News Roundup & Comment

Date: March 27, 2026
Host: Jim Schneider
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Here’s a look at some headlines from the first 20 minutes of this “Round-Up” broadcast.  Later on, listeners were given the opportunity to share their thoughts:

–At 2:19am Eastern Time this morning, before adjourning for a 2 week recess, the U.S. Senate passed a bill approving Department of Homeland Security funds to pay TSA agents, but it excludes money for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.    

–Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is said to be leading diplomatic talks with the U.S., praised Hamas’ October 7, 2023, massacre against Israel as a victory and recently threatened to, “…make the Persian Gulf run with the blood of invaders” if Washington targets regime assets on islands there.

–Iran has rejected a 15 point cease-fire proposal from the U.S. while offering a 5 point counter-plan of their own.

–Iran just released a video simulating a missile attack on the Statue of Liberty.

–Iran’s IRGC Navy Commander was targeted and killed in an Israeli attack.

–Multiple Gulf and Arab states are taking a far more forceful posture concerning Iran.

–President Trump extended, by 10 days, possible attacks on Iran’s energy sector. 

–The Pentagon is considering sending up to an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East according to a senior defense official.

–The Saudi Crown Prince has been pushing President Trump to continue the war with Iran.

–Russia is sending drones and other equipment to Iran this month.

–President Putin of Russia reportedly has asked the nation’s ultra-wealthy oligarchs to donate funds to help boost the nation’s dwindling military budget as its four year old war with Ukraine continues.

–In the waning days of President Biden’s term, his administration entered into a secretive sweetheart settlement with an alleged Iranian front group. 

–Former CIA Director John Brennan appeared on MSNOW, saying he tends to believe Iran more than President Trump.

–Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia shows participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for cheers every time an American service member comes home in a casket.

–A Palestinian hospital doctor was caught by Israeli authorities several weeks ago while attempting to smuggle dozens of rare, 2,000 year old Hebrew coins, through a checkpoint in Judea.

–Tucker Carlson no longer sees China as a major threat and is calling for the U.S. to share power with Beijing in a new world order and with a weakened America.

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