Iran Munitions Shortage, Hormuz Shipping Threat, Haiti TPS Ruling | Your News Talk America

Your News Talk America, August 6, 2026: Iran munitions shortage, Hormuz shipping threat, Haiti TPS ruling

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Thursday, August 6, 2026

Today's Guests

Paul Davis, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute of World Politics and founder and president of JANUS Think. Mr. Davis was the lead analyst for MNA-3 Syria/Lebanon and coordinated with the IC on military and political issues affecting the tasked countries in regional and international activities. From 2003 to 2005, he served as lead intelligence analyst with the DIA's Iraq Division, where he was responsible for military and political intelligence production in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Full bio

9:00 · Munitions Shortage May Have Held Trump Back on Iran

The Washington Post reports that President Trump was unaware of an extreme munitions shortage limiting US military options in Iran, and confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Camp David after learning the issue he thought had been fixed had not been. The report suggests the shortage may have factored into Trump's decision not to launch what he called the biggest attack since World War II on Iran over the weekend. In the first month of the conflict, the US fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles, over 1,000 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missiles, and at least 1,300 tactical ballistic missiles.

Panelist: Paul Davis, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute of World Politics
Source: Jerusalem Post · Trump coverage · Camp David coverage

9:20 · Shipping Slows in Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb After Houthi Attack Claim

  • Shipping traffic is slowing in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb after Houthi forces said they attacked a Saudi tanker. A tanker in the Strait of Hormuz reported hearing two explosions Thursday morning, according to the UK Maritime and Trade Operations Center.
  • Two IDF soldiers were killed and four severely injured in an incident involving a booby trapped house in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
  • The IDF said Wednesday it struck Hezbollah targets in response to the group's ceasefire violations, with an additional round of strikes reported early Thursday.

Panelist: Paul Davis, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute of World Politics
Source: Jerusalem Post live updates · IDF Lebanon report · Hezbollah strikes

9:35 · The Future of Political Advertising

  • Campaigns are set to spend a record $11.6 billion on this year's midterm elections, and a new generation of campaign technology is emerging that measures not just who saw a political ad, but who actually cast a ballot because of it.
  • FullPAC works with more than 5,000 political organizations nationwide and has seen campaigns move beyond traditional targeting toward outcome based advertising using identity frameworks and post election data.
  • In a 2025 Pennsylvania judicial campaign, voters exposed to certain ads were 31 percent more likely to request a ballot and 25 percent more likely to return it, according to Data Trust.
  • Will campaigns keep shifting focus from ad performance to voter behavior, and how might a data driven approach reshape political advertising ahead of the 2028 presidential election?

Panelist: Travis Trawick, Chairman and CEO of FullPAC, a leading nonpartisan campaign technology provider
Source: FullPAC · Campaign ad spending report

10:00 · Haiti TPS, War Powers, and a Legal Roundup with Judge Napolitano

  • Trump gets an immigration win as a federal judge clears the path to end Haiti TPS following a Supreme Court ruling. If the Supreme Court already cleared the administration to rescind TPS from Haitian immigrants, how could a federal judge circumvent that ruling?
  • On June 6, the Department of Justice indicted eight individuals connected to the University of Michigan for their alleged roles in conspiracies to threaten university leaders, law enforcement, and businesses, including the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Are threats against Jews and Jewish organizations protected speech?
  • Are AI license plate readers a violation of the 4th Amendment?
  • Can CBS use its morals clause to void Tony Romo's contract after his OWI arrest?
  • For much of American history, presidents have steadily accumulated the power to wage war while Congress has surrendered the constitutional authority the Framers entrusted to it, weakening checks and balances and drawing the country into conflicts with little connection to defending America. Whose responsibility is it to reestablish congressional norms, Congress or the people? Does today's war technology, including the threat of drone attacks, demand a different command structure for preemptive warfare?

"The Union itself, which it cements and secures, destroys every pretext for a military establishment which could be dangerous. America united, with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." · James Madison, Federalist 41

Panelist: Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst at Newsmax and host of the Judging Freedom podcast. His latest opinion piece is The Normalcy of American Wars.
Source: New York Post, Haiti TPS · Jerusalem Post, University of Michigan · Jerusalem Post, Jewish Federation threats · Washington Post, AI license plates · New York Post, Tony Romo

10:30 · Oil Markets, Record Diesel Exports, and the New Minutemen

  • WTI is hovering around $75 per barrel. What happens if a deal is announced between Oman and Iran, or if the IRGC and its proxies continue attacking shipping in the Strait?
  • US diesel fuel exports hit an all time high last week at 1.9 million barrels daily, driven by shortages abroad tied to the Middle East energy crisis, even as domestic diesel production and inventories fell to 12 percent below the five year average. Most exports are going to Europe, where local refinery declines have outpaced the region's electrification push.
  • ExxonMobil and Chevron made a combined $26.5 billion in the second quarter after producing more oil and refining more fuel into a market scrambled by war, as Washington investigates why gas prices are so high, echoing the same complaints heard during the 1974 Arab Oil Embargo.
  • Sam Romain on the new Minutemen: every home battery is a modern day musket. Generating and storing your own power turns a family into a source of local resilience and emergency power for neighbors, offering survival, security, and sovereignty over the family's future.

Panelist: Sam Romain, Chairman of Americans for Energy Dominance
Source: Oilprice, diesel exports · Oilprice, inventories · Oilprice, Exxon and Chevron earnings

11:00 · Texas, the World's 8th Largest Economy, and a New Ag Bill

  • Texas is the world's 8th largest economy. What does that growth feel like for Texans and those who move there?
  • A new ag bill, HR9535, just dropped in Congress and includes amnesty for illegal immigrants. Ammon Blair argues in his Blaze opinion piece that Big Agriculture, not family farms, is driving demand for illegal labor, with many large corporations building their business model around cheap, illegal labor while independent farms operate successfully using legal workers.
  • Enforcing immigration law will not destroy American farming. Blair argues farms can thrive by hiring legal workers, using visa programs when needed, and investing in local communities rather than relying on illegal labor, and calls on the Trump administration to prioritize family farms that follow the law over policies benefiting large multinational agribusiness.
  • What is going on with the Ken Paxton campaign?

Panelist: Ammon Blair, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and 20 plus year US Border Patrol veteran
Source: HR9535 · Ammon Blair's opinion piece in the Blaze

11:30 · Protecting Kids Online: The App Store Accountability Act

  • Every day, children can download social media apps, messaging platforms, games, and other digital products that expose them to addictive content, predators, pornography, and harmful influences, often without their parents ever knowing.
  • The App Store Accountability Act would require Apple and Google to verify a user's age and obtain parental permission before a minor can download an app or make in app purchases, restoring the principle that parents, not Big Tech, should decide what their children put on their phones.
  • Where is the line between the responsibility of parents and the responsibility of Big Tech?
  • The sentencing of Georgia father Colin Gray to 15 years in prison for providing the firearm used in the Apalachee High School shooting has reignited the debate over when parental negligence becomes criminal responsibility.

Panelist: Craig DeRoche, CEO of Family Policy Alliance and former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives

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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