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Our daily news podcast brings you top news stories, plus analysis and insights from reporters and scholars about the state of play in America’s hottest policy debates.
Episodes
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2 Polls in Va. Governor Race Paint Very Different Pictures. Why Is Media Only Showing Democrat-Friendly One?
29/05/2025 Duration: 30minVirginia’s November gubernatorial election is touted as a major barometer for how the electorate feels about the party in power in Washington, and national money for both parties is already pouring into the state. Two polls are showing two very different results in the race, yet the media is touting the one where the Democrat is far ahead. The Daily Signal asks founder of VirginiaFREE, Chris Saxman, how the race is really shaping up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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‘Very Close’ Iran Deal, Rubio Says No to Student Visas, DOJ Investigates California | May 29, 2025
29/05/2025 Duration: 07minWhile Americans get Memorial Day, Congress gets Memorial WEEK. And with Congress out of town, it’s all about President Trump and his administration. It’s Bradley Devlin, Politics Editor of The Daily Signal and Host of The Signal Sitdown. Today is May 29, 2025, and this is your Top News in 10. The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About South Africa’s Anti-American Agenda
28/05/2025 Duration: 08minOn this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson unpacks South Africa’s racialist policies and its attempt to leverage U.S. generosity while showing open hostility. “ T his is not the South Africa that we used to know. But it was running on the fumes of Mandelaism. At the United Nations, it’s hostile to the United States. It takes advantage of the free trade agreement to run up a $9 billion surplus….It shows no gratitude. It attacks us.” 00:00 The Ambush That Wasn't 00:11 The Real Reason Behind the Meeting 00:37 South Africa's Controversial Stance 03:21 Trump's Response to Ramaphosa 04:37 The Broader Implications 06:17 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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Historic Poll Shift, Harvard to Lose Contracts, Trump & King Charles on Canada | May 28, 2025
28/05/2025 Duration: 11minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: According to a new poll, the majority of Americans believe the nation is headed in the right direction for the first time. The Trump administration threatens to cancel existing contracts with Harvard University over its continued discriminatory policies. President Trump and the King of England talk Canada. Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Don't forget our other shows: Virginia Allen's Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women Bradley Devlin's The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.
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Victor Davis Hanson: DEI Enthusiasts Allowed the Free Palestine Movement to Get This Far
27/05/2025 Duration: 07minLast week’s killings of two Israeli embassy employees in the name of “Free Palestine” is just another sad example of how the Left has lowered the bar for the justification of political violence. Endemic antisemitism continues to spread on college campus across America because the people responsible, DEI proponents and recipients, feel that they are untouchable, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “So, that is one thing that's happening. And that makes violence more permissible. The other is this endemic antisemitism. Let's be honest. It's not some cowboy in Wyoming in 1950 that doesn't like Jews. We're talking about two nexuses that come together and promulgate antisemitism. The one is wealthy people in the universities—many of them DEI, but not all—who feel that it's either en vogue or, as DEI people, they cannot be criticized as victims for victimizing others, meaning foreign students from the Middle East. And in that cauldron, it becomes permi
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Trump at Arlington, Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate, CBS Reporter Shenanigans | May 27, 2025
27/05/2025 Duration: 11minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: President Trump speaks at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. The Big, Beautiful Bill is out of the House and in trouble in the Senate…but not doomed. Speaker Johnson hits CBS Face the Nation, while a CBS News reporter yells at college students. Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Don't forget our other shows: Virginia Allen's Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women Bradley Devlin's The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social:
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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Must Avoid These 3 ‘Civilization Killers’ When Tackling the National Debt
26/05/2025 Duration: 09minDonald Trump is the first U.S. President in over 30 years who is seriously talking about reducing the country’s budget deficit, trade deficit and yes, the national debt, which has ballooned to over $37 trillion. However, he must follow a specific formula, otherwise, it will end in tragedy, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “Jermone Powell, the head of the Fed, will not lower interest rates even though there's been a good jobs report, a good inflation report, a good corporate profits report. GDP is gonna be evaluated, apparently, upward and there's been low energy cost. That mortgage is still 4.25% Fed rate to 4.5%. And that means mortgages are still 6.5%, 7%. And that housing market is slowing as a result. “So, you've got to get that down. And the way Trump has to do it is just two ways: Either cut the budget or raise taxes—which will strangle the economy—or continue the tax cuts. And hope two things: that the tax cuts—the extension—will p
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'BAD RELIGION': Effort to Cancel This Defender of the British Empire Reveals the Left's 'Repressive' Ideology
25/05/2025 Duration: 34minNigel Biggar, who faced cancel culture for his efforts to reexamine the narrative demonizing the British empire, opens up about the ideological commitments behind cancel culture. He says the Left's "repressive" desire to silence "anyone who disagrees" is part of a "really, really bad religion," in which people mistake themselves for God. Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327 Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook
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Victor Davis Hanson: Jake Tapper’s Own Original Sin
23/05/2025 Duration: 09minCNN’s Jake Tapper helped promulgate one of the greatest cover-ups in American history. Just because he decided to write a book four years later saying everything to the contrary doesn’t change that. Nothing will, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “For the last four years, again and again and again, if anybody questioned the obvious mental decline of Joe Biden—his cognitive difficulties—Jake Tapper, and went on CNN, Jake Tapper tore them apart. “The locus classicus was Lara Trump, who said that he's obviously—as early as 2020—in decline. And he suggested that she was berating him for a childhood stutter, which was absolutely ridiculous. “Why didn't Jake Tapper write this a year ago? Because he knows what would've happened. Somebody in the White House would've called up and said, ‘Tapper, no one from CNN is gonna get a seat at a press conference. There's not gonna be any CNN interview.’ “So, he backed down. And now in a very cowardly fashion, now he co
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Reflections on the Collapsing Media with Rebecca Downs | May 23, 2025
23/05/2025 Duration: 13minOn today’s Top News in 10, we sit down with Rebecca Downs of Townhall.com to discuss two key reasons the left and its media arm are in total collapse. Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Don't forget our other shows: Virginia Allen's Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women Bradley Devlin's The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble:
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Victor Davis Hanson: Kash Patel Shuts Down the Deep State’s Nerve Center
22/05/2025 Duration: 07minSymbolically, the closure speaks volumes. Victor Davis Hanson walks us through the troubling legacy left behind at the FBI HQ on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, was the head of the Special Counsel's Office. Remember that? And he had the dream team—the all-stars, a hunter/killer team—with the Left. He was almost giddy about that they were gonna get Donald Trump on Russian collusion. “ That same office then gave us Christopher Wray. Why was he spying on parents at school board meetings? Why was he spying on what they called ‘radical-traditional Catholics’? Why did they go after abortion protesters, but not in the same way people who were protesting pro-life?” 0:00 Kash Patel Shuts Down the J. Edgar Hoover Building 0:17 The Controversial History of the FBI Headquarters 1:07 Kash Patel's Decision and Its Implications 2:17 The Mueller Investigation and Its Fallout 3:12 James Comey's Controversial Tenure 5:09 Christopher Wray and
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President Trump & South African President Clash, Bill Passes Committee, Rubio Returns | May 22, 2025
22/05/2025 Duration: 12minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: President Trump humiliates South African President Ramaphosa as the media lose their minds. The Big, Beautiful Bill is out of committee and onto the House floor. Unsatisfied with only wrecking Democrats in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State Marco Rubio drops by the House Foreign Affairs Committee for seconds. Full interview with Rep. James: https://www.youtube.com/live/GXqG-7Td_vw Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Don't forget our other shows: Virginia Allen's Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women Bradley Devlin's The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/
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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump is Doing What Neocons Wouldn’t in the Middle East
21/05/2025 Duration: 09minOn today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson,” Hanson says that Trump is promoting security through economic cooperation and criticized the neoconservative legacy of endless wars. “ What Donald Trump is trying to say is: Let's just not get into politics. Let's not get into offending foreign leaders. … Not to lecture them, but to create economic matrices, nexuses, in which people find that it's in their vested interest to profit rather than to kill people. “ What he's emphasizing is that there is a common bond in the world. And that common bond is in the heart of everybody. They want peace and they want prosperity and they want security. That's not necessarily antithetical or exclusionary of freedom because, obviously, economic ability—the ability to make money and the ability to be secure—often has an element of what? Freedom.” 0:00 Trump's Middle East Tour 1:00 Criticism of Prior Administrations 1:54 Trump's Foreign Policy Approach 3:40 Specific Global Conflicts and Solutions 5:27 Criticism and
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Rubio & Van Hollen Duel, Golden Dome Announced, SCOTUS Delivers Two Victories | May 21, 2025
21/05/2025 Duration: 11minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Secretary of State Rubio dukes it out with Senator Chris Van Hollen. President Trump announces “Golden Dome” missile defense system. The Supreme Court delivers back-to-back victories for the Trump administration. Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Don't forget our other shows: Virginia Allen's Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women Bradley Devlin's The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube:
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Victor Davis Hanson: Prostate Cancer Doesn’t Develop Immediately. What Biden’s Team Isn’t Telling Us
20/05/2025 Duration: 07minThere are more mysteries than answers surrounding the Biden team. Why did Joe Biden's medical team announce right now—on the eve of the release of “Original Sin”—this shocking story that the president, who just left office 100 days ago, was suffering from a very seriously rare, malignant form of prostate cancer, asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “President—he was vice president, he was president, now he's an ex-president. They are accorded the best, most comprehensive diagnostic medical care in the world. Isn't it true that Joe Biden would've known about this? We just had a report—right before he stepped down, in the summer of 2024—an exhaustive medical report, that he was fine. But he is trying to tell us, or sadly, his team is trying to tell us that, just in a matter of nine months, he developed a prostate cancer unknown to all of his doctors. Unknown—that didn't appear on any of his diagnostic tests.”
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McIver Charged with Assault, Biden Fallout Continues, Trump & Pope Might Broker Peace | May 20, 2025
20/05/2025 Duration: 12minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Dem. Rep. LaMonica McIver federally charged with assault. Fallout from the Biden collapse scandal gets worse. Putin & Zelensky are set to begin peace talks with President Trump and possibly Pope Leo XIV. Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Don't forget our other shows: Virginia Allen's Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women Bradley Devlin's The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.c
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Victor Davis Hanson: Do Leftists Really Believe the Trump Family Wants Another Plane?
19/05/2025 Duration: 07minOne of the most important reasons President Donald Trump won in 2024 was his very convincing case that the Biden family was corrupt. The president should act swiftly and make certain to an already hostile media that Qatar’s gift, the ‘palace in the sky’, is in keeping with ethical standards, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “It would be very wise—because Trump is at a critial point in his administration where he cannot bleed anything—to have an informal ethics adviser, in my opinion. And just to reassure this predatory media—not that you have to cater them or not that you have to listen to them—but just someone in the administration, an ethics czar, that advises all of the Trump family and associates to make a firewall between them and presidential assistance.”
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Biden's Cancer Diagnosis Announced After Hur Interview Audio Released | May 19, 2025
19/05/2025 Duration: 12minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis with advanced cancer is announced. The audio from the Biden/Hur interview is released by Axios. An anti-natalist terrorist dies in his own car-bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs. Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Don't forget our other shows: Virginia Allen's Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women Bradley Devlin's The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: http
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Besides Israel, There Will NEVER Be a Sovereign State West of the Jordan River | Amb. Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter
18/05/2025 Duration: 36minGaza will never become an independent nation, Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter says. “There's not going to be an independent sovereign state other than Israel west of the Jordan River,” Leiter told The Daily Signal. “There could be all sorts of autonomous arrangements,” he said, “but there's not going to be an independent sovereign Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. It's just not going to be.” The nation of Israel extends from the Joran River west to the Mediterranean Sea to form the narrow country that is roughly the size of New Jersey. Since Hamas launched its attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, pro-Palestine protesters in America and round the world have chanted, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” referring to Palestine fully occupying the land between the Joran River and the Mediteranea Sea, in turn eliminating the nation of Israel. Following Oct. 7, there is a “complete absence of bandwidth” in Israel for the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s Enablers Never Told Us Why They Did It
16/05/2025 Duration: 08minWhy did the DNC, White House staffers and even seasoned journalists lie to the American people when they decided to run cover for Joe Biden? It's not enough just to say, “Politics. We want power.” What was the strategy to make you do something so egregious, asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “The same existential is why do all these reporters say now, ‘We were in on the deal, we covered up for Biden’? ‘The Biden staff did it.’ ‘No, the media did it.’ But they all agreed that he was non compos mentis. He was cognitively challenged when he was nominated, when they cleared the nomination field out. They got rid of Buttigeig. They got rid of Elizabeth Warren. They got rid of Sanders. They all disappeared quickly. “And then they used this waxen effigy as a veneer. But why? That was very risky to do that. They all tell us they did it but they don't tell us why… They saw this as a wonderful opportunity. Use Joe Biden and just have him come in three d