Flood The Streets - July 10, 2026

**SPEAKER_2** (0:13)
Welcome to The Young Turks.

**Cenk Uygur** (0:14)
Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola with you guys. So a crazy show today because a little bit later in the program, Donald Trump trying to interfere with the midterm elections. Super dangerous, gotta talk about that. And also Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League, which has now become the Pro Bigotry, Pro Genocide League.
It has hilarious conditions for the idea of having a conversation with Hassan Baiker, or presumably anyone who is a critic of Israel. So we'll show you what those preconditions are, which is hilarious. And then the right wing continues their massive melee, Tucker Carlson versus Ben Shapiro again today.
So that's a big, big fight that they've got going on. And obviously, we've got huge news on the Iran War, which is what we're going to do in a second. John Iadarola, how are you doing, brother?

**John Iadarola** (1:09)
I'm good, sorry I can't be in studio today. I'm feeling a little bit sick and I didn't want to risk your health. Also, if I could make a bold prediction, I don't think Hassan's going to agree to the preconditions because they're ridiculous.

**Cenk Uygur** (1:22)
You might be right.
And then of course, as usual, cable news anchors obsessed with Israel's right to exist. The Palestinians can all go die, no one cares. But Israel's right to exist as if it's in any kind of jeopardy. Anyways, you guys all know cable news anchors all work for Israel. Anyways, so we'll get to that in a second. But let's start with this most important story.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:46)
For all the people out there who've been crapping on our relationship with Israel, and what we do with Israel, and our alliance with Israel. They gave us intelligence to help us keep our president from being assassinated.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:57)
That's a good thing. Yeah, did they, did they?

**Cenk Uygur** (2:03)
So yet another piece of intelligence from the Israelis that coincidentally helps their own cause, which is to push us further into this war with Iran. Well John, is this intelligence we should be concerned about?

**John Iadarola** (2:18)
I think they'd love it if we were, if that meant that we would shut up and go along with what they want to do. But I'm not so sure, but let's run through the actual evidence what we know about this supposed plot. So earlier this week, during the NATO Summit in Turkey, Trump said that there was an active assassination plot targeting, which you can see here.

**Donald Trump** (2:36)
I'm number one on the kill list for Iran. They're lovely people, I'm number one. So I don't know, I can't tell you that, but I don't really care because I'm doing my job and I'm doing it, I hope, better than anybody's ever done it. Because we have a country that's hot and really, really successful. But I mention it only because it's on the list. I mean, that came out, there was another list came out yesterday. And I'm number one on, I like being number one on TikTok better, but I'm number one on the list for killing.

**John Iadarola** (3:09)
I think the few remaining neurons in his brain that are still capable of firing have latched on to. If I say something's on a list, it's more interesting, it's more compelling. So now I'm on TikTok, and also ran. But anyway, is he actually on their list? Well, maybe in a general sense, but he's not speaking generally. He means very specifically. And apparently, according to The Wall Street Journal, it was Israel once again, which came to Donald Trump at a crucial moment in this conflict and said, hey, they're trying to kill you. Should freak out now, maybe get violent. They know Donald Trump, they know how he responds to things. Now, interestingly, The Wall Street Journal has no, they don't know the evidence. Israel said there's a plot. Maybe they have evidence, maybe they don't. We're dumb peasants, we don't get to know. We just get to be dragged along into a forever war. You should know, though, that Israel has frequently provided evidence that it turned out was fully fake and they knew that it wasn't real to manipulate our government into acting in ways that they want. So, not too long ago, there was a presentation in the situation room at the White House by Benjamin and Yahoo.
And him and his team outlined conditions that they portrayed as pointing to near certain victory over Iran. Iran's ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks. The regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the straight of our moves and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against US interests in neighboring countries was assessed as minimal. Obviously, that's not how it worked out in the end.