Trump's Iran Meltdown Was Worse Than You Think & The TSA Crisis Now Has An ICE Problem

just tackled out of his latest threat to obliterate Iran's energy infrastructure and didn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but he also only pushed the deadline back by five days. And if he does decide to follow through, the consequences could be catastrophic. and it's also not clear that we can count on another taco, especially as he may be getting just more and more desperate with each unsuccessful effort to clean up the mess he created. He's repeatedly demanded that American allies that he's spent most of his presidency threatening and berating, risk the lives of their own troops by escorting commercial ships through the Strait, men responding to their repeated refusal to do so by continuing to threaten and berate them, including on Friday when you had him writing on social media without the USA. NATO is a paper tiger. complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don't want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. so easy for them to do with so little risk. Cowards. And we will remember. of course, it's not so easy. right. If it was, why would the US need NATO help? in fact, Trump has claimed more than once that the US doesn't even need NATO's help, even while continuing to complain about not getting NATO's ends in the meantime, to try and keep a handle on the rising prices. He's been handing out gifts to U. S. adversaries, including the one he started this war against This weekend, the Trump administration lifted sanctions on some 140 million barrels of Iranian oil already loaded onto vessels. and that coming a week after the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil already at sea in a couple of days after the easing of sanctions on companies in Belarus, a key Russian ally often called Europe's last dictatorship. so all of that, it's why you have people like Brett Erickson, a consultant specializing in financial crimes and sanctions, telling The Washington Post, two countries that we've spent years sanctioning are now the direct beneficiaries of a conflict. The United States chose to start. United States has spent years building sanctions architecture specifically designed to constrict Russia and Iran. Within three weeks of this conflict starting, we're tearing it to shreds. but also with us. You had Trump claiming on Friday that his administration was actually getting, quote, very close to meeting its objectives as it considers winding down its great military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the terrorist regime of Iran and adding, the Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed as necessary by other nations who use it. The United States does not. asked, we will help these countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn't be necessary. Once Iran's threat is eradicated. importantly, it will be an easy military operation for them. then with that. Well, Trump claimed that the US was winding down its operations in the region. The military was actually ramping up attacks against Iranian drones and naval vessels in its latest effort to unblock the Strait of Hormuz. not to mention there are thousands more U. S. troops on their way, possibly to take part in a ground operation aimed at that objective. then a day later, Trump only added to the confusion by writing in another post, if Iran doesn't fully open without threat, the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plans, starting with the biggest one first. and notably, this came as strikes on energy infrastructure had already accelerated last week after Israel launched a major attack on the Iranian section of the largest natural gas field in the world. a move which led to Iran retaliating against other oil and gas facilities in the Gulf states, including the world's largest liquefied natural gas production facility in Qatar, further threatening global energy supplies and driving up fuel prices. and then you had Trump threatening to blow up the entirety of that gas field if Iran attack Qatar again. Right. He also claimed that the US knew nothing about the initial Israeli strike ahead of time, even though multiple outlets reported otherwise. then Iran's foreign minister threatened to do even more damage if Trump followed through, saying that his country would show zero restraint. If our infrastructures are struck again. and so in response to Trump's latest threat, you had Iranian officials striking a similar tone. row with a military spokesperson vowing that his country would strike infrastructure used by Israel, the US and American allies, including fuel, energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure, and adding that the Strait of Hormuz would be completely closed until any damaged Iranian power plants were rebuilt. then also had Iran's speaker of parliament warning that infrastructure and energy and oil facilities across the region will be considered legitimate targets and will be destroyed irreversibly, and oil prices will rise for a long time, and then he also threatened to target buyers of U. S. Treasury bonds, saying that financial entities financing the American military budget were legitimate targets. so with all that, you had Iran spending the weekend showing that it has not been defeated yet. right. Attacks continued against American allies in the Gulf with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE all reporting that they intercepted drone and missile attacks over the weekend. we also saw Iranian strikes increasingly testing the limits of Israel's air defense systems. Friday, for example, a missile fragment hit near holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City and injured several people. and on Saturday, two Iranian missile struck cities in southern Israel and wounded around 180 people, including a 12 year old boy and a five year old girl, who were both reported to be in serious condition. and you had Iranian state linked media saying that the strikes were carried out in response to alleged attacks by the U. S. and Israel on nuclear facilities in Iran. then also, like a big thing with these strikes on Israel is they hit near the country's main nuclear research facility in reactor, which is meant to be one of the best protected sites in the country. so the fact that two missiles made it through, it's raised questions about how effective Israel's air defenses are going to continue to be, especially the longer this war drags on. because so far you have the military claiming to have intercepted more than 90% of Iran's ballistic missiles and that, maybe largely thanks to something called the arrow three and anti-ballistic missile system developed by Israel in the US. but Israeli media reported that the arrow three wasn't deployed against the missiles that injured so many people this weekend. and so there are concerns that the military is starting to more aggressively conserve its stockpile of these interceptors, which are extremely costly and time consuming to produce. I will say that the military has denied recent reports that it was running out of missile

interceptors, saying that it had prepared for a prolonged combat. but also you had a former commander of Israel's air and missile defense forces telling the New York Times, it's not a bottomless barrel. When we intercept, we also have to think of the next day's battle. And with that, a high ranking Israeli defense official reportedly traveled to Washington this month to ask for more interceptors and munitions. And it's not clear whether the U. S. agreed to provide more, there were also, in the meantime, another way that Iran has been trying to get around Israel's air defenses is through the use of what are known as cluster munitions, have these warheads that burst and scatter into small bombs, meaning that if they're intercepted, some of those smaller bombs can still escape and continue their descent. Israel, they can try to intercept those two, but it is hard to hit every single one, every single time which we seemingly saw yesterday when an Iranian missile dropped cluster munitions in central Israel and injured 15 people. with that right, the use of cluster munitions, especially in populated areas, it may violate the laws of war due to the potential for indiscriminate harm to civilians. In fact, the U. S. and Israel have condemned Iran's use of the weapons. For that reason. actually, since 2008, more than 100 countries have signed an international agreement to ban though I will say, notably, nobody involved in this conflict, including the U. S. and Israel as well as Iran has signed that agreement. Nor have any major powers like Russia, China and India. S. actually use cluster munitions in Afghanistan and other conflicts as well as supplied the weapons to Ukraine, despite concerns over how they might be used, with that, you know, Russia, they also use cluster munitions during the war there in Israel. They use them in the past wars, including in Lebanon in 2002 and allegedly more recently as well. that's on top of how right now they've also been accused of using something called white phosphorus in residential areas in Lebanon, which could similarly be illegal due to the potential for indiscriminate civilian harm. actually on that note, the Israeli invasion on its own on Lebanon, it has killed over a thousand and displaced more than a million, according to the Lebanese government. the IDF chief of staff saying on Sunday that its campaign had only just begun. And that's as the country's defense minister revealed that he had ordered the military to step up its destruction of bridges and houses in the southern part of the country. even suggesting that they would follow methods that they deployed in Gaza. but to stick with Iran for now. In addition to attacking Israel, it's also believed to have fired two missiles at a joint American British military base in the Indian Ocean with one missile failing mid-flight and the other getting shot down by an American warship. the reason that this could be absolutely game changing is we're talking about this happening 3000 miles away from Tehran, Right. Iran had previously said that it intentionally kept the range of its missiles below 1250 miles because it didn't want to be felt as a threat by anyone else in the world. so if that was a lie or something has changed, it means that many more European countries and U. S. military bases in them are potential targets. that said, I do want to say it's not clear how far such an attack could truly reach since neither missile reached its target and it's not even clear that the missiles carried a payload which would have let them travel further by weighing less. and Iran has actually denied that it fired the missiles, accusing the Israeli government of staging it as a false flag operation. but it is something we need to keep an eye on because the questions here are also connected to other questions or claims. right. Things like claims from Trump and others that Iran, they had the ability to directly attack the U. S and that the attack was imminent. But also if they had this ability, they weren't using the ability. but all in all, with everything that we've talked about, what we do know, what's still questionable, what is known is that the Iranian regime, they're not done fighting, so Trump he follows through on his threat. Iran may follow through on theirs. And the fallout with that. It could be massive. right. Because currently not all but most of the impact on oil prices and everything tied to that come down to the Strait of Hormuz. and if that reopens, the situation could potentially stabilize relatively quickly, the relatively is the key word there, since you already have people like the head of the International Energy Agency warning that no matter what, recovery is going to take some time at this point. it's also, as he called the war in Iran, the biggest threat to global energy security in history. Worse than the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 combined. but also the widespread damage to energy or civilian infrastructure. It would make that impact far greater and much longer lasting. which is why some seeing this whole situation as a massive wake up call of yet another reason to shift to renewable energy. but that shift, it's not taking place fast enough to offset these impacts. If it gets worse. then with all that said, this morning you had Trump appearing to back down, writing in a social media post, I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had, over the last few days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. and adding, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions, them, then telling reporters that the US and Iran had very strong talks and would continue them by phone today. also claiming Steve Whitcomb and Jared Kushner were leading the talks for the US, and we're dealing with a top person in Iran. Except he wouldn't say who that was, only that it wasn't the supreme leader. then with that, you had Iran publicly pushing back on the idea that there's been any real progress toward ending the war, or with Iran's foreign ministry claiming Trump's comments were just meant to reduce energy prices and to buy time for implementing his military plans and adding, yes, there have been initiatives from regional countries to reduce tensions, and our response to all of them is clear we are not the party that started this war and all such requests should be directed to Washington. also reportedly at a senior security official arguing that Trump pulled back his threat to hit Iranian infrastructure after Iran's military threats became credible. Saying there have been no negotiations and there are none underway. and in the meantime, Iran's only stepped up their own threats, warning Trump against a possible boots on the ground effort.

the country's Defense Council saying in a statement, any attempt to attack Iran's coasts or islands will cause all access routes in the Gulf to be mined with various types of sea mines, including floating mines that can be released from the coast. And saying, in this case, the entire Gulf will practically be in a situation similar to the Strait of Hormuz for a long time. ultimately, Trump may just be backing himself further and further into a corner every day. with him, seemingly surrounded by yes man and sycophants, with the world's most powerful military at his disposal, and with so far no meaningful pushback in Congress, who's to say if you'll Taco again? but also while we wait to see what happens there, his administration's latest moves on the domestic side, they're also prompting some serious outcry. Right now, Atlanta security lines are stretching for hours. And Houston nearly half TSA workers called out on Friday. And Trump solution send Ice agents to airports. agents who aren't trained to run X-ray machines, screen baggage, or basically do anything the TSA does. his own borders are admitted that they're mostly going to be guarding doors and checking IDs. though, is transportation Secretary says they will run the X-ray machines because they're under Homeland security with TSA. so they also can't even agree on what these agents are actually going to be doing. then you also have Trump specifically saying they'd be arresting undocumented immigrants with a heavy emphasis on those from Somalia. and then in the meantime, two pilots just died at LaGuardia, and there's still no deal to end the shutdown. Peter, starting with the TSA crisis, we've been covering it extensively, but it just keeps getting worse. Workers aren't getting paid. They're calling out to work jobs that will actually put food on the table. And security lines at airports are backed up for hours. you have both sides trying to blame each other, Republicans blaming Democrats because they won't pass DHS funding without Ice reform. but also, you're seeing more and more people blaming Republicans and specifically Trump, because they're seeing that the Democrats, they want to fund TSA, they've even tried to but Trump ordered Republicans to refuse any deal unless the Save America Act gets passed. and so with the TSA funding specifically, even though it seems pretty much like a fact, I'll frame this as an opinion. I'll let you be the judge. But this very much looks like it's the Republicans. Paul. Oh, wow. We've got no end in sight. This shutdown could stretch well into April. meanwhile, you're seeing things like Elon Musk offered a pizza salaries himself during the shutdown, which would run about $40 million a week. But rather than do that or some other thing, Trump announced that he was sending in. with Trump posting on Monday, Ice will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA agents who have stayed on the job, despite the fact that the radical left Democrats are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long agreed to. and while that already was heavily disputed, what really set off the alarm bells was when he said that Ice agents would, quote, do security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who have come into our country with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia. it's yeah, it really doesn't seem like this is actually about fixing security lines or helping TSA. This is about turning airports into immigration enforcement zones. Oh, wow. The biggest bottlenecks in airport security are specialized tasks like running X-ray machines, screening baggage, stuff that requires specific TSA training, stuff that Ice agents don't know how to do. that's why you're seeing people like John Sanogo, former acting Ice director, saying, find it hard to say operationally, there's any basis to do this other than to use Ice again as a political wedge to try to put pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown. think that's what this is all about. you also had borders. Tom Homan acknowledging the agents don't have the expertise, and they'd likely guard exit doors and check IDs, calling it a force multiplier. That would free up actual TSA agents to go back to screening. but again, you then had Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy going on the record saying that Ice agents would know how to run the X-ray machines because they're, quote, under Homeland Security with TSA, which. I will say it's different, but it's also kind of like saying a firefighter can perform plastic surgery because they're both in the medical field. but easily. The bigger thing here is that the administration can even agree on whether Ice agents or door guards or machine operators. and then with all this, you with the mayor of Atlanta announcing that agents would be at Hartsfield-Jackson this morning for line management and crowd control, which I guess we're going to find out about in real time how that goes. then with all of this. You're seeing people like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling it disturbing and saying that Ice agents who are untrained and have caused problems everywhere they've gone lurking at our airports, that's asking for trouble. also House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries saying that it was the last thing that the American people need and adding, we've already seen how Ice conducts itself. these are untrained individuals when it comes to doing the current job that they have for the most part, let alone deploying them in close exposure in highly sensitive situations. At airports across the country. and then on top of all this other airport chaos, you had a deadly crash at LaGuardia last night. That's adding even more stress to the system. right. An Air Canada Express plane collided with a fire and rescue truck on the runway with both pilots being killed, 41 people being taken to the hospital, 39 from the aircraft and two Port Authority officers from the truck. while your sources saying that there is no indication of foul play or terrorism, of course the NTSB is investigating. that to be clear with this, right, this is not connected to the shutdown, Air traffic controllers are they're not part of the group that's going on paid right now. but of course it adds to the craziness around air travel right now. And with that, LaGuardia was shut down following the crash, a full ground stop until at least 2 p. m. today. the then connecting to everything we've been talking about. Every traveler who can't fly out of LaGuardia is now going to other airports, joining those massive security lines. And walking past Ice agents in the terminal. right. And so with all this, let me kind of condensed into two final things. As far as where we are of TSA workers not being paid. The president rejected a deal that would have fixed it as responses than to deploy immigration agents who can't do the job with specific instructions to arrest undocumented immigrants, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia. His own officials can't agree on what agents will actually do there.

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That's mint mobile. com/defranco. but then diving right back into the news, if you need a favor from the Trump administration, all you got to do, apparently, is call up DHS and they will have your back, even if that means deporting your ex-girlfriend. or just ask Paolo is and Polly, this former modeling agent who goes way, way back with Donald Trump. Because the way the story goes is he introduced the future president, Melania, at a party in 1998 at the Kit-Kat club. He got her a visa and attended their wedding. with them, quickly bonded with Trump over what he called their common interest. Beautiful things. I should also mention that another thing they have in common is they are both in the Epstein files, simply. And Epstein once discussed buying a modeling agency together. And, in fact, Zamboni's own wife came to the United States aboard Epstein's plane as a 17 year old Brazilian model. name was Amanda, Gatto. And she'd have a romantic relationship with the then 32 year olds. And over the next two decades, And in the meantime, they kept close with the Trumps, attending Mar-A-Lago parties, with the Poli working for Donald Trump and real estate, joining the board at the Kennedy Center during Trump's first term, and becoming the special representative for global partnerships during his second term. reportedly, Melania would even send birthday wishes and presents to the couple's son, who's about to become a very important character for this story. Because by 2023, Ungaro was reportedly fed up with all these parties full of young women and his lewd text with an apparent sex worker. so she dumped him. She moved to Florida, she married another guy, and her son came to live with her, sparking a custody battle. But then last June, Ungaro and her husband were arrested on charges of fraud, practicing medicine without a license and other crimes related to their business, which was a medical spa. now the husband ended up getting out on bond because he had a green card. But, Guero, her visa expired in 2019. With her telling the New York Times that she had been let on for years by Sam Poli, who repeatedly promised her marriage and citizenship. And then he reenact. so according to the times, he saw an opportunity here to win his custody battle and he pounced, first, reportedly seeking help from Corey Lewandowski. Right. That top aide to Kristi Noem at DHS. And that's all he is to her. and how dare anyone insinuate otherwise? But, they got no response. But then he called up David Van Thrilla, top ice official, and he reportedly explained that his ex-girlfriend was here illegally, and detaining her could help him get his son back. Venezuela, apparently, before reportedly calling the agency's Miami office to make sure that agents picked up Ungaro from jail before she was bailed out. with him, reportedly noting that the case was important to someone close to the white House. and just like that, Ungaro was taken into custody and deported. no, both the ins and Polly, they deny that she was deported as any sort of favor. And either way, it is possible, if not likely, that she would have been picked up by ice anyway. but we'll never actually know. And so it's just wild to see yet another example of Trump's law enforcement allegedly being used like a personal problem solving for us, whether it's at airports and blue cities or in favors for friends plus it's reflective of a broader trend in the way that the administration treats parents like, Guero. According to ProPublica, Trump started detaining and arresting immigrant parents with U. S. citizen children twice as often as Biden did. with the feds scooping up the parents of at least 11,000 citizen children over just the first seven months. so that means that if they kept up that pace, it'll be roughly double that number by now. So about 22,000 parents. And that's likely an undercount also for whatever reason, they've especially gone after mother is reportedly deporting about four times as many moms of citizen children per day as Biden did. and if you're one of those parents who gets arrested, you're much less likely to be let go than you were before. because, well, about 38% of these cases ended in deportation under Biden. Under Trump, that number is shot up to almost 60%. as many experts have noted that that's not because they're the worst of the worst. Like Trump promised. right, over half of the fathers. And about three quarters of the moms had no criminal convictions in the United States except for trafficker immigration related offenses. the polling showing that, you know, more and more people are asking things like, why are these people being forcibly separated from their kids for what, a speeding ticket? but also none of these numbers should be too surprising. We know that immigration agents have been pressured to get those arrest numbers up as high as possible. and in fact, Trump's people even changed the name of the document containing guidelines for how to handle parents from the Parental Interest Directive to the Detained Parents Directive. and they also remove the word humane from its preamble on how to handle immigrant parents. But then actually, the final thing that I want to talk about today is that I. Political ads are already messing with the midterms, and we are still months out.

Among other things, you had a Republican committee posting a deepfake of a Democratic Senate candidate reading his own tweets. Video that looks completely real with nothing but a barely visible watermark, disclosing that it's fake. also, another candidate posted an AI generated version of a sitting governor, his voice saying things that she never said and called it a parody. oh, while I companies, they pledged $265 million in super PAC money to punish any lawmaker who tries to regulate so let's talk about what's happening, who's doing it and why. Nobody's stopping it. now, one of the most recent situations that actually hit Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, the Democratic nominee, where this month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee posted an AI generated video showing Talarico sitting at a desk reading his old tweets out loud and commenting on them. Oh, I remember this one. Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country. White man. So true. Oh, this one is touching. Over and over. Christians use scripture to justify bullying trans kids. I told them in my faith that God is non-binary. so the old tweets, those are real. The video. It's not a Talarico. Never read them on camera. He never provided that commentary that the whole thing was generated to make him look too extreme for conservative voters. there's no big bold disclaimer, no verbal disclaimer, just a faint watermark in the corner noting that it's I you'd really only see it if you were looking for it. But the Republican Senatorial Committee, they say, hey, they did nothing wrong. A source close to the group telling CNN that they just visualize Talarico words, saying they used a modern tool within all legal and ethical parameters. but also it's not just Talarico. This is happening across the country. also in the Texas Senate race, Republican Ken Paxton posted a fake video of fellow Republican John Cornyn dancing with Jasmine Crockett, meant to make him look too cozy with Democrats. in Massachusetts, a Republican candidate running against Governor Maura Healey put out a radio spot using an AI generated version of her voice, saying things that she never said. right. And that ad was framed as what her ads quote might sound like if she was honest. so you had the fake Healey saying We have accomplished so much in our first term. We have one of the highest electricity rates in the nation. Thanks to me for slapping on excessive fees to fund my climate agenda. she never said any of that though the campaign that put this out defended it as parody and as a creative and fun way to educate voters. also the Massachusetts state race representative posted in I generated newspaper front page showing his opponent holding hands with Zoran Mamdani, designed to paint him as a radical leftist. so with all this, you're seeing people like the CEO of advertising firm DZ political saying time generative AI is used to create messaging or imagery that is misleading, I hope we can all agree that's a negative thing. you're trying to be deceitful or have something that never existed, that's a big issue. in the pursuit of being fair here, I'm going to note that Democrats have used AI in political ads as well. This is not exclusive to Republican tactics, but easily the, the highest profile cases right now they are overwhelmingly coming from the right. you have some saying of the, the biggest reason that this is just getting worse and worse is that the most powerful person in the country is doing it constantly, Trump uses AI to attack opponents, promote his agenda and stoke political flames. And, you know, reports have found that his use of technology has eroded public trust with people genuinely just not knowing what's real anymore. even had a New York Times tech reporter, Tiffany Sue, putting it this way, the president sets the political tone, then candidates could be less cautious about tapping the technology. Their calculus might be that the public is becoming increasingly desensitized. Ice reality distortion effect. they're already being bombarded with fake influencers, fake celebrities, fake war reporting. What's another fake politician? is. The general argument is that when the president treats deepfakes as just another tool, it gives everyone else permission to do the same. let's set some states a move to regulate political deepfakes requiring disclosure when AI's used or restricting how it can be deployed in campaign ads. just last week you had Trump introducing a legislative framework that would limit states ability to regulate AI across the board. creates a single national policy covering child safety, intellectual property, free speech and data centers, on paper, like a number of things. That sounds reasonable, but in practice, many believe that whatever Trump proposes, it's not going to go far enough and that a national standard, it could actually undo the stronger protections that states have already built. Trump is definitely not alone in trying to keep AI unregulated. AI companies have pledged $265 million for super PACs ahead of the midterms, according to the Wall Street Journal. a lot of that money is focused on congressional race in New York, where millions have been spent in attack ads against the candidate by the name of Alex. Boris. no reports have noted that the attack ads have actually raised Boris's profile, this kind of spending can work Rick. Crypto groups, they spent big money to get Trump into office, and that paid off. it as is often the case with AI, this is a space that we're going to have to keep watching right? The technology is cheap. It takes minutes to use. There's barely any enforcement, though. The president does it. And the companies building the tools are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure that nobody regulates them. that's the environment heading into the midterms. Voters are going to see videos of candidates saying things they never said, hear audio of politicians making statements they never made, and read fabricated headlines designed to look real. the disclosures where they even exist, they're going to be tiny watermarks and corners that nobody reads. And so one of the big questions that voters are going to have to ask themselves every single time they see a political ad between now and November is, is this real? because seemingly a lot of the people that are making these ads, they are counting on you not asking. when I say you, it's probably not even really you. It's, the rest of America. think the large majority of you have at least a healthy amount of skepticism. Some, more than even me. in the meantime, whether it's this final story or anything that stood out to you today, I'd love to know your thoughts, reactions, opinions, anything in those comments down below.

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