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Houthis Seize Yemen’s Red Sea Coast, Iran Used American AI to Target U.S. Navy Ships, China Tied to Deadly Jordan Strike | Your News Talk America | September 14, 2026
Your News Talk America
Monday, September 14, 2026 · Live 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
Today’s Guests
Paul Davis is a professor at the Institute of World Politics focused on Middle Eastern studies, with decades of strategic and tactical political and military analysis spanning the Cold War through today’s upheaval in Iran, Syria and Iraq. He joins Jake twice this morning, first for the show open and again at 9:20.
9:00 AM · Show Open: A Wider War, Red Sea Chokepoint at Risk
Jake opens the show on the widening Middle East conflict, questioning whether President Trump’s turn toward negotiating with Iran was the wrong call as global shipping faces new risk. The Houthis have seized Yemen’s Red Sea coast as government forces in Yemen collapse, and Iran denies any connection. A former Pentagon spokesperson said on Fox that the Houthis are sitting ducks on Mocha and several Red Sea islands, and the group now controls the Bab al Mandeb shipping chokepoint. Separately, a drone attack on a Saudi oil pipeline is being traced to an Iran backed militia in Iraq, a strike analysts say could be a disaster for the global economy given the pipeline’s role letting Saudi Arabia bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
- Have the Houthis effectively closed a second global chokepoint alongside the Strait of Hormuz?
- What has Saudi Arabia’s response been so far, and is the Suez Canal now at risk?
- Iraq’s Prime Minister is traveling to Germany and France even as Iran backed militias in Iraq keep striking neighboring countries.
Sources: The Gateway Pundit · Jerusalem Post · Jerusalem Post
Panelist: Paul Davis, Professor, Institute of World Politics (see Today’s Guests above)
9:20 AM · Uprisings in Tehran, Iran’s AI Targeting Attempt and China’s Hand in the Jordan Attack
Jake and Paul Davis dig into new video evidence of rising unrest in Tehran, some accurate and some recycled from January, and what it signals about the regime’s grip. They also cover Anthropic’s report that Iran used its Claude AI model to compile targeting material on U.S. Navy warships in the Middle East, an operation the company says it disrupted, plus new reporting that China provided Iran the intelligence used to strike a U.S. base in Jordan, killing three American servicemembers. President Trump, asked about a Wall Street Journal report on the matter aboard Air Force One, said China “spies on us” just as “we spy on them, too.”
- Is this a fair comparison, or is helping an adversary strike U.S. forces during wartime something categorically different from ordinary espionage?
Sources: Fox News · The Wall Street Journal · Fox News
Panelist: Paul Davis, Professor, Institute of World Politics (see Today’s Guests above)
9:35 AM · A Saddam Era Intelligence Officer Arrested in Detroit, and 9/11’s Forgotten Lesson
Homeland Security Investigations has arrested Raad Alanbagi in the Detroit area after tying him to prior service as a high ranking Iraqi intelligence officer during the Saddam Hussein era. Jake asks Lora Ries how this happens. As America marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Ries, Director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, says the 9/11 Commission’s core lesson, that government agencies must share information to prevent tragedy, is being forgotten. She points to the case of Sheridan Gorman, an 18 year old whose alleged killer was released after prior encounters with law enforcement and an active warrant. Her mother, Jessica Gorman, has become a leading voice challenging sanctuary policy.
- What did the 9/11 Commission conclude about information sharing failures, and how does that relate to sanctuary policies today?
- Was Sheridan Gorman’s death preventable?
- If the border is more secure today, why does the interior remain vulnerable, and what role should local police play alongside federal immigration authorities?
- What would mass deportations actually look like in practice?
Sources: The Gateway Pundit · The Gateway Pundit · The Heritage Foundation
Panelist: Lora Ries, Director, Border Security and Immigration Center, The Heritage Foundation
10:00 AM · The Shipping Crisis Deepens, and Is the United Kingdom Breaking Up?
Jake and Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (ret), revisit the Red Sea and pipeline crises before turning to a wave of developments across the Atlantic. Following President Trump’s weekend visit to Dublin over Irish reunification, reports say Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are moving to sign a joint declaration in Cardiff demanding the right to self determination and independence referendums. Jake asks whether the push to break up the United Kingdom is a globalist trap, or fifth generation warfare. He also raises a report he posted over the weekend alleging that some of the Senate’s longest serving members have been financially compromised by an electronic voting machine company as part of an effort to target President Trump ahead of the 2026 midterms.
- What does a UK breakup mean for NATO and the storm summit gathering in Las Vegas?
Sources: Jerusalem Post · Fox News
Panelist: Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (ret), Host, Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast (Episode 53, Season II Premiere, special video segment)
10:30 AM · Trump Presses Zelensky as a Train Near Boris Johnson Takes a Drone Hit
President Trump is telling President Zelensky to stop targeting Russian oil refiners as diesel prices climb amid the Iran war, though Antonio Graceffo and Jake question whether Zelensky will actually stand down. The Houthis’ capture of Yemen’s Red Sea coast continues to put world trade in crisis. Separately, a train traveling behind former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s was struck by a drone near the Ukraine Poland border, though Johnson was unharmed. The two also return to the China intelligence story from earlier in the show, with Graceffo arguing that supplying Iran with targeting information used to kill U.S. troops is not spying, it is actively helping an enemy during a state of war.
Sources: CNN · The Gateway Pundit · The Gateway Pundit
Panelist: Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China MBA, War Correspondent, The Gateway Pundit · LinkedIn · Writing Portfolio · ChinaEconGroup · Books on Amazon
11:00 AM · Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Push for Self Determination
Dr. John Marshall Callahan joins Jake to unpack the coming Cardiff summit, where ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to sign a joint declaration demanding the right to self determination and independence referendums. Callahan points to deep divisions within Northern Ireland itself, where the North retains a distinctly British character while the South leans anti British, and notes that Scotland already runs its own government in Edinburgh even as London keeps final say, with Scottish oil remaining a major flashpoint.
- What would the breakup of the United Kingdom mean for NATO and global security?
- Is the European Union positioning itself to absorb a reunified Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and even Canada?
Sources: Jerusalem Post
Panelist: Dr. John Marshall Callahan, Professor, Institute of World Politics, former Deputy Spokesperson, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
11:30 AM · Remembering 9/11 with Dr. Judy Kuriansky
Dr. Judy Kuriansky joins Jake to reflect on Towers of Light, the musical tribute she and partner Russell Daisey composed for the 20th anniversary of the attacks back in 2021, and on what the anniversary means for those most directly affected. She recalls reaching Ground Zero on her WTC ID about two weeks after the attacks and standing on Broadway looking at the burned out 4 WTC, and the lesson she carried from that period: tune in for the headlines, then tune out, rather than sitting for hours watching and hoping for news that never came. She also draws a direct line between the anxiety many Americans felt after 9/11 and what many are feeling now as the war in the Middle East spreads.
- You helped out at Ground Zero itself, offering comfort to first responders and families. What did that work look like?
- Can you speak to the kind of worry and anxiety many are feeling again right now?
Source: Towers of Light on YouTube
Panelist: Dr. Judith Kuriansky, Clinical Psychologist, Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia University Teachers College, Advisor to the Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations · Full Bio
11:50 AM · Salute the Troops
Jake closes the show honoring the men and women of the United States Armed Forces.
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Trump Returns from China, Gen. Wesley Clark on Iran, Dershowitz on The Preventative State | Your News Talk America | May 15, 2026
Show Notes and Rundown
Your News Talk America · Show Notes
Friday, May 15, 2026 · Hosted by Jake Smith
9:06 Show Open: Trump Wraps China Trip, Reports of CIA Raid on DNI Gabbard’s Office
Jake opens with reports that DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s office was raided two nights ago by the CIA, with records related to the JFK assassination and CIA mind control programs reportedly seized. Then the show pivots to the president’s stated assessment of his Beijing visit: “We were treated very well.”
- Trump departs China after touting trade deals and a stated agreement with Xi Jinping on Iran, including that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. How long until China reneges or cheats?
- In an exclusive interview with Sean Hannity, Trump said Xi offered to help ensure navigation through the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. and Iran continue talks. (Fox News)
- Trump says Xi agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets during the Beijing meetings.
- Kevin O’Leary: “The problem is, and it’s been documented so many times, they don’t play by the rules. These companies who are doing business there are finding all kinds of problems. Their IP gets stolen all the time. They can’t litigate when they have a dispute. There’s no way to resolve it.”
- Xi warned Trump on Taiwan, but is Xi in any position to back up the tough talk?
- Xi called America a country in decline. Isn’t China actually the one in decline?
- What was different about Trump’s 2017 visit versus this one?
- NVIDIA is going to sell chips to China. Is that a good idea?
Panelist: Dr. John Marshall Callahan, Professor at the Institute of World Politics and former Deputy Spokesperson at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. · IWP faculty bio
9:20 Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and What Tehran Still Has Left
Iran has been relatively quiet during Trump’s visit to China. Did pressure from Xi have anything to do with it? Gen. Wesley K. Clark joins Dr. Callahan to read the room on Beijing’s leverage over Tehran and CENTCOM’s assessment of what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps still has in the field.
- How is China likely to pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
- Can Xi be trusted when he tells Trump, “whatever you need?”
- Will arms shipments to Iran continue regardless of Xi’s promises?
- CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper says the IRGC still has moderate military capability despite a diminished threat, with 70 to 75 percent of its rocket launchers available. How much of a concern is this?
- Admiral Cooper also testified that the U.S. has destroyed 85 percent of Iran’s weapons manufacturing capabilities. How dangerous is the remaining 15 percent?
Panelists: Dr. John Marshall Callahan, IWP · Gen. Wesley K. Clark, retired four star U.S. Army officer and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1997 to 2000). Clark graduated first in his class at West Point (1966), was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in Vietnam. As SACEUR he led Operation Allied Force during the 1999 Kosovo War.
9:35 Monologue
Jake’s take of the day.
9:45 “America’s 250th Coming · Time 2 Re-declare” with Allan Parker
Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence, Parker and fellow signatories have released the Declaration of the Right to Life in the U.S. Constitution, a formal appeal to the Supreme Court, Congress, and the American people asserting that the Constitution’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Life Clauses protect life from commencement.
- The declaration argues the Constitution already protects life from commencement.
- It cites the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Life Clauses.
- It references founders James Wilson and John Witherspoon and draws on originalist constitutional interpretation to argue that early American law recognized legal protection for human life from its beginning.
- It calls on the Supreme Court to recognize the constitutional right to life.
- The declaration frames the abortion question as a constitutional and civilizational matter tied to the nation’s founding creed that all people are “endowed by their Creator” with the unalienable right to life.
- Supporters argue America cannot celebrate 250 years of liberty while, in their view, failing to protect the first right named in the Declaration itself.
- Nowhere has abortion been more devastating than Communist China. The one child policy has reshaped its country and its culture.
Panelist: Allan Parker, President of The Justice Foundation. · thejusticefoundation.org
10:08 Alan Dershowitz on The Preventative State, the Midterms, and the Redistricting Wars
Professor Dershowitz has said publicly that he is working to ensure the Democrats do not take control of the House and Senate next January. Jake asks why, plus how the law professor reads the redistricting fight, the violence outside a Jewish center in Brooklyn, and whether any elected official has taken up the ideas from his latest book.
- Why work to keep the Democrats out of a House and Senate majority?
- The video earlier this week of pro Hamas thugs terrorizing Jewish teenagers outside a Jewish center in Brooklyn. Are these the seeds sown by the Democrats in America?
- The war over redistricting. How does the professor see it?
- Has any elected representative approached the professor about implementing the ideas in The Preventative State?
Panelist: Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus. Author of The Preventative State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties, a roadmap for today’s complex legal and constitutional issues.
10:20 The EU Wants a Say on the Paramount and Warner Merger
A group of U.S. and European lawmakers told Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison that the company’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will be subject to careful scrutiny by European regulators and that he should not consider shareholder approval of the deal to be the final word. Three European Parliament members and two Democratic U.S. House lawmakers issued the warning in a letter sent Thursday and shared exclusively with CNBC.
- Why does the EU have anything to say about the merger of two U.S. corporations?
- Isn’t this another case of EU harassment of U.S. companies?
- Gary, we had you on YNTA back on April 27. Have you had any change of heart on this merger since then? Is this a good or bad deal for consumers?
Source: CNBC · Paramount, WBD, Congress, EU and David Ellison
Panelist: Gary Scimeca, Chair, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE). · caseforconsumers.org
10:33 Pennsylvania Election Integrity Update with Cdr. Gregory Stenstrom
Our next panelist has spent so much time representing himself in court that he decided to write a book about it. Jake asks Cdr. Stenstrom why he was forced to file lawsuits pro se while fighting for election integrity in Pennsylvania, and where things stand now.
- Why the pro se litigation in the fight for election integrity in Pennsylvania?
- It has been almost one month since the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that election Cast Vote Records (CVR) must be made public. What has happened since?
- Are you confident the November midterms will be free and fair?
Panelist: Commander Gregory Stenstrom, USN. Author of I Stand on my Briefs: Pro Se Legal Warfare. Pennsylvania Election Integrity Investigator. · patriot.online
10:50 The Constitution of 1789 with Ilan Wurman
If ever there was a time to reflect on who we are as a nation and how faithfully we have lived up to the high mark set by the founders, America’s 250th birthday would be that time. Professor Wurman’s new book is packed with insights on the Constitution’s original meaning across the separation of powers, emergency powers, foreign affairs, war, the legislative veto, judicial power, the Constitution and slavery, federalism, commerce, state sovereignty, and taxing and spending.
Professor Wurman weighs in on current legal questions:
- Maduro and Iran: “International law is irrelevant to the question of constitutional power. Whether the President can unilaterally capture Maduro, or intervene in Iran, has nothing to do with international law and everything to do with the Constitution’s original distribution of powers.”
- Voting Rights Act: “The Supreme Court rebuffed the progressive movement lawyer theory of the Voting Rights Act that required states to maximize Democratic voting power by unconstitutionally focusing on race.”
- Birthright Citizenship: “The Supreme Court has never decided the question of birthright citizenship for children born to illegal aliens or temporary visitors. The Trump Administration is on much stronger footing as a historical matter than many believe.”
Panelist: Ilan Wurman, Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Author of The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction. · Books by Ilan Wurman
11:06 Chris Salcedo on The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino
For decades, leftists in the media and in the Democrat Party have tried to sell a simple equation: to be Latino is to be liberal. They claimed any resistance to their agenda, whether open borders, defunding the police, or socialist economic policy, was racist. That narrative was never true, and millions of Latinos are proving it wrong every day. Salcedo’s book tells the story mainstream media refuses to cover: a growing number of Hispanic Americans standing up for faith, family, freedom, and the Constitution.
- How do you react to Kamala Harris’s comments to the leftist organization Emerge America? Is this their manifesto to seize power?
- Hakeem Jeffries is at it again. “Maximum warfare.” Now he is going to crush our souls? Whose souls is he going to crush?
- Jeffries sounds angry. His party wasted $70 million in the Virginia redistricting scheme.
- What is your analysis of the redistricting wars, and do Republicans have an advantage heading into November?
- How are Latinos doing at this point in President Trump’s second term? They are undoubtedly hurt by higher energy prices. Have the benefits from the BBB made a difference?
- Will the fraud investigations gain any traction for the midterms?
Panelist: Chris Salcedo, author of The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino. Host of the Chris Salcedo Radio Show on AM 700 KSEV Houston and 820 AM WBAP Dallas/Fort Worth, plus The Salcedo Storm Podcast.
11:33 Countdown to 250 · Constitutional Questions with Dr. Murray Sabrin
Celebrating 250 years of American independence. Dr. Sabrin brings the week’s constitutional question to the table.
- Should President Trump have sought congressional approval before the war in Iran?
- Congress does control the purse strings.
- What was the constitutional issue that caught your eye this week?
Panelist: Murray Sabrin, PhD, Mises Institute Associated Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Finance at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Judge Andrew Napolitano calls Dr. Sabrin “a courageous genius and an intellectual giant.”
11:50 Salute the Troops
Today we honor the ultimate sacrifice of 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr. and Spc. Mariyah Symone Collington.
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