US Government Shutdown Over? 

Strikes on Iran continue as Israel plunges the Middle East into dangerous new territory. Iran vows retaliation and launches hundreds of drone strikes against Israel. On today's show we ask key experts...

13 Jun 202555min

It's "Russia National Day," the anniversary of Russia declaring its sovereignty from the Soviet Union in 1990. The US State Department sent congratulations, even as Russia continues to violate the sov...

12 Jun 202555min

Protests over the Trump Administration sending in the National Guard and the Marines to assist in its immigration raids are spreading across the country. Legal and military experts warn that this coul...

11 Jun 202556min

President Trump is doubling down on sending troops to Los Angeles, mobilizing another 2,000 National Guard members, while the Defense Department activated 700 Marines to react to the anti-ICE protests...

10 Jun 202556min

Crowds have largely dispersed in downtown Los Angeles, which the police department declared an "unlawful assembly area." About 300 National Guard troops are now on the ground, deployed by Donald Trump...

9 Jun 202556min

After a long-awaited phone call between President Trump and President Xi Jinping and as Trump tries to iron out the kinks of his trade war with China, Ely Ratner,  Biden's Assistant Secretary of Defen...

7 Jun 202540min

Yet again, US-China relations are tense. Ely Ratner served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs during the Biden Administration. He joined the show from Washington to di...

6 Jun 202557min

It's become a rite of passage for world leaders: the Oval Office meeting with President Trump. Now, it's the turn of the relatively new Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz. Germany is the focal poin...

5 Jun 202556min