"Tone Down the Rhetoric!" Say US Officials Who Want to Destroy All of Iranian Civilization
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
4.5 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Monday morning where we watch this Sunday morning new show so that you do not have to. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Katie Helper. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Mary Mate. |
| 0:07.5 | Good Monday morning. |
| 0:08.2 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:09.8 | Great to start the week with you and some of the worst people on corporate TV. |
| 0:14.0 | Our website is Usefully.com. |
| 0:16.6 | Go there to support the show. |
| 0:18.9 | Get bonus content. |
| 0:20.4 | This week, we cover the aftermath of the attempted attack at the White House |
| 0:25.9 | Correspondence Dinner. |
| 0:27.4 | My first thought was, you know, glad everyone's okay. |
| 0:30.7 | Nobody was seriously hurt. |
| 0:32.8 | I think one Secret Service officer was shot, but treated for light wounds and it's fine. |
| 0:40.2 | My second thought was like, you know, when you experience an act of violence like this, |
| 0:44.1 | does that make you feel maybe any empathy for other people who endure acts of violence, |
| 0:51.0 | especially if you're in a room full of people who promote violence around the world |
| 0:54.8 | and, you know, wage violence around the world because some of the people in that room are |
| 0:57.7 | government officials, like Defense Secretary Pete Hegesath, who openly brags about raining down |
| 1:02.7 | death and destruction on places like Iran. And, I mean, we feel empathy for people who suffer |
| 1:09.1 | through the violence of that room, that |
| 1:12.2 | correspondent center. |
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