China Arms Iran Ahead of Xi Visit, Antisemitic Hate Crimes Surge in NYC, Are Therapists Breaking Up Families | Your News Talk America
Your News Talk America with Jake Smith
Show Notes for Tuesday, August 4, 2026
9:00 Show Open: China Arms Iran Ahead of Xi's Visit
Jake opens with reporting that China has decided to supply Iran with hundreds of rocket launchers, a move national security analysts say confirms what is already plain: the Chinese Communist Party is America's foremost rival and is drawing closer to regimes hostile to US interests.
- Why would Beijing arm Tehran just weeks before Xi's scheduled White House visit next month?
- Is China betting that Iran shoots down US aircraft before the 2026 midterms?
- What does this say about the deepening axis between China and America's adversaries?
Guest: Nan Su, Senior Investigative Reporter and China affairs expert, The Epoch Times · theepochtimes.com/author/nathan-su
9:20 Does Citizenship Still Matter?
Jack Tomczak argues that the growing push to let noncitizens vote in local elections changes the very meaning of American citizenship, and that protecting the ballot is really about protecting the value of citizenship itself.
- States and municipalities keep testing the boundaries of noncitizen voting, and the trend is spreading.
- The constitutional and policy case for reserving the vote for US citizens only.
- Why Americans for Citizen Voting is pursuing a constitutional amendment to protect citizen only voting nationwide.
- Jack's new Washington Examiner op-ed: Noncitizen Voting Devalues American Citizenship, When Exceptions Become the Norm.
Guest: Jack Tomczak, National Director, Americans for Citizen Voting · onlycitizens.vote
9:35 The War Over American History
Author Ray Deptula joins Jake on the fight over how America tells its own story, including his reaction to the Smithsonian's efforts to reframe the nation's history.
- Most Americans know Lexington and Yorktown, but few know the brutal Southern campaign that ultimately won the Revolution.
- In Can't Find My Way Home, the sequel to A Dog Before a Soldier, former US Naval Officer Ray Deptula follows British deserter Jack Halliday and his friend Custis, an enslaved man, through the chaos of South Carolina after the Battle of Camden.
- A story of friendship, loyalty, and moral courage set in one of America's most overlooked conflicts.
Guest: Ray Deptula, author of Can't Find My Way Home · on Amazon · raydeptulaauthor.com
10:00 A Border Collapse in Spain and a Farm Labor Fight at Home
Lora Ries of the Heritage Foundation joins Jake after tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants breached the Spanish city of Ceuta, with local officials describing the border as having totally collapsed.
- Video showed a sudden stream of migrants circumventing the border fence and running freely once ashore. The migrants numbered roughly 70 percent of the city's population.
- Continental Europe has permitted mass illegal migration from North Africa for years. What was behind this surge, and was social media partly to blame?
- Her analysis of the Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act. Is SAWA just another Republican amnesty bill, 40 years later? And do we not already have a guest worker program for farm labor?
Source: Heritage, 5 things to know about the agriculture amnesty bill (Daren Bakst)
Guest: Lora Ries, Director, Border Security and Immigration Center, The Heritage Foundation · heritage.org/staff/lora-ries
10:20 Could One Bad Post Wreck Your Career?
Ryan McCormick joins Jake on the growing risk that a single social media post can end a career, and on PostCheck, a tool built to flag that risk before you hit send.
- A Harris Poll for Express Employment Professionals found nearly 9 in 10 employers, 88 percent, say they would fire someone over an inappropriate post.
- CareerBuilder research found 34 percent of employers have disciplined or fired an employee over online activity, and 57 percent found content that led them not to hire a candidate.
- PostCheck analyzes draft posts, emails, and messages for career, legal, financial, and reputational risk, a five second reality check before publishing.
- Should people share political or social views online at all, especially when coworkers are watching?
Guest: Ryan McCormick, cofounder of Goldman McCormick Public Relations and creator of PostCheck · postcheck.net
10:30 Are Therapists Fueling Family Estrangement?
Carolyn Gorman of the Manhattan Institute joins Jake on a growing debate: after decades of urging families to work through conflict, some therapists now encourage estrangement as a form of self care, and a number of researchers say it is doing real harm.
- Critics warn the approach rewards fragility and self delusion and tears families apart, with the bar for what counts as abusive dropping fast.
- About 25 percent of Americans are estranged from a close relative at any given time, and 10 percent from a parent or child, per Cornell researcher Karl Pillemer.
- Among roughly 7,000 estranged parents surveyed in April, a third believed their adult child's therapist influenced or recommended the cutoff.
Guest: Carolyn D. Gorman, fellow, Manhattan Institute · @CarolynGorman_
11:00 Antisemitic Hate Crimes Surge in New York City
Jake looks at unsettling new NYPD numbers with two guests. Hate crimes rose in New York City this year under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, even as every major crime category fell sharply.
- Hate crimes rose 9.4 percent citywide even as murders and shootings hit historic lows across all five boroughs, per NYPD data released Monday.
- More than half of hate crimes, 56.9 percent, were antisemitic, though Jewish residents make up about 10 percent of the city's population.
- Antisemitic incidents so far this year rose 8.5 percent, 205 year to date compared with 189 for the same period in 2025.
Source: New York Post on the NYPD hate crime data
Guest: Sydney Altfield, National Director, Teach Coalition · manhattan.institute/person/sydney-altfield
Guest: Rabbi Michael Barclay, host of The Rabbi's Table: Dialogue Not Debate on CRN Digital Talk Radio · rabbimichaelbarclay.com/podcast
11:30 The Politics Behind the Paramount Merger Lawsuit
Tom Jones joins Jake to follow the money behind California Attorney General Rob Bonta's lawsuit to block the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger, and who really stands to gain.
- A federal judge in Northern California handed Bonta and 10 other Democratic attorneys general a preliminary win, a ruling the Wall Street Journal editorial board says defies the global antitrust consensus.
- Netflix tried to buy Warner Bros. and lost. Block this merger and its dominant position stays intact.
- Jones digs into the financial ties between the attorney general driving the suit and the family behind Netflix.
Source: Washington Examiner op-ed by Tom Jones
Guest: Tom Jones, President, American Accountability Foundation · americanaccountabilityfoundation.com
11:50 Salute the Troops
Jake closes the show honoring the men and women in uniform, with the final slot held open for any late breaking news. Producers and callers on DIAL help steer the last word.
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