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PREVIEW: Casual invasion announcement drops as Vance defends the worst
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PREVIEW: Casual invasion announcement drops as Vance defends the worst

Morning newscast for January 9, 2026

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Here’s what we’re talking about today.

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Transcript:

Donald Trump sat down for what was supposed to be a softball Fox News interview to talk about how great everything he’s doing in Venezuela is, and it did not go well.

Hannity allowed him to brag about taking oil from Venezuela. He talked about bombing Mexico soon, rambled about sliding down a helicopter rope, the likes of which you would normally hear, I don’t know, from someone screaming on a subway platform, not the President of the United States. And then says, oh, Republicans are probably getting crushed in November. At least he’s historically right about that.

We then get to something pretty serious. Someone on our subreddit argued that we are closer to civil unrest than maybe people want to acknowledge, and that I personally, me David Pakman, should have guns. I am going to weigh in on this.

And then we will look at Vice President JD Vance doing what he does best.

He doesn’t do much well. The one thing he does do well is attempt to defend the indefensible with the sanitization of violence and lecturing the media as if they are always the problem. So we’ve got an example of that.

And then what about Tulsi Gabbard?

Well, we’re going to bring up a name not much mentioned by Donald Trump, that’s for sure, despite the fact that she works for him.

What is she up to? And how does it relate to what has taken place in Venezuela?

All of that and more.


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