Alexander Mercouris | Russia Attacks Ships In NATO Waters; Tightens Black Sea Blockade; Dnipro Railway Dnieper Bridge Hit | Oct. 31, 2026

Source: Alexander Mercouris youtube



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Russia's Black Sea blockade has quietly expanded into the territorial waters of Romania and Bulgaria, with sea drones sinking cargo ships bound for Ukraine near Constanta and Varna while NATO stays silent. Alexander breaks down the strikes on the Dnipro bridge and railway station, the Starlink feud between Elon Musk and the US intelligence community, the 500 PAC 3 interceptors Ukraine will not see until 2030, and Lavrov's sharp exchange at the G20 in Atlanta. Has the Black Sea become a Russian lake while the West looks the other way?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:35 Fresh Russian strikes on Kiev
00:01:07 Dnieper bridge in Dnipro hit
00:04:33 Kiev South Bridge and Zaporozhye bridge status
00:06:39 Dnipro railway station struck
00:11:00 Eleven cargo ships sunk in the Black Sea
00:14:28 Ships hit in Romanian and Bulgarian waters
00:15:28 The Bulgarian presidential election angle
00:18:44 Russian sea drones and the Turkish Straits
00:22:57 Black Sea becomes a Russian lake
00:27:08 Russian satellite over Kiev during the strike
00:30:43 Rassvet satellites and Iskander precision
00:35:45 Ukraine refinery strikes defy Trump
00:41:51 The Atlantic, Elon Musk and the Starlink fight
00:48:31 500 PAC 3 interceptors that do not exist yet
00:58:43 Lavrov at the G20 in Atlanta
01:03:32 Lavrov rebuffs Deutsche Welle on Putin and Zelensky
01:07:18 Oleshky ceasefire and front line advances
01:16:55 Europe far behind on diplomacy and Abu Dhabi
01:19:21 Iran island plans and the Snake Island lesson

Vijay Prashad | Iran’s Nuclear Material or America’s Bases: Who Blinks and Who Can Guarantee Trump | Transition Protocol | Oct. 31, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



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America lost. Iran didn’t win. Vijay Prashad, back from Brazil and China, says that is why neither side will make the first concession — Iranian nuclear material or American bases.

Our host’s sources say Iran will ask China and Russia to act as guarantors of the Trump administration’s conduct — a task the host himself calls impossible. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia’s defence minister sat down in Tehran, and Prashad says what a real UN chief would do: “set up the UN headquarters in Gaza.”

Timeline:
00:18:01 Who could guarantee Trump? China, Russia and the Islamabad MoU — per our host’s sources.
00:25:53 “You can lose a war without the other side having won it”: Vijay Prashad’s verdict.
00:42:15 Move the UN to Gaza: “we dare you to bomb us.”

Mark Sleboda | 80 US Air Force Tankers Amass as Iran Rains Hellfire on Hormuz | Oct. 31, 2026

Source: Danny Haiphong youtube



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The US and Israeli build up to another round of strikes on Iran that's happening in front of our eyes is being concealed by talks of intense mediation efforts from Qatar and other regional actors. Geopolitical analyst Mark Sleboda joins the show to discuss what this build up actually looks like, what it means for the geopolitical landscape, and provides his expert military analysis on the theaters of war from West Asia/Middle East to Ukraine.

Scott Ritter | Why the Pentagon’s New Plan Is a Death Trap for U.S. Forces | Oct. 31, 2026

Source: Judge Napolitano youtube



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Scott Ritter tells Judge Napolitano that the Pentagon plan is a raid on Iran's energy sites at Kharg and Qeshm, meant to collapse the Iranian economy and target its leadership, not an occupation of the islands.

He says Iran would answer by striking Gulf energy infrastructure, including Saudi Arabia, and that Senator Chris Murphy should reveal the plan and try to stop what Ritter calls an illegal war.

Seyed M. Marandi | Iran's Supreme Leader Orders Military to Strike Without Geographic Limits | Oct. 31, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube



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Seyed M. Marandi talks with Nima Alkhorshid about Iran's supreme leader ordering the military to strike without geographic limits.

Einar Tangen | China's New Economic Strategy vs the West's Ideological Trap | Oct. 31, 2026

Source: Glenn Diesen youtube



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Einar Tangen is a senior fellow at the Taihe Institute and at CIGI. With Glenn Diesen he discusses China's new economic strategy versus the West's ideological trap.

Timeline:
00:00:00 Introducing Einar Tangen and China's fifth plenum
00:02:40 Anti-corruption and the question of political legitimacy
00:08:10 Prescriptive versus performative governance
00:13:27 Western politics, planning, and recurring promises
00:21:30 Ideological certainty versus a willingness to learn
00:25:10 China's shift toward shared gains and social development
00:31:31 Environmental rights, consumption, and small business
00:34:25 Digital tools and opening international markets to SMEs
00:38:15 AI productivity and the prospect of shorter workweeks
00:42:07 Markets, extraction, and public investment
00:44:37 Dollar alternatives, US debt, and economic vulnerability

Anders Otteson | Investigation Update on the Northrop Tejon Facility (Pt. 1) | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Uncanny Expeditions youtube, uncannyexpeditions.com



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Anders Otteson of Uncanny Expeditions gives a part-one update on the Northrop Tejon radar test range at the west end of California's Antelope Valley. He recaps the site, which official records mothballed in 2011, along with later local accounts and UFO sightings, and says part two is due Sunday.

Dark Journalist | X-243: COG Blackout, Cyber UFO File, NORTHCOM Emergency Powers | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Dark Journalist youtube



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Daniel Liszt presents Dark Journalist X-Series episode 243 on continuity of government, a cyber crash, a deep event, the UFO file, Secret America, missing scientists, and Golden Dome, with NORAD and NORTHCOM emergency powers.

The host notes earlier reports on missing scientists after the death of MIT neutron-star merger scientist Nuno Laureiro in December 2025 and General William McCasland in February 2026.

The Duran | Unconditional Acceptance: Putin’s New Terms Stun Europe | Oct. 31, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



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Putin's 90 minute call with Finland's Alexander Stubb and Norway's Jonas Gahr Støre went nowhere, and the Kremlin readout now demands unconditional acceptance of Russia's terms. In this episode we break down why Stubb is angling to become Europe's chief negotiator, why London spun a false Financial Times story, and why the push for a Ukraine ceasefire on current lines keeps hitting a wall. With Witkoff, Kushner and Dmitriev floating Arctic and energy deals, who is really stringing who along?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Putin's call with Stubb and Støre; Norway refutes the FT
00:01:16 UK sources working to block diplomacy
00:02:47 Frederiksen and EU hardliners furious over the call
00:03:47 Stubb and Støre refloat the old Donbas proposal
00:04:53 Putin demands unconditional acceptance of Russia's terms
00:06:06 Why the call happened; Finland's growing concerns
00:07:23 Stubb's bid to be Europe's chief negotiator
00:09:19 Is US intelligence backing Stubb?
00:11:17 Why Putin takes every call
00:12:12 Europe's nightmare: separate deals with Russia
00:15:57 The real goal: a ceasefire on current lines
00:18:57 Echoes of unconditional surrender
00:24:12 Why not von der Leyen or Kaja Kallas?
00:27:23 Arctic deals, energy talks and the sanctions reality
00:31:07 Who's stringing who along?

Larry Johnson | Strike Iran After Markets Close? Warning of Trump’s “Eagle Claw” Disaster, Friday Strike | Transition Protocol Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube, sonar21.com



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Larry Johnson warns a strike on Iran could become Trump's 'Eagle Claw' and expects it after the markets close Friday.

Johnson, a former CIA analyst, expects Trump to strike Iran after Tuesday's midterms, most likely Friday, after the markets close, and warns it could cost a ship, potentially an aircraft carrier, and a thousand lives: Trump's own Eagle Claw. Would his officers refuse the order? Johnson says they can, and after Tuesday, the Senate may hold their promotions. Meanwhile, per Zulfiqar Ali's sources, Iran has answered J.D. Vance's letter: our money back, blockade off, then talks.

Timeline:
00:03:33 Iran's reply to Vance — per our host's sources.
00:08:41 After the markets close: Johnson's timing.
00:37:15 Eagle Claw: the carrier, the thousand, and Jimmy Carter's 1980 failure in Iran.
00:40:35 Would his officers refuse? The Senate and every promotion from colonel up.

John Kiriakou | Where Your Tax Money Really Goes | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Elizabeth Lane TV youtube



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Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou tells Elizabeth Lane what government corruption looks like from the inside: officers who retire on Friday and come back Monday with a different colored badge and a no-bid contract, a company that grew into a multi-billion dollar business that way.

He explains the F-35 'flying duck', why the Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row, how the CIA hides its budget inside other agencies' line items, what happened to the truckloads of gear he handed to a Pakistani general, and why his bosses kept telling him: don't try to save the government money.

Timeline:
00:00:00 'He probably sold it to the Taliban'
00:00:39 Government corruption
00:01:55 The revolving door
00:02:59 A multi-billion dollar company
00:04:03 The strip-club contract
00:05:39 Price rigging and kickbacks
00:06:32 The F-35 'flying duck'
00:12:00 Seven failed audits
00:13:44 The Golden Fleece
00:14:39 Costa Rican snails
00:15:25 Unlimited budget in Pakistan
00:17:29 'What stuff?'
00:19:18 Don't save the government money
00:19:45 The $5 trip to Pittsburgh
00:22:22 The $195 salad
00:24:07 'I have so much money'

Alexander Mercouris | Ten US Jets Surge to Israel, Insane Iran War Plan Unfolds | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Danny Haiphong youtube, Alexander Mercouris youtube, The Duran youtube



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Co-host of The Duran and geopolitical analyst Alexander Mercouris joins to discuss the massive escalation building up for another round of strikes by the US and Israel, and what impact midterm elections, Israeli elections, and Western emergency alert panic are having on the geopolitical landscape. Plus, a full deep dive into the news and analysis on the Middle East (West Asia), the Ukraine conflict, and much more!

Ted Postol & Lt Col Daniel Davis | Iran & Ukraine Wars: What Missiles Make the Most Difference | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Daniel Davis youtube



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Ted Postol tells Daniel Davis that the PAC-3 has no chance of hitting an Iranian ballistic missile, and that a nuclear strike on Iran's mountain sites would not destroy them. He says Iran could build a simple bomb within weeks of an attack and that Israel would not survive nuclear strikes on its major cities, while Davis opens on Trump's push for talks with Russia and Ukraine.

Alex Krainer & Harley Schlanger | Perfidious Albion: The British Are Behind the War on Russia and the Epstein Money Laundering Op | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Garland Nixon youtube



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Garland Nixon on the claim that Britain is behind the war on Russia and an Epstein money-laundering operation.

Alex Christoforou | Putin Baltic Sea Warning; Ursula & Carney Join Forces; Binance Heist | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Alex Christoforou youtube



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Putin just warned that the Baltic Sea could become the next Strait of Hormuz, and Alex breaks down what that means for Europe as Elbridge Colby and the Pentagon quietly tell Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to stop poking Russia. We also cover Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Carney pushing Canada toward EU associate membership, Zelensky striking Russian refineries despite Trump's pressure, the CENTCOM briefing on Iran, Kaja Kallas under fire and the massive $6 billion Binance crypto hack. Is Europe about to turn the Baltic into its own Hormuz crisis?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Ursula and Carney push Canada EU associate membership
00:04:17 Merz backs the EU Canada Alliance for the Future
00:08:41 Putin backs Africa seat on UN Security Council
00:10:05 Putin warns Baltic Sea could become another Hormuz
00:12:00 Why Putin took the call from Stubb and Store
00:13:33 Putin on 2030: Russia ready, but no victors
00:15:10 Colby tells Baltic states to stop poking Russia
00:19:14 WSJ says Ukraine paused refinery strikes, then Samara hit
00:23:10 CENTCOM briefs Trump on Iran blockade and Hormuz
00:27:16 Senator Murphy calls the Iran strike plan insane
00:29:54 Nord Stream stays shut as EU oil majors post record profits
00:33:00 The $6.3 billion Binance hack and North Korea claims
00:36:07 Clown World: Berliner Zeitung asks what Kallas does
00:39:16 Merz in Japan seeking funds for Ukraine
00:41:03 Rest in peace Patrick Stewart

Seyed M. Marandi & Lt Col Daniel Davis | What a Countdown to War Looks Like | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Daniel Davis youtube



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Seyed M. Marandi talks with Daniel Davis about what a countdown to war looks like. The video card says Trump is loading Israel with missiles.

Col. Larry Wilkerson & Larry Johnson | Iran Uses Limpet Mines — Super Tankers Stop in Hormuz | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube, sonar21.com



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Larry Wilkerson and Larry Johnson discuss a Financial Times report that Iran is using limpet mines, and Nima Alkhorshid’s account that at least two supertankers are on fire in the Strait of Hormuz after US Central Command said the mines were gone. Wilkerson says the mines add to Iran’s options rather than marking a new kind of escalation, and Johnson says US ships can no longer enter the strait without coming under attack.

The Duran | Ursula Pushes Canada as EU Associate; Colby Tells Baltics to Calm Down | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



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Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou discuss Ursula von der Leyen pressing for Canada as an EU associate member, a large Russian missile strike, and Ukrainian attacks on refineries. They say Elbridge Colby told the Baltic states to calm their rhetoric toward Russia, and that US talk of de-escalation with Iran is cover for a return to war within weeks.

Kevin Annett | Something Very Strange Is Happening at the Vatican | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Danny Jones youtube, murderbydecree.com



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Kevin Annett, an ex-minister and Vatican whistleblower, tells Danny Jones he was blacklisted in Canada after the United Church delisted him for raising the deaths of children in Indian residential schools. He describes what he says is happening at the Vatican, including China's role in the Church and the resignation of Pope Benedict.

Timeline:
00:00:00 Being Blacklisted in Canada & the Trudeau Family
00:03:28 Environmental Genocide & How Canada Killed Thousands of Natives
00:16:13 China Secretly Runs the Catholic Church & Canada
00:25:27 How Kevin got Blacklisted
00:31:30 Forcing Pope Benedict's Resignation & Church Experiments on Children
00:36:52 Josef Mengele & Nazis in Canada
00:39:19 The Vatican's Death Camps
00:44:56 China's Growing Power & Church Experiments in America
00:48:34 Big Pharma & Churches Working Together on Drug Test Experiments
00:55:27 Making AI Into a God & Reason vs. Religion
01:02:17 Mass Mind-Control & Psychedelics in Church
01:04:40 Neuralink & Prototype Mind Control Experiments
01:10:52 "There's a Big Crash Coming in North America"
01:15:05 Exiled from Canada & the Illusion of Democracy
01:19:47 Dr. Michael Persinger's God Helmet & Splitting Personalities
01:27:48 AI Weapons, Russian Plague & Dissociation
01:31:40 Canada's Leadership & Who Runs the Media
01:38:11 Indigenous Groups in Canada & How Churches Avoid the Law
01:48:28 Kevin's Exorcism & Tentacles of a Multidimensional Reality
02:00:06 What the "Devil" Really Is
02:04:09 Patreon Questions

Alastair Crooke | Senator Reveals Secret US Iran War Briefing — “This Is Insane” | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube, Conflicts Forum



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Alastair Crooke tells Nima Alkhorshid that Senator Chris Murphy called a Trump administration briefing on restarting military operations against Iran insane and said the plan would prolong and escalate the war. Crooke says some form of military action after the US midterms is the most likely course, describes a message from JD Vance to Iran as a carrot beside threats of a larger war that Tehran will not answer with nuclear concessions, and says Netanyahu, possibly as a caretaker prime minister, could still join such a war.

Anthony Aguilar | U.S. Bombs Bandar-e Jask in Southern Iran | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube



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Anthony Aguilar tells Nima Alkhorshid that the United States bombed Bandar-e Jask, a port city on Iran's southern coast by the Strait of Hormuz, after strikes he places last week at Sirik and Konarak. He says Iranian air defenses forced a fighter out of the strait, and that these hits are preparation for a wider US and Israeli campaign, with the USS Theodore Roosevelt about a day and a half away.

He links the timing to the US midterms and Israel's unresolved election, where he says Benjamin Netanyahu is still caretaker and no bloc reached 61 seats. He expects Iran to wait rather than strike first, and to answer later against Tel Aviv, Dimona, and bases in Jordan.

Paul Stonehill | In the Land of the Golden Fleece: Strange Forest, Subterranean Rivers, amazing Artefacts | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: Paranormal Research Paul Stonehill youtube



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Paul Stonehill on Imereti in western Georgia, which he calls the land of the Golden Fleece. He retells Jason's voyage to King Aeëtes of Colchis, with help from Hera and Medea, and says local belief still places the sacred grove and its dragon in a relict forest that has survived there.

At Sataplia Nature Reserve he describes dinosaur tracks and gives them ages from about 60 million years to 150 million years, in layers he says are far enough apart that the animals never met. Prometheus Cave, in the Imereti mountains, he says was found in the early 1980s while scientists searched for nuclear shelters. He treats its underground rivers as one way the Argonauts could have reached the Colchian forest, and says the fleece was sheepskins used to catch gold dust in Caucasian streams.

He sketches Colchis as an early kingdom on the Black Sea that traded flax, timber, honey, iron, and gold with Milesian Greeks, later taken by Mithridates VI and Rome, and joined in the 10th century with the eastern Georgian kingdom of Iberia. The talk ends at Vani, where excavations from 1947 uncovered a Colchian city destroyed in the mid-1st century BCE. Its museum, opened in 1985, holds gold, silver, and bronze from about 800 BCE to 100 CE.

Corbett Report | Sunday(?) Update on the Dutch Case against Bill Gates | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: The Corbett Report youtube



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James Corbett's Sunday(?) Update for October 30 covers three legal stories. In the Netherlands, he says Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the Dutch government, and 13 other defendants did not appear at a civil merits hearing. He says the case is not a criminal prosecution and will not send anyone to prison, and that a written judgment could come as early as December 9.

He also says a US appeals court threw out Alex Berenson's lawsuit against Joe Biden and Pfizer executives over pressure on Twitter, and that the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear the government's appeal of rulings that the February 2022 use of the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy was not justified.

Show notes:
Transcript and sources
Bill Gates and Pfizer's Bourla didn't appear
Substantive merits hearing
The Narrative On Trial | Full Oral Plea
The Netherlands case
Gates incidental conclusion, 21 Feb. 2024
Judgment in the incident, 16 Oct. 2024
Under the Bus: How Bill Gates Fell From Globalist Grace
Fact Check: Polio Vaccines, Tetanus Vaccines and the Gates Foundation
CNBC interview with Bill Gates
Bill Gates with Stephen Colbert
Press conference after the Leeuwarden hearing
Appeals court throws out Alex Berenson's case
Twitter user agreement
2024 FC 42
Federal appeal on the Emergencies Act
Supreme Court of Canada to hear the Emergencies Act appeal
Chipiuk cross-examines Trudeau
Trudeau on the convoy
Justin Trudeau's blackface incidents

SpaceWeatherNews (S0) | Shift in the Sky, Coronal Hole Coming, Cosmic Cat | Oct. 30, 2026

Source: SpaceWeatherNews (S0) youtube



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SpaceWeatherNews says the sun was quiet on October 30 after a filament collapsed on the departing hemisphere, with no CME recorded. A coronal hole sent enhanced solar wind that the show expects to bring minor geomagnetic storm conditions on Halloween and into November 1.

The episode shows Hubble and Webb images of the Cat's Head Nebula, and the path of NASA's Lucy spacecraft toward Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. Today's papers are one the show reads as birth-rate modulation by the sun, and a long-term study of the equatorial electrojet over the Indian sector. The show says the electrojet began behaving differently in 1999, the year the magnetic equator started shifting faster, and ties that change to the ongoing magnetic pole shift.

The long-term trend of the equatorial electrojet over the Indian sector
Geomagnetic birth rate
Lucy mission trajectory to Jupiter's Trojans
Ghostly Cat's Head Nebula

Larry Johnson | Fighter Jet Forced to Withdraw After Iran Missile Launch | Oct. 29, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube, sonar21.com



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Larry Johnson tells Nima Alkhorshid about a fighter jet forced to withdraw after an Iranian missile launch.

The Duran | Lavrov in Tehran; Vance Reaches Out to Iran Hardliners; Strike After Midterms | Oct. 29, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



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A major US strike on Iran may be coming right after the midterms, and in this episode we explain why Netanyahu's strong showing in the Israeli election makes it all but certain. They break down the Wall Street Journal reports on JD Vance reaching out to Iranian hardliners, the Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani delegation to Tehran, Lavrov's visit, and why Iran refuses to surrender the Strait of Hormuz, its allies, or uranium enrichment. Could Trump be launching a conflict that is easy to start but nearly impossible to end?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Israel election, US midterms and the WSJ Iran report
00:00:55 Why the Israeli election matters most
00:03:03 Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani delegation in Tehran
00:04:30 Iran refuses to back down
00:06:02 US demands on Hormuz, Houthis and enrichment
00:07:19 Is Iran stronger than in February
00:07:56 Lavrov in Tehran and the Russian grain lifeline
00:10:48 The April MOU Trump walked away from
00:12:31 Easy to start, hard to end
00:13:07 Post midterm calculus and the impeachment factor