About this episode

The episode discusses Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's upcoming testimony, trade tensions with Canada, key elections in Arizona, a new Senate frontrunner in Maine, and the discovery of Pan Am wreckage.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth prepares to testify in front of Congress as US servicemember deaths and injuries mount in the Middle East. Has President Donald Trump reignited another trade war with Canada? Arizonans go to the polls in a key test for the MAGA movement. The new Maine Democratic Senate frontrunner is facing questions about his temperament. And 74 years after it crashed, the wreckage of a Pan Am flight is discovered off the coast of Puerto Rico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Guest: Pete Hegseth

Topics covered

• US military
• trade war
• elections
• politics
• aviation history

Keywords

• Hegseth
• trade war
• Canada tariffs
• MAGA movement
• Pan Am wreckage
• Puerto Rico
• elections
• Senate
• military deaths

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Places: Canada, Arizona, Maine, Puerto Rico

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