Christa Pike Survives Execution | Ex-CIA Official's $194M Gold Fraud | Is Woke Dead? | 10/7/26

Aaron McIntire covers President Trump's midterm rally tour, including his line about asking world leaders who thank him for the Iran war when they plan to pay for it, and his Baltimore announcement of a $6.6 billion Navy and Anduril submarine parts factory. He plays Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling on Russia to share more information after a lab worker's death at a Siberian anti-plague institute, and Congressman Brandon Gill's remarks on conserving American culture and heritage. Aaron also covers former senior CIA official David Rush pleading guilty to a $194 million fraud scheme that included 298 gold bars, and newly circulating video of Texas Senate nominee James Talarico telling educators that white supremacy and heteropatriarchy have colonized their minds. He shares a Pennsylvania construction worker's blunt take on data center jobs, then covers Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted in the 1995 killing of classmate Colleen Slemmer, who her attorneys say is conscious and speaking after surviving a failed lethal injection last week. Aaron closes with Chris Rock's New York Times interview comparing wokeness to the Salem witch trials and asks whether woke is really dead.