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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

US Bans Palestinian Leaders, Welcomes Founder of Syrian Al Qaeda | Useful Idiots Monday Mourning | Useful Idiots Monday Mourning

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to.

If it's Monday Morning, it's #mondaymourning

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you do not have to.

0:05.5

I'm Katie Halper.

0:06.9

I'm Mary Mate. Thanks so much for being here. What a wonderful way to start the week.

0:10.5

Us, you guys and some of the worst people on corporate news. Our website, as always, is usefulity. It's podcast.com.

0:18.5

Go there to support the show and get bonus content.

0:21.2

Yeah. And I just want to echo what the great Teddy G says,

0:24.8

which is Katie and Aaron taking one for the team every Monday morning.

0:28.0

It's true.

0:28.6

We even take one for the team starting Sunday when we watch them.

0:31.7

And the way that you can recognize our hard work and labor and emotional labor

0:36.9

is by giving us a like for free. Just a thumbs up.

0:42.0

All right. Well, let's get to our weekly recap from Meet the Depressed.

0:48.2

Good Sunday morning. As we come on the air, thousands are gathering in Arizona to pay tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk just over a week after he was assassinated.

1:01.2

President Trump is among those set to speak at the memorial service.

1:05.6

It comes as the country is grappling not only with political violence, but also threats to free speech.

1:12.8

ABC indefinitely suspended late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel for comments he made in the wake of Kirk's

1:19.6

death. President Trump, by the way, I don't know if people saw that, but that was actually a moment

1:25.1

of Jimmy Kimmel being, I would say, kind of atypical

1:27.8

funny. He actually made sense, I think. People are upset about it. It's pathetically tame

1:35.7

what he said. It was very funny. He played a clip of Trump. I don't know if people saw this one,

1:43.6

but basically he's asked about Charlie Kirk's

1:46.6

death and he says it's terrible for like a millisecond and then goes on to talk about the

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