The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire covers Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's sanctions against Autistici/Inventati, an Italy based tech collective tied to Antifa cells, along with new nonprofit related terror financing rules. He covers President Trump's comments on Glenn Beck about the uncertain status of the new Iranian Supreme Leader, the son of the late Ayatollah Khamenei. Aaron also covers the growing wave of Democrat lawmakers publicly disavowing streamer Hasan Piker ahead of the general election, and catastrophic flash flooding along the China-Nepal border that has killed more than 150 people, with dozens of Americans reported missing. He covers Dearborn, Michigan pastor Lorenzo Sewell's confrontational speech to the city council over accusations the city operates under Sharia law. Aaron closes with this week's poll results on Dolly Parton's best song, following her passing this week.

Aaron McIntire remembers country music icon Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80 after a decades spanning career, and covers Darline Graham's primary loss to Ralph Norman in the race for her late brother Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. He covers President Trump's zero tolerance warning to Iran over sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, and unconfirmed reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a secret trip to Moscow. Aaron also covers the WNBA's reported decision to bar former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White from the draft after they declared themselves eligible for the women's league, and a rare interview with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on race and ideology. He closes with his own skepticism toward the growing public backlash to data centers and Flock license plate cameras.

Aaron McIntire highlights several administration wins, including Education Department guidance treating gender transition claims in schools as child abuse, a new $100,000 H-1B visa application fee, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's Operation Economic Outcast targeting Iran's global financial network. He covers DSA-aligned streamer Hasan Piker getting booed after walking back past comments about 9/11, and Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed publicly distancing himself from Piker's support. Aaron reacts to former Vice President Mike Pence's CNN interview about his former transgender CIA briefer, Julia Curlee, and new global fertility data suggesting humanity may be below replacement level for the first time in recorded history. He closes out the show discussing former LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt's viral video on America's cultural decline, and public reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination and the Lindsay Clancy trial.

Aaron McIntire covers backlash to President Trump's plan to import up to 300,000 metric tons of tariff free beef over the next 90 days to lower ground beef prices, and the sudden collapse of the U.S.-Canada trade deal over steel, aluminum, and auto tariffs. He covers Vice President JD Vance's rally at a Middletown, Ohio steel plant, where he invoked the late Louisiana Governor Huey Long and the story of programmer Kevin Flanagan to make his case against offshoring American jobs. Aaron also covers ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis pleading the Fifth Amendment before House investigators, the FBI seizing former Congressman Eric Swalwell's devices in a misconduct probe, and ICE's growing enforcement operation against Haitian nationals in Ohio. He touches on a disturbing Miami child abuse case involving an illegal immigrant mother, and new data showing a surge in Catholic ministry participation on college campuses. Aaron closes with his take on President Trump's Truth Social attack on Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie, and what it means for JD Vance's 2028 prospects.

Dropping a bomb, then walking away.

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Don't say I'm not dedicated

Aaron McIntire covers President Trump and Stephen Miller's new executive orders narrowing birthright citizenship eligibility and cracking down on birth tourism, building on this summer's Supreme Court ruling. He covers Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul referring Dr. Anthony Fauci's contempt of Congress case directly to the Department of Justice after Democrats failed to block it. Aaron also covers tennis star Coco Gauff's nuanced comments on the WTA's new sex testing policy, and national security analyst Kyle Schindler's Senate testimony on ties between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Democratic Socialists of America. He covers a McKinney, Texas city council meeting where an Iranian Christian refugee spoke against a proposed Islamic center, which the council approved unanimously, and former Minneapolis officer Tou Thao's interview on his faith following his release from prison. Aaron closes with a full AOTMA, plus a note that the show may go dark intermittently while his home studio undergoes mold remediation.

Aaron McIntire covers Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's formal subpoena of Dr. Anthony Fauci over alleged self-dealing and profiting from his pandemic-era guidance, plus Vice President JD Vance's update on the administration's anti-fraud task force. He reacts to Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's victory speech, and Senator Bernie Sanders declining to fully condemn controversial comments from DSA-aligned streamer Hasan Piker. Aaron also covers a California man arrested near Trump National Golf Club days before the president's visit, and a Michigan congressional primary upset after Trump's endorsed candidate lost badly. He shares this week's poll results and a viral breakdown of mosques per capita by state, part of a broader discussion on immigration policy toward Muslim-majority countries.

Aaron McIntire covers a second straight record month for ICE, with DHS reporting 51,000 arrests in July, and weighs whether the timing is a response to Secretary Markwayne Mullin's rocky weekend. He covers new DOJ fraud charges against 19 people accused of scamming Pennsylvania's Medicaid program out of more than $4 million. Aaron highlights resurfaced comments from Wisconsin gubernatorial frontrunner Francesca Hong on her own biracial son and proximity to whiteness, plus Senator Chuck Schumer's defense of the Democratic Socialists of America's rising influence in the party. He praises world number one tennis player Aryna Sabalenka for her full-throated support of the WTA's new sex testing policy, and covers a bystander's account of stopping an armed gunman at an Idaho Falls In-N-Out. Aaron closes Aaronalysis explaining why fraud recovery efforts mean little unless the clawed-back money is actually cut from federal budgets rather than reallocated.