Hawk Podcasts

Pope Leo, the first American-born pope and a Chicago native, had repeatedly called for diplomacy over military force in the weeks leading up to the meeting. Vatican officials described the encounter as unusual and far from a casual exchange, while Pentagon officials dismissed it as exaggerated. Pope Leo subsequently canceled a planned visit to the United States. Hawk also examines Pete Hegseth's p...

On the Iran front, Donald Trump is telling reporters that Iranian leaders are reasonable and peace is within reach, while the new Supreme Leader Moshtaba Khamenei is publicly vowing revenge against the United States. Iran has taken control of the Strait of Hormuz, a move Trump was warned about before hostilities began. Meanwhile, the so-called ceasefire never stopped Israel from launching major st...

Trump's posts on the Iran nuclear negotiations show two competing frameworks: Iran's 10-point proposal and the U.S. 15-point plan, which are far apart. Despite Trump claiming many points have been agreed to, Iran's official statement from the Minister of Foreign Affairs tells a different story. A brief two-week ceasefire window was declared, but Israel launched 160 missiles into Lebanon hours late...

Megyn Kelly and Jessica Tarlov, unlikely voices of reason, both called out the reality that no ceasefire ever existed, while Fox and Friends quietly admitted on live television that none of the stated U.S. military objectives in Iran had been met. Meanwhile, the House and Senate remain on Easter recess. Mike Johnson and John Thune have not recalled their members. Congress is on vacation while the...

Hawk reacts to Fox News clips, including retired Army General Jack Keane and Fox and Friends host John Roberts, openly questioning whether any American objectives were achieved. Fox and Friends aired five of the six unmet U.S. military objectives on Trump's flagship morning show. Fox News reporter Trey Yingst reports live from Tel Aviv as the ceasefire was announced and bombs were still falling. L...

The denial collides directly with documented evidence. House Oversight Democrats released a 2002 email from Melania to Maxwell — addressed warmly as "Dear G" - referencing a New York magazine story about Epstein, the same article in which Donald Trump was quoted praising Epstein for liking women on the younger side. The email closes with "Love, Melania." Beyond the emails, there are over three mil...

Hawk also covers the ongoing Iran conflict, where Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon had repeatedly claimed total air dominance over Iran, only for Iranian forces to shoot down two US aircraft, requiring a dramatic rescue of a weapons systems officer after a firefight with Iranian troops. Hawk argues the drone and missile strikes on Venezuelan boats, where no victims have been identified by name or pro...

For the first time in polling history, American sympathy for Palestinians has surpassed sympathy for Israel. AIPAC, once a powerhouse lobbying organization, has become toxic in Democratic politics. Democratic candidates are being pressed to publicly disavow AIPAC and answer directly whether what happened in Gaza constitutes genocide. Many are fumbling that question, and voters are noticing. Netany...

The case centers on a July 4th, 2025 attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where a group of individuals armed with AR-15s and handguns opened fire on law enforcement, shooting a police officer in the neck. Two of the defendants actually fired weapons. The other six were convicted largely for wearing black, throwing fireworks, and holding anti-fascist beliefs. Hawk, a forme...

The Hassan Piker litmus test being pushed by Third Way president Jonathan Cowan includes a letter sent directly to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, pressuring him to cut ties with Piker before planned college campus rallies. Hawk calls out this move as a political threat from an unelected think tank trying to dictate who Democratic candidates are allowed to campaign with. The Bulwark colu...

The Trump administration fired over 300,000 federal employees, with Black women disproportionately represented among those let go. Pete Hegseth purged generals and military personnel. Kash Patel fired more than a thousand experienced FBI agents. Pam Bondi gutted the DOJ of over 6,400 people. The result: the very agencies Trump wanted to weaponize against his enemies are now too hollowed out to fun...

Hawk breaks down a clip from Steve Bannon's War Room featuring MAGA attorney Mike Davis, who repeatedly misrepresents what was actually before the court, falsely framing the case as being about undocumented immigrants and Chinese birth tourists rather than the actual constitutional question. Davis, who clerked for Neil Gorsuch and helped confirm both Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, is called out for...

Pam Bondi is out, making her the shortest-tenured confirmed attorney general in 60 years. Her portrait was photographed in a trash can at the DOJ the very next day. Todd Blanch, Trump's own criminal defense attorney from the 34-felony-count trial, is now acting attorney general. His first two official acts: declare that Trump can take classified documents when he leaves office, including war plans...

The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Iran has demonstrated it can close it and keep it closed. The US and Israel have no effective answer. The economic consequences are already rippling through Asia and Europe, with China and Russia emerging as the two clearest winners of this conflict. Retired General Mark Hertling, responding to Trump's recent speech, reportedly told his team they were all going...

Hawk covers Higgins's notorious record, including his conspiracy theories about January 6th, his claim that undercover FBI agents orchestrated the Capitol attack, and his attempt to get FBI Director Christopher Wray to confirm informants were planted in the crowd. Higgins remains the only member of Congress out of 428 to vote against the Epstein Files Transparency Act, where his stated goal was pr...

Hawk opens the morning from the West Coast, running on little sleep after earthquakes and a sick dog, with a rundown of overnight developments that paint a grim picture of where the country is headed. Gas hit $4.02 per gallon nationwide overnight, the highest since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a stark contrast to Trump's campaign promise to bring prices down on day one. The US reportedly...

Hawk lays out the growing conflict between AIPAC-funded Democrats and the progressive base they need to win the 2026 midterms. At the center of the story is Hasan Piker, a popular online media figure who connects with young voters, particularly young men, a demographic that broke heavily for Donald Trump in the last election. Despite that political reality, prominent Democrats including Cory Booke...

Trump claimed the US was in productive talks with Iran, but Iranian officials flatly denied any negotiations took place. The contradiction came within hours of Trump threatening to bomb Iranian civilian infrastructure, a move widely considered a war crime under international law. When the announcement hit, markets surged roughly a thousand points before dropping again once people realized the talk...

Iran launched a ballistic missile that traveled 4,000 kilometers, more than double the previously understood range of any Iranian ballistic missile, striking a British military base also housing American aircraft. That single launch signaled to Europe, Israel, and the United States that Iranian missiles can now reach population centers across the continent. The second and more alarming development...

Blanch claims the Trump DOJ and FBI have prosecuted more violent offenders and child predators in 14 months than during all four years of Biden's term, but Hawk points out that Pam Bondi has removed over 6,500 DOJ employees and Cash Patel has fired more than a thousand FBI agents, with a third of remaining agents reassigned to immigration enforcement without training. The numbers simply do not hol...

A federal judge has quashed two grand jury subpoenas issued by the DC U.S. Attorney's Office against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Hawk reads through the full 27-page ruling by Judge James Boesberg, unpacking the legal reasoning behind one of the most significant judicial rebukes of the Trump administration's weaponization of the criminal justice s...

Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullin, faced a confirmation hearing that left jaws on the floor. A multimillionaire who inherited his father's plumbing empire, received a PPP loan exceeding one million dollars that was later forgiven, and never served a single day in the United States military, Mullin has somehow found himself one step away...

Russia is actively sharing satellite imagery and upgraded Shahed drone technology with Iran, helping Iranian forces more effectively target US military assets in the region. While Trump continues his deference to Vladimir Putin, the US has eased sanctions on Russian oil sales to compensate for the Hormuz closure, inadvertently funneling an estimated $150 million per day into Russia's war economy i...

Hawk and Mr. Global discuss the Iran War and the global impact on Oil and Gas. A few more weeks of this could plunge the world into a global recession, and there is no end in sight at this point. Rumors of Iran placing mines in the Straight of Hormuz are running rampant, all governments are lying and making up false narratives to further their own political agendas and nobody can be trusted as a l...

Trump's DOJ purge has removed approximately 300 FBI agents, most of them counterterrorism and counter espionage specialists, since the start of the second term. Cash Patel fired 45 of them directly, while thousands more have left the broader DOJ, gutting decades of institutional knowledge and expertise. Former FBI agent and national security contributor Christopher Olirri calls it an "institutiona...