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— Senator Raphael Warnock, Democrat from Georgia, joins us to discuss the Trump administration’s Venezuela operation and the stakes for U.S. credibility abroad
— Trump tells NBC that U.S. oil companies could rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure and then be reimbursed by the U.S. government, shifting taxpayer risk to protect corporate profits
— Donald Trump and allies including Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, and Stephen Miller float military action against Iran, Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland after campaigning on “no new wars”
— Legal experts discuss whether Trump’s extrajudicial kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro could trigger universal jurisdiction and expose Trump to detention risk if he travels abroad
— Fox hosts struggle to reconcile Donald Trump calling foreign military action “not war” while framing domestic drug trafficking as “war,” highlighting contradictions even in friendly media coverage
— Donald Trump posts false claims about the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule and promotes misinformation about vaccines and acetaminophen
— María Corina Machado flatters Trump and floats sharing a Nobel Peace Prize with him as Sean Hannity presses for loyalty
— Gavin Newsom publicly mocks Mike Johnson’s U-Haul-based claims about California, cites recent population growth and wage and tax-burden arguments
— Volodymyr Zelensky highlights the inconsistency of Trump targeting Nicolás Maduro while avoiding any comparable action toward Vladimir Putin
— On the Bonus Show: Colombia and Mexico brace for Donald Trump’s next moves as flu activity surges in the U.S. and overwhelms communities across the country
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