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I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the big story being missed as much of the media focuses on I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the big story being missed, as much of the media focuses on Trump's metal decline,

without noticing the very real possibility that we could soon have J.D. Vance as our president.

As odious as the tech bros, teal, Musk, and sacks are.

They are not stupid, and they may well have made a smart investment in this pliable vessel who will bail them out of crypto, open up the Pentagon budget to them,

and execute their horrifying Project 2025 agenda.

Joining us to question why the Democrats are not focusing on the President in

waiting, J.D. Vance, is Jacob Halbrun, the editor at the National Interest, a non-resident

senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, and a columnist for The Spectator.

His books include They Knew They Were Right, The Rise of the Neocons, and America Last,

The Right century-long Romance with Foreign Dictators.

And he has an article at The Spectator, J.D. Vance, made the case for Trump better than

Trump.

Then we'll go to Seoul, South Korea, and speak with Sung Yun Li, a global fellow at the Woodrow

Wilson International

Center for Scholars. He has testified as an expert witness in the U.S. House of Representatives

Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on North Korean policy, and his latest book is The Sister,

The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo-Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea. We will discuss Kim and his

sister's fury at drones dropping leaflets over the north, criticizing the godlike dear leaders

and North Korean soldiers deserting the front in Ukraine, where Kim has sent them to help out Putin.

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