Matt Gagnon and one of our listener’s discuss Jake Tapper’s book, which alleges that President Biden’s staff limited his access to information and decisions due to his diminished state. They express concern about who was actually running the country during Biden’s presidency. Matt Gagnon criticizes the media for downplaying Biden’s cognitive decline and calls for investigations. He mentions aides discussing putting Biden in a wheelchair and speculates on the implications if Biden had won re-election. They also compare this to the Trump administration, where aides took actions without Trump’s knowledge. Matt Gagnon criticizes Jake Sullivan for not acknowledging Biden’s decline and calls for accountability from all involved.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. military carried out three strikes Monday in the waters of the Eastern Pacific against boats suspected of carrying drugs, killing 14 and leaving one survivor.
Officials in Louisiana, Vermont and Virginia pledged Thursday to keep food aid flowing to recipients in their states, even if the federal program is stalled next month because of the government shutdown.
President Donald Trump announced he's ending "all trade negotiations" with Canada because of a television ad opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called "egregious behavior" aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.
