No Agenda Episode 1892 - "Kill Switch"

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  Credits
    Kill Switch
    Executive Producers:
      The North Idaho Sanity Brigade
    Associate Executive Producers:
      Zadoc Brown
      Linda Lupatkin
    End of Show Mixes:
      Sir Chris Wilson
    Art By: Parker Paulie, a Black Knight
    Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
    Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
    Back Office Jae Dvorak
    Chapters: Dreb Scott
    Clip Custodian: Neal Jones
    Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman
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    Darren O'Neill and Larry Bleidner grab the wheel of The Best Podcast In The Universe and bring the heat and Adam Joins them!
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    00 ⚔️ HORMUZ - THE DEAL AND THE DENIAL
      ⚡ UPDATED ON AIR DAY. A deal WAS announced this morning — and it is not what the headline says. Iran says it reached a shipping agreement with OMAN. It covers routes only, not the reopening of the waterway; the strait stays closed until the US lifts its naval blockade, which Trump and the Pentagon say will not happen; it still needs Khamenei's sign-off; and the US is not a party to it. Ships are still sitting stationary on the marine-traffic map and a tanker reported two explosions in the strait this morning. Bloomberg opened its programme calling it a step toward reopening and then had its own Middle East editor say it means nothing of the kind and that there are STILL no formal US-Iran talks. Everything that follows was cut before the announcement and it all held up: CBS's correspondent fact-checking her own anchor's count of threat-then-talks cycles upward; Trump calling Iran unbelievably duplicitous; Adm. Kirby knocking down the toll claim for the third show running; MS NOW reporting the draft would give Iran temporary control while the US pressured Oman to sign — confirmed today; Rubio insisting the straits are open; and Mark Esper, Trump's own Defense Secretary, objecting that the memorandum concedes control of the Strait. The prediction was the segment. Today it landed.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Bloomberg — Iran says deal with Oman on Strait of Hormuz agreed in principle (6 Aug)
        CNN — Live: Iran says Hormuz deal is close but US must meet commitments before strait reopens (6 Aug)
        NBC News — Iran and the US say a Hormuz deal is close, but one or both would have to back down
        Al Jazeera — Iran, Oman, US 'close' to Hormuz deal: what do they all want?
        CNBC — Bessent says there may be a deal Tuesday or Wednesday to open the Strait of Hormuz
      Clips — 12
      00 TODAY The-Deal-Announced Routes-Only Still-Closed
        01 LiveNOW from FOX — Iran says the Oman deal is shipping routes only strait stays closed
          Source
          📺 LiveNOW from FOX anchor — Fox News (MSM)
          LiveNOW from FOX anchor (FOX): Trump says a deal could land this week to reopen the strait — "no surprise here, though" — Iran is denying it again: the Oman agreement covers shipping routes only, NOT the reopening of the waterway, and Iran's parliamentary security committee says the strait stays closed until the US lifts its naval blockade, which Trump and the Pentagon insist will not happen. A tanker reported two explosions in the strait this morning.
        02 Bloomberg — Middle East editor this doesnt mean shipping resumes and there are still no US-Iran talks
          Source
          📺 Stuart Livingstone Wallace, Bloomberg Middle East executive editor — Bloomberg (MSM)
          Stuart Livingstone Wallace, Bloomberg Middle East executive editor (BLOOMBERG): takes apart his own programme's headline — Iran has made clear this does not mean shipping resumes at a normal pace, the timing is conditional on US actions which he calls an ominous remark, and there are STILL no formal talks happening between the US and Iran on the nuclear file, the assets or the oil sanctions.
      01 Fact-Check Duplicitous Oman-Only
        01 1- CBS — Olivia Rinaldi fact check I counted eight to a dozen not five
          Source
          📺 Olivia Rinaldi fact check — CBS News (MSM)
          Olivia Rinaldi fact check (CBS): Anchor Errol Barnett says viewers will find this familiar and asks for a fact check — he counts five threat-then-talks cycles. Rinaldi says his count is low, she has eight to a dozen. She then states flatly that the President says they are talking when there are no talks, and…
        02 2- CBS — Trump calls Iran unbelievably duplicitous their usual blather
          Source
          📺 Trump calls Iran unbelievably — CBS News (MSM)
          Trump calls Iran unbelievably (CBS): Rinaldi lays out that the two sides are not talking directly at all. She then reads Trump's Truth Social post back — Iran "begged" for a meeting, then publicly denies it — and ends on his claim that Iran will operate the Strait "powerfully" when in fact the US blockade…
        03 3- NBC — Last chance before decapitation Iran talks only to Oman
          Source
          📺 Last chance before decapitation — NBC News (MSM)
          Last chance before decapitation (NBC): NBC opens on the threat bringing Iran back to the table, with Trump's own "they called me and said please don't attack." Oil plunges. Then the turn: Iran denies any talks, Trump escalates to "last chance before decapitation," and correspondent Kir confirms Iran is negotiating…
        04 4- MS NOW — Adm Kirby on the toll we are never going to charge
          Source
          📺 Adm Kirby on the — MS NOW (?)
          Adm Kirby on the (MS NOW): O'Donnell teases the tape and plays Trump on charging ships to pass — "If anybody's going to charge, we'll charge. We have total control." He asks how negotiations survive statements like that. Retired Rear Adm. John Kirby answers that the US is obviously never going to…
        05 5- PBS — Peter Baker no president ever failed to explain a war like this - PBS NewsHour
          Source
          📺 Peter Baker no president — PBS NEWSHOUR (?)
          Peter Baker no president (PBS NEWSHOUR): Asked for historical context, Baker concedes presidents have lied about war before — the Pentagon Papers, Vietnam. Then he draws the distinction: Vietnam was popular at the start and JFK and LBJ both explained why it mattered. Trump never has. He closes on the Oval Office…
        06 6- MS NOW — Draft would give Iran temporary control of the Strait US pressuring Oman
          Source
          📺 Draft would give Iran — MS NOW (?)
          Draft would give Iran (MS NOW): A senior Middle East diplomat tells the network the draft Iran–Oman agreement would give Iran temporary control of the Strait, and that the US and Europe are pressuring Oman to accept — a major concession against everything the administration has said. Then Trump's own tape:…
        07 7- PBS — Rubio there is oil moving right now the straits are open - PBS NewsHour
          Source
          📺 Rubio there is oil — PBS NEWSHOUR (?)
          Rubio there is oil (PBS NEWSHOUR): At a Paraguay bilateral, Rubio is asked how close a deal with Iran is. He answers that oil is moving through the straits right now and the straits are open — then describes a negotiation between Oman and Iran about how more ships can pass safely, with progress made but no…
      02 Esper Trumps-Own-SecDef
        01 1- CNN — Esper the MOU gives Iran some control of the Strait
          Source
          📺 Esper the MOU gives — CNN (MSM)
          Esper the MOU gives (CNN): Esper confirms Iran's foreign ministry is talking to the Omanis about how the Strait gets administered — a northern route inside Iranian territorial waters, a southern route in Omani waters. He says that is consistent with the MOU, and then states the consequence he objects…
        02 2- CNN — Esper on depleted THAAD PAC-3 stockpiles and keeping an eye on China
          Source
          📺 Esper on depleted THAAD — CNN (MSM)
          Esper on depleted THAAD (CNN): Asked how depleted US defensive stockpiles affect leverage, Esper answers as the man who used to make the call: you constantly balance global risk, and he always kept a watchful eye on China. In a war with China you need THAAD, PAC-3 interceptors, PRISM — the exact munitions…
        03 3- CNN — How is this anything other than a big loss it was our economy that won WWII
          Source
          📺 How is this anything — CNN (MSM)
          How is this anything (CNN): The anchor puts the whole war on the scales: the best case is a negotiation that reopens the Strait — exactly where the US was before the war — plus an incredible depletion of munitions. How is that anything other than a big loss? Esper doesn't dispute it. He reframes…
    01 🚢 HORMUZ - THE BLOCKADE AND THE BILL
      What the war is actually doing. Real US Navy radio traffic ordering a captain to alter course or be compelled by force, with the running tally: 44 ships redirected, two disabled, two boarded. Trump attacking Exxon and Chevron for making 'too much money' off the shortage his own war created — and pre-empting the objection by calling himself a big free-enterprise guy. Bessent's deal claim and the Reuters numbers on the oil majors' windfall. Marc Thiessen wanting fourteen more days of bombing. And Rand Paul, from the other direction: a war of choice, a Strait that was never militarised before, and the founders' explicit intent that one person not hold this power. ⚡ READ AGAINST THIS MORNING'S DEAL: the blockade is the thing Iran now says must be lifted before the strait reopens, so the CENTCOM radio tape is the live bargaining chip, not history. Bessent's 'free and clear, freedom of movement' is now testable against a deal that routes ships through Iranian waters with the fee question unresolved. Marc Thiessen wanting fourteen more days of bombing is the most exposed clip in the show — keep it as the position that lost, or drop it.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Al Jazeera — Why are oil companies posting record profits amid Iran war disruption
      Clips — 10
      00 CENTCOM-Radio Too-Much-Money 20-Yard-Line
        01 1- Fox — CENTCOM blockade radio comply or we compel compliance with force - Fox News
          Source
          📺 CENTCOM blockade radio comply — FOX NEWS (?)
          CENTCOM blockade radio comply (FOX NEWS): Cold open on the actual US Navy radio transmission ordering a captain to alter course or be compelled by force. The anchor then supplies the tally: 44 ships redirected, two disabled, two boarded since Trump resumed the blockade, and a tanker struck this morning — the fourth…
        02 2- CNBC — Trump says Exxon and Chevron are making too much money
          Source
          📺 Trump says Exxon and — CNBC (MSM)
          Trump says Exxon and (CNBC): Trump, unprompted, attacks the oil majors for profiteering off the shortage his own war created. He pre-empts the obvious objection — "I should be the last one to say, because I'm a big free enterprise guy" — then names Chevron and Exxon, cites 12× year-on-year, and tells…
        03 3- MS NOW — Rand Paul a war of choice the Strait was never militarized
          Source
          📺 Rand Paul a war — MS NOW (?)
          Rand Paul a war (MS NOW): Paul argues Congress never voted, then delivers the strategic verdict: one step forward in decimating Iran's military, two steps back because the war militarized a Strait that had never been militarized. He ends by saying no negotiation can move until it is demilitarized —…
        04 4- MS NOW — Kir Simons it has come down to a patch of water
          Source
          📺 Kir Simons it has — MS NOW (?)
          Kir Simons it has (MS NOW): Simons notes how strikingly cautious Bessent's actual words were, then reframes the whole war: after all the killing, the shouting and the grandiose talk of a new era in the region, the negotiation has come down to one narrow shipping lane — and to point 0.5 of a memorandum…
        05 5- Fox — Marc Thiessen we stopped at the 20-yard line 14 more days of bombing - Fox News
          Source
          📺 Marc Thiessen we stopped — FOX NEWS (?)
          Marc Thiessen we stopped (FOX NEWS): Thiessen lays out the maximalist case: Iran has been waging war on the US and Trump is the first president to fight back. He lists the accomplishments — nuclear programme destroyed, 85% of the defence industrial base, navy sunk, air force grounded, missiles decimated. Then…
      01 Bessent-Deal Oil-Majors-Windfall
        01 1- CNBC — Bessent deal today or tomorrow to open the strait free and clear
          Source
          📺 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — CNBC (MSM)
          Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (CNBC): the threat — the talks — the deal timing — the explicit no-toll answer — cheaper energy for everyone.
        02 2- Reuters — Iran war turbocharged big oil Exxon 5.5B Chevron 4.9B - Reuters
          Source
          📺 Reuters, Sectors Up Close — Reuters (MSM)
          Reuters, Sectors Up Close (REUTERS): the war turbocharged big oil's earnings — Exxon posted 5.5 billion and Chevron 4.9 billion after a refined-products shortage, US refineries ran at 97 percent of capacity, and the energy sector is up 32 percent for the year, way ahead of the wider market.
        03 3- Reuters — Clayton Allison energy is now a national security question - Reuters
          Source
          📺 Clayton Allison, portfolio manager, — Reuters (MSM)
          Clayton Allison, portfolio manager, (REUTERS): anchor reframes energy as national security — Allison agrees and takes it to rearmament.
      02 Rand-Paul Constitution Hardliners
        01 1- MS NOW — Rand Paul the founders didnt want war power in one persons hands
          Source
          📺 Rand Paul the founders — MS NOW (?)
          Rand Paul the founders (MS NOW): Asked where the War Powers Act fight stands, Paul says the more important document is the Constitution itself — the initiation of war is a vote of Congress. He goes to the Constitutional Convention: from Hamilton to Jefferson, all the founders agreed they did not want that…
        02 2- MS NOW — Rand Paul the hardliners who want no negotiation at all
          Source
          📺 Rand Paul the hardliners — MS NOW (?)
          Rand Paul the hardliners (MS NOW): Paul offers a face-saving off-ramp — removing the enriched uranium would let the administration call the war justified — but says the only route there is negotiation. Then the obstacle: there are many hardliners inside the administration who do not want any negotiation at…
    02 🫧 AI BUBBLE - THE MARGIN CALL
      The margin call. Situational Awareness went from $3 billion in January to a $45 billion NAV on 1 July to liquidated by month's end; Citadel bought the public book. The fund's 24-year-old founder got married that weekend. Bank of America's Brian Moynihan — asked directly, because they lent to the fund — calls it a warning shot about leverage, then says in the same sitting that data-centre returns are so high that three rate hikes will not slow the build. Mark Cuban supplies the mechanism nobody on television states: companies spending all their cash flow on CapEx and then borrowing on top of it, on fifty-year bonds, which he calls planning for perfection — and the consequence, data centres turned into pickleball courts, exactly as the fibre glut played out.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        CNBC — Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness sells levered book of public investments
        CNBC — BofA's Brian Moynihan: the Situational Awareness meltdown was a warning shot
        Yahoo Finance — Aschenbrenner just learned Wall Street's oldest lesson
      Clips — 7
      00 Moynihan-Warning-Shots Citadel-Buys-The-Book
        01 1- CNBC — Moynihan Situational Awareness was our client these are all warning shots
          Source
          📺 Brian Moynihan, CEO Bank — CNBC (MSM)
          Brian Moynihan, CEO Bank (CNBC): Sorkin puts it straight — "which is situational awareness. They were a client of your firm. You lent to them." — Moynihan concedes the tightening — the money line — the Ken Griffin question.
        02 2- CNBC — Moynihan three rate hikes wont stop the AI data center build
          Source
          📺 Brian Moynihan — CNBC (MSM)
          Brian Moynihan (CNBC): Becky asks whether three rate hikes would slow AI data-centre financing — Moynihan says no, the spreads already moved, and the returns are too good to stop.
        03 3- CNBC — Faber Citadel buys the blown-up 45 billion AI fund
          Source
          📺 David Faber — CNBC (MSM)
          David Faber (CNBC): confirms the buyer — the bulk of the public equities book at Situational Awareness, the hedge fund that carried a 45 billion dollar net asset value, has been sold to Citadel, while a large private stake in Anthropic is left unresolved.
        04 4- CNBC — Faber 3 billion to 45 billion to gone in a month Aschenbrenner is 24
          Source
          📺 David Faber — CNBC (MSM)
          David Faber (CNBC): the whole parabola in one telling — $3B in January — $45B NAV on 1 July — margin-called by month end — semis ETF down 25% — and the sign-off.
      01 Cuban Pickleball-Courts The-Collar
        01 1- All-In — Mark Cuban bubbly behaviour it could destroy a lot of VCs funds and PE - All-In Podcast
          Source
          📺 Mark Cuban bubbly behaviour — ALL-IN PODCAST (?)
          Mark Cuban bubbly behaviour (ALL-IN PODCAST): Asked straight out if he's worried about a bubble, Cuban says we're seeing bubbly-like behaviour but it is not the dot-com bubble — back then it was no-revenue companies going public and cab drivers talking about them, and you don't see that at all today. Which leads to who…
        02 2- All-In — Cuban 50-year bonds and data centres to pickleball courts - All-In Podcast
          Source
          📺 Cuban 50-year bonds and — ALL-IN PODCAST (?)
          Cuban 50-year bonds and (ALL-IN PODCAST): The mechanism. Huge companies are spending all their cash flow on CapEx and then borrowing on top of it — fifty-year bonds. Cuban calls that planning for perfection, and says it is going to be hard. Then the punchline: if the price-performance curve on AI minimises power…
        03 3- All-In — Mark Cuban tells Anthropic and OpenAI staff to collar their stock - All-In Podcast
          Source
          📺 Mark Cuban tells Anthropic — ALL-IN PODCAST (?)
          Mark Cuban tells Anthropic (ALL-IN PODCAST): Asked whether Anthropic and OpenAI employees should be thinking about a collar, Cuban says yes — he collared his own stock, because "how rich do I need to be?" If you work at one of these companies and you're able to change your life, get someone to build you a collar:…
    03 🤖 AI GOVERNANCE - NO BRAKE PEDAL
      The governance side. A former OpenAI board member reports that 1,300 employees of the top AI companies have signed on to say they do not think they have a brake pedal, and are asking outsiders to build them one — executives asking to be stopped because they cannot stop themselves. On the bipartisan kill-switch bill, industry cannot agree with itself on whether turning a model off is trivial or impossible. The White House hosted the AI companies to discuss a federal testing framework built on a voluntary June executive order — and the standards used to test the models are classified. Then FRANCE 24 on the 23-year-old Stanford dropout putting social robots into public spaces to see how they integrate into society.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Axios — White House AI framework kept under wraps
        CNN — Meta AI hacking (NEW PREP DROP 5 Aug — not yet drained)
      Clips — 4
      00 Brake-Pedal Kill-Switch Classified-Standards
        01 1- ABC — Ex-OpenAI board member 1300 employees say they have no brake pedal - ABC News
          Source
          📺 Ex-OpenAI board member 1300 — ABC NEWS (?)
          Ex-OpenAI board member 1300 (ABC NEWS): Asked for her biggest concern, a former OpenAI board member points at what she hears from inside the companies — 1,300 employees of top AI firms signing on to say they do not think they have a brake pedal, and asking outsiders to build them one. They do not fully understand…
        02 2- ABC — Ex-OpenAI board member on the bipartisan AI kill-switch bill - ABC News
          Source
          📺 Ex-OpenAI board member on — ABC NEWS (?)
          Ex-OpenAI board member on (ABC NEWS): On the bipartisan Liu–Moran bill requiring a kill switch: she says it will be hard to pass anything through this Congress, then gets to what is interesting — industry cannot agree with itself. Some say of course we can turn a model off any time, others say it is impossible…
        03 3- NBC — White House AI testing framework the standards stay classified - NBC News
          Source
          📺 White House AI testing — NBC NEWS (?)
          White House AI testing (NBC NEWS): The White House hosts the top AI companies to discuss a federal testing framework; Trump is not expected to attend. It stems from a June executive order setting up a voluntary vetting programme. Then the line: the White House has not detailed the framework, and the standards…
      01 Humanoid-Robots Era-Of-The-Machine
        01 FRANCE 24 — David Yuan 23 dropped out of Stanford to build robots that dont feel like robots
          Source
          📺 David Yuan 23 dropped — FRANCE 24 (?)
          David Yuan 23 dropped (FRANCE 24): The robot greeting hotel guests in Oklahoma and answering questions in 50 languages at a Californian airport was built by a 23-year-old who dropped out of Stanford in 2024. In his own words the pitch is "social robots with brains… robots that don't feel like robots" — and the…
    04 🌹 THE SOCIALIST TURN
      The follow-through on Sunday's socialist-turn segment. El-Sayed won Michigan, and his victory-night line is the whole pitch: government of the people rather than government of the corporations, by the special interests, and for the billionaires. Bill Maher reads the DSA platform aloud to his own Los Angeles audience and says that when Trump calls them communists, that is the one thing he is not lying about. Haley Stevens is asked about $60 million in outside money and says she wants to end dark money — and is told she is the beneficiary. Then Mamdani, twice: asked how he keeps a $9 billion childcare programme's costs down and answering with what has already been announced, and asked how he stops people gaming the grocery discount and revealing the gate is a library card. Then the aftermath, and the reason this is more than a Democratic primary story: Trump's OWN endorsed candidate in Michigan's 8th — Amir Hassan, Black, born in Flint, a Navy veteran, a former Guantanamo guard and a DHS official who says he is Christian — was beaten 30 to 50 by Tom Smith, a retired GM engineer who had suspended his campaign in July, raised $1,850 and filed a handwritten note to the FEC because he could not work the website. A Republican consultant's explanation for the loss: voters saw the name and thought it was the other guy. Then Trump calling El-Sayed a Jew-hating communist, and El-Sayed answering. The throughline is not faith and not party — it is the name.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        CNBC — Abdul El-Sayed vs Haley Stevens, Michigan primary
        Washington Times — Retiree who dropped out of the race upsets Trump's pick
        Talking Points Memo — A bizarre situation in a Michigan congressional race
        Al Jazeera — El-Sayed wins Michigan Democratic primary in a blow to AIPAC
        TIME — Trump labels El-Sayed a hateful 'Communist'
        Arab American News — Ghalib takes AmeriCorps job after his ambassadorship stalled
      Clips — 10
      00 El-Sayed-Wins-Michigan Maher-Reads-The-DSA
        01 1- New York Post — El-Sayed victory night govt of the corporations and billionaires - New York Post
          Source
          📺 El-Sayed victory night govt — NEW YORK POST (?)
          El-Sayed victory night govt (NEW YORK POST): He opens by joking he can't declare victory yet because Michigan is a big state and the count is slow. Then the thesis of the campaign — government of the people rather than "government of the corporations, by the special interests, and for the billionaires." He closes by…
        02 2- Bill Maher via Glenn Beck — reads the DSA platform back to his own LA audience
          Source
          📺 reads the DSA platform — HBO (?)
          reads the DSA platform (HBO): Maher grants that Trump has told a trillion lies but says the claim that the DSA is actually communist is not one of them — and offers to prove it by simply reading their own words. He quotes the DSA platform ("you work as much as you are able and no more than needed"), says…
        03 3- CBS — Haley Stevens pressed on 60M in pro-Israel PAC money but youre the beneficiary
          Source
          📺 Haley Stevens pressed on — CBS News (MSM)
          Haley Stevens pressed on (CBS): The interviewer points at the protesters outside and puts the number to her: more than $60 million in PAC money spent on her behalf by pro-Israel and corporate groups. Stevens deflects to "by Democrats," says it is how Peters and Stabenow won, and that polls show she is best…
      01 The-Name-Test Hassan-Loses-To-A-Dropout Trump-v-El-Sayed
        01 WNEM — Trump-backed Amir Hassan loses to a man who dropped out of the race
          Source
          📺 Amir Hassan and Genesee County clerk — WNEM TV5 (?)
          Amir Hassan and Genesee County clerk (WNEM TV5): Hassan concedes in his own voice — "I fell short last night, I make no excuse" — then the anchor and a county clerk lay out the result: Trump's endorsed candidate lost Michigan's 8th to Tom Smith, who suspended his campaign in July, is still legally on the ballot, and now advances to November. The clerk calls it a unique circumstance they do not see very often.
        02 The Hill — El-Sayed beat 60 million in outside money much of it AIPAC-linked
          Source
          📺 The Hill — THE HILL (?)
          The Hill (THE HILL): the setup — El-Sayed's win over Haley Stevens leaves him to unify a split party, and he did it against more than $60 million in outside spending and an opponent backed by top Democrats, with AIPAC-related groups named on air as the dominant story of the primary.
        03 MLive — Trump he hates them with a passion that burns in his heart
          Source
          📺 President Trump in Las Vegas — MLIVE (?)
          President Trump in Las Vegas (MLIVE): moves from "not socialism, communism" to El-Sayed by name, pre-empts his own critics with "somebody said, oh, that's a little strong", and escalates instead of walking it back — "he hates them with a passion that burns in his heart, and there's not a freaking thing he can do about it."
        04 CNN — El-Sayed answers Trump the man cant stay on focus drapes in his ballroom
          Source
          📺 Abdul El-Sayed with Kaitlan Collins — CNN (MSM)
          Abdul El-Sayed with Kaitlan Collins (CNN): after the Trump tape plays, he declines to defend himself and redirects — thanks Trump for calling him a lovely gentleman, points at the "no tax on tips" banner behind the President, notes people are paying nearly $5 for gas because of a war he started, and says half the time he is talking about the drapes in his ballroom.
        05 The National Desk — El-Sayed to Mike Rogers go be a Florida man
          Source
          📺 Abdul El-Sayed — THE NATIONAL DESK (?)
          Abdul El-Sayed (THE NATIONAL DESK): goes at Mike Rogers on residency — winters are too cold for him, he has thin skin, he went to Florida — "if you want to be a Florida man, go be a Florida man" — and promises to send him back there in November; the anchor closes on Rogers framing the race as common sense versus complete insanity.
      02 Mamdani Childcare-Costs Grocery-ID
        01 1- New York Post — Mamdani on the 9 billion childcare study answers with Hochul partnership - New York Post
          Source
          📺 Mamdani on the 9 — NEW YORK POST (?)
          Mamdani on the 9 (NEW YORK POST): A reporter puts a new study to him: the childcare programme could cost up to $9 billion, far more than suggested — what is the strategy to keep costs down, and will the state fund it in perpetuity? Mamdani begins not with a number but with the partnership with Governor…
        02 2- New York Post — Mamdani grocery discount not for a quick buck library card gate - New York Post
          Source
          📺 Mamdani grocery discount not — NEW YORK POST (?)
          Mamdani grocery discount not (NEW YORK POST): On the promised 30%-cheaper essential basket: how do you stop people gaming it, and will there be a per-item limit? Mamdani says the RFP is clear that this is for New Yorkers putting food on the table, not for people making a quick buck reselling — then hands to EDC head…
    05 🥬 THE LETTUCE PARASITE
      A story this show has never touched. A cyclospora outbreak traced to iceberg lettuce has produced the first US deaths, in Michigan. Sen. Blumenthal alleges a politically motivated cover-up and lays out the sequence: Taylor Farms gave $1 million to a Trump PAC, called the White House to delay the recall, and the recall slipped from May to July. CBS's medical correspondent says washing produce will not remove it, even with bleach. And the numbers do not agree across outlets — 11,000, 22,000, a CDC-confirmed 6,700 nationally against 11,000 suspected in one state, and 18,000 across 45 states. The FDA has named the grower, the country of origin and Taco Bell.
      Clips — 5
      01 1- CBS — Blumenthal alleges cover-up Taylor Farms gave 1M to a Trump PAC recall delayed to July
        Source
        📺 Blumenthal alleges cover-up Taylor — CBS News (MSM)
        Blumenthal alleges cover-up Taylor (CBS): Michigan reports two deaths from a parasite the CDC says almost never kills. Thousands are sick. Then the turn — Sen. Blumenthal alleges a politically motivated cover-up and lays out the sequence: Taylor Farms gave $1M to a Trump PAC, called the White House to delay the…
      02 2- CBS — Dr Celine Gounder 11000 cases against a typical 50 washing wont do it
        Source
        📺 Dr Celine Gounder 11000 — CBS News (MSM)
        Dr Celine Gounder 11000 (CBS): CBS medical correspondent Dr. Celine Gounder gives the scale — Michigan has counted more than 11,000 cases against a typical year of about 50 — then concedes Michigan may simply be counting better. She then says washing produce will not remove cyclospora, even with bleach,…
      03 3- New York Post — 22000 cases the dehydration not the infection is killing them - New York Post
        Source
        📺 22000 cases the dehydration — NEW YORK POST (?)
        22000 cases the dehydration (NEW YORK POST): A doctor explains that cyclospora appears every year and is normally traced fast — but this one was huge and took a long time to source, so people were cautious without knowing what to be cautious of. About 22,000 cases and climbing. The mechanism of death: it is not the…
      04 4- PBS — CDC confirms 6700 nationwide but Michigan alone reports 11000 - PBS NewsHour
        Source
        📺 CDC confirms 6700 nationwide — PBS NEWSHOUR (?)
        CDC confirms 6700 nationwide (PBS NEWSHOUR): PBS reports the first US deaths, quotes the state's careful language about underlying conditions, notes the disease is not usually life-threatening — then drops the number that does not add up: the CDC has confirmed about 6,700 cases nationwide since early May, while Michigan…
      05 5- ABC — FDA links it to Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell - ABC News
        Source
        📺 FDA links it to — ABC NEWS (?)
        FDA links it to (ABC NEWS): ABC confirms the deaths, says doctors put the risk of death as extremely low, gives a national figure of more than 18,000 sick across 45 states — then names names: the FDA has linked the outbreak in Michigan and eight other states to iceberg lettuce sourced by Taylor Farms in…
    06 💉 FAUCI AND THE VACCINE FIGHT
      The Fauci aftermath, from both directions. RFK Jr tells Glenn Beck the one thing he learned from the diary is that Fauci had a pulmonary infarction after taking the Moderna shot at a public press conference, and never reported it to VAERS or the public — a man who claims to be science rejecting the scientific method. ⚠️ See the note: that claim is not in the released papers. Then the same Secretary on CNN with Dana Bash, where the fight is about whether the press did its job — and where Bash says the job of CNN was to put the chyrons up about how many people are dying. PBS supplies the establishment defence: it is a witch hunt, it is McCarthyism. And in the same Bash interview, he tells parents to vaccinate their children against measles.
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      00 The-Infarction-Never-Reported
        01 1- Glenn Beck — RFK Jr Fauci pulmonary infarction after his public Moderna shot
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          📺 Glenn Beck + HHS — GLENN BECK (?)
          Glenn Beck + HHS (GLENN BECK): the one new thing in the diary — the public shot — the injury — it was a known top expected adverse event — he never said it.
        02 2- Glenn Beck — RFK Jr never reported it to VAERS rejects the scientific method
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          📺 RFK Jr never reported — GLENN BECK (?)
          RFK Jr never reported (GLENN BECK): causation can never be proved — which is exactly why the reporting system exists — he didn't report — the closing charge.
      01 RFK-v-Dana-Bash The-Job-Of-CNN
        01 1- CNN — RFK Jr vs Dana Bash absolute press malpractice you were part of the problem
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          📺 RFK Jr vs Dana — CNN (MSM)
          RFK Jr vs Dana (CNN): Bash tries to move on — Kennedy turns it on her — the malpractice charge — Bash reasserts the vaccine worked.
        02 2- CNN — RFK Jr vs Dana Bash can you show me one study crossfire
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          📺 RFK Jr vs Dana — CNN (MSM)
          RFK Jr vs Dana (CNN): Bash demands a study — Kennedy can't produce one — he demands hers — neither cites anything — both accuse the other of unsupported assertions.
        03 3- CNN — RFK Jr vs Dana Bash that was the job of CNN chyrons how many dying
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          📺 RFK Jr vs Dana — CNN (MSM)
          RFK Jr vs Dana (CNN): Bash concedes mistakes were made — Kennedy: you were scaring people — she says the quiet part.
      02 Establishment-Defence McCarthyism
        01 PBS — Susan Page its a witch hunt its McCarthyism butt dialed Barbra Streisand - PBS NewsHour
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          📺 Susan Page its a — PBS NEWSHOUR (?)
          Susan Page its a (PBS NEWSHOUR): The host asks what the hearing says about the state of Washington. Susan Page answers that the analogy is not a bipartisan commission but a witch hunt — McCarthyism — and calls it painful to watch an 85-year-old public servant accused on the strength of a diary in which he…
        02 2- MS NOW — Rand Paul pressed that Trump did the same thing pivots to lab funding
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          📺 Rand Paul pressed that — MS NOW (?)
          Rand Paul pressed that (MS NOW): The interviewer notes even the Wall Street Journal editorial board thought the hearing was a wasted opportunity, then puts the symmetry to Paul: his charge against Fauci is saying one thing publicly and another privately — but Trump did exactly that, on tape, with Bob…
      03 Measles-Reversal
        01 6abc — RFK Jr urges parents to vaccinate against measles on CNN - 6abc
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          📺 RFK Jr urges parents — 6ABC (?)
          RFK Jr urges parents (6ABC): The HHS Secretary is now telling parents to vaccinate their children against measles — said in the same Dana Bash interview the folder-05 clips come from. The anchor supplies the context that makes it land: the Texas outbreak that reached nearly 800 cases and killed two…
      04 Rodgers-Torches-ESPN
        01 Fox — Aaron Rodgers how much time did they spend on my vaccination status - Fox News
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          📺 Aaron Rodgers how much — FOX NEWS (?)
          Aaron Rodgers how much (FOX NEWS): Reacting to Fauci pleading the Fifth 111 times, Rodgers is incredulous — a pardon and over a hundred pleadings, from a man who spent the period writing in his diary about how fun it is to be famous. Then he turns it on the network: how much time did they spend, every week, on…
    07 💰 FOLLOW THE MONEY
      Capital One revealed in court that it closed hundreds of Trump Organization accounts not as January 6th retaliation, as claimed, but after a months-long money-laundering investigation — and the anchor, a former banker, notes that granting extensions at all was the bank cutting them slack. In the same segment: early access to the President's potentially market-moving Truth Social posts is now on sale for up to $100,000 a month. Todd Blanche formally killed the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund the day before his own confirmation vote, and narrowed the IRS side deal. Plus a DOJ presser on 19 defendants and $4 million in Pennsylvania Medicaid home-care fraud — 'not paperwork errors.'
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      00 Capital-One Money-Laundering Anti-Weaponization-Fund
        01 1- MS NOW — Capital One closed hundreds of Trump accounts after money laundering inquiry
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          📺 Capital One closed hundreds — MS NOW (?)
          Capital One closed hundreds (MS NOW): The debanking lawsuit Trump brought against Capital One and JPMorgan has produced an unexpected filing: the bank says the hundreds of accounts were closed after a months-long money-laundering investigation, not politics. The anchor is careful — Capital One never accused…
        02 2- 6abc — Blanche ends the 1.8B anti-weaponization fund before his AG vote - 6abc
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          📺 Blanche ends the 1.8B — 6ABC (?)
          Blanche ends the 1.8B (6ABC): Acting AG Todd Blanche formally kills the $1.8bn fund meant to compensate people the President believed were mistreated — including January 6th defendants — one day before the Judiciary Committee votes on his own nomination. He also narrows the IRS-audit side agreement to…
        03 3- MS NOW — Money laundering not Jan 6th plus 100k Truth Social early access
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          📺 Money laundering not Jan — MS NOW (?)
          Money laundering not Jan (MS NOW): As Michigan polls close, the anchor lands the Capital One revelation — the accounts were closed over money-laundering concerns, not as January 6th retaliation as Trump has claimed, which the Trump Organization calls baseless. Then straight into the next money story: as of…
      01 DOJ-Medicaid-Home-Care-Fraud
        01 New York Post — DOJ 19 charged these are not paperwork errors - New York Post
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          📺 DOJ 19 charged these — NEW YORK POST (?)
          DOJ 19 charged these (NEW YORK POST): A DOJ official announces charges against 19 defendants over home-health-care schemes targeting Pennsylvania's Medicaid programme, more than $4 million in fraud, 18 of them charged in the last 12 days. Then the pre-emptive framing: these are not paperwork errors or good-faith…
    08 📉 NOBODY IS BUYING IT
      Two clips that sit against each other. Bank of America's CEO, looking at his own card data showing July spend up 5%, says there is an affordability crisis because people believe there is one — and names it: the say-do paradox is about as high as he has ever seen it. Then the CBS poll: 75% say their income is not keeping up with inflation, and a Republican strategist says the reason the number will move is that Americans are underwater and are not buying what either party's story is.
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      00 Moynihan-Say-Do-Paradox
        01 CNBC — Moynihan the say-do paradox affordability is what people believe
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          📺 Brian Moynihan, CEO Bank — CNBC (MSM)
          Brian Moynihan, CEO Bank (CNBC): Sorkin asks whether the affordability crisis is real based on the bank's own card data — Moynihan reframes it as a belief problem — names it.
      01 75-Percent-Income-Poll
        01 CBS — 75 percent say income isnt keeping up nobody buying either partys story
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          📺 75 percent say income — CBS News (MSM)
          75 percent say income (CBS): The CBS poll: 75% say their income is not keeping up with inflation, 25% say it is. Republican strategist Reena Shah says the number will move a lot over the next 100 days — because Americans are still underwater on costs, and crucially they are not buying either party's…
    09 👁️ SURVEILLANCE PRICING
      The Senate is taking up AI-driven surveillance pricing. The reporter concedes the familiar version is accepted — adult and child cinema tickets, plainly posted — then draws the line at the version that happens behind the scenes, where the retailer prices you on data indicating your ability to pay.
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      01 6abc — Surveillance pricing AI charges you by your ability to pay - 6abc
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        📺 Surveillance pricing AI charges — 6ABC (?)
        Surveillance pricing AI charges (6ABC): Opens on the hook — what if Staples charged you more online purely because of your IP address. A Senate Judiciary subcommittee is taking up AI-driven "surveillance pricing." The reporter concedes the old version is familiar and accepted (adult vs child cinema tickets, plainly…
    10 🚀 SPACEX HITS THE MOON
      A discarded Falcon 9 stage is on course to hit the moon at seven times the speed of sound, cutting a new crater and throwing up a dust layer possibly visible from Earth — which scientists use to raise the growing space-junk problem. FRANCE 24 adds what the anchor read leaves out: why there are no pictures, when the Korean orbiter Danuri passes, and the impact speed — roughly twice that of a rifle bullet.
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      00 Anchor-Read Space-Junk
        01 ABC7 — Falcon 9 hits the moon at seven times the speed of sound space junk
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          📺 Falcon 9 hits the — ABC7 (?)
          Falcon 9 hits the (ABC7): the collision — the new crater — the visible dust plume — the "don't worry, but…" turn to space junk.
      01 No-Pictures Twice-Rifle-Bullet-Speed
        01 FRANCE 24 — James Andre why there are no pictures and it hit at twice rifle-bullet speed
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          📺 James Andre why there — FRANCE 24 (?)
          James Andre why there (FRANCE 24): Anchor hands to James Andre with the obvious question — what happened and why are there no pictures. He explains the 14-metre tube has almost certainly hit, that no lunar orbiter was near the impact site, and that the Korean spacecraft Danuri only passes eight hours later.…
    11 🌍 CEUTA - 72000 IN A WEEK
      The Ceuta number moved again. Sunday's segment had 60,000; the Spanish government now estimates 72,000 tried to enter the enclave in a little over a week. A 29-year-old from Darfur says that if they deport him he does not care, all his dreams are to enter this earth. An aid worker says this is the first food and water these people have had in days. And of the 72,000, only 2,000 remain in Spanish territory.
      Clips — 1
      01 Global News — 72000 tried to enter Ceuta only 2000 remain all my dreams are to enter this earth - Global News
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        📺 72000 tried to enter — GLOBAL NEWS (?)
        72000 tried to enter (GLOBAL NEWS): Opens on Ahmed Haroun, 29, from Darfur: if they deport him he doesn't care, all his dreams are to enter this earth, and he'll do anything to help the family still alive. The reporter gives the revised number — the Spanish government now estimates 72,000 tried to enter Ceuta…
    12 🎭 STREET CONFRONTATION
      A woman confronting Trump supporters in front of children, challenged that kids are present, doubling down and reciting the E. Jean Carroll verdicts as her justification. ⚠️ Coarse language and subject matter throughout.
      Clips — 1
      01 New York Post — Mother shouting at Trump supporters in front of children - New York Post
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        📺 Mother shouting at Trump — NEW YORK POST (?)
        Mother shouting at Trump (NEW YORK POST): A woman confronts Trump supporters in front of children, is challenged that kids are present, and doubles down — her kids know, she says, and recites the E. Jean Carroll case and the court losses as established fact. She closes on her justification: she is not going to let…
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