Paul Davis is a professor at the Institute of World Politics focused on Middle Eastern studies, with decades of strategic and tactical political and military analysis spanning the Cold War through today's upheaval in Iran, Syria and Iraq. He joins Jake twice this morning, first for the show open and again at 9:20.
The Houthis have seized Yemen's Red Sea coast as government forces in Yemen collapse, and Iran denies any connection. A former Pentagon spokesperson said on Fox that the Houthis are sitting ducks on Mocha and several Red Sea islands, and the group now controls the Bab al Mandeb shipping chokepoint. Separately, a drone attack on a Saudi oil pipeline is being traced to an Iran backed militia in Iraq, a strike analysts say could be a disaster for the global economy given the pipeline's role letting Saudi Arabia bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Sources: The Gateway Pundit · Jerusalem Post · Jerusalem Post
Jake and Paul Davis dig into new video evidence of rising unrest in Tehran and what it signals about the regime's grip. New reporting that China provided Iran the intelligence used to strike a U.S. base in Jordan, killing three American servicemembers. President Trump, asked about a Wall Street Journal report on the matter aboard Air Force One, said China "spies on us" just as "we spy on them, too."
Sources: Fox News · The Wall Street Journal · Fox News
Homeland Security Investigations has arrested Raad Alanbagi in the Detroit area after tying him to prior service as a high ranking Iraqi intelligence officer during the Saddam Hussein era. As America marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Ries, Director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, says the 9/11 Commission's core lesson, that government agencies must share information to prevent tragedy, is being forgotten. Her mother, Jessica Gorman, has become a leading voice challenging sanctuary policy.
Sources: The Gateway Pundit · The Gateway Pundit · The Heritage Foundation
Panelist: Lora Ries, Director, Border Security and Immigration Center, The Heritage Foundation
Jake and Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (ret), revisit the Red Sea and pipeline crises before turning to a wave of developments across the Atlantic. Following President Trump's weekend visit to Dublin over Irish reunification, reports say Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are moving to sign a joint declaration in Cardiff demanding the right to self-determination and independence referendums. Jake also raises a report he posted over the weekend alleging that some of the Senate's longest serving members have been financially compromised by an electronic voting machine company as part of an effort to target President Trump ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Sources: Jerusalem Post · Fox News
Panelist: Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (ret), Host, Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast
President Trump is telling President Zelensky to stop targeting Russian oil refiners as diesel prices climb amid the Iran war, though Antonio Graceffo and Jake question whether Zelensky will actually stand down. The Houthis' capture of Yemen's Red Sea coast continues to put world trade in crisis. Separately, a train traveling behind former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's was struck by a drone near the Ukraine Poland border, though Johnson was unharmed. The two also return to the China intelligence story from earlier in the show, with Graceffo arguing that supplying Iran with targeting information used to kill U.S. troops is not spying, it is actively helping an enemy during a state of war.
Sources: CNN · The Gateway Pundit · The Gateway Pundit
Panelist: Antonio Graceffo, Economist, Author, and China Analyst
Dr. John Marshall Callahan joins Jake to unpack the coming Cardiff summit, where ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to sign a joint declaration demanding the right to self-determination and independence referendums. Callahan points to deep divisions within Northern Ireland itself, where the North retains a distinctly British character while the South leans anti British, and notes that Scotland already runs its own government in Edinburgh even as London keeps final say, with Scottish oil remaining a major flashpoint.
Sources: Jerusalem Post
Panelist: Dr. John Marshall Callahan, Professor, Institute of World Politics, former Deputy Spokesperson, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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