Plus, the panel seems at how $40 million in gold bars ended up in a CIA worker’s basement, the administration’s plan to place Donald Trump’s visage on a particular $250 invoice commemorating the variety of years since 1776, and shares their picks for this week’s “You Can not Be Critical?!” roundup of absurd tales.
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00:00 — Opening: California Primaries: Governor and LA Mayor
Walworth, Cannon, and Bevan focus on the most recent polling forward of subsequent Tuesday’s California primaries, together with the races for governor and Los Angeles mayor, and what the outcomes might reveal about voter sentiment within the state.
RCP Common: 2026 Los Angeles Mayor Open Main (June 2)
RCP Common: 2026 California Governor – Open Main (June 2)
Does Spencer Pratt actually have an opportunity in LA? “It should be powerful for Mayor Bass to win reelection. She’s the incumbent mayor, polling at 25%, and operating in opposition to a socialist no person ever heard of on town council, and a actuality TV star who’s run some good advertisements,” Carl Cannon mentioned. “That does not look good.”
On the governor’s race, California native Carl Cannon added: “Polymarket final evening had Becerra at 69% to be the following governor and Tom Steyer at 20%. Steve Hilton was solely 9%. It would not seem like Steyer is even going to make the runoff. So, that is what the betting markets take into consideration how onerous it’s for a Republican to win in Los Angeles or statewide in California.”
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10:17 — Key Moments in Michigan Dems Debate
The panel breaks down final evening’s Democratic debate in Michigan’s U.S. Senate main, trying on the candidates’ performances, the foremost points within the race, and what the competition might imply for Democrats heading into the overall election.
Watch: “Full Video: Michigan Senate Democratic Main Debate”
RCP Common: 2026 Michigan Senate – Democratic Main, August 4 (El-Sayed (24.3) vs. McMorrow (19.8) vs. Stevens (19.8)
The panel discusses anti-semitism within the Democratic Get together, whether or not every candidate would vote to finish the filibuster, and the way they may fare in opposition to the GOP nominee.
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20:32 — Was Invoice Clinton the Final Fiscal Conservative?
Blake Ashby joins Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon to debate his new e-book, “Socialism and the Democratic Get together: The Case for a Return to Moderated Capitalism,” and argues that Democrats ought to transfer again towards a extra average financial message.
“It is price noting that the youthful technology has a unique definition of socialism than individuals my age — I am 61. For those who grew up after I grew up, you considered socialism as a horrible factor, and sort of a binary,” he mentioned. “Individuals like Mamdani and this youthful technology acknowledge it is really extra of a grey space, a scale… On the finish of the day, it is a slight extension of the facility of presidency.”
“My view of Republicanism was that we considered deficit spending as stealing from youngsters. It was a horrible factor. It was horrible financial administration. For those who return to the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s, the Republican Get together was based mostly on this concept that we might solely spend the cash we raised in taxes,” he mentioned. “Prefer it or not, Ronald Reagan blew that up. So Invoice Clinton, in some methods, was a greater Republican than Ronald Reagan as a result of he received us again to pay-as-you-go. Once we went again to pay-as-you-go, my model of Republicanism had gained. We had lastly achieved a balanced price range.”
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33:18 — CIA Fraudster Steals Tens of millions in Gold Bars
Learn: “Ex-CIA Official Charged With Stealing Tens of millions of {Dollars} in Gold Bars From the Federal Authorities”
The panel marvels at experiences {that a} CIA worker was in a position to take dwelling $40 million price of gold bars, elevating questions on inner controls, authorities oversight, and the way such a unprecedented breach might occur.
“Apparently, there are some unresolved questions on the CIA about who will get to take dwelling gold bars,” Andrew Walworth joked. “303 gold bars price roughly $40 million, all at his home.”
“This man isn’t some rocket-science fraudster. He was simply principally telling the CIA he wanted some gold bars for his operation, or one thing, they usually simply stored giving it to him,” Bevan commented. “It simply makes you surprise, what else is happening?”
Cannon expressed some extra of the questions this raises: “Why does the CIA even have gold bars?” The place do they arrive from? What are they doing with them? What number of are there that you may take that many, that it took months for them to be missed?”
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34:39 — Bessent Fires Again Over $250 Invoice Story
The group reacts to the Trump administration’s proposal for a brand new $250 invoice that includes President Trump’s likeness, and the political symbolism behind placing a sitting president on U.S. foreign money.
Watch: Bessent: Washington Submit Report On Trump $250 Invoice Was “Terribly Written, Terribly Edited”
Washington Submit: “Trump Appointees Push $250 Banknote With His Portrait”
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42:23 — “You Can not Be Critical?!”
The episode ends with the panel’s weekly “You Can not Be Critical?!” roundup of entertaining headlines.
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