# Badlands Daily: 7/15/26 - Rick Wilson's CIA Claim, Dan Rather's Vintage Clip & Trump's Iran Warning

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-07-15T17:03:49+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-daily-71526-rick-wilsons-cia-claim-dan-rathers-vintage-clip-trumps-iran-warning/
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## Resource

CannCon and Ashe count down to tonight's much hyped presidential speech, teasing what might come out about weaponized government agencies and dropping a genuinely wild claim about a prominent Lincoln Project figure admitting intelligence community ties. They dust off a decades old Dan Rather segment on voting machine rollouts that is so copyright locked it could not even air on YouTube last night, and connect it straight to today's Save America Act debate. There is also a detour into a viral moment from a Michigan Democrat candidate that has the internet in stitches. On the geopolitics side, President Trump sits down for a pointed interview about where the Iran conflict goes next, including talk of energy targets, power plants, and a mysterious nuclear site called Pickaxe. Sponsor breaks, dog stories, and the usual chaos included.

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