Trump stuns the federal buearocracy with a memo ordering a spending pause until reviews are conducted in line with his raft of executive orders. Is it a constititutional overreach, as Democrats are saying, or is it necessary in order to bring the federal government in line with his priorities? Edward Endymion's bringing you the angles you haven't heard. Next, China's Deepsink AI challenges America's burgeoning AI dominance. With the markets scrambling, is this AI's Sputnik moment or just a blip on the radar - and could China's innovation in fact help America's AI sector? Finally, we dive deep into the chaos engulfing Minnesota's state house as Democrats refuse to let Republicans reach a quorom and state business grinds to a halt. Will antics there dictate the 2028 electoral map? Probably not, but it's fun to call Tim Walz a clown. All that's inside the episode!

Edward Endymion's back and covering all the breaking news from this weekend - first reporting on Trump's firing of 18 insepector generals late Friday night, explaining what IGs are meant to do, why Trump wanted them gone, and why he may have run afoul of Congress in the progress. Next, a story from Sunday where Colombia blocked a deportation flight before Trump clapped backed with the threat of heavy sanctions and got their government to bend the knee; the new Trump doctrine in action. Finally, we look at the dueling ways Trump and Elon Musk have been interfering with European leaders. With Trump trying to play the statesman, will Elon's trolling and political activism lead to blowback for the United States in the old countries?

On today's episode, Edward Endymion examines the feuds that highlighted cracks between Steve Bannon's old MAGA and Elon Musk's DOGE after Vivek Ramaswamy's comments in praise of H1B visas ingnited a firestorm between the two camps. Which faction has Trump's ear at the end of his first week in office, and what does it mean for how MAGA will end? Next, he recaps the fall of the mainstream media and how 2024 was the year alternative right wing media was ascendent - but how it risks now falling into the same trap that lead mainstream news to irrelevance. Finally, the Democrat's breathless opposition to Pete Hegseth in the Senate and antics over Trump's inauguration augers poorly for their attempts to mount a successful resistance.