The Major TV Networks Take Away What Trump Craves Most, TV Cameras
We begin with the twilight of the deranged wannabe dictator being fed a diet of delusion by his favorite courtier Natalie Harp which triggered a tantrum that had CNN, MS NOW and Politico banned from the White House. Today the White House Press Corps struck back in solidarity with CNN which was scheduled to be the pool coverage of Trump’s UN visit, with an effective boycott by the major TV networks who have taken away what Trump most craves, the TV cameras. Joining us is Dan Froomkin, the editor of Press Watch, an independent website previously known as White House Watch. With over 12 years at the Washington Post, he served as Editor of the website and wrote its White House Watch column. He has an article at MS NOW we discuss, “Trump’s unconstitutional press ban won’t make the bad news go away.”
Is the Final Battle With Iran Coming Now That Trump Threatens to “Blow the Entire Nation Up”?
Then with Trump telling Fox News that for him, the “question” was “if and when” it would be required to “blow the entire nation up” if Iran’s government did not submit to his demands, we assess the growing possibility of a US/Israeli knockout attempt either before the Israeli elections or after the US elections. Joining us is Paul Pillar, who served for 30 years as an analyst at the CIA, in which his last position was National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia. Previously, he served as chief of analytic units at the CIA covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. Paul Pillar is currently a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University and an Associate Fellow at the GenevaCenter for Security Policy and a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His latest book is Beyond the Water’s Edge How Partisanship Corrupts U.S. Foreign Policy and he has an article at Responsible Statecraft, “The Houthis could tip the Iran war in Tehran’s favor”
California’s AG Announces a Deal He Doesn’t Like, the Ellison’s $111 Billion Paramount-Warners Merger
Then finally we examine the settlement with Paramount-Skydance to merge with Warner Brother-Discovery announced today by California’s AG Rob Bonta, who clearly does not like the deal but was pressured by Governor Newsom, Javier Baccera and LA Mayor Bass to cave under the Ellison’s blackmail that entertainment jobs would be moved to Texas and Tennessee. Joining us is Jonathan Handel, a lawyer and journalist who practices transactional entertainment and technology law and was formerly a professor at UCLA school of Law and a contributing editor for The Hollywood Reporter. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and was named by the Daily Journal as one of the top 100 lawyers in California and his most recent book is Entertainment Residuals: A Full Color Guide.
