Venezuelan political refugee and Manhattan Institute fellow Daniel Di Martino joins Shabbos Kestenbaum to break down the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro—why Venezuelans are celebrating, what this means for drug trafficking, migration, oil, and U.S. interests, and how a real transition to democracy could unfold. We cover comparisons to Panama/Noriega vs. Iraq/Afghanistan, the role of international law, regional shockwaves (Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia), and what freedom could look like for the 9 million Venezuelan refugees. All this and more on this episode of The Brief: Insights From The Inside.

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Rafael Mangual (Manhattan Institute; Criminal (In)Justice) joins Shabbos Kestenbaum to unpack the shootings in Bondi Beach and Brown University, as well as America’s gun debate. He explains how the U.S. violence problem is hyper-concentrated, the problem with gun bans, and how the best solutions are targeted policing, prosecution, and incapacitation. We cover Heller/McDonald/Bruen, background checks, “well-regulated” means in the 2nd Amendment, self-defense realities, and why homicide fell ~1990–2014 without new national gun control.

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CNN commentator and strategist Scott Jennings joins host Shabbos Kestenbaum to break down U.S. immigration policy, the Minnesota Medicaid fraud scandal, and why he believes Western civilization is under real pressure—from mass migration impacts to campus radicalism. Jennings explains how Europe’s crisis reshaped politics, why assimilation matters, what’s alleged in Minnesota’s Somali fraud cases, and the policy levers the U.S. can use to protect civil society and the rule of law.

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Former police officer Brandon Tatum joins Shabbos Kestenbaum to break down why “defund the police” fails in practice—using New York City as the case study. Brandon breaks down Mamdani’s defund agenda, and what it really does to NYPD morale, recruiting, and safety—plus the data vs the discourse, the use of the National Guard in American cities, attacking ICE agents, political violence, BLM, and why fatherhood and mentorship matter more than slogans.

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Exiled Qatari dissident Sheikh Khalid Al-hail joins The Brief to lay out his case against Qatar’s ruling monarchy—why he can’t live in Doha, how he says Hamas leaders operate from Qatar, and why he calls Al Jazeera a state intelligence platform. We dig into canceled elections, Muslim Brotherhood influence, influencer junkets, and the billions allegedly flowing to U.S. universities. If you follow Middle East politics, media power, or campus activism, don’t miss this deep dive!

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Gen Z is bucking the narrative. Christian Collins—founder of the Texas Youth Summit—joins Shabbos Kestenbaum to explain why church attendance among young Americans is rising, how COVID-era isolation pushed a new search for meaning, and what families, mentors, and faith communities can do to guide the next generation.

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Author and speaker James Lindsay joins Shabbos Kestenbaum to unpack the “woke right”—what it is, where it came from, and how a very online movement is leaking into real-world politics. We cover definitions (critical theory, reactionary currents), cancel-culture mirror tactics, the “trust me, bro” power play, and why Israel has become a coalition-splitting wedge issue on the right.

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Best-selling author Gerald Posner (Case Closed) joins The Brief: Insights From The Inside to break down the JFK assassination—what the evidence shows, what it doesn’t, and why it became “the mother of all conspiracy theories.” We cover Lee Harvey Oswald’s motives and Mexico City trip, the Zapruder film, the grassy knoll and ear-witness confusion, the House Select Committee’s infamous dictabelt error, autopsy photos/X-rays, Jack Ruby, and why CIA/Mafia/Castro/KGB/Mossad narratives don’t fit the facts. Posner also reconstructs the shots from the Texas School Book Depository, explains why the driver’s slowdown mattered, and answers the big question: What kind of president might JFK have been if Dallas never happened?

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Former Army Captain and interrogator Jesse Petrilla joins The Brief: Insights From The Inside to unpack the jihadist long game—from recruiting child suicide bombers and weaponizing Western campuses to why phrases like “You have the watches, we have the time” matter. Drawing on 400+ detainee interrogations, Petrilla explains how Islamist extremists think, how they use deception, madrassas, and generational planning, and what free societies can do to defend Western values without apology.  

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In this episode of The Brief: Insights From The Inside, Venezuelan exile and PragerU host Franklin Camargo explains how one of the world’s most resource-rich nations became a narco-state—from nationalization and price controls to cartel power and mass poverty—and why U.S. policy should treat Venezuela, China, Russia, and Iran as a connected threat. Camargo details election illegitimacy, cartel ties, why “America First means securing our borders,” and what Gen Z gets wrong about socialism vs. capitalism. He closes with a stark picture of daily life in Caracas—and a warning for Americans flirting with the same policies.

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