DHS Funded, Iran Stalling, Millennial Dads Crushing It | 5/1/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Trump signs the DHS funding bill after a 75-day lapse, but ICE and Border Patrol remain carved out. Iran negotiations stall as oil stays above $100 a barrel, and a new study shows millennial dads are spending four times more time with their kids than their grandparents did. Subscribe and listen every weekday morning.
DHS funding bill, Iran nuclear deal, oil prices, Strait of Hormuz, Steve Witkoff, Scott Bessent, millennial dads study, Brad Wilcox, Institute for Family Studies, Matt Walsh, anti-Christian bias DOJ, Brian Harpole Candace Owens lawsuit, Erika Kirk, Turning Point USA, midterm redistricting, AM Update, Aaron McIntire, today's news, morning news, news commentary, current events, daily news podcast
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May 1st, 2026. Iran updates DHS-funded kind of. Fathers are built differently, |
| 0:07.1 | we think, and ask or tell me anything next on the AM update. |
| 0:13.6 | On Thursday, President Trump once again reiterated no deal with Iran until they make a deal on |
| 0:19.6 | nuclear weapons. |
| 0:27.4 | Steve Whitkoff told me on this show is that the United States offered Iran to give them enriched uranium so for medical and powerful purposes free if they would give up their nuclear |
| 0:33.7 | program, wouldn't cost them a dime. and they declined that, which to me suggested |
| 0:38.6 | that they really didn't want a deal. |
| 0:40.5 | Well, and maybe it wasn't a very serious offer, because I wouldn't have approved that. |
| 0:45.7 | I wouldn't have. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm not giving them anything. |
| 0:47.8 | I wouldn't have approved that. |
| 0:49.5 | They're going to either have a no nuclear weapon or they're not. |
| 0:52.8 | And if they're not, they're in big trouble, |
| 0:55.8 | big, even bigger than they are right now. And right now, their economy is collapsing. |
| 1:01.2 | Inflations at close to 100%. Their equivalent of our dollar is non-existent. I mean, it's literally non-existent. |
| 1:12.6 | And they can't do any oil because we have a blockade that's 100% effective. |
| 1:16.9 | Okay. |
| 1:18.4 | Again, I just don't know what the plan is right now. |
| 1:22.0 | Treasury Secretary Scott Besant earlier this week came out with basically his job when it comes to the Iran war is applying |
| 1:30.5 | maximum economic pressure on Iran saying that attacking the Gulf Coast countries was Iran's |
| 1:37.3 | biggest mistake because now there's some greater transparency as far as where Iran and where |
| 1:43.6 | the IRGC is stashing their money. So who |
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