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=== Foreign Policy ===

=== Foreign Policy ===

Enjeti supports [[non-interventionism]] and has generally expressed opposition to [[foreign interventions by the United States]] and the [[military–industrial complex]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=HappyScribe |title=Transcript of Saagar Enjeti, … {{!}} Your Podcast Transcripts |url=https://podcasts.happyscribe.com/brown-pundits/saagar-enjeti-brown-american-right-populist |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=Podcasts – Your Podcast Transcripts |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Conservative Isolationists Gather in D.C. to Push Against U.S. Escalation in Ukraine – The American Spectator {{!}} USA News and Politics |url=https://spectator.org/conservative-isolationists-gather-in-d-c-to-push-against-u-s-escalation-in-ukraine/ |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=https://spectator.org/ |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/463296-saagar-enjeti-on-gabbard-im-becoming-a-fan-of-hers/?utm_source=chatgpt.com</ref> He has generally criticized U.S. and Israeli foreign policy in the [[Gaza war]] and has generally criticized [[United States support for Israel in the Gaza war]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spotify – Web Player |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/1M82DuSYjp5SKhB9KFwHNk |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=Spotify |language=en}}</ref> He has also been express criticism of the western approach and U.S. involvement in the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]].<ref>https://x.com/esaagar/status/1894069858326732898</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpY482r7mwc |title=Saagar Enjeti: US Getting RIPPED OFF In Ukraine War |date=2022-08-22 |last=Breaking Points |access-date=2025-10-04 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XDKqhq6bb0 |title=Krystal & Saagar on The Media’s Gaslighting Over Corruption in Ukraine |date=2023-02-04 |last=PowerfulJRE |access-date=2025-10-04 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

Enjeti supports [[non-interventionism]] and has generally expressed opposition to [[foreign interventions by the United States]] and the [[military–industrial complex]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=HappyScribe |title=Transcript of Saagar Enjeti, … {{!}} Your Podcast Transcripts |url=https://podcasts.happyscribe.com/brown-pundits/saagar-enjeti-brown-american-right-populist |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=Podcasts – Your Podcast Transcripts |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Conservative Isolationists Gather in D.C. to Push Against U.S. Escalation in Ukraine – The American Spectator {{!}} USA News and Politics |url=https://spectator.org/conservative-isolationists-gather-in-d-c-to-push-against-u-s-escalation-in-ukraine/ |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=spectator.org/ |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/463296-saagar-enjeti-on-gabbard-im-becoming-a-fan-of-hers/?utm_source=chatgpt.com</ref> He has generally criticized U.S. and Israeli foreign policy in the [[Gaza war]] and has generally criticized [[United States support for Israel in the Gaza war]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spotify – Web Player |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/1M82DuSYjp5SKhB9KFwHNk |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=Spotify |language=en}}</ref> He has also been express criticism of the western approach and U.S. involvement in the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]].<ref>https://x.com/esaagar/status/1894069858326732898</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpY482r7mwc |title=Saagar Enjeti: US Getting RIPPED OFF In Ukraine War |date=2022-08-22 |last=Breaking Points |access-date=2025-10-04 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XDKqhq6bb0 |title=Krystal & Saagar on The Media’s Gaslighting Over Corruption in Ukraine |date=2023-02-04 |last=PowerfulJRE |access-date=2025-10-04 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

== Personal life ==

Latest revision as of 08:43, 5 October 2025

American political podcaster and journalist

Saagar Enjeti (born April 21, 1992) is an American journalist, podcast host and political commentator currently co-hosting the American political news and opinion series Breaking Points alongside Krystal Ball. Previously he hosted The Realignment with Marshall Kosloff.

Early life and education

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Enjeti was born on April 21, 1992, to Telugu immigrants from India,[better source needed] and was raised in College Station, Texas.[1][2] His parents are Prasad Enjeti and Radhika Viruru, both professors at Texas A&M University.[3] He graduated from George Washington University in 2014 where he majored in economics and in 2018, he received a master’s in security policy from Georgetown University.[4]

Enjeti served as a media fellow for the Hudson Institute, where he co-hosted the podcast The Realignment with Marshall Kosloff.[3][4][5] He also served as a Tony Blankley fellow at the Steamboat Institute.[4][6]

Enjeti began his media career at The Daily Caller, owned by Tucker Carlson, as its White House Correspondent. According to Enjeti, he obtained the job by cold emailing someone at the outlet who tangentially knew a friend of his.[1][3][7]

He co-hosted Rising with Krystal Ball and wrote for The Hill from 2019 to 2021.[7][8][9] The pair co-wrote the book The Populist’s Guide to 2020 which focused on left and right populism in America.[3][10][11]

In 2021, Enjeti and Ball left Rising to start their own show called Breaking Points.[7][8] That show became the number one political podcast one week after launching and reached one million subscribers on YouTube in 2023.[12]

The American Conservative described Enjeti in 2020 as a “would-be, millennial Tucker Carlson.”

Enjeti has expressed economic nationalist and economic populist views and has criticized free trade and libertarianism and large corporations.[13][14][15]

Enjeti supports non-interventionism and has generally expressed opposition to foreign interventions by the United States and the military–industrial complex.[16][17][18] He has generally criticized U.S. and Israeli foreign policy in the Gaza war and has generally criticized United States support for Israel in the Gaza war.[19] He has also been express criticism of the western approach and U.S. involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian War.[20][21][22]

Enjeti married Jill McGrath in July 2023, with an initial wedding ceremony in India, and another wedding ceremony in Rhode Island.[23] Their daughter was born in 2025.[citation needed] Enjeti is an atheist.[24]

  • The Populist’s Guide to 2020, with Krystal Ball.[10]
  1. ^ a b Staff (April 21, 2020). “BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Saagar Enjeti, host of ‘Rising’ at The Hill TV”. Politico. Retrieved November 2, 2024.
  2. ^ Enjeti, Saagar (April 28, 2022). ““Saagar Enjeti on X: ‘This is an especially amusing part of the …'””.
  3. ^ a b c d Mills, Curt (July 10, 2020). “Saagar Enjeti Rising”. The American Conservative.
  4. ^ a b c “The future of media: Moving beyond bias and partisanship”. The Washington Examiner. April 9, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  5. ^ “Hudson Announces Launch of New Podcast and Media Fellows”. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  6. ^ “Tony Blankly Fellows”. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  7. ^ a b c Newport, Cal (June 15, 2022). “The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class”. newyorker.com. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  8. ^ a b Cockburn (June 2021). “The fall of Rising”. Spectator World. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  9. ^ “Saagar Enjeti former employee of The Hill“, thehill.com, retrieved 4 August 2023.
  10. ^ a b Dustin Guastella. “The Populist Pundits“, jacobin.com, 23 February 2023.
  11. ^ Hoonhout, Tobias (April 16, 2020). “Progressive Populism’s Dashed Hopes”. National Review. Retrieved November 2, 2024.
  12. ^ Berkowitz, Joe (June 12, 2021). “Why ‘Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar’ became the number-one political podcast in a week”. Fast Company.
  13. ^ https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/476293-saagar-enjeti-doubles-down-on-calls-for-conservatives-to-ditch-libertarianism/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
  14. ^ https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/466371-saagar-enjeti-praises-yang-for-automation-threat-to-forefront-at-ohio-debate/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
  15. ^ May 27, Tyler Stone On Date; 2021. “Saagar Enjeti: How U.S. Elites Sold Out Americans To China”. www.realclearpolitics.com. Retrieved September 25, 2025. CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ HappyScribe. “Transcript of Saagar Enjeti, … | Your Podcast Transcripts”. Podcasts – Your Podcast Transcripts. Retrieved September 25, 2025.
  17. ^ “Conservative Isolationists Gather in D.C. to Push Against U.S. Escalation in Ukraine – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics”. spectator.org/. Retrieved September 25, 2025.
  18. ^ https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/463296-saagar-enjeti-on-gabbard-im-becoming-a-fan-of-hers/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
  19. ^ “Spotify – Web Player”. Spotify. Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  20. ^ https://x.com/esaagar/status/1894069858326732898
  21. ^ Breaking Points (August 22, 2022). Saagar Enjeti: US Getting RIPPED OFF In Ukraine War. Retrieved October 4, 2025 – via YouTube.
  22. ^ PowerfulJRE (February 4, 2023). Krystal & Saagar on The Media’s Gaslighting Over Corruption in Ukraine. Retrieved October 4, 2025 – via YouTube.
  23. ^ “Saagar Enjeti Tied the Knot with His Wife Jill McGrath”. November 28, 2023.
  24. ^ “Krystal and Saagar REACT: Ted Cruz DOG WALKED by Tucker Carlson”. YouTube. June 19, 2025.

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