3644 - Trump Brings Oligarch Posse to China; The Artificial Inevitability of AI w/ Alex Hanna

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Sam Seder

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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It's an Emmajority Thursday on The Majority Report

On today's program:

Trump reflects on his visit to China where he failed to find any support in his efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz. In fact, moments after Trump's meeting with President Xi, Iran let Chinese ships pass through the Strait.

At a House Natural Resources Committee hearing with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Rep. Dave Min highlights how China is leaving the U.S. in the dust on renewable energy.

Alex Hanna joins Emma for a conversation about her book co-authored with Emily Bender, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want".

In the Fun Half:

Politico publishes a paper-thin smear piece on Michigan candidate for Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, in which they question his qualifications as a "real" doctor.

Graham Platner responds to his opponents questioning his working-class credentials.

Nick Shirley responds to Hasan Piker calling him medically stupid with a medically stupid response.

Rep. Mike Lawler recounts being accosted by Rand Paul's son with an antisemitic rant.

All that and more.

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report.
0:04.1	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.
0:17.9	It is Thursday.
0:28.6	May 14th, 2026. My name is Emma Vigland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:40.8	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:50.9	On the program today, Alex Hanna, sociologist and co-creator of the co-author, I should say, of the AICon,
0:55.4	how to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want.
1:03.6	Also on the program, Trump arrives in China for his high-profile meeting with Xi Jinping, flanked by U.S.-based oligarchs like Elon Musk, Tim Apple, and Jensen Huang of NVIDIA.
1:15.6	Soon after the meeting, Iran reportedly let Chinese tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.
1:23.9	A U.S. intelligence analysis finds that China is getting a major economic edge on the United States due to the Iran war.
1:33.9	Huh.
1:35.1	Who would have thought?
1:38.0	Murkowski joins Collins and Paul as the third Republican senator to vote to stop Trump's illegal war in Iran.
1:46.9	But, of course, Federman stays with the GOP, and it failed at 50 to 49.
1:56.4	Vance says the administration is suspending $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California because Blue State.
2:06.8	Drugs?
2:07.9	Whatever.
2:09.5	They hate fraud.
2:10.7	Oh.
2:11.2	Trump administration hates fraud.
2:12.5	They just hate fraud.
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