From New York, this is Democracy Now.

We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable

at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the

rest of the country miserable too and it's just a basic fact you look at Kamla Harris

Pete Budajidge AOC, the entire future of the Democrats

is controlled by people without children.

After a 2021 interview resurfaces, Donald Trump's running mate J.D. Vance stands by his comments

that the Democratic Party is run by childless cat ladies.

We'll get response from reproductive justice activist Renee Bracey Sherman who writes in teen

vogue, J.D. Vance doesn't want all women to be trad wives, just white women.

And from New York Times opinion writer Jessica Gross, author of the book

Screaming on the Inside, The Unsustainability of American Motherhood. She

says attacking Kamala Harris for not having kids will backfire.

Not to mention it's not true.

We'll also speak with political reporter Ian Ward

about the seven thinkers and groups that have shaped J.D. Vance's unusual worldview.

He never saw Trump, I don't think, is the end all deal of this movement.

He sees Trump as a vehicle for a transnational populist

nationalist revolution that you know could extend 10 15 20 100 years into the future.

Then Israel vows to retaliate against Hezbollah

after blaming it for a rocket attack Sunday

in the occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 Drew's children in a soccer field stoking fear of a wider regional war.

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