Julie Mason touches grass

Veteran reporter and broadcaster Julie Mason brings some perspective amid the chaos, on Iran and Iraq, NYC mayoral hot takes and LNG-dipped graham crackers

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If you’re looking for some grounding as the DHS Official National Security Threat Level is adjusted for bunker busting, I’d recommend

Julie Mason

. If you don’t already, you can catch her Monday-Friday, 3p-6p ET on SiriusXM 124 The POTUS Channel.

And you can also watch our chat here!

Show Notes

• On covering the Iraq and the Iran Wars — are we getting best information?

• All the great reporting doesn’t come out of the White House briefing. It’s enterprise reporting from the reporters who know this beat.

• Operation Midnight Hammer, not the Pornhub special, possibly produced by a Congressional candidate — but all facetiousness aside, there remains a double standard for men and women in sex “scandals”.

• The era of Epstein Loves Miners.

• What is the threat level here? Everyone wants to know whether this is another 20-year Misadventure in the Middle East or whether the U.S. is one and done

• 20 years from now Errol Morris will make an amazing documentary of Pete Hegseth?

• Julie defends Ted Cruz.

• Julie defends Ted Cruz.

• We should all give Cruz a second chance. But that still doesn’t clear a path for 2028.

• Julie finishes defending Ted Cruz.

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• Park your hot takes on what the Mamdani says about every Democratic voting bloc in the country. This is Cheese Shop Queens, NY

• This is more about performative than ideology, you can’t hide your way to a victory or buy your way to a victory

• Wes Moore has chops, Mayor Pete does, too

• Big shoutout for the Georgetown Institute of Politics, building a smart, newsy program

• Julie talks about coming up as a reporter in Texas, including working the beats in Houston and Austin

• Covering W. in Texas vs covering him in the White House

• Will W. re-emerge in public?

• A discussion of Lisa Murkowski, her new memoir, and feeding Ron Wyden a graham cracker dipped in liquefied natural gas

• And the Jackie Kucinich conundrum — Did we all die in 2016 after Trump won and this is just a simulation?

(We talked a bit about this last week in-studio on Julie Mason’s show, The Julie Mason Show, on SiriusXM 124 POTUS. Which you should catch every weekday, 3p-6p ET. Full clip here.)

On Deck

I’ve got

Mike Madrid

expert on Latino voting trends, on Friday at 12p ET (please note the time change! Mark your calendars!)

(Click the link to hop on when we go live.)

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