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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Lindsey Graham: "The Iran War is worth losing my job" (and how to make that happen)

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.54.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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From Lindsey Graham’s mouth to God’s ears: when asked on Meet the Press if the Iran War was worth losing the midterms over, Senator Lindsey Graham proclaimed: “It’s worth losing my job!”

Finally, something to agree with arch-Zionist warmonger Lindsey Graham on!

And speaking of God’s ears, Trump held a Christian Nationalist party to celebrate the US’s 250th birthday, where speakers claimed that it took God two centuries to bring us Donald Trump so that he could finally put a ballroom in the White House. That’s not a joke they really said that.

From Lindsey Graham to Mike Johnson to John Fetterman to former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, we’ve got a Monday Mourning that oscillates between the importance of bombing civilian infrastructure in Iran to the importance of that ballroom. It’s a ridiculous and jam-packed episode.



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0:00.0

Hello, everybody, and welcome to Useful It's Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning

0:05.3

news show so that you don't have to. I'm Katie Helper. I'm Mary Mate. Thank you so much for being here.

0:10.1

Great to start the week with you and so many colorful, interesting characters on TV.

0:15.9

You know, no judgments if warmongering is your thing. You want to go on television and promote it.

0:20.5

Okay. Well, we're at least want to go on television and promote it okay well

0:21.1

we're at least here to laugh at it and uh try to make a little sense of the craziness

0:27.1

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indicted Nicholas Maduro before kidnapping him and holding his government essentially hostage.

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