Susan on Slotkin's Carnegie speech and her post-midterm "signature cases," the playbook now running in Poland under Tusk and Sikorski, Anne Applebaum's British ties, and Haley Stevens's endorsement of Mike Rogers in Michigan.
Trump's Starlink battle, Poland's political crisis, and the threat of space warfare. Mike Steger examines what's at stake for Ukraine, Europe, and the global economy.
Von der Leyen claims the Arctic for the EU. Barbara Boyd on the old British plot to carve up Russia, the Bering Strait tunnel, and the Russian JFK file note on a “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge.”
Susan on Slotkin's Carnegie speech and her post-midterm "signature cases," the playbook now running in Poland under Tusk and Sikorski, Anne Applebaum's British ties, and Haley Stevens's endorsement of Mike Rogers in Michigan.
On the eve of the midterms, Susan Kokinda sets President Trump's final message to Republicans, given to Benny Johnson ("be smart, be strong, love your country"), against Senator Elissa Slotkin's September 30 speech at the Carnegie Endowment, where she called Trump's America "the Titanic", and her stage partner Anne Applebaum's praise for the January 6 hearings as "constructed for television". Slotkin's undercover-video remarks of October 29 show what her post-midterm "signature cases" would be: the White House ballroom and the Reflecting Pool. The episode then follows the playbook to Poland: Slotkin's visit to Poland and Hungary and the "Iron Broom", Prime Minister Donald Tusk's move against the Constitutional Tribunal, President Karol Nawrocki's return to Warsaw, U.S. Ambassador Tom Rose's statement, and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski's defence of the government, with a look at Sikorski's and Applebaum's British ties and the Integrity Initiative, funded by the British Foreign Office. It closes in Michigan, where Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for the Senate, and sets Slotkin's "corruption" narrative against the President's moves on electricity for data centres, health care and drug prices, October's new factories, and child and Hispanic poverty at record lows.
00:00 The Monday Brief - Trump's Love Your Country Crushes Slotkin's Dystopian Lie - November 2, 2026
01:18 The Post-Midterm Plan
05:20 The Playbook In Action
09:07 The Coalition Showed Up, Just Not Hers
Barbara Boyd
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