HOT TOPICS | Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth & The Economy...Everything is Worse Than You Think
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I see Boston, Massachusetts in the house. I see Michigan in the house. Elimination, everybody. LFG. Okay, so here's the deal. Why we are, we had a completely different show planned and then Excuse me, all hell broke loose. We got new information on the economy. We got new information on this pipe bomb suspect. Wait, okay. Wait until you see this Colorado and Brooklyn and Dallas in the house. New information in Long Beach, California on this pipe bomb suspect. And also the Texas, we have a guest for you now that's going to be on to talk about this Texas redistricting issue. And so much more. Right now, I said to you yesterday that the wheels are falling off. Everything is falling off. the thing that's happening with Hegseth, wait till you hear that there's new developments on that.
So basically, this is just a breaking news show. So every time we got ready to go, Andy's like, wait a minute, connectivity. We had like, you know, for some reason, everything has been slow this week. So it takes me a long time to get onto our system, blah, blah, blah. Let me know if you're having that issue. And then all of these things just kept breaking, like new information on this. And then we got word on this big media merger. That is an interesting thing because we thought it was going to be paramount to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, which is a huge, huge media FCC. I mean, it's going to be crazy if it's going to get approval. Netflix. Netflix is going to buy now Warner Brothers Discovery. And then I kept saying, oh, well, that's better for CNN because at least they won't have to deal with Larry Ellison or David Ellison and the conservative Barry Weiss, all of that.
you know, not that I have anything personally, but I just think it's too much conservative consolidation of media. And then all of a sudden, boom, you wake up to the breaking news that it's going to be right now, Netflix that's going to buy HBO and the big marquee brands over at Warner Brothers. But guess who was left out of that? CNN. Now, according to Andrew Ross Sorkin, they're not buying CNN. And so what happens now for them? I think that they still, CNN will remain not with Warner Brothers Discovery, but the spinoff thing that Warner Brothers has with Gunnar Wiedenfels, who's the guy that was sort of the guy who came in to sort of slash everything. It's crazy. So we got a lot of stuff going on.
this morning that we're going to show you here. And also some very interesting comments from someone who has been in the news because of an interview with Tucker Carlson.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–22:07
2
Who is the arrested January 6 pipe bomber and what new details emerged about his alleged motive?
22:07–27:59
3
How did the show explain the surprising claim that the pipe bomber is a Black Trump supporter?
27:59–52:47
4
What did the Supreme Court decision allow for Texas redistricting and why does it matter for 2026?
52:47–1:05:28
5
How does Texas Rep. Gene Wu say citizens and blue states should respond to the redistricting ruling?
1:05:28–1:16:40
Speakers
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