Russia Rearms Iran After Israeli Strikes, Declassified FBI Files Expose Chinese Espionage Operation, Disney Sues FCC Over ABC Licenses | Your News Talk America | August 19, 2026
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Wednesday · August 19, 2026 · Live with Jake Smith, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
9:00 ET · Russia Rearms Iran, Caspian Sea Flashpoint
Russia is shipping drone, missile, and explosive components to Iran to rebuild stockpiles depleted by US and Israeli strikes, according to a new report. More than two dozen sanctioned Russian ships crossed the Caspian Sea to deliver the arms to Iran's port at Amirabad, per NBC News. Former CIA analyst Jim Lamson told the outlet the shipments underscore both Moscow and Tehran's deepening alliance and the effectiveness of the US Israeli strikes on Iran's production plants.
- Russia shipping drones, explosives to rebuild Iran's supply after US, Israeli strikes
- Will the Caspian Sea emerge as a flashpoint for a wider war?
Source: New York Post · New York Post
Guest: Paul Davis, Vice President, Institute of World Politics
9:20 ET · Disney Sues FCC Over ABC Licenses
Disney is suing the FCC to block the agency's review of its ABC broadcast licenses, including the one tied to The View. The show's take: ABC has treated its public broadcast licenses as permanent entitlements rather than privileges conditioned on serving the public interest, and is now suing to stop the FCC from even examining whether it has lived up to those obligations.
- Disney fighting back against the FCC to save its locally owned station licenses
- ABC wants the benefits of the public airwaves without the scrutiny that comes with them
Source: NewsBusters
Also on the docket: yesterday's YNTA economist panel on the true state of inflation, and the show's continuing critique of how mainstream coverage frames the numbers.
Source: NewsBusters
Guest: Joseph Vazquez, MRC Business Associate Editor, News Analysis Division · Author page
9:35 ET · Sponsored Client Segment: PAM Health
A conversation with PAM Health Sussex on strategic initiatives at the rehabilitation hospital.
Guest: Melissa Wooleyhand, RN, Director of Strategic Initiatives, PAM Health Sussex
10:00 ET · Reporting from Ukraine's Front Lines
Dr. Antonio Graceffo has been reporting for The Gateway Pundit from Kyiv and the front lines, and joins Jake on what conditions are actually like there. The conversation covers why Ukraine still needs more Patriot interceptors and why Europe, with a combined GDP comparable to the US and 44 nations at its disposal, has the industrial capacity to supply them.
- Ukraine needs more interceptors, and Europe can provide them
- India is now shipping refined gasoline to Russia
- Russian battlefield losses topped 42,860 last month, the fourth bloodiest month of the war, even as Ukraine posts its largest territorial gains in more than a year
- Ukraine has used drones and rapid tech innovation to offset Russia's manpower and equipment advantages, even as Moscow leans on North Korean troops and munitions
- The fighting now reaches deep into Russian territory and the Black Sea, including strikes near the Novorossiysk naval base
- What Putin needs from Iran in return for resupplying it, and whether IRGC fighters could join Russia's war effort
Source: The Gateway Pundit · The Gateway Pundit · The Gateway Pundit · The Gateway Pundit · New York Post
Guest: Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China MBA, economist and national security analyst focused on China and Russia, American Military University graduate, reporter for The Gateway Pundit · China Econ Group
10:20 ET · Who Controls World Governments?
Mel K joins the show to trace the hidden history of globalism and the institutions that shaped the postwar world, drawing on declassified records, financial archives, and diplomatic correspondence.
- Who controls world governments, and who is fighting to control the US government?
- How financial systems and unelected institutions influence governments
- The true legacy of World War II and the decade that followed
- How sovereignty can be lost through administration rather than invasion
- Why the architecture built in the 1940s still shapes our lives today
- Why questions of national sovereignty and self government have returned to the forefront
Source: Amazon
Guest: Mel K, host of The Mel K Show, author of Americans Anonymous: Restoring Power to the People One Citizen at a Time and Infiltration Instead of Invasion: America Betrayed (1944-1954)
10:30 ET · Declassified FBI Files Expose Chinese Espionage Operation
Newly declassified FBI documents detail how Chinese intelligence allegedly used sex, money, and planted interns to work its way into American politics, centered on the case of Christine Fang, known as Fang Fang. The files reportedly reveal a relationship between Fang and Rep. Eric Swalwell and describe alleged campaign finance schemes tied to Fang and other political targets before she left the country despite an extensive FBI investigation.
- The FBI documents reveal Eric Swalwell had a relationship with Fang Fang
- Alleged CCP effort to weaponize sex, money, and interns to penetrate American politics
- Fang cultivated relationships with numerous politicians while working Chinese intelligence angles
- The documents describe alleged campaign finance schemes involving Fang and political targets
- Fang left the country despite the FBI investigation into her activities, and the show asks whether her reported death was staged, and whether she was part of a larger CCP operation
Source: The Epoch Times
Guest: Nan Su, Senior Investigative Reporter, China affairs, The Epoch Times. Born and raised in China, came to the United States in 1989 · Author page
11:00 ET · The Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act
A look at the Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act, SAWA, and whether it amounts to another amnesty bill for farm labor, roughly 40 years after the last major one.
- Analysis of what SAWA would actually do
- Why existing guest worker programs for farm labor have fallen short
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Guest: John Gibbs, Director, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation · Staff page
11:20 ET · Meta, Kids, and School Discipline Policy
Testimony from the Meta trial reportedly shows the company deliberately designed features to hook kids on its platforms, raising questions about the toll on students and teachers alike. Separately, the Department of Education is directing two school districts to stop what it calls racial balancing in student discipline after investigations into both.
- How much damage has social media done to kids, and what has it done to the school environment for teachers and students?
- The DOE says schools need to discipline students evenly after finding two districts engaged in racial balancing
- School districts nationwide are restricting cell phones in schools
Source: US Department of Education
Guest: Carolyn D. Gorman, fellow, Manhattan Institute, researching how US policy changes affect individuals with mental illness · Bio
11:30 ET · Closing Panel: Russia, Iran, and India
A closing look back at Russia's arms shipments to Iran and what they signal for Moscow, Tehran, and the wider region, plus India's gasoline shipments to Russia.
- What is in it for Russia, and could the IRGC supply soldiers to Moscow?
- Could the Caspian Sea war shipments ignite a wider war?
- With no talks underway with Iran, why isn't military action resuming?
- India is shipping gasoline to Russia. What does that indicate?
Source: New York Post
Guest: Christine Balling, Senior Vice President for Professional Affiliations, Institute of World Politics
11:50 ET · Salute the Troops
Today's salute honors Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, who died April 8, 2019, while serving during Operation Freedom's Sentinel.
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