Episode Details

Jon Herold comes into Friday with a full show and a guest. Cybersecurity expert Skip Holt joins to break down two massive data breaches: the Medtronic ransomware hack locking down 9 million patient records and the Conduent breach now affecting 100 million Americans. Jon then connects those stories to something nobody is discussing: the US Election Security Group has not been activated for the midterms, and Jon thinks that silence might be telling. Louisiana just suspended its House primaries after the SCOTUS redistricting ruling, Trump called it tremendous vision and leadership, and Jon is connecting the dots to a potential nationwide midterm cancellation template. The DOJ is now weighing a second Comey indictment over the classified Daniel Richmond documents that John Durham mysteriously declined to prosecute years ago. Trump is also trying to reset the 60-day War Powers clock by arguing the ceasefire paused hostilities, which Jon finds legally creative. Oil prices stubbornly refuse to spike the way analysts predicted despite the biggest supply disruption in history, and Jon thinks that story reveals something important about Trump's economic strategy. Plus the national debt hits $39 trillion and Jon does math that nobody wants to hear.