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DSR Weekly Wrap-up: The Many Misadventures of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On the DSR Weekly Wrap-up for May 1st, we discuss Pete Hegseth’s strange argument for a bypassing the War Powers Act, the end to a record-setting DHS shutdown, another roadblock for the Onion’s take over of Infowars, and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.5

Hello and welcome to the show. Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkoff, joined by Riley Fessler, Minas Stein.

0:58.7

We've made it through another week, a weird, weird week.

1:03.2

And these guys will help us try and figure out what it all means, throw in a few of the

1:08.6

stories of the day.

1:10.1

Which one of you, two news news mavens is going to kick us

1:13.9

up? I'm going to start us off. And weird is definitely one word for it. Defense Secretary Pete

1:20.4

Hegsteth argued before Senate yesterday that the administration can bypass the 60-day War Powers Act

1:27.0

deadline claiming the currencies fire

1:29.2

pauses the legal requirement for congressional approval. The deadline expires today. So

1:36.4

Hegg Seth is out there saying that the allegedly $25 billion conflict is necessary to stop

1:43.8

Iran's nuclear program while labeling

1:46.3

domestic critics of the war as the military's, quote, biggest adversary.

1:53.0

Interesting.

1:53.8

There's growing bipartisan concern over the war's cost, which we talked about yesterday,

1:58.7

and his heggsat's firing of top military leaders,

2:03.1

the Senate rejected a resolution to halt the conflict in a narrow 50, 47 vote. So that's kind of

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