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Scott Ritter's Europe interview runs far ahead of Judge Napolitano's daily lineup

The former UN weapons inspector's conversation passed 78,000 views in eight hours, on a day when the show also turned to Europe with Tony Shaffer.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 165,038 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (10,548).

Scott Ritter : How Europe is Defeating ItselfScott Ritter : How Europe is Defeating Itself

Scott Ritter is a familiar face on Judging Freedom, and his latest visit has drawn a crowd quickly. "Scott Ritter : How Europe is Defeating Itself" had close to 80,000 views eight hours after it went up. That is already far beyond the roughly 10,000 a new video on the channel usually gathers in its whole first day, and it is on course for about fifteen times that.

The format is the one Andrew Napolitano has built the show on. A single guest, a colon, and a question or argument for a title. The former New Jersey Superior Court judge, long known to television viewers as a legal analyst, now spends most days interviewing guests about war, foreign policy and government power. Ritter brings a particular background to the chair: he was a Marine intelligence officer and later a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s.

The argument is in the title, and the description adds nothing beyond it. Under the video, many of the comments are greetings, from Glasgow, from Wales and from Brazil. Others turn to the fighting in Ukraine and to how it has been covered.

Europe was a theme of the day. The channel also posted Tony Shaffer on why European leaders hate Russia, along with Pepe Escobar on Beijing and Tehran and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on Netanyahu. Of that lineup, it was Ritter's hour that ran ahead.

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The facts
Subscribers
789,000
Channel views, pace per day
1,272,915 (on a normal day: 439,601)
Video published
September 30, 2026
Video views so far
78,113 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
165,038

The numbers

For a show that posts several interviews a day, a first eight hours like this one stands well above the usual start.

the video's first day
usual first day here
10,548
this video
165,038
subscribers
789,000
total views
395,036,782
views per day
1,272,915
typical day: 439,601
the video
views
78,113
likes
4,462
comments
239
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Andrew Klavan
813,000
Judge Napolitano - Judgin…
789,000
The Rational National
781,000
Dan Wootton Outspoken
780,000
PoliticsJOE
773,000
Valuetainment Short Clips
772,000
As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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