3604 - Israel Escalates; How Cuba Endures; Tracking Anti-Trans Bills w/ Helen Yaffe, Erin Reed

The Majority Report with Sam Seder

Sam Seder

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on The Majority Report.

On today's program:

An Israeli strike on Iranian facilities in the South Pars gas field marked a significant escalation in the war, prompting Iran to attack major energy facilities of its Gulf neighbors. Trump took to Truth Social to claim the U.S. had no knowledge of Israel's plans to attack South Pars but if warns if Iran continues to retaliate then he'll blow up the entirety of the oil field.

A reporter asks Pete Hegseth why we are helping Israel prosecute this war if they are going to pursue their own objectives and Hegseth had no answer. Pete then ended the press conference with a prayer - but it's Iran that is theocratic terrorist state.

Helen Yaffe, Professor of Latin American Political Economy, University of Glasgow joins Emma to discuss her book We Are Cuba! How a revolutionary people survived in post-Soviet world.

Erin Reed, journalist tracking anti-LGTB+ legislation around the world at Erin in the Morning on Substack joins MR to discuss her Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: Feb 2026

In the Fun Half:

Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder join.

Senator Jon Ossoff presses the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on whether or not it was the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent threat from Iran.

Jonathan Greenblatt continues to be one the leading causes of antisemitism in America.

The Wall Street Journal publishes an op-ed about Democrats getting too cozy to Hasan Piker in a piece that reads like a high school newspaper.

all that and more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report.
0:04.4	Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily.
0:12.3	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:17.6	It is Thursday, March 19th, 2026. My name is Emma Biggland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:29.6	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:40.2	On the program today, Helen Yaffe, author of We Are Cuba,
0:44.4	How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in the Post-Soviet World will be with us
0:49.2	to talk about how Cuba continues to endure U.S. brutality.
0:55.6	And later in the show, Aaron Reid joins us again to help track the anti-trans legislation
1:01.7	and ballot measures across the country. Also on the program, Israel bombs Iran's gas fields
1:10.2	in a dramatic escalation, and Iran responds by bombing Gulf
1:16.8	State's energy infrastructure. Oil prices begin to spiral out of control. Reuters reports that
1:27.0	Trump is considering sending thousands of troops to Iran and now is asking Congress for $200 billion for this war, up from $50 billion.
1:41.9	Russia has been ramping up its intelligence and military assistance to Iran
1:48.2	as it fights back against the U.S. and Israel.
1:54.1	Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director Ratcliffe contradicted Trump's claims about Iran's imminent nukes in their Senate intelligence testimony yesterday.
2:05.6	Curiously left some things out of prepared remarks.
2:10.6	The FBI is investigating the counterterrorism official Joe Kent, who resigned over the Iran War, saying he's a leaker.
2:24.0	The Fed leaves interest rates unchanged as February's inflation data shows a sharp rise in wholesale prices, and this is before the Iran War was launched on February 28th.
2:42.0	The FBI and IRS will investigate non-profit organizations that the Trump administration says are linked to domestic terrorism, which we know from Ken
2:52.5	Klippenstein's reporting, means anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity.
2:59.5	Gender identity extremists.
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