About this episode

The episode features discussions on Trump's speech, asylum fraud schemes, and political tactics with various guests.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown - Friday, July 17, 2026 4:20 pm: Stephen Soukup, Director of The Political Forum Institute, joins the show to discuss his piece for American Greatness on how the politicization of everything allows for shady tactics in attempts to gain power. 4:38 pm: Todd Bensman, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece about why stopping asylum fraud schemes should be the next tool used to secure the nation’s borders. 5:05pm: Cleta Mitchell, Founder of the Election Integrity Network and a Senior Research Fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute, joins the program to discuss the takeaways from President Trump’s speech last night, and to explain why people from the intelligence community haven’t been prosecuted for hiding information about the election from Trump. 6:05 pm: Jennifer Graham, Ideas and Culture Editor for the Deseret News, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about her piece on President Trump’s claim of having an approval rating of 59% with no polls found to substantiate the claim. 6:20 pm: We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Utah…

People in this episode

Hosts: Rod, Greg

Guests: Stephen Soukup, Todd Bensman, Cleta Mitchell, Jennifer Graham

Topics covered

• Trump's Speech
• Asylum Fraud
• Border Security
• Election Integrity
• Political Tactics

Keywords

• Trump
• asylum fraud
• border security
• election integrity
• political tactics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Political Forum Institute, Heritage Foundation, Election Integrity Network, Conservative Partnership Institute, Deseret News

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