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PREVIEW: Global humiliation spreads like wildfire as dementia goes mainstream
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PREVIEW: Global humiliation spreads like wildfire as dementia goes mainstream

Morning newscast for January 22, 2026

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Here’s what we’re talking about today.

This is a quick rundown of the topics we’ll be covering on today’s show. You can hit play to listen, or read the transcript below if that’s more your style.

Transcript:

ICE has hit a new low as federal agents detained a five-year-old in Minnesota. School officials say that the kid was used as bait to lure people out of a home. Is this what deporting only dangerous criminals has turned into? We are going to break down exactly what happened and why everybody in this country should be outraged.

Plus Trump chickens out on his own tariffs. After hyping them for months, he backs down after allies and Republicans and the stock market freaked out.

And Greenland, it’s not happening, my friends. There’s no plan, there’s no details, and NATO says it didn’t even come up during their meeting with Trump.

Then Karoline Leavitt has a historic meltdown, an historic, I would even say, trying to clean up Donald Trump’s cognitive mess.

And dementia has gone mainstream. AOC and other members of the House straight up saying something’s wrong with his brain. Gavin Newsom going, not only there, but at Trump’s ego, saying Trump’s Davos speech was boring and insignificant. It was.

And so we are covering all of it today as global shame and humiliation rained down upon the United States. And that sounds pretty bad, but we’ll have some positive stuff as well.

Glad you’re with us. Let’s do a show today.


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