Valuetainment

Former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras joins Patrick Bet-David to analyze James Talarico's interviews after his absence from the Texas Senate campaign. She examines his body language, shifting explanations, and choice of words as questions over a viral theory collide with a high-stakes election.

Diesel prices have topped $6 a gallon, breaking the record set in 2022, and truckers are feeling it first. Small carriers and owner-operators are getting squeezed by fuel costs, and some drivers have called for parking their rigs in protest. Trump responded with an executive order opening tax-exempt diesel to highway use. But when trucking costs go up, everything you buy goes up with them.

Germany has more than 148,000 people wanted on arrest warrants, and 87% of them don’t hold German citizenship, according to new figures from the German Interior Ministry. Only about 11% are German-only citizens. Romanians and Poles make up the largest groups. What does this say about Germany’s immigration and border policy?

Nidal Hasan killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, and Trump has approved his execution by firing squad. When Pope Leo was asked about it, his answer was blunt: “The death penalty is inadmissible.” The first American pope is drawing a hard line against executing even a convicted mass shooter. Is he right, or is this justice?

Was Vlad the Impaler a hero or a monster? Raymond Ibrahim separates the Wallachian ruler from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, discussing Ottoman captivity, brutal punishments and the propaganda that shaped his reputation. Patrick Bet-David asks about the man behind the legend.