Democrats in Illinois from Gov. JB Pritzker to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson try to shrug off violence in Chicago as Washington DC crime rate plummets. Stephen Kent joins us from a protest full of old hippies and furries in front of Union Station.

Rob Bluey, president of The Daily Signal, joins us to discuss the next steps Congress has to take now that recess is over, along with a national conservatism revival.

The U.S. Navy sinks a cartel ship departing from Venezuela in the Caribbean, and "intifada" rallies flare up in Detroit.

Jasmine Crockett's accent somehow gets... worse?

More as news develops.

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