It was another explosive episode of The Unknown as Richard Luthmann and I first debated the Israeli attack on Iran. Israel has killed many Iranian leaders.
Israel said it had killed a newly installed senior Iranian military official on Tuesday, just days after his predecessor was slain, further destabilizing Iran’s military chain of command as the war entered its fifth day.
Since Israel began bombing Iran on Friday, it has killed at least 11 senior generals while striking Iranian nuclear sites and missile launchers, in what it calls an effort to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
On Tuesday morning, the Israeli military said it had killed Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani, describing him as the most senior military commander in Iran. He was appointed to his post four days ago, replacing a general who was killed by Israel on the first day of hostilities. Iran did not immediately comment on Israel’s claim about General Shadmani. If confirmed, his death would deal yet another blow to Iran’s beleaguered military leadership.
Despite that early success, many of Trump’s allies- Candace Owens, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, etc- have expressed concern that he’s dragging the US into another war.
Thus far, I think this is a red herring, though I agree with Republican Representative Thomas Massie that if Trump wants to join Israel in attacking Iran, he needs to go to Congress and get a declaration of war.
He won’t get one; Rich argued that he should update the Lend/Lease Act, which would allow the US to supply Israel with the weapons necessary to finish off Iran. Massie wouldn’t go for that either, but I think that would pass through Congress.
In the Diddy trial, the prosecution played video of one of Diddy’s freakoffs. Rich thought that this video was important because it showed the victims having sex against their will. I argued that it being against their will is a conclusion and not necessarily factual.
Rich also thought it was important that the defense is only asking for a week to put on its case. After the broadcast, was finished, Fox News published an article in which a lawyer challenged that notion.
"The defense does not have to put on a case at all," New York-based Attorney David Schwartz told Fox News Digital. "It is up to the prosecution to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt, and the defendant gets every presumption of innocence. So, in many cases, the defense does not put on a case at all.
"By putting on no case or a short case, the defense is emphasizing that the prosecution did not meet its burden.
"The last thing you want to do as a defense attorney is to shift the burden by putting on a long case. The burden never shifts, but the longer the case the defense puts on, the more juries forget about the burden, which is bad."
In the What the Hales segment which started thirty-three minutes in, we discussed the new lawsuit filed by Leslie Ferderigos. Leslie only got involved because I asked her to do an interview in May. Since then, she’s been attacked mercilessly- people commenting her looks, her private life, and her career as a lawyer.
Specifically, the Hales crew has falsely claimed that she’s a disbarred lawyer, and more recently, that she retired to avoid disbarment. She has provided an affidavit from the Florida bar which proves that wrong.
Faced with this affidavit, Megan doubled down on her lies. Next, she claimed that the affidavit is doctored. That seems to be a modus operandi for the Hales crew. Megan previously falsely claimed that Michelle Preston, who is being sued by Hales, has Munchausen by proxy. This was based on an anonymous source, who told Megan that Michelle was making dubious statements about her adopted daughter’s ailments.
I received a letter which proved that Michelle was telling the truth.
Naturally, the Hales crew claimed that letter was fake.
Check out my interview with Malinda Sherwyn as we discussed Megan’s irresponsible Munchausen label.
An hour into the program, we discussed the most recent hearing from the Arizona ad hoc joint committee on family court orders held on Monday June 16, 2025.
Travelling from Idaho, Veronic Baiz discussed how despite being an executive with technology healthcare company, she worked multiple jobs just to put food on the table because of the exorbitant costs of family court.
Despite her best efforts, her two boys remain with their neglectful father. I covered Veronica’s story last summer.
Veronica hopes her home state follows Arizona’s lead and announces similar hearings.
Dr. Bandy Lee travelled from New York to testify as well, and Rich wrote about her testimony.
“We do not ordinarily think of family courts as sites of violence,” she said, “but by denying—or worse, exploiting—domestic violence and child abuse, family courts have become one of the deadliest places for children and the adults who try to protect them.”
Dr. Lee said she has served as an expert witness in 200 legal cases—50 in family courts across 22 states—and none were as hostile to expertise as family court.
“Only in family court have I been unwelcome,” she said. “Judges often try to find almost any reason not to admit me. They are not looking for qualified experts. They seek poorly trained or compromised so-called experts who will fix the results in the direction they desire.”
Dr. Lee recounted how her own sister, a praised and attentive mother, lost her children overnight in a police raid ordered during a custody dispute in Bergen County, New Jersey. “The violently abusive father who almost killed each of his two children by head injury got sole custody,” Dr. Lee said. “The mother hasn’t seen or heard from the children she raised since birth for the past four years—not even one minute.”
The court ignored the evaluations of 11 world-renowned psychiatrists and instead relied solely on the unsupported opinion of one “unlicensed and unqualified associate counselor,” Dr. Lee said.
Also, check out the interviews we did with the co-chairs of this committee Republican State Senator Mark Finchem and Republican State Representative Rachel Keshel.
An hour and fifteen minutes in, Leslie Ferderigos joined us to talk more about her lawsuit.
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