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After the FBI asked the press not to publish, The New York Times leaked classified details about Air Force One’s self-defense capabilities as tensions with Iran and threats against the President intensified. The Department of Justice then subpoenaed the article’s four authors to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on July 15, with subpoenas issued by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, whom President Trump has nominated as Director of National Intelligence. The episode argues the deeper issue is why such leaks occur, framing a historical pattern tied to “impactful” presidents like Lincoln and McKinley and claiming Trump is reviving the Hamiltonian “American System.” It contrasts this with free-market orthodoxy, critiques free trade’s damage to U.S. manufacturing and defense production, and highlights the Pentagon’s $10 million “Build Freedom” investment with Mike Rowe to rebuild skilled trades.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:12 THE PHYSICAL WAR: “They Go After the Big Names”
04:10 THE INTELLECTUAL WAR: The American System Returns
08:04 THE INDUSTRIAL WAR: "The Math Ain't Math"

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Barbara Boyd argues Trump is pursuing peace talks with Iran while warning the ceasefire is over and the U.S. will respond with crushing force if Iran interferes in the Strait of Hormuz. She says media claims that Trump is a warmonger are false, citing Trump’s regional “Board of Peace,” Iran’s long-term proxy war through Hamas and Hezbollah, and Iran’s uranium enrichment and nuclear ambitions. The script describes U.S. strikes. Operation Midnight Hammer (2025) and Operation Epic Fury (Feb. 2026), and claims these actions weakened Iran, shifted Gulf states against Tehran, enabled changes in Gaza and Lebanon, and collapsed Iran’s economy, leaving Hormuz harassment as its main lever. Boyd frames the conflict as part of a broader struggle against a London-centered “petrodollar” energy order and Net Zero policies, highlighting Trump’s energy expansion, economic metrics, and new nuclear and fusion initiatives as the future economic strategy.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:38 The Real Situation in the Middle East
05:54 Energy Is the Real Dictator of the World
10:55 The Meaning of Trump's Economic Revolution Is Sinking In

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday July 9th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week, Europe said the quiet part in print. The Wall Street Journal just published the inside story of a five-hour emergency session at European Council headquarters in Brussels, participants called it "therapy night", where Europe's leaders wrestled with a question they'd never dared ask out loud: is America now a threat? Mark Carney's message to the room: "The old America isn't coming back." Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda read it for what it is: not an alliance in crisis, but the old order, the EU, Britain, and Carney's Canada, regrouping against Trump's America, and finally admitting it.

Then there's Ankara. Susan's take: this wasn't really a NATO summit, it was Donald Trump and Erdogan, and everybody else watching. Turkey stayed out of the Iran war, kept clear of Israel, and is positioned to help end the war in Ukraine. At their joint press conference Trump said the F-35 sale is "certainly something we will consider" and announced sanctions on Turkey will be lifted, with Netanyahu publicly urging him not to sell. Susan unpacks what the Erdogan flank means for the alliance the media thinks it understands.

And on the Russia front: the signs Moscow has dropped the attrition game in Ukraine and is moving, and why Russia wants Trump, and only Trump, to settle it.

Plus: your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live.

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At the NATO summit in Ankara, President Trump signaled a new foreign-policy dynamic by prioritizing Turkey and President Erdogan, nearly skipping the summit, praising Turkey’s independent role on Iran, and floating renewed F-35 sales despite Turkey’s S-400 purchase and ties to both Moscow and Kiev. In contrast, European leaders and Canada’s Mark Carney arrived with a “Resilience” agenda, claiming Europe can stand without the U.S., after months of planning, including Carney’s coordination and MI6 guidance on “managing” Trump. The episode argues this posture is undermined by Europe’s industrial decline, citing falling German production, Volkswagen’s expected job cuts, and Britain’s shrinking steel capacity, while Carney’s response centers on new defense and Ukraine lending facilities. The script frames Putin’s July 4 call with Trump as highlighting shared historical ties and “colossal” cooperation potential, including space collaboration, as evidence old geopolitical rules are breaking down.

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:39 Trump in Turkey
05:04 Europe Walks Into the Corner
09:18 The Phone Call, and Russia

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Barbara Boyd argues that recent speeches by President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance offer an antidote to communism, socialism, and what she calls Democrats’ targeting of Gen Z and millennials through a counterculture shaped under Obama and Biden and teachers’ unions. She describes escalating attacks on Trump’s planned Freedom 250 celebration, including musicians withdrawing, blue states refusing to join the Great American State Fair, a Patriot Front march, and Chatham House commentary highlighting U.S. “fault lines.” Boyd highlights New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s July 3 City Hall speech criticizing inequality and “oligarchs,” including Elon Musk, and notes online satire in response. She then recaps Trump’s Mount Rushmore remarks defining American liberty, culture, self-reliance, and patriotism, and Vance’s New York Harbor speech invoking Washington, the Declaration, and builder Henry Kaiser.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:23 Raining Garbage on America’s Parade
06:21 A Call to American Daring and Imagination
13:45 The Grand Finale

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On America’s 250th Independence anniversary, Susan Kokinda argues that this moment is more profound because Donald Trump and his administration are reviving the “American System” of political economy, tariffs to promote domestic industry, manufacturing, and internal improvements, after it was suppressed following President William McKinley’s assassination in 1901. She contrasts the American System with the “British System,” citing Henry Carey’s warning of two opposing systems, and says the nation’s economic heritage was replaced by free trade, consumerism, and institutions like the Federal Reserve. Kokinda connects the Declaration’s appeal to the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God to economics, quoting Lyndon LaRouche on a state shaping a nation’s relationship to the physical universe. She highlights speeches by Jamieson Greer and Scott Bessent on production over consumption, and J.D. Vance’s call for a Hamiltonian approach grounded in human dignity, linking it to the Declaration’s “pursuit of happiness” over “property.”

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00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:59 The Weapon the British Took From Us
05:42 The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God
11:27 Happiness, Not Property

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday July 2nd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This Saturday, America turns 250. Two and a half centuries since a handful of colonists declared that governments exist to secure the rights of the people, and that when one stops, the people can replace it. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda mark the milestone with the story the textbooks skip: why the founders' idea of a sovereign people building a real economy is the exact thing beating managed decline today, at home and abroad.

At home, a wave of major Supreme Court rulings just landed, and the establishment is melting down. Barbara cuts through the panic: the Court affirmed the President's power to fire officials across the executive agencies, with the Federal Reserve the lone exception, and even that turns on process, not protection. On campaign finance, the Court struck the limits on what a party can spend in coordination with its own candidate, a decisive shift heading into the midterms. And birthright citizenship was upheld, the challenge denied, about as expected.

Abroad, the headlines want a White House at war with itself. The reality is a strategy that's working. The "Rubio vs. Vance" storyline is a media invention, the President is using both men, on Lebanon and on Iran alike. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's message this week: the U.S. still holds all the cards. And the oil-sales panic is hollow, the only real buyer for Iranian crude is China, at a steep discount. It's the same thread Susan pulled in Monday's Brief: Trump is dismantling Kissinger's doctrine of managing wars forever, and ending them instead.

Plus: what every one of these means for the midterms now coming into view. Bring your questions. Barbara and Susan take them live.

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Barbara argues President Trump is not exaggerating in calling communism the biggest threat to the nation, framing the moment as a revolutionary new beginning rooted in the American System. It highlights Treasury official Scott Bessent’s claim of an “innovation wave,” reshoring, and economic resilience, then spotlights the June 23 release of Trump’s America First Resilience Strategy, which shifts national security from reactive crisis management to making hazards and adversaries unable to hold U.S. interests at risk through technology and industrial programs nationwide. The script connects this approach to Alexander Hamilton’s manufacturing, credit, and National Bank policies and cites Vice President Vance endorsing a Hamiltonian, anti, laissez-faire tradition. It then attacks Mark Carney as a spokesman for the City of London, linking him to digital currency proposals, net-zero finance, Tony Blair, and a “coalition” opposing Trump, and portrays the Democratic Socialists of America as advancing a minimum-to-maximum program toward public ownership, constitutional change, and revolutionary seizure of state power.

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:34 Revolutions Are New Beginnings
06:38 Mark Carney's Fake Revolution
10:08 The Democratic Socialists of America

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Susan Kokinda argues that Vice President JD Vance’s Nixon Library remarks about a “deep state” targeting Nixon and Trump point to a deeper fight over U.S. foreign policy: an American tradition of ending wars versus Henry Kissinger’s British “balance of power” doctrine of managing conflict. She links Eisenhower ending Korea and stopping the 1956 Suez seizure, and William Rogers’ post. Six-Day War comprehensive peace proposal, to Trump’s Abraham Accords, contrasting them with Kissinger’s rise after Watergate, the collapse of Rogers’ plan, and renewed Middle East wars, including Lebanon’s descent into civil war after Kissinger-era maneuvering. She highlights April 14, 2026 talks involving Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors with Secretary Rubio and a June 26 trilateral framework for ending the conflict. Kokinda also cites June 23 White Sands directed-energy tests and Trump’s January 2025 “Golden Dome” order as reversing Kissinger’s ABM/MAD legacy and pushing U.S. industrial revival toward assured defense and lasting peace.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:34 Two Foreign Policies: American Development vs British Perpetual War
05:05 Kissinger’s Doctrine in Action: How Lebanon Was Broken
08:54 New Mexico: The Stake Through the Heart of MAD

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Barbara Boyd discusses three Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani winning upset victories in New York congressional primaries, framing the results as part of a long-term cultural project rather than a purely economic platform. She argues the DSA’s internal education centers on communist theorist Antonio Gramsci and his strategy of revolution through cultural “hegemony,” citing a deleted Instagram post from a group tied to one winner that called for the “total eradication of Western Civilization.” Boyd highlights a newly published DSA platform proposing major constitutional changes, then links Gramsci to the Council on Foreign Relations’ “post-Trump world” series, noting CFR fellow Charles Kupchan opens with a Gramsci quote and attacks reindustrialization and tariffs. She claims British imperial networks historically sponsored Marx and later Gramsci, using communism and counterculture against rivals, and urges promoting Trump’s “American System” economics and an optimistic national culture ahead of the midterms.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:48 The DSA's Real Target
04:55 Gramsci, Sraffa, and the British Lord Who Promoted Them
09:39 Marx, the City of London, and What it Means for Trump

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