The Mark Thompson Show

We’ll talk about Trump’s win in Iowa, how many Republicans didn’t vote and why he will have to change his approach going forward. The football game crushed the caucus on Monday night. It seems just like a lack of voters, there was also a general lack of interest overall. About 28.6 million viewers watched the the Tampa Bay Buccaneers thump the Philadelphia Eagles 32-9. Compare that to viewership o...

Trump wins the Iowa GOP caucuses. DeSantis edges out Haley to take second. Vivek Ramaswamy is throwing in the towel. But the results reflect a, so far, ignored fact that should worry Trump and his camp. Pulitzer winner, David Cay Johnston explains. Also, Boeing is in the middle of a scandal that affects public safety and it's of their own doing. Profit over people... We also welcome back our Jim A...

Help is too much to hope for in Texas. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the deaths of three migrants, a woman and two children, and said Border Patrol agents were prevented from assisting them at the border by Texas state officials. This comes just days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the only reason they don’t shoot migrants is because the Biden Administration would press charg...

A panel of federal judges is considering the matter of presidential immunity, but what about the court of public opinion? We’ll consider the results of a new poll on whether people think a president can pretty much do anything without fear of consequence or not. San Francisco is not in as good a place when it comes to jobs and the economy as New York City. That’s according to JPMorgan Chase CEO Ja...

Just moments before Chris Christie dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination for president, he was caught up in a hot microphone incident. He said Nikki Haley is going to get smoked by Trump and that she isn’t up for this. He also referenced a call with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. At the Trump rally last evening, the former president said he was proud of his role in overturning Roe v. Wade...

Now that Nikki Haley has emerged as a real contender in some GOP polls, Trump is shifting away from swiping at Ron DeSantis and is honing in on Haley. His campaign launched its first TV ads critical of Haley’s position on Immigration. Trump is also bringing back the birther conspiracy. and saying that because Haley’s parents were not both born in the United States, she is not qualified to be presi...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the Colorado ballot case after the state’s high court sided with a lower judge in ruling Trump ineligible for the 2024 GOP primary ballot due to the 14th Amendment Insurrection clause. President Trump threw down a warning - saying there will be “big trouble” if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor! Will the Supremes also decide whether Presidential Immunity...

A few months ago, Boeing put in a request for an exemption from key safety standards on the 737 MAX 7. It's the smallest of Boeing’s newest jets and as of yet uncertified. The move has sparked concerns because of recent problems with other Boeing Max airplanes. Case in point: the missing door plug that detached from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 plane was found in an Oregon teacher's backyar...

You read that right! At least $7.8 million in total payments from 20 countries went to Trump-owned businesses and properties while Trump was a sitting US president. The largest total payment came from the Chinese government and its state-controlled entities which spent more than $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office. Democrats say it poses new questions about poss...

Unsealed documents related to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are now public. The documents include hundreds of names, some of them his accusers, others those of politicians or people he did business with. This is the first set of documents to be unsealed under a court order. More documents are expected in the coming weeks. The Trump legal team is looking to get some huge questions answered...

Gold Bar Bob Menendez and his wife are already facing charges involving allegedly conspiring illegally for the Egyptian government. Now, new details are being added to the indictments alleging he may have also acted on behalf of Qatar in exchange for gold bars. It’s not a good time to be a woman in Texas. A federal appeals court panel says a 1986 emergency care law can’t be used. It would have req...

Mark is back from his holiday on the high seas and now officially settling back into the captain’s chair here at the Mark Thompson show! It’s a perfect day to welcome David Cay Johnston, our Pulitzer Prize winning author and political analyst, to the show. Political news is starting off hot in 2024. The Trump legal team is working overtime to come up with a zillion different reasons why he shouldn...

Two States are now saying no thank you to having an insurrectionist on the ballot. Colorado was the first to toss Trump off and now Maine has joined in. The California Secretary of State says the matter has to be taken to the courts before California would take this action. We are in new territory when it comes to how these decisions are being made. Michael Shure will stop by to talk about it. It’...

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley shocked some voters yesterday at a campaign stop in New Hampshire. She was asked about the cause of the Civil War. Her answer was that the government was managing freedoms and telling people what they could and could not do. Then she tried to turn the question around on the voter who was flabbergasted that Haley couldn’t bring herself to mention slavery...

US troops in the Middle East are facing new dangers. Three American service members were injured in a drone attack in Iraq. Threats to commercial shipping in the area are also putting US troops at risk. A CNN report indicates there are rising concerns that the Israel/Hamas war in Gaza could grow into a larger regional conflict. Is it party over for Vivek Ramaswamy? His campaign is cutting back spe...

The Mark Thompson Show Birthday Edition! Even though our revered founder is still making his way back to us, we celebrate his birthday in his absence ⭐️💐🎉🎈 why, it’s almost like Christmas part II. David Cay Johnston will be in to help us cover politics. We’ll look at the Trump Christmas Day rantings on social media. More importantly, we will dive into President Biden ordering the U.S. military...

You may remember John Schneider from the TV show the Dukes of Hazzard. Now, he may be remembered for what appears to be his threatening words on the Internet. His social media post is now deleted, but here’s what it said: “Mr President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung,” Schneider wrote to Biden. “Your son too.” We’ll talk about that and the emergence of yet another...

The Colorado Supreme Court voted 4-3 yesterday to take Donald Trump’s name off the 2024 primary ballot. The judges say he’s disqualified from being president because of the 14th Amendment clause banning a person from state or federal office who took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution but “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or gave “aid or comfort to insurrectionists. The ruling is stayed u...

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is rising in GOP primary polling and garnering interest as a good alternative to Donald Trump. New polling in New Hampshire done by CBS News/YouGov collected data from potential Republican primary voters. The poll shows 29 percent said they’d vote for Haley compared to 44 percent who said they would for Trump. However, her numbers are rising and if other...

Is Trump taking a page from the Hitlarian playbook? Between his recent vermin comments and his speech this weekend where he said “immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country,” the language he’s using evokes a frightening time in world history. Why is it not giving more people pause? Oh the hypocrisy! A Florida couple, well known in ultra conservative circles, finds themselves in some trouble...

While Senators are pushing back the holiday break and staying in DC to work on President Biden’s emergency funding bill, House members are not. The GOP led House won’t return until January 9th. That means critical military and financial assistance to Ukraine will be delayed. Michael Shure will discuss the possibility that this is a waiting game tactic. Albert is collecting a treasure trove of wild...

House Republicans have formally authorized their impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. While disarray in the party has prevented them from getting things done in recent weeks, Republicans pulled together for a vote seemingly rooted in revenge. Hunter Biden says he will not testify at a private hearing and will only comply with a congressional subpoena if he can appear publicly. He says it’s...

New revelations about the record setting baseball contract between superstar Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers have many people wondering why he didn’t choose the San Francisco Giants. One day after the Dodgers announced the $700M deal, Farhan Zaidi, SF Giants president of baseball operations, revealed that Ohtani’s representatives presented the exact deal to San Francisco and the Giants w...

The special council prosecuting the federal election interference case against Donald Trump is now asking the Supreme Court to quickly rule on whether or not presidential immunity applies in this case. We will discuss it and so much more with our friend, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author David Cay Johnston. Then, it’s special treat with ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. Jake is on tour...