S8 Ep827: 5/16: Malcolm Hoenlein and Thaddeus McCotter report on escalating violence in the Gulf, including the sinking of IRGC boats. They also discuss Mahmoud Abbas's attempt to install his son, Yasser Abbas, as his political successor.
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
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5/16: Malcolm Hoenlein and Thaddeus McCotter report on escalating violence in the Gulf, including the sinking of IRGC boats. They also discuss Mahmoud Abbas's attempt to install his son, Yasser Abbas, as his political successor.
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| 0:53.8 | and we're very pleased to welcome Malcolm Honlon on a day of chaos and violence. |
| 0:58.5 | Malcolm, we have incomplete reports in all directions, fog of war. |
| 1:02.3 | A Korean vessel said to be on fire somewhere in the Strait of Hormuzza of the Persian Gulf. |
| 1:07.1 | Project Freedom underway, the U.S. to guide a review. |
| 1:14.8 | Tankers leaving the Persian Gulf where they've been trapped for weeks, |
| 1:18.2 | and what the president calls the humanitarian gesture, |
| 1:22.7 | because those crews have not been relieved or fed properly for days now, |
| 1:23.8 | letting them out. |
| 1:28.4 | Two vessels have been escorted or seen through the Gulf successfully, |
| 1:34.5 | but the Korean ship on fire suggests otherwise. There's also a cruise missile, ballistic missile, |
| 1:42.7 | and drone attack on the UAE tanks at Fujaria, the port that is outside of the Gulf of Amman, is in the Gulf of Oman, outside of the Strait of |
| 1:45.9 | Hormuz, the way to work around the blockade, now under attack by the Iranians. |
| 1:53.3 | Earlier in the day, we had a report from Iran media via the IRGC that they had hit a U.S. Navy frigate twice. That was denied by |
| 2:05.4 | SENTCOM almost immediately. Sincom did not characterize whether there had been missiles fired. |
| 2:10.9 | In addition, we have news that the U.S. Navy has launched helicopter attacks against small |
| 2:16.4 | boats in the Strait of Hormuz or near two. |
| 2:20.0 | It's chaos, Malcolm. So your comment right now about the Strait of Hormuz, under the ceasefire |
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