Episode Details

-- On the Show

-- 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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(00:00) Start (01:18) Trump's Venezuela oil plan sticks taxpayers with risk (07:34) "No new wars" to invasion talk: Iran, Cuba, more (19:31) Legal fallout: Maduro kidnapping, travel detention risk (25:13) Fox struggles: "not war" abroad, "war" on drugs at home (31:43) Trump pushes vaccine schedule lies (40:24) Sen. Warnock explains Venezuela raid, credibility stakes (53:59) Machado flatters Trump, floats shared Nobel Peace Prize (58:53) Newsom mocks Johnson's U-Haul dig at California (1:04:18) Zelensky flags Putin double standard in Trump's targeting

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