FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

5️⃣ The Dictator Holds Court Donald Trump’s first full cabinet meeting played out like a scene from Pyongyang, with sycophantic praise from every corner of the room while the president fell asleep three times, rambled incoherently for seven minutes, and sat with hands visibly caked in makeup. Dean Blundell described it best: “Trump’s cabinet meeting was a 47-car pileup, and he was driving all 47 c...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by Ground News — FiveStack viewers get 40% off. Click the button below to access the discount. Malcolm Nance read Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution live on air: "Congress shall have the power to declare treason. That means a new Congress next January could declare treason.” And that’s how the Treason Ticket was born - Every Democrat running in 2026 should...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by Ground News — FiveStack viewers get 40% off. Click the button below to access the discount. BREAKING: NTSB FIRST PRESSER AFTER AIR CANADA CRASH The NTSB revealed today that the deadly collision at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night was caused by an overlapping series of systemic failures. Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a CRJ-900 carrying 72 passengers from Mo...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by Ground News — FiveStack viewers get 40% off. Click the button below to access the discount. BREAKING: Two Pilots Dead at LaGuardia An air traffic controller at LaGuardia Airport cleared a Port Authority fire truck onto an active runway at 11:40 PM Sunday, then screamed “stop” at least ten times as Air Canada Express Flight 8646 barreled in from Montreal at 15...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by Ground News — FiveStack viewers get 40% off. Click the button below to access the discount. 5️⃣ Bari Weiss Kills CBS News Radio After nearly a century on the air, CBS News Radio is dead. Bari Weiss announced she’s shutting down the division Edward R. Murrow built and laying off 6 percent of the CBS newsroom, with 700 affiliated stations given two months to fi...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by Ground News — FiveStack viewers get 40% off. Click the button below to access the discount. 5️⃣ Trump’s Pearl Harbor Clanger Donald Trump invoked the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor at a White House press conference Thursday — while Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stood beside him. A Japanese reporter asked why the U.S. didn’t warn allies before attacking...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. 5️⃣ SAVE ACT: TRUMP RIGS MIDTERMS LIVE The Senate spent today in marathon debate on the SAVE America Act — a bill Trump says will “guarantee the midterms.” It requires documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, affecting 21 million Americans who don’t have easy access to those documents...

ZEV SHALEV AND DEAN BLUNDELL MARCH 17, 2026 5️⃣ Israel Kills the Exit Israel killed Ali Larijani overnight — Iran’s de facto leader since U.S.-Israeli strikes wiped out the upper echelons of the Iranian government on February 28, and by all accounts the most pragmatic figure left in Tehran with the credibility to negotiate. The Israeli military also confirmed the killing of Gholamreza Soleimani, t...

Before the countdown, breaking news: White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, with Trump announcing it on Truth Social just before noon. She plans to work from the White House full-time during treatment, raising immediate questions about who is steering the ship during a war with no exit strategy and a president who spent the weekend threatening rep...

5️⃣ DOJ Pregames the Midterm Steal The Justice Department has sued 29 states and Washington D.C. demanding unredacted voter rolls — driver’s licenses, partial Social Security numbers, all of it. They’ve lost in California, Michigan, and Oregon. Now they’re appealing. And buried in those emergency motions is the sentence that tells you exactly what this is really about: “Absent a final court determ...

5️⃣ DOGE Bros Can’t Define DEI Under Oath Viral deposition clips this week showed DOGE staffers testifying under oath about how they gutted America’s government — and it was worse than anyone imagined. A GSA-embedded staffer admitted the team used ChatGPT to generate a “Yes/No DEI?” column to decide which National Endowment for the Humanities grants to kill, then wiped their tracks by conducting a...

5️⃣ Kahn Names Epstein’s Five Clients Jeffrey Epstein’s personal accountant Richard Kahn sat for a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee today and confirmed the names of the five clients who paid money directly to Jeffrey Epstein: Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, the Rothschilds, and Leon Black. Democratic Congressman Suhas Subramanyam told reporters Kahn confirmed t...

This episode of The FiveStack is brought to you by Ground News — the app we use every day to find the stories that matter. Get 40% off the Vantage plan at groundnews.com/fivestack or just click this button. 5️⃣ Iran War Day 11: 140 Wounded, 7 Dead The Pentagon confirmed 140 American service members wounded, eight severely, with seven dead on Day 11 of the Iran war. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth p...

5️⃣ Khamenei’s Son Takes Power Iran’s Assembly of Experts, 88 clerics in total, did not hesitate for a single minute in naming Mustafa Khamenei, 56, as the country’s new Supreme Leader — one week after a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike killed his father, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with his mother and brother. Mustafa was already considered more hardline than his father before the assassination...

5️⃣ Bloomberg Reveals Secret DEA Probe of Epstein Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold dropped a bombshell: the DEA opened a secret investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2015 centered on money laundering, drug trafficking, and procuring Eastern European women for high-profile clients. The probe grew out of Operation Chain Reaction, a long-running investigation targeting associates of the Genovese crime famil...

Lev Parnas announced he is running for Congress in Florida’s 27th District, and he joined me on the FiveStack to lay out his case. The former Trump insider who helped build MAGA told the FiveStack he’s the only candidate in any race who actually knows Trump’s inner circle from the inside — Pam Bondi, Corey Lewandowski, the whole operation. “I helped build MAGA, and I’m the only one that knows how...

5️⃣ Iran War Day 4: Holy War The United States is four days into an unauthorized war against Iran and the numbers keep climbing — the actual American death toll may be far higher than the six the Pentagon has confirmed, with embassies in Riyadh and Kuwait City shuttered and no U.S. diplomatic presence left in the Middle East. Iran has retaliated against at least eight Arab states. But the most ala...

The FiveStack threw out the playbook today, dedicating the full hour to former Congressman and military intelligence expert Denver Riggleman for a war special on Day 3 of the Iran conflict. Four U.S. service members dead, three F-15Es downed by friendly fire from Kuwait, the U.S. Embassy hit, nine countries under Iranian attack — and an administration that, as Riggleman put it, is “confused and in...

Today’s show opened with breaking news : former President Bill Clinton testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center. Clinton’s opening statement — “I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong” — set the stage for what Zev called “one of the most important days in the Epstein investigation,” noting that Epstein likely targeted Clinton as an intelligen...

BREAKING NEWS : Hillary Clinton testified behind closed doors today before the House Oversight Committee in Chappaqua, New York, with Bill Clinton set for tomorrow. Clinton demanded the hearing be public, telling Chairman Comer, “If you want this fight, let’s have it in public.” Comer refused. Then Rep. Lauren Boebert broke committee rules by passing a photo from the closed-door deposition to cons...

Hours before Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address, the Epstein case detonated on multiple fronts — and the FiveStack brought Denver Riggleman and Lev Parnas along for a special prime time broadcast to cover it all live. NPR confirmed what Roger Sollenberger first reported on Substack: the Trump Justice Department has withheld or removed 53 pages of FBI interviews with women who ac...

Lord Peter Mandelson — one of the most powerful figures in British political history — was arrested today at his London home, led out in handcuffs by plainclothes police officers. The charge: misconduct in public office for allegedly leaking sensitive government documents to Jeffrey Epstein while serving as Gordon Brown’s business secretary. Police raided his mansion near Regent’s Park and a secon...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: SCOTUS STRIKES DOWN TARIFFS The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Donald Trump never had the authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Gorsuch, Barrett, and the three liberal justices, held that IEEPA does not grant the president the power to set tariffs — and no president in the law’s half-century history ever...

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor this morning was not telegraphed to the palace beforehand, but a profound shift in royal power to Prince William is what allowed it to happen. Months before Thames Valley Police showed up at Wood Farm on the King’s Sandringham estate to arrest Andrew on his 66th birthday, a showdown inside the royal family had already sealed his fate. William demanded Andre...

Today’s FiveStack broke format to go deep on the Epstein network with investigative journalist Ellie Leonard of The Panicked Writer on Substack. What emerged was a devastating portrait of a criminal enterprise hiding in plain sight — and the Commerce Secretary sitting at its center. 5️⃣ Lutnick’s Nanny Problem Ellie Leonard uncovered a previously unreported email in the Epstein files from Richard...