HOT TOPICS | Donald Trump's Iran War Crisis: This Is A Mess!
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rise and shine everyone welcome to hot topics the don lemon show here on the don lemon channel on youtube on twitch on substack on tick tock instagram facebook wherever you get your streaming and we are happy that you're here and here in such numbers wow look already you guys are here and can you believe guys i'm here and it's not even what time is it is this like eight after This is kind of like starting on time for us. So I want to put this up, show you what we're monitoring this morning. By the way, like and thumbs up. It does affect the algorithm. More people become aware of our channel and our conversation. And that's very important for the moment that we're in because, you know, we're independent media, independent journalism, and we give it to you straight.
without corporate influence or any of that stuff. So thank you for joining us this morning. I want to make sure, there we go, straighten that out. Thank you for joining us this morning. Again, I'm on the road, as you can see, as always, trying to bring you the news from different places. And I'm going to talk to some people where I am, and you're going to see what's up, what's happening in the world as it relates to gas prices and how people are feeling about the war. I'm sure you've been seeing some of our social media things that we've been putting up with people who have Very strong opinions about what's happening with Iran. But one of the interesting things is that I just want to tell you real quickly before I get to the news.
I stopped, this woman was going into a supermarket and I wanted to ask her like, hey, when you come out, can you tell me about the prices or whatever? And I said, I just want to talk to you. I said, ma'am, can I talk to you? And she said, not right now. About what though? And I said, about the war in Iran. It's easy. And she goes, that's not easy. And I said, yeah, it's easy because people have a very strong opinion about it. And when people have very strong opinions about things, it's easy for them to voice them. If you don't, then you're like, I don't really know about it or whatever. And then I think she kind of got it, but she didn't. If there's a subject that you have very strong opinions about, all you have to do is say, I have really strong opinions about this.
So anyways... That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. So welcome to the Don Lemon Show. We are watching two hearings. We can call them warring hearings on Capitol Hill, both in front of Senate committees. There's Mark Wayne Mullen there. He is being nominated for Ice Barbie's job, Kristi Noem's position that she still holds but is not really active in. She's just a figurehead at the moment until Mark Wayne Mullen returns. is confirmed or not, chances are he will be confirmed, to be the next head of Homeland Security. So we'll see what happens. Controversial figure. He's speaking right now. And at the bottom, this one is for Tulsi Gabbard, who's the director of national intelligence. And she's been under fire
somewhat for what happened yesterday. Joe Kent, who is her director of counterterrorism, resigned saying that he couldn't in good faith continue on because he's against the war in Iran. And he said, in essence, he believes that this is more Israel's war than our war, meaning America's war. And that he said that What did he say? He said that there were coalitions and factions who were pro-Israel coalitions and factions who were pushing the president into attacking Iran. By the way, he is a vehement anti-Semite. And as anyone will tell you, we had Steve Schmidt on yesterday. I'll say it, he's Jew-hating. But anyways, it's a big move for the Trump administration. And then so you see, we have Tel Aviv and Beirut, so we're watching what's happening in Iran.
But Just to give you an idea of what's going on, let's see, can we listen in to Mark Wayne Mullen for a little bit to hear what he's saying? And then there's been a fiery, contentious back and forth between him and Rand Paul. And Rand Paul is running this hearing. It did not start off cordially, even from a Republican.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:17–7:15
2
How is the Trump administration handling the escalating war with Iran and Strait of Hormuz closure?
7:15–8:11
3
Who is Markwayne Mullin and why is his Homeland Security nomination controversial?
8:11–14:39
4
What happened during the heated exchange between Markwayne Mullin and Senator Rand Paul?
14:39–20:59
5
How did senators challenge Mullin on violent rhetoric, ICE practices, and use-of-force concerns?
20:59–30:40
6
What economic impacts are listeners seeing from the Iran conflict and rising diesel prices?
30:40–1:01:58