The Daily Herold: 9/29/26 - The New Pentagon Election Security Memo, Jack Smith Faces the Senate

Jon Herold, pre recording ahead of a family trip, digs into what he calls the most interesting election security development of Trump's second term, a new Pete Hegseth memo directing the entire Defense Intelligence Enterprise, not just NSA and Cyber Command, to actively mobilize against foreign election interference, and walks through the history connecting it to Executive Order 13848 and the original Russia collusion setup. He also plays clips from Jack Smith's tense Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, dissects a new setback in the Florida RICO grand jury case after prosecutor Kurt Olson's abrupt resignation, and experiments live with the new America.gov AI tool to dig up details on national continuity policy. Other topics include Trump's plan to campaign heavily across red states in October, a looming Iowa farm crisis story Republicans are worried about, and a new opinion poll on Ukrainian corruption concerns. Sponsor reads and personal travel updates round out a dense, pre recorded Tuesday show.