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Capsule Machine. Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkoff. I'm joined by Riley Fessler and Minas Stein. It's the middle of the week. Kind of crappy weather here in Washington, D.C.
And you know what starts tomorrow, guys? By the way, interestingly, in the news adjacent space. Most of the area downtown in D.C. is being shut down. You know why it's being shut down? Just let's get a minute.
You're our White House reporter. Why?
“For the Trump's speech by the Lincoln Memorial, yeah?”
No, incorrect. Okay, Riley, you get to take a guess. I have no idea. She's subscribed. Because of the UFC match on the 14th, they're shutting everything down. Constitutions setting up for a speech by the Lincoln Memorial. Because I saw that yesterday.
Well, okay, but I'm just saying, starting Thursday and through Monday, almost all of downtown D.C. is being shut down. Why is this in a relevant to a show that's not just for people in D.C. Because it's just another example of the selfishness of Donald Trump. But you want to know another interesting twist from that before we get into our other stories.
The other interesting twist is the White House press is not being allowed to go to that event. The press for that event is being held by being run by the UFC people.
For the first time, remember, the White House is not controlling the press for an event on the White House
grounds. This big, this is a commercial event. I mean, I don't understand. This is a company that's built to set on the grounds of the White House to do a TV show that they are going to make money off of in which the president is going to appear there by endorsing their product. And he's going to fill the audience. And he's going to create all this publicity for. And somebody's going to get a lot of money off of it. And I'm just wondering who
any guesses? I'm going to guess Trump or somebody with the last name. Yeah, I have a pretty good guess. That is a pretty good guess. Okay, I hope it gets rained out. Yeah, I hope it gets rained out too.
“Everything I want to do gets rained out. Why don't let Trump wants to do it?”
Anyway, let's go into the heavy news. I bet it starts with the Iran War. But I could be wrong.
You're very right. In a significant escalation of the war Iran's revolutionary
guards launched missile and drone strikes against U.S. military bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain, the strike served as retaliation for recent American attacks on Iranian targets, which washington initiated after Iran down a U.S. Apache helicopter near the Strait of Formos. Although officials reported no U.S. casualties and stated nearly all projectiles were intercepted. The exchange is a severe escalation. Yeah, and also we lie about what casualties there are.
We have no idea. We lie about what damage is being done. We have no idea. Also, this helicopter, we have an attack helicopter. In the vicinity of Iran, and we get angry that they shoot it down. What do they think people are going to do? We're supposed to be allowed to run military operations against Iran and they're not allowed to defend themselves. Look, I'm no sympathy with the Iranians. These are terrible people who do terrible
things to their own people. I wish that there were a resolution to this thing in which there was a change of government in Iran. But that's not going to happen. And the position of the United States is to rub salt in this open wound while taking
Impossible positions on how to resolve it.
where it literally yesterday Trump said this will be resolved in two to three days. And hours later,
“as same thing happened over the weekend, he's then going, oh, we're escalating.”
What the heck? It is a clown show of the likes that Ringling Brothers Barnaby Circus never presented.
More clowns in a smaller car doing dumber things. And the only problem is that thousands and thousands of people are dead. And I bet you don't even have this in your news summary of today, because you wrote it early this morning, because you get up early, you're committed. Do you have the story on inflation? Now, that broke after we got our stories. Right. Well, so it related to all of this inflation jump to 4.2% annually, which is the highest in three years. And is
almost twice what it was before this were started. If you think this inflation is due to anything
other than this war, you would be a mistake. And so, you know, this is not just the Iranians problem,
or the Jordanians problem, or the Barraini's problem, or the Caledys problem, or the Lebanese problem, or the Israelis problem, or anybody else in that region's problem. It's a problem for everybody in the world. And it's a problem for average American citizens who go out to buy gasoline and buy food and buy other things. And inflation is going up, up, up, up. You know, it matters whether the president of the United States is competent or a compass mintous. And right now,
we've got one who is neither of those things. Well, I have a story to follow up on that related to
the general anger of people living in America and sits somewhere in between good news and it news
made Democrats. The big, the big category of news. No, I just, as soon as it starts with main Democrats, I know where you're going. So just don't say it, you know, whatever. Main Democrats officially selected political newcomer, Grim Plattner to challenge long servings than under Susan Collins. And what is considered the party's best opportunity to flip a GOP Senate seat. A 41 year old main combat veteran and oyster farmer, Plattner dominated the primary with
a progressive tax-the-rich platform forced his main rival to term governor Janet Mills, just a spend her campaign back in April. Despite his decisive victory, Plattner faces intense scrutiny heading into the general election. In case we all forget a quick reminder, this is due to his past controversies involving incendiary social media posts, a cover-up Nazi linked tattoo and allegations of misconduct and abuse. You know, some stories are just such a mix of good and bad news that I just,
you know, I mean, you can't offer a simple analysis. For those of us who believe that Donald Trump is a threat to the United States and the enabling Republican Party is part of the problem.
“Then winning in November is extremely important. Beating Susan Collins is an important part of”
that. Now that Grim Plattner is the candidate of the Democratic Party in Maine for November, my impulses Democrats have to support him. Independence, who want to see Trump gone, have to support him, Republicans who are not MAGA and would like to reclaim their party, have to support him, because you know that if you don't vote for him, you're going to vote for Susan Collins, and she's going to enable Trump further. Having said that, there are so many questions about
Platner that as you look forward to the campaign, you can imagine they're going to be more bad stories that are going to drop. He is a flawed candidate. And frankly, there are aspects of Platner that really make me a little bit sick. You know, I saw another story today of one of his colleagues in arms from back when he was in the military saying, yeah, we were in like Croatia someplace and we were drunk and in our 20s and of course we got SS tattoos.
“And it's like a come on. Come on. Does everybody get to be in public service?”
Is there no, you know, sort of judgment hurdle that people have to get over?
Like, if somebody like robbed the corner store and then 30 years later, they ...
and they're like, I would like to contribute to the community. I would say great contribute to the
community, but I'm not going to vote for you to be a senator because you ticked one of the disqualifying boxes. That's exactly what I feel about Platner. But what are under the bridge? And, you know, if there is a single rule that I am following going from here through the election,
“it is Trump must be defeated. Maga must be defeated. The only way to save democracy is to”
stop these people. And that means you've got to vote for people on the blue line in the tickets. And, you know, we are, we are. And, you know, some of the time just got to hold your nose and say, I'm going to take the lesser of two emails here. And that's, that's, that's where we are, folks. That's what adults have to do sometimes. But it doesn't feel like a party to me. I'd like celebration. It's just something we've got to forge ahead. But I don't know. Do you
guys feel differently? You may be thrilled. Feel like it's very telling of where we are that like, people would rather roll the dice on someone who is maybe a Nazi than do the same thing over and over and over again. And, like, vote for the same people. You know, I'm assuming that he's going to beat Susan Collins. But, you know, I mean, unfortunately, it's a binary choice. And, like, one person is maybe a Nazi. The other person, you know, she's got blood on her hands, too. So it's like,
really a bad situation. I'm feeling lucky that I don't live in Maine. Have to make that choice. That being said, I want progressive people. I want people who are going to do something different. I don't want Susan Collins. Why also, you're also lucky. You don't live in Maine. I went to
“summer camp. And I'm going to tell you, it's scary. It's shit. That's why Steven King wrote all those”
stories there. Could particularly gets a little like it gets a little bit like, you know, dust, scout, and then you're getting all these back roads and nobody speaks in long sentences. It's kind of scared. I like the beach and everything. But, it's a scary state. I know. I'm sure a lot of you were like, oh, we could have been up, Scott, we would have been. Yeah, great. It's fantastic. My grandparents lived in a gunkwit and it was beautiful. It is. It's beautiful. But it's a little
weird. Riley, you're such an absolutely committed progressive. You must be thrilled. Anybody
like buys into your socialist agenda, you know, must make you happy? Yeah, I mean, I was at first,
but I mean, I feel like just as the scandals pile up, it's like, okay. This feels like a disaster
“waiting to happen. It feels like a, um, oh, why can't I think of the name of Fetterman? Yes, thank you.”
It feels like a Fetterman waiting to happen. A Fetterman waiting to happen. A Fetterman is now a new noun. A Fetterman in weight. Yes. Well, yeah, I agree with you. Look, I'm super progressive. You know, and if the way Graham Platner is going to make up for all of his transgressions is to aggressively pursue a progressive agenda, as his compensation, I'll take it. Me too. Next. Well, more election news, as we have the final results from California, Republican Steve Hilton, and Democrat Javier Bacera
have advanced to the new ever gubernatorial general election. What a Republican advanced. This is rig. These were rigged. He wasn't supposed to win. It's a mostly Democratic state. This is rigged. I think we should storm the capital. Get on meet the press. Get on meet the press. This is rigged. They placed as the top two ventures in a historically expensive primary. Hilton is a former Fox news host endorsed by Donald Trump and he will face Bacera, a moderate former Biden administration
official who is positioned to potentially become the state's first Latino governor of the modern era. The upcoming race to replace term-limited governor Gavin Newsom follows the elimination of progressive
billionaire Tom Styer, who finished third and despite spending more than $216 million of his personal
fortune. Cut, it must be great to be a billionaire. I think this summer, I'm going to throw $216 million down the drain. I mean, if I dropped $216, down the drain, I would put on a scuba suit and go after it. But, you know, Tom Styer, he doesn't have to do. He's a good guy, by the way, Tom Styer wants good things. He's a long time environmentalist. I like him. He's a
Good guy.
to heavily democratic state. And his focus on things like health care, where he's got experience really do matter in the current economy. Steve Hilton, well, you know, go and listen to Ed Lewis, who will note out comment on him again, who showed up at college and, and Hilton was in his college, you know, which is what they call it over there, and they immediately got into a fight. I also have spoken, however, to other people who find him charming and have spent time at his house
and like him very much. I ridiculed them for that position, and I'm not going to give out their names. Well, I have a story that we haven't had an update on in a while. Oh, Greenland. We're going to invade. Cube, but no, what is it? No, we're already doing those things. Yeah, no, no. This update is about Jeffrey Epstein, because billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is scheduled to testify behind closed
“doors today. Now, I think I think he arrived definitely, but he's testifying before the house”
oversight committee as part of a sweeping congressional investigation into the files of disgraced financeier Jeffrey Epstein. Gates is the latest in a string of high profile global figures, subpoenaed or requested to testify by committee chairman James Colmer. The deposition's fall a massive trove of unredacted justice department documents that have laid bare the extensive social, financial, and philanthropic networks Epstein maintained with the global elite long after his initial
2008 conviction versus soliciting prostitution from a minor. Look, the more this is out there, the more it's in the news, the more that we learn about it, the better. Obviously, Todd Blanch is on track to become the next attorney general and his main job is to bury this. A lot of it has
“been buried. I'm sure a lot of evidence has been destroyed. There are things that have happened”
that we will never know about this. A lot of this happened 20, 25 years ago and has been buried
many times over. It's like a horror movie and they keep trying to kill it. It did take the grave deeper, put more dirt on top of it, to protect all these rich guys. I'd really like to hear what Melinda Gates has to say about all of this given her perspectives on it, which have lasted a long time. But in any event, May they go and have these hearings and may it shed some light on what's going on. Will Gates do anything to reveal Trump's involvement? No, and there's
new news this week on the Epstein thing of somebody who worked for Epstein saying how many times she arranged meetings and phone calls and so forth between Trump and Epstein? I hope it all gets out
“there. There's another thing he said yesterday where he said, we have this voting problem in the”
United States, all these rigged elections, and where the real infractions are encouraged. He doesn't know the word infractions. I'm just using it. Our occurring are in inner cities, among the voters
of color. That's where the problem is. It comes very close to the core here, which is with what the
court is doing and what they've done in the Shelby County decision and what they've done ever since. And these other Gerrymandering decision, they are trying to reverse all the progress that was made since the Jim Crow era and make it so the votes of people of color just don't count. They're trying to negate that they're trying to undo equality, racial equality in our system. And that, of course, isn't even bigger story than the Epstein story because it's tens of millions of people who are going
to become second-class citizens even more so if they get their way. Following an immigration crackdown in Portland, Maine, a federal lawsuit alleges that the DHS illegally attract and intimidated peaceful observers, including threatening to place one on a domestic terrorist or watch list. Although DHS is repeatedly denied maintaining a standalone database of protesters and unpublicized letter from a former ICE director acknowledged that the agency collects and preserves personal records
on individual suspected of potential violations who were never arrested.
While makers and civil liberties experts have expressed deep concern over these surveillance practices, pointing out that federal immigration officials are effectively collecting official government records on citizens exercising their first amendment rights. Look, let me try to sum this up.
I'm going to pick up a theme from earlier and I'll keep this real brief.
They lie, they lie, they lie, they lie, they lie, they lie, they lie, they lie, they lie, they lie.
If their lips are moving, they're lying. If they're issuing a press release, they're lying. If they are providing you with new data, they're lying. If they're telling you what the process is, they're lying. There's just too much data for us to sidestep this core five.
Denial from the Trump administration as a admission of guilt. That's the world we live in.
“And once again, that's why we hold our nose and we vote for the candidates that can take them out”
of power. And right now, it's June. June, July, August, September, October, November. Five months, 150 days. If you can't find it within your heart to spend some time on the each of the next 150 days to support a candidate, canvas, donate some money, use your own platforms to get the message out. If things go wrong in November, it's on you because the main people who contributed to the problems that we've got in this country
are not the 80 million people who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 allegedly.
“It's the 90 million people who didn't vote. That's what we're up against. We have to get them engaged.”
We'll look at some of these things today. We're going to take a deep dive and deep state radio. And these issues associated with the Middle East and American politics around the Middle East that are highly contentious in a very special episode with Senator Chris Van Hollen, of Maryland, and Jeremy Benami, who's the head of Jay Strip, which is the emerging main strain voice for the Jewish community in the United States. So I strongly urge you to go and
listen to that podcast. We'll make it available everywhere. I think we're going to distribute it in our usual channels. We'll also distribute it on the need to know channels. And we'll have more for you each and every other day of this week. So until then, thanks Riley. Cheer up. Things can only get better. Thanks, Mena. You're looking at that smile, Mena. She's, she is a brave sunshine.
“That's why I like yikes face of like things. I hope can only get better. But it seems like every”
day they just like knew bottom out. Well, I think for the lowest we can go before it goes up. Yeah, no, you're probably right. And then in the end, we'll have to be in the universe and it burns out. Anyway, great. Great. Happy Wednesday. Happy Wednesday, everybody. See you later.
