3614 - BONDI FIRED; Trump's Deranged Iran Speech; The Downfall of Nation States w/ Rana Dasgupta

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on The Majority Report

On today's program:

Trump delivers a speech on the war in Iran where he still cannot clearly explain his goals and objectives. Oil prices surged past $113 a barrel following his uninspiring speech.

At an Easter lunch event at the White House, Donal Trump says the federal government cannot handle daycare, Medicare or Medicaid because "we have wars to fight".

Author and essayist, Rana Dasgupta joins Emma for a discussion about his forthcoming book After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order.

Fox News reports that Pam Bondi has been fired from her role as Attorney General.

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Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder join Emma.

The Supreme Court hears the oral arguments for the Birthright Citizenship case. Neil Gorsuch pressed the U.S. Solicitor General on whether Native Americans count as Americans under his interpretation of birthright citizenship; the response: "I'd have to think about it."

Adam Sosnick fails miserably in a debate with Dave Smith which leads to Patrick Bet-David dressing Sosnick down live on their podcast in a fashion that has to be heard to believed.

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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.
0:12.0	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:17.5	It is Thursday.
0:20.7	April 2nd, 2026. My name is Emma Vigland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:29.0	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:39.3	On the program today, Rana Das Gupta, author of After Nations, The Making and Unmaking
0:47.4	of a World Order.
0:50.8	Also on the program, oil prices surge after
0:54.5	Trump's address to the nation
0:57.0	confirms that the war in Iran
0:59.9	will continue
1:00.7	but also that we've achieved victory
1:03.6	and also that it's not a war
1:06.2	because that would be illegal
1:09.8	although he has had no accountability for anything so because that would be illegal.
1:17.3	Although he hasn't had no accountability for anything, so it just gets more and more unhinged.
1:30.3	He's threatening to stop all Ukraine aid unless European countries help him join in on the war in Iran, help him open the Strait of Hormuz. Cherish the Strait of Hormuz.
1:35.3	U.S. Israeli strikes hit a medical research center in Tehran.
1:42.3	Iran ups its missile attacks on Israel, and the death toll in Lebanon rises to at least
1:49.2	1,300.
1:53.1	Iran's Revolutionary Guard begins a recruitment drive to get volunteers to defend the country
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