• 🏖️Rachel and I are headed to a friend’s wedding and will tack on a few days of R+R.

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Earn it🏆: In TV, you have to earn fun — we’ve talked about this before.

• Example📈: When ratings are up, I get to do golf segments

• 🤷Vacation is similar — you need to earn it.

  • Congress is heading out on vacation having gotten nothing done but fighting with each other.

• ⬇️See below for more.

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Never caught on your first time👀: New Jersey “found” 6,600 noncitizens on its voter rolls.

• Cue the endless stream of Democrats saying it wasn’t a problem.

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Who knew🤦: Politeness is now a sign of white supremacy — no seriously.

• One of the most bizarre moments in a congressional hearing happened today between Texas Rep. Brandon Gill and the director of the Smithsonian, who testified that politeness is among the many traits of white supremacy taught in our nation’s museums

• What I am thinking💭: All that time my parents taught me to say “Yes, sir” and “No, sir,” they were secretly members of the KKK — an unusual position for my Jewish father.

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Health alert🚨: It’s been a long time since anyone has tried to make the case for nicotine products being good for your health — but what is old is new again.

• Look back🔙: “More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette”

• 💨From research labs to Silicon Valley — a new breed of doctors and finance bros are declaring nicotine a lifehack?

  • Tech startups are even handing out nicotine pouches to employees — saying it helps with focus and creativity

• Look back🔙: For almost all of modern history, most of the smartest people in the world had one thing in common — smoking

  • NASA engineers and mission specialists who sent Neil Armstrong and the company to the moon smoked

  • Einstein puffed on his favorite pipe as he worked out his theory of relativity

  • Churchill is said to have smoked up to 10 cigars a day

• Tonight📺: Jillian Michaels on whether nicotine — gum, patch, pouch — really is the way of the future

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How to Know Trump Is Serious About Iran‼️

💣U.S. forces carried out their 10th consecutive day of strikes against Iran, hitting “Iranian military command centers, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defense systems,” says CENTCOM.

• It’s the same statement we hear every day

• 🗣️Today, Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked in front of the Senate how Iran is still bombing us if their capabilities were “functionally destroyed”

• 📰The Wall Street Journal reports, “Iran’s Missiles Have Gotten Faster and Deadlier,” writing:

  • “The ballistic missiles Iran is now using seem faster and able to maneuver as they streak toward the earth. This reflects a military that is adapting, not necessarily crumbling.”

  • What I’m thinking💭: If we keep attacking their missile and drone launch sites, how are their missiles getting faster and deadlier?

• ‼️This weekend two service members were killed after an Iranian strike hit a U.S. base in Jordan — and Trump pointed fingers at Jordan

  • Trump: “They did slip something through in Jordan, and if we had other operators, you know, it would have not happened, unfortunately…When you let other people do your job with the United States, we let other people do the job and sometimes it doesn’t work out so well.”

‼️New intelligence says the latest U.S. strikes won’t do much to change Iran’s behavior.

• “Israeli intelligence believes Iran moved thousands of uranium-enrichment centrifuges into tunnels deep inside a mountain last fall,” reports The Wall Street Journal

  • 💣Trump said he will bomb Pickaxe Mountain where they moved the uranium

Tonight📺: Brig. Gen. John Teichert on what a real strategic bombing campaign is and what it would look like.

🗣️No impact? Trump claimed today Iran wouldn’t impact him — he might be right … damn the torpedoes.

• 👀Fox News isn’t so convinced

  • The Hill: “Fox News pundits urge Trump to get out of Iran war”

Midterm reality‼️: Neither side really has a “winning message”; they just want you to be scared of the other side.

• Democrats are counting on Trump to be so awful that voters won’t care about their socialist left.

• Republicans are counting on voters not caring about how expensive things are because they are scared of the socialist left

• Speaking of🤦: The socialist left sounds less and less serious — Congressman and nepo-in-law Ro Khanna promises

• This sounds like a guy running for student council president

  • Ice cream at every lunch

  • Beer in the soda machine

  • Park wherever you want to

• Plus, Hasan Piker just praised Mao Zedong as “one of the great leaders of this world”

  • Mao killed far more than Stalin — and the socialists claim to care about genocide

Watch tonight📺: The 2Way trio — Mark Halperin, Larry O’Connor and Kevin Walling

Do Your Job!!!

🤦Usually you go on vacation because you earned it, and it’s a reward — yet Congress is doing the complete opposite.

• ✈️The House and Senate soon leave for a summer vacation that they haven’t earned in any way

  • The National Defense Authorization Act isn’t done

  • The SAVE America Act isn’t done

  • No agreement on the annual budget & funding bills

  • Dealing with Social Security hit a dead end

  • No agreement when dealing with health care

    • They have done absolutely nothing and yet are still going on vacation

• 🚨This isn’t a Republican or Democrat problem… it’s an American problem

  • Sen. Mitch McConnell is MIA

  • Congress members are just getting rich trading stocks

  • Everyone is old

  • Nobody cares anymore

    • “What are we doing here?” is the main question my old Fox News office mate Juan Williams says he’s hearing most often right now on Capitol Hill.

Real issue⚠️: Without a functioning Congress, it makes the president, no matter the party, more powerful

• Look at the numbers👀: Only 10% of Americans approve of Congress

  • 86% disapprove, hitting a record high

📰CBS’ Robert Costa headlines, “What’s wrong with Congress?”

• What I’m thinking💭: We should’ve written a piece about what’s right with Congress … it would be a blank piece of paper

Tonight📺: Rep. Jim Jordan on the refusal to compromise that would actually get stuff done

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• 🌕Then these words entered world history almanacs: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind” from Neil Armstrong, as he stepped on the moon.

• The only men to ever walk on the moon were Americans

• Today📅: As we are back in a tough spot as America, we should look back on this day in 1969.

  • America does great things, even when we’re divided.

  • This is one of many things that makes America great — and something we should be proud of and take inspiration from.

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It MUST be racism🗣️: Today the family of Nolan Wells laid their son to rest — admittedly, the worst thing a parent can do and Al Sharpton was there to do what Al Sharpton does.

• What happened‼️: Searchers found Wells’ body two days after he disappeared from a friend’s trip to an island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.

• The accusations: Ben Crump, among others, calls the cops racist for not doing a more thorough investigation — although they offer ZERO evidence the cops did anything wrong or that they were motivated by race.

  • Facts☑️: The only evidence that the Nolan family has of foul play is that there is no evidence of foul play; therefore, there must be foul play — follow. Yea. It's confusing.

Watch tonight📺: Why tragedies just can’t be tragedies — the answer, of course, is money and fame — Rev Al and Crump aren’t as relevant if they can’t cry racism

Don’t Fall for It🚨

‼️It appears JD Vance’s proclamation that Iran had “turned over a new leaf” is now provably rather than predictably laughable.

• Duh🤦: Shia Islam hasn’t turned over a new leaf in 1,400 years…

• 📱Today, Trump posted on Truth Social: “Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over!”

  • Be smart🧠: We’ve seen this before — remember unconditional surrender — the Iranians don’t care what Trump says; they watch his actions.

    • He must show Iran that his calculus has changed.

• ❗Now, after killing three American service members, they are at the rope-a-dope again.

  • The “mediators” are proposing a new 10-day ceasefire.

  • What a joke🤦: The Iranians never lived up to their commitments in the past ceasefires.

• Look back🔙: Bill O’Reilly called Iran the biggest gamble of Trump’s life and presidency

  • Trump and America’s credibility are on the line

• The problem⚠️: Like in most things, Trump wants quick wins and to underpay politically for truly legacy-changing moments

  • ❗DOGE died on the vine — the American government is spending more than ever

  • ❗Greenland — we don’t own it

  • ❗Tariffs — whatever happened to them

Watch tonight📺: Bill O’Reilly on Trump’s options and whether he will finally allow the military to target people and places that directly threaten the IRGC.

• Thought bubble💭: The most “flexible” man in the world is going up against a regime that thinks in centuries.

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Justice Delayed‼️

🚓The manosphere spirit animals finally got arrested (again); hopefully this time someone follows through.

• 🔒Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Miami on Saturday after U.K. authorities requested their extradition to face dozens of charges, including rape and sex trafficking.

  • Look back🔙: In 2023, the brothers were charged with human trafficking, sexual abuse, money laundering and rape in Romania

  • They left Romania in 2025 after Trump officials reportedly urged the country to lift their travel restrictions

  • Now, Team Tate wants Marco Rubio to save them from extradition

    • CNN: “Tate brothers expected in court in Miami after UK rape and sex trafficking charges”

Why it matters‼️: The MAGA-sphere spent years championing the brothers

• This is who we are talking about:

• 📱The ultra-masculine, bro-sphere influencers, alleged rapists, alleged human traffickers, misogynistic porn makers are avid Trump supporters with millions of followers on X

  • Andrew: “The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The good old days are back. And they will be better than ever. Hold on.”

  • Andrew is also a wannabe kickboxer who evidently enjoys choking women, degrading them and allegedly raping them

    • He bragged about hitting and breaking a woman’s jaw, saying “he got away with it”

  • Must read📰: The New Yorker headlines, “Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse”

• 📰Josh Hammer headlines, “The Andrew Tate Moral Rot and the Future of the American Right,” writing:

  • “That these moral monsters have been welcomed to our shores with open arms is appalling and shameful. The saga also exposes an unfortunate fault line on the American Right—one the Right must correctly sort out if it is to have any meaningful staying power as a political force.”

• 🗣️Many people close to Trump and in the MAGA-sphere have spoken highly of the brothers

  • Alina Habba, a former Trump lawyer and now White House counselor to the president, said, “I’m a big fan!” when talking about Andrew Tate

  • Tucker Carlson traveled to Romania to interview Alex during his house arrest

• ‼️Vice President JD Vance is very involved in the online bro-sphere of MAGA that the Tate brothers spoke to

  • This is the side of the Republican Party that’s increasingly isolationist, is kind of okay with Iran and now loves Nixon

Tonight📺: Josh Hammer tonight on whether MAGA will now finally abandon the brothers.

• Plus➕: In the arrest video, you can see Andrew Tate hand off his phone to an accomplice/bodyguard — where is Andrew’s phone?

Midterm Watch👀

‼️By every available measure other than the stock market, Democrats should be running away with the midterms — but they are not.

• 🤷Trump gets away with the massive grift and everything else because Democratic alternatives are so offensive to traditional-value Americans

  • Like nominating and supporting terrorist sympathizers like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan

    • 🤦Just this weekend, he couldn’t comment on the death of the ayatollah because people in his town were “sad” about it:

    • Elizabeth Warren just endorsed him

• 🗳️Americans will hold their nose and vote for Trump in order to protect American values and feel safe

  • So there won’t be men in their daughters’ bathrooms

  • The border will be closed

  • 25 years after 9/11, senators don’t parrot terrorist talking points

🚨The DSA’s continued march through Democratic primaries seriously jeopardizes Democrats’ ability to win ANYTHING.

Tonight📺: Scott Tranter, Kurt Bardella and Meghan Hays on whether Democrats can course-correct.

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Reality: It’s given me zero “joy”, “clarity”, “mindfullness” or any of the other happy things the health freaks get so excited about! Pray for me!

Welcome to Things I Tell My Friends – a more personal look at the news and my weekend reflections for our paid subscribers…this week includes the thing i miss the most from the Middle East plus:

The most important thing I read this weekend is about — reading!

The Iran story the media (predictably) misses

Why the correct attacks on Trump Family “corruption” and everything else don’t land

How I got the threat from expansionist Islam wrong

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• ✍️Linda Weisnberg responded to War Notes, saying:

  • “Leland you are rooting for Argentina, like I am, because Milei is Israel’s new best friend and Spain’s leader is a raging antisemite”

  • 🍻Rachel and I will be rooting for Argentina (at a Spanish bar) on Sunday….wish us luck!

    

✏️Our part-time copy editor Dana Waterman wrote in about our First Dispatch video headline “Can Vance Be Destoryed?!?”

• “Destoryed or destroyed?!?”

• 😂That’s how you know War Notes isn’t AI, Dana…as promised

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Now hiring👷: We can’t confront China without confronting its navy, and we can’t confront its navy without ships.

• 🛥️China’s navy already outnumbers ours 2:1

• Last year, Chinese shipyards turned out hundreds of ships — American shipyards turned out in single digits in America’s navy.

  • Problem⚠️: The Pentagon wants to build new ships and submarines, but the problem is they don’t have the workers.

• Watch tonight📺: Mike Rowe on how he will deploy $10 million from the Pentagon to train new welders, pipefitters, electricians and shipbuilders.

  • Wow😮: Many of Rowe’s scholarship recipients now make mid-six figures and it’s AI-proof

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OH Canada!!!🔥 : Much of the Midwest and the Northeast looks and feels apocalyptic because of Canada’s wildfires — Trump wants reparations

• Trump: “Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result. This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

• 🚨Detroit has the worst air quality in the world

• Whose to blame👀: It turns out most of these fires are preventive.

  • 📑Canada follows the same wildfire management playbook as California, where the Palisades fire burned over 23,000 acres and a thousand homes.

• The problem‼️: In much of America, you can’t be outside — this isn’t dramatic.

  • It’s AWFUL and getting worse

• Lives ruined🚨: The upper Midwest from northern Minnesota through Michigan and New England rely on tourism during the summer for their yearly income — that is very much in jeopardy.

• Tonight📺: Republican Congressman James Gallagher from California

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Iran Reality‼️

👀If actions speak louder than words, Trump’s escalation in Iran tells you his pick in the Vance vs. Rubio never-ending primary

• 📱Vance lives in the podcast world and threw in with the isolationists — Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, etc.

  • Tucker now says Trump is weak

  • Look back🔙: Vance’s political evolution isn’t a new thing

    • He called Trump Hitler back during the 2016 race

    • Became a staunch Trump defender

    • Now everything is Israel’s fault, including his disastrous Iran deal and the response

    • Best take down

    • Emily in Tel Aviv — seriously, watch this.

      • Pro tip❗: Never piss off an Israeli woman.

👀Everybody is coming for Vance — just like they did for Trump in 2015

• 📰George Will and Kimberley Strassel with devastating op-eds

  • “President Vance Goes AWOL”

  • “The endlessly pliable JD Vance has no aversion to conversions”

• Look here‼️: One of Fox’s key behind-the-scenes political guys with a devastating appraisal —

• Hint❗: Rupert Murdoch has made his choice — that can change, but Fox’s cheerleading on Iran is important

Hit pieces📰: Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” credit got destroyed by an MS NOW report that he planned to take a military helicopter so his son could get a golf lesson.

• Those kinds of leaks are devastating.

All is fair in love, war and politics — here we go.

Watch tonight📺: Charlie Dent, Caroline Sunshine and Mark McKinnon for a lead-off panel unlike any other.

House Divided➗

🤦Democrats can’t stop hating the Jews — and soon Israel committing genocide will be a required talking point in the party.

• Reality‼️: If Israel really wanted to commit a genocide, there would be nobody left in Gaza

• 🗳️Over 100 House Democrats voted to end U.S. aid to Israel this week

  • Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — Former House Speaker

  • Katherine Clark (D-MA) — House Minority Whip

  • Joe Neguse (D-CO) — Assistant Minority Leader

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) — D-NY

  • Ro Khanna — D-CA

  • Seth Moulton — D-MA

  • Jamie Raskin — D-MD

• 🗣️Democratic Sen. John Fetterman says he’ll leave the party if they officially go anti-Israel

• Look back🔙: Just over 2 years ago, only 37 House Democrats voted for the last crackdown on Israel aid

Watch📱: One of the smartest Democratic political strategists, Lis Smith, says the Overton Window on Israel is shifting

• Smith was the one who created Pete Buttigieg and Mallory McMorrow

Tonight📺: Corbin Trent and Julian Epstein on whether Democrats hate the Jews more than they love winning.

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Put Up or Shut Up‼️

👀Donald Trump set a trap up for himself last night — if China did all these terrible things, how can he sit around and call Xi Jinping his “great friend”

• Look back🔙: This was Trump just two months ago —

  • Trump: “We’re going to have a fantastic future together. I have such a respect for China. The job you’ve done. You’re a great leader…it’s an honor to be with you. It’s an honor to be your friend”

• ‼️Yet last night, Trump made the case for really horrible behavior from China

  • Meddling with our elections

  • Dividing Americans through social media

• End game❌: Trump needs to stop calling Xi his friend and punish China — and there are real ways to do it:

  • Throwing out Chinese diplomats

  • Canceling Chinese student visas

Flipside 🔃: Last night was also a trap for Democrats — is the party for China interfering in our elections? Are Dems ok with noncitizens on voter rolls?

• Markwayne Mullin said he’s making “mandatory” changes to elections

Apparently, CNN doesn’t watch CNN

Watch tonight📺: Steven Yates on how confronting China isn’t as easy as we think.

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Cringe😬: Joe Biden’s surprise visit to his wife’s book event didn’t go so well — can you imagine if he were president right now?

Be smart🧠: Watching the coverage of Trump’s speech will be far more telling than the speech itself.

• ‼️Trump promises “really big news” as he’s expected to discuss foreign interference in the 2020 election — and says he has “new evidence” he’ll reveal.

  • Plus, Iran and the economy may also come up.

• 🗣️Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the findings Trump will reveal will “shock you”

• Fair question❓: How does one prepare to be SHOCKED

• Be SMART! Politics is about expectations…always set them low.

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Programming alert🚨: President Trump addresses the nation tonight at 9 p.m ET from the White House.

• 📺Watch tonight for special coverage on Trump’s address with guests:

  • 2Way Trio — Mark Halperin, Larry O’Connor and Kevin Walling on the unpredictable reactions and whether Trump met the moment.

  • Gordon Chang and Madeline Summerville on election interference

  • Caroline Sunshine and Brig. Gen. John Teichert on Trump’s war in Iran

  • Stephen Moore and Steve Cortes on the economy

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Coverage watch👀: At least two of the four major TV networks won’t be airing Trump’s speech tonight — ABC and NBC News

• Both will play his address on their streaming platforms.

• AOC has already said networks shouldn’t give Trump airtime

• We asked FCC Chairman Brendan Carr last night if networks should air it:

Popcorn🍿: Will Vice President JD Vance be in the audience?

• He threw down with Joe Rogan with claims Israel is targeting him with paid social media influencers

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Viewer guide for President Trump📺:

Be smart🧠: July is silly season in cable news — anybody who tells you what POTUS says tonight matters for the midterms doesn’t remember July 16 two years ago — President Joe Biden was still in the race.

🗣️Trump is expected to relitigate the 2020 election tonight and make his case for why the SAVE America Act is needed by presenting new evidence of election fraud

• 28% of Americans say the 2020 election was “rigged”

  • 53% say it wasn’t

  • 19% aren’t sure

• Right now, Trump’s approval rating sits at 37%

  • And disapproval is at 59%

  • With 30% of Americans thinking the country is on the right track

    • And 62% on the wrong track

• Reality🤦: Middle America doesn’t care about what happened in the 2020 election — they care about what affects them in their daily lives today.

  • 💸The economy

    • 95% of Americans think the U.S. has an affordability crisis

  • ⛽Gas prices

    • Gas is at $3.94 today

    • Kalshi traders are already betting on gas prices going above $4 by the end of the month

  • 🥗Grocery prices

    • “Two-thirds of Americans find groceries unaffordable,” writes The Washington Post

  • 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Whether their kids are doing better

  • 🌎How America’s standing in the world

• Look back🔙: Watch Erick Erickson earlier this week on our show:

  • “If he spends the night talking about the 2020 election and relitigating the past instead of talking about the future, that’s just an indication that he has no message and no vision for the future other than the SAVE America Act.”

💣Another topic Trump may be addressing is the ongoing war in Iran

• 31% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of Iran

  • 59% disapprove

Look back🔙: We’ve told you Trump's obsession with the SAVE America Act is to provide cover for a midterm loss.

Viewer guide for the commentary📺:

🗣️The media, politicians and political pundits will all litigate how terrible Trump’s speech is.

• 🎤Republicans will say:

  • See, this is proof of how bad our elections are.

  • We need the SAVE America Act

  • Try to move on after the weekend or sooner.

• 🤯Democrats will lose their minds because Trump is relitigating the 2020 election — and then will all talk about January 6 again.

  • Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff has already started —

📺We will do neither — see you at 9 p.m. ET for the fairest coverage on TV.

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• In case you care📣: I am rooting for Argentina in the final … I have no idea why.

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You may already have it!🦠 Yes, we are talking about cyclosporiasis — otherwise known as parasitic explosive diarrhea.

• Best take📱: Katie Miller, who says she has found her new postpartum diet!

• Shot: “How do I know if I have regular diarrhea from Taco Bell or the explosive parasitic diarrhea from Taco Bell?”

• Chaser: From ABC NEWS: Taco Bell says it is cooperating with an investigation into a cyclosporiasis outbreak and has temporarily removed certain ingredients from select restaurants as a precaution.

• Punt: The secretary of agriculture (this stuff comes from food) claims it’s not her problem

  • Brooke Rollins: “It is an FDA issue, not USDA”

• What I am thinking💭: Maybe if Trump didn’t fire Marty Makary at the FDA for refusing to approve vapes for kids, we wouldn’t be having this problem.

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Not what you think‼️: President Biden won’t go away — we should all feel for him.

• 📱The trailer for his tell-all book, “Promise Me, America,” dropped today, and social media is having a field day with it

  • Rep Jason Smith: “Did the autopen write this too?”

  • Abigail Jackson: “What are the odds Joe Biden even knows he’s releasing a book?”

• What I am thinking💭: This is elder abuse

FCC reset📺: The FCC is set to vote on lifting the national broadcast ownership cap.

• ‼️Now any individual company can own unlimited local stations.

• Look back🔙: For over 20 years, no TV broadcaster has been allowed to reach more than 39% of households

  • Netflix, Prime, etc., face no such restrictions

• It’s personal❗: I started in local news — the only thing that saves it is allowing consolidation.

  • Full disclosure: Our parent company, Nexstar, is the largest owner of local TV stations.

• Tonight📺: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr joins me on why the change.

  • Plus➕: AOC says the networks shouldn’t air Trump’s primetime speech tomorrow — what does he think?

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Shibboleths‼️

🔊Every channel is going to come on tonight and talk about the “dangers” of Jay Clayton, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, refusing to say who won 2020.

• 🤦Who won 2020 is akin to asking someone to define a woman — it’s not hard, just very complicated politically.

• Be fair⚖️: Clayton’s answer is absurd — there are plenty of answers to that question that should satisfy both senators and Trump, but he couldn’t come up with them

• How about this‼️: Senator, multiple states ignored their own election laws and rules in ways that massively favored Democrats — as a result, Joe Biden received the necessary 270 electoral college votes.

  • 🤦This is not hard.

• Zoom out🌎: The 2020 election for Republicans is women getting pregnant for Democrats.

  • 🤦They can’t state the basic and obvious truth.

• 🤦In fact, a few years ago, a Supreme Court nominee — arguably more important than a DNI — couldn’t define a woman!

🫵You read War Notes because you want the absurdity of both sides called out — and we will.

Look forward ▶️: Karoline Leavitt made a great point about tomorrow’s speech

• “The truth is, nobody knows yet what President Trump will ultimately say, which is why everyone should tune in.”

👍Yes, the president might have “new” information to further HIS grievances — nobody ever won an election talking about themselves.

Watch tonight📺: NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer with new reporting out of the White House on Trump’s plan, Tiffany Smiley on MAGA’s reaction and Chris Cilliza on the growing backlash to the DSA.

Changing Their Calculus📐

💣U.S. attacks on Iran continue with another message from President Trump: “We’re going to hit them very hard tonight…We’re going to hit them hard tomorrow night. We’re going to hit them really hard the night after.”

• Reality‼️: No matter how “hard” Trump hits their military targets, the Iranians don’t care

  • They have baked in the price of their military targets getting destroyed

• 📰The Wall Street Journal reports Trump is looking toward “expanding U.S. military operations in Iran” writing:

  • “Options include stepping up airstrikes, sending ground forces to seize Iranian islands near the Strait of Hormuz and bombing a fortified site that could be used for covert nuclear work.”

• New targets🎯: Trump needs to be hitting the regime itself

  • Decapitation strikes and targeted assassinations

  • Seizing oil infrastructure

  • Hitting supply lines from Pakistan

  • Dismantling internal security sites that would be used to stop a rebellion

• 🤷Until Trump does this, the Iranians’ behavior isn’t going to change.

• As we’ve been telling you, until you extract a disproportionate price from the Iranians, you’re not going to get different results.

• Be smart🧠: Stop talking about power plants and bridges — start talking about hitting things the Left has embraced.

Tonight📺: Amb. Kurt Volker on what would change the Iranians’ mind.

• Dangerous🚨: 100 Democrats vote to end all funding for Israel…yikes!

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THANK YOU to all our new subscribers — this is our Sunday “Things I Tell My Friends” email…literally what I was talking with my friends about this weekend.

Yesterday Rachel and I took team On Balance out on the Hudson for a day of good cheer — we ended with Lady Liberty looking down on us. As we passed Ellis Island I thought of my grandmother and great grandparents passing Lady Liberty and thru that island with the promise of the American dream — only in America can their grandson return on a boat standing on the shoulders of their fight for a better life.

America is exceptional, imperfect and worth fighting for.

For paid subscribers — what I am telling my friends…

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• 📱“I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, …

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