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Monday, May 11, 2026 · Real News. Real Talk. Real America.

9:06 ET Show Open: Iran Nuclear Deadlock

Topics:

• By not ordering the resumption of Operation Epic Fury, does President Trump now look weak?
• President Donald Trump dismissed Iran's latest multipage proposal, signaling continued deadlock in negotiations to end the war.
• "I have just read the response from Iran's so called 'Representatives.' I don't like it. TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
• According to reports, Iran's response, delivered through Pakistani mediators, failed to address Washington's core demand for advance commitments on the future of its nuclear program and uranium reserves.
• Iran's deputy foreign minister warned against efforts by the United Kingdom and France to deploy naval assets to the Strait of Hormuz, vowing an "immediate response" to any Western intervention.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the war is ongoing and pointed to Iran's nuclear material as the central unresolved threat. (Fox News)

Panelist: Dr. John Marshall Callahan, Professor at the Institute of World Politics, former Deputy Spokesman at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Bio.

9:20 ET Oil Surges as U.S. and Iran Fail to Agree

Topics:

• Oil prices jumped more than $3 a barrel after the United States and Iran failed to agree on a peace proposal Sunday, with restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz continuing to keep energy supplies tight. Is this Iran's new strategy to prolong U.S. involvement, ramping up pressure on Trump domestically and internationally?
• If President Trump does order resumption of attacks on Iran, will they target specific infrastructure rather than launching a wider bombing campaign?
• If Iran will not surrender its enriched uranium, does the U.S. resume attacking Iran's underground storage facilities?
• "Because there's still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran, there is still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled," Netanyahu said on 60 Minutes Sunday night.
• Reality: Iran is never going to surrender its uranium and never going to surrender to the United States. Does President Trump have any alternative but to resume attacks on the regime?

Panelist: Dr. John Marshall Callahan, Institute of World Politics.

9:35 ET Jake's Monologue: Starving the Beast

9:45 ET DIAL Debate: Should America Resume Epic Fury?

Topics:

• Should the United States resume Operation Epic Fury?
• Does President Trump look weakened by not responding with more than a "love tap"?
• Would you support a resumption in hostilities, even if it means you pay more at the pump for an extended period of time?

Panelists: DIAL producers and Talk of Delmarva callers.

10:08 ET Putin's Plutonium Claim, a Secret Israeli Base, and Hezbollah Blinks

Topics:

• Putin accuses the U.S. of pulling out of a secret plutonium deal with Iran, which would have given Russia custody of Iran's stockpiles of enriched material.
• Does President Trump prefer a deal with Iran prior to his trip to China this week, or will he use that trip to force China to strongarm the IRGC to surrender?
• Trump goes to China with what appears to be total control of their future oil supply.
• Iraqi media shocked by reports of a secret Israeli base as Baghdad hits a critical juncture. Reports that Iraq's sovereignty may have been undermined by a foreign force operating in the desert will cause controversy in Baghdad. (The Jerusalem Post)
• It is now official: Hezbollah blinked after the IDF assassinated its Radwan special forces chief, Ahmad Ghaleb Balout, on May 6. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Has Russia been helping Iran rearm its supply of drones to continue attacks on Gulf States and U.S. Naval vessels?

Panelist: Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (Ret.), Host of Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast.

Featured episode: Episode 34: Empires, Miscalculations & Hidden Opportunities, with Guy Vantresca on a World in Flux. Listen here.

10:33 ET Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Gerrymandering

Discussion questions:

• Ken, can you explain why a majority of Virginia Supreme Court justices found the gerrymandering process unconstitutional?
• If the process was blatantly unconstitutional, why did three justices vote against the majority?
• Democrats spent $70 million on this vote. What do they do now?
• It appears the SAVE America Act is all but dead, and a group of Republican Senators are now working to oust John Thune for the purpose of blowing up the filibuster. What do you think of this?
• As Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, how do you see election transparency in November even with all the gerrymandering?

Panelist: Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General, National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, and Senior Fellow for Homeland Security and Immigration at the Center for Renewing America. Election Transparency Initiative.

11:06 ET Flight Attendant Wins Nearly $1 Million in Religious Discrimination Case

Topics:

• Former Southwest Airlines flight attendant Charlene Carter has, after six years of legal battles, finally been awarded nearly $1 million after a jury found that radical Transport Workers Union (TWU) bosses instigated Carter's firing simply because she had expressed her protected religious beliefs. She received free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation.
• In 2017, Carter sent private Facebook messages and videos to then TWU Local 556 President Audrey Stone, criticizing the union's involvement in the Women's March, which Carter, a Christian who opposes abortion, deemed to be supporting abortion.
• Following a complaint by Stone, Southwest fired Carter for violating company "civility" and harassment policies, prompting Carter to file a lawsuit alleging religious discrimination under Title VII and violations of the Railway Labor Act.
• Represented by the National Right to Work Foundation, Carter won an initial jury trial in July 2022. The case involved allegations that union officials used dues for political activities against some members' beliefs.
• Internal communications revealed at trial showed that TWU union bosses had nothing but contempt for Carter after she raised concerns about the use of dues to send flight attendants to agitate at the Planned Parenthood backed Women's March in 2017. One union official stated, "I wish I could give her a list of all the campaigns she has donated to in the last 17 years! Her head would explode."
• Can you define a Right to Work state?

Panelist: Patrick Semmens, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. nrtw.org

11:33 ET DIAL Debate: A Property Tax Rebellion Is Emerging in America

Topics:

• Is it time to find alternative funding for schools and government services so all citizens pay for services equally?
• Public school spending now exceeds $1 trillion annually, and citizen groups say they have had enough. (The Epoch Times / Aaron Gifford)
• There is the elderly couple who paid off their mortgage decades ago but cannot afford the property taxes on their home. Their local government, theoretically, can seize the property and auction it off to someone else if the annual bills remain unpaid.
• There is the recent retiree who took a part time job at Lowe's to pay property taxes on his rental property and avoid raising his tenants' rent.
• Add empty nesters who cannot downsize to smaller houses because interest rates are too high, farmers describing an impossible situation, and recent college graduates groaning about moving farther from home to find affordable housing.
• If 413,000 residents throughout Ohio sign a petition before July 1, a public vote to eliminate local property taxes will appear on the November ballot.
• "Let the state find a way where 100 percent of the population pays for education," one Cincinnati volunteer told The Epoch Times. "They give profit making businesses a break, but not us."

Panelists: DIAL producers and Talk of Delmarva callers.

Source: The Epoch Times

11:50 ET Salute the Troops

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