-- On the Show:

-- Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, also the Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor, joins David to discuss New Jersey's shift to the right in the 2024 election, her candidacy, housing and healthcare affordability, and more

— Trump confirms the U.S. is at war with Iran, bragging that “we now control the skies”—after blowing up the nuclear deal and dragging America into a conflict he once claimed to oppose

— In a series of deranged Truth Social rants, Trump calls for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” threatens to assassinate its Supreme Leader, and posts like a kid playing Call of Duty

— Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson explode on air over the Iran war, revealing the MAGA movement’s total collapse into infighting, bad-faith branding, and empty slogans

— Trump’s State Department spokesperson praises him like a god-king while refusing to answer basic questions about the war—echoing authoritarian regimes, not democracies

— NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is arrested by Trump’s ICE for standing in a hallway at an immigration court—marking a terrifying new escalation of political repression

— Kristi Noem is hospitalized after visiting a shutdown biohazard lab with RFK Jr., and the official explanation is so vague it’s fueling serious questions about what actually happened

-- On the Bonus Show: Social media overtakes TV as America’s main news source, Trump extends TikTok’s sale deadline again, Texas quietly kills its state-funded border wall project, much more...

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