David Rutherford Show: Iran War Threat, Mexico Pops Off, Trump Tariffs, & US Olympic Victory
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court blocks Trump’s tariffs — and within hours he fires back. Meanwhile, the largest U.S. military buildup since Iraq is unfolding near Iran. Is a strike coming?
At the same time, cartel violence explodes in Guadalajara after a major leader is taken out in an operation reportedly supported by U.S. intelligence. What does this mean for the border — and for Americans?
And in the middle of global tension, Team USA delivers one of the greatest Winter Olympic performances in history.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Supreme Court Blocks Trump Tariffs
12:01 - Are We Going To War With Iran?
26:24 - Sponsor: Black Rifle Coffee Company
28:18 - Cartels Set Fire To Mexico
37:53 - US Olympic Hockey Wins, Keep Politics Out of The Olympics!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Trump's tariffs get knocked down by the Supreme Court. |
| 0:08.2 | Iran looks like it's going to pop off. |
| 0:10.9 | The cartel decides to finally start the war we've been waiting for. |
| 0:15.2 | And God bless the United States Olympic team because they kicked ass in this year's |
| 0:21.1 | winner Olympics. |
| 0:22.4 | All today on the David Rutherford show. |
| 0:34.2 | All right, welcome back to the show, everybody. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm your host, David Rutherford, and I am stoked to be with you today. |
| 0:42.5 | We've got a full show. So let's just get right into it. All right. Recently, the Supreme Court came out with a ruling on February 20th in the case, which is Learning Resources Inc. versus Trump and Trump versus VOS |
| 0:59.6 | Selections, Inc. right? And in this case, basically, what they were arguing is that Trump's |
| 1:06.8 | tariffs, which he enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, was defeated by a vote of 6 to 3, right? |
| 1:20.7 | In the main ruling or whatever you want to call it, we call it the majority opinion, if you will. |
| 1:29.2 | I want to make sure my old man's happy with me. |
| 1:31.6 | He's a 50 plus year lawyer. |
| 1:33.2 | If I got that wrong, he's going to beat me. |
| 1:35.9 | And so in his ruling, he basically came out and said that, and this was supported, by the way, by Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorich, Barrett, and Jackson. |
| 1:48.6 | And they were at, they emphasized that the IEPA's language allowing the president to regulate importation during national emergencies is broad, but does not encompass encompass tariffs which are distinct as a revenue |
| 2:04.0 | raising measure on domestic importers, right? And there was also dissent that was in there by |
| 2:11.3 | Kavanaugh, top justice, and Alito. Now, there were two dissensions, one written by, the main one written by Kavanaugh, |
| 2:20.6 | and the second was, the independent also was by Judge Thomas. And basically what they were |
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