5/5/26: Iran Hits Critical UAE Facility, Prof Pape On Iran Escalation, Trump Courts Fetterman, Voting Rights Act Debate
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Krystal and Saagar discuss Iran hits a critical UAE facility, Professor Pape on Iran escalation, Trump courts Fetterman, Voting Rights Act debate.
Isaac Saul: https://www.readtangle.com/the-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-corruption-story/
Robert Pape: https://escalationtrap.substack.com/
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| 0:41.3 | Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday. I have an amazing show for everybody today. What do we have, Crystal? Indeed, we do. So yesterday, right after our show concluded, Iran struck the UAE. |
| 0:47.7 | Are we headed back to full-on war? We will take a look at the indications. Also, Professor Pape is |
| 0:53.4 | going to join us. There's a press conference that's expected this morning, so hopefully we'll have some clips |
| 0:57.7 | for him to react to and get his thoughts as well. |
| 1:00.5 | Republicans are trying to woo John Fetterman to switch parties, complicating democratic |
| 1:05.8 | math. |
| 1:06.7 | This comes in the wake of this Supreme Court decision, which, you know, changes the nature of the Voting |
| 1:12.1 | Rights Act and opens the ability for Republicans to eliminate a lot of majority black districts |
| 1:16.9 | in the South also, making it much more difficult for Democrats to achieve a majority in the House. |
| 1:23.1 | New numbers about how almost everyone loses money on Polly Market and Kalshi do not delude |
| 1:28.8 | yourself otherwise. A comprehensive look at Trump corruption, something that has been |
| 1:33.5 | sorely lacking because it is just so overwhelming the number of schemes and crimes being |
| 1:38.8 | committed by this administration. And we also are going to take a look at a pretty stunning |
| 1:42.7 | speech that MTG gave at the Ron Paul Institute in Texas that is getting a lot of attention where she spills some tea about her breakup with President Trump. |
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