The Watchlist with Jayar Jackson: March 5, 2026

Pete Hegseth accuses Iran of targeting civilians in a fiery briefing—only to face immediate questions about a strike near a girls’ school, turning his own talking points into a hypocrisy he suddenly can’t explain.
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  • 10 minutes
A Marine veteran challenges lawmakers during a Senate hearing over the war, but the moment erupts when Senator Tim Sheehy jumps in and the protester is forcibly removed, revealing how quickly Washington shuts down dissent when the questions get uncomfortable.
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  • 12 minutes
After Montana Senator Tim Sheehy’s explosive clash with a Marine veteran erupts on camera, reporters start digging into the bizarre Glacier National Park gunshot story he once brushed off as a combat wound—only to find a park ranger’s report, conflicting accounts, and a trail of questions threatening to unravel the tough-guy narrative he’s spent years selling.
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  • 11 minutes
Kristi Noem attempts to defend a $220 million DHS ad campaign promoting Donald Trump, but a heated Capitol Hill hearing quickly turns against her as Senator John Kennedy and Rep. Joe Neguse expose a mysterious contractor, missing oversight, and alarming questions about taxpayer money flowing to political allies.
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  • 12 minutes
Stephen Miller jumped on TV to sell the so-called “Trump Doctrine” and defend Donald Trump’s sudden war posture, only to watch the MAGA narrative shatter as old clips of Trump promising peace, endless war denials, and furious reactions from figures like Jim Jordan and John Kennedy expose the widening cracks inside the Republican Party’s Iran war spin machine.
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  • 10 minutes
Pete Hegseth lashed out at the press for reporting on fallen U.S. troops, only to have Jake Tapper and Kaitlan Collins dismantle his claims as the administration’s war messaging continues to falter.
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  • 9 minutes

The Watchlist with Jayar Jackson: February 26, 2026

The Epstein files drop with bombshell omissions, as the Justice Department quietly withholds FBI interview notes detailing allegations against Donald Trump—turning what was billed as transparency into a glaring question of what, and who, is being protected.
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  • 12 minutes
An armed Texas man storms a peaceful protest against Border Patrol and DHS, brandishing a gun at teenagers while claiming to be the “good guy”—only to get arrested in a moment that exposes how Trump-era immigration rhetoric and ICE culture have emboldened vigilante-style intimidation in broad daylight.
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  • 13 minutes
JD Vance declares a Trump-ordered “war on fraud” and freezes over $200 million in Minnesota Medicaid funds, only for the staggering $745 million Medicare fraud scandal tied to Rick Scott and Columbia HCA to resurface and expose the breathtaking hypocrisy Republicans hoped Americans wouldn’t remember.
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Donald Trump sends his allies like Markwayne Mullin and Pete Hegseth out to boast that “Operation Midnight Hammer” obliterated Iran’s nuclear program for years, only to watch Kaitlan Collins and fresh NBC reporting expose the glaring contradictions as the White House scrambles to explain why a supposedly destroyed threat is suddenly back just in time to justify another march toward war.
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Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie move to force Congress to stop Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth from dragging America into another Iran war, only to find Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries quietly working behind the scenes to stall the vote and shield Washington’s political playbook before the bombs start falling.
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  • 6 minutes