They got money for wars but can't feed the poor

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.5 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Useful Idiots Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning new show so that you do not have to.
0:06.1	I'm Katie Halper.
0:07.2	I'm Mary Matei.
0:08.3	Good Monday morning.
0:09.3	Great to start the week with you and some of the worst people in corporate TV.
0:12.4	Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com.
0:15.4	Go there to support the show and get bonus content.
0:19.7	Where are we now in Trump and Israel's regime change war on Iran?
0:25.7	The latest deadline that Trump has set is supposed to expire on Tuesday.
0:31.8	And after then, he says if there's no deal, if Iran hasn't reopened the state of Hormuz,
0:35.8	which it's partially blockaded, it hasn't fully
0:38.4	blockaded, it's partially blockaded to basically states that are complicit in attacking it.
0:43.6	If Iran doesn't undo that, Trump says, he will resume his threats to basically wipe out Iran's
0:48.9	civilization but destroying its infrastructure.
0:52.0	And there are supposed to be these talks going on in Pakistan.
1:13.1	Trump says that the U.S. team is on the way. He initially said that J.D. Vance was going. They said J.D. Vance wasn't going because he said that the Secret Service didn't have enough time to prepare, which is weird. Right. They've had like many days to prepare. Now it sounds that J.D. Vance is, but Iran says they're not sure if they're going because from their point of view, why would you negotiate with a guy who was constantly lying
1:18.1	and threatening to blow up your country?
1:20.3	Like Trump has repeatedly said that Iran's given him everything.
1:23.8	They're surrendering on all fronts.
1:26.2	But then he still says, I'm going to blow up their whole country.
1:28.9	So it's very confusing as to what's happening and we'll try to make sense with what we know.
1:33.9	And also, I think it's time consuming for Iran.
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