The David Rutherford Show

Steve Baker's pipe bomber footage claim, Iran's buildup into the midterms, and early voting past about 23 million ballots. Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford maps the three stories and what they mean for your wallet and your vote.

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0:00 Pipe bomber footage, Iran and early voting

Author Matthew Ehret joins Navy SEAL David Rutherford to explain the Fabian Society: why he says it was created after the American Revolution, the Roman strategy it is named after, the eugenics views of its early leaders, and how it fits into the think tanks that drive policy today. They also cover where left vs right comes from, why the French Revolution failed, CIA backed modern art, and why Matthew believes AI cults are emerging...

Three moves, three weeks before the midterms, and David says they're all connected. Tulsi Gabbard comes out of a quiet summer to give a speech at the Texas Youth Summit that never mentions Iran. Trump gets Putin on the phone and walks away with a Russian diesel deal that waives sanctions until April 2027. And down south, U.S. special operators run their first direct raid with Ecuadorian police against a Jalisco cartel network &mdas...

Three weeks before the midterms, I went back through everything that has and hasn't happened with our voting machines since 2020. The Secretary of Homeland Security says foreign adversaries have parts inside them. The government hired a firm to tear down Dominion's scanners, got a 100-page report, and never released it. And after 64 lawsuits and two nine-figure settlements, not one case has ever gotten to a real forensic audit. I'm...

Headlines this month said Noah's Ark may have been found in eastern Turkey. Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford talks with Andrew Jones, founder of Noah's Ark Scans, who will not say that. Jones calls the Durupinar formation the best candidate. He says he cannot call it 100 percent. He says a radar slice showed repeating layers, and that the lab still has the samples. Jones is a software developer and independent researcher, not an a...

Why do talented, hardworking men still lose? Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford welcomes back Rich Graham, a former SEAL Team 10 operator and the founder of Full Spectrum Warrior, who says it's rarely the skill that takes a man out. It's the stuff on the side: his lifestyle, his discipline, his decisions and what happens at home. Rich saw it training police officers who could barely get into a kneeling position in their gear. He poi...

Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford asks a simple question after last week's Senate hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith: when Congress puts someone in the hot seat, does anyone ever pay? Smith has been referred to the Justice Department over his House testimony, but he has not been charged. David walks through nearly a century of Senate investigations, from the 1934 air mail hearings to Watergate, Iran Contra, Enron and th...

David Rutherford says the U.S. is already at war, and walks through seven warning signs he says came before America's wars. In this solo episode, David, who says he spent much of his adult life in special operations and intelligence work, walks through seven warning signs he sees in the years before America's wars, and says he sees them again today. He says he is not predicting a war and that his list is not a definitive way to rea...

Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford reconnects with Black Rifle Coffee's Jarred "JT" Taylor, years after their last sit-down, to talk about the most ambitious thing JT has ever built.

It started with a promise to a friend. When Colonel Pete Donnelly died, JT remembered the question Pete always asked him: "What do you got for me?" Three days later he started writing. Twenty-two days after that he had a first draft of Deep Scythe: Zero...

The people running the West are getting ready for a bigger war. Hegseth just announced a combat test for colonels before they make general. NATO's chiefs of defence met in Copenhagen and told the arms industry to build at scale. And Europe — which can't recruit an army — is suddenly talking about a draft.

What you'll hear:

• David breaks down Hegseth's Joint Warfighter Evaluation, the Stu Scheller connection, and what a...

Mike Legregni guarded American embassies as a Marine. Then he came home, became a cop in New Jersey, and ran into an enemy he never trained for: his own chain of command. Mike says it started with one crash report and one video his bosses wanted gone. It ended with his badge. This one is a gut punch, and it's also one of the best stories of forgiveness I've heard in a long time.

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• The crash, the surveillance video...

Twenty-five years after 9/11 and I can't escape the same question I've been asking for thirty years: what are we actually fighting? I spent two decades going after insurgencies overseas, and I'm here to tell you the same insurgency is operating inside America right now — in our institutions, our communities, our families, and our own heads. This one's a solo. It's part briefing, part confession, and by the end, I'll admit it,...

Death investigator Joseph Scott Morgan has spent 40 years in living rooms telling families their child is dead — and he's here to warn David Rutherford that death has become entertainment.

Twenty-five years after 9/11 unified a country, the Charlie Kirk assassination and the Lindsay Clancy trial are dividing one. Joe explains why the same public that once vomited at terrorist execution videos now scrolls past them, why "closu...

"Not one inch eastward." That's what James Baker told Gorbachev in February 1990 — and it was never written into a single treaty. This week I did something you don't hear on the news: I read the actual documents. Article 5. Article 10. The Budapest Memorandum. The 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act. Then I walked the 35 years that got us from the fall of the Soviet Union to the meat grinder in the Donbas — and to this week's...

Everybody's telling you we're Weimar Germany. The hard right says it, the hard left says it, and both of them want the same thing the Germans got in 1933. This week I sat down with Brandon Gresham — Air Force Security Forces veteran and co-host of I Came With Fire — who actually did the homework on 1919 to 1933, and he says the comparison falls apart on contact except for one lesson nobody wants to hear.

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A secret CIA rendezvous in Moscow. An explosive drone found beside a Ukrainian cargo plane at a German airport. NATO and the EU declaring the evidence clear — and the Kremlin's most senior voices claiming World War III has already begun. I've been digging through all of it so you don't have to, and this week I'm giving you my full, unfiltered assessment.

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Retired Special Forces Sergeant Major Tyr Symank spent 31 years in uniform and in high-threat contract work — Green Beret, combat medic, Blackwater, DSS. I met him last spring and knew within one conversation that he understood something about peace that most warriors never find. This week he tells the whole story, including the night that nearly took him and the work that brought him back.

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David Rutherford sits down with Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat — Secretary General of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance and co-founder of the Cuban Democratic Directorate — days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Cuba will be on an "irreversible path" before this administration ends. Orlando doesn't hedge: there is an insurgency in Cuba right now, and beneath a 95-year-old Raúl Castro no one is in charge.

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The trade talks with Canada collapsed and the 50% tariffs are live. The Supreme Court moved on the mail-in ballot executive order with the midterms ten weeks out. And we lost the great Dolly Parton. Instructor Rut breaks down all three the way only a frogman with an agency background can.

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