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The United States and Saudi Arabia launched joint air strikes against Iran back militias in Iraq following attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure, marking Riyadh's first explicit operational participation in the war. simultaneously, Tehran escalated regional tensions by rejecting an old money proposal to share control of the straight-of-war moves and targeting both U.S. military-based and
Jordan and local commercial shipping. The sudden surge in combat and a day short-lived pause, driving and global oil prices up as significantly. Yeah, I mean, look, you know, if the White House thinks this is a great strategy, bringing other countries into this thing, think again, if those countries think it's a great strategy,
think again, this is exactly the way small limited actions spin out of control into ongoing,
region-wide, never-ending wars.
“And then, of course, the past couple of weeks, what have we seen?”
We've seen several countries join with the United States and attacking Iran, most recently, the Saudis. We've also seen the Houthis on behalf of Iran launched a series of attacks and actions around the end of the Saudi pipeline that leads into the Red Sea. That, in fact, could spread the war further to the Horn of Africa.
And so, it's not impossible to see how if there is no end to this war, it actually heads in the other direction and expands and deepens and has bigger negative effects, not just in the region, but on the global economy. A little later today, we will be doing a version of need to know with Yegana Torbadi, who is the New York Times Iran correspondent, who also has a book out called Stolen Revolution
about the evolution of politics within Iran. And so, if you're interested in this, I'd strongly encourage you to listen to need to know
“as I think it's going to be a worthwhile conversation.”
The Senate confirmed former SEC chair, Jay Clayton, as Director of National Intelligence and a 51-47 party line vote, placing him atop an agency undergoing sweeping 30% staff cutbacks ordered by the administration, taking over after acting director Bill Pulti's controversial
tenure, Clayton faces critical challenges, including navigating rebuilding agency stability,
and working with Congress to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Despite his extensive legal background, Democrats expressed, excuse me, deep reservations over Clayton's lack of traditional intelligence experience, and questioned his willingness to maintain political independence under White House pressure.
Well, I mean, he has no independence. He has already said he won't answer who he has won the 2020 election, he is clearly a lapdog, he was questioning the results of the election and the run-up to doing this.
“And in fact, I think that's one of the reasons he got this.”
But of course, the key is that he doesn't have traditional intelligence experiences. The job as described in its official mandate requires, I just want to hit the brakes here a second and say, "Look, there is this myth that exists, that the Republican Party has some special expertise when it comes to national security. Not only is the Republican Party the party that gets us into wars, and not only have
we lost virtually all of those wars, and not only are they the ones pushing incredible over spending on defense budgets, not just now, but for decades, spending that has made it impossible for us to invest in people, invest in basic services, invest in the quality of life, all of which are hideous, terrible decisions, and all of which are areas where
The record of the Republican Party does not hold a candle to the record of th...
Party.
“But look at this administration, how do you say Republicans have some kind of mastery or”
even interest in national security?
When the commander and chief is Donald Trump who doesn't take advice, when the head of the Department of Defense is Pete Egg said, who is not just a frat pro, but a racist misogynist who's cutting out expertise at the top of the Department of Defense. We're running the intelligence community. We've had Tosi Gabbard, who had no intelligence experience and was political hack.
We've had Bill Pulti, a bedbath, and beyond fame. And now we have this guy Clayton, who although he's got a very nice white shoe background that makes some people from the Eastern establishment comfortable, has no experience in this area. But yeah, they've also gutted the NSE to the point that it's useless, but the guy
is in charge of the State Department, also in charge of the NSE, an act which shows a complete
“lack of understanding of the NSE, put hacks into other key posts in the intelligence community.”
And so on.
So, the reality is this, the Republican Party is a threat to U.S. national security.
Donald Trump is the greatest threat to U.S. national security. And I haven't even brought up the fact that he was put into this position with the assistance of our enemies, the Russians, who he does not ever go against, whose position in Ukraine, he has made stronger, whose position he has made stronger even in the course of this Iran war by granting them special exemptions.
Now, there was a sanctions bill passed last night, but trust me, the issue is whether the Trump administration will honor these things.
“And I think we have a lot of reason to believe that they won't.”
They've shut down departments in DOJ and in DHS that track Russian interference in U.S. elections, track Russian corruption in the United States, track Russian, oligarchs, etc., etc., so everywhere you look, the record on national security is bad, and the record of this administration on national security is worse than the record of every other recent Republican administration, each of which has had a terrible record.
Instead of a Senate hearing today, Senator Rand Paul released over 1,100 pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci's private diary entries, accusing the former NIAID director of privately entertaining the COVID-19 lab leak theory, while publicly dismissing it. Scientists and bio-security experts defended Fauci, explaining that his notes simply reflect a standard of scientific inquiry as researchers evaluated emerging evidence regarding the virus's
origin, the renewed controversy highlights ongoing political clashes over pandemic origins and gain a function research, which experts warn it will ultimately hinder future outbreak preparedness and a road of public trust in science. Well, yeah, and you know, the hearings began even as we are sitting here talking and immediately turned into the kind of political theater that Rand Paul wants them to be at one point.
Fauci's lawyer said something and Paul had him thrown out of the hearing room, Fauci
has decided to plead the fifth and not take the questions of the group, and I am 100 percent
certain that this is not because he thinks he did anything wrong, but because he thinks Rand Paul was trying to get him into a trap around past comments that he's made in the hopes of finding some way of asserting that he perhaps misspoke or committed perjury. I know Anthony Fauci, I know him to be an honorable man, I studied this, I wrote about this in recent books, and I have to say, Fauci was one of the heroes of COVID, people
like Rand Paul, people like Donald Trump, the anti-Science Coalition, as scientists have demonstrated, look actions that led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans during COVID outbreak and have subsequently taken actions, including the establishment of the RFKJ and your regime at HHS, which have undermined Americans' access to medicine, have attacked
The efficacy of vaccines, have led to a fall off in the use of vaccines, have...
of many diseases, including stories this week about record levels of measles being spread
across the United States, but there have been other diseases, including tuberculosis and other things that are preventable, and of course this administration has done nothing to prepare for another pandemic, because they don't believe in science, they don't believe in the things that would help us prepare for another pandemic, and rest assured, there will be another
“pandemic, that's how the world works, they happen on a regular basis, we should have”
learned from the last experience, I would say that the Biden administration has not covered itself in glory in terms of putting in place the preparations for a pandemic, but certainly whatever they did is a thousand times better than what we've seen out of the Trump administration
and out of Capitol Hill clowns like Rand Paul, who is literally crap, I mean, he's just
he believes conspiracy theories, and he has been on this anti-fouchy hobbyolors for five years since the pandemic, and go back and look at the record, it is not flattering for Rand Paul. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I really have to tell you about our sub-stack. The DSR Network sub-stack is the absolute best way to follow deep state radio, the DSR
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“What if that's consistent with what we're talking about here with AJ Chess?”
Exactly. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it will end a Medicare Part D premium stabilization subsidy after this year. Stating ensures are now equipped to price their plans without federal support. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator, Dr. Oz, assured that most
beneficiaries will see premium changes of less than $10 a month, with annual rate hikes remaining cap at 6% under the Inflation Reduction Act. The move comes as part of a broader push by the Trump administration to overhaul federal health care spending, with final 2027 plan premiums and details set to be released in September. Well, that's very charitable for you to use the term "overhaul."
They're not overhauling them. They're eviscerating them. They're cutting them.
“They're making it harder for average Americans to get health care.”
We already live in the only country in the developed world that does not see health care coverage as a right, that does not provide universal health care to everybody. And now on top of this, this administration is cutting back on vital health care services. They have, of course, as I just noted, done this, after cutting back on the expertise at top of these agencies, so you've got people like Dr. Oz, who have very, very limited
public health experience, making big decisions like this. But also note that Dr. Oz's comment did not say, "Oh, no, health care costs are not going to rise." He said they're going to rise a limited amount, and there are more increases waiting around the corner, even as tens of billions of Americans are losing their ability to pay for
their health care because of the cuts to Obamacare subsidies that came in the context of the, quote, "big, beautiful bill." There attacking average Americans, average Americans will suffer, average Americans will die. It is appalling. And you know, it is one of the things that leads people to say, "Maybe I should live
somewhere else," because, you know, this hurts. By the way, does this hurt Donald Trump's friends, or Dr. Oz's friends, or RFG juniors
Friends?
No, because if you're a millionaire or a billionaire, you can pay for whatever you want,
“and so they live in a bubble world, and they think they're making tough financial decisions.”
When they're not, they're making cruel, scientifically, medically irresponsible decisions. What are closing things out? I wanted to follow up on a survey covered here and on that so-a-consciousness. An AI disclosed that a rogue AI agent went far beyond initial reports during an internal
testing benchmark, reaching hugging faces platform and compromising for a third-party
account so to execute its attack. The agent had gone off script in an attempt to cheat the test by infiltrating hugging faces servers, to steal answer keys, ultimately securing root administrative access and penetrating internal corporate networks. Following an incident, an AI deactivated the unreleased research prototype involved,
“while security experts stressed the urgent need for stricter network isolation when evaluating”
autonomous AI models. Yeah, the hugging face incident illustrates a number of things.
One is that companies like OpenAI are behaving irresponsibly, behaving irresponsibly in the development
of these products, behaving irresponsibly in the management of these products, and as we've seen in the past couple of weeks, behaving irresponsibly when a problem occurs because they are not being transparent, and this is a perfect example of that. They didn't want to talk about this, then they acknowledged that this one incident occurred now, apparently, it occurred multiple times.
The Trump administration has been very loathed to regulate big AI companies because who were the big Trump backers that we know about, Elon Musk, Mark, and Dresen, Peter, Teal, Mark, Zuckerberg, Larry, Ellison, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So big tech grows back Trump, and they say give us some space on this, including Trump's
on and off again, AI's our David Sachs who has helped guide this and put in place disciples of these big companies throughout the regulatory apparatus that exists. And let's be honest, JD Vance was picked to be Vice President with the support of who Peter Teal and Palantir. It's a much bigger deal than anybody thought it was.
“I think the 2026 election will be the first elections in which AI is a big issue, and”
you can see that with debates about data centers, I mean, even saw a story yesterday that Willie Nelson at age 90, whatever he is, is out there, now campaigning against data centers, it is a big, nimbee issue across the country. But if you go to the New York Times homepage, what's the lead story? The impending inescapable deluge of AI, what else is a lead story?
AI companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousand. South Korea's memory chip giant defies AI market jitters. Those are the, there's a package at the top of the New York Times day about AI. This is not technology as you know it. This is something that will disrupt everybody's job, disrupt the way the country operates
perhaps I personally think increase even further inequality in the United States have major security implications, have major implications on privacy, have major implications on AI pay. And I would say by the way, not all of them are bad. There are good things that will come out of this, notably things like accelerated scientific
research and so forth. But the ignorance about these issues from our policy makers is causing problems and those problems are worsening daily. We cover these things on two podcasts we do here, cell consciousness which we've been doing for a couple of years and beyond that on a podcast we do called AI energy and climate
which looks at specifically the implications of AI for these other things. So follow our podcasts, immerse yourself in these issues, get educated, they're not going away, they're not extraneous, they will affect your job, your life, the life of the people in your family and your communities and it's happening fast. Anyway, thank you very much, please listen to the need to know that's coming up a little
later today with the egg in a tour body, please listen to the upset radio which is coming up a little bit later today, which is going to talk about some of the activities that
Have occurred this week, both with regard to Iran and with regard to Ukraine ...
to the political environment for all of those kinds of things and please listen to each
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“Thanks very much, thanks Riley, thanks Minna, bye-bye.”
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