Protestors at DC’s Union Station Yell at Vance, Hegseth and Miller Who Calls Them “Crazy Communists” as They Bring Cheeseburgers to National Guard Troops
We begin with Vance, Hegseth and Miller showing up today at DC’s Union Station with cheeseburgers for the National Guard troops only to be met by a cacophony of protest from demonstrators Vance dismissed as “crazy liberals” and Miller claimed were “crazy communists and “elderly white hippies”. Joining us to assess how long Trump can sustain the performance of needing military force to police the streets of Democratic-leaning cities after his fiasco in LA petered out when troops were eventually withdrawn because they weren’t needed in the first place. Joining us is Ryan Cooper, Managing Editor at The American Prospect and the Cohost of the Left Anchor podcast as well as the author of How are You Going to Pay for That? Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics. We discuss his latest article at The American Prospect, “Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime: They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.”
Texas Gerrymanders 5 Seats For Trump Who is Trying Everything to Stop the Democrats From Taking the House in 2026
Then, we examine today’s putsch by the fascistic Republican thugs in the Texas legislature who steamrolled through their plan to gerrymander 5 more congressional seats for Trump who is desperately doing everything he can think of to stop the Democrats from taking the House in 2016. Joining us is Jeremi Suri, who holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor of history and public affairs. He is the co-host of the podcast “This is Democracy” and the author and editor of a number of books including The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office, Henry Kissinger and the American Century and most recently, Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. He has an article at his Substack, “Governors Can Not Remove Elected Legislators. Period.”
Can Ukraine Hold the Front Against a Russian Offensive Which is Why Putin Doesn’t Want a Ceasefire?
Then finally we look into whether the Ukrainians can hold the front as Putin prepares for an offensive to capture as much land as he can, which is why he doesn’t want a ceasefire. Joining us to assess the strength of Ukraine’s Fortress Belt in Donetsk which Trump was prepared to give away is Natalie Melnyczuk, the Sapperstein Symposium Fellow for Peace and Security at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University. She was a consultant on Euro-Atlantic security and served as NATO Representative to Ukraine as the Head of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv and as a Political Officer in the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division at the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Section at NATO HQ in Brussels.