Badlands Daily: 8/10/26 - Air Force One's Canary Trap, Senate Recess & DSA's Radical Platform
CannCon and Zak Paine open with a follow up on the Air Force One missile capability story, connecting it to a possible canary trap and predicting some accountability is coming for whoever leaked it. From there they play a clip of President Trump weighing in on John Thune's future as Senate Majority Leader before turning their frustration toward the Senate voting to leave for a 40 day recess without resolving the Attorney General confirmation fight, leaving Trump without the recess appointment option he needed. Marsha Blackburn's Tennessee governor primary run gets a look too. The back half is…
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