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Episodes from Hawk Podcasts
Will Donald Trump Pull the U.S. Out of NATO
Hawk opens the morning from the West Coast, running on little sleep after earthquakes and a sick dog, with a rundown of overnight developments that paint a grim picture of where the country is headed. Gas hit $4.02 per gallon nationwide overnight, the highest since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a stark contrast to Trump's campaign promise to bring prices down on day one. The US reportedly used 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs on an Iranian ammo depot, but also struck a civilian desalination plant providing drinking water to a city of 2.5 million people, a likely war crime under...
The DNC Is Choosing AIPAC Donors Over Young Voters
Hawk lays out the growing conflict between AIPAC-funded Democrats and the progressive base they need to win the 2026 midterms. At the center of the story is Hasan Piker, a popular online media figure who connects with young voters, particularly young men, a demographic that broke heavily for Donald Trump in the last election. Despite that political reality, prominent Democrats including Cory Booker, Alyssa Slotkin, Ruben Gallego, and Mallory McMorrow have publicly refused to appear on Piker's platform, labeling him an anti-Semite while offering little to no evidence to support the claim. Hawk walks through the AIPAC donation...
Taco Trump or Market Manipulation? Either Way Trump Caved.
Trump claimed the US was in productive talks with Iran, but Iranian officials flatly denied any negotiations took place. The contradiction came within hours of Trump threatening to bomb Iranian civilian infrastructure, a move widely considered a war crime under international law. When the announcement hit, markets surged roughly a thousand points before dropping again once people realized the talks Trump described simply never happened. Steve Witoff and Jared Kushner, two New York and New Jersey real estate developers with no background in nuclear science or arms control, are reportedly the ones being sent in to negotiate the structure...
Iran Just Changed This War Forever
Iran launched a ballistic missile that traveled 4,000 kilometers, more than double the previously understood range of any Iranian ballistic missile, striking a British military base also housing American aircraft. That single launch signaled to Europe, Israel, and the United States that Iranian missiles can now reach population centers across the continent. The second and more alarming development: Iran struck the Dimona nuclear facility deep inside southern Israel. Israel's Iron Dome failed to intercept it. Dimona is the heart of Israel's nuclear weapons program, and Iran just proved it is no longer protected. Hawk examines what...
Katie Miller Grills Todd Blanche About the Epstein Files
Blanch claims the Trump DOJ and FBI have prosecuted more violent offenders and child predators in 14 months than during all four years of Biden's term, but Hawk points out that Pam Bondi has removed over 6,500 DOJ employees and Cash Patel has fired more than a thousand FBI agents, with a third of remaining agents reassigned to immigration enforcement without training. The numbers simply do not hold up. The history of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation gets a full accounting here. From the 2005 Palm Beach investigation to Alex Acosta's sweetheart plea deal that gave Epstein 18 months in county jail...
Judge's Order Crushed Trump's War on Jerome Powell and the Fed
A federal judge has quashed two grand jury subpoenas issued by the DC U.S. Attorney's Office against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Hawk reads through the full 27-page ruling by Judge James Boesberg, unpacking the legal reasoning behind one of the most significant judicial rebukes of the Trump administration's weaponization of the criminal justice system. The subpoenas targeted Fed building renovation cost overruns and Powell's congressional testimony — neither of which the court found to contain any credible evidence of criminal activity. Judge Boesberg concluded that the subpoenas' dominant purpose wa...
Wannabe Soldier Markwayne Mullin's Confirmation Hearing
Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullin, faced a confirmation hearing that left jaws on the floor. A multimillionaire who inherited his father's plumbing empire, received a PPP loan exceeding one million dollars that was later forgiven, and never served a single day in the United States military, Mullin has somehow found himself one step away from running DHS. The hearing produced moment after moment of staggering incompetence. When asked if he had ever traveled outside the United States, Mullin said no, despite his own FBI background report listing trips...
Trump Started a War He Can't Win
Russia is actively sharing satellite imagery and upgraded Shahed drone technology with Iran, helping Iranian forces more effectively target US military assets in the region. While Trump continues his deference to Vladimir Putin, the US has eased sanctions on Russian oil sales to compensate for the Hormuz closure, inadvertently funneling an estimated $150 million per day into Russia's war economy in Ukraine. Iran's response has been deliberate and decentralized, striking Gulf civilian infrastructure including airports, hotels, and energy facilities. Real estate values in Dubai have reportedly dropped 30%. Iran still holds roughly 72,000 unused Shahed drones and hypersonic ballistic missiles...
FIXED AUDIO: Hawk and Mr. Global Discuss the Iran War's Impact on Oil and Gas
Hawk and Mr. Global discuss the Iran War and the global impact on Oil and Gas. A few more weeks of this could plunge the world into a global recession, and there is no end in sight at this point. Rumors of Iran placing mines in the Straight of Hormuz are running rampant, all governments are lying and making up false narratives to further their own political agendas and nobody can be trusted as a legitimate source of truth. A truly dystopian time we are living through right now both in the United States and also in the world.<...
Hawk and Mr. Global Discuss the Iran War's Impact on Oil and Gas
Hawk and Mr. Global discuss the Iran War and the global impact on Oil and Gas. A few more weeks of this could plunge the world into a global recession, and there is no end in sight at this point. Rumors of Iran placing mines in the Straight of Hormuz are running rampant, all governments are lying and making up false narratives to further their own political agendas and nobody can be trusted as a legitimate source of truth. A truly dystopian time we are living through right now both in the United States and also in the world.<...
Trump Gutted the FBI's Counterterrorism Unit
Trump's DOJ purge has removed approximately 300 FBI agents, most of them counterterrorism and counter espionage specialists, since the start of the second term. Cash Patel fired 45 of them directly, while thousands more have left the broader DOJ, gutting decades of institutional knowledge and expertise. Former FBI agent and national security contributor Christopher Olirri calls it an "institutional decapitation," warning the country is now dangerously exposed to sophisticated foreign adversaries. The timing could not be worse. Iranian state radio recently broadcast a series of random numbers in Farsi, believed by counterterrorism officials to be coded messaging to activate...
Lindsey Graham Says He Tricked Trump Into Starting the Iran War
Lindsey Graham claims credit for pushing Donald Trump into an unauthorized war with Iran by using word association games and flattery. This conflict has escalated rapidly as the US and Israel utilize advanced artificial intelligence to pick bombing targets and assess battle damage. Despite the lack of an imminent threat or a clear exit strategy, military strikes have already resulted in the death of Ayatollah Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials. Iran has retaliated by targeting US radar installations across the Gulf region, successfully degrading defense systems in multiple countries. At home, American citizens face the consequences with gas...