Trump Accidentally Admits His Strikes Haven't Damaged Iran's Military At All

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Useful Idiots Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you do not have to.
0:06.2	I'm Katie Helper.
0:07.3	I'm Erin Matta.
0:08.3	Good Monday morning.
0:09.0	Thanks so much for being here.
0:10.0	Great to start the week with you and all the lovely people we make fun of on corporate TV.
0:16.5	Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com.
0:18.5	Go there to support the show get bonus content uh we're
0:22.8	broadcasting from new york city where i'm not sure if you guys heard this but we just had a big
0:27.1	clan rally right the middle of town uh they're called the jew klux clan uh they support a supremacist
0:34.1	cult called Israel and just like their kKK forebearers, they're bipartisan.
0:41.0	You had some far right extreme characters there like Bezal Smotrich, some Republicans.
0:47.9	You also have Democrats like near governor Kathy Hokel and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
0:53.1	And this comes as Israel is continuing to terrorize the people of Lebanon,
0:58.0	order more people to flee, continuing to bomb Gaza,
1:02.0	is threatening to escalate it's war in Lebanon because it wants to blow up any
1:05.0	chance of a, any remote chance of a U.S. Iran ceasefire.
1:10.0	And this has happened more on our side of the pond, closer to home, where the U.K.
1:16.1	just banned two people, two prominent leftists, Hassan Piker and his uncle, Jank U.Gar, because they criticize Israel.
1:25.8	So now here in the civilized Western world,
1:29.9	criticize Israel,
1:30.7	criticize the holy state.
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