Day: June 8, 2026

Trump to Netanyahu: “I Call The Shots” and You Have to Accept Any Peace Deal I Make with Iran

We begin with Trump telling PM Netanyahu he has to accept any peace deal the US negotiates with Iran after an exchange of missiles between Iran and Israel, telling the Financial Times that “I call the shots. I call all the shots. He (Netanyahu) doesn’t call the shots.” Joining us is Hussein Banai, an Iranian American scholar and Professor of International Studies at Indiana University who teaches Iran’s political development as well as US-Iran relations. He is the author of Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran and he has a recent article at Foreign Affairs, “America and Israel Have Different Endgames in Iran.”

Amid Heightened Tensions Between the US and Israel, Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries

Then we will speak with Ben Freeman, director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute. Previously, he was Director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy and a National Security Fellow at the Project On Government Oversight where he spear-headed the “Foreign Influence Database.” He is the author of The Foreign Policy Auction and he recently co-authored a new book with William Hartung, The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. We will discuss his article at Responsible Statecraft, “Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries.”

Scott Pelley Tells the NYT How Bari Weiss Ordered Changes to a 60 Minutes Report to Support Trump’s Lies 

Then finally we will examine the wreckage at CBS News following Scott Pelley’s revelations in The New York Times that the Ellison’s hit woman Bari Weiss ordered changes in a 60 Minutes report on the government’s murdering of American citizens in Minneapolis to support Trump’s lies of blaming demonstrators and Renee Good for her own killing by ICE. Joining us is James Risen, professor of journalism at the University of Maryland and a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author whose investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms. Among his best-selling books is Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War. Formerly the Senior National Security Correspondent at The Intercept and a former investigative journalist with the New York Times, his new book is The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy.