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We begin with the scathing report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee titled “Planned in Plain Sight” which investigated the failures of the FBI, DHS and Capitol Police in not acting on a host of warnings of a potential violent attack on the capitol. The report out today finds that “At a fundamental level, the … Continued
We begin with today’s 11 minute audio statement from Prigozhin followed by a 5 minute recorded TV address to the Russian people by President Putin in which he tried to drive a wedge between Prigozhin and his rank and file Wagner mercenary army promising them they could go home or sign up for the military … Continued
We begin with Prigozhin’s march on Moscow as the head of the Wagner mercenaries turned warlord threatened the very seat of power in nuclear-armed Russia. In a direct challenge of Putin, after refusing to sign a pledge of loyalty to the Russian military and the state, Prigozhin’s mercenaries took the city of Rostov and held … Continued
We begin with today’s White House visit by India’s controversial Prime Minister Modi who was banned from entering the US in 2005 for stoking sectarian violence and since he became PM in 2014 has cracked down on the press, not had any press conferences, jailed his opponents and expelled the opposition leader from parliament while … Continued
We begin with the Republican tactic of manufacturing scandals to attack Democrats while ignoring the serial scandals of their front-runner and Fuhrer such as keeping alive Durham’s “Russiagate” nothingburger for 5 years and Hunter Biden’s imaginary crime spree for 5 years while one of the House GOP’s head witch hunters Congressman Comer promised an FBI … Continued
We begin with a trial date set by the controversial Judge Aileen Cannon of August 14 when Jack Smith’s case against Donald Trump will be heard and discuss the revelations in a Washington Post article that document how the DOJ’s investigations into January 6 and Trump’s theft of classified documents were delayed for 15 months … Continued
We begin with what appears to be the Republican talking point for the 2024 election which is to convince voters that the American government under Joe Biden has been captured by Marxists and communists and that “cultural Marxism” has infiltrated and infected American society in the form of “wokeness” to the point it threatens the … Continued
We begin with the Republican party’s embrace of authoritarianism as they blindly defend Trump from the most serious possible charges under the Espionage Act while his GOP campaign rivals trip over each other promising him pardons. Vowing to go after Biden and what he calls “the Biden crime family” as “the most corrupt presidency in … Continued
We begin with Secretary of State Blinken heading to China in a few days to try to repair dangerously frayed relations between the world’s leading military powers and meet with his Chinese counterpart and possibly Xi Jinping. Joining us is Lyle Goldstein, a Professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University … Continued
