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Political Commentator
All right. Unfortunately, our producers just brought to our attention that today is January 6th. Can you imagine after what we all saw on that day in 2020, that the person who we all knew when it was going on ordered it, would benefit from it, was watching it with his buddies in the Oval Office dining room that he made his way back to the White House. What an absolute failure. And I'm about to play a video for you of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ms. Machado, and she is being passed over by the Trump administration to be installed as the leader of Venezuela. And it's not for major reasons other than the fact that she didn't give her trophy to the man who couldn't tuck his tail between his legs and say, congratulations to Joe Biden. I look forward to participating in a peaceful transfer of power. He throw feces all over the Capitol, literally pack his toys up and run away. So of course he's mad at the person that beat him for the Nobel Peace Prize. But this is a total indictment on the peace prize committee, the fact that this crazy lady won it. And here she is on Sean Hannity, you know, the most objective peace promoting news institution in the world, Fox News, talking about how she might give her trophy. Two kinks. Play the clip.
News Anchor
Right.
Co-host/Commentator
Did you at any point offer to.
Guest/Interviewee
Give him the Nobel Peace Prize?
Co-host/Commentator
Did that actually happen?
Guest/Interviewee
I had read that somewhere. I wasn't sure if it was true.
Maria Karina Machado
Well, it hasn't happened yet. But I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, certainly want to give it to him and share it with him. What he has done, as I said, is historic. It's a huge step towards a democratic transition. And I want to.
Political Commentator
Nuts.
Co-host/Commentator
Okay, I, I keep giggling about it, but it's not funny. There is a man that is in control of the nuclear codes in the United States of America that sits around and is mad he didn't get a trophy. And he wants. I mean, first of all, if somebody said if I won something And I said, Jennifer, you didn't win, but I'm going to give it to you. You, you would be embarrassed to take it. You would be like, I don't want it if they didn't give it to me. I don't want it. Not this man. He wants a re gift of a trophy because Obama hurts his feelings and.
Political Commentator
Has a bigger dick.
Co-host/Commentator
It's just unbelievable that the words came out of Sean Hannity's mouth. Did you ever try to give it to Donald Trump? This is fucking insanity. We are talking a man that has such little hands and little self esteem that he wants a regift trophy and talks about I ended eight wars while he bombs countries, kidnaps countries, presidents. I mean, I feel like it. I'm living in the upside down to go back to straight. I meant living in the upside down. This cannot be real.
Political Commentator
It's, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. And it's not just focused on Trump. I mean like, what is this woman won the Nobel Peace Prize and she's on Sean Hannity. Yeah, that's like, every time I see like Amy Coney Barrett on Fox News, I'm like, it's a red flag showing how biased you are. You're showing what, how in the tank you are not, you know, this, this Maria Karina Machado, it's not like for, you know, universal human rights for everybody if she's willing to give a man, Ms. Machado, who by the way, his administration abducted Venezuelan refugees while they were seeking refuge in the United States of America with zero criminal record, put them in shackles, put them on an airplane and sent them to sea cot where they were psychologically, physically and sexually tortured. And then are media institutions are supposed to expose this. But we've got dipshit Barry Weiss who spikes the story because she doesn't want the truth out. And so all of these horrible powers all colluding is unbelievable. But for Maria Machado to sit there and act like Trump somehow wants what's best for Venezuela is just utter bullshit. And she just wants to be in charge of Venezuela and she's willing to, to give her trophy to him to do it, which what, by the way, the Nobel Peace Prize committee. I think we need a statement from them. I want to know what the hell's going on.
Co-host/Commentator
You can't re gift your trophy like that's where we are. Not to mention, Jennifer, don't let us not forget the bombing of Venezuelan fishermen that he's alleging are drug dealers. Like he's killing Venezuelans. So please do not tell me how much he cares. He cares about your oil. Full stop. There you go. End of story. Okay?
Political Commentator
And then we always know that somebody who you. The last video you see of this person, you think, God, that's rock bottom for being a prick. There's no way this guy could go any lower than and be a bigger prick than he was in this video. But I'll be God damned if Raphael Cruz, AKA doesn't outbreak himself every chance he can get. And here he is. And Trump named him really well. L. Here is Lyin Ted at it again on Fox News. Play the clip.
Guest/Interviewee
I gotta tell you, Jesse, every enemy of America from Russia to China to Colombia to Cuba to North Korea to Iran, they're all looking at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And I gotta tell you, they are very frightened of the Commander in Chief and the military capacity. There is no other military on the face of the planet that could carry out what our American servicemen and women did in the early hours of Saturday morning. And that was just extraordinary.
Political Commentator
Yeah.
VRBO Announcer
Yeah.
Political Commentator
They're all just shaking in their boots. Everybody's just so skin.
Co-host/Commentator
Yeah. Put Russia. Is Russia our enemy against this administration? Ted, Because I. It acts like they act like it's our friend. They're not shaking in their boots. They're saying how fucking pathetic. Pathetic he is. How embarrassing. He's running around crying about the Nobel Peace Prize and Lion. Ted, I just. This is a little off topic, but he has the hubris to think that he is actually a viable candidate for president. So every time I see him, I just. I'm amazed by the hubris. I just. I'm like, everybody hates you. How do you not know?
Political Commentator
Yeah, it's just willful arrogance on his part. I mean, and. And he's always been that way. He's been running president, running for president for over a decade. You know, when he was back, that's when Trump named him Lion's Head in the primary. But it's really important. I talk a lot about Barry Weiss spiking the story about the United States government kidnapping Venezuelan refugees with no criminal record and sending them to be tortured. Bari Weiss is Jewish and she has a deeply held belief that we need to remember the stories of World War II. And I agree with her on that. I think we must always remember the horrible war crimes, Holocaust, genocide against the Jewish people in World War II. And anytime we see something similar to it, we need to shine the spotlight on that and immediately expose it. What's interesting about Bari Weiss is she chose to spike that story. She chose to protect Trump, who by the way, pardoned full blown anti semites with his 1-6-auto pin. And a lot of these people that he pardoned had Nazi flags, had shirts on that said Camp Auschwitz. I showed you all a video in another episode where you have a convicted cop beater from January 6th outside the APAC offices talking about white Christian men will not be taken over. And she's not going to do any story on that. She's gonna be laser focused on Zoran Momdani. She's gonna be laser focused on protecting Donald Trump and his growing large tent party of bigots. And then she herself is rolling out Nazi style propaganda for CBS News. Pop this up. They do this whole bullshit propaganda. CBS Evening News. Number three, we respect you. We believe that our fellow Americans are smart and discerning. And then this is the one that really got me. Put up the next one, Kylie. Number four point they want to make is we love America and we make no apologies for saying so. CBS News, it's not your job to love or hate or like or dislike America. It's your job to to earnestly and truthfully report on America. It's your job to constructively criticize American policy. That is what you're supposed to do. This Nazi style propaganda is such bullshit. It's unbelievable because what you're showing there. And number three, we respect you. That was utter disrespect. You think that we didn't make it through middle school civics class to know what your job is. Your job isn't to respect us. Your job isn't about us. Your job is about the truth, seeking the truth and shining light on injustices. But you, Barry Wise, you want to cover up injustices and you think you're going to be able to go in to CBS News take away 60 Minutes, which has been an institution for many Americans their whole life, that you can take that away from us, gaslight us and turn into the new Rupert Murdoch with the Fox that they're just going to stay with Fox. You're going to drive CBS News to the ground in record time. And I will celebrate, Barry Wise, because those little reminders that you point out are disrespectful. And it's not your job to love America. It's your job to report on America. Emotions should not be in the news. You should shine and a light on injustices. But what you choose to do, Barry Weiss, David and Larry Ellison is you want to spike the football. You want to tell everybody, oh, we care about anti Semitism and we care so much about exposing injustices. No, you don't. You want to make sure nobody criticizes Israel and you want to compl Conflate criticism of Israel with all Jewish people. And it's. It is disrespect. And you can't both be this lover of democracy then criticize speech. It doesn't work that way. It is disgusting and to my point. Pumps that CBS News is face planning. Here's their anchor yesterday with his first day on the job. Their new anchor. Play the clip.
News Anchor
With Maduro now out, that base of power and influence could be out too. All right, other news, as you just heard from Jill. Well, as to other news, now to Governor Walls. No, we're going to do Mark Kelly. First day, first day, big problems here. What are we going to Kelly here? Are we going to go to Jonah Kaplan? We're doing Mark Kelly, possibly demoted from his retired rank of captain in the Navy. Hegseth issued what's known as a letter of censure for the Arizona Democrat or over his participation in a video that called on service members to defy illegal orders without specifying which orders he had in mind. Hegseth called what the former combat pilot, an astronaut did an act of sedition. Now we go to Minnesota. A surprise announcement from the Great Lake State there today. Tim Walls, the 2024.
Political Commentator
Okay, so as you can see, this is her new star who that he said he was going to bring back the days of Walter Cronkite. And here's what I think. Pumps do you think that work at CBS sabotaged him? Because they hate her so much. Because if they did give them a.
Co-host/Commentator
Nobel Peace price, I sometimes do think that like the Fox News makeup people, they're secretly hate them because they put them on the air looking so terrible. Same thing about this guy because he's a veteran journalist. Like this isn't his first time. So that was kind of hard to do. But it just goes to show you, when you put incompetent people like Barry Weiss, I think everybody can agree, has no business being the moderator for CBS News. She does not have the experience to do that. And so it just. It's trickle down incompetence. You know, it's trickle down stupid. It's trickle down we love America slogans. If you fucking loved America, you would report on the atrocities that it is committing so that you can educate the population. Because what saved us in water Gray Watergate were Republicans that stood up against Nixon. But that's not going to happen because they lie. The press is Lying the mainstream media, Fox News, Barry Wise, you know what? The suppression on social media is happening because they don't want Americans to know the truth. Barry Wise doesn't want to talk about the genocide in Palestine. She wants to talk about how much she loves America. Shut the upper.
Political Commentator
But and I also want to say what Watergate, what was, what was important and what applied pressure to Republicans to stand up to Nixon was journalism. That's right. Nobody spiked the story. It was tenacious fact finding journalism. Finding things out about your country that make you feel like you might not love it. That's why it's important to keep emotion out of fact seeking missions. So that propaganda that she puts out there, we respect you. That in and of itself says you disrespect us. You were stupid. All the stupid people. Barry Weiss already watch Fox like they've got that market completely cornered. So here is this journalist, cbs after the total face plant on the first night, here he is and I'm sure Barry Weiss puts him up to this. And they're all just sitting there reeling from what a face planet was.
News Anchor
Pop this up of the CBS Evening News was not day one of a 10 day road trip live from San Francisco. It was instead a Saturday live show based on what could be a decade defining capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. We're a new show. I think that is actually a better launch than anything else we could have come up with. The road sometimes rises to meet you. And after all we cover the news. And this was news.
Co-host/Commentator
Thanks for the update. Like, okay.
Political Commentator
I mean this to me is just like people reeling. Like she knows she made a mistake. She's like, okay, now let's say that this is what it is and this whole thing putting her in charge over there, they have an agenda. They want to protect this horrible, horrible Nazi like regime that is running the United States of America right now. And they want to make sure that nobody criticizes Israel. And anybody who criticizes Israel, they're going to weaponize anti Semitism and then call you an anti Semite while the regime that they're trying to protect literally has all of the biggest Jew haters anti Semites in the world in the party. Elon Musk, I mean absolutely. On his, on Twitter. There's so much Nazi Holocaust denial disgusting on there. Did they say anything about that? No, not a peep. But here's the problem, here's what's going on. And the Fishers and Maga are really more in my opinion with the ecosystems. That's where they start that's where they live. This is where these people get their information. And you have Megyn Kelly, who is a nut by all accounts, but she is out flanking CBS and Fox News here in this one clip. Play the clip.
Megyn Kelly
Fox News, which was a long time, 14 years. I would have known exactly what to do in the wake of Trump's attack in Venezuela. His retrieval, shall we say, to put it in mild terms, of Nicolas Maduro. I would have known that I was supposed to cheerlead it. And I turned on Fox News yesterday and I'm sorry, but it was like watching Russian propaganda. There was nothing skeptical. It was all rah, rah, cheerleading. Yes, let's go.
Political Commentator
I mean, you know, it's interesting because you have Tucker sometimes that says things that are really at the core of the glue that keep this cult together. Yep. Now Megan Kelly is doing the same. You know, Candace Owens, she's like, she has millions and millions and millions of views, but she is, you know, completely. She goes from like Bridget McCrone transit to Erica Kirk. And I think half the people that watch her just watch her because it's like they're watching a moving train wreck. But more so like Megyn Kelly is one of the largest podcasts in the country. Not just on the right, just in the country, period. Same with Tucker Carlson. And the criticism of the institutions and the ecosystems that hold the cult together that helped catapult Trump into the second term, I just find very interesting. And I'm keeping a watch on. And that's why I wanted to show you all that, because she is going attacking right inside the Death Star. And I think per video, she probably gets more views than even, like Sean Hannity does. She gets millions of views per video. So that she's starting to attack Fox is pretty interesting to me. And they're all coalescing around this America first stuff because I think Tucker Carlson is going to run for president. And they're starting now to criticize Fox because his whole agenda is going to be America First. Because that is the one argument that they can take the MAGA cult and keep them somehow coalesce together. Marjorie Taylor Greene, huge supporter of Tucker. I think she wants to be his vp. Their America first agenda. Which brings me to why are the Democrats not talking about this ad nauseam, screaming it from the rooftops? I just think they think, oh, we're going to let them all shit the bed on each other. And just like they didn't learn the lesson of 2024, you have to actively play offense, as they say in The Department of War. But Democrats, you literally have to play offense at all times against these people. Trump commented on every breath, everything that Biden did, he was on TV all the time criticizing him, and it really diminished his presidency optically. And MAGA does a good enough job doing it. But the Democrats, everybody in the country should know who our Senate leader is. Nobody knows who the fuck Chuckles is. Everybody should know who the minority leader in the House is. Only die hard political junkies like us know. And this is just so upsetting to me that we're getting outflanked and out messaged in sound bites because that's how people get their news now. Little clips like, oh, my God, Megyn Kelly's making sense, right? Tucker Carlson's making sense. Not to mention they're like, you know, have some anti Semitism, bigotry, homophobia all in there, but this is the way they keep the cult together. Just like that. Yeah, I completely agree.
Co-host/Commentator
Like, you cannot. The. The strongly worded letters and the seniority. Those days are over. I often think when I watch what's going on. Like Michelle Obama said, when they go low, we go high. What we have learned is there's nothing. Every time you think Trump can't get lower, he gets lower. And I agree with you, every Democrat needs to be out every day pounding the pavement, you know, Maduro taking him, you know, yeah, he's a horrible dictator. You're breaking international law. The only one I saw do that was Bernie Sanders. You. You just don't hear from these. Rona Roana came out okay, but, you know, look at Chuckles. Where's he been?
Political Commentator
Yeah, he was on. He did a weekend. I covered it. He did some weekends.
Co-host/Commentator
It was just.
Political Commentator
It's very lackluster, impotent leadership. And this is not the moment. This is not the Republican Party that Chuckles is used to dealing with. These people are diabolical. These people don't give a shit about the rule of law. In fact, they relish and salivate and thrive when the rule of law is being skirted for their benefit. They high five each other for it. So this is a completely different party. And the Democratic Party, in many ways, the leadership, not all members of the Democratic ruling party, but at least the leadership. To me, they're still playing politics of old and they haven't quite adapted to the fact that you're dealing with a mafia style government regime right now. All right, that's all we have. Please, like, subscribe and we'll be back later with more news.
Podcast: IHIP News
Episode: Trump Humiliated As Machado Offers to Give Up Her Peace Prize & CBS News Faceplants Live
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: January 6, 2026
In this episode, Jennifer and Angie deliver their trademark irreverent, progressive commentary on the latest U.S. political controversies. They focus on Trump’s continued bitterness about the Nobel Peace Prize, the spectacle of Maria Karina Machado offering to share her prize, and the embarrassing relaunch of CBS Evening News under Bari Weiss. The hosts skewer hypocrisy across mainstream and right-wing media, lambast lackluster Democratic messaging, and argue for fearless journalism and political resistance in the face of what they call an increasingly "mafia-style" regime.
On Trump’s Trophy Envy:
“It's just unbelievable that the words came out of Sean Hannity's mouth. Did you ever try to give it to Donald Trump? This is fucking insanity. We are talking a man that has such little hands and little self esteem that he wants a regift trophy...”
(03:26 – Co-host/Commentator)
On Re-gifting and Accountability:
“You can't re gift your trophy like that's where we are. Not to mention... the bombing of Venezuelan fishermen…”
(05:38 – Co-host/Commentator)
On Fox News & Ted Cruz:
“He has the hubris to think that he is actually a viable candidate for president. So every time I see him, I just—I'm amazed by the hubris.”
(07:14 – Co-host/Commentator)
Media Critique:
“CBS News, it's not your job to love or hate or like or dislike America. It's your job to to earnestly and truthfully report on America. It's your job to constructively criticize American policy. That is what you're supposed to do.”
(11:39 – Political Commentator)
“If you fucking loved America, you would report on the atrocities that it is committing so that you can educate the population.”
(14:06 – Co-host/Commentator)
On Bari Weiss and Censorship:
“Barry Wise doesn’t want to talk about the genocide in Palestine. She wants to talk about how much she loves America. Shut the upper.”
(14:26 – Co-host/Commentator)
On Megyn Kelly Attacking Fox News:
“I'm sorry, but it was like watching Russian propaganda. There was nothing skeptical. It was all rah, rah, cheerleading. Yes, let's go.”
(17:47 – Megyn Kelly)
Democratic Weakness:
“It's very lackluster, impotent leadership... To me, they're still playing politics of old and they haven't quite adapted to the fact that you're dealing with a mafia style government regime right now.”
(22:15–22:40 – Political Commentator)
Jennifer and Angie balance biting sarcasm with impassioned progressive advocacy. Their banter is often profane, peppered with pop culture references, and they take pointed aim at both right-wing figures and the mainstream media establishment. Throughout, they maintain a sense of urgency and dark humor, urging listeners to demand accountability and more active political resistance.
This episode of IHIP News serves up a scathing deconstruction of current political absurdities, from Trump’s wounded pride and the circus surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize, to the perceived collapse of news media integrity under figures like Bari Weiss. The hosts lament Democratic passivity and demand that both the media and the political left step up their efforts to counteract what they view as an increasingly authoritarian regime supported by a complicit, spectacle-driven media ecosystem.