The Tom Sullivan Show

Trump told the Wall Street Journal exactly why he hired Bill Pulte to run American intelligence — fire a lot of people and dig into 2020 election files. No ambiguity. No reading between the lines. We take the President at his word today and examine what that means for the agencies keeping America safe. Maine's primary is Tuesday and the opposition research on Graham Platner is hitting hard. Betwee...

California used to have election results by the eleven o'clock news just like every other state. Now it takes days and possibly months and they think they are doing a great job. We explain what broke and why it matters for democratic trust. Four House Republicans voted for the War Powers Act to end the Iran war — a rare and notable break from Trump that now heads to the Senate for a showdown. And...

Scott Pelley spent months fighting his CBS bosses on his own broadcast and learned the oldest lesson in professional life the hardest possible way — do not bite the hand that feeds you. CBS fired him. Meanwhile a Republican is in first place in the California governor's race and yes we checked the calendar and yes this is real. The years of homelessness, crime, wildfires, and sky high gas prices u...

Iran's condition for coming back to the negotiating table is that Israel stops defending itself from Hezbollah. Not that Hezbollah stops attacking. Israel stops defending. Seriously. We break down what that demand actually tells us about Iran's real intentions. The $1.776 billion weaponization compensation fund has been paused after Congress from both parties pushed back hard. Six states vote toda...

Iran says negotiations are over. Trump says they are moving at a rapid pace. Both cannot be true and today we call it out directly. Meanwhile Iran is coordinating with the Houthis to block the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and choke off the Red Sea — a move that combined with Hormuz pressure could trigger a global shipping and energy crisis. Six primaries tomorrow and next week Maine votes on Graham Platne...

The Iran offer is on the table and Trump has to decide — take the deal that solves very little or walk away and face what comes next. We make both cases honestly today. Jill Biden's denial about seeing anything wrong with Joe has sparked a bigger reaction than almost anyone expected and the reason why matters. Blue Origin had a rocket blow up on the launching pad this week and Elon Musk just got a...

The Iran fighting may pause but do not call it a solution. The nuclear program is still running, the regime is still standing, and we just handed the most dangerous foreign policy problem in the world to the next president and the next generation. Classic Washington. DHS wants to eliminate Customs and Border Protection at major airports in blue states — a proposal so unworkable that even Sean Duff...

The President wants negotiations. Iran wants its nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz. Those two things cannot both be true at a negotiating table and yet here we are — stuck in a stalemate that neither side seems willing to break. Someone has to blink eventually. Our money is on — well, tune in and find out. In Texas Ken Paxton delivered a clear primary victory powered by Trump's endorsement...

CBS Radio — Edward R. Murrow's network, the Tiffany standard of American broadcast journalism — died Friday night at 99 years old without the farewell it earned. We give it that farewell today. Saturday a gunman was killed trying to shoot his way into the White House and the cameras caught something fascinating — one reporter dove for cover and another kept asking what the loud noise was. Two jour...

Tulsi Gabbard stepped down as Director of National Intelligence today for the most human of reasons — her husband has been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and family comes first. Full stop. We wish them both strength. But Washington does not pause and the question of who leads American intelligence next is urgent. Kevin Warsh was officially sworn in as Federal Reserve Chairman today inheriting...

Stephen Colbert signs off tonight and the math is simple — CBS lost forty million dollars a year on a show that chose political lectures over punchlines. America wants to laugh before bed, not fume. The $1.8 billion weaponization fund is now drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike. A no-bid contract to paint the reflecting pool and rejected ballroom funding are adding more fuel to the sp...

Tom Massie of Kentucky is the latest Republican congressman to discover that crossing President Trump in the primary era carries a career ending price. The voters have spoken in Kentucky and the message from the Trump political machine is as clear as it has ever been — loyalty is not optional.  A federal grand jury has handed down an indictment against Raul Castro — the former president of Cuba an...

The Energy Secretary just said Iran is weeks away from a nuclear bomb. The generals are done pretending negotiations are working. So what is Washington waiting for? Six states hold primaries today and every result will be scored as a Trump loyalty test. Then the DOJ announced a $1,776,000,000 compensation fund — that number is absolutely not an accident — for people harmed by the Biden administrat...

The national security meeting was scheduled. The attack plans were ready. Then Trump called it off — again. Is this masterful negotiating leverage or a president who praises his military but keeps finding reasons not to use it? At some point Iran stops believing the threat is real and that is a very dangerous place to be. Then Luigi Mangione was back in a New York courtroom today where a state jud...

The Beijing summit is over and the scorecard is empty. Great food. Lovely airport ceremonies. Zero agreements. Trump needed Iran help from China and left empty handed. Xi wanted movement on Taiwan and got none. The CEOs who tagged along for the trade mission are heading home with nothing to show for the trip. Meanwhile Republicans have been promising gas prices will drop like a rock since February...

Trump went to Beijing for Iran. Xi greeted him with Taiwan. Day one of the summit made one thing crystal clear — these two leaders are not on the same page and may not even be reading the same book. Xi was aggressive on Taiwan from the opening bell while Trump needs Chinese cooperation on Iran to break a military and diplomatic stalemate back home. Are these two issues even tradeable? Will day two...

Kevin Warsh just got confirmed as Fed Chairman and his first challenge is an inflation surge that is not slowing down — rates may go higher before they go lower. China is getting all the attention as a potential Iran dealmaker but do not count on Beijing to do Washington any favors. And the ban on Chinese cars? We have seen this story before. In the 1970s Detroit tried to block Japanese imports to...

China walks into the summit holding all the cards. Washington needs Beijing's help on Iran and Beijing knows it. The real currency on the table is not goodwill — it is semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and export controls. Everyone will smile for the cameras and pretend to be friends. The Iran war is not going anywhere until after this meeting concludes — which means Tehran gets more time a...

The media wants you terrified about hantavirus. The numbers say otherwise. We separate fact from fear. Trump called Iran's response garbage — so when does the military finally finish the mission it started and stopped too soon? AOC is growing a following that nobody should be laughing off anymore. We tell you exactly why she is worth watching very closely. And we cover the tragic and deliberate pl...

The President says Iran agreed. Iran says they didn't. And more people than ever are asking if Trump has simply lost his nerve on this war. Diplomacy with Tehran — a real strategy or just delay? Virginia's Supreme Court just threw out a congressional map voters approved and Democrats are furious. The Trade Court rejected the White House's replacement tariffs leaving the entire trade agenda in lega...

America was not always this divided. It started the day Ted Turner launched CNN and cable news chose sides forever. Before that Cronkite spoke and America listened together. Then CNN went left and Fox went right and here we are. Today we trace the origin of the divide and ask if it can ever be undone. Plus — Kuwait and Saudi Arabia just announced they will open their airspace and military bases to...

Project Freedom lasted less than 48 hours before the President hit pause. Is he looking for a way out of Iran or buying time before the bombs drop? His statement to Iran was equal parts threat and confusion — agree to what you agreed to or face an intense bombing campaign. Clear as mud. Meanwhile California held its governor's debate and nobody won. The Democratic candidates were flat, the big iss...

The IRGC will never sign a real deal — so why is the President still waiting to restart combat operations in Iran? In Indiana today Trump is backing primary challengers against Republican state senators who defied him on redistricting. The message is simple — cross Trump and pay the price. Oil prices are climbing, a global jet fuel shortage is spreading, and tonight California holds its governor's...

The great John Sterling, the voice of the New York Yankees since the 1980s, has passed away at 87. There will never be another one like him. We pay our respects to a broadcasting legend. Then — Spirit Airlines didn't die because of fuel prices. They were broke long before that and a slightly higher fare might have saved them. No bailout. Finally — Iran is firing missiles and attacking ships in the...

Spirit Airlines wants a taxpayer bailout — and the answer should be no. Oil and gas prices are rising again as the Iran standoff drags on and military advisors are growing louder about strikes. Can America's economy outlast Iran's pain before Washington is forced to act militarily? And on this May Day, over 3,000 anti-American protests funded by a two billion dollar machine are filling the streets...