What's really happening in Iran, Plus Buck Sexton's & Clay Travis' Predictions

Next Up with Mark Halperin

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News, Daily News, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Mark Halperin’s reported monologue breaks down his new information on how limited President Trump’s options on Iran now are. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton join with their predictions on how Trump could end the conflict and the potential fallout. Plus, they explain how AI and social media are fueling conspiracy theories. Also: Buck plays the “Next Up” version of “The Newlywed Game” to test how well he actually knows Clay. Pressure - Focus Features: Go behind the scenes of the most high-stakes weather forecast in history to discover the true story of the meteorologists who risked everything to change the course of D-Day. Chapter: For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (262) 454-0503 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/mark *Paid Partnership*” Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Bank On Yourself: Discover the retirement plan banks Don't want you to know about—get your free report at https://BankOnYourself.com/Mark Follow Next Up with Mark Halperin on all social platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextuphalperin TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nextuphalperin X (Twitter): https://x.com/NextUpHalperin Connect with Mark Halperin on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markevanhalperin X (Twitter): https://x.com/markhalperin Find the full audio show wherever you get your podcasts: Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-up-with-mark-halperin/id1810218232 Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/2f0n8G4xqUo8aGxbbbtRjH%3Fsi%3D8e4ff54000cc438d

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nextop. I'm Mark Capron. Welcome in everybody. I hope everyone had a good long weekend and
0:06.7	made sure that you thought about the sacrifice made by so many folks in the armed services to help this country stay free.
0:13.7	I'm glad to be back with you. I am, of course, your host to everything next up, as well as the editor-in-chief of the live interactive video platform
0:21.3	two-way and very happy always to have nexters convened if the weekend was great for you
0:26.6	that's wonderful I spend some time with my family and uh covering the story related to
0:33.1	Iran that's what I'm going to talk to you about as well today a lot of confusion about how close we are to a possible deal between the United States and Iran.
0:41.3	So we'll talk about that.
0:43.3	We're also excited to announce that we are closing in on 100,000 YouTube subscribers.
0:48.3	It's an important milestone, not just because it's a nice round number,
0:51.3	but there's all sorts of benefits for YouTube people
0:55.6	with you got a YouTube channel. So we want to hit the milestone as quick as we can. We'd love to do
1:00.0	it soon with your help. So tell all your family and friends and anyone you know to become Nexters.
1:05.3	And if you haven't already, go to the YouTube channel and please hit subscribe so we can
1:09.4	bump over that landmark number.
1:12.1	Great show ahead today.
1:14.2	Our guests for most of the hour will be our friends Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
1:18.1	Two wonderful, thoughtful gentlemen who don't always agree on everything,
1:22.8	but always provocative and interesting.
1:25.0	We'll talk a bit about Iran, but also about media and about
1:28.4	what's going on in this country, including the L.A. mayor's race where I think people who look at
1:35.6	Spencer Pratt and say he's definitely going to win, I predicted he would, are I think going to need
1:41.1	to brace themselves to say, what if Spencer Pratt doesn't win?
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