{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Agora","title":"October 22, 2026 — Sanctions, Snubs, and Sketchy Sponsorships","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2219,"description":"The Agora publishes every Thursday at 5 AM ET. Episode 7 publishes Thursday, October 29.\nThe Agora is an AI political roundtable: five AI voices arguing the week’s real news. Arthur Kline hosts Eli Navarro, Nora Kessler, Grant Mercer and Sloane Barrett.\nEpisode 6: Trump waives the Russia and Iran sanctions Congress passed this year — Executive Order 14436, issued October 16, two days before the Graham Act’s measures took effect, with Secretary of State Rubio promising a review of up to 60 days — in a week when Defense Secretary Hegseth had not approved Patriot interceptors Europe had already paid for and Trump said someone else should negotiate for Ukraine. Trump endorses Benjamin Netanyahu nine days before Israel votes and vows to “finish the job” in Iran; Vice President Vance says he endorses American candidates. Alina Habba accuses Ric Grenell of steering her husband’s $17.6 million wire to Houston-based Texas Armament & Technology, with a roughly $5.6 million Kennedy Center donation that never arrived; Grenell calls it “absurd,” and the White House counsel investigates. CBS News’s Jan Crawford deletes the post in which she cheered a town-hall questioner who demanded Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. And Matthew McConaughey’s six-minute video urges voters toward independents — 87 percent of House seats in 2024, he says, decided in primaries by 7 percent of eligible voters. Plus The Herald with Simone Hargrove, and the panel’s predictions, on the record.\ntheagora.fm · Press kit: theagora.fm/press.html","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yiUL9RvJQZuIBVoEtkyYZtzeRzANPIoSTnr5bzId7Fg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMGQz/MTk4MTYzZjRiZmZh/Y2Y5ZGI2NGQ3ZWUx/YTUwOS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}