Let every round find its mark.

Pete Higgseth's monthly Pentagon prayer meeting infuses worship with the furor of Christian nationalism.

What he's done is he's taken all these verses about violence out of context and thrown them all together.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone, also on this week's show, in a fire and

brimstone speech that predicts the coming of the Antichrist, billionaire Peter Thiel runs up against

the Vatican's skepticism of AI. An advisor to the Pope on artificial intelligence published an essay this

weekend saying Teal's entire action could be read as a prolonged

act of heresy against the liberal conscience.

Plus, how America is employing a legal framework likened to one used in 1930s Germany

to put part of its population in purgatory.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Michael O enters out this week. I'm for Gladstone.

On Wednesday night, President Trump stepped up to the podium in the White House to deliver his first national address about the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.

We are going to finish the job, and we're going to finish it very fast. We're getting very close.

Close to what? He didn't exactly specify beyond broad claims that the U.S. is removing the threat of a nuclear Iran.

So how soon is that going to happen?

Shortly, very shortly, we're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.

We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.

In almost the same breath, he said that talks were ongoing, which Iran denies, presumably

too busy preparing their future cave homes. And with gas prices rising and the stock market

dipping, even as the president spoke, he proposed a solution to the energy crisis.

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