Trump Weighs Declaring Iran Victory Without Nuclear Deal, Iran Demands US Correct Its Behavior in Strait of Hormuz, Medicare Reform Fight Over Reconciliation 3.0 | Your News Talk America
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Show Notes · Monday, August 10, 2026
Today's Guests
Paul Davis is Vice President at the Institute of World Politics, with a career in strategic and tactical political and military analysis spanning the Cold War to the current Middle East upheaval. He joins Jake twice this morning, first in the show open and again at 9:20.
9:00 Show Open: Is Trump's War Turning Into Trump's Mess?
The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump has privately floated declaring victory on Iran without a nuclear deal, with Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping as a key condition. Officials say the president believes Tehran is unlikely to revive its nuclear program after Operation Midnight Hammer's damage to Iran's nuclear infrastructure in June 2025.
- Trump has told senior aides privately that if the Strait of Hormuz reopens and Iran's nuclear program stays in check, he would be more likely to extend the ceasefire indefinitely.
- What happened to tough talk? The White House's announcement that it intends to "low key it" on Iran has reignited debate over its shifting posture toward the regime.
- Commentator Suleiman Maswadeh warns Trump's position could flip again within days, and asks what the IRGC is doing if Americans have tuned Trump out.
- Iran's Supreme National Security Council says the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until the United States "corrects its behavior," demanding an end to threats, a full US military withdrawal from the region, war damage compensation, sanctions relief, and the release of frozen assets.
- A vessel owned by Abu Dhabi's state owned ADNOC was attacked transiting the Strait of Hormuz Saturday; Iran fired the missile as part of continued attacks on commercial shipping, the UAE Foreign Ministry said.
Sources:
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-904974
jpost.com/middle-east/article-904900
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-904972
jpost.com/international/article-905026
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-905036
Guest: Paul Davis, Vice President, Institute of World Politics (bio above)
9:20 What Is Going On Inside Iran? And Let Us Not Forget Hamas
Iran faces surging protests and economic collapse as war and leadership crises deepen. Civil protests, including demonstrations by pensioners, have intensified across cities, and the government is reportedly preparing for a scenario of urban warfare against armed opponents.
- January's protests showed how millions of people, equipped with a clear program and progressive leadership, could overthrow the regime, one analysis argues.
- A University of Tehran student told The Media Line that the Islamic Republic has no option but continued warmongering to justify keeping its armed forces in the streets.
- Separately, Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected President Trump's Gaza peace deal, suggesting the enclave would become "Hamastan" without full Hamas disarmament, and says Israeli forces will remain in place until then.
- The move risks angering the US president and leaves the prospect of Gaza peace bleaker than ever, according to The Telegraph.
Sources:
jpost.com/middle-east/article-905049
Guest: Paul Davis, Vice President, Institute of World Politics (bio above)
9:35 Japan's Bond Dump and the State of the Economy
A headline circulating on X over the weekend claimed Japan dumped ¥696.2 billion in foreign bonds, mostly US Treasuries, one of Japan's biggest capital outflows in recent years. Is it accurate, and is Japan propping up its own currency?
- National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream that inflation during the Biden years remains a continuing economic problem for Americans.
- Bream cited polling showing 76 percent of respondents call the economy fair or poor, with the largest group saying they are falling behind financially.
- Hassett pointed to rising wages but warned that DSA aligned candidates could gain in the midterms with policies he called very destructive to the country.
- Is the Trump economy all about the future, and not about right now?
Guest: Jason Sorens, PhD, Economist, American Institute for Economic Research
10:00 Weapons Stockpiles, and the Public Health Deep State
The Trump Iran posture and Strait of Hormuz standoff remain in flux (see the 9:00 rundown above for full detail). General, the low stockpile levels of US weapons will not go away. What is going on, and would Russia or China test US military preparedness?
- The next episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, "Blood Sport: Fauci, AIDS and the Cost of Telling the Truth," focuses on the public health deep state, tracing its roots to the 1976 Swine Flu vaccination program.
- With all that Fauci has done, nothing is more damaging than the destruction of public health credibility.
- Is what Fauci did any different from some of the most dangerous genocidal figures in world history?
- Exile and isolation amount to a modern day internment, the kind Celia Farber and many others faced then and now.
- The influenza vaccine has become another opportunity for the enemies of a free people.
Sources:
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-904972
jpost.com/middle-east/article-904900
jpost.com/international/article-905026
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-905036
Guest: Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (ret), Host, Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast, Episode 48: "Blood Sport: Fauci, AIDS and the Cost of Telling the Truth"
10:30 What Is Another $95 Billion in Spending?
Fiscal hawks are demanding spending cuts before backing Reconciliation 3.0, and there is a clear place to find them: Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Hospitals are reimbursed significantly more than independent providers for identical care, while flaws in the Medicare Advantage payment system let insurers collect inflated reimbursements through upcoding.
- Fixing these incentives would generate more than enough savings over the next decade to offset Reconciliation 3.0's estimated cost.
- The Senate is now on a five week recess.
- Waste, fraud, and abuse plague government healthcare programs, with hospitals and insurers wasting billions in taxpayer dollars.
- What existing policies can lawmakers use to amend Reconciliation 3.0, and how much fraud runs through federal healthcare reimbursements?
Sources:
washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4674859
kff.org: site neutral payment reforms
medicare.chir.georgetown.edu: CMS upcoding
Guest: Charles Sauer, Policy Expert and President, Market Institute
11:00 Has the Tone Shifted on Both Sides of the Iran War?
Trump has grown quieter in his approach to Iran while Tehran has grown louder, making new demands on the United States. What has changed over the past several days?
- UN Ambassador Mike Waltz said Iran is more afraid of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent than Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, telling Fox News that Iranian negotiators are focused on "cash, cash, cash" because they can absorb the bombings.
- Waltz said Iran does not care about its military or soldiers, "or even the Iranian people after they massacred 40,000 of them."
- Iran's six demands are dead on arrival, but are they mainly a display for the regime's own people, showing it remains in charge?
- With Netanyahu publicly rejecting the Board of Peace plan to disarm Hamas, what comes next?
- Should Iran fear the new Mecca Defense pact, and would that mean a NATO like response?
Source:
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-904178
Guest: Dr. James S. Robbins, Senior Vice President for Research and Business Development, Institute of World Politics; national security columnist, USA Today; Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs, American Foreign Policy Council
11:30 The Catholic Case for Zionism
In a current op ed in the Jerusalem Post, Jonathan Feldstein explores Zionism from the Roman Catholic perspective, addressing a central question: can a faithful Catholic be a Zionist?
- Zionism is defined as the Jewish people's right to self determination in its ancestral homeland.
- Catholic Zionism recognizes God's faithfulness in the return of the Jewish people while acknowledging Israel as a human, fallible state subject to the same moral scrutiny as any other.
- Is it up to Roman Catholics themselves to lay out the case for Catholic Zionism, given that the Roman Catholic Church is rooted in Zionism?
Source:
jpost.com/christianworld/article-904738
Guest: Jonathan Feldstein, President, Genesis 1-2-3 Foundation
11:50 Salute the Troops
Your News Talk America closes the show honoring the men and women of the US Armed Forces.
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