Media Exposed with Adam Weiss - March 8, 2026

Summary

Media Exposed with Adam Weiss — March 8, 2026

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Adam Weiss
Release Date: March 8, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode of Media Exposed, Adam Weiss delves into how the media is covering the recent outbreak of war between the U.S., Israel, and Iran, with a focus on perceived divisions within “MAGA media.” The discussion extends to the firing of the Department of Homeland Security secretary, a landmark Supreme Court ruling in California on parental rights, as well as coverage and analysis of the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which President Trump will attend for the first time in six years. Weiss welcomes guests Ari Ackerman (social media influencer), David Burke (GOP congressional candidate and vet), and Jonathan Keller (California Family Council) to offer their insights.

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Main Discussion Segments & Key Insights

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1. The Media & the MAGA “Civil War” over Iran Conflict

[04:38] Adam Weiss introduces the episode’s central issue: sharp splits within conservative or “MAGA-aligned” media over U.S. action in Iran. He notes a surprising anti-war and “anti-Israel” tone among figures who were once staunchly pro-Israel and pro-Trump.

Key Points:

• Weiss critiques media narratives he feels distort the rationale behind the U.S. strikes: “The media wants to jump on top of us instead of making war heroes.” [04:32]

Feature Guest: Ari Ackerman (Social Media Influencer, Entrepreneur)

• Ackerman decries what he sees as a shift by commentators like Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson, speculating:
  • “It really feels like they're being paid by a foreign entity, the way they're describing this war, the way they're describing Trump's decision to go to war.” [07:43]
• Ackerman argues U.S. strikes are fundamentally about American interests, drawing a parallel to WWII:
  • “If the Iranian regime acquired a nuclear weapon, it would have been the end of the world as we know. It’s that simple.” [08:10]

Notable Clip:

• Megyn Kelly, on U.S. casualties:
  • “No one should have to die for a foreign country. … Our government’s job is not to look out for Iran or Israel, it’s to look out for us. And this feels very much like it is clearly Israel’s war.” [06:14–07:14]
• Ackerman responds with anecdotes about the Iranian-American community’s anti-regime stance.

Commentary on the Media’s Role:

• Weiss and Ackerman express exasperation at the left and some conservative spheres siding with narratives they perceive as hostile to U.S. and women’s rights:
  • “Where are all these crazy feminists now, when it comes to women’s rights under the Ayatollah?” [09:07]

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2. Tucker Carlson & the Narrative Around Muslims

[10:43]

• Tucker Carlson asserts:
  • “People are standing up and saying something you never would have said 20 years ago: hate all Muslims. How is that better than hate all Jews?” [10:43]
• Ackerman and Weiss both push back, insisting the “hate all Muslims” narrative is a fabrication to divide Americans.

Ackerman:

• “We hate people that hate America ... Whether they're Muslim, Jew, or Christian ... anyone not supportive of our interests is who we feel threatened by, not a specific religion.” [12:02]

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3. Analyzing the Justification for War: Rubio vs Trump

[16:52] Adam welcomes David Burke (GOP candidate & former Marine) to recount “living history” on the day of the strikes, noting the mixed messaging between Trump and Rubio about why the action was taken. Did Trump act to preempt Iranian aggression, or was it about supporting Israel?

Weiss:

• Points to inconsistent statements from the administration and a lack of congressional consultation:
  • “When your Secretary of State and your president give opposite explanations for why we went to war on the same day, the American people deserve clarity.” [15:32]

Burke:

• Praises Trump’s “consistent message,” linking the strikes to “5D chess” against BRICS, Russia, and China.
  • “No one’s going to force President Trump’s hand. Let's get that clear now … This is all a part of what I suspect to be President Trump’s 5D chess vision as he takes out these bad actors.” [17:34]

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4. Media, Partisanship, and Pentagon Briefings

[18:54]

• Discussion about Brian Stelter’s critique that right-wing outlets are being allowed into Pentagon briefings. Weiss frames this as a welcome challenge to mainstream media’s “monolithic” hold, while Burke accuses the mainstream of delegitimizing itself during Russiagate.

Memorable Quote:

• Weiss: “Who the hell’s going on page 842? You destroyed the guy’s career.” [20:57]

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5. Supreme Court’s Landmark Ruling on Parental Rights in California

[26:23] Weiss covers the Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision against California’s policy of allowing schools to keep gender transitioning of minors confidential from parents—a “significant parent parental rights ruling in a generation.” [26:23]

Guest: Jonathan Keller (California Family Council)

• Keller applauds the ruling:
  • “It really is shocking that … any justices [would] dissent to this. … The idea that schools would keep literally two sets of books … is absolutely beyond the pale.” [29:21]
• He also outlines the aggressive stance by California lawmakers to enforce secrecy, including AB 1955.
• Keller warns: “They are so beholden to the radical left ideology … they are willing to completely shipwreck their credibility, willing to shipwreck their common sense, just because they’re afraid they might lose some of the most extreme fringes of their leftist progressive base.” [35:13]
• Encourages listeners: “The left never sleeps. So we cannot either.” [37:24]

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6. White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Trump Accepts the Invitation

[38:39]

• For the first time during his presidency, Trump will attend the “nerd prom.” Weiss notes the irony of media, who vilified Trump for years, now rolling out the red carpet and even dropping their typical comedian for a mentalist in 2026.
• Weiss recounts his own experiences attending the dinner, sharing that it had always been an event for media to mingle with political elites.
• He plays a clip [43:01] of Obama’s 2011 Correspondents’ Dinner roasting Trump, reflecting how that moment seeded Trump’s drive for the presidency:
  • “He was just a celebrity in New York, but it was one potshot after the next ... almost like the wheels of revenge were starting in his head at that moment.” [45:04]

Commentary:

• The episode frames Trump’s attendance as both a personal and political victory over institutions that once sought to ridicule or exclude him.

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Notable Quotes & Moments by Timestamp

• Adam Weiss [04:32]: “Fake news media, we're here to call you out.”
• Ari Ackerman [07:43]: “It really feels like they're being paid by a foreign entity, the way they're describing this war, the way they're describing Trump's decision to go to war.”
• Tucker Carlson [10:43]: “People are standing up and saying ... hate all Muslims. How is that better than hate all Jews?”
• Adam Weiss [20:57]: “Who the hell's going on page 842? You destroyed the guy’s career.”
• Jonathan Keller [29:21]: “The idea that you would be having these schools keep literally two sets of books ... is absolutely beyond the pale.”
• Adam Weiss [45:04]: “Almost like the wheels of revenge were starting in his head at that moment in that time.”

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Guest Socials/Plugs

• Ari Ackerman: Instagram — @ariaker
• David Burke: Instagram — @burkeforfl | Website: davidburke.com
• Jonathan Keller: Website — CaliforniaFamily.org

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Final Thoughts

The episode ties together recurring Real America’s Voice themes: skepticism of mainstream media, celebration of “America First” policies, critique of left-wing activism in education and media, and a focus on the “culture war.” The show’s tone is combative, direct, and sometimes wry, aiming to expose what Weiss sees as media bias, elite hypocrisy, and threats to traditional American values.

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [04:38] — Introduction to war coverage and MAGA media splits
• [05:40] — Interview with Ari Ackerman
• [10:43] — Tucker Carlson clip and Muslim hate narrative debate
• [16:52] — David Burke on Trump’s Iran strategy
• [18:54] — Critique of mainstream media and Pentagon briefing access
• [26:23] — Supreme Court rules on parental rights in CA (w/ Jonathan Keller)
• [38:39] — White House Correspondents’ Dinner, media history, and Trump’s attendance
• [43:01] — Obama roasts Trump at 2011 dinner
• [45:04] — Analysis of Trump’s evolving relationship with the media

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For Further Listening

Skip directly to:

• 05:40 — Ari Ackerman’s analysis of MAGA media wars
• 16:52 — On-the-ground at Mar-a-Lago during war breakout (w/ David Burke)
• 26:23 — Full breakdown of the Supreme Court ruling with Jonathan Keller
• 38:39 — Weiss’ inside account of the Correspondents’ Dinner and anti-Trump media legacy

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End of Summary

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Media Exposed with Adam Wise starts now. Welcome back to Media Exposed. As we were all kind of shocked or will be shocked that President Trump sent our forces, sent mostly our air force navy into battle into Iran, started the war with the help of Israel last Saturday. And in alliance it seems like a lot of people on the right, the maga, what I like to call the media, they're saying the other media is called the maga. Civil war has been anti war and sent a little bit anti Israel. Why is this? Trump directly contradicted his own secretary insisting that he may have forced Israel's hand. So the media jumped on that too. Into war because he believed the Iranian lunatics were going to strike America first. Yet the Pentagon briefers told Congress there was no intelligence supporting that claim. So media wants to jump on top of us instead of making war heroes. I want to welcome my first guest, Ari Ackerman, social media guru, influencer, and entrepreneur. Ari, thanks for joining us again.

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Thank you. Thanks for having me, guys.

[A]

All right. This is such a unique topic here because it's not just we always talk about the regular media that's usually anti Israel. And I take on the side of Israel. We're taking the side of what they say of the oppressed. But now you got this MAGA media, which I don't know what happened to them lately. Like the last two years, they kind of like tilted a lip board towards such anti Israel. I don't know what you want to call them, but before we jump in, I want to show you this one. Cut. I'm kind of shocked at here, but let's watch this one. Cut. Cut. One. Megyn Kelly. And when a gut goes anti Israeli, watch this.

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There are massive divisions over what we've done here, and people are going to change their minds over the coming days and weeks, one way or the other. But my own, my own feeling is no one should have to die for a foreign country. I don't think those Forest Service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or for Israel. I think I understand how this helps Iran perfectly. Well, I get it. I mean, I hope long term, we'll see. But they seem rather jubilant. 80% of the country does not support the Ayatollah. He was a terrible, terrible man. No one's crying that he's dead. No normal person. But our government's job is not to look out for Iran or for Israel. It's to look out for us. And this feels very much to me like it is clearly Israel's war. Mark Levin wanted it. It's his war. Ben Shapiro, Lindsey Graham, Miriam Adelson, that's obvious.

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Ari, I like Megan, you know, but I think she's so off because let me and you probably might have the same thing. I got so many Persian Iranian friends in New York City, Long island, ex girlfriends, too. Not one I know is supportive of the regime of the Ayatollah. Everyone is so happy and jubilated. Give me your thoughts on why MAGA media, especially Megan, is pushing this narrative.

[C]

I don't know what's happening to Megyn Kelly, the Candace Owens, to Tucker Carlson. It really feels like they're being paid by a foreign entity. The way they're describing this war the way they're describing Trump's decision to go to war. Can you imagine somebody bullying Trump? Is that the most ridiculous comments of all time, to go to war? A man who tried to avoid wars, now all of a sudden they're saying that the Iranians and the Israelis are the ones pushing him to go to war. It's so outrageous. Everybody who's an Iranian in this country is supportive of this war. Everybody who's Iranian in Iran is supportive of this war. If the Ayatollah, if the Iranian regime acquired a nuclear weapon, it would have been the end of the world as we know. It's that simple. This is an American interest to make sure that the Iranian regime did not acquire a nuclear weapon. This is not a war for anything else but protecting America's interests both here and abroad. And we all hate that service members were killed. Nobody wants Americans being done. Nobody wanted Americans to fight in Germany in World War II when we had to go in to end the Nazi regime. But this is the same situation. Sometimes you have to put troops in harm's way to protect your world interests. And that's what's going on right here. And I don't know why Meghan and Candace especially, and Tucker, I mean, they've lost their mind completely.

[A]

And there's a push that where all these crazy feminists that stand in Colombia and a pro Palestinian and not supportive of all these women that have to walk around with their faces covered, their jobs, not allowed to have jobs, not allowed to be themselves. Where are they? Right? The feminists are not.

[C]

These people who on the left especially, who protest, and I do too, by the way, who are in support obviously of women's rights, gay rights. You know, everybody wants equal rights except when it comes to apparently this regime in Iran when they're on the side of the oppressors. To me, the mindset here, it's almost like you're rooting for the terrorists. I don't really get why that's acceptable in their liberal mindset. It doesn't make any sense to me. I'd really like somebody to explain to me how they can be supportive of the regime, yet want equal rights for all. It's mind boggling.

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It's a combination. It's two entities that the left hate so much, Israel and Trump. These guys can solve cancer, turn the world into the most beautiful, peaceful place, and they'd still find a way to disagree with them. I want to show you another giant and why we talk about these giants, Ari. Because they're not just maga, they're big media figures. So with their voices going anti Trump here, anti war, it's going to hurt. I think it's going to hurt the GOP in the midterms. They don't keep this coalition. But Tucker Carlson, he's really off the fringe lately. But let's watch this cut. He says there's a push to hate all Muslims. I don't know where you get this from, but watch this cut, too.

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We got mass Muslim immigration after 9 11. And the people who pushed it, because I was here and I remember it very well, are the very same people, in some cases literally the same people who are now screaming about how Islam is our enemy. And in this case, it's in the service of the darkest of all ends, which is to divide this country against itself along religious lines. And yet people are standing up and saying something you never would have said 20 years ago, hate all Muslims. How is that better than hate all Jews? I'll pause while you explain. And of course, they can't explain because it is in no sense better than I hate all Jews. It's the same thing. And I hate all Christians for that reason matter. But you are seeing a concerted effort to do that. And you will almost certainly see, as we have seen before, acts of violence that may or may not be organic, designed to move public opinion strongly in one direction to benefit people outside our country. It's just a fact.

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Tariq, I don't know what he's talking about because every time there's a Muslim incident, you don't even know it's a Muslim because they hide it. And every time there was a big Muslim incident, we bend over backwards to say, it's not the Muslims. They're all peaceful. So tell me what you think of his thoughts. Are they hate all Muslims? I don't see it. Do you?

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I agree with him. Nobody should hate all Muslims. Nobody should hate all Jews. Nobody should hate all Christians. That's not what's being portrayed here. We hate people that hate America. And whether they're Muslim, Jew or Christian, it doesn't matter to me if they're not supportive of America, if they're not supportive of our interests here, of being proud Americans, of living within the society, within the American society. Those are the people that, you know, we feel threatened by, not the a specific religion. That's not, you know. And if anybody's trying to divide us, it's Tucker Carlson by even saying these things, by trying to provoke this absurd narrative that it's people just wanting to hate Muslims. That's not the case. I have many Muslim friends. I love the Muslim people. I love the Jewish people. I love the Christian people. I love anybody that loves us back. That's my philosophy. I know it's many philosophies, many people's philosophies who are activists who are out there as well.

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I have so many Muslim friends in New York, south Florida. I don't know what he's talking about. I don't see any big push to hate all Muslims. We take it as we see it. We take, you know, wars as we see it. But what do you think? How long you think this war is going to continue? And give me your thoughts on this. How long you think we should stay in that? And what's the end result going to be here? Well, happily, we have no boots on the ground, thank God.

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Yeah. I mean, that's a question for the ages. We hope it's a short war. We hope it doesn't involve any loss of life, any further loss of life. But I think the stated goal here is to have the Iranian regime change. And I think the key player here is the Iranian people, the civilians of Iran, who Trump keeps saying now stay inside, but when the bombs stop falling, you have your moment in time now to revolt, to create some sort of civil war to try and put the leadership in place that makes sense for the Iranian people. And so they're the ones that are going to have to make the change here. The Americans and the Israelis with the initial push to get rid of the leadership is the start. The Iranian people need to finish this off.

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Everybody follow Ari. Ari, where do people follow you? On Instagram. He's got a great Instagram, some great videos.

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Thank you, Adam. My Instagram is Ari Ackerman. My name is Ari Ackerman and my Instagram is Ariaker. So I appreciate it.

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Ari. Thanks for joining us. I'll see you soon. Thank you again.

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Thanks for having me. It's always good to see you.

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Coming up, all things Trump. He's joining the White House Correspondence dinner this year. But next, what's the real deal with the Cyran tax? We're going to take a look at that now. The media is coming. That and more coming up on MEDIA exposed. Welcome back to MEDIA exposed. Tragically, with this war breaking, that we lost a few US Servicemen, but that's just going to happen in the state of war. Right. So Trump and Rubio were telling a little bit of different stories early in the week. Rubio said we struck Israel was going because they were going to act anyway, and we'd suffer casualties because Israel was going to act anyway. Trump said he forced Israel's hand because Iran was about to attack us first. I don't know if that can be true. The administration's own Pentagon briefings told congressional staff there was no intelligence that Iran was planning a preemptive strike on us or Israel directly, undercutting Trump's stated justification. First, Rubio's candidate mission. We knew Israel was going to strike was a gift to every American media outlet and critic who argues that the US Is serving Netanyahu's agenda. Not America. America first. Not our national security, first interests. Netanyahu himself, publicly roasted, publicly rose to this war as something he had yearned to do for 40 years, he said, which raises a serious question. Whose strategic objectives is to the U.S. israel, who we serving here? When your Secretary of State and your president give opposite explanations for why we went to war on the same day, the American people deserve clarity, of course, especially as US Casualties mount and Congress hasn't been consulted. I want to welcome my next guest, David Burke. David's a Republican candidate right here in West West Palm beach area for Congressional District 22 in Florida. He's a former Marine, former police officer here. David, thanks for joining us. First time on Media Exposed.

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Thank you. Thank you for having me, David.

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I mean, there's so much happening in the news, but I think, you know, I was there, actually, you told me you were there, too. We were there last Saturday at Mar a Lago. The war, the day the war broke out. It was like a makeshift war room. Darubio was in one room, Witkoff was walking around. The weather wasn't great. So I business look, socialized success to go on. And they took the dining room and they put it in the living room, if people don't know. And it was this glorious living room, Mar a Lago, with tables of people, of members and the president sliding around. There's nothing like it, I think, in the world. You were there, you took a nice photo with the president, got to talk to him a little bit, right?

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Yeah, it was a pretty momentous occasion, I guess you could say. I mean, you're sitting living history as it occurs, and something to say suggests that President Trump's hand was forced is utterly ridiculous. No one's going to force President Trump's hand. Let's get that. Let's iron that out and clear that out now. But let's look at this. Let's look at kind of everything that's happening with Iran. President Trump's had a consistent message effectively. I mean what he did with was it Soleimi back in 2020, right. Taking him out. Extremely precise. They said that that was gonna start World War iii. Didn't start world proving Iran's a paper tiger. Now what he's doing and with what Israel, United States and Israel doing what they do and taking out the Iranian regime, this has been so long in the making. And when you look at this from a strategic global perspective, what he did with Venezuela, in the amount of heavy crude that's going to China, when you look at Iran and with the amount of crude that goes to China, this is all a part of what I suspect to be President Trump's 5D chess vision as he takes out these bad actors. It impacts brics, it impacts Russia, it impacts Iran, obviously the largest state sponsor of terrorism and it impacts China at the end of the day, who is our global adversary.

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And while this is going on we have a lot. It's not just a war. We got a middle of a war. And when the secretary of defense Pete Hex at held a Prius briefing early in the week, then you got like I want to show you this. Let's show this photo of Brian Stelter's clip tweet actually this morning Brian Stelter said this morning Pete Hessett suggested that the press prominently covers service member casualty to make the president look bad. An incendiary claim that injected partisan politics into wartime. Pentagon press conference and then he went on to say most of the questions of the Pentagon briefing came from right wing outlets like the Daily Wire, Lindell TT that have little experience covering the military. HEC said did field a question from the BBC though he seemed to pick a reporter based on the tie the reporter was wearing. Look, this is Brian Stelter. No wonder his media show on CNN failed and was kicked off because if you can't see Bryant, if you can't see the lens that other outlets are allowed to report the news when the media had this monolithic hold stranglehold on what we saw as news all the time. And it was one way always it was one thought, one think tank, one thought, it was always from the left. So give me your thoughts on that tweet. I just read from Brian Stelter that other outlets are allowed to be in the briefing now.

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Well the media, I mean they completely delegitimized themselves back in leading up to the 2016 election with Russiagate, that whole collusion, that hoax that was propagated by intelligence officials. Moreover, widespread throughout the media. And then when there was any redaction, it's a little footnote. It's not an honest, sincere, earnest apology that they're reporting Mashadi so rightfully. So you know the kind of questions that are going to come from from the left leaning media and it's not going to be really relevant to the topic, to the topics at hand. So Brian Selter should sit in the corner and he should take his punishment and that's it.

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I think it was a legendary broadcast. A Rush Limbaugh was once a pen pal with used to call it a drive by shooting. Something like that. That's what the media does. They'll just go by and destroy somebody's career. Destroy somebody. And none of it's true. Right. After a few weeks or a few months they're like there's a little oh, we did correct it. But it's on page 842, upper right hand side. Who the hell's reading page who the hell's going on page 842. You destroyed the guy's career. And that and that's what they typically do the media and that's the M.O. and I'm glad the administration is fighting back by putting other outlets in there and other sources in there to deliver the news. I want to show you this cut which was Rubio the day after they start see how they're starting these fights. Rubio said one thing, Trump said another thing. Do we really doing this just for Israel anything to cause conflict? Back in the day these military leaders and secretary so were put on pedestals. They were heroes for doing such amazing things for the world. Watch. Cut three. How he smacks down the CNN reporter. Cut three. Rubio.

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No, but you have to read if you're going to read the whole state

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your quote is about.

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We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that would precipitate attack.

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Yeah, no I understand but listen, all right. We got. Let me understand But I had a very specific question from that gentleman. Right.

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President said.

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The president said that.

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One second.

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I asked a very forced Israelis.

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Okay, but let me answer because this is my press conference.

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Okay.

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The you asked me, I was asked a very specific question. So you guys can misrepresent it. But I was asked a very specific question yesterday. The bottom line is this. We the president determined we were not going to get hit first. It's that simple. Guys. We are not going to put Americans troops in harm's way. If you tell the president of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured. The president's going to go first. That's what he did. That's what the president will always do. He will always put the safety and security of our men and women in uniform and of all Americans before anything else. He's always going to do that, and that's what he did here. In addition to that, I would argue that this threat from Iran, they are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones. They wanted to reach a point where you couldn't touch them, and then they could do whatever the hell they wanted with their nuclear program. And there was no way in the world that this terroristic regime was going to get nuclear weapons. Not under Donald Trump's watch.

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So the US Attack, nothing to do with Israel.

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It had nothing to do with Israel.

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I don't think anybody. Secretary of State and national security advice at the same time.

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Brilliant.

[A]

What do you think of Rubio's handling of the media from cnn who's trying to get his gotcha moment?

[E]

I mean, Secretary Rubio was put on a persistently and consistently has put on a masterclass all the way back to his Senate confirmation hearing. In that speech, he has handled himself beyond reproach. I think he's handled the seat beyond reproach and he's 100% right. We know President Trump hates WA. He hates war. That is not his MO but if we were put in a reactionary position, we were put on the defense, we would have been obviously more than likely caught off guard. But we needed to get the drop. We have the technology and what Venezuela proves, moreover, what Iran proves is the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The world was laughing at us. And please remember that the world was laughing at us. They thought the American military was weak and feckless. We are not a weak and feckless nation. Our American war fighters, I will take them on the field of battle 10 times out of 10. But when you have politicians who are aloof and apathetic and they don't care, you got to understand the difference between the political side of things and then the war fighter. We have the best war fighters. We have the best technology. We've defeated the Chinese technology, we've defeated Russian technology, and we are letting the world know that the days of the Biden and Obama administration apathy are. They're done. We are the world's superpower. We will operate in that capacity, but we will also operate in the capacity from an America first perspective.

[A]

We used to have such honor and we put our generals and military and leaders on, you know, showcase them. Nowadays they're looking for conflict they're losing. The media is just looking to cause a wedge between people. I remember General Schwartkopf during the elder Bush during the the Iraq war and he was General Schwarzkopf, right. And he was like this brilliant general, did things right and where's what about. And we have this brilliant guy, General Kaine, but nothing from the media trying to throw us fights between Rubio and Trump. Kaine, it's like why don't we showcase these military men that does such an amazing job and I'm sure if it was under Obama, how do you think they would treat him? Totally different. What do you give me your thoughts.

[E]

The only way the media is going to lionize our generals is if they're pushing woke leftists, the woke leftist agenda throughout our armed service. That's the only way they're gonna lionize these guys. But real war fighting generals, the media wants nothing to do with it because it doesn't further push the weakening of America and the weakening of the west as a whole.

[A]

Yeah, right. There's very few reporters out there journal that are Alpha. They really want to put our men down and not have warriors. Dave, tell people where they can find you and support your campaign for Congress. Let our audience know where they can, you know, support you.

[E]

You can find my Instagram at Burke for fl that's B U R C K F O R F L and then you can find me on davidburke.com

[A]

David, thanks for joining us. I'll see you soon. Good luck in the campaign. Thank you.

[E]

Thank you.

[A]

The Supreme Court injects some sensibility into California which what did they rule on? It's a big issue in America. We're going to take a look at that. More coming up on Media Exposed. Welcome back to MediaXpros. Early in the week, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark 63 win for parental rights in California, ruling that California cannot secretly gender transition children at school without notifying or obtaining consent from their own parents. The court found California's policy likely violates both the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and the due process laws of the 14th Amendment. Because parents, not the state, have primary authority over their children upbringing. In the court's own words, California policy cut out the primary protectors of children's best interest, their parents. This is the most significant parent parental rights ruling and generation. This ruling exposed a broader radical agenda. States like California have Been actively concealing children's gender transition from their own families, compelling teachers deceive parents and hiding behind bureaucratic expertise to avoid parental authority. This is far from over. A related case is already headed to the high court that could permanently establish constitutional protections for parents nationwide and shut down this kind of state overreach for good. Noem told the Senate that DHS will get to that later. I want to welcome next to Jonathan Keller. He's the Family Council research director, I believe. Jonathan, Right, Jonathan.

[G]

That's it, yeah. California Family Council.

[A]

President of California Family Council. Sorry about that, Jonathan. I cannot believe this case even is 6:3. To think such a lunacy thing that you brought kids to school. They're thinking of transitioning at a young age and we don't tell the parents. If I told you this story a decade ago, 15 years ago, you'd all say, are you insane that that's even being talked about? And yet we lived through it. How long did we live through that insane apology? Two, three years. Thankfully, we have some sanity. But like I said, I cannot believe three Supreme Court disagree with it. I mean, where do we find people like this? Give me your thoughts on the ruling. And I guess congratulations, because you guys were big fighters in this ruling, right?

[G]

Absolutely. Yeah. This has been an incredible case, the Mirabelli case. It's still working its way through the 9th Circuit here to mop up the final pieces of it. But we are so grateful for the Supreme Court and the six conservative justices who have stepped forward and said, yeah, we absolutely need to make sure that we are protecting parental rights. And it really is shocking to me that you would have any individual justices dissenting to this. I mean, several of them are parents themselves. I know. At least I think Kachandu, Brown, Jackson. Justice Jackson is a parent. And it is shocking to me that anybody could look at this and say that if a child goes off site, away from their parents, they go to a school and the parents are trusting that the school is going to be not replacing that parental authority, not taking over that parental authority, but they are going to be complementing and supporting parental rights. The idea that you would be having these schools keep literally two sets of books, one that they share with the parents and the other one that is confidential, that they use to transition these kids. It's absolutely beyond the pale.

[A]

I know if I in days we grew up, if you did that, parents would be screaming, throwing you, how dare you do this? And there would be some common sense, and the teacher would be fired, the principal would be fired. Guidance counsel would be fired. But we've lost sense of common sense that they're running around the policy. They got promoted by radical agendas, especially in California. You got Hollywood that's in favor of smut. The media takes their side, but thank God we have some sanity there. And what age groups was this, that they were allowing this? From what age to what age was this policy? In effect, it was every school district in California public school district, am I correct, that were allowing teachers to not tell their parents?

[G]

That's essentially the case. And it's even worse because not only was this a relic of something, that was an oversight, literally. In the last several years, California passed a new law, AB 1955, that actually demanded that individual school districts could not pass their own individual policies to protect parental rights. Again, not only were they saying, we're not going to pass a statewide policy to protect them, Newsom and the legislators in Sacramento banned individual school districts from trying to protect parents. In fact, Governor Newsom himself went so far as on his personal Twitter account to threaten with lawsuits and legal action and withholding funding multiple school districts who were only trying to say, we think parents have a right to know something, and in our school district, we're going to try to protect them. And yet Gavin Newsom put the power of his office on the line and said, we're going to come down on you like a ton of bricks if you even step out of line. And if you think you're going to go behind the backs of our Department of Justice, of our Department of Education. And I think one thing that I will say about this, number one, this is an absolute victory for every parent and family in the case. It's an absolute victory for every family and child in the state of California. But I'll also say this should be an absolute victory for the people of the United States, because you mentioned sanity. In any sane world, any voter, even Democratic voters who are looking at their ballot for 2028 and they are considering whether or not they want to give Governor Gavin Newsom a promotion to the presidency, they should take a look at this and realize this absolutely disqualifies him from ever holding any elected office ever again.

[A]

But they don't care. I mean, I saw Newsom, he looked like a fool. He was on Jimmy Kimmel last night, and he'll go to one audience like he's doing some his own podcast. And he had Charlie Kirk on, he banning on, and he was talking all moderate like, I don't read radical things. And he just says anything to Anybody's face, whatever audience is, he tells them what they want to hear. But as you said, the people that are so radical on the left and the politicians have just going along instead of pushing back against the radicals, the radicals on the left and the media on the left, they just go, go with it. The politicians. And I want to show you a clip that sums it up because this was early in the week. And I want to show you this Cut five. And Congressman Mace had Governor Walls and it was about the fraud in Minnesota. But what's your simple question? And he came and answered. Let's go to cut five. Let's go to Governor Walz. And I hope you learned some lessons from your last hearing with me on the Oversight Committee.

[D]

Have you learned anything since I did that?

[A]

If I didn't speak up, two of my people would be dead, Congresswoman. And I warned you. Okay, Ms. Governor Walls, what is a woman?

[D]

Have you learned that lesson? Do you know what a woman is?

[A]

I'm the Governor of Minnesota, Congressman. I'm not here to be your prop for your obsession. So if you can't define what a woman is, you certainly can't define what fraud is.

[D]

If you can't even define when a

[A]

woman is, you can't define fraud. He had a nickname during the campaign, remember what it was? Tampon Tim. He put tampons in the men's bathroom. What the heck are you putting tampons in the men's bathroom for? You're such a wimp. You just go along what you think is for your radical base. But you know, you always think like, why do these radicals and weirdos keep winning a state? And you look now and all of a sudden they discovered this fraud. Millions, thousands upon thousands Somalis are getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing nothing, fake daycare. But Imani, luckily he bought these votes by scamming it. Because the Minnesota is not that left and not that radical. To have a guy like that and give me thoughts on that clip, it's so ridiculous, isn't it?

[G]

Oh, it absolutely is. And you mentioned before Gavin Newsom, you know, he and Tim Walls are really kind of two peas in a pod. It was the same type of thing when, when Gavin Newsom is confronted in a face to face setting, he will try to say whatever he needs to say to seem like he frame seem like he's moderate and to get you to think you could vote for him in that situation. So when he hosted Charlie Kirk about a year ago on his own podcast, Charlie Kirk very courageously pushed him and grilled him and said, well, surely you can't believe that it is fair or appropriate for males, boys to go and compete against girls in their own sports and to use their own locker rooms. And Gavin Newsom, to his credit at the time, said, well, you know, yeah, I agree that's unfair. In fact, he said it's deeply unfair to use his words. But the problem is, like you just said, it's the same thing that we see with Tim Walls. It's the same thing we see with Gavin Newsom. It's the same thing we see, tragically, with Democrats and even some of these Supreme Court justices, they are so beholden to the radical left ideology of transgenderism and LGBTQ IA, etc. They cannot even think they can step out of line for a moment. They are willing to completely shipwreck their credibility, willing to shipwreck their common sense. They're willing to honestly look like fools just because they're afraid they might lose some of the most extreme fringes of their leftist progressive base.

[A]

I feel like we lost the normal in our society. It's what everybody would agree upon because we all had, whether you were a Democrat or Republican and end of the day you'd get together, the values are pretty much the same now. These vaticals are insane. What these people think, think through and I, you know, and have people on the stage like this is absolutely ridiculous. Tell us what's next. What are all the fights you have happening? Jonathan? Tell us. You know, coming up, that very important for folks to look out for anything else, cases coming up from the courts. We need to keep our eyes out or we need to support your group.

[G]

Yeah, absolutely. I would say if you want to go to our website, CaliforniaFamily.org, we're part of a network, a national network of over 40 state based family policy groups like this. I will tell you, the left never sleeps. So we cannot either. I know that we're all excited that President Trump is in office. He's doing great things for our country on so many levels. But I can tell you the people in Sacramento are not taking it lying down. They are doing everything they can every day to find the most radical ways to undermine what's happening in Washington, D.C. to undermine family values, to undermine people of faith. And we really do need to take action and fight back. So I'd encourage you go to our website, CaliforniaFamily.org, we can connect you both with our groups in California and we can connect you if you're in one of the other 39 states where we have allied organizations, I hope that you will realize we have to be the vanguard of liberty. We cannot wait until the next election cycle, even in November. We need to start taking action today to protect faith, family and freedom.

[A]

Jonathan, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it and good luck and thanks for all you do. I'll see you soon.

[G]

Thank you so much.

[A]

Up last, we're going to talk about the White House correspondence dinner. It is the nerve prom. Everybody gets together. Guess who's coming this time? That and more coming up on Media exposed. Welcome back to Media exposed. After years of I don't know if it's correctly or not correctly, calling the White House correspondent dinner a fake news love fest and boycotting it, Trump has now accepted it. 2026 accepted the invitation, which is, I think it's April 24th, I believe is the date, maybe the 25th. And the left media, but spent a decade, more than a decade trashing him, is suddenly rolling around the red carpet this year. Maybe they feel like the White House apparatus and the press corps and the White House communications department and press secretaries have opened up to too many figures that they want to show. Look, we are the real White House correspondence because we're not going to be invited. Arca, you know, Rav's not going to be invited. The other stations, Lindell TV and podcasts, they're not going to be invited to this big love fest. It's like the prom. It's like the nerd prom. They get together. I've been there a dozen times. A nice event throughout the weekend. But the same corruption press corps that called him an existential threat to democracy is now celebrating his honoree. How does that work out? Are they going to treat him with respect or they set as a setup? Make up your mind. Is he Hitler or is he your dinner guest? We'll wait and see. Trump has characterized his previous boycott simply and correctly. The press was extra, extraordinarily bad to him. It was true. Why should he go when he was so terrible to him? Sarah Huckabeesh went and they treated her terribly. She had the gracious honor of going and she was sitting to the dais and they badmouthed her. They criticized, they went after her religion. It was awful the way they did it. She shouldn't have been treated that way in the first Trump administration. But he's won decisively. How could they ignore him? It's Trump news 24 7. The White House correspondents dropped their comedian this year in favor of a mentalist. Apparently Even they realized their own anti Trump roast routine had become politically toxic and unwatchable. They picked the comedians from the left. But most of the comedians have become left or left or center. And they become so radical, they can't help themselves to make news. So let's ditch the comedian because it's a funny event anyway. It's a way to take little shots at each other. But Trump promised to make it the greatest, hottest, most spectacular dinner of any kind ever. Love him or hate him, the man has conquered every institution that once tried to destroy him, including this one. Think about six years. I mean, six years is this. Six years into his second term, he was at once. Every president would go every year and there'd be this little love festival one night, jokes would come, and Trump said, you know what? I'm not going to. You people treat me terribly. Why should I show up? You hit me on the bat every single day. You call me the worst names in the book. Why should I show up at your house to dinner? You might poison me. Finally, they've given in. Let's see what happens. But I want to play this cut here. Since I was here in 2011, 2011, I was there. That's when Obama was still present. I believe he was bombing, in fact, got Osama bin Laden the next day or that night, middle of the night in that year. But it all started here, when the president, who was Obama at the time, made tons of jokes against Trump. Who makes this many drunks a sitting president? Trump was nobody then. He was just a celebrity in New York. But it was one potshot after the next potshot as unbecoming of a president. At that moment. I was there and I said, why is he making so many jokes at one person? But let's go to cut six and watch how Obama went after Trump all the way back in 2011.

[F]

No one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac? All kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example, no, seriously, just recently in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn't blame Little John or Meatloaf, you fired Gary Busick. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir. Well handled. Say what you will about Mr. Trump, he certainly would bring some change to the White House. Let's see what we've got up there.

[A]

There should be a time and a place, but it was that we could take jokes like that. But I thought it was a little too many jokes that Obama threw at Trump. It's just, you know, he was just an ordinary citizen. You're the President of the United States. One joke, two jokes, like four or five in a row. And Trump's not the kind of guy that likes to be made fun of over and over again. He could take a joke, but not so many. And you can kind of see him seething towards the end of it. And I saw it up close and personal, what he was. And almost like the wheels of revenge were starting in his head at that moment in that time. And he didn't run in 2012. Mitt Romney did. But Mitt Romney was a decent candidate, but he wasn't a fighter. You know, he never punched back. I would say the media's attacking over. Over your bundle of folders and all because you said, I have folders of women. And they made that a story. Like you really meant women in a folder. And every little thing they went after about his dog sliding on the car. And Mitt never fought back. That's the problem. Trump fought back in the media. And that's why we have a President Trump one term, three term, second term, probably should have a second term. Probably should be his third term. The second term was so much shenanigans. We all know that heard that story a million times about shenanigans of that term. But, you know, on this weekend, it's a glorious weekend when all the mainstream media get together, alternative media will get together. Hopefully everybody can get along. There won't be some attack pieces, but one weekend, they can all shed the light together. I want to show you this photo here. This is my tickets to go to photo one. It's my tickets in 2018 for the White House Correspondence Dinner. Been there maybe 10 times. It's a whole weekend. So you get there on Friday, they have these events, the CAA celebration. Each newspaper will have their own little party to celebrate, invite dignitaries. You'll get the Secretary of State, you'll get a deputy, this people from different cabinets coming. So I think that Trump is coming this time. He'll bring out his cabinet, which will come. It'll Be very prestigious. Probably invites going now to lure different cabinet members to different seats. There's another photo. Oh, this is photo two. It's me and Sergio Gore, who was the ppo, as in who was the pbo. That's the PBO is the personnel department originally, but now he's the ambassador to India. We were, you know, we were just friendly there. Don't know, even though it's a nice close up of us. Sergio Gore. That's photo two here. Let's go to. Oh, that's Anna Kasparian. He's a very prominent media figure on photo number three here. Let's go to photo three. Anna Kasparian. She's with the Young Turks. Very popular media figure, Anna. And with the Young Turks she'd be a radical leftist, but she'd become moderate. Even she couldn't take it anymore. She tells the story how she was going to get mugged because they left out homeless and drug addicts and she was scared to death and they didn't even care. They just took the sides of the homeless and reckless and she changed her tune a little bit and she's now kind of a moderate when she goes on, which is, you know, how can you not be when they have such crazy policies here, going to jump to 2019 here, show photo number four here. For me and Kathy Griffin, of all people, such an anti Trump. I don't think she'll be allowed in this one with Trump. You might have a nervous breakdown if she was allowed in. Between her and Rosie, there's no more two haters from Hollywood of Trump and maga. But Kathy Griffin, she was friendly, had a bit of a chat here. It's kind of like that's the big ballroom in the back. When they do it to Hilton, they call it the nerd prom because they like them, call themselves the nerds. They get together, they have a good time, a pre party and the big dais that they all get on the dais, they make jokes. It'll be really interesting to watch Trump's interaction with the national media and it'll be funny because he'll take shots at him that night. But if you look at Trump's press conferences now, he could sell on paper for this. So entertaining from this first administration, the way he'd hit the media, he never cared. Somebody would say something contradictory, somebody said something negative towards him, negative towards conservatism. He'd hit right back. And that's what we liked about him. And that's why we have a show here called Media Exposed. We help cover the media. We help call out the media when they're biased and they're biased in this term. And they didn't fight and they was holding out. He didn't want to let the media push him out, but they might have pushed out DHS Secretary Christine Noem because the media just was all over her in her hearings early in the week. And they just badgered her to death. And she slipped, she slipped up a bit and said Trump approved the payments of my advertising campaign. So I don't think he liked that. She's on to another type of job. And Senator Mulliane has taken over. So there's been one big shakeup. But word from our sponsor partner here at Hotel Planner. Are you frustrated with how confusing it is these days to find and book a good hotel room for yourself, your family or for large group? That's our friends at Hotel Planner have a cutting edge platform, easy to book, easy to navigate. It's AI powered. They've been in the business for more than 20 years. If you call the reservations, you'll get a real life human, not just a chatbot. Go to hotelplanet.com for all your books. I want to thank Fran and Aaron in the control room doing a great job. I want to thank David Burke, candidate here. I want to thank, you know, and thank the other ones for joining us as well. And I'll see you next week on Media Exposed. Sam.