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Episodes
JD Vance had a wild media day — surviving The View (where Whoopi Goldberg called him a racist), then sitting down with Greg Gutfeld and Jessica Tarlov. On The Five, Vance calmly dismantled Tarlov's claim about a $300 billion Iran fund, and then Gutfeld torched her to her face over the left's one-sided political violence rhetoric. Larry O'Connor breaks down every uncomfortable, glorious moment.
Hillary Clinton resurfaced at the 92nd Street Y to call Joe Biden's 2024 run a "terrible mistake" and dismiss Kamala Harris's nomination as not a "real contest" — until her own 2023 footage begging Biden to run exposed the lie. She then doubled down on "deplorables" and waved off a Nazi-tattooed Maine Senate nominee as having mere "bumps in the road." Larry O'Connor breaks down why Hillary Clinton's comeback is a gift to Repu...
John Thune just told Brett Baier the Save America Act is stuck because he "only has 48 votes" — but he leads a 53-seat Republican majority, and the math doesn't lie. Then Senator Mike Lee exposed the one detail Thune conveniently left out about the real bill. Larry O'Connor breaks down why Thune's "it's just the math" line is really a total collapse of leadership — while Donald Trump is left begging the Senate to act.
JD Vance went on The View alone to sell his new book "Communion" and ended up taking apart Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Whoopi Goldberg on every front they tried. They came at him on the economy and affordability, on Epstein, on ICE, and finally on a thinly veiled "racist" smear — and each attack fell apart. Vance reminded the panel that Trump reported Jeffrey Epstein to the police, hit them with the Biden-era child traffic...
Gavin Newsom went on social media to announce that he and his wife are under FBI investigation — then started raising money off it, framing it as a Trump witch hunt. But follow the paper trail and the picture changes fast: $226 million in "behest payments" funneled to nonprofits under Newsom, his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom's gender-equity film outfit taking corporate and PG&E money, and a $3.7 million mansion handed over...
The FBI just foiled an expansive domestic terror plot that targeted the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn — drone bombs, a pre-staged sniper team, and a second wave to storm the gate. But the part legacy media won't tell you is the motive: per the federal affidavit, suspects like 19-year-old Tycen Proper and California's Michael Alan Thomas wanted to target "capitalist elites," billionaires, and AIPAC-funded...
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX had the most successful IPO in business history — and the left completely lost it. MSNBC's Chris Hayes let a guest brand Musk a "white supremacist" and compare him to "Radio Rwanda," a CNN panelist got hit with "you may need a lawyer," and Elizabeth Warren raged about a "rigged economy." Larry O'Connor breaks down Scott Jennings' takedown, the real personal rea...
While the White House threw a testosterone-fueled UFC night on the South Lawn for America's 250th — Thunderbirds, Blue Angels, fireworks — the Democrats counterprogrammed with Robert De Niro stumbling through a "we don't love our country" speech he couldn't even read off the teleprompter. Then came Jane Fonda, Joy Reid, Miss Rachel, and a Bette Midler anti-"fascist" singalong. Larry O'Connor breaks down the most geriatr...
Barack Obama crawled out to declare Trump's new Iran deal "no different" than his own JCPOA — then one fact about uranium enrichment blew the whole claim apart. JD Vance broke down the two-step verification deal, Pete Hegseth shut down Margaret Brennan the second she parroted Obama's talking point, and Trump reminded everyone Obama once handed Iran $1.7 billion in cash that failed anyway. Oil crashed to $80 a barrel and the m...
Pete Buttigieg sat down for a friendly interview and told Republicans exactly what Democrats plan to do to the Supreme Court — pack it from 9 to 13 justices, no constitutional amendment required, just a Senate majority. He calls it a "rogue Supreme Court," spins the gerrymandering fight as a race war, and Larry O'Connor takes it all apart fact by fact. Plus Raphael Warnock claims the Court "committed violence," Ro Khanna push...
Gavin Newsom put Hunter Biden on his podcast and floated a "Hunter Biden 2028" run — then Hunter posted an unhinged defense of Maine's Graham Platner that dared everyone to "show us your laptop." It backfires instantly. Chris Murphy ties himself in knots defending Plattner's Nazi tattoo and worse, Platner claps back at Trump and leaves out half his biography, and Scott Jennings ends the entire story with one devastating porta...
Ilhan Omar told a reporter that Palestinians are "ethnic to the land in which they belong" — and Larry O'Connor flips her own logic right back to explain exactly why Donald Trump says she belongs in Somalia. It comes the same day Trump unloaded on Omar from the Oval Office and torched Jamie Raskin as "a loser in life" over impeachment. Plus Jerry Seinfeld's now-viral "show it to me on a map" takedown of a free-Palestine heckl...
Jasmine Crockett went on camera to call the Carmelo Anthony murder verdict "pure racism" — then admitted she never followed the trial and didn't know the facts of the case. Larry O'Connor breaks down the $600,000 defense fund that demolishes her "broken system" claim, why James Talarico's own voters dumped her, and how Cardi B and Willie D of the Geto Boys are pushing the same race narrative heading into an election year.
Donald Trump phoned into Fox & Friends and didn't hold back — promising "bigger, more powerful" strikes on Iran tonight, naming Kharg Island as his real target, and torching Joe Scarborough and the Wall Street Journal for claiming Iran is winning. Larry O'Connor breaks down Trump's most revealing Iran interview yet, including the one thing Trump admits America "doesn't have the stomach for" and what Bill Hemmer's map says...
Donald Trump phoned into Fox & Friends and didn't hold back — promising "bigger, more powerful" strikes on Iran tonight, naming Kharg Island as his real target, and torching Joe Scarborough and the Wall Street Journal for claiming Iran is winning. Larry O'Connor breaks down Trump's most revealing Iran interview yet, including the one thing Trump admits America "doesn't have the stomach for" and what Bill Hemmer's map says...
After Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet and sentenced to 35 years, the scene outside the courthouse was exactly what you'd expect — a mob chanting "say his name" for the killer, an activist claiming "we're the indigenous people of this earth," and a family attorney calling a fair guilty verdict a "legally lynched" slaughterhouse. One woman even screamed that Metcalf's ...
After Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet and sentenced to 35 years, the scene outside the courthouse was exactly what you'd expect — a mob chanting "say his name" for the killer, an activist claiming "we're the indigenous people of this earth," and a family attorney calling a fair guilty verdict a "legally lynched" slaughterhouse. One woman even screamed that Metcalf's ...
A 17-year-old was stabbed to death at a Texas track meet, a jury convicted Carmelo Anthony of murder and handed down 35 years — and Jasmine Crockett went on a left-wing podcast to make the whole thing about race. Crockett actually argued she'd have stabbed him too, debated whether the knife was "big enough," and claimed black women live in fear, while a Court TV defense attorney melted down over the guilty verdict and a panel...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune went on CNBC with Joe Kernan and fumbled the easiest question of all — insisting Republicans first have to "prove fraud" before touching California's elections. Larry O'Connor takes that excuse apart piece by piece, showing how Gavin Newsom's state legally built a ballot system so wide open a bank would get shut down for running it. Then CNN's own Harry Enten pulls up the data proving Democra...
A new preliminary Senate report from Ron Johnson alleges Biden-era FDA officials had access to a superior data-mining tool as early as March 2021 that flagged dozens of COVID-shot safety signals — including cardiac death, strokes, and Bell's palsy — but kept using an older "masking" algorithm that hid them. According to the report, officials told FDA medical officer Dr. Anna to cease and desist, expressed worry about "f...
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