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November 28, 2025
TV Host Olha Bilan TV Host and Jason Smart American, political strategist discussed the latest news surrounding the war in Ukraine. What do the Witkoff–Ushakov and Ushakov–Dmitriev transcripts reveal about U.S.–Russian negotiations? What is your view on President Trump describing the conversation between Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian aide Yuri Ushakov as 'standard practice'?"
American negotiator Daniel Driscoll cautioned European diplomats that Russia is rapidly ramping up missile production and building large stockpiles capable of influencing the course of the war and Europe’s security. Could these arguments potentially have been used to encourage support for the American peace plan and speed up its approval? - 11/28/2025.
⚡️Trump changes plans regarding Ukraine! Did Kremlin pressure US? Unexpected details about peace plan - War & Politics 24
TV Host Olha Bilan TV Host and Jason Smart American, political strategist discussed the latest news surrounding the war in Ukraine. What do the Witkoff–Ushakov and Ushakov–Dmitriev transcripts reveal about U.S.–Russian negotiations? What is your view on President Trump describing the conversation between Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian aide Yuri Ushakov as 'standard practice'?"
American negotiator Daniel Driscoll cautioned European diplomats that Russia is rapidly ramping up missile production and building large stockpiles capable of influencing the course of the war and Europe’s security. Could these arguments potentially have been used to encourage support for the American peace plan and speed up its approval? - 11/28/2025.
November 28, 2025
Ken Harbaugh breaks down the Trump regime’s mounting panic as veterans across the country rally behind Senator Mark Kelly in the face of politically motivated threats. In part one of this conversation, Kris Goldsmith explains how Trump’s enforcers are trying—and failing—to intimidate Kelly and other truth-tellers. - 11/27/2025.
The Kelly Backlash Trump Didn't See Coming - Ken Harbaugh
Ken Harbaugh breaks down the Trump regime’s mounting panic as veterans across the country rally behind Senator Mark Kelly in the face of politically motivated threats. In part one of this conversation, Kris Goldsmith explains how Trump’s enforcers are trying—and failing—to intimidate Kelly and other truth-tellers. - 11/27/2025.
November 28, 2025
November 27, 2025: Trump Regrets and FAFO Experiences
MAGA voters are regretting their decision to cast their vote for Donald Trump as the United States economy crumbles and Trump fails to keep his campaign promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Trump Voters FAFO - November 27, 2025 - Raw News And Politics
November 27, 2025: Trump Regrets and FAFO Experiences
MAGA voters are regretting their decision to cast their vote for Donald Trump as the United States economy crumbles and Trump fails to keep his campaign promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
November 28, 2025
Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) confronts Secretary Pete Hegseth with a reality that Washington rarely acknowledges: the U.S.–Mexico border is not a political backdrop — it is a living, complex landscape that demands real knowledge and real solutions. Vasquez, who grew up in this region and has worked with ranchers, landowners, wildlife biologists, and border agents for years, brings facts, geography, and lived experience that Hegseth simply cannot match.
When Hegseth cannot identify where the New Mexico border wall starts and stops, cannot describe the terrain, and cannot explain why the Bootheel remains unwalled, Vasquez lays bare the difference between governing by headline and governing by understanding. Vast stretches of mountains, narrow canyons, remote passes, and rugged wilderness cannot be solved with a one-size-fits-all wall. The “just build it everywhere” claim collapses the moment real geography is introduced.
Vasquez’s point grows sharper as the exchange unfolds: the Department of Defense has diverted more than a billion dollars away from troop housing, modernization, and quality-of-life programs to fund border deployments — yet the Secretary of Defense cannot explain basic border facts. Meanwhile, proven technologies like tethered aerostats and autonomous surveillance towers go underfunded despite being force multipliers that agents on the ground actively request.
Vasquez makes the tension unmistakable: billions are being spent based on political optics, not operational needs. The boots-on-the-ground reality does not match the rhetoric coming from Washington. And Hegseth’s lack of knowledge isn’t just embarrassing — it suggests that border policy is being crafted by people who haven’t bothered to understand the land, the communities, or the agents who live and work in these remote regions every day.
This hearing becomes a rare moment when lived experience overwhelms political talking points. Vasquez calls for something simple: less performance, more knowledge; fewer photo ops, more time on the ground; fewer slogans, more real strategy. And he forces the country to see how disconnected border politics have become from border reality. - 11/27/2025.
Vasquez EXPOSES Hegseth's Border Ignorance in Fiery Hearing - Liberal Lens
Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) confronts Secretary Pete Hegseth with a reality that Washington rarely acknowledges: the U.S.–Mexico border is not a political backdrop — it is a living, complex landscape that demands real knowledge and real solutions. Vasquez, who grew up in this region and has worked with ranchers, landowners, wildlife biologists, and border agents for years, brings facts, geography, and lived experience that Hegseth simply cannot match.
When Hegseth cannot identify where the New Mexico border wall starts and stops, cannot describe the terrain, and cannot explain why the Bootheel remains unwalled, Vasquez lays bare the difference between governing by headline and governing by understanding. Vast stretches of mountains, narrow canyons, remote passes, and rugged wilderness cannot be solved with a one-size-fits-all wall. The “just build it everywhere” claim collapses the moment real geography is introduced.
Vasquez’s point grows sharper as the exchange unfolds: the Department of Defense has diverted more than a billion dollars away from troop housing, modernization, and quality-of-life programs to fund border deployments — yet the Secretary of Defense cannot explain basic border facts. Meanwhile, proven technologies like tethered aerostats and autonomous surveillance towers go underfunded despite being force multipliers that agents on the ground actively request.
Vasquez makes the tension unmistakable: billions are being spent based on political optics, not operational needs. The boots-on-the-ground reality does not match the rhetoric coming from Washington. And Hegseth’s lack of knowledge isn’t just embarrassing — it suggests that border policy is being crafted by people who haven’t bothered to understand the land, the communities, or the agents who live and work in these remote regions every day.
This hearing becomes a rare moment when lived experience overwhelms political talking points. Vasquez calls for something simple: less performance, more knowledge; fewer photo ops, more time on the ground; fewer slogans, more real strategy. And he forces the country to see how disconnected border politics have become from border reality. - 11/27/2025.
November 28, 2025
Trying to force a protégé to sleep with him is the least of Larry Summers sins. I’ve been hunting this toxic asset for three decades, and his victims number in the millions. No kidding.
The current charge that finally brought Summers down was the revelation that he was asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to seduce a young mentee, using his position as one of the world’s most powerful economists to get her pants off. Yuck.
But I’m not writing to tell you about Larry the Lecher. Rather, I want to let you in on the secret known by a couple Nobel Prize winning acquaintances of mine who would agree that Larry Summers may just be the most dangerous, destructive economist on Earth. (And that’s saying a lot because I was a protégé of another killer economist: Milton Friedman, the mouthpiece for the phony “free market” horrors that have bedeviled the planet for decades.)
What set me on Summers was a whole stack of confidential documents I obtained via the brilliant investigator Mary Bottari of the Center for Media and Democracy. She’d gotten her hands on hundreds of secret documents of the World Bank where Summers had been Chief Economist.
But the killer doc was a highly confidential note written in 1997 from Summer’s flunky, Timothy Geithner, who was then Ambassador to the World Trade Organization when Summers was Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton.
Clinton would soon give Summers the top job as Treasury Secretary when Robert Rubin went off to Chair Citibank (for a $126 million paycheck), a financial monolith created by banking “deregulation” as promoted by Rubin, Geithner and Summers.
The Summers plan for de-regulation allowed banks to gamble our savings accounts in the new derivatives markets. It didn’t take long for the crash. In 2008, Summers’ suckers — that’s you and me, the public — ponied up some $4 TRILLION dollars to bail out Citibank, Goldman Sachs (once chaired by Rubin). America went bust while Summers, Rubin and Geithner cashed in big time. - 11/25/2025.
Get the full story, read: Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/larry-summers-epstein-and-the-end
For more from Palast, subscribe to his Substack: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/
Support independent journalism, buy Greg a coffee: https://buy.stripe.com/14kdRh1QhgDi34s4gh
The sins of Summers go way beyond Epstein, his victims number in the millions - Greg Palast
Trying to force a protégé to sleep with him is the least of Larry Summers sins. I’ve been hunting this toxic asset for three decades, and his victims number in the millions. No kidding.
The current charge that finally brought Summers down was the revelation that he was asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to seduce a young mentee, using his position as one of the world’s most powerful economists to get her pants off. Yuck.
But I’m not writing to tell you about Larry the Lecher. Rather, I want to let you in on the secret known by a couple Nobel Prize winning acquaintances of mine who would agree that Larry Summers may just be the most dangerous, destructive economist on Earth. (And that’s saying a lot because I was a protégé of another killer economist: Milton Friedman, the mouthpiece for the phony “free market” horrors that have bedeviled the planet for decades.)
What set me on Summers was a whole stack of confidential documents I obtained via the brilliant investigator Mary Bottari of the Center for Media and Democracy. She’d gotten her hands on hundreds of secret documents of the World Bank where Summers had been Chief Economist.
But the killer doc was a highly confidential note written in 1997 from Summer’s flunky, Timothy Geithner, who was then Ambassador to the World Trade Organization when Summers was Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton.
Clinton would soon give Summers the top job as Treasury Secretary when Robert Rubin went off to Chair Citibank (for a $126 million paycheck), a financial monolith created by banking “deregulation” as promoted by Rubin, Geithner and Summers.
The Summers plan for de-regulation allowed banks to gamble our savings accounts in the new derivatives markets. It didn’t take long for the crash. In 2008, Summers’ suckers — that’s you and me, the public — ponied up some $4 TRILLION dollars to bail out Citibank, Goldman Sachs (once chaired by Rubin). America went bust while Summers, Rubin and Geithner cashed in big time. - 11/25/2025.
Get the full story, read: Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/larry-summers-epstein-and-the-end
For more from Palast, subscribe to his Substack: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/
Support independent journalism, buy Greg a coffee: https://buy.stripe.com/14kdRh1QhgDi34s4gh
November 28, 2025
Authorities say the suspect is a 29-year-old Afghan national who worked a CIA-backed unit during the war in Afghanistan. - Aired on 11/27/2025.
Trump announces National Guard member who was shot has died - ABC News
Authorities say the suspect is a 29-year-old Afghan national who worked a CIA-backed unit during the war in Afghanistan. - Aired on 11/27/2025.
November 28, 2025
Two National Guard members are in critical condition after a "brazen and targeted" shooting near the White House. The suspect is an Afghan national who worked with U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan, according to the CIA. The shooting is being investigated as an act of terror. - 11/27/2025.
Trump calls National Guard shooting an 'act of terror,' orders 500 more troops to D.C. - MS NOW Reports
Two National Guard members are in critical condition after a "brazen and targeted" shooting near the White House. The suspect is an Afghan national who worked with U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan, according to the CIA. The shooting is being investigated as an act of terror. - 11/27/2025.
November 28, 2025
Seth addresses a new feature on X revealing that some popular MAGA accounts are actually based outside of the U.S. and more in his monologue for Thursday, November 27, before inviting his kids for a surprise interview.
Seth Meyers - Trump Floats Weird Nicknames for "Trump Republicans" - Monologue 11/27/2025
Seth addresses a new feature on X revealing that some popular MAGA accounts are actually based outside of the U.S. and more in his monologue for Thursday, November 27, before inviting his kids for a surprise interview.
November 28, 2025
Ken Harbaugh breaks down Donald Trump’s latest escalation: explicit calls for the execution of his political opponents, followed by a wave of real-world threats against the lawmakers he targeted.
He’s joined by extremism expert Kris Goldsmith to expose how Trump’s rhetoric is bleeding into the very institutions meant to prevent political violence—and what that means for American democracy. - 11/28/2025.
Trump Sparks WAVE OF CHAOS after UNHINGED POST - Meidas Touch
Ken Harbaugh breaks down Donald Trump’s latest escalation: explicit calls for the execution of his political opponents, followed by a wave of real-world threats against the lawmakers he targeted.
He’s joined by extremism expert Kris Goldsmith to expose how Trump’s rhetoric is bleeding into the very institutions meant to prevent political violence—and what that means for American democracy. - 11/28/2025.
November 28, 2025
Jamie Raskin confronts FBI Director Kash Patel with one of the most revealing contradictions in modern congressional oversight. Before taking charge of the FBI, Patel publicly accused the bureau of protecting Jeffrey Epstein’s network, hiding the “black book,” and shielding powerful individuals connected to a global trafficking operation. He insisted the FBI director had full authority to release everything — and he vowed that if he ever held that power, he would make the entire file public.
Two hundred days into his tenure, none of that has happened. And Raskin brings the receipts — Patel’s own clips, his own claims, his own promises. What follows is a clash between past certainty and present responsibility. Patel now cites court orders, limited warrants, and legal constraints he once dismissed. Raskin pushes back, demanding to know why the man who accused the FBI of secrecy now defends that same secrecy from the inside.
This exchange exposes the gap between political rhetoric and the reality of governance. Raskin presses Patel on the seized computers, financial records, emails, documents, and investigative files the public still hasn’t seen. Patel insists he has released “everything lawfully permitted.” Raskin points out that this contradicts what Patel said when he claimed full control over the Epstein materials.
This hearing raises a deeper question: What happens when someone who built his brand on demanding total transparency suddenly finds reasons not to deliver it? Raskin forces Patel to confront the promises he made and the expectations he created — expectations he can no longer escape now that he holds the power he once claimed was the only thing standing between the public and the truth. - 11/27/2025.
Raskin Exposes Patel's Flip-Flop on the Epstein List - Liberal Lens
Jamie Raskin confronts FBI Director Kash Patel with one of the most revealing contradictions in modern congressional oversight. Before taking charge of the FBI, Patel publicly accused the bureau of protecting Jeffrey Epstein’s network, hiding the “black book,” and shielding powerful individuals connected to a global trafficking operation. He insisted the FBI director had full authority to release everything — and he vowed that if he ever held that power, he would make the entire file public.
Two hundred days into his tenure, none of that has happened. And Raskin brings the receipts — Patel’s own clips, his own claims, his own promises. What follows is a clash between past certainty and present responsibility. Patel now cites court orders, limited warrants, and legal constraints he once dismissed. Raskin pushes back, demanding to know why the man who accused the FBI of secrecy now defends that same secrecy from the inside.
This exchange exposes the gap between political rhetoric and the reality of governance. Raskin presses Patel on the seized computers, financial records, emails, documents, and investigative files the public still hasn’t seen. Patel insists he has released “everything lawfully permitted.” Raskin points out that this contradicts what Patel said when he claimed full control over the Epstein materials.
This hearing raises a deeper question: What happens when someone who built his brand on demanding total transparency suddenly finds reasons not to deliver it? Raskin forces Patel to confront the promises he made and the expectations he created — expectations he can no longer escape now that he holds the power he once claimed was the only thing standing between the public and the truth. - 11/27/2025.
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