Video Podcast on Trump’s problems with Jeffrey Epstein, Netanyahu’s coalition in jeopardy

In the Video podcast, political columnist Ray Hanania and former Congressman Bill Lipinski discuss the Jeffrey Epstein controversy and its impact on President Trump; open rebellion among some MAGA Republicans including Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene over foreign aid and Epstein, the issue of Faith and Religion in Amewrica, the Israeli war in Syria, and the Illinois battle to succeed US Senator Dick Durbin. Watch the Video podcast on this website below or click here

Welcome to this week’s episode of Two Guys on Politics with co-hosts former Illinois Congressman Bill Lipinski and columnist at the Southwest News Newspaper Group, and Ray Hanania, writer and columnist with the Southwest News Newspaper Group in Illinois, with syndicated columns at Hanania.com and Arab News Newspaper at ArabNews.com.

It is 07-18-2025 this is S4E18 and Two Guys on Politics is broadcast on the US Arab Radio Network on WNZK AM 690 radio, as well as on YouTube at TwoGuysonPolitics.com

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Bill Lipinski is a cohost for this radio show and podcast. Lipinski served as Democratic Committeeman / Alderman of Chicago’s 23rd Ward.

Lipinski was elected to Congress in 1983 and served through 2005. He currently writes the “Right from the Center” opinion column at the Southwest News Newspaper Group

And I covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 and writes mainstream opinion columns for The Southwest News Newspaper Group as well as columns and news on Arab American issues for Arab News Newspaper. You can get more information on me at Hanania.com

We have several topics now on our new show, which will be featured each week on WNZK AM 690 Radio in Detroit and online … you can also view our podcast by going to TwoGuysonPolitics.com which takes you to our YouTube channel where all of our episodes are broadcast.

Segment 1:

1 – President Donald Trump gets backlash from his own Republican party/MAGA supporters after brushing aside resolving details of the Jeffrey Epstein case; We also discuss the open rebellion by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and about six other Republicans over excessive budget spending on foreign countries. the group led by MTG forced Trump to reverse course on the Epstein controversy that he tried to shut down and pushed hard but failed to block the giving of billions in foreign aid.

Bill Lipinski reads his latest column, “Right from the Middle,” which this week addressing the isswue of “Faith.” Lipinski talks about how Americans turned to faith and religion during the 19840s and 1950s, during and after World War II, but have since turned away today.

Hanania and Lipinski discuss the column during the segment.

Segment 2:

1 – Lipinski and Hanania discuss the challenges facing Israel’s right-wing and controversial Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his ruling coalition, as the religious party is threatening to quit. The religious coalitions are upset over what they perceive as the plans to pass a new law in Israel to require religious Orthodox Jewish citizens to serve in the Israeli military. And, they also discuss Netanyahu’s latest war that he launched in Syria.

Hanania discusses his most recent column detailing why he supports the candidacy of Congresswoman Robin Kelly to succeed retiring Senator Dick Durbin over Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi. We also discuss the leading Republican candidate, Darin LaHood of Peoria.

Hanania and Lipinski also discuss Durbin’s conversion from a hardline conservative congressman to a moderate U.S. Senator.

Durbin was critical in removing Paul Findley from Congress. Findley was the leading voice demanding an investigation into the Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty naval vessel, which was attacked unprovoked by Israel on June 8, 1967.

The Israelis murdered 34 American servicemen on the ship and injured 173 more Americans. To protect Israel, the Nixon administration did everything it could to prevent a detailed investigation into Israel’s violence that killed American servicemen.

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Ray Hanania is an award-winning opinion columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland.

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Hanania also writes about Middle East issues for the Arab News, and The Arab Daily News criticizing government policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hanania was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New America Media in November 2007, and is the 2009 recipient of the SPJ National Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing.

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