Episodes

  • What’s the real reason behind Trump’s annexation agenda?

    What’s the real reason behind Trump’s annexation agenda?
    Jan 29 2025
    Now that he is President Donald Trump again, there is still talk about immigration, cabinet confirmations and the economy. But there are a myriad of questions about another focus of the president: What’s been dubbed his “Annexation Agenda.” Trump, in the past, criticized U.S. military involvement in other countries, but he did a complete turnaround in recent weeks, pushing the idea that he wants to take over Greenland from Denmark, reclaim the Panama Canal and make Canada the 51st state. And he didn’t rule out the use of military force to do so.
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    25 mins
  • President-elect Trump’s politically charged Day One agenda

    President-elect Trump’s politically charged Day One agenda
    Jan 14 2025
    Inauguration Day is Jan. 20. President-elect Donald Trump and his team made a series of promises that would happen if he were to win the election. No one will argue that 2025 got off to a turbulent start. It leaves the president-elect having to confront a difficult opening to the 2nd Trump presidency. As one analyst put it, he’ll be “confronting the kinds of crises he has long been railing against.” You’ve got the driver plowing a truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans. The detonation of a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Oh, and the breach of the U.S. Treasury Department. That was a major cybersecurity incident at the hands of what’s believed to be Chinese state-sponsored hackers.
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    40 mins
  • If 2024 was a year of political disruption, will 2025 be a year of political reformation?

    If 2024 was a year of political disruption, will 2025 be a year of political reformation?
    Jan 6 2025
    The future has a history. And while we can’t see into the future, looking into our past can prove powerful. That said, there are two quotes that come to mind. Let’s start with George Bernard Shaw (quoting German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel): “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” Politically, 2024 had me and many others, quite frankly, taken aback. It was a year that saw President Joe Biden drop his re-election bid after being forced out by top leaders of his own party. Vice President Kamala Harris swept in as the party’s nominee and stood her own in a debate with former President Donald Trump.
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    36 mins
  • New page being written in Middle East and world history has been likened to ‘fall of Berlin Wall’

    New page being written in Middle East and world history has been likened to ‘fall of Berlin Wall’
    Dec 17 2024
    The world is watching to see if the Middle East is on the brink of monumental change precipitated by the ouster of Syria’s Bashar Assad. Rebels forced Assad to flee and seek asylum in Moscow, marking a major turning point in the nation’s 14-year civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule. There are those who believe this will engender a major ripple effect. In fact, one GOP lawmaker thinks those ripple effects will be as profound as what was seen with the “fall of the Berlin Wall.”
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    50 mins
  • Are politicians compromising America’s justice system and at what cost?

    Are politicians compromising America’s justice system and at what cost?
    Dec 10 2024
    The leaders of both major political parties have argued this nation’s justice system is politically biased. President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, after promising he wouldn’t because he felt the Justice Department, his own Justice Department, treated his son unfairly. He said, “raw politics” had “infected” Hunter Biden’s prosecution on gun and tax evasion offenses and “led to a miscarriage of justice.” On the other side of the political spectrum, president-elect Donald Trump long maintained that his galaxy of legal woes — both the criminal and civil charges against him -- were politically motivated attacks orchestrated by his adversaries. Then his re-election to a second term in the Oval Office led to cases against Trump being dismissed.
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    33 mins
  • Trump’s mass deportation plan causes anxiety, delves into uncharted territory

    Trump’s mass deportation plan causes anxiety, delves into uncharted territory
    Dec 3 2024
    President-elect Donald Trump promised to make immigration a priority on his first day in office. And he has confirmed since winning the election that he plans to declare a national emergency and mount a mass deportation campaign. The promise will come, not through new legislation, not through structured policy change, but through Executive Order. Mr. Trump wants to send hundreds of thousands of people across the border with the stroke of the pen. Will it be that simple? There is little doubt that groups are ready to defend the rights of immigrants here in the United States and ready to mount a legal defense.
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    47 mins
  • Biden works to secure legacy with Trump lurking in the wings

    Biden works to secure legacy with Trump lurking in the wings
    Nov 27 2024
    President Joe Biden’s goal is to secure his legacy as he spends his last weeks in the White House. While the people in his administration work to prioritize the agenda and emphasize the things that might secure that legacy, they are mindful that Biden’s successor (who was also his predecessor) is lurking in the wings and come Jan. 20 will likely tear it all down. There is little doubt that now that the election is over, the Biden administration doesn’t feel burdened by the constraints of a campaign, nor do they seem concerned by President-elect Donald Trump’s pending return to power. They do, however, realize that everything they do may have little or no consequence after the inauguration.
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    36 mins
  • Trump’s polarizing Cabinet picks keep generating earthquakes and aftershocks

    Trump’s polarizing Cabinet picks keep generating earthquakes and aftershocks
    Nov 19 2024
    One political analyst described the flurry of President-elect Donald Trump’s blizzard of Cabinet picks as “MAGA shock & awe.” They could only be described as unorthodox. And it leaves one wondering if this country is about to take a dangerous ride. The earthquake started with appointing the world’s richest man — his buddy Elon Musk — to head a new department. His job: gut government agencies and departments. Musk will be joined by another Trump rabble-rouser, Vivek Ramaswamy, at what’s being called the “Department of Government Efficiency.” Yeah, the former GOP presidential candidate who posted on Musk’s “X” (formerly Twitter) “SHUT IT DOWN.”
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    36 mins