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The Damage Report with John Iadarola

The Colbert Retort

The Damage Report with John Iadarola

TYT Network

Politics, Government, News

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Republicans are pushing forward with putting ICE at polling places. Trump’s approval rating on immigration falls to a new low. The Texas GOP gets another warning sign. Stephen Colbert rips into CBS after they deny axing the James Talarico interview. Anderson Cooper walks away from 60 Minutes. Costco defied Trump on DEI and has seen a sales boom. MAGA turns on Trump after he brags about tax breaks. Trump forgets who he endorsed in the race to replace Marjorie Greene.  Host: John Iadarola (@johniadarola) Co-Host: Sharon Reed (@SharonReedLive) ***** SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE TIKTOK  ☞        https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport INSTAGRAM  ☞   https://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport TWITTER  ☞         https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport FACEBOOK  ☞     https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT 👕 MERCH ☞       https://shoptyt.com Our listeners get 50% off for life plus Free Shipping AND 3 Free Gifts at mengotomars.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to The Damage Report.

0:01.7

Make sure to follow and rate our show with five stars.

0:19.9

Hello, one and all, and welcome to Big News Wednesday.

0:22.6

Hello, all of you out there. I'm John Arola. Lucky, as always, on this Wednesday to be joined by Sharon Reed.

0:36.6

Sharon, how's it going? It's going great, better than I'm with you and your team.

0:40.9

Always enjoying my Wednesdays with you all.

0:42.9

Depending on who's boothing, I either see a beautiful fluffy cat or a beautiful baby in the background.

0:48.2

That's just beautiful. It's wonderful. I love it.

0:50.9

You hear a little bit of meowing, a little bit of screaming. You know, it's nice.

0:55.5

But anyway, glad to have you here.

0:57.4

Two heads up.

0:59.2

So one heads up for you.

1:01.2

I got like very mildly sick.

1:04.8

And so now I have the stupid thing where you're just like congested for six months or whatever

1:08.7

afterward, which I hate it's so annoying. But anyway, so just bear that in mind everybody for my voice. It's

1:14.1

probably going to get annoying. The other one is I have been totally

1:17.5

slacking off on letting people know that our members hangout is this week.

1:21.8

Third week of every month, you should remember that if I don't. But anyway,

1:26.1

it's going to be coming up tomorrow 30 minutes after the close of the aftermath. So if you are a member on YouTube or if you'd like to become a tier three member, you can join us. We hang out. It's always a lot of fun. We've got an awesome member of the community that puts together like these like deep questions that we all grapple with. So anyway, it's a lot of fun and I hope to see you there. But anyway, for today we have a lot of news.

1:45.0

We're gonna be jumping into the topic of immigration once again and how it intersects with a lot of other issues.

1:50.0

Like the plot to rig the election, Trump's approval rating, what might happen with the Senate and more.

1:57.0

We'll jump into all of that.

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