Conservative Catholic TURNS ON Israel, Panic on Trump's Religious Liberty Commission
The Katie Halper Show
Katie Halper
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
Katie speaks to Conservative Catholic Carrie Prejean Boller, a member of Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, who challenged the claim that antizionism is antisemitism, Muslim-American activist, Sameerah Munshi, and Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro.
First Katie speaks to Cuban-American activist Hebel Morales, a member of Miami Coalition Against the Blockade of Cuba and of Puentes de Amor; & to Liz Oliva Fernández, a Cuban journalist & documentary filmmaker based in Havana, & the co-founder of Belly of the Beast (https://www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/). Join the Cuba convoy (https://nuestraamericaconvoy.org/).
Full interview with Carrie, Yaakov and Sameera where they react to Tucker Carlson's interview with Mike Huckabee - https://www.patreon.com/posts/carrie-prejean-151599870
Carrie Prejean Boller is a wife, mother of two, & community activist, guided by a deep commitment to protecting religious freedom & upholding First Amendment protections. From San Diego, CA, she won Miss California and wrote the book Still Standing in 2009. Carrie joined the Catholic Church in 2025 and was was appointed by President Trump to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission at the White House.
Yaakov Shapiro is an international speaker, author, and pulpit rabbi for over 30 years, now emeritus. After graduating high school at 16, Rabbi Shapiro dedicated himself to full-time study of religion, becoming the protégé of some of the most well-regarded rabbinic scholars in Orthodoxy. At 19 he published his first book, משפטי הבירורים, a collection of original expositions on rabbinic principles of tort adjudication. His most recent work, The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft (2018), a 1381-page treatise on the differences between Judaism and Zionism.
Sameerah Munshi is a Brown University graduate with degrees in Mathematics and Political Science, where she was recognized with the James Manning Medal for her work in interfaith engagement and religious studies. She previously served as Executive Director of the Coalition of Virtue, a Muslim-led nonprofit known for its role in the Supreme Court case Mahmoud v. Taylor. Munshi has since pursued advanced study in the Islamic scholarly tradition and is currently an advisor to the White House Religious Liberty Commission.
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| 0:41.6 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Katie Helper Show. We have a stellar lineup for you |
| 0:46.6 | tonight. We are going to be talking to you about the Trump Religious Liberty Commission. |
| 0:53.0 | People probably heard about this. It was very controversial. |
| 0:56.3 | A very brave conservative Catholic. We don't have that many conservatives coming on the show, |
| 1:00.7 | but a very brave conservative Catholic activist named Carrie Prejohn Bollar spoke very uncomfortable |
| 1:06.7 | truths to very uncomfortable powers and basically forced this commission to dare this commission |
| 1:12.8 | to say that anti-Zionism was anti-Semitism. So we interviewed Carrie along with Rabbi Yako Shapiro, |
| 1:21.0 | who's a fan fave. We love Rabbi Yakko Shapiro, the wonderful anti-Zionist rabbi, who actually Carrie had invited to be on the |
| 1:29.1 | commission. And of course, she was denied because the commission only had room for Zionist Jews. |
| 1:34.3 | And we also spoke to Tamira Munshi, who was a Muslim American activist who was also on that |
| 1:39.9 | commission. So that is a really exciting conversation. We got the behind-the-scenes story about that, |
| 1:46.1 | and that will be the second segment of the show. But our first segment is equally exciting, |
| 1:51.5 | and it's so important, and it's a story that is very rarely told with any kind of insight or |
| 1:58.2 | honesty. And that story is what is happening right now as we speak in Cuba |
| 2:02.8 | from the perspective of people who live in Cuba and also from the perspective of people who |
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