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Thank you and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkuff joined by Riley Fessler, Minnesota. We're here to give you a rundown, a quick rundown ready to help you with your day by helping us understand what's going on in the world. And Minnesota is going to kick us off.
Iran fired a large wave of missiles at Israel forcing millions into bomb shelters as the US is real war with Iran, entered its sixth day in continuing to expand across the Middle East. In Washington, the US Senate rejected a measure that would have required congressional authorization of the war, leaving President Trump with broad authority to continue the military campaign. The conflict is disrupting global oil shipping, rattling markets, and intensifying uncertainty in Iran as it prepares to choose a successor to the Satellayan Supreme Leader.
“Yeah, look folks, I think it's becoming clear and clear to people around the world that this was a really, really ill-considered bad move on the part of the United States,”
voted into it by BB Netanyahu and the Israelis. The consequences of these strikes are vastly beyond anything that Trump and the people around Trump considered. Whether it's the consequences for financial markets, the consequences for regional stability, the consequences for triggering an arms race, the consequences for potentially ratcheting up terrorism around the world, the consequences for our alliances which are deeply strained by division on this. And the consequences for other geopolitical issues, if the United States is bogged down and using a lot of material in a place like Iran or thereabouts,
surely the Chinese are looking at this and seeing stories in the U.S. press about how we're running out of certain kinds of munitions and going, oh, that's interesting. Oh, that's interesting. There's less of a U.S. deterrent force in and around Taiwan, for example. And so, the question becomes how long, and there's a story this morning from Zeteo that within the White House, Trump is uncomfortable with the fact that there are losses mounting on the U.S. side, even though, you know, his top spokespeople, like Pete Higgs, that's shrugged it off as Higgs, that did yesterday in a repulsive way in which he said,
focusing on American war dead is fake news. It's the press trying to do gotcha journalism as opposed to honoring the dead,
“but Trump is now super uncomfortable with his position. And does that say he's going to get out quickly?”
Well, as anybody who knows anything about war planning or the history of war fair ghost knows,
Once you start a war, you lose control of the war.
they may want to declare victory, but they're not the only people with a vote here. The Iranians have a vote. Iran's neighbors who've been attacked have a vote. The Israelis have a vote, and unexpected consequences have a vote. We did an excellent discussion yesterday, deep state radio, talking about the unintended consequences of this war, and how they could be extremely great. I strongly urge you to go look at that podcast or view it on YouTube. It's not what they expected, and that's because there's no good functioning planning process involved.
As some of you know, I've written a lot about that. I've written about the NSC process, and this is the worst we've ever seen the most apt defeat, non-functional NSC we've ever seen. And there's a top story at the New York Times today on that from our frame David Sanger,
“and I think it gets it right, although it makes it sound a little bit like Trump is kind of a genius writing his gut as opposed to”
an irresponsible guy who just doesn't like to take advice. Having said that David quotes me a couple of times in the article, so it must contain something that's right. Anyway, give that a look as well, and let's move on to story number two from Riley. President Trump is reportedly considering firing a homeland security secretary Christy No, not following a series of contentious congressional hearings and growing internal friction.
Much of contentious, what a shame. Much of the tension stems from a controversial $220 million tax payer funded ad campaign,
which no one claimed Trump personally approved reportedly causing significant anger within the West Wing. I've personally seen a lot of those ads on my YouTube, so I can't imagine how much $220 million got them in terms of advertising. In addition to facing bipartisan criticism over her leadership at personal life, no one has lost the support of key Republicans like Senator Tom Tillis who is publicly called for her resignation. Despite these challenges, some GOP leaders warn that removing her during an ongoing DHS shutdown could complicate immigration negotiations and lead to a difficult confirmation battle for any potential successor.
Yeah, maybe so, but I, you know, have been saying here for a while that Christy No will be one of the first casualties because of the amount of bad press that Trump is getting around their immigration. And the fact that he's blind to the fact that the person he really needs to fire is Steven Miller. He's, you know, I mean, until you fire Steven Miller, you haven't fixed the problem, but, you know, Christy Noom has made a bunch of unforced errors, including associated with her ugly relationship with Corey Lewandowski,
and, you know, her indulgence in big spending on jets and other kinds of things acting like a queen over DHS.
“And so, that's why I was considered here to be at the top of the early departure list from this administration.”
You saw when she was in the hearings, she didn't take the defined attitude of Pam Bondi, she was put on the defensive.
When asked about Corey Lewandowski, she said, "Oh, that's tabloid trash, but she never denied the relationship or the story surrounding it."
That's not the kind of thing that Trump likes very much. I would like to think, however, the thing that's pushing Trump over the edge was the move by one of my favorite Congress people, representative Moscow. It's a Florida who went to the hearing and was wearing a justice for a cricket pin, a cricket being the dog, the fristy Noom shot. You know, that story is never going to go away.
“You know, I really do think it's important for people to understand how politics and political memory and the news works.”
When you shoot a puppy, that's the first line of your obituary.
She will never escape that.
And in a way, it was kind of the beginning of the end for her. Even though Trump is a well-known dogator, which is one of the worst things I can say about him, Riley. Actually, I'm going to do that next one.
Oh, terribly sorry, I got carried away thinking in my defensive dogs.
Totally understandable, anyone would have put in that position.
Exactly.
“Republicans are urging Congress to pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security,”
and arguing that the conflict in Iran and potential retaliatory terrorist threats make full funding urgent. Democrats oppose the current bill because it lacks new restrictions and oversight on immigration agencies like Ice and CBP. Though they say they are willing to fund the rest of the department. With negotiations stalled, the funding lapse is beginning to affect workers pay and some security activities while both parties blame each other for the impasse. The United States goes, kicks a hornet's nest a few times, and now says, "Oh, we've got to have advanced spent.
We've got to have increased spending for Hornet repellent." I mean, the argument, the circularity of the argument that the United States has made terrorism more likely,
and therefore we have to have more money for it, and we made it likely by entering into a war that we should never have entered into.
Is stupifying.
“But there's another side to the spending story here, and I don't want to let it go by.”
There were reports yesterday that the first three or four days of this war, it's cost $5 billion. The Center for American Progress put out a report on that. $5 billion. You know, we don't think about that so much, but as the Center for American Progress release pointed out,
$5 billion is enough money to pay for snap benefits for 2 million people for a year.
It's enough money to feed Americans who are hungry, who don't have access to healthy food for a year, 2 million Americans. That's the choice that we're making every single day here, when we are spending billions, to say nothing of the other kinds of economic, military, geopolitical and social consequences.
“I would be also a miss if I did not point out that the reports are right now.”
1,000 people have died 1,000 Iranian civilians have died in this war in attacks by the United States and the Israelis. 1,000 people. I mean, you know, Iran may seem far away, but this war was started on a whim. A whim of the President to distract from Epstein. America's allies did not know that this war was going to start when it did two, three days before the war.
It was an impulse, and because of the impulse of one man, and I talked to some very senior officials and diplomats in the past 24 hours about this, and it's very clear this decision came down to the decision of one man. A thousand people who were living their lives who did not deserve to die are now dead. And that number is certainly going to go off particularly if this war drags out and is expanded.
And right now it is expanding. Kurds are you know, entering in the north of Iran as a force to ostensibly according to reporting, distract the Iranian military to enable people to go into the streets and to seek new leadership. Whether that strategy or not works is unclear, arming the Kurds and stirring up that particular Hornet's nest, also as consequences for Iraq, for Syria, for Turkey.
The Kurds deserve American support. They've been betrayed time and time again by the United States. The fact that they are going in and undertaking this is a further sign of how dependable they have been as a US ally. Even if the US has not been dependable ally of theirs. But every day in countless ways, this conflict is expanding.
The cost is going up. The human cost, the economic cost, and you know, we have not seen the worst of this.
We'll keep following it here, but I just do want to underscore the things tha...
Right now. The Kurds are now in the United States.
“Viewers of recent vendors may chopify, considered to an ancient hitdown.”
After the Supreme Court invalidated $130 billion in IEEPA based tariffs, numerous companies filed lawsuits
seeking a full refunds of the collected duties. A Tennessee judge seems fair to me. A Tennessee judge has assumed exclusive jurisdiction over these refund claims a move a small business coalition's hailed as a significant victory. To replace the struck down measures, Treasury Secretary Scott Beson announced the likely implementation of a new 15% global tariff this week. These developments fall a period of intense trade volatility under, quote, liberation day policies.
Wait a minute. I just want to understand this.
So there were illegal tariffs that were paid for by Americans that cost $130 billion.
And they were not tariffs, you know, the courts have ruled that the government had no right to take that money. So in order to pay the money back, rather than just saying paying the money back, they want to issue more tariffs, which are paid for by who this is.
“They're only two of you in this class, but let me ask who pays the tariffs?”
We do. We do. Thank you both of you get a gold star for today. So we are being asked to pay more money to pay ourselves back money that they stole from us. Oh my god.
Oh my god. That's as circular as the logic code that goes with the Iran war where we're saying there was an imminent threat. Because Israel was going to attack Iran and Iran would strike back and could attack us. But then Trump said yesterday that the people that attacking Iran, that the Iranian, that the Israeli idea to attack Iran came from him, which meant that the imminent threat that we are now in this, you know, costly war over came from us. The first time in history, a country is responding to an imminent threat which was itself.
And now we steal money from the American people and then we propose to pay for it by taking more money from the American people. Folks, wake up. Sorry. So I apologize. Yeah, it's under my skin.
Well, we'll do one more story to infuriate us and then we'll take a break. Okay. And then we'll go and breathe into a break. And then we'll go and breathe into a break. Minnesota has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration accusing the federal government of weaponizing Medicaid by withholding hundreds of millions in matching funds as political punishment.
While the administration justifies the freeze as a necessary response to alleged fraud, state officials counter that Minnesota's error rates are well below the national average. And that they are already meeting federal compliance milestones.
Minnesota leaders warned that these funding cuts could be catastrophic potentially destabilizing the health care system for over a million vulnerable residents, including children and seniors.
Oh, good. Right, it pisses me off. They are going and targeting blue states. They are targeting poor people in blue states or people who are in need. In blue states who are depending on these dollars.
They're doing it for political reasons and what will happen. People won't get their medicine. People will not get their care and coverage. People will go bankrupt trying to protect themselves. And this is all for a political stunt.
“Not happening in red states, although I'm sure a lot of the people who are affected by this are actually Republicans who have got to be going, what did we do to ourselves?”
Because that's one of the growing or friends that you're hearing from communities across America who voted for Donald Trump, who now realize that he is pushing up prices, taking money out of their programs to give to the rich, taking money away from them in order to fight wars that we ought not to be fighting, putting the country at greater risk, undermining democracy, lowering our standing in the world.
That's even the immigration programs that they support it are taking innocent...
That's what these people voted for and now regret.
“And as for the rest of us who voted against it, we're angry.”
We're angry that people didn't realize this was going to happen because they said it was going to happen, because if you read project 2025, you knew it was going to happen.
Because if you listen to Trump and if you listen to Stephen Miller, it was clear it was going to happen.
“But that doesn't minimize the human costs here in a broad of having a reckless, incompetent, corrupt, greedy, ignorant, ill-prepared, completely unfit by any metric.”
President of the United States, surrounded by sick of ants, supported by a Congress that says yes to whatever he wants. God help us if we can't figure out a way to have free and fair elections later this year.
“So, Minus Wright, you must say sometimes, why do they only do five stories or five clusters of stories each day?”
Because we don't think you could take more. If we did six, it would ruin your, I don't think you could handle it. We also don't think we could handle it, gets us wound up. But we'll be back tomorrow. We've got more new podcasts coming to you later today, including words matter with norm or in stain and we have special guests today. We don't normally have that podcast, but our special guest is our friend Mary Trump, niece of the president who's also a psychotherapist who's got loads of perspectives on the president at this moment.
And we'll talk about it. So join us there, watch what we're doing elsewhere, subscribe, support what we're doing, and we'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye.
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