About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of the Ellisons acquiring CBS and the Trump administration's desire for control over major news outlets.

Send us Fan Mail On March 13, 2026, Pete Hegseth stood at a Pentagon press briefing and blurted out a secret. He said he couldn't wait for David Ellison to take over CNN. In one unscripted moment, the Secretary of Defense revealed what this administration has been carefully avoiding saying out loud: that the Trump White House wants indirect control of America's largest news organizations — not through government ownership, which the Constitution prohibits, but through billionaire allies who u...

Topics covered

• media control
• Trump administration
• billionaire influence
• news organizations
• political strategy

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