Pat Gray Unleashed

Pete Hegseth just stepped outside the Pentagon and told the people pushing to impeach him that he’s not going anywhere. After Republicans took a beating in the midterms — with the Iran war widely blamed for the losses — outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie is forcing a House vote on articles of impeachment against the secretary of war. Massie and his Democrat allies claim Hegseth conducted the war without congressional authorization under the War Powers Resolution. Hegseth called the whole thing a sham from a disgruntled, defeated congressman, compared it directly to the two impeachment attempts against President Trump, and said the same political theater won’t work on him. He made clear the administration is not backing down, and Trump has publicly stood by him even as some Republicans look for someone to blame for the results. This is the classic playbook of personal destruction dressed up as oversight, and it’s already in motion in the lame-duck House. Pat also covered: The Congressional Equality Caucus is already…

The 2026 midterm exit polls just dropped, and the numbers on faith and voting are impossible to ignore. White born-again evangelicals still went 82% for Republicans — exactly the same as 2024 — but their share of the total electorate fell from 23% to 17%. That is not a rounding error. That is a smaller base doing the same heavy lifting while the rest of the religious map shifted. Protestants slipped from 63% Republican to 59%. Catholics, who gave Trump 59% in 2024, split almost evenly this time (49% Republican, 50% Democrat). Religious “nones” grew from 24% to 27% of voters and backed Democrats at 78%. The only group that moved right was Jewish voters, up to 31% Republican. Every other religious category either held or drifted left. Those are the actual exit-poll results, not a narrative. This matters for anyone who still thinks cultural issues, family, and faith are the foundation of the country. When the share of voters who identify as Christian shrinks and the nonreligious share grows, the policy fights…

Trump just posted that the GOP “would have won IN A LANDSLIDE” if he had been on the midterm ballot. The results say something else entirely. Democrats took control of the Senate with historic wins in places that were supposed to be safely red — Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa, Ohio, and North Carolina. Exit polls showed Trump at 38% approval. Sixty-two percent of voters blamed him for higher prices. Seventy-one percent said they want Congress to check him. The White House is blaming “candidate quality.” Trump is saying he simply wasn’t on the ballot. Meanwhile, James Talarico beat Ken Paxton in Texas — the first Democrat to win a Texas Senate seat since 1988. Adam Hamilton beat Roger Marshall in Kansas — the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Kansas since 1932. Annie Andrews flipped the South Carolina seat that had been held by Lindsey Graham’s family for decades. Roy Cooper flipped North Carolina. These weren’t close calls in purple states. They were deep-red territory moving. Voters were angry…

Election Day is here, and the only question that matters is whether Trump’s final pitch holds. He told voters to pretend he’s on the ballot and that if our people show up, Republicans win in a landslide. He also warned that everything the administration has done gets erased if Democrats take the House and Senate. That is the fight right now. The races that settle it are sitting in front of us. Texas Senate pits Attorney General Ken Paxton against Democrat James Talarico in a state no Democrat has won statewide in decades. Michigan’s open Senate seat has former Rep. Mike Rogers against progressive Abdul El-Sayed after Gary Peters retired. Ohio’s governor’s race features Vivek Ramaswamy against Amy Acton in a state Trump has carried three times. Maine has Susan Collins defending her seat against Troy Jackson in the one Republican-held Senate race in a state Harris won. Alaska has Dan Sullivan facing Mary Peltola under ranked-choice rules in a race that has stayed tighter than the state’s presidential margin…

Glenn Beck is here, and he is not soft-pedaling what is happening in Poland right now. The Left under Donald Tusk is moving to seize the Constitutional Tribunal, packing it with their own people so they can force the euro, open the borders, and make sure the next election cannot reverse any of it. They are calling the cleanup the Iron Broom. France is already dealing with sustained street chaos that hard-left networks have hijacked. Regular Americans should care because this is the concrete method: take the court that can block you, fill it, then use it to lock in the changes you cannot win at the ballot box. The Polish złoty, the country’s gold reserves, and its border controls are all on the table once the Tribunal is neutralized. The same networks that have watched Europe’s migrant and cultural breakdowns are now watching how quickly a government can force a constitutional body to bend. If the pattern holds, the next target is any American institution that still has the power to say no. Pat also covered:…

UCF fans were still chanting “F the Mormons” while a BYU player was down on the field. Watch this one. College football trash talk is nothing new, but this crossed into straight religious targeting. During UCF’s upset of No. 2 BYU, the student section kept up the anti-Mormon chants even after multiple PA warnings and even while a Cougars player was being checked on the turf. Some fans were removed. Days later the Big 12 issued a $100,000 fine and rolled out a new policy: first confirmed incident gets the fine and a warning; a second one in the same game can trigger an actual on-field penalty. This isn’t the first time BYU has heard it on the road — Colorado State, Cincinnati, and others have been fined or forced to apologize for the same kind of stuff. The pattern is the point. When the target is a religious school and the chant is aimed at the faith itself, the reaction from the broader sports media and culture is usually a shrug or a quick “that’s just fans” until the conference has to step in. That double…

Jeffy opened the lines for Trucker Friday, and the truckers did not hold back. With Pat off, the hour turns into open lines with drivers calling in from the road. Horns blare, stories come in raw, and the usual studio polish takes a back seat. These are the people who actually move the country’s freight, and they are talking about what they see every day — traffic, costs, equipment, the weird stuff that happens out there, and how the road feels right now. No polished panel. Just Jeffy and whoever gets through. Regular listeners already know these Fridays have their own energy. New viewers will hear drivers who spend more time behind the wheel than most people spend in a car all year. The calls cover the practical stuff that never makes the cable roundtables and the occasional moment that makes the whole room laugh. If you have ever wondered what truckers actually talk about when someone finally lets them talk, this is the hour. Do you still trust what truckers say about the road, or do you only trust the…

Trump just did something Biden never managed: He got a 74-year-old American out of a Russian prison after more than four years, and he didn’t have to hand over a single prisoner in return. Stephen Hubbard, a retired Michigan teacher and Air Force/National Guard veteran who had been living in Ukraine, was detained by Russian forces in April 2022 and later sentenced to nearly seven years on mercenary charges his family has long called fabricated. The State Department eventually designated him wrongfully detained. For years, his family watched the case stall. Then last week, Trump raised Hubbard’s name directly with Putin on a phone call. On Wednesday, while envoy Steve Witkoff was meeting Putin in St. Petersburg, Hubbard was released and taken to the airport. Trump called it unprecedented — “out of respect for President Trump,” no swap required — and immediately added the line that will stick: Biden should have done this long ago. “What a difference a president makes.” Pat also covered: Bush dynasty keeps…

Texas parents are opening their mailboxes to find unsolicited envelopes addressed to the “students” in their household from something calling itself the Texas Transgender Student Union. The enclosed guide walks minors through what to do if their parents aren’t supportive of a “trans” identity: find a “safe adult” like a teacher or counselor, pursue legal emancipation as young as 16, and look for out-of-state medical care for hormones. It even tells kids that groups are ready to become their “found family.” The timing is hard to ignore. The mailers started showing up as early voting opened for the November 3 election. The sender traces to a limited liability company formed in Wyoming on September 2 with a registered-agent address used by hundreds of thousands of shell companies and a return address near Houston that doesn’t check out. The Transgender Education Network of Texas, whose name and links appear throughout the brochure, says it did not author, authorize, or distribute the mailers or the earlier text…

A campaign official for Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed just admitted on hidden camera that El-Sayed receives illegal overseas donations. James O’Keefe’s undercover video shows regional field organizer Abdoul Beckwith saying, “You know, he has people from overseas that donate to him,” then confirming, “No it is not allowed.” He describes the pass-through: Overseas money goes to a family member, who then gives it to the campaign, adding “Everybody does it!” This is the exact foreign-national contribution ban under 52 U.S.C. § 30121. Beckwith also tells the undercover journalist that El-Sayed cannot openly reject Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood “because he’s going to lose the people that brought him up in the first place.” He warns that denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood would make Muslim supporters think El-Sayed is “siding with the genociders,” and he claims white and Jewish staffers will eventually “hijack” the candidate. The Michigan Democratic Party has already terminated Beckwith after the…

The night before far-left rioters torched Limoges’ historic town hall and French cities erupted in looting and arson, President Emmanuel Macron was at a Celine Dion concert in Nanterre. On Friday, he sat among roughly 35,000 spectators after days in Brussels. On Saturday, the protests over school conditions, teacher shortages, inequality, and the rising cost of living turned into the worst unrest in years. Masked far-left groups smashed their way into the 19th-century Limoges town hall, set it ablaze, and brought down the clock tower and belfry. The mayor called it a premeditated arson attack and said people inside feared for their lives. Nationwide, nearly 1,800 people were arrested, more than 500 police, gendarmes, and firefighters were injured, shops were looted, and public buildings were targeted. Macron later issued statements condemning the violence and promising prosecutions, but the optics of the concert the night before have drawn the obvious criticism: He doesn’t act like he cares that the country…

A 16-year-old walked into Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, just after 1 p.m. Thursday and murdered three children — ages 5, 8, and 11 — and a teacher. Another child and a teacher were left in critical condition. He forced entry by shooting at the locked doors with his mother’s shotgun. Then a student’s dad who saw him go in pursued him inside and ended it. Dispatch audio caught what happened before officers even cleared the building: The shooter had been neutralized, possibly by a father at the school. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz later confirmed that a community member who watched the suspect enter followed him in and engaged him. The teen was dead when police arrived, roughly three minutes after the first calls. Oregon Governor Tina Kotek (D) thanked the community member who “heroically intervened to stop further loss of life.” This is the story that keeps getting buried under the usual script. Locked doors did not stop the shooter. A legally armed parent did. The same people who insist that only…

Texas Democrat and seminarian James Talarico just sat across from a Catholic voter at a CNN town hall and told her the Bible is silent on abortion. She didn’t let it slide. Jody Hunt, a self-described one-issue Catholic voter, was asking how she could trust him to protect the most innocent. Talarico’s answer: “We’re both Christians, and the Bible is silent on the issue of abortion.” He argued that they could still find common ground by reducing unplanned pregnancies through other policy levers. Hunt came back immediately: The Bible is not silent. She pointed to the Ten Commandments and “Thou shalt not kill.” She added that Catholics take real insult when people claim the Bible has nothing to say on the subject. Talarico responded that if he believed abortion was murder and violated the Commandments, he wouldn’t support it. He also claimed Texas’s current ban has women dying in emergency room parking lots and that authentically pro-life people should be disturbed by those outcomes. This is the same candidate…

The latest Marist poll of Texas likely voters just dropped, and the Senate race is a dead heat. Democrat James Talarico is at 47%, Republican Ken Paxton at 45%. Independents are breaking for Talarico at 52%, while a majority of the same voters still think Paxton is going to win the seat anyway. That gap between the numbers and the expectation is the real story here. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is holding a 49-45 edge over Gina Hinojosa for governor among likely voters, with seven in 10 Texans convinced the incumbent will win. The generic congressional ballot shows Republicans up five points. But Trump’s job approval in Texas is upside down at 46% approve to 54% disapprove, and 43% of likely voters say their family finances have gotten worse over the last year. Thirty-eight percent say their congressional vote is mainly against the president. These are the numbers driving the competitiveness, not some sudden leftward shift in the state. The partisan divides are sharp, the money is flowing, and the early-vote window…

Ken Martin just said the quiet part out loud. The DNC chair sat down with Peter Alexander and refused to treat the Democratic Socialists of America as a liability — even as Republicans point out their calls to abolish ICE, abolish the police, and open the borders. Instead he doubled down on the “big tent,” claiming you win through addition, not subtraction, and that expanding to include these new voices is how Democrats grow. This isn’t a fringe group on the outside looking in. The DSA has its own Abolish ICE Commission, endorses candidates running on abolishing the Senate and calling for socialized medicine, and has seen its influence rise with figures like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani. Martin’s answer was that the vast majority of Americans sit somewhere in the middle, center-left, or center-right — yet that doesn’t stop the party from bringing these voices in. A White House analysis of selected DSA platform items put the 10-year cost at roughly $49 trillion, or about $355,000 per household, largely…

Trump declared an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine “effective immediately.” He posted it after Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries that the administration blamed for pushing U.S. diesel to $6.28 a gallon. Days earlier, he announced a deal for Russia to send hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel to ease pressure on American drivers and truckers. Zelenskyy called the diesel purchase a “betrayal” and then said the ceasefire announcement itself was news to him. He indicated that Ukraine would support a mutual halt if Russia stops hitting Ukrainian energy sites, but Moscow has not confirmed. This is at least the fourth time Trump has publicly announced an energy truce; earlier versions, including the September one, unraveled within days as strikes continued. Every refinery or power plant hit tightens diesel supply and keeps pump prices elevated heading into winter. Ukraine says the strikes cut Russian revenue. The administration says the same strikes raise costs for American workers. Both can be…

The Pentagon just settled the argument: Nidal Hasan's firing squad will be live streamed. On November 5, 2009, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, shouted "Allahu akbar," and opened fire on soldiers lined up for deployment clearances. Thirteen people were killed. Thirty-two were wounded. He called it jihad. President Trump approved a firing squad. Pete Hegseth says it happens at Fort Hood on December 3 at 1 p.m. Central, the same base and the same hour Hasan opened fire. Soldiers with rifles, and the public gets to watch, because people need to understand there are serious consequences. Asked if Hasan had reached out for mercy, Hegseth said he did not care. The Pentagon then said the execution will be live streamed. Carried out, it would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961, and the first the military has put on the internet. Pat also covered: Kamala on C-SPAN says the founders "imagined a moment like this," a tyrant in the White House, then…

Ken Paxton put one question on the mic at President Trump’s San Antonio rally, and the room answered it back: Where is James Talarico? Trump was in San Antonio campaigning for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, against Democrat James Talarico. Paxton led the crowd in “Where is Talarico?” and said the Democrat had not been seen campaigning in Texas for 11 days. Talarico’s campaign answered through spokesman JT Ennis. After more than 100 public events and tens of thousands of hands shaken, James came down with the flu and will be back on the trail this weekend. Then the counterpunch: Paxton has been ignoring Texans, and he answers to billionaire mega-donors and special interests, not the people of this state. Trump, stumping for Paxton, also pressed the absence and went after Talarico on immigration, public safety, and education. Early voting in Texas begins October 19. This seat sits inside the fight over who holds the Senate after the November midterms. Pat also…

Oct. 7 didn't end. The survivors still can't go back to work. Three years after Hamas murdered and kidnapped civilians at the Nova music festival and in places like Kibbutz Be'eri, the New York Post checked on the people who lived. Recovery is not what they found. Nova survivor Rom El-Hai, 32, hid in a forest while gunfire passed. He came out without his job, his girlfriend, or his friends, and he says the PTSD and depression are still intense. People tell survivors that making it out means life snaps back. It did not. Photographer Shye Klein still cannot shoot events. A DJ stopping the music sends his heart racing, because that silence is what he heard when the killing started. UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric Goldstein says only 20% of Nova survivors have kept continuous work for more than three months. A large number are out of work. Some are homeless, living in cars, with no financial support. Former hostage Evyatar David, held 738 days, separated the two fights: surviving captivity is one thing and…

Twelve American B-1 bombers did not leave a British base by accident. The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times report that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind a complex, multipronged plan to destroy U.S. aircraft and kill American service members at RAF Fairford, about 90 miles west of London. All 12 bombers went back to their home stations in the United States over the weekend. Some officials say the plot looked loosely like Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web, the truck-launched drone strikes on Russian bomber bases. This was not a strike that already happened. It was intelligence serious enough that the planes left. That pullout came days after British police stopped an alleged terror plot near the same airfield. Five British nationals were arrested over a suspected van bomb attack; a sixth man, a U.K.-Iranian national, was later arrested. All were released on bail. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said there were strong indications the Iranian government had a hand in that earlier plot. Vice…

Justice Samuel Alito just told CBS he is considering retirement. Alito is 76, the second-oldest justice on the bench. He said he thought about retiring this year and decided to stay, because he still believes he can make a valuable contribution. He also said somebody his age has to think about it every term, and he will look at it again in 2027. That is not a resignation. It is a clock. If he leaves while President Trump is still in office, Trump gets a shot at a fourth Supreme Court justice. His first three already moved the Court to the right. Trump has also said he regrets several nominees who ruled against his administration. Confirmation is the other half of the math. Republicans hold the Senate and the White House right now. The midterms are weeks away. If Democrats take the Senate, a fourth Trump pick gets a much harder path. Alito is not playing that chess game in public. He told CBS it is too hard to predict the political situation or what any president might do with a replacement. On Fox, he called…

Core drilling just started on the boat-shaped ridge in eastern Turkey that some people have called Noah’s Ark since a Turkish Army captain spotted it from the air in 1959. The Durupinar formation sits in the Tendurek Mountains near Mount Ararat, about 164 meters long — close to the 300-cubit length in Genesis. Modern geologists have treated it for decades as limestone and volcanic clay carved by erosion. David Fasold measured it in the 1980s, called it a fossilized deck, then later dismissed the ark theory himself. Now a Sivas Cumhuriyet University team, with Turkish government approval, has run the first real core drill into it. Andrew Jones says the biggest early finding is that the formation is soil, not a solid rock mass worn into a ship shape. Radar work has picked up right angles, possible tunnels, and voids a few meters down. Earlier soil tests found about three times more organic matter inside the outline than on the hillside next to it. The samples are headed to labs in Ankara. A full report is not…

A FlyDubai jet full of Israelis was supposed to land in Tel Aviv. The co-pilot stabbed the captain instead. The plane plunged thousands of feet. Passengers had to break into the cockpit to stop it. Wednesday morning, FlyDubai flight FZ1073 left Dubai for Tel Aviv with about 174 people on board, most of them Israelis. At cruise altitude, near 34,000 feet, the co-pilot stabbed Captain Smit Machchhar. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacker apparently tried to crash the plane with the passengers on board. The Boeing 737 dropped thousands of feet — some flight data put the fall around 17,000 to 18,000 feet — sent a 7700 emergency squawk, and turned for Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Israeli fighter jets were scrambled. Airspace was briefly closed. A man trusted with the controls of a commercial flight to Israel allegedly used that access to try to kill the people in the back. Pat also covered: Trump says the last U.S. troops are out of Iraq. The Pentagon calls the Erbil pullout done, and Trump brands the war a…

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer just stood in a Plymouth courtroom and asked the judge where the evidence is that she killed her three children. Cora was 5. Dawson was 3. Callan was 8 months. In January 2023 their father, Patrick Clancy, came home from errands and found them on the basement floor with exercise bands around their necks. Lindsay Clancy was in the yard after jumping from a second-floor window. She was charged with three counts of first-degree murder. At trial the defense was not criminally responsible — postpartum psychosis, a voice telling her to kill the children and herself — because the judge would not split guilt from insanity. Kevin Reddington said it himself: they had to admit culpability to raise criminal responsibility. A six-week trial ended September 4 in a mistrial after the jury hung. On September 29 he flipped. “Where is the evidence that she did this?” No real investigation, he said. Speculation. She was told what happened. She had no memory. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called that…

AOC stood in front of a packed New York hall and told the room ICE is Palantir, ICE is AI, ICE is facial recognition, ICE is surveillance, and ICE is coming after you regardless of your status. This was not a gaffe. At a Students vs. Billionaires town hall in Ithaca, in front of more than 1,000 people, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for abolishing ICE and framed the agency as a post-9/11 surveillance-state shop tied to private contractors, not ordinary law enforcement. She named Palantir. She brought up facial recognition. She said ICE is going after every man, woman, and child because detention company CEOs have profits to post at the end of the quarter. Then she aimed it at the crowd: coming after you, status or not. That is the Democrats' save-immigration push heading into the midterms. Not a fight about the border. A scare pitch that turns immigration enforcement into a dragnet aimed at citizens, so that the people who actually entered illegally drop out of the story. "Regardless of your status" is the…

James Talarico just posted a slick little video: He "dialed" Ken Paxton’s cell and invited him to a Fox News debate. Paxton didn’t pick up. The clip took off. Fair enough — it’s good campaign theater. It does not reset the record on how Talarico talks about Christianity and Christian Texas. He’s a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate, and for years, he has drawn a hard line between his faith and the faith of the people who actually fill Texas pews. He has called Christian nationalism heretical, unbiblical, a cancer, and a betrayal of Jesus. He has described himself as a Christian who hates Christianity. On the Texas House floor in 2021 he told colleagues “God is nonbinary” while fighting a girls’ sports bill. He has used Gabriel's and Mary’s “consent” as a theological case for abortion. He has said God is not a Christian. Pat also covered: Tucker just called on Trump’s own Cabinet to 25th-Amendment him over Iran — not impeach him. Remove him. Stanford got caught using AI to swap a Hispanic student…

Trump just hosted Xi Jinping at the White House like it was a friendship tour. Bald eagle sculpture at dinner. Invitation to walk the unfinished ballroom. Granite helipad. Marine One. Fighter jets and a B-2 overhead. A photo of the two of them already hanging in the West Wing. This is the first White House meeting between the two men. Trump greeted Xi at Andrews, showed him the renovations, cracked the Biden autopen bit, and talked “mutual respect.” Xi talked market access for Chinese cars and “partnership” on advanced AI chips. Two pandas are headed to Atlanta. Tech names were on the dinner list. What you did not get was a public answer on the fentanyl pipeline that has killed about 488,000 Americans in a decade, on Taiwan, or on imprisoned publisher Jimmy Lai. If this is “America First” diplomacy, you should be able to see the trade. If it’s just the show, you should be able to say that too. Pat also covered: Delegations walk out the second Netanyahu takes the U.N. podium Macklemore announces a Gaza tour…

James Talarico wants Texas evangelicals to treat him like a brother in the faith. His own pastor just told a hidden camera they are “not that smart.” Blaze News obtained footage of Rev. Jim Rigby — the Austin Presbyterian who Talarico has called one of the biggest influences on him “as a Christian, as a human being,” and “my pastor in every sense of the word.” Asked what’s wrong with evangelical Christians, Rigby guessed they lack abstract thinking. He said they panic when “liberal stuff” and human rights are put in front of them. Then he went further: “What Hitler did and what Trump is doing is play off of that.” He waved off hell, angels, and demons as the kind of belief that keeps people from staying rational. Talarico has fought to keep the Bible out of Texas classrooms, used Scripture to defend abortion, voted against protecting kids from sex-rejection surgeries, and once described himself as “a Christian who hates Christianity.” If the man shaping Talarico’s theology thinks Bible-believing Texans are…

Trump didn’t give the United Nations a therapy session. He gave it a choice on Iran: a deal that lets the country rebuild, or annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly. Most of Tehran’s delegation walked out. One seat stayed. That is the speech. Not a press-release peace process. A president standing in the General Assembly and asking whether you let a regime that has spent years killing and exporting chaos get another rebuild — or you end the unfinished business. He called Iran the bully of the Middle East that isn’t a bully anymore. He said he believes a deal comes after the midterms because the Iranian regime is waiting to see how he does — and then reminded the regime he is not on the ballot. If you have watched years of U.N. speeches that never name the problem, this one will feel different. The walkout is the tell. So is the line about driving them into hell with no chance of survival if they refuse a real end. Pat also covered: Cuba walks out after Trump brands it a failed state that “will…

Zohran Mamdani is at it again. Days before Benjamin Netanyahu is in New York for the U.N., the mayor of New York City called the Israeli prime minister a war criminal and an “architect of a horrific genocide” and said he should be arrested if he sets foot in the city. Pat Gray has heard enough of that script. On this episode of "Pat Gray Unleashed," he takes the Mamdani remarks head-on, then does what the sloganeers never do: He runs the history. How Israel was founded. What the wars actually were. Who started them. What “from the river to the sea” has always meant. And why pinning “genocide” on the Jewish state while ignoring October 7, Hamas, and every rejected peace offer is not moral clarity — it’s a rewrite. If you are tired of watching American politicians treat Israel as the villain and treat Jewish self-defense as a crime, this is the hour that puts the record back on the table. No campus chant. No U.N. talking point. Just the timeline and the double standard. Pat also covered: Vance calls it the…

Trump just put the Iran question on the table in language nobody in Washington wanted on tape: “When do I blow the entire nation up?” The options he named are not think-tank fog. Make a deal. Let Iran rot under the naval blockade. Or wipe the regime out. Last week, he told Axios a big decision was coming on whether to annihilate Iran’s government. Now he’s saying very big things are coming in the not-so-distant future — and he cut Camp David short, coming back to the White House a day early to sit with it. Iranian officials are headed to New York for the U.N. General Assembly. Trump says he’d probably be open to meeting President Masoud Pezeshkian. He also says Tehran keeps sending people who cannot close a deal, and some of them are “hiding like rats.” Meanwhile the blockade is still squeezing a battered economy, CENTCOM has escorted a billion barrels of crude through the Strait of Hormuz, Houthis fired a ballistic missile toward Riyadh, and the State Department quietly warned Americans about sudden…

Mamdani just sued the Trump administration over green cards and welfare — and he said people could die if the rule stands. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with Letitia James and a stack of blue-city mayors, is in federal court to block the public charge rule. Starting now, immigration officers can weigh SNAP, Medicaid, and other benefits when deciding who gets a green card. The administration’s point is simple and old: People coming here should be able to support themselves. Mamdani’s point is the opposite. He says up to four million people could unenroll from health coverage — including 1.8 million children — and that premature deaths in New York immigrant communities could jump. He called the rule vague, cruel, and a century of law thrown out. Pat also covered: Today is National Cheeseburger Day — McDonald’s and others are running free or cheap burger deals MrBeast’s Super Bowl commercial puzzle is finally solved — Colin Sanders cracked the $1 million hunt Zelenskyy says Ukraine can’t hold an election…

A GOP senator leaned over and told Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) how to vote. The clerk still couldn’t hear him. This is day three back for an 84-year-old senator after more than 90 days away — a fall, pneumonia, two months in the hospital, and a wheelchair through the Capitol. The Senate Agriculture Committee had already stalled the farm bill without him. On Wednesday, they needed that vote. So they brought him in, called his name, and the country watched Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) lean in with “no” while McConnell quietly said “aye,” then had to say it again louder because nobody caught it the first time. The bill cleared 12-11, party lines. The question is why Republicans keep pretending this is just a tough recovery and not a fitness problem. If a Democrat this frail needed a neighbor to coach a roll call, this network would not be told to look away. Farm policy, nutrition fights, and a chamber that already runs on people who should have gone home years ago — and the party of “common sense” wheels a man in…

James Talarico was asked one question at a Texas campaign stop: Who’s your favorite drag queen in the state? He didn’t hesitate. “Oh my gosh. Probably Alyssa Edwards.” Watch the clip. Then ask yourself if that’s the reflex you want in a U.S. senator. Most Americans could not name a drag queen if you handed them a week. The Democratic Senate nominee in Texas had a name in under a second — and he smiled when he said it. The performer he picked, Alyssa Edwards, has described himself as a drag performer who works with children. That sits on top of Talarico’s own 2023 line that Texas produces some of the best drag queens in the nation. Ken Paxton, his Republican opponent, asked the question a lot of regular people asked after the clip hit: What normal person can name his favorite drag queen this quickly? Paxton called him too weird and too radical for Texas. Pat also covered: McConnell was out three months — and he’s missing again. Does he show up today for the farm bill? Talarico calls himself a Christian…

Mitch McConnell just rolled back into the Senate after three months away. The Kentucky Republican is 84. He fell at his Washington home in June, was treated for pneumonia, spent two months between the hospital and rehab, then recovered at home with almost no public appearances. While Kentucky still counted him as its senator, he missed 60 recorded votes — judicial confirmations, housing and Medicare rules, immigration procedures, and votes tied to the war in Iran. On Monday, he arrived in a wheelchair, joked about dodging reporters for two decades, and said it was time to get back to work and finish the job of this Congress. He says he’s not quite at 100% and that childhood polio made the recovery harder. This is not a sentimental homecoming. It’s what a razor-thin Senate looks like when an 84-year-old former leader can disappear for 90 days and still be the vote the conference needs. If showing up is optional for the people writing the laws, don’t be shocked when the country starts treating the job the same…

James Talarico thought he had Ken Paxton in a box. After GOP Railroad Commission of Texas nominee Bo French posted a photo from the UT student section and said the problem in Texas is “far worse than anyone imagined,” Talarico quoted John Cornyn and went straight at Paxton: Condemn this “blatant racism,” or “cower to extremists.” Paxton didn’t take the bait. He condemned racism — then pointed at Talarico’s own record. White men as America’s top terror threat. Praying to overcome his own “whiteness.” The substance underneath it is the part polite Texas will not say out loud: Generations of Texans poured money into UT, H-1B pressure at public universities is a live fight, Abbott already told state campuses to pause new H-1Bs, and a lot of families believe Texas kids are losing ground at the school their taxes built. You can argue about the photo. You cannot pretend the enrollment fight is a hallucination. Pat also covered: CIA and 9/11: Did the agency have a shot to stop it — and miss? Abbott and Paxton: Is…

Twenty-five years later, one lab three miles from Ground Zero is still identifying 9/11 victims. The lab promised the families it would never give up — and it hasn't. Mark Desire and the NYC medical examiner team are still pulling DNA from tiny bone fragments that the fire, jet fuel, and water nearly destroyed. Last month, the team identified the 1,651st victim. Nearly 7,000 pieces still have no match. The team has gone back to the same bones 10 times, waiting for the science to catch up. A firefighter’s helmet went home. The man who wore it has not. This is what “never forget” looks like when the cameras leave: a sterilized room, a shredded jacket from the day the towers fell, and a vow that did not expire. Pat also covered: GOP midterm convention is over — was Dallas a JD Vance coronation? George W. Bush loved this country, and on 9/11 he pulled it together JD Vance got heckled on the convention floor in Dallas Where were you when the towers fell? Did America forget what happened on 9/11? Did you know they…

Trump just put a $5,000 check on the midterms. He told the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas that if the GOP holds the House and the Senate, every adult citizen gets a “Trump dividend.” He framed it like a company paying shareholders after “tremendous economic success,” and he told the crowd to pretend he’s on the ballot so he can finish the job. Keep the majority, he said, and the next two years include voter ID, energy production, permanent cuts on tips, overtime, and Social Security, plus bills on surprise medical billing, hospital prices, credit-card swipe fees, cashless bail, and the death penalty for large-scale drug dealers. Lose it, and he warned the border, the tax cuts, and the safety go with it. The Post notes the payout would add more than $1.2 trillion to a $40 trillion national debt — and earlier tariff-and-DOGE dividend ideas never landed. The full episode unpacks the speech and the price tag. Pat also covered: James Talarico just told Fox he “missed the mark” on six sexes — now he…

Families of 9/11 just walked a petition into New York City Hall asking Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to stay away from Friday’s 25th anniversary memorial. More than a dozen relatives of the dead stood on the steps and said the mayor’s presence turns a private hour of grief into a political photo. The Change.org petition started by Giovanni Galante — whose wife, Grace, was killed in the attacks — now has more than 102,000 signatures. They asked for one window: 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the National September 11 Memorial, where the names of 2,983 victims will be read. Mamdani has said he will be there. Cheri Sparacio, who lost her husband, Tom, on the 84th floor of the South Tower, put the line where families want it: “It’s not about his religion or where he came from. It’s about the policies he has today.” They pointed to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who represented an Al-Qaeda terrorist held at Guantánamo. Charles Wolf said Giuliani and Pataki held their hands after the attacks. “Mayor Mamdani has not shown any of…

Rudy Giuliani just told Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to skip this week’s 9/11 memorials: “It offends me.” Watch this before Friday’s ceremony and decide if America’s mayor is out of line — or saying what the families have been saying for months. It is the 25th anniversary. More than 2,700 people were murdered in New York that morning. Giuliani was the mayor who walked the pile. The man in that office now says he will stand at Ground Zero anyway. Giuliani, former Gov. George Pataki, and a petition that has cleared 100,000 signatures are telling him to stay home. This is not a manners debate. Pataki named the problem: Anyone who will not distance himself from Hasan Piker — who said America deserved September 11 — should not be there. Anyone who has refused to reject “globalize the intifada,” which Pataki says is a call for violence against Jews anywhere in the world, should not be at that site. Giuliani went further. The ceremony, he said, is for the families and for America to remember historically. Having lost…

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer just said the quiet part out loud. After six days and about 36 hours, the jury is still stuck — and Kevin Reddington says one juror “refuses to listen to the law.” The judge even framed it as one juror against the other 11. That is 11-1. Watch this first. Twice the panel told Judge William Sullivan they could not agree. He sent them back. He read the dynamite charge. Then the forewoman’s note pointed to a holdout who would not follow the reasonable-doubt instruction. Reddington asked the judge to remove that juror. Sullivan said no — he would not “side with one juror or the 11.” He asked each of them if they could follow the law, defined reasonable doubt again, and sent them home for a seventh day. Pat also covered: Nancy Grace walks through the actual Clancy trial facts — not the spin Don Lemon tries to turn the Clancy case into a race story: “What if she were black?” Labor Day gas just hit a record — AAA says $4.14 a gallon, the highest ever for this weekend HBO dropped a new "Harry…

Rep. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has not been seen in public for 80+ days. The last real update from his office is almost a month old. He has missed 60 Senate votes — Iran war powers, housing, even the confirmation of a new attorney general — while Republicans hang onto a thin majority where every vote is supposed to matter. Pat starts with the question everybody is already asking: Where is Mitch? The Kentucky senator, 84, was rushed to the hospital on June 14. Dispatch audio said first responders treated someone in cardiac arrest and used CPR. Weeks later, his team said it was a fall, that he was briefly unconscious, that it was not a heart attack or a stroke, and that he had mild pneumonia. He left a rehab center on August 6. Since then: two old, smiling photos with Elaine Chao, staffers reading statements at Kentucky events he used to attend, security outside the D.C. townhouse, and no video, no call-in, no proof of life that would settle this. His office is not answering when he comes back on September 14.…

The Lindsay Clancy jury just told the judge they are deadlocked. After nearly 18 hours, they still cannot agree on whether a Massachusetts mother murdered her three children. The judge sent them back in. Pat opened the phones and asked you what you think. Lindsay Clancy is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan. The defense says postpartum psychosis, a pile of psychiatric medications, and a command hallucination. Prosecutors say she planned it: She sent her husband out for a prescription and takeout, then used exercise bands. Supporters in pink shirts showed up arguing that she is sick, not guilty. A hung jury does not settle that fight. It just hands it to the rest of the country. That is why Pat took calls instead of reading another legal explainer. Regular people are not sitting in that Plymouth courtroom. They still have to decide what they believe about responsibility, mental illness, and what we owe three children who never got a vote. Pat also…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just said the part Canada does not want on loop: You cannot be in a tit for tat with a country 13 times larger than you are. Watch the clip. Then watch what he said next. On CNBC from the G20 in Asheville, Bessent was asked if America is now in a trade war with Canada. He waved it off. Mark Carney, he said, turned a deal into a political shouting match because it helps Carney and the Liberal Party — not Canadian workers. The United States offered what Bessent called the best trade deal of any country on the globe. Carney walked away at the last minute. Now Ottawa wants to talk toughness while sitting next to an economy an order of magnitude bigger. “We’re not at war with Canada. How are we going to be at war with Canada? What, are they going to take their two submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sic them on us?” Pat also covered: It’s SEPTEMBER! 🎶 Talarico’s God only knows four words: “Come dance with me” Michelle Obama doesn’t miss the kids. Barack cried. She said bye Vance…

Two mothers. Five children. One diagnosis now stands between a crime and a courtroom. A Bronx judge just found Dimone Fleming not responsible for stabbing her 3-year-old and 11-month-old sons in a family shelter. In Massachusetts, a jury is deciding whether Lindsay Clancy was too sick to be guilty after she strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. Pat puts both cases on the table and asks the question a lot of people only whisper: Why are moms no longer connecting with their kids? Nobody seriously pretends postpartum psychosis is fake. The fight is what comes after — responsibility, culture, family, and whether a country that medicalizes every collapse still knows how to protect children. Pat also covered: Gov. Josh Shapiro announced measles deaths the county coroner says didn’t happen Can you name Trump’s top 25 achievements without looking them up? Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) almost got hit by a train at his own train-safety presser Looksmaxxing just turned into skipping…

President Trump just signed an order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America — and he says it’s official, effective immediately. Watch Pat break down the Oval Office map, the jab at Canada, and what the order actually changes. This is the same playbook as the Gulf of America. After talks with Ottawa collapsed, Trump put 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods and said Canadian officials are “nasty people” who charge American farmers 400% tariffs. The order directs Interior to put Lake America on U.S. maps and in the federal naming system. Trump’s claim: The deepest water and most of the volume sit on the American side. He cannot make Canada use the name. Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected it. New York’s governor says the state will not comply. Then Trump floated the next line: With a gulf and a lake, maybe the Atlantic or the Pacific is next. Pat also covered: They’re blaming climate change for the Nepal-China glacier collapse Rest in peace, Peter Cullen — the voice of Optimus Prime is gone at 85 CNN’s…

A chunk of Himalayan ice snapped off at about 17,000 feet and turned into what Nepal’s disaster chief called a “tsunami from the sky.” Watch what happened. Around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, the collapse smashed into a valley, dammed the Lhende River, then let go. A 33-foot wall of water, mud, and debris tore down the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli. Villages were wiped out. About 25 miles of road and 19 bridges are gone. At least 273 people are dead. More than 1,300 are missing. U.S. Geological Survey first reported a 4.4 earthquake north of Kathmandu, then said the seismic reading was the glacier and the debris flow — no quake. This is not a distant postcard. Nepalese officials say 63 American citizens are among the missing, including a California couple on a Mount Kailash pilgrimage. More than 5,000 army and police are in the search. The full show has the rest of the day’s news. Pat also covered: DFW: record heat, then storms knocking out power Canada’s still banning American alcohol, but why? OB-GYN Noa Sterling is…

Legendary Dolly Parton is gone. She died Tuesday at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, surrounded by loved ones, four days after she was admitted. The type of cancer was not disclosed. Team Dolly said she spent her life putting joy, laughter, hope, and integrity into everything she touched and that her generosity reached people she would never meet. She donated hundreds of millions of books through the Imagination Library. A girl from a two-room cabin in the Smokies who wrote "Jolene" and "9 to 5," and she still wanted to be remembered as the book lady. Pat and the crew take the news the way a lot of regular Americans are taking it: not as another celebrity recap, but as the loss of someone who felt like she belonged to the whole country. The quiet health fight. The nephew who had been asked years ago to record the goodbye. Flags at half-staff. And the part that landed hardest — she kept working, kept joking, and kept mailing books to other people’s children until the end. Pat also covered: Day…

Pat went to Canada and came home with a souvenir that was not on the itinerary. He said it straight: Canadian germs for the win. Yesterday’s show took a sick day with him. He’s back now, and the friendly neighbor routine is getting less friendly by the hour. Watch it. This is the first show back after the trip knocked him off the air. Not a medical special. Not a travel diary. A host who crossed the border, got flattened, missed a Monday, and sat down at the mic anyway. If you’ve ever returned from a trip wrecked and still had to work, you already know the temperature in the room. Would you blame the country that sent you home sick? What’s the worst souvenir you ever brought back from a trip? Pat also covered: China delays the moon rover program until 2027, another WIN for the U.S. U.K. Home Office to asylum seekers: “Don’t rape, don’t sexually assault …” China hosts the World Humanoid Robot Games: 2,000 robots competing in track events and household chores Black Detroit pastor to Dearborn Council: “We are…

DFW Airport is moving forward with Islamic foot-washing stations inside Terminal D bathrooms, and the details are out. The privately funded project registers at around $300,000 and puts dedicated Wudu ablution stations in both the men’s and women’s concourse restrooms. Officials say it’s about keeping floors dry and sinks intact after travelers wash their feet in regular fixtures. Completion is targeted for the end of the year. Terminal D handles the bulk of international traffic. Similar stations already exist at places like Chicago O’Hare and Houston Bush, and DFW has had limited ablution facilities near its interfaith chapel for years. This expands the practice into the main restrooms. The filing calls it basic infrastructure for safety and sanitation. Plenty of Americans are asking a different question: why special plumbing for one ritual while every other traveler just uses the sinks? This isn’t about private funding or wet floors alone. It’s about what airports decide is worth accommodating in the…