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The David Pakman Show

Casual invasion announcement drops as Vance defends the worst

The David Pakman Show

David Pakman

Politics, News

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show

-- Donald Trump delivers rambling and contradictory remarks on Fox News boasting about Venezuela oil seizures and casually predicting Republican losses

-- Trump announces plans to bomb Mexico over cartels while ignoring U.S. law international law and the reality of immediate retaliation

-- David responds to a serious viewer argument about civil unrest personal safety gun regulation and the risks of asymmetric political violence

-- JD Vance defends a deadly ICE operation attacks the media and recycles administration talking points while ignoring clear contradictions

-- Jessica Tarlov confronts Fox News hosts by dismantling false claims about the killing of Renee Good and exposes the network's narrative collapse

-- Tulsi Gabbard's credibility collapses after Donald Trump openly embraces regime change contradicting her confident public assurances

-- Rand Paul dismantles Fox News justifications for Trump's foreign policy and exposes incoherent Republican standards on live television

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: the FBI shuts down the Minnesota assassination investigation, CBS News chief Bari Weiss stalls another anti-Trump 60 Minutes report, and Jesse Ventura attacks Donald Trump while hinting at a run for governor

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(00:00) Start

(01:31) Trump brags on Fox, predicts losses

(14:08) Trump threatens Mexico bombing over cartels

(21:04) Civil unrest fears, guns, and safety debate

(27:06) JD Vance spins deadly ICE operation

(33:51) Jessica Tarlov shreds Fox's Renee Good story

(39:33) Tulsi Gabbard crumbles on regime change

(46:24) Rand Paul exposes GOP standards chaos

(54:56) Friday feedback

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Donald Trump sat down for what was supposed to be a softball Fox News interview to talk about how great everything he's doing in Venezuela is. And it did not go well. Hannity allowed him to brag about taking oil from Venezuela. He talked about bombing Mexico soon, rambled about sliding down a helicopter rope, the likes of which you would normally hear,

0:22.8

I don't know, from someone screaming on a subway platform, not the president of the United

0:26.9

States, and then says, oh, Republicans are probably getting crushed in November.

0:31.6

At least he's historically right about that.

0:35.1

We then get to something pretty serious.

0:37.7

Someone on our subreddit argued that we are closer to civil unrest than maybe people want

0:42.6

to acknowledge and that I personally, me, David Packman, should have guns.

0:49.3

I am going to weigh in on this.

0:51.5

And then we will look at Vice President J.D. Vance, doing what he does best. He doesn't do

0:54.9

much well. The one thing he does do well is attempt to defend the indefensible with the sanitization

1:02.4

of violence and lecturing the media as if they are always the problem. So we've got an example of that.

1:09.7

And then what about Tulsi Gabbard?

1:11.9

Well, we're going to bring up a name not much mentioned by Donald Trump.

1:16.2

That's for sure, despite the fact that she works for him.

1:19.1

What is she up to and how does it relate to what has taken place in Venezuela?

1:23.0

All of that and more. Well, it was supposed to be an easy interview with a friend of Donald Trump's to make everything

1:37.7

that Trump is doing seem really great and cool and awesome and legal and constitutional.

1:45.0

And it did not go well.

1:46.2

You know, there have been adversarial interviews that don't go well for the president.

1:50.6

But sometimes it's the ones you aren't prepared for because they are friendly where you end

1:56.5

up kind of with all the rope you could ever want with which to hang yourself. And that is exactly what

2:02.9

Donald Trump did. Trump starting off by straight up bragging about the attack and invasion of

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