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We begin with the deal struck between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy to avert a default in a manufactured crisis over the debt ceiling which has left progressives on the left furious that Biden caved and on the far-right, members of the House Freedom Caucus are up in arms with Congressman Dan Bishop calling for … Continued
We begin on this Memorial Day and speak with an Army veteran whose grandfather was a hero of World War II Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott Jr who gave an eulogy on Memorial Day in 1945 at the graves of 20,000 American soldiers who died liberating Italy from the Nazis. According to Bill Mauldin “The general’s … Continued
We begin with the meltdown of the official launch of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign which he chose to do on Twitter in conversation with Elon Musk which crashed and burned due to technical glitches with most of the callers fawning over Musk instead of boosting DeSantis as their infantile banter focused on the war against … Continued
We begin with the continuing standoff over the debt ceiling as the clock runs out for the Congress to make a deal that goes to the Senate then the White House before the June first deadline of default. Joining us to discuss the contours of a deal shaping up that is, as Speaker McCarthy has … Continued
We begin and go to the UK to speak with Alec Bertina, a freelance journalist and researcher of non-traditional security actors with a focus on Russian private military contractors and paramilitary groups. He is an all source analyst for Grey Dynamics and a conflict analyst for Militant Wire. We assess claims by Prigozhin that his Wagner … Continued
We begin and go to Japan for an update on the G7 summit which has been dominated by the surprise arrival of Ukraine’s President Zelensky on a French government plane leading to pledges from world leaders to starve Russia of resources used in its war machine while calling for a free and open Indo-Pacific and … Continued
We begin with the G7 summit underway in Hiroshima, Japan and examine the inescapable symbolism of Hiroshima summoning the issue of nuclear weapons to the forefront even if the summit’s agenda is largely about Ukraine, climate change and countering China’s more assertive foreign policy. Joining us to discuss what is likely to happen with Saturday’s … Continued
We begin with reaction to the sudden cancellation of the Quad meeting in Australia and President Biden’s planned visit to that country along with his cancellation of the first trip by an American President to Papua New Guinea. This is happening because of the threat from far-right radicals on the House Freedom Caucus who hold … Continued
