# Badlands Daily: 8/31/26 - Letitia James Whistleblower, Shapiro's Measles Meltdown & Venezuela Oil

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-08-31T19:03:48+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-daily-83126-letitia-james-whistleblower-shapiros-measles-meltdown-venezuela-oil/
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Duration seconds: 6150

## Resource

CannCon and Zak Paine open Monday with a genuinely explosive whistleblower email from inside the New York Attorney General's office, where a prosecutor accuses his own bureau chief of directing him to target President Trump and affiliated organizations without credible cause, an email that was scrubbed from more than two thousand inboxes almost immediately. From there they cover a Florida representative's whiplash reversal on the massive Venezuela oil deal and what over two hundred billion in projected tax revenue could mean for the country. The centerpiece is a three and a half minute Pennsylvania press conference on the measles outbreak that CannCon calls pure gold, paired with the county coroner's own account that complicates the official narrative. They wrap with fresh Fauci documents on a deleted gain of function email and a look at the continuing resolution fight tied to the Save America Act.

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