk at the Oscars? Why couldn't Adrien Brody just condemn anti-Semitism in his acceptance speech for a role in which he plays a Holocaust survivor? Who was to blame for the fight in the Oval Office? And what is the "Witkoff framework"? Give a listen.
The jaw-dropping Oval Office set-to between Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy is the subject of this emergency podcast. A grave moment for the United States. Give a listen.
Rob Long joins us today to discuss Trump's gaslighting on Ukraine, the fight over the Jeffrey Epstein documents, and whether the Oscars might go Hamas. Give a listen.
A media-centric show today, as we examine Jeff Bezos's announcement of changes to the opinion policies of the Washington Post, the complaints of the White House press corps about access to the president, and whether the new book on covering up for Biden's infirmities will cover up the press's complicity. Give a listen.
Republicans get done what they needed to get done in the House of Representatives. And in Israel, hostages are buried and painful eulogies delivered, which we read in full. Give a listen.
The courts are balking, Macron is correcting, the vote on Ukraine was shameful, and appointing a podcaster to be #2 at the FBI is dumb. It's 35 days in; maybe the president needs to start focusing on doing things well? Give a listen.
Today's podcast asks: Are Trump officials finding it necessary to echo the boss's "Ukraine started the war" in the same way Trump officials in the first month of the first administration were forced to say his inaugural crowd size was the biggest in history? And is Elon Musk off the chain? Give a listen.
Jonathan Schanzer joins us after the monstrous day in which Gazans danced around the coffins of a baby and a toddler who, we learned, had both been shot in the head more than a year ago—and around the coffin in which, as it turned out, their mother's body had not been placed. What will the rage and horror inside Israel mean for the continuation of war-fighting in Gaza—and should Israel look beyond Hamas to deliver a deadly blow to Iran instead? Give a listen.