Russia's Sergey Lavrov VERSUS NBC's Kristen Welker | Useful Idiots Monday Mourning
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to.
If it's Monday Morning, it's #mondaymourning
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to Useful Idiot's Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning |
| 0:04.4 | new show so that you do not have to. I'm Katie Helper. I'm Erin Matte. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:10.0 | What a great way to start the week with us and some of the worst people on corporate TV. |
| 0:16.4 | And by us, I mean, all of us, you know, us on screen and then you guys at home because this is an |
| 0:20.2 | interactive show where we ignore most of your comments, but sometimes show some of them if they're praiseworthy. And if you're liking the stream, which you should do now to beat algorithmic suppression. I'm welcome. I'm welcome. Yeah. I'm welcome. Yeah. Love being at Icarus Fest and meeting you two. Well, right back at you. You see, this community, it's not just a virtual community. We do exist in real life. And, yeah, maybe one day we'll do a live show in person. Yeah, yeah. Well, we'll see about that. We all know, we all know my skepticism of live podcast, but we'll see. Who knows? Maybe we've got enough likes today. Who knows? No pressure, guys. We're going to later in the show talk about the latest in the Gaza genocide, but it's worth just at the top acknowledging some of the latest horrors. |
| 1:12.0 | So just today as we're broadcasting, Israel's just done a double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital, |
| 1:19.4 | killing at least four journalists, all of whom worked for Western outlets. |
| 1:24.7 | Hossam al-Masri with Reuters, Mohamed Salima with Al-Jazeera, but not a Western outlets. Hossam al-Masri with Reuters, |
| 1:29.7 | Mohammed Salima with Al-Jazeera, |
| 1:32.1 | but not a Western outlet, actually, |
| 1:32.8 | but obviously. |
| 1:34.4 | Meriam Abu Dhaka, |
| 1:36.7 | who's with the Associated Press, |
| 1:38.5 | Emuath Abu Taha, |
| 1:39.9 | who's with NBC. |
| 1:44.3 | And they were killed at Nasser Hospital. |
| 1:54.6 | And then when rescue workers came to the scene to try to help the survivors and extract the bodies, |
| 1:55.7 | they were killed as well. |
| 2:00.0 | So the death toll now is at least 19 people last time I checked. |
| 2:00.7 | That's today. |
| 2:06.1 | And this is after a few days ago, the UN formally declared a famine in the Gaza Strip. And accordingly, people continue to die. |
| 2:08.7 | Hundreds of people continue to die of starvation, of Israeli post-starvation. |
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