Going to Plan in Venezuela? | Talarico Already Backpedaling? | 5/28/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
4.9 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Scott Bessent, Pete Hegseth, James Talarico, Mike Pence, and the Delaney Hall ICE protests headline today's A.M. Update. Trump's cabinet meeting covers Iran negotiations, Scott Bessent calling ongoing price increases transitory and projecting 4.3% GDP growth this quarter, Marco Rubio's update on the Venezuela three-step plan, and Pete Hegseth revealing that at Trump's personal directive the U.S. hunted and killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, ISIS's number two in Nigeria and the most active terrorist in the world, along with hundreds of other ISIS fighters who were slaughtering Nigerian Christians. James Talarico goes on CBS and calls his own "God is non-binary" comment cringy while still trying to defend it, and Aaron takes apart his attempted Pauline justification piece by piece. Federal agents deploy pepper spray and batons against anti-ICE protesters blockading the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, including a viral moment where the crowd cheers two brown-skinned men walking out before realizing they are ICE agents. Mike Pence crawls out of his spider hole to complain about mean politics, and Aaron reads John Adams calling Alexander Hamilton a bastard to make his point. Aaron closes with new research showing 75% of consumers including 79% of parents support adults-only dining options, set against the backdrop of the ongoing Christian slaughter in Nigeria, and a challenge to put it all in proper perspective.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 28th, 2026. |
| 0:02.5 | Cabinet meetings galore. |
| 0:03.8 | Tala Rico starts to backpedal and which incumbents should Donald Trump target next? |
| 0:08.8 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:13.6 | President Trump held yet another cabinet meeting yesterday. |
| 0:16.6 | These are rather nice. |
| 0:17.7 | At least it provides the administration an opportunity to set the agenda, to set the terms of the agenda, and kind of set a news cycle as well. And President Trump has done more of these, I think, than Joe Biden ever has. I can't recall a single cap. I'm sure there was one or two cabinet meetings during the Biden administration. There's been a |
| 0:37.5 | cabinet meeting pretty much every month of the Trump administration. It covers topics both foreign and |
| 0:43.2 | domestic, and that's where President Trump began with an update on negotiations with Iran. |
| 0:48.1 | It looks like they want to just make a deal. They want to, I don't think they have a choice. |
| 0:52.0 | They're just going back to the internet because they're getting clobbered. Their economy is in freefall. They have 250% inflation. Their money has no value. |
| 1:02.8 | Their whole economic system is broken down. |
| 1:06.1 | You heard President Trump say there in passing they just turned on the Internet. That was a story |
| 1:10.4 | that was going around yesterday. At least reports from inside Iran say that they did indeed turn the |
| 1:15.5 | internet back on for most people around that country. Of course, speeds very, very slow. |
| 1:20.9 | Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said the ongoing price increases that we're seeing as a result |
| 1:26.6 | of the war with Iran. He still says those |
| 1:29.1 | should be transient. We're entering the second half of our 250th anniversary year with renewed |
| 1:35.4 | optimism and momentum. It has never been a better time to be an American. And as you said earlier, |
| 1:41.0 | we have a record number of Americans working. |
| 1:44.9 | The economy that you were building is not only strong, but secure and resilient and better position to compete globally. |
| 1:52.5 | Real GDP has risen 2.7% over the past four quarters, something that many economists said couldn't be done. In the first quarter of |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 19 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron McIntire, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Aaron McIntire and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.