Suspension of the rules. - Isaac, Ari and Kmele are joined by Eli Lake from The Free Press to talk about Trump's State of the Union address and Iran.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
On todays episode of Suspension of the Rules, Isaac, Ari and Kmele are joined by Eli Lake, columnist at The Free Press as well as the host of the Breaking History podcast. They chat about President Trump's State of the Union address and Iran. The boys then go on to talk more about the winter olympics and a couple race controversies that happened this week. Last but not least, a very solid grievance section. It's a good one!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, Eli Lake joins the show to talk about State of the Union and Iran. |
| 0:05.0 | We get into the Olympics and then we talk about a pair of race controversies from this week. |
| 0:10.6 | And of course, our grievances section. |
| 0:12.7 | It's a good one. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the suspension of the rules podcast, a place where typically there's just, I guess, I don't know, three idiots sitting around in a circle, talking about politics, trying to find |
| 0:39.3 | some sort of reasonable middle ground in the insanity. And today we're joined by a special guest |
| 0:45.6 | and a friend of the pod, Eli Lake. He is a columnist at the free press. Eli, thank you so much |
| 0:52.7 | for being here. I appreciate it. Thank you. |
| 0:54.3 | And also the host of Breaking History, which will have... The host of breaking history, which is on my list. Yeah. Dude, I'm excited to dig in. Okay. First of all, well, Ari, Camille, you're here every week. So I don't really give a shit about you guys. Thank you. I want to jump right into the State of the Union stuff. |
| 1:11.8 | I reached out through Camille to you to jump right into the State of the Union stuff. |
| 1:11.8 | I reached out through Camille to you to bring you on the show, Eli, because you've never |
| 1:16.4 | been more wrong about anything than this. |
| 1:19.5 | You didn't like our line. |
| 1:20.6 | You wrote that Donald Trump's State of the Union address. |
| 1:23.3 | I think you were, I'm a fan, and I thought, Eli, what is going on? So I'm excited to chat with |
| 1:31.7 | you about it. I wrote a column today for Tangle and we did a little podcast earlier today where I |
| 1:38.0 | basically talked about Donald Trump's State of the Union being one of the most morbid and |
| 1:43.2 | depressing things I've ever listened to from a president. |
| 1:46.6 | And you wrote a comment on the Free Press saying that you found much of the state of the union kind of uplifting or inspiring in certain ways. |
| 1:54.0 | I want to bring you to the fairer case. |
| 1:56.3 | Okay, fair enough. |
| 1:58.4 | Let's start with, tell me what you thought about the city of the union in your terms. |
| 2:03.1 | I thought that he was trying... |
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