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Monday Rundown: Platner's Illicit Texts, NJ Riot Fallout, Iran struggles & Jamie Dimon's war
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Graham Platner's very long weekend. We take you inside the slow moving implosion of a Senate campaign. The latest on Iran is that peace deal ever coming? And we're gonna look inside the New Jersey riots at the ICE Detention center and how that happened and what's going on now. All of that and so much more on a special rundown, 10 minute drill. Everybody get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you.
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The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It was a very long weekend for Graham Platner, and it already has been a very long several weeks as more and more stories have come out that have raised major, major questions about his temperament, qualifications, potential history of Nazism, and so much more. But on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal was first to report a story that Graham Platner's wife had warned his campaign that he had a series of illicit text messages that had gone to women that were not his wife. Now, the campaign tried to defend this by saying while the Wall Street Journal reported it was as many as 12 women, it was actually only six. But later that day, the Daily Wire also reported that Platner was a member of Kik, an app that has been tied to exploitation and is well known for being a place where older men meet younger women, many of which are actually underage. So both of these stories together raised once again major questions about Platner's morality, character, fitness. On top of the last several weeks, him attacking a wounded veteran, suggesting that he deserved to die, the obvious Nazi tattoo story, and the list goes on and on and on. On Sunday, Democrats were pressed on this issue and we talked a couple weeks ago about the fact that they're starting to get a little bit uncomfortable. Some are saying, I'm not following that race, things like that. It took up a notch over the weekend. Here's Cory Booker, who let me ask you, do you have concerns with the weight of all these controversies that it may jeopardize Democratic hopes to get that Senate seat in Maine?
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Yeah, I have concerns. That guy has questions to answer and that's what campaigns are for.
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Then Cory Booker's junior senator, Andy Kim, do you have concerns about Graham Platner? Well, first I'll say is, you know, I've been very much focused on the crisis in my home state, so I haven't been able to focus as much on this. Then, of course, Chris Murphy, who fairly recently left his own wife for a younger Woman. So probably not the best person to ask about morality. And so, of course, he gave this incredibly dumb answer. Does he pass the character test?
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Yeah. I mean, I have not followed this story as closely as others have, but character also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country.
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And shorter, Chris Murphy is basically, its totally okay to have no character, no temperament, no, you know, any good policy ideas or reason for being a senator, as long as you're willing to stand up to Donald Trump. But there are also reports that Graham Platner canceled an Ms. Now interview. And there's lots of palace intrigue about his campaign completely falling apart. So we'll get into that much more this week. But things for Platner are going to continue to get worse before they get better, with much bigger bombshells still to come. Last week, we talked about the New Jersey riots happening outside of an ICE facility. And we also talked about the fact that New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill spent her Memorial Day fomenting insurrection outside of that ICE facility. She's used rhetoric all week suggesting that it was actually ICE causing disruption. ICE was the problem. And what we've seen from a number of these Democrats, Mikey Sherrill, Cory Booker, Andy Kim, now Hakeem Jeffries, isn't there's one case of injustice here. There's one small problem. They're saying we want this facility to close because as we know, they want to defund ICE. They literally withheld funding from ICE in Congress. And remember, in 2024, and in 2020, this was a complete toxic position that Democrats held that they ran away from. But now it's become the state party or the national party mantra. And so it's getting uglier and uglier for them. But very interesting on Saturday night, after spending all week fomenting this insurrection, Micah Sherrill asked the protesters in R to start turning the temperature down today. And going forward, I urge those protesting outside of Delaney hall to bring the temperature down. Very difficult for her to do that after. She's the one who really sort of poured gas on the fire. But Democrats have wanted this showdown with ICE ever since Minnesota, when they believe that they actually saw a lot of party enthusiasm rise because their base was really animated by this fight against ice. And ICE has been out of the news ever since Minnesota. And so this is their new opportunity to bring this back into the headlines and try and reengage their base. The problem is it spun out of control On Friday night. There were reports that rioters that were standing Alongside Mikey, Sheryl and Cory Booker were biting ICE agents. There have been videos of horrific threats being thrown at ICE agents like this. Children, your wife, all day. And then just massive destruction as rioters have thrown barriers, tried to shove through, even broken through the lines of law enforcement. So this is going to also get uglier before it gets better. But a lot of these politicians that have tried to make hay of this have a lot of egg on their face. Over the last few weeks, we've been talking quite a bit about a memorandum of understanding, an MOU that the Trump administration is trying to finalize with Iran. And as we've talked about, conflicting reports all over the place. On one day, you'll hear dead set reporters saying, America's gonna give up all of these funds to Iran. They're going to pull out their blockade, they're gonna give Iran everything they want. And then the next day, the Trump administration comes out and says, no, we're sticking to the same red lines that we've always had. Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. There will be no tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. We're not giving them any money until we've sort of finalized all of these other points. So once again, that happened on Friday, going into Saturday, with Iran and a lot of media sources saying America's getting ready to sign this deal. And then on Saturday, there were reports of President Trump pushing back on this, saying he needs fiercer terms on things like unlocking any kinds of funds for Iran and what the terms of, you know, what the shade of Hormuz is going to look like are going to be and how we're going to extract the nuclear material from Iran. Now, to me, those are the red lines that President Trump put in place in the very beginning. So the idea that we had this incredibly successful military operation in Iran, now we've had a couple months now of kind of pointless back and forth with Iran. That hasn't really moved the ball and that we'd now be agreeing to terms that gave Iran significantly more than they had when we began this. If we were to unlock, you know, and give sanctions release and unlock funds for them, Iran would have more resources to rebuild than they had at the beginning of our onslaught with Operation Epic Fury. And President Trump has said we're not going to do that. But Iran and a lot of the media are saying President Trump's moving the goalposts. To me, it feels like it's the same goalpost that he's held this entire time. President Trump at the end of last week, continued to push hard for the red lines that are really important to this. And I believe he's going to stick to that. But the most important part of this is the deal is not finalized until President Trump announces it and gives the specific term. So don't believe anything you hear until it officially comes from the White House. But we will follow it very closely all week ahead. Another story we're going to be watching closely this week revolves around Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the world. We've talked about him a little bit in the past because of a war that he's had against financial apps. We talked about open banking and the fact that Jamie Dimon is trying to get the Trump administration to put in new rules that would add fees to any app that you use that connects to your bank account account.
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The banks that went after Trump now want hidden fees on every transaction, making everything more expensive.
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But in a very similar note, Jamie Dimon's fight right now is against crypto. Now, we've talked a lot about the fact that Jamie Dimon has hated crypto forever. It is a major threat to existing financial institutions like JP Morgan Chase. And with the sort of structure that's coming into place with the Clarity act, the majority of cryptocurrency bill that's in the Senate right now hopefully going to be passed the next few weeks. They're going to lose massive swipe fees. So the banks are rolling out all the stops to try and derail this. And Jamie Dimon went on TV and made quite a fool of himself because he was wrong on every aspect of the policy around this crypto bill.
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It's complicated and the government needs to do it thoughtfully because it allows them to effectively pay interest on deposits, stablecoins or something like that that they should have.
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The bottom line that we're seeing here is Jamie Dimon and these big banks are concerned about any kind of innovation that might cut into their existing business with open banking and financial apps. They don't like anything that exists outside of their control. Have you ever tried to use Zelle on Bank of America? It's terrible. That's why there's 50,000 other really great apps you can use for money transfers, things like that. The banks hate that because they can't control it and they don't get fees from that. It's the exact same thing with crypto. They hate crypto because they don't control it. People watch this very close closely over these next few weeks, both on the open banking front because that rule is not yet finalized and everyone's waiting to see if the Trump administration protects fee free access to financial apps or if they cave to Jamie Dimon and the big banks and add those in. And then also will these big banks be able to destroy the thing that will actually give the security and clarity to crypto that they say is so important? And without the Clarity act, we actually go back to a law that is much more of a Wild west system. That's exactly what Jamie Dimon is scared of. Those are just a few of the stories we're going to be covering this week. There is a lot going on. House and Senate both have a lot of things on their plate. We're going to be talking about more massive waste, fraud and abuse in hospitals. You'll want to stay here 10 minute drill all week long. We appreciate you. Please leave us a review. Leave us a comment on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, anywhere if there's something else you'd like to be seeing or hearing more of. Otherwise, have a great Monday and a great week ahead.