Trump's UFC Birthday, Elon Hits $1 Trillion, and Vance's Secret Situation Room Epstein Meetings

Nick and Rick break down a chaotic week in American politics — recorded as the UFC fight unfolds on the White House South Lawn. They open on Trump's 80th birthday UFC spectacle: seven mixed martial arts matches with 4,000 spectators, including 1,000 servicemembers required to attend in uniform on their own dime and meet a waist-to-height ratio standard, plus a 120,000-person fan fest at the Ellipse and a federal lawsuit that lost on Friday — and Trump joking he might never take "The Claw" cage down. Days before the fight, a massive "86 47" mural appeared etched into the National Mall grass. Then to the wealth milestone: Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX's $1.77 trillion IPO — the largest in market history — pushing his net worth to roughly $1.1 trillion, nearly four times the next-richest person on Earth. And the bombshell from Haberman and Swan's forthcoming book "Regime Change": VP JD Vance and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles held secret Situation Room meetings without Trump's knowledge to contain the Epstein files fallout. Vance "appeared panicked" and floated a plan to have Tucker Carlson interview Ghislaine Maxwell in prison. Dan Bongino predicted Epstein would be "Trump's Iran-Contra." Trump has now launched a "massive" leak hunt to find the source. Also covered: the US struck Iran's drinking water reservoirs in Hormozgan after Iran shot down a US Apache, with Defense Secretary Hegseth dismissing questions about civilian infrastructure as "disingenuous"; FISA Section 702 expired for the first time since 2008 after Democrats refused to reauthorize warrantless foreign surveillance under acting DNI Bill Pulte — Trump then nominated SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton as permanent DNI; Sen. Rand Paul released documents showing Fauci's NIH ties to the intelligence community date to 2003 and how he coordinated lab-leak pushback with the NSC; the US government ordered Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models globally — the first time the government has recalled an LLM, with Anthropic publicly disagreeing; a court forced Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center facade in an overnight removal; the US killed Tren de Aragua leader Niño Guerrero in a joint operation with the Venezuelan government; Graham Platner won the Maine Democratic Senate primary as expected, and Trump-endorsed Pamela Evette crushed Nancy Mace in the South Carolina governor primary. We close with Spencer Pratt's unhinged concession in the LA mayor race — calling Bass and Raman "dumb and dumber" and "corrupt communists," vowing FBI raids, claiming secret recordings — and Trump backing his "Rigged Elections!" fraud claims.