Bolton Pleads Guilty | NIH Scientists Smuggled Monkeypox | AOTMA | 6/5/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
John Bolton, Vincent Munster, Claude Kwe, Karmelo Anthony, and the war powers resolution headline today's A.M. Update. Trump blasts House Republicans for passing a war powers resolution mid-Iran negotiations, but Aaron floats a take he cannot shake: the vote might actually be Trump's exit ramp out of a deal that was never going to happen. John Bolton pleads guilty to one count of retaining national security information and agrees to $2.25 million in restitution, and Aaron questions whether that counts as the scalp DOJ's critics were hoping for. Two NIH researchers, Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe, are charged with smuggling 113 vials of monkeypox through Detroit Metro Airport after lying to customs agents, and Brooke Rollins confirms a new world screwworm detection in Zavala County, Texas. YouTuber Jesse Ridgeway announces he and his wife terminated their pregnancy after a Down syndrome diagnosis, and Aaron does not pull punches. The AOTMA segment covers a listener's plans to create a crisis Bible for the suicidal, nuclear family month spreading to Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas, the two-tiered justice system, SNAP cards being used at fast food restaurants in Michigan, and a candid update on the show's distribution struggles.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, June 5th, 2026. We've got a Friday five-pack and asked her tell me anything next on the AM update. |
| 0:09.4 | Thanks for hanging out with me again on the AM update this week. |
| 0:13.1 | Hope you had a good week. And thanks again for all of you who leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, |
| 0:20.2 | the dwindling numbers of you |
| 0:21.5 | who are actually able to listen to the podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | For those of you new on YouTube, appreciate your support as well. |
| 0:27.8 | President Trump, none too happy with the War Powers Resolution. |
| 0:30.7 | The House of Representatives passed on a bipartisan basis earlier this week, saying to post on |
| 0:35.2 | truth social yesterday, quote, yesterday in a meaningless vote the |
| 0:37.9 | house voted for bad republicans and all of democrats to limit my war powers right in the middle of |
| 0:43.7 | final negotiations to end the war with the islamic republic of iran who would do such an unpatriotic |
| 0:49.7 | thing they know where negotiations stand the democrats are fueled by Trump derangement syndrome. |
| 0:56.3 | They would rather have our country fall than give me another of many victories. |
| 1:00.5 | So there's a number of ways you can see this. |
| 1:03.2 | This is just Republicans in a midterm election year, a few of them, a handful of them. |
| 1:08.0 | Finding a way to buck Trump. |
| 1:10.7 | I did see this positive the other day |
| 1:12.1 | as well, and I can't get it out of my head. And I really hate saying this because I've been, |
| 1:17.3 | you know, trying to give a guy who took a bullet for this country as much benefit of the doubt |
| 1:21.0 | as possible throughout his second Trump, throughout his second administration. I did see it |
| 1:26.0 | posited, though, that this war powers resolution |
| 1:28.4 | might actually be Trump's escape hatch for Iran. Now, I don't know that. I don't want that to be |
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