This daily news preview is available to free subscribers thanks to the support of our Substack paid members. Thank you to all subscribers for reading, listening to, and watching our work, which in total generates 150 million views/listens per month.
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:
We have a bombshell, leaked call that exposes Trump as maybe the easiest mark on the world stage, because his own envoy has been caught telling Russia how to flatter Trump so that Putin gets what he wants. Trump fell for it and then actually bragged about it.
We’re also going to look at areas where this administration is losing. Those are tariffs, jobs, foreign policy, and Trump’s answers on these issues are so disconnected from reality that you do have to wonder whether he knows what’s happening anymore.
Meanwhile, new reporting finds that the White House is protecting Trump, curtailing his schedule in exactly the way that we were told was a problem when it was Joe Biden as President of the United States.
Meanwhile, chaos at the FBI continues as rumors swirl that Kash Patel is going to be dismissed, although Donald Trump denies it.
Then we will look at 20 red states — these are 20 states that Trump won, where his approval is now underwater. Republicans are privately panicking. Laura Ingraham is publicly panicking about what this might suggest about the 2026 midterms.
Meanwhile, is the price of gas a fact or an opinion? I know most of you know the answer, but it seems that there are some people who do not.
We are in the last 24 hours of our Thanksgiving Feeding America pledge drive. Every new membership at joinpakman.com or at substack.davidpakman.com will be donated in its entirety to Feeding America. We have raised over $15,000, funded over 150,000 meals, and it is the final 24 hours.
Don’t miss the full show with these stories and others, plus all of our analysis. Tune in at 2:30 pm eastern on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or catch the video show at 9:00 pm eastern on YouTube. Consider becoming a paid Substack supporter to support extras like these news episodes. Thank you.
