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other hosts, Riley Festler and then a Stein. We're going to talk about the news. How are you doing,
“Riley and Nina? Pretty good. Well, thanks. How about yourself? Oh, good. Good. Good. It's nice. It's actually”
looked at the weather report. And here in Washington and also in New York, where I'll be the next four
days, look like actual pleasant summer weather, board the first time all summer. It's amazing. Finally.
Finally. I blame Trump. Okay. Riley, what do you got? I've got bad news to start. Oh, how one usual? I know. It'll shock everyone. The oil prices have surge near $99 and dollars. A barrel falling. Wait, howling. Who these strikes on Saudi tankers in the Red Sea threatening a second that global shipping bottleneck onside Iran's blockade of the state of Formos. The military has to live these escalated as U.S. forces struck Iranian defense and storage facilities while
Iran target U.S. military sites in Jordan, Kuwait following new warnings from President Trump. Despite Oman offered an immediate diplomatic efforts remained stalled as Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirmed that American bombardment will continue until Iranian negotiators
“seriously engaged in reaching a new deal. Well, what are you complaining about?”
The Vietnam War asked last 19 years. The President tweeted it yesterday, 50,000 people died. This is only five months. Only 20 fewer than 20 people would be Americans. I mean, yes, thousands of Iranians, but we don't care about Iranian thousands of people in Lebanon, but we don't care. It's cost billions of dollars, but we don't and it's destroyed the global energy. We don't care because the Vietnam War lasted 20 years. The President said it. Stop
your complaining. Call me in 18 years until me that spending hundreds of billions of dollars
for no purposes is a good idea and killing innocent people. Wait a second,
that there's another problem here. We're using this new period of attacks to get them back
“to negotiating. Didn't we have an MOU? I think the problem is that the people who are negotiating”
for the United States are a couple of real estate dudes from New Jersey. You don't understand any of this stuff. I think another problem is that they agreed to a bunch of things to get to the MOU the last time that were just a completely terrible deal for the United States and people noticed. They didn't think anybody was going to notice. They thought they would throw parade and say, hey, great another triumph for Trump. But when you sort of give everything to Iran that it wants
to get nothing for the United States people do notice. So now they want to have a different kind of a deal. But the Iranians have no incentive to do it. They can take the hits. Their power is getting stronger. This who'd be moved on what's called the Northern Route, the route that goes up through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal does cause a double chokehold on traffic coming in and out of this region and their leverage is increasing. Is our leverage increasing? We're just doing the same
thing over and over again. This was in the illegal war that should not have been started that has not achieved any of its goals that has been protestically mismanaged from a strategic point of view, from a tactical point of view, from the point of view of the expenditures involved in it, the costs for the world are mounting daily and they got nothing. The US government has no new ideas. So, you know, they're back with, you know, there was a song when I was growing up from
Herman's Hermits that had a line in it, second verse, same as the first. Well, you know, we're like
53rd verse, same as the first. They're just repeating it over and over and over again and it's getting us nowhere. And I can say with a high degree of confidence that between now and tomorrow, we will get nowhere. And between now and next week, we will probably get nowhere because the war is not being fought in the Middle East. It's not being fought in the Persian Gulf. It's not being fought
Across the entire region.
difficult places ever known, which is inside the brain of Donald Trump. And whereas some people worry
“about the terrain on which a conflict takes place or whether to use air power or naval power,”
none of that matters when what your the obstacles you're trying to get over are peaks that are bigger than Mount Everest. Donald Trump's ego, Donald Trump's pride, Donald Trump's greed, Donald Trump's ignorance. What a mountain range? That's a mountain range. Nobody can find playing over that and nobody can solve a problem when that is the obstacle that stands in their way. There's one solution for this war, folks. Leak. But we're not, we're not going to get there.
I don't think when I looked at your list of stories that you included, the fact that the United States signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia yesterday, providing them with nuclear energy. Our friend John Wolfstall has a good story on that at the new public. He was the expert who was actually approached by the Biden administration when they wanted to go and negotiate something like this. Why do I bring it up? Because this kind of action has consequences, which they have not
thought through. If you're Iranian, and the United States has said, yeah, we'll give enrichment capacity to Saudi Arabia, do you think that provides an incentive for them to give up their enrichment capacity? These people, you know, to use a Yiddish term, for a cocked, completely for cocked. We will explain what that means to you later, Riley. Minna. We'll talk about it offline. We do daily Yiddish classes for Riley here, to try to get him up to speak yet. Go on, Minna.
In a narrow 216, a 214 vote House Republicans passed a $95 billion budget reconciliation framework
“delivering a key procedural victory for Speaker Mike Johnson to bypass Senate filibuster rules.”
The blueprint allocates $73 billion in defense and intelligence funding for the ongoing conflict with Iran, $12 billion in agricultural relief, and $10 billion for grants encouraging states to adopt President Trump's preferred voting restrictions aligned with the Save of America Act. However, the package faces an uncertain path in the Senate due to a lack of spending offsets, skepticism from the majority leader and procedural limits regarding non-budgetary policy changes.
Yeah, that's one of the things. You can't do reconciliation bill which requires only a majority vote in the Senate unless it pertains to the budget, and they scrutinize those things pretty carefully. One of the few things that still kind of sort of works in the United States Congress. Almost nothing works in the House because Mike Johnson is the worst speaker of the House in history,
“that's saying something because we have one speaker of the House who I think still”
serving a prison term, and we've got several others who were just completely incompetent.
But the reality is that, you know, they did the bidding for Trump.
Eat it out, look at the narrowness of the majority, and are now moving to a House of the Senate, which is less inclined to do that kind of. So it's unlikely all of this stuff is going to go through. And, you know, when you look at this, you see that essentially all of it is designed to clean up Trump messes. You know, chunk of it goes to this war, which had never been started. A chunk of it goes to agricultural stuff that, you know, fixes consequences of
this war and fixes mistakes and prior policy. And a chunk of it goes to the save act, which is the only way that Trump thinks that, but the members of Congress can save their jobs going into into the, you know, coming election. And, you know, because they haven't done anything or what they've done has been bad. So it's a blip. Looks like action and Metro really is action. Well, some election news, emergency physician Amish Shah won the Democratic primary Arizona's
First congressional district to find a party leadership by defeating a candid...
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Shah will face Republican nominee Jay Feeley,
“a former NFL kicker endorsed by Donald Trump, and a critical open seat contest that could help”
determine control of the House. The general election features a unique personal connection as it both candidates previously worked on the sidelines for the New York Jets as a team position and kicker. So they were both prepared to lose because they have a history without. Ha, very funny, Riley. Very amusing and right comment on the worst football team in the NFL. If that feeling is, you know, right, we're not, and in this round of primaries this week in Arizona,
a bunch of Trump backed, right wing nuts, including one who's like sex abuser, and another one
is one of the biggest idiots in Congress did pretty well. So you would think the Democrats could burst right in with great candidates. But of course, there's enough division in the Democratic party, and I would have to say, and, you know, don't tell anybody. I said this, but, you know, the Democratic National Committee and some of these other big national organizations do not cover themselves with glory. They're not super well organized. It's really given to
pendant the quality of the campaigns run by the candidates. Their ability to raise money against
“Republican Party, that is just a wash in dollars right now. Why is it in wash in dollars?”
Because there are a lot of rich billionaires and corporations and guys working at top corporations who think, well, shocks, Democrats come in. We might have a fair tax code. We might have regulations again that keep us from selling dangerous products to people. We might be spending money on things that help the people instead of cutting those programs so that we can have more tax breaks for the rich fancy Epstein class. And so they want to spend a lot of money to see if
they can get to stop that from happening. Small investment and politics can turn out in being tough. Big chunk of money in your private accounts if you are super rich. But you're a probably billionaires listening to this and you know that because we have a 100% billionaire audience. Isn't that correct? I thought I thought it was. Lots of my random numbers. Yeah. Yeah, everybody out there may. If you're listening and you're not a billionaire, you will be soon. Just keep
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joke. A new government accountability office report reveals that the number of Amazon employees relying on federal safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP merely tripled between 2020 and 2025 while app-based gig platforms collectively surged into the top three employers of benefit recipients. Requested by Senator Bernie Sanders, the study showed that millions of low-wage and part-time workers at major corporations, including Walmart, McDonald's and major delivery and ride-hailing
services, continue to depend on public assistance to meet basic needs. In response to criticism from labor advocates over low-paying models, industry representatives argue that their rapid workforce growth, part-time flexibility and low barrier to entry account for the higher participation rates and public assistance programs. Boo. It's disgusting. It's a complete breakdown of our society.
“It's appalling. The fact is that over the past year, because of steps taken by this Congress,”
four and a half million people have been kicked off of SNAP. One and a half million of those
Are children who are not getting fed to get into SNAP.
bureaucratic obstacles to sign up and it's blocking a lot of people from getting in and getting
“the benefits of these programs. But what the heck folks? How is it that somebody who's got a job”
works around the clock? Does what they've got to do cannot support their family? It's because the minimum wage in the United States has not grown as it should. And it's because these companies are exploiting people because people are so desperate they'll go and take these jobs because they don't have any other choices. In fact, you know, the clever Republicans who are like, "Well, let's carve away all the support programs so that we rich folks can get more money and
our bank accounts are not paying attention to the fact that these programs are supplementing
mega corporations earnings by saying, "Oh, you don't have to pay them a living wage. We'll give them
“a little support on the side." They have allowed them to do this. And so now we are seeing”
the disgusting policies of these companies. Should you buy anything from an Amazon or Walmart or place the doesn't pay its customers? No, you shouldn't. Should Jeff Bezos get one dollar for any other kind of program that his companies may be doing so that he can get richer and have 451 foot yet instead of a 450 foot yet? Well, this is happening to his employee. No, he shouldn't. Should he and his wife be the host of the Met Gala? Well, maybe because the Met Gala celebrates
this kind of shit. But it's disgusting. Our society is broken. Anybody who says otherwise can just go and look at the lives of these people. It's a pauling and it's getting worse because Donald Trump and mega and the brolla guards and the guys who are bankrolling mega right now right in those big checks to the G, D, G, O, P, they don't give a shit about anybody but themselves. And the purpose of the government here like the purpose of governments everywhere else ought to be to guarantee certain
minimum things to the people who live in this, one of the richest societies in this history of the world. And those things ought to be a living wage housing, healthcare, dignified retirement plus security, clean water, clean air. On every single one of those things, United States government is
“failing. That's what the elections are about. It's about having a government that's interested in”
governance, having a government that works for the people, not just on the page of the constitution, but in terms of their daily lives and recognizing that's what they ought to be working. Okay, that was my rant for today. I'm sure nothing else has been a trigger me. I'll take a deep breath. The Trump administration's Justice Department is asking a man hat and federal judge to enforce subpoenas issued to New York Times journalists who reported on
national security risks regarding a guitarian donated Air Force One jet. Federal prosecutors argued the reporting involved unauthorized leaks of classified information that during ongoing hostilities with Iran while the Times contains the subpoenas of
violate First Amendment press freedoms and internal department policies. A district judge has
paused enforcement penalty a court hearing amid a broader criticism from press freedom groups over the administrations league elections against media outlets. The administration hates the First Amendment. They would rip it out of the Constitution if they could. They are trying to they don't let journalists have access in the Department of Defense. They don't let journalists have access in the White House. They're encouraging their rich billionaire donor friends to buy
legacy media outlets and gutting them as they have already done at CBS as they are looking forward to being able to do it CNN of anybody who does the job of being a reporter. They do not grant real reporters real access. They hide information this week the New York Times reported about them hiding information on American soldiers who were injured fighting these wars.
They are lying about the amount of money that we are spending on these wars.
This is the least transparent administration in history. But in this particular case,
“do you think its national security that makes them not want people snooping around”
the financial arrangements around this big flying bribe of a plane? Of course not. Because if they find out how much goes into the plane and then the plan is to give the
plane to Trump, that's a problem. If they find out that Donald Trump said, hey, I want to fly my
plane off to show it off even though the secret service and other said, hey, you can't do that. It's not security yet. That's a problem. This story is about not national security. It's about the greed and corruption and incompetence and idiocy of the president of the
“United States. That's why it will never go to trial because the times have been able to defend itself”
and if they go through a discovery process and their judge says, yeah, you should be able to know
that these things in the discovery process, it's going to be a problem for them. Just like, there was a ruling the other day where Trump is pursuing a lawsuit in the UK against the BBC and the judge said, yeah, you have to give all your sensitive financial information to the BBC. So they can determine whether or not the damages that you are claiming are real. Well, this is going to be the end of this lawsuit. You think they're going to give up the financial
information on one of the most corrupt organizations that are economic. That doesn't matter. Of course, there's strategy. As soon people absorb the cost, particularly when a lot of that cost is now paid for by the US government, make those people hire lawyers, squeeze them, delay outcomes. And if they don't win the cases, that's fine because they're winning in the interim by the process, the times what a wonderful, a small t-times, what a wonderful moment,
“they live in. Well, we'll look for more of this as we go about our weeks and you should”
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