The Tom Sullivan Show

Democratic Socialists are young, passionate, and growing fast — and the Democratic Party establishment is genuinely worried about losing control of its own coalition. Bernie Sanders seemed harmless for years. Not anymore. The reason the movement is growing is simple — people don't trust either party and want something that actually addresses their needs. But we also ask the harder question today — has America trained people to look to government first instead of looking in the mirror? Both conversations today, no easy answers. Plus a federal judge declared a mistrial in the Palisades Fire arson case after the jury deadlocked 10 to 2 in favor...

The Supreme Court delivered two big rulings today. Gun owners can now carry into any business open to the public unless that business says no — a major reversal of the old default rule. And Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, granted back in 2010, is finally ending after sixteen years. Sixteen years is not temporary by any definition. We break both rulings down. Iran struck a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz with a drone — a clear test of President Trump's patience after the recent ceasefire announcement. Will he respond? And earthquakes have hit Japan, California, Russia, and even SFO...

Democratic Socialists won more races yesterday and the trend keeps growing. It will keep growing until enough Americans learn what every person who has actually lived under socialism already knows — don't go there. But the reason this is gaining traction is real. People can't afford homes, groceries are crushing budgets, student loans feel inescapable, and capitalism doesn't feel like it's working for a lot of struggling Americans right now. We address both the false solution and the real pain today. And Trump refused to sign the bipartisan housing affordability bill — we don't blame him. It wouldn't have lowered housing costs and...

The actual Iran negotiators are still in Switzerland hammering out the real details that matter — and the media is talking about a reflecting pool instead. We ask what that says about what passes for news coverage right now. Four states vote today — New York, Maryland, Utah, and South Carolina — and while most races are ordinary the one to watch is in New York where socialist candidates riding Mayor Mamdani's momentum are making real noise. Does that momentum mean anything outside the five boroughs? We break it down today.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcas...

Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman who shaped American monetary policy for nearly twenty years, has died at 100. Before the Fed he was a jazz musician at Juilliard. Clive Davis, the music mogul who discovered Whitney Houston and signed Bruce Springsteen, has died at 94. Before the music business he was a bored corporate lawyer. Two unlikely paths, two enormous legacies, gone the same day. We pay tribute to both. Vice President Vance is proud that Iran agreed to IAEA nuclear inspections but General Jack Keane says the IAEA has been played by Iran before and could be again. And Keir...

Israel never signed the Iran agreement and is not bound by it but Trump and Vance are openly hostile toward Israel anyway — for the crime of defending itself against Hezbollah's missiles. That dispute just stalled the 60-day negotiating period before it even started. Meanwhile Bill Pulte is on the job at intelligence and reportedly asking for a complete employee list — step one in what looks like a mass firing operation across America's spy agencies. And the original Air Force One livery, the elegant one Jackie Kennedy helped design, is in the hangar. The new plane is a repainted Qatari 747 in red...

JD Vance is out there alone trying to sell the Iran MOU and the President is calling the distinguished list of conservative critics stupid. The list is long, the credentials are serious, and calling them stupid is not an argument. The stock market going up has nothing to do with the Iran deal — it is about corporate earnings and the AI boom and today we explain why. The White House drone terror plot was not discovered by the FBI or any law enforcement agency. A mother called police about her own son and saved potentially hundreds of lives. And Bernie Sa...

Did Iran win this war? Go back to the stated goals when this started — nuclear threat neutralized, terror sponsorship curtailed, Hormuz secured. None of it actually happened and more Republicans are saying so out loud as the President tries to sell this deal as a win. Meanwhile some genuine political hardball — Trump asked his own DNI nominee Jay Clayton to skip his Senate confirmation hearing today, conveniently clearing the way for Bill Pulte to become acting Director of National Intelligence on Friday without ever facing real confirmation scrutiny. Democrats and Republicans alike are not happy about playing games with national secu...

Skeptical. That is the word Trump's own supporters are using about the Iran deal and today we explain why they are right to use it. A one and a half page memorandum of understanding that nobody is allowed to read. A president who is not going to Geneva to sign his own historic agreement even though he is just up the road. Washington and Tehran describing the same deal in completely opposite terms. If this was a win the President would be singing from the rooftops. The silence tells you everything. Then the FBI arrested a group of young men...

A historic agreement that nobody is allowed to read until after it is signed on Friday. The United States saying Iran made major concessions. Iran saying its nuclear rights are fully intact. Both describing the same document in completely contradictory terms. Oil and gas experts saying it will take weeks or months before ships transit Hormuz in normal numbers even if everything goes perfectly. And the very real question hanging over all of it — does the shooting start again before this deal is even fully understood? We are skeptical. We have been right to be skeptical before. And today we te...

The Iran deal leaves the world's number one terrorism sponsoring regime completely in place. The skeptics are not being cynical — they are being honest. We hope to be proven wrong but history says otherwise and today we make the full case for why this looks like another can kicked down the road for the next president to deal with. Meanwhile FISA — America's legal authority to surveil foreign bad actors — expires tonight. It had bipartisan support for reauthorization until the Pulte ODNI announcement blew the coalition apart. Tonight America goes dark on foreign surveillance and we can thank the Pulte nomination for th...

This morning the President said bigger bombing of Iran was happening tonight. This afternoon he cancelled it and announced a deal has been reached. The Strait of Hormuz could be open by the weekend if a formal agreement is signed as promised. We have heard similar things before so today we ask the honest question — is this actually the real deal or are we about to watch another announcement evaporate? Bill Pulte's DNI nomination is finished — killed by pushback from both parties who questioned his qualifications. The President has now nominated Jay Powell the US Attorney for the Southern District of N...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting the President called our downed Apache no big deal and had to be talked into a kinetic military response. He still thinks ceasefire talks are somehow continuing at the same time. Today we ask what that says about American resolve and what our adversaries are hearing. Inflation just hit 4.2 percent — the highest in three years — driven by oil and gas from the Iran conflict while wages fall further behind. American families are getting squeezed from every direction. And Susan Rice along with other Biden administration veterans reportedly called Xavier Becerra an idiot and worse. Demo...

An American Apache helicopter was shot down and both crew members were rescued alive — thank God. But the President said we must respond and those three words may have just opened the military door he has been holding shut for months. Is this the moment the Iran conflict escalates decisively? Meanwhile oil and gas reserves are being drawn down fast and a significant price spike may be closer than anyone is admitting publicly. And in Maine on Tuesday Democrats are asking themselves a genuinely hard question — do you vote for Graham Platner knowing his checkered past because the politics demand it o...

Iran and Israel are firing rockets and drones at each other right now and the Strait of Hormuz is still blocked. The President's advisors are telling him directly — use the military and finish the regime because no deal with these people will ever stick. The President is not listening. California's vote counting is so slow that the President and millions of voters think something is wrong — and when voters lose trust in counting they lose trust in democracy itself. California needs to understand that. And tonight Trump is at the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden — one of the most comple...

Trump told the Wall Street Journal exactly why he hired Bill Pulte to run American intelligence — fire a lot of people and dig into 2020 election files. No ambiguity. No reading between the lines. We take the President at his word today and examine what that means for the agencies keeping America safe. Maine's primary is Tuesday and the opposition research on Graham Platner is hitting hard. Between Platner and Paxton of Texas we ask whether the Senate is becoming a club where a checkered past is basically a membership requirement. And the Iran expert community is now saying clearly and co...

California used to have election results by the eleven o'clock news just like every other state. Now it takes days and possibly months and they think they are doing a great job. We explain what broke and why it matters for democratic trust. Four House Republicans voted for the War Powers Act to end the Iran war — a rare and notable break from Trump that now heads to the Senate for a showdown. And John Bolton walked into court today and pleaded guilty to one of the eighteen classified document counts against him. Is the former National Security Advisor actually go...

Scott Pelley spent months fighting his CBS bosses on his own broadcast and learned the oldest lesson in professional life the hardest possible way — do not bite the hand that feeds you. CBS fired him. Meanwhile a Republican is in first place in the California governor's race and yes we checked the calendar and yes this is real. The years of homelessness, crime, wildfires, and sky high gas prices under Democratic rule have apparently finally moved the needle in the nation's biggest blue state. And Bill Pulte — the President's pick to replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence — is drawin...

Iran's condition for coming back to the negotiating table is that Israel stops defending itself from Hezbollah. Not that Hezbollah stops attacking. Israel stops defending. Seriously. We break down what that demand actually tells us about Iran's real intentions. The $1.776 billion weaponization compensation fund has been paused after Congress from both parties pushed back hard. Six states vote today and the California story is the one to watch — Republicans are running real candidates for Governor and for Mayor of Los Angeles and the political environment created by years of Democratic failure on homelessness, crime, and wildfires has made both races ge...

Iran says negotiations are over. Trump says they are moving at a rapid pace. Both cannot be true and today we call it out directly. Meanwhile Iran is coordinating with the Houthis to block the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and choke off the Red Sea — a move that combined with Hormuz pressure could trigger a global shipping and energy crisis. Six primaries tomorrow and next week Maine votes on Graham Platner. And The View ladies — of all people — used every bad word in the book asking why American voters cannot find better candidates. When The View and conservative America agree on something it is...