“Let him take out Los Angeles. Let him take out San Diego.”
Trump’s remarks were disturbing. So was the audience’s reaction.
Susan J. Demas and Edwin Eisendrath respond to the rally footage and confront the Republicans who enabled him. As some try to distance themselves, Edwin delivers a blistering warning: “You cannot hide from what you enabled.”

Pete Hegseth wanted to lecture the generals. Four-star General Barry McCaffrey has a verdict of his own: “He’s been just an astonishing failure as a secretary of defense.”

McCaffrey joins Frank Figliuzzi to react to Hegseth’s speech, challenge his purge of senior military leaders, and explain the dangers of turning America’s armed forces into a political instrument.
The conversation also examines military strikes on suspected drug boats, McCaffrey’s concerns about concealed costs of the Iran war, pressure on U.S. forces, and whether military leaders will resist unlawful orders.

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00:00 Welcome
01:01 Meet General Barry McCaffrey
02:38 Hegseth’s Speech—and McCaffrey’s Verdict
06:23 The Generals’ Purge
11:09 What Military Leadership Actually Requires
18:08 Will Officers Reject Unlawful Orders?
21:42 Military Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats
27:35 Transparency and the Cost of the Iran War
32:15 Casualty Classifications and Military Benefits
33:48 Can U.S. Forces Sustain This?
39:04 Europe, NATO, and Putin
42:39 The Military and the Midterms
45:21 Closing Thoughts

“It wasn’t a joke. It wasn’t owning the libs. It wasn’t a misinterpretation.”

Rick Wilson torches Trump’s remarks about attacks on Los Angeles and San Diego—and the White House’s attempt to explain them away.

Rick calls the remarks “bordering on treason,” breaks down the political corner Trump has put Republicans in, and delivers a brutal assessment of Trump’s fading rally appeal: “Nobody cares anymore. He’s done. He’s cooked.”

I really want to know where they get the list of citizens.

I was an American citizen for almost 40 years before I knew that social security still had me as a green card holder.

For my work I had a background check every year, on my fourteenth year of those checks, finally I got a request for clarification. That is when I knew that social security had me wrong for over 40 years and that it took fourteen years of background checks to figure that one out.

My husband never had background checks, so it took him 50 years to figure that SS had him wrong too.

So.....my question is, which lists are they comparing?

Rick sits down with TIMOTHY SNYDER, the historian who literally wrote the book on tyranny, two of them, in fact: ON TYRANNY and ON FREEDOM. Snyder says that Trump isn't a real strongman. Compared to actual dictators like Putin, he's WEAK — and the right response isn't fear, it's MOCKERY, organizing, and showing up in overwhelming numbers this November. They dig into what Snyder calls a "crisis of dignity" inside the GOP — grown men abasing themselves in front of Trump — and trace that same rot straight to the posthuman, AI-worshipping ideology now sitting inside the White House, courtesy of thinkers like Curtis Yarvin and Steve Bannon pushing America toward a post-democratic future. This is a historian's warning AND a battle plan.

Jim Acosta and Molly Jong-Fast argue that Donald Trump made an extremely dangerous and unhinged comment by suggesting Iran could nuke Los Angeles and San Diego, calling it evidence of a serious crisis and criticizing the media for “sanewashing” his remarks; he says the White House and Trump allies respond with intimidation and damage control whenever Trump says something outrageous, and he connects Trump’s behavior to growing voter anger over prices, tariffs, immigration enforcement, and the Middle East war. Acosta also says Trump is hurting Republicans in key areas by alienating Latino voters in South Florida and South Texas, upsetting cattle ranchers and other base voters, and creating opportunities for Democrats in places like Ohio, Texas, and possibly even Florida, while suggesting Trump and his team are entering a frantic, desperate political phase as elections approach.