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The Damage Report with John Iadarola

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The Damage Report with John Iadarola

TYT Network

Politics, Government, News

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The DOJ apparently didn’t follow up when multiple women said other men in Epstein’s orbit assaulted them. Some in the House are open to giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon. Pete Hegseth fired the Navy Secretary. Trump threatens to kill boats that are planting mines. Ron DeSantis is barrelling ahead on redistricting Florida. Trump’s Fed Chair pick was grilled by Elizabeth Warren.  Host: John Iadarola (@johniadarola) Co-Host: Yasmin Kahn (@YazzieK) Thanks to our episode's sponsors: Go to ⁠shipstation.com⁠ and use code DAMAGE for sixty days for free! Refresh your winter wardrobe with Quince. Go to quince.com/damage for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble   ***** 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 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

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0:20.0

Welcome back, one and all to the damage report.

0:21.6

I realized like seconds before we went live, I'm like, I'm missing something.

0:25.6

I know that I'm at home, I'm in my home setup and so everything is a little bit different, but I'm like, do I have all my windows?

0:30.6

Did I open up the chat?

0:32.6

Something bad is going to happen because I'm not prepared.

0:34.6

I just have that overarching sense of dread. I don't know, maybe it's the effect of the news on me. I'm not prepared. I just have that overarching sense of dread.

0:37.6

I don't know, maybe it's the effect of the news on me. I'm not sure. But don't worry, while I may be feeling dread and I'm totally unprepared. I know who is prepared. Yes, who's here now? Yes, how's it going? Oh my God, well now I'm nervous, but I was fine up until a second ago before you said this was going to be a dreadful show.

0:54.0

So I guess we'll see what happens.

0:55.2

No, I didn't say the show is going to be dreadful.

0:57.3

I said I was going to be a dreadful so I guess we'll see what happens.

0:55.1

No, I didn't say the show is going to be dreadful. I said I was going to be dreadful. No, you're ready to go. I'm ready. House is clean. Everything's going on. I like it. It's going to be a good weekend. We're we're prepping for the weekend ahead of time so I can just sit and not worry about anything, read my book and not watch the news for a little bit.

1:13.7

I'm looking forward to that. I think that sounds great. I'm gonna do a little bit of that this weekend as well. But for now, we do have a lot of news that we have to get to everybody. We got two more days of that. And so thank you for being here. We're to be talking about a lot today. a lot today. We are going to be talking about Iran, but probably the least that we have for a couple of different weeks. So we're going to be giving a little update on what's going on with the Epstein files. And that's like a nice way of putting it. The accurate way to put it is we're going to talk about what's going on with the cover up of the Epstein files in a couple different forms. And the next, I would, which should be the next red line that they look ready to step across when it comes to the Epstein files and in particular, Gaylene Maxwell.

1:51.5

So we're gonna be talking about that.

1:53.0

We've got another high profile military officer being fired in the middle of a war, which is always fun. And, oh, we have an update on the redistricting.

2:03.6

So obviously yesterday the Democrats had succeeded in Virginia with their redistricting effort.

2:08.6

Well, so now the Republicans are like, yeah, well, we're going to do it in Florida.

2:13.6

And a lot of Florida Republicans are like, I don't know if we should do that, actually. That may be a bad idea. So that's going to be a lot of Florida Republicans are like, I don't know if we should do that.

2:17.6

Actually, that may be a bad idea.

2:19.4

So that's going to be a lot of fun.

2:21.2

And then in the aftermath, we've got absolutely devastating polling for Donald Trump.

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