America Icing Out World Cup Fans
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🗓️ 10 June 2026
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Summary
The World Cup is the biggest annual sporting event in the world. And the first game is tomorrow. This year’s competition is being hosted by three countries for the first time: the US, Canada, and Mexico. Already, fans of Argentina, Cote d’Ivoire, and other countries have flooded social media with their journeys to watch their favorite teams play. But with the World Cup, as with most things, comes… a lot of politics. We spoke with Bill Connelly to find out how politics is impacting the event. He’s a staff writer for ESPN covering soccer and college football.
And in headlines, Trump continues to threaten Iran, inflation hits its highest in three years, and Democrats “nominate the guy with the nazi tattoo” in the Maine Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.
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| 0:00.0 | It does feel like FIFA is really kind of trying to test the boundaries here of like how |
| 0:03.6 | how miserable can we make everything beforehand and have still people still show up and |
| 0:08.7 | watch and pay and have a great time. |
| 0:11.0 | We're going to find out because the game always rules. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waday, the show watching Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal make a Trump-nominated candidate for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals extremely uncomfortable. Let me ask you, was the capital attack on January 6th? |
| 0:42.3 | Senator, the actions on January 6th were deeply troubling to watch, but I'm not going to characterize it beyond. |
| 0:56.6 | It turns out even basic questions are tough when you have an orange president to please. |
| 1:02.4 | On today's show, we get into the messy politics of the World Cup with ESPN's Bill Connolly. |
| 1:07.8 | Before we get into all that, here's what we're following today, Wednesday, June 10th. |
| 1:13.9 | You can serve, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning. |
| 1:18.3 | Could that be a... No, I love it. The numbers were right. You know what I really love? I love the |
| 1:23.0 | inflation. Add loving inflation to the list of things that President Trump and I don't have in common. |
| 1:29.0 | Rising gas prices pushed inflation to its highest level in three years last month. |
| 1:33.3 | The Labor Department said consumer prices rose 4.2% in May from a year earlier. |
| 1:38.3 | That's the third straight monthly increase. |
| 1:40.8 | Inflation had been cooling before Trump imposed sweeping tariffs in April of 2025. |
| 1:46.0 | Prices have since surged after the Iran war made oil and gas more expensive. |
| 1:51.0 | Which is bad? |
| 1:53.0 | And speaking of war, the U.S. launched airstrikes early Wednesday against Iran, and Tehran fired back at countries in the region. |
| 1:59.0 | While taking questions from reporters at the |
| 2:01.3 | White House, Trump elaborated on this true social threat that said, quote, they've taken too long to |
| 2:06.3 | negotiate a deal that would have been great for them. Now they will have to pay the price. |
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