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10/14/26: Houthis Hit Saudi Aramco HQ, GOP Abandons Entire States, Press Sec Collapse On First Day · Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. That was Ryan's losing it. I'm channeling the
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  Speaker 1: new White House press secretary who we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about today. Had a really rough start yesterday. And as
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  Speaker 1: we were preparing the elements for the show, that single line,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to play it for you later, was ringing
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  Speaker 1: in our heads.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she's currently White House press secretary. By the time
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  Speaker 2: you watch this, that may no longer be the case.
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  Speaker 1: We will see.
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  Speaker 2: She said she's moving her family to Washington, D.C. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe hit pause on that.
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  Speaker 1: Just rent. Just rent. See what happens.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the war unfolding between Saudi
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  Speaker 2: Arabia and Yemen. We're going to be joined from Sana'a
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  Speaker 2: by one of my favorite journalists there, Hussein al-Bukhari, a
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  Speaker 2: kind of Houthi-aligned reporter who's going to talk to us
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  Speaker 2: about the back and forth. We've also got midterm updates.
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  Speaker 2: The midterms are going about as well for the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: as the war is going for Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: Well said.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough. We'll also be talking about this, like, just
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  Speaker 2: about Zakaria, the new White House press secretary and her
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  Speaker 2: first performance yesterday. Plus, hilarious questions about whether or not
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  Speaker 1: Really bad.
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  Speaker 2: Which is completely impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know, maybe she's just a Chinese spy.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those... Come on, China. Is this what
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's one of those segments that the kind of
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  Speaker 1: who's down element of it. But there are actually some
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  Speaker 1: serious questions about her record being raised right now that
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  Speaker 2: between Rogers and Al-Sayed on Thursday night. There's also some,
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  Speaker 2: Rogers is really leaning in on this whole Muslim Brotherhood thing.
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  Speaker 1: the show. starting with Saudi Arabia. There's a lot to
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  Speaker 1: get through, Ryan, with the Houthi updates. We have here
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  Speaker 1: a one. What we're going to see, Ryan, tell us
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  Speaker 1: what we're seeing on the screen here. This is battle updates.
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  Speaker 2: So the Houthis have encircled Taiz. The Houthis are the
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  Speaker 2: primary power in the Ansar Allah coalition. So right now,
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  Speaker 2: you effectively have Yemen split between, and what you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: here is the advancement that the Ansar Allah military capacity
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  Speaker 2: is taken. There's been some debate online about that clip
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  Speaker 2: that you just saw, whether that tank was hitting a
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  Speaker 2: mine or whether the Houthis are able to kind of
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  Speaker 2: hit moving vehicles by mortar at this point. It does
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  Speaker 2: seem like there have been some incredible shots. So this
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  Speaker 2: is Western Taiz, which Ansar Allah now controls Taiz. the
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  Speaker 2: entrance to Western Taiz effectively, just a matter of time
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  Speaker 2: until they take the last city, which was one of
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  Speaker 2: the kind of lone holdouts that is not Aden. So
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  Speaker 2: roughly something like 70% of the Yemeni population lives now
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  Speaker 2: in territory controlled by Ansar Allah. The rest is controlled
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  Speaker 2: mostly by forces linked to the UAE, whereas the Saudi
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  Speaker 2: forces have been almost completely expelled. They live in hotels
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  Speaker 2: in Riyadh. Last week, Saudi got their forces to kind
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  Speaker 2: of rush down the coast in armored vehicles with air
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  Speaker 2: support and retake some territory. But they had no plan
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  Speaker 2: to keep any of that territory at all. So they've
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  Speaker 2: since all been driven out. They lost most of the
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  Speaker 2: armored vehicles that they used. And now they're the Houthis
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  Speaker 2: are looking to encircle this last, this last piece after
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  Speaker 2: which there, you know, there's a lot of, we'll, we'll
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  Speaker 2: ask Hussein what, you know, he thinks is going on next,
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  Speaker 2: but there's no indication that they're going to attempt some
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  Speaker 2: military assault on Aden that, that what we'll be talking
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  Speaker 2: about is some type of a coalition government. And the
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  Speaker 2: Emiratis are hoping that it'll be, that it will be
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  Speaker 2: a kind of two separate, states, so they'll remain weak.
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  Speaker 2: We will see. President Trump says they're behaving very badly.
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  Speaker 2: Let's roll A2.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the Houthis are misbehaving very badly. They're misbehaving very badly.
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  Speaker 1: No good. Very badly.
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  Speaker 2: And he elaborated on that on social media. We can
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  Speaker 2: put up A2B. The Houthis are behaving very badly. I
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  Speaker 2: thought they learned their lesson a year ago. when we
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: bombed the hell out of them and at their request stopped.
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  Speaker 2: They've been silent. I love that idea. They just asked
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  Speaker 2: to stop and he stopped. They've been silent for a
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  Speaker 2: long time, but now they've emerged again, probably at the
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  Speaker 2: behest of Iran, which is a failing nation with no Navy,
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  Speaker 2: no Air Force, the world's worst economy and 301 percent inflation.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you know it's true. It's a very precise figure.
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  Speaker 2: in a very nasty way, hitting Saudi Arabia and purposefully
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  Speaker 2: driving up oil prices, probably prior to the U.S. elections,
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  Speaker 2: not nice. Somebody should explain to them that I'm not
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  Speaker 2: running in the elections. I've already won in a massive landslide,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll be there after the elections and I will
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  Speaker 2: never forget. We could explain this to Hussein al-Bukhari when
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  Speaker 2: he comes on and then he can relay that to
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  Speaker 2: the Houthis. This may be sophisticated political analysis that they're
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  Speaker 2: not familiar with. What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: That's the, well, you know, something tells me they've already
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  Speaker 1: heard this. That's going to be my guess, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: it is amazing the power he wields with his words.
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  Speaker 2: And so yesterday we can put up a three Saudi
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  Speaker 2: Arabia hit, you know, significant, uh, oil sites in Yemen,
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  Speaker 2: oil depots in both Hodeidah and Sana'a. And the Houthis
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  Speaker 2: had said, if, if Saudi Arabia, uh, attacks their oil sites,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to hit back at Saudi oil sites, specifically
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  Speaker 2: they threatened Saudi Aramco's headquarters. We can put up A4.
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  Speaker 2: There is some dispute about how significant the hit on
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Aramco's headquarters is. Saudi Arabia is acknowledging that they were, quote, targeted.
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  Speaker 2: They said there was some minor damage. There are other
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  Speaker 2: reports that the entire building was on fire. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: truth is somewhere in between, but it does seem like
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia did not hit Yemen as hard as it
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  Speaker 2: necessarily could, and the Houthis did not respond necessarily with
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  Speaker 2: a full-on escalation. So I think both sides are still
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  Speaker 2: leaving some room for an out here, because there's now
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  Speaker 2: a world kind of petroleum... conference going on. And because
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  Speaker 2: of the Houthi attack on Saudi airport, a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: the oil executives didn't come. Saudis had to cancel another conference.
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  Speaker 2: They also canceled air raid sirens. Mohammed bin Salman is
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  Speaker 2: just a wild figure. He's like, I'm sick of these
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  Speaker 2: air raid sirens. He just turned them off. So just,
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  Speaker 2: just not, that's how I'm going to deal with the
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  Speaker 2: missile problem.
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  Speaker 1: You're just not going to hear about it.
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  Speaker 2: Just not here until it gets you. They are arresting
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  Speaker 2: journalists in Saudi Arabia who are just reporting what they're
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  Speaker 2: seeing with their own eyes. It was a very long
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  Speaker 2: time until they were willing to even confirm that there
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  Speaker 2: was a significant casualty event inside the civilian airport. They're
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  Speaker 2: desperately clinging to this idea that everything's fine, come to
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  Speaker 2: the conference, it's gonna be good, vision 2030, we're cruising.
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  Speaker 2: It really is that Leslie Nielsen meme where nothing to
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  Speaker 2: see here. Nothing to see here and literally behind them
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  Speaker 2: is fire and explosions.
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  Speaker 1: Sagar and I were not arguing but debating this a
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  Speaker 1: little bit last week How much longer do you think
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  Speaker 1: Trump can withstand the pressure he's certainly getting from MBS?
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  Speaker 2: I think Trump is. I think so. And I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: you asked that because it goes to Trump's point about
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  Speaker 2: we they asked we bombed the hell out of them
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  Speaker 2: and they asked us to stop and we did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it is true. We bombed the hell out of them.
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  Speaker 2: It is true that we reached a one to one
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  Speaker 2: ceasefire with them. But if you remember what Trump said afterwards, because.
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  Speaker 2: He said they took a hell of a beating. And
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  Speaker 2: they kept knocking MQ-9 drones out of the sky. Two planes,
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  Speaker 2: two American fighter jets fell off of aircraft carriers because
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  Speaker 2: our aircraft carriers were running away from Ansar Allah missiles.
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  Speaker 2: And they have this domestic missile production capacity inside of
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  Speaker 2: mountains that... with billions of dollars of munitions dropped on them,
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  Speaker 2: we were not able to stop. They also have the
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  Speaker 2: capacity to stop traffic in the Red Sea. This, a
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  Speaker 2: year and a half ago, was before they controlled the
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  Speaker 2: Bab El Mendab Strait. They were controlling it through their
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  Speaker 2: ability to cast ballistic missiles in that direction. Now they
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  Speaker 2: control the islands right there and the coastline. So if
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  Speaker 2: Trump attacks Yemen, they will close that down. So Trump,
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  Speaker 2: I think, is just not going to help out MBS.
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  Speaker 2: And also, if you're Trump, the reason that you care
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  Speaker 2: about MBS is the money that he has. It's not
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  Speaker 2: obvious that he's even going to be in power by
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  Speaker 2: the end of Trump's term. This is an absolute existential
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  Speaker 2: disaster for him. I mean, I think he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be extraordinarily dangerous on the way down.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say that actually ratchets up
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  Speaker 1: pressure on Trump even more, given all of the entanglements.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: Well, I think he's probably asking who else in the
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: royal family is going to run this thing next. And
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: how am I going to get money from them?
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: The financial entanglements between our, what, main power broker in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East right now, who also happens to be
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  Speaker 1: the president's son-in-law.
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  Speaker 2: And our main media company. Right. Like CBS and that
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  Speaker 2: whole Ellison thing is... heavily financed by Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so given the very real threats to MBS's power
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  Speaker 1: right now, whatever we think pressure Trump is facing, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like is 10x probably behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 2: So they're basically two ways out for MBS. He can
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  Speaker 2: either win the war.
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  Speaker 1: With which he would need, or to do which.
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  Speaker 2: Which he has shown over the last 11 years he
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  Speaker 2: can't do. Unless we're Even with us and Israel helping him.
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  Speaker 4: Likely.
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  Speaker 2: We couldn't do it. Everybody was doing it. We killed
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  Speaker 2: half a million.
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  Speaker 1: Let alone after we're already stretched with Iran.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We killed half a million civilians there. Bombed the hell
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  Speaker 2: out of them, as he said, for a decade plus.
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  Speaker 2: And they're only stronger now. So he just physically cannot
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  Speaker 2: win the war. It's not possible. The precision strike capabilities
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: of these new munitions, drones and ballistic missiles, they're too
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  Speaker 2: cheap for countries to produce. You cannot... put your boot
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: on the neck of smaller countries in the way that
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  Speaker 2: you used to be able to do. And also, he's
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  Speaker 2: in a glass house. There's all these targets in Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 2: whereas once you've hit a few oil depots in Yemen,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing much left to hit because he's been hitting
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  Speaker 2: it for 10 plus years. So he can either win
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  Speaker 2: the war, which he can't do, or he can peacefully
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  Speaker 2: coexist with a Yemen that has Ansar Allah as a
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  Speaker 2: significant power player there. He also has refused to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So those are really the two choices. The third is
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  Speaker 2: just to fall, like flee to south of France or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: wherever he goes, which I don't know how he does
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  Speaker 2: that either. He's super paranoid. Um, he's had his brother, uh,
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  Speaker 2: MBN under house arrest and allegedly torturing him for like
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: a decade. And he has also been brutal to everybody
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  Speaker 2: else in his family. He's feared and despised by a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the rest of the royal family. So that's
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  Speaker 2: really scary. How's he even going to survive in exile?
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  Speaker 1: Right. But again, that makes it even scarier from our perspective,
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  Speaker 1: from many people's perspective, but in the U.S., that like
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  Speaker 1: what he is going to do, to your point, on
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  Speaker 1: the way down and what he could do in our
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: direction on the way down in terms of pulling us
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: into different conflicts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And the CIA, if you remember, deeply opposed his
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: coup against MBN. They said this guy is impulsive, reckless,
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  Speaker 2: short tempered. He's a nut job. So the CIA was like,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: we do not want this guy in here.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't the president's daughter then get into a financial
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: bed with him to the tune of everything needed for
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: her husband to start his private equity fund?
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Money talks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like incredible.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, let's ask Hussein Al-Bukhari what he thinks.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us next is a journalist from joining us from Sana'a.
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  Speaker 2: Hussein Al-Bukhari, thank you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: You got it. So I wanted to ask you about
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: the back and forth. We were talking about that at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the segment here, where the Ansar Allah
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: responded to the Saudi attacks in Hodeidah and Sana'a by
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: attacking Saudi Aramco's headquarters. Where would you put, where do
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  Speaker 2: you assess that they are on the escalation ladder? Was
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  Speaker 2: this a significant counterpunch by Ansar Allah or Were they
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  Speaker 2: holding back a little bit?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think if you see that they have targeted
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  Speaker 5: the main HQ of Aramco in Daman, even though they
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: have warned the Saudi and the Saudi could not stop
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  Speaker 5: this attack. And there was a huge damage to that
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: building who controlled the entire Saudi Aramco operation. in the
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: West Coast is where the Saudi most oil field actually located.
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  Speaker 5: But I think this punch for Ansarullah is just a
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  Speaker 5: warning or just kind of sending a taste to the
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  Speaker 5: Saudi what Yemeni are well equipped to do. Because still
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  Speaker 5: till now, Yemeni has not launched a major attack against
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  Speaker 5: the Saudi oil field of themselves or gas field in
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  Speaker 5: West of Saudi Arabia, only a small attack using drones.
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  Speaker 5: So I believe that Yemeni still have the upper hand.
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  Speaker 5: And if the Saudi will not stop our demand, simple,
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  Speaker 5: to stop the war, lift the blockade, withdraw from Yemen,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: stop interfering in Yemen, and then the Saudi could leave
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: safely side by side with Yemen and we will not
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: attack them or target them. If they do not do that,
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  Speaker 5: this means that I believe that bigger attack will come
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: towards Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 1: And how might the internal pressures and politics for MBS
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  Speaker 1: affect that decision, Hussein?
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  Speaker 5: I think at one point when he's going to feel
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: that he's losing it, he must actually stop. But I
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: think there are maybe a huge pressure on him from
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: the United States and as well from the Zionist state
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: of Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Because for Saudi Arabia to.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Be defeated from Yemenis, just simple people, they did those
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: people just with sandals, it could actually break not the
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  Speaker 5: reputation only of Saudi Arabia, but the reputation as well
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  Speaker 5: of the United States, because it's the one who is
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia is their greatest ally in the region. They
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  Speaker 5: have been buying weapons with hundreds of billions of dollars
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  Speaker 5: through the many years. So it could be as well
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  Speaker 5: difficult for Mohammed bin Salman, but I believe that always
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: you should think about your own people. Look here in
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Yemen or Yemeni government, we think about our people, we
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: do whatever it takes to protect our people. And for
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: them and for Mohammed bin Salman, he knows that if
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: you stop attacking Yemen, Yemen will stop attacking Saudi Arabia.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: And even if Saudi Arabia at one point in the
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: future will come under attack, a foreign attack from any country,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: I believe that Yemen will fight with the Saudi. We
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: will try to protect them because we will not allow,
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: as we did with the Palestinian people, we will do
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: with any other country that will come under attack.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: And I hope that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: He will listen to his sense, if he has some
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: kind of sense. Because we have seen lately that the
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Saudi are not actually equipped and are not able in
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: stopping Yemeni attacks. Saudi has conducted 300,000 airstrikes against Yemen.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: They have killed 20,000 Yemeni civilians by direct airstrikes. They
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: have destroyed the entire infrastructure of Yemen. They have targeted schools, hospitals, mosques, markets, farms,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: everything you can think of. Bridges, power stations in entire Yemen,
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: entire bridges have been destroyed and hospitals. And the blockade
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: has killed more than 400,000 Yemeni civilians because of preventable
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: diseases like malaria, cholera, severe.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Malnutrition, malnutrition, lack of food, lack of water.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: It's because of this actually a result of this attack
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: against Yemeni infrastructure and as well the blockade. That's why
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: we've seen Yemen since they, before even launching any attack
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: against Saudi, we formed an embargo. We say the blockade
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: against blockade, airport against airport. But we didn't even target
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: the Saudi Aramco facility. When they targeted Sana'a airport, we
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: blocked the Red Sea and we sent warning, no ships allowed.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: What the Saudi have done, they have targeted Hodeidah port.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: We targeted Yambu port. Then what the Saudi have done,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: we didn't target Aramco. What they did, they have targeted
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: a prison in Al-Jawf, killing and injuring dozens of civilians,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: including women and children during the visiting hours. When they
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: have done that, even though they've been bombing the battlefield,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: we said, okay, it's fine. They are bombing the battlefield.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: At least they are bombing fighters. They are not bombing civilians.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: We ignored all this attack. We didn't target Aramco. But
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: when they targeted the prison, it was like an obligation
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: for Yemeni armed forces to take an action. If they
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: didn't take any action against Saudi Aramco, at that time,
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I think people will rise up against Ansarullah Dahoud here
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: in Sana'a. That's why they have launched that major attack
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: against Aramco in Najran and in Jizan and in Asir.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: And from that on, it has escalated more because Saudi
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: continue to target Yemeni civilian infrastructure.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: And just, sorry, one more thing.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: The Saudi, why wasting a fighter jet that costs you
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: or like three or five fighter jets to send them
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: to a civilian area, to a market, to a school,
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: to a bridge, to bomb it, while you can use
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: those fighter jets in the battlefield to target the advance
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: of Yemeni armed forces? So I think, I don't know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: they enjoy killing civilians. They know every civilian is killed,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: have a tribe behind him. That tribe will join Ansar al-Adhawthi.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Because Yemeni know that they will never ever leave, like
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: they will take their revenge even after many, many years.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: They will not allow anyone.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: To kill any of their relatives without taking revenge.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: And this time, actually, the revenge is all on Saudi Arabia.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: If the war is not brought to an end by
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, I've seen some talk about Ansar Allah potentially
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: even moving into what is considered now Saudi territory. And
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I also saw Ansar Allah official, I think it was
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Mohammed al-Bukhari. By the way, is he your brother?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, he's my brother.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: He's your brother. I think I saw him talking about
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Yemen's willingness to support either rival factions in the Saudi
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: royal family or other opposition groups inside Saudi Arabia. So
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: what kind of offensive capabilities is Ansar Allah considering at
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: this point?
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: If we still see that Yemeni retaliation attack against Saudi,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: we're still kind of nice towards Saudi Arabia because still
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Yemeni could launch hundreds of missiles against all the Saudi
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: infrastructure and they could knock it out in a matter
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: of hours. And as well, they can launch attack against
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Saudi power station. We did not do that yet. Saudi
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: have destroyed all our power station. And as well against
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Saudi water plant. So actually they will die from thirst.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: They will taste a little bit of what they have
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: been doing to Yemen. But one of the strongest cards
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: that Yemeni have is a ground attack to south of
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia, to Najran and Jaisal and Asir. And those province, actually,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: we still, every single Yemeni, still consider those as a
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Yemeni province that were taken by the Saudi in the
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: 30s because of the help of the United Kingdom.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: They have bombed the hell out of Odeda.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Port and they have entered part there and then Our
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: imam at that time, he was forced to give those
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: to Saudi Arabia. In return, the United Kingdom stopped attacking
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Yemen and attacking Hodeidah. But he had an agreement called
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: the Ta'if Agreement. He made the Saudi sign an agreement
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: admitting that those are our land and they are kind
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: of rented in the Saudi. And the Saudi should not
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: interfere in Yemen, should not launch a war against Yemen.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: They should stop any plan or anything that bad against Yemen.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: And as well, they should treat Yemeni as they treat Saudis.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: And the Saudis, since 1934 when it was signed, they
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: have actually not implemented any of this paragraph in that agreement.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: So the Imam, when he did that agreement, he did
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: it because he knew at one point we will have
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: a strong army, we will have a strong leader like
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: we have now, And we will have the power to
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: take those back from the Saudi because he know that
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: the Saudi will break and obstruct every single agreement.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: That was signed in 1934.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: That's why if this attack against Saudi Arabia will come,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: I believe it is not only will be the Yemeni
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: armed forces with their hundreds.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Of thousands of fighters. It will be as well the
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: entire tribes near the Saudi border. They are so fed
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: up with the Saudi. Saudi has been.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: And even during the truce that was signed in 2022,
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: which the Saudi has broken in mid-July by targeting Sana'a airport,
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: the Saudi have been bombarding those areas, but not by airstrikes,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: but just by artillery shells.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And you know, the news only catches if there is
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: an airstrike.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: And they have actually dropped hundreds of thousands of colostrum
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: bombs on that area.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Children are dying on a weekly basis.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Because of those cluster bombs there. On the Yemen side
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: of the border?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, on the Yemen side. And all those are tribal area.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: So the only thing that's held in them from entering
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: and launching war against Saudi Arabia is because our leadership
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: here is still saying, no, it's not time. If we
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: can actually make Saudi to have peace with Yemen and
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: withdraw from Yemen, we can negotiate about Najran and Jaisal
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: and Asir by asking the Saudi to implement what was agreed.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: But if we enter those area, I think our demand
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: will be different.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: At the beginning, three months ago, our demand was simple.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Lift the blockade, implement the roadmap.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: And, you know, that was signed between us and the
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Saudi-backed government. The Saudi ignored all that. Now our demand,
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: we don't care about the roadmap because we are now
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: the one who have the upper hand. In every battle,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: if you advance... your demand will change.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: This is normal. I mean, this is not something that
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: we are ashamed of.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: So the demand now is a total liberation of Yemen
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: and to stop interference and all the things like that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: The Saudis should not interfere.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: With anything in Yemen.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: If they didn't do that, and if at one point
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: we enter those Nigerians, Nigerians and Asir, our demand will
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: be different. And we will not withdraw from this area.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: We might demand something more from the Saudis. So those
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: latest attacks against Saudi Arabia, actually, they are threatening the
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: house of Saud. If your house is made of glass,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: stop throwing rocks at your neighbors. Saudi Arabia was involved
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: in the invasion of Iraq and the killing of millions
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: of civilians, the attack on Libya, the war of terrorists
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: against Syria, because they always try in the Saudi United
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: States to contain the war in the country, that country
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: that they are attacking. But when it comes to Yemen,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: we will bring the fire, and we will open the
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: gate of hell against them, because we are not allowing
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: them to burn Yemen while they are just having this
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Riyadh festival and... And I'm sure that they will not
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: be able to hold the World Cup in 2034, because
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: if they continue, Yemen will destroy their economy and they
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: will not have a single dime, actually, to spend in
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: that World Cup.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Well, you just mentioned that demands might change and demands
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: could be even more ambitious. Could you tell us a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: little bit about what that could look like or what
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: people could expect?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, now the demand, Saudis should leave Yemen.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: And pay total compensation and not interfere in Yemen and
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: withdraw all the troops and stop supporting any groups in Yemen.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: And let us Yemeni, we can deal with each other,
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: fight each other, kill each other.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: They have nothing to do with it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Yemen has been gone through coups, through revolution, through like fighting.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: But there was no outside intervention. We at the end
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: said to each other.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: So the demand, Like I said, if the Saudi will
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: not implement that, if they will not stop interfering Yemen,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: because they are now trying what? Trying to gather countries
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: to attack Yemen.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: They are trying to plan for a bigger war against us.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: So if that will come, this means that Yemeni will
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: expand its attack and it will enter Saudi Arabia. And
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: if we enter Najran and Jaisal and Asir, it will
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: be silly and stupid to withdraw from them if the
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Saudi will say, okay, I will leave Yemen.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: No, that was before. We demanded that.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: But now, because you are defeated, you have gathered all
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: the evil from around the world to fight us.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: And because now you failed, you need.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: To have the same deals or the same demand that
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: we were asking you for the last few months. So
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: I think this is something that it's our right. And
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: as well, I think one of the most important thing
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: that if entering Najran, Jaisal and Asirq, To withdraw from
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: this area, it will actually stain the reputation of Ansarullah
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: till the judgment day. Everybody will say, look, at one
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: point we were strong, we'd enter those area and we
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: took them and they just handed it back to Saudi Arabia.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: So that's what I think Ansarullah and they are actually
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: not willing to enter. Saudi at this point, because they
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: are thinking now about Yemen. But if the Saudi will
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: gather all the efforts around the world to kill Yemenis,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I believe the Saudi will lose its so-called territory now
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: in Saudi Arabia. And it could be actually maybe the
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: beginning of the end of the Saudi royal family.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Because if you knock out their oil, if you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Keep targeting them and knock out their security, their safety,
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: this means Saudi Arabia will not exist. It only exists
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: on those things, security and a tyrant state and as
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: well their oil revenue. If you knock it out, this
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: means that Saudi royal family will not exist, actually.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: And with that in mind, there's been some reporting that
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Mohammed bin Salman has been considering having Israel come in
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: and assist with the war on Serala, but that Netanyahu
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: is insisting on basically a visit, a state visit, and
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: wants Saudi Arabia to ask publicly and be open about
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: the relationship. That's not something that MBS is willing to
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: do at this point. I would imagine if it's between
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: him falling and allying with Israel, he would choose a
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: desperate alliance with Israel. What is the current status, though,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: of Ansar Allah's relationship with Israel? In other words, are
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Israeli ships allowed at this moment to pass through the
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Red Sea? And what How is Ansar Allah thinking about
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: these kind of negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Israel?
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, this is regarding ships about Israel. It's
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: actually funny because when we were targeting Israeli ships, trying
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: to stop the genocide in Gaza and attacking Israel and
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: declared war against Israel, we were the first, I mean,
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: the only country who declared a war and targeted their
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: ships as well. So the United States has come up
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: with the prosperity guardian and they start targeting Yemen.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: And then we have like.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Widened our target to as well to United States ship
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: and UK ships. Everyone, even Saudi Arabia, they were condemning
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: us and saying you are threatening the Red Sea. And
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: now because we are not targeting Israeli ship or United
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: States ship, The Saudi is crying out loud why we
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: are targeting their ship and not targeting Israeli and United
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: States ship. And regarding the Israeli ship, anyone can check
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: this marine traffic. There is no single Zionist ship there
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: to go through the Red Sea. As well, the Eilat port,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: or as it's called, south of occupied Palestine, is still closed.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, there is no single ship in that port.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: And Yemeni, actually, they are.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Because our demand was to stop the genocide or that
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: there is a ceasefire. If Hamas has accepted a ceasefire,
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: this is actually our demand. And Hamas requested, it was
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: like we said that the battle in the Red Sea.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Is a battle of Hamas.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: And to stop attacking in the Red Sea is in
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: the hand of Hamas.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: So this means that in the ceasefire, Hamas requested.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: From us to stop attacking the Israeli ships in the
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Red Sea.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: We did our best. But as soon as there is any,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, we want to.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Target Israeli ship, but if Hamas is respecting that truth,
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, they are the one, it's their land. I mean,
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: they are more concerned about Palestine. I can say more
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: than us, because they are the people who live in
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: that land. So disregarding those ship of Israel, but I
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: believe that, as you mentioned, that Mohammed bin Salman and
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Israeli actually, and United States, they are trying to blackmail
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Mohammed bin Salman, either to bring him to.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Of course, they have a good and close relation, but
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: to make it openly. And I believe at one point,
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Mohammed bin Salman will do it. But if he do it, actually,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: it will be great. And it will show the entire world,
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: especially the Muslim world. It's not about protecting Mecca and
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: the Mecca Park and the Sunni country like Pakistan and
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Turkey to protect Mecca. It's all actually about the protection
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: of the Zionist and the protection of the Saudi royal family.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: And I can say that I believe and I'm sure
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: that at one point Saudi, for them to gather to
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: make the war with Yemen as a sectarian violent, like,
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: you know, holy places is against Houthis. I believe that
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Saudi at one point will launch a drone attack against Mecca, Al-Kaaba,
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: or against the holy mosque in Medina.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: They will do it.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Because those attacks from Yemen that targeted Saudi Arabia is
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: threatening the existence of the royal family.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, believe me, they are so, they didn't know
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: what to do.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: They've been begging, calling every minister of defense to come
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: and to save them.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: So they will do that.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Because the United States have this locust drones, the copycat
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: from the Iranian Shahid drones. And the Saudi as well,
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: they have announced before the attack and during this recent
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: three months, supplying a copy of Shahid drones or those
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: locust drones, supplying it to the Saudi-backed forces in Yemen.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: So at one point, they will order them to launch
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: attack against Kaaba, take only one drone. not like to
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: destroy it, just, you know, to use that. And they
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: will do that. I'm sure they will not hesitate. If
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: they see that they are on the brink of collapse
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: and that they could not keep things, help things together,
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: I believe that they will do it. And I'm sure
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: that if they do it, this means that they have
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: attacked our holy place. This means there is another reason
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: to launch a major attack against Saudi Arabia to defend
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: our holy place in Mecca and Medina. We are the
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: ones who are defending them. We are not the ones
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: who threaten those areas. Just imagine we consider Palestine as
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: the third holy place of all Muslims.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: We are one of the few who try to defend Palestine,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: to defend our gods, to defend... Gaza.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: So all Saudi lie about us will try to attack Mecca.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: It just, I think, is because they are planning to
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: do so with the Zionists and with the United States
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: because they want to set the entire region on fire
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: and on sectarian violence.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Hussein Abou-Kaidith, thank you so much for joining us. I
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: think it's probably fair to say that if there is
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: an attack on Mecca, it would be suicidal and absurd
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: for it to come from Ansar Allah. So I hope
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: that the Saudi-backed forces in Yemen who might be encouraged
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: to do that would recognize that it would be... I
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: don't think anybody would believe it. But anyway, thank you
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: so much for joining us. It's always great to get
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: your perspective.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much for having me.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you. It was great. All right.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: We'll see you again soon.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Well, President Trump was campaigning in Alaska last night. He's
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: set on another trip, set to head off on another
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: trip today as a sign of how seriously he's taking
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the midterm threat. Whether it's helping is a different question.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: He's been storming the country. And now just yesterday, let's
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: put our first element up on the screen, the Fox
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: News power rankings. shifted 18 races towards Democrats in the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: House of Representatives, Ryan. So some of these probably are
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  Speaker 1: not entirely surprising to you. Anything in this list standing out, though?
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at 1st District, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania 7. Remind me,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: is that 2018 Conor Lamb?
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  Speaker 2: No, that is Bob Brooks, the Bernie-backed firefighter.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: That's your hood.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Bernie dominating Allentown, that means it's over, like
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: time for capital to surrender.
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  Speaker 1: And they changed it from toss-up to lean D.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So for that race to not be a toss-up is,
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  Speaker 1: or even likely.
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  Speaker 2: This was a race where Republicans spent huge amounts trying
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  Speaker 2: to get a complete lunatic nominated as the Democrat. They lost.
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  Speaker 2: Then they got a Republican to run as a Green
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Party guy. Mm-hmm. But he got kicked off the ballot
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  Speaker 2: for signature problems and fraud, basically. Like, you're not a green.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: You're a Republican. You have to be a green. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So not looking good for that one. That's always been
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: a swing district.
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  Speaker 1: But it's actually kind of the quintessential district that should
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: make Republicans nervous if it's in polling starting to look
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  Speaker 1: more like a lean than a toss-up.
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  Speaker 2: Big Hispanic vote in Allentown, plus then it's very suburban
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  Speaker 2: and rural.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Now, another stunning bit of polling data, our next element
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: we can toss up on the screen from Newsweek. Trump's
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  Speaker 1: approval rating is below water in every single state.
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  Speaker 2: No pink.
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  Speaker 1: Not even any pink. Rachel Bykofer pointed this out. If
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: you look at this map, she said there isn't a
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: single state where Trump has a positive approval rating as
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: of today, the 12th. And this gets back into, obviously,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: whether or not the The question of whether or not
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: him barnstorming the country is helping Republicans or not. Now,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you listened. My understanding, Ryan, is that you listened to
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the Alaska rally last night. And he continues to dangle
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the prospect of $ 5, 000.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: His whole speech, he's now it's a free offer because
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: nobody thinks he's going to hold the house.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: But his whole speech, he's like, $ 5, 000, $ 5, 000 in your pocket.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: And he's now putting strings on it. He's like, you
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: have to spend it in the United States. It's like,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: I don't want you to say, darling, we're going to
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: China with our $ 5, 000. You have to spend it here
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: in the United States.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Like his press secretary?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, like his press secretary. So, yes, he's still promising
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the $ 5, 000. You have to go watch this and confirm it.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: But I swear, he said at the beginning of the speech,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: he told this anecdote about driving through Iowa at the
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: very beginning of his term, looking up and gas was
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: $ 1. 95 a gallon. He's like, and then I went to
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: war with Iran. It's like, why are you? telling that story?
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, there's still people who are saying it wasn't Iran.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: The gas prices, it's all Ukraine.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: The Democrats. We'll get to that in a second. It's Democrats.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: It's Democrats. Environmental regulations.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second. Indeed, you're going
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: to want to stick around for this particular soundbite. Now,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: another interesting bit of data here. Our next element from
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: The Economist and YouGov polling, the Associated Press put this together.
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  Speaker 1: Voters who live near, I'm sorry, The Economist did. Voters
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: who live near data centers are swinging hard towards Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: according to this polling with YouGov. And I mean, if
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: you look at it, it's pretty clear. It's a pretty
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: clear trend. And it looks like it really started pulling
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: apart late last year. And then just it's not even
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: close anymore. It's a pretty, pretty convincing graphic that data
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  Speaker 1: center location in this midterm election is pushing people towards Democrats.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: And Again, that even takes us to the question of
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: how much Trump is helping because Trump owns that issue
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: so hard, which is why it's a problem for Republicans,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: even like a Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, who is
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: running against David Crowley. Leftists were supporting Francesca Hong in
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: no small part because Crowley was open to data centers.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, and Crowley, by the way, may end up blowing
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: a Wisconsin trifecta.
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  Speaker 1: It's not impossible.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: By refusing to take a stand on data centers. This
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: is the problem. This is the electability problem that you
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: get with corporate Democrats, that they are so tied to
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: the special interests that got them where they are that
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  Speaker 2: they can't do the obviously popular thing.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And the whole reason they refused to go with Francesca
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: was they said she's too crazy. She's not electable. And
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: then they put in a guy who has a radical
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: extreme position on like a 90-10 issue data centers.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: And he's on the 10 percent side.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: And he might tank it for Democrats.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a close race. I mean, he's probably still
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: feeling OK about it. But data centers are huge. And
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: part of the problem that Tom Tiffany might not be
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: able to capitalize it is obviously because the president of
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the United States owns it and is going around the
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: country talking about super intelligence. Gets worse for Republicans. Let's
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: put this Jake Sherman post from Punchbowl up on the screen.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Congressional Leadership Fund has now cut bait in three districts.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: The House Republican leadership has been telling members and the
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: public that they are poised to expand their majority in November.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: They're welcome to tell the public that. Nobody believes it.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: They cut bait in New Jersey 7 and Iowa 1.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Tom Keene, the guy who hospitalized himself.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I forgot about Tom Keene's hospitalization spell. Yes, that race.
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  Speaker 1: And then Ohio 1 and Michigan 8. So we've been
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: covering the moving of the money around. And that is
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: really the tell. So that because that comes with their
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: internal polling as well. And so we don't have access
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: to the internal polling across the board. Something leaks every
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: once in a while, but mostly we don't have access
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: to it. So one of the best ways to read
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: the tea leaves is to see if the public polling
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: is matching where the money is being moved. And in
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: this case, yes.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: And that was the morning. And so throughout the day,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: you just had one after another. So you put up B6. Uh,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: so then they're like, Oh, Oh, actually put it, sorry,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: go to B five, um, B five. So like house
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Republicans are abandoning, uh, more districts, uh, what another, another
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Nevada district. Um, well, another, uh, anyway, they put up, um, uh,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: B six, that was the fifth one. Then this, there
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: was a sixth district, uh, that they're abandoning California. Uh, and,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: And then this was not the last one. Like we
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: couldn't keep up as we're putting the show together. We
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: couldn't even keep up with it. They were abandoning so
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: many different house races. Sounds like North Carolina and Georgia,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: they're moving money out of those states on the Senate side.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: They're basically giving up on those races and moving the
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: money to Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. They're dropping, I think, what,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: four or five million for now in Nebraska to try
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: to beat Dan Osborne and trying to shore up Kansas.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Huge crypto influx in Nebraska announced yesterday. There was a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Politico report on crypto coming in to try and rescue
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Pete Ricketts. So we'll see how that works for them.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: If you're a special interest like crypto, how annoying is
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: it to have to rescue a billionaire's kid? Ricketts' dad
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: founded Ameritrade and owns the Cubs and half the country.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: I feel like if you're crypto, you're like, you pay
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: for that. You're a billionaire, but no, nothing's free.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Well, but they want the favor, right? They want him
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: to be indebted to them.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But you think the class, there should be like
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: a class allegiance, but no, no, you even got to
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: buy the billionaires. It's outrageous. Um, so Andy Harris represents
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the Eastern shore of Maryland. Um, you know, would be
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: my Congressman because he's my mom's Congressman. He's a tea
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: party guy. Uh, Don't want to waste any time getting
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: into old stories about Andy Harris. He's quite something. At
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: a debate last night, this was the crowd reaction to
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: his suggestion that it's actually Democrats' environmental regulations that are
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: causing gas prices to go up. Let's play V8.
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: The facts are that diesel prices have gone up. There's
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: no question about it. Why has it gone up? Because
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: the Democrats' environmental regulations have not.
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: Ma'am, I got to tell you that this is the problem.
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: You all say you believe there's a First Amendment, but
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: only if you agree with you. You should let me
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: finish the sentence, ma'am. You are rude.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Stop violating Andy Harris's First Amendment rights. How dare you?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: It's always funny to see someone who was... brought in
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: on the Tea Party wave, swept on the Tea Party wave,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: face the exact fire that the Tea Party wave brought
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: in against Democrats. Like how many Democrats lost their seats
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: in 2010 after town hall meetings that look exactly like that?
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: So you're going to be able to keep your plan.
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: No, I'm not.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not. Just getting shouted down by the audience.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: And one quick Andy Harris story. He ran against the
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: public option. And when he won in 2010, he's a doctor.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: So he wins in November. His whole campaign was against
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: the Democrat who had at some point said he was
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: OK with a public option. His whole campaign is against
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: the public option. Wins in November. He shows up in
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: November in Washington at orientation and he asks the administrators
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: of Congress how he can get health insurance between November
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: and January when he's sworn in. They tell him you
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: don't get health insurance until January. He's like, yeah, but
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I need it now. Isn't there some type of government
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: option that I can buy into? And they're like, no, no,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: there is not. And then they leaked that he even
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: asked that. Of course. You ran your entire campaign about
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: there not being that.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Anyway.
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we're seeing the end of, uh, the Andy Harris
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: regime on the Eastern shore of Maryland.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Um, he's, he's an amusing Congress.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: He sure is. He, his big thing when he was
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: a state legislator was going after the university of Maryland
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: because they, they, uh, they had, they like screen some
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: like soft core porn or something. And so he tried
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: to defund with Andy Harris.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: You would stagger.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: And I stand with Andy Harris.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you do. Um, So there were debates also
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: in Georgia and Maine. Do a little bit of that.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Troy Jackson finally bringing some fire against Susan Collins.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: To the extent Troy Jackson has fire.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: This is fire for Troy Jackson. Let's go to B7.
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: Senator Collins talks about how she voted nine times against
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: the war. I know that very well. After— it was too late.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: She voted five times to make it happen. And, you know,
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: voting against it— I mean, she's the chair of Appropriations. If
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: she wants to stop the war, she can cut the
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: funding off for the war. But she's not willing to
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: do that, because Donald Trump wants this, and that's what
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: is going to happen. Eighty percent of our fuel is
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: higher this year than last year. I mean, there's no
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: way around that. She wants to talk about electric rates.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: You asked about fuel. Electric rates are 80%—fuel is 80%
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: higher this year because of the Iran war. And, again,
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: you can go and read the public advocate. She likes
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: to bring up the public advocate. You can go and
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: read the public advocate's report from last week that said
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: that the reason why Maine's electric rates were higher is
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: because of natural gas, the Ukraine war. The way that
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: we get off this boom and bust of wars and
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: things like that is to go with the northern Maine
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: transmission line, get wind energy that is— less costly and
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: is in deep supply and we won't have to worry
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: about every time someone like Donald Trump wants to start
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: a war that we'll be paying higher fuel prices. That's
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: the way that we're going to lower our energy costs,
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: not by building a pipeline across the United States for Keystone.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: Kind of painful to try to watch Troy try to
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: finish paragraphs, but he did, he hit her throughout the
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: entire debate on the Iran war and on costs because
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: right before that she had said Like, look, yeah, I
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: voted against the war some of the times, but the
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: votes weren't there. He's like, okay, well, that's a good
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: reason that we should have Democrats then. So what good
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: are you? You're the chair of the Appropriations Committee. You're
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: funding the war. How are Republicans feeling about her? Still
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: pretty good?
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: They feel good about her compared to others because last
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: time she was down, what, like eight points? I'm thinking
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: of the RCP average. I think she was down about
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: eight points in a lot of the polling averages. and
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: ended up winning by about eight points.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: So she's up.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: That's what people are hoping for. Also hoping for just
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: really the polling being off in rural areas. That's one
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: of the hopes that people have in Texas as well,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: is that they're just not picking up on And that
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: was the big problem in 2020 with Sarah Gideon is
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: that when pollsters look back on what may have went wrong,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: they thought they were under sampling working class white men
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: in rural areas. And so I think people are still
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: hoping and probably have some good reason to believe that
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: pollsters haven't found good ways to correct for that underweighting.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: But it's such a 2018 was a bad environment. This
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: feels like an environment that's at least twice as bad
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: for Republicans. So maybe she can eke out a four-point
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: win is their best hope at this point.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Democratic establishment should be careful what they wish for. If
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Troy Jackson loses, I feel like main voters are going
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: to be pushing Grant Platter to run again.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: That's a good point.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: His approval rating in some poll was like, Over 40
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: among Democrats.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it'll be really high if Troy Jackson loses.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: People will be like, well, this guy could have won.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Down in Georgia, another just unfair, like, why are you
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: putting Mike Collins up against John Ossoff? Ossoff ripping him
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: for his daddy being a congressman.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Going on.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: One news out of it, Ossoff definitively said he's not
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: running for president.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Now, I don't believe him. Do not believe him.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: He was so definitive it's going to be tough to
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: come back from. It will cost him if he comes
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: back from that.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. Because I think the calculation is
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: if you want him to be president, you want him
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: to break the promise. If you don't want him to
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: be president, then you're going to use that against him.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: So there's nobody who Would have supported him. Who cares
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: about him breaking the promise? Anyway, I don't believe him.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: When he says he's not going to run, I don't
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: believe him.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Only Georgia voters are going to know that he broke
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: the promise. And if you're running for it, but it's like, well, yeah,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: but like that.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Also, they all do this. Susan Collins said she'd run
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: for what? Two terms.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Ron Johnson.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: 1910.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: No, I guess I've come around to your side. I
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: actually think that's probably correct. But it was a pretty
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: blanket election.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: It was. It was straight.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: So he will have to explain it. It'll take some explaining.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at B9 here. Asif going in
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: on Mike Collins on neo-Nazi propaganda.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: How weak a person do you have to be to
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: be unable to stop someone under your own roof from
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: disseminating neo-Nazi propaganda while you run for the Senate? The
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: paper reported it's still going on to this day. How
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: about this, Mike? We can shake hands on it. Will
• 52:03
  Speaker 7: you commit tonight that for the remainder of this campaign,
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: it's just three weeks, Mike, you won't allow any more
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: neo-Nazi propaganda to be produced from your house? Can you
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: make that commitment?
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I'm 30 seconds. 30 seconds, sir.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
• 52:19
  Speaker 8: You know what? I'm a little tired of this, John.
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: There's a crazy person in jail right now because of
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: your rhetoric. And you threatened my son-in-law and threatened to
• 52:29
  Speaker 8: kill me. Had another threat just yesterday. That's because of
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: you and your rhetoric that you're out there spewing, just
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: vitriol hate.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Well, what about you?
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: You have not denounced. You've not condemned. Give me Reid Hoffman,
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: one of your largest donors out there, one that's been
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: supporting you with over a million dollars. Why don't you
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: denounce that? Why don't you return that money?
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you. 30-second rebuttal.
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: Mike, if any of these folks were based in my house,
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: then I'd understand you to ask me to take responsibility
• 53:01
  Speaker 7: for them. What I asked you, Mike, was can you
• 53:05
  Speaker 7: commit for just three weeks to stop the production of
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: neo-Nazi propaganda from your home? It's happening. We all know
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: it's happening. Why can't you stop it? Why won't you
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: commit right now to stopping it?
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: All right. 30 seconds. And this was the last.
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: What I'm going to ask you is why don't you
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: denounce Reid Hoffman right now? Why don't you give that
• 53:27
  Speaker 8: money back to Reid Hoffman? The Epstein Files class guy.
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: You can't stop the production of neo-Nazi propaganda from your
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: own house.
• 53:36
  Speaker 8: You don't know people that give you $ 20 or $ 15
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: or $ 10. But you know the people that max out
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: to you. You know the people pumping a million dollars
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: into your supermax.
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: So you're going to allow neo-Nazi.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Propaganda to continue to.
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: Be produced from your home while you run for the U.S.
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: Senate.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: You're just going to let the neo-Nazi propaganda continue.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: Is that right?
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Make the commitment.
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: Three weeks, no neo-Nazi propaganda.
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: Can you do it?
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: We are going to have to move on, gentlemen. We
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: are going to have to move on.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: No more money.
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: Give the money back.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I just want to pause on
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: the strategy of the Ossoff campaign and perhaps Ossoff himself
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: to narrow the question to Mike Collins to will you
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: commit for the next three weeks? Because it's such a
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: specific ask of Collins that sounds to a normal person
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: like the easiest ask in the world. And they know
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: he's going to continue pivoting every single time, like he
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: has done consistently, to saying, you're putting my family in danger,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: rather than addressing Ossoff's question. It is actually a very
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: brilliant campaign strategy.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Three weeks. We can't do three weeks of no neo-Nazi
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: stuff from your basement.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: But it forces the absurdity of the fact that he
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: can't control the neo-Nazi stuff coming from his own house.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: And he can't answer the question. He won't answer the question.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: And then later Ossoff said, he's like, Mike, who on
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: your staff suggested that you bring up Epstein. He's like,
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: everybody can go and check this. When it came to
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: the House floor for a vote on releasing the evidence
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: in the Epstein files, you voted against it. What are
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: you thinking bringing up Epstein? Because otherwise, it's a good hit.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Reid is an Epstein class guy.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: But if you voted to cover up the Epstein files,
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think people want to hear it from you.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: They sure don't. They sure don't. Well, should we move
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: on to the new White House press secretary, right?
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: I think we should. Let's hurry.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Well, the new White House press secretary, Katie Zakaria, did
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: her first briefing yesterday after about three days on the job.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: She was announced on Friday, and there's a lot of
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: reporting coming out now. Basically, what everybody expected, nobody expected this.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Everybody expected it would come out that nobody expected this.
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: It sounds a lot like Donald Trump saw Katie Zakaria
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: on TV. She was intentionally blanketing the airwaves, and he thought,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: all right, let's go with her. Some reports said he
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: actually bypassed Susie Wiles. I don't know how true those
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: reports are, but she had a few days to get
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: ready for a White House briefing, and it was like
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: 9.30 a.m. Tuesday, and she was appointed on Friday. It
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: did not go well. Ryan's original idea was for us
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: to try and play the entire briefing. It was only
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: an awkwardly short 14 minutes. and see who could go
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: without laughing first. If you successfully outlasted... If I had
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: outlasted Ryan, I would have been the winner. I think
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: it would be impossible, and you will see why as
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: we play some of these... We're about to play 1
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: 14th of the briefing, so you're going to hear... Maybe
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: even a little longer. Yeah, see how long you could
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: go before breaking. Let's just see one. Good morning.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: I am so honored to work for President Trump and
• 56:54
  Speaker 9: the American people as the new White House Press Secretary.
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: I want to thank President Trump for his trust that
• 57:04
  Speaker 9: he has placed in me. I have wanted to work
• 57:08
  Speaker 9: for him for a very long time. I'm looking forward
• 57:13
  Speaker 9: to working with each of you as well, especially as
• 57:17
  Speaker 9: we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: energy and excitement never seen before in the history of midterms,
• 57:26
  Speaker 9: thanks to President Trump. Just look no further than last
• 57:31
  Speaker 9: night in Youngstown, Ohio, where President Trump delivered another blockbuster
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: rally out on the trail. The arena was overflowing with
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: enthusiasm as thousands came out to support President Trump, as
• 57:47
  Speaker 9: well as special guest Jake Paul and football legend John Gruden.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: So that was about what the first Part of the
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: briefing felt like it was just a lot of that,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of that, a lot of reading off the script,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: awkwardly making eye contact, almost like a pageant, right? You
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: sort of know you have to read the lines and
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: look up at the camera every certain interval of time.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: But brutal, absolutely brutal. But wait, there's more. This was
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: maybe the worst moment. Let's roll the next clip.
• 58:17
  Speaker 9: The idea of not spending evenings with my kids is
• 58:21
  Speaker 9: completely unacceptable. So my president, excuse me, my husband, that's
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: a good one. My husband is out here. He's in
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: our family and we are very, very protective of celebrating
• 58:37
  Speaker 9: birthdays as a family. So he brought the entire crew
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: out here. Bless him.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: It's a lot.
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: And we will be moving out here.
• 58:45
  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, no. Oh, no. Not doing any favors to the
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: stereotype of one of the sort of MAGA women who
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: is overly prostrating themselves at the feet of Donald Trump
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: by mixing up your husband and your president in your
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: first briefing. That one hurts.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: And so probably not going to commit this press secretary's
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: name to memory, but she's a Fox person? Like, why
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: is she in our lives right now?
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Not even just a Fox person. She's someone who did,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: I think, Fox, CNN, Newsmax, kind of a combo. And
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: there was one report that she was doing it intentionally,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: timed with the president's truth social schedule. when she thought
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: he would be watching, she would accept hits.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: She's doing like 4 and 5 a.m.? That's a good.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Point, actually, because he seems to be up at 4
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: or 5 a.m., but also 1 a.m., so it's hard
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: to say. Maybe she's just always on. But yeah, she
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: would do kind of a lot of those networks that
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: she thought he would be paying attention to. One more.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Here's her trying to wrap the briefing. So she read
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: from the binder, basically, the president's accomplishments according to her,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: and then took three questions. She went to three reporters.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: She did make news. She's like, yeah, we're firing Guilfoyle.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: She sure did. We'll get to that in just a moment.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: She took questions from Breitbart. She took questions from Fox News,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Peter Doocy, and Daily Mail. Even her effort or her
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: attempt to go to the questions was weird because everybody
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: was trying to ask her questions. She wanted to answer
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: the questions, but she knew she had three people that
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: she was supposed to go to. So it was weird.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Here's her trying to leave the briefing, C3.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 9: To the question on— the president will be back on Thursday,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 9: and that's what I will answer.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 8: I'll leave it there.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: He will answer those questions out. Okay. All right. So
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: then they did move out to the new helipad, and
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: she got this question. Actually, the president got this question.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: She may have gotten herself into serious hot water with
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: her answer here. Like, actually, very serious. And that's where
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: this entire segment, we're going to put some meat on
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: the bones of all the fun we're having here. Take
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: a listen. President Trump is going to get asked about
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: whether or not she's actually an attorney. It's kind of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: hard to hear, but here's the clip.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: Where did you pass the bar exam at?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: You said she's an attorney. Where did she pass the
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: bar exam?
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: Which date?
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: What did she tell us?
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 9: Where did you pass the bar exam?
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 8: Where did you pass the bar exam?
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: This is a serious problem. What she said was when
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: she moved to China.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: Like what state did you pass the bar exam? Yeah,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: when she moved to China.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: When she moved to China, which doesn't make a lot
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: of sense because the Chinese bar, as you might expect,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: is very difficult and I believe not actually even open
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: to foreigners.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: And probably Chinese.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: And so Judd Legum's been all over the questions about
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: her record. And he said, there's zero chance Zakaria took
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: the Chinese bar exam, the mixed element we put on
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: the screen. She doesn't speak Chinese and only Chinese citizens
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: can take it. She was not a Chinese citizen. She did, however,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: move to China when her husband worked in private equity there.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: And she worked for a major law firm in China that,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: as anybody would expect, if you're a major law firm
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: in China, has all kinds of connections with the CCP.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: And so that is now coming back with all of
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: these questions for Zakaria. I'm reading from The Washington Post
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: here that notes, the White House on Tuesday scrambled to
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: answer questions about the legal credentials of President Donald Trump's
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: new press secretary. who made a brief and halting debut
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: in the briefing room and later said she had passed
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: a bar exam in China, a country where non-citizens aren't
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: allowed to take the bar exam or practice in courtrooms.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Trump called Zakaria an attorney in his Friday announcement. That's
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: an official White House announcement, even though it's like untrue social,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: of her appointment. And her LinkedIn profile says she served
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: as general counsel for Fix California, which is a nonprofit
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: founded by Rick Grinnell. Asked Tuesday where she had been
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: admitted to the bar, Zakaria said China, not a U.S.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: state or the District of Columbia where one would need
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: to have been admitted to practice law in the United States. So, again,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: she was given the title general counsel for Fix California,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: which I believe is a nonprofit. Yeah, the post says
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: it's a nonprofit. So it's this conservative nonprofit to turn
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: around California. And she was. apparently representing herself as general counsel. Typically,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: I've known general counsels at many nonprofits. Ryan, you probably
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: have as well. That means you are doing legal work.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: If you are not barred and you are representing yourself
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: as somebody who is doing legal work, that is a problem. She,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: on chyrons, was represented as an attorney. I went and
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: yesterday saw a Fox News chyron where she was represented
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: as an attorney. So not only now are there now
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: questions about the fact she worked for this major CCP-connected
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: Chinese law firm, but there are also questions, and we
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: could piece apart how substantive those attacks on anyone would be,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: but now there are questions about whether or not she, A,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: lied in front of the president and lied to the
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: press by saying she passed a bar when she was
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: in China, and she doesn't appear to have ever passed
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: a bar, and second of all, whether she was misrepresenting
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: herself as a barred attorney without ever passing the bar exam.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Now, she could defend herself by saying that her answer
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: about China was totally incoherent.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Or she didn't hear the question.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: That there has to be some coherence for something to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: be a lie. But yes, in California, and actually I
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: think everywhere in the country, if you hold yourself out
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: as a general counsel, even if you don't practice law
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: as the general counsel, just by holding yourself out as
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: a general counsel, you have to be licensed somewhere.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: So you can't disbar this lady since you're just not
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: barred anywhere.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Good Lord.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: It's a big problem for her because we're about to
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: talk about Kimberly Guilfoyle. Trump is very sensitive about people
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: making him look bad. And there she may have flat
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: out lied. She heard that question. She said she passed
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: the bar when she was in China. There's really no
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: other way. I mean, you can try to say you
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: couldn't hear the question well because you're outside at the helicopter.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: But she pretty clearly was responding to that question. And
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: that's why, what else would she have meant by when
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: I was in China? So now it looks like she
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: lied in front of the president, lied to the president,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: to the press, in addition to the bad performance. I
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: just want to also add the leaks. This is a
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: really bad sign for her. The leaks are already starting.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: So I pulled some of the leaks from people that
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: are close to the White House or are actually working
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: in the White House. So CNN had a story where
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: one person called it brutal. CNN characterized what it was
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: hearing from sources as saying it was unusual, awkward, stilted,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: and at times uncomfortable. One Trump advisor said, quote, she
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: should have been doing murder boards for two weeks before
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: going up there. The best thing she did was break
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: the news. We're going to get to in a second
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: that Kimberly Guilfoyle was gone. A White House official said,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: why did they put her out there so quickly? Literally
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: zero reason to put her out there on her second day.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: I'm prepared. Another one said, no question. We're all missing Caroline.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: Another said, you either got it or don't. This is
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: to Politico, and she don't got it. I think the
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: press and the admin were on the same page today
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: in terms of missing Caroline. Another one to MS Now said,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: getting behind the podium is tough, but she got off
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: on the wrong foot. She needs to get much better fast,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: otherwise she'll break Scaramucci's record. This is a White House official.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Her first impression is leaving staff without confidence in her abilities.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Not really what you want after your first press briefing,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: but also, again, a sign. The press secretary, at least
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: from Caroline Levitt's example that she set for this White House,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: is in charge of the White House press operations. You
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: have a communications director, Stephen Chung. But the press secretary
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: does strategy. They're not just a spokesperson, typically. Put Chung
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: up there. Put Chung up there. Hell yes. That's what
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: we all want. At the end of the day, that's
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: what everybody is gunning for. Nobody is going to be
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: good until you use Stephen Chung. But actually, the fact
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: that White House staff— is already leaking suggests, yes, they
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: have no confidence in her, but also that her ability
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: to wield power and have some control over the white
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: house press operation is already significantly damaged.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Sounds like she didn't even know there was an operation.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: This is what Trump deserves though, for passing over Scott Jennings.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Just Scott has been prostrating himself before the president for years.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: And all he wants is to be press secretary. Uh,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: and he, he, dissed him.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Like so i think he saw i think what they
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: did is they saw your debate with scott jennings on
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: after party they were like no like he can't stand
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: up to ryan grimm.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: That crushed him uh so anyway um good luck to
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: her i guess.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Good luck to her uh we will be eagerly awaiting
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: the next briefing if there is one.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: But yeah so she announced during the um press briefing
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: that kimberly gilfoyle was being uh pushed out we can
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: move on to this yeah uh this section that's.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Announced it in the most painfully awkward way. She got
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: the question and gave like a one sentence response and
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: then just smiled and nodded.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: She's been asked to resign. So Guilfoyle, I put up
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: C6 here, was the ambassador to Greece. This is her.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: You can pause that and read it if you want.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: This is a very long statement about how it was
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: the honor of her lifetime to be the ambassador to Greece.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: So apparently, Emily, you correct me if I'm wrong here.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: So she's dating Donald Trump Jr. We'll get into that
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: in a second from Trump. That wasn't going well. The
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: boy needed a way out. And Trump did his son
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: a solid and named her to be ambassador to Greece, which...
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: It's a good dad. That's a good dad. And then
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: set his boy up with like a multi-billion dollar grift.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: But meanwhile, who doesn't get cut in on that grift? Guilfoyle.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: So I have some sympathy for her.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Gets cut in on her own grift.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: Her ex-boyfriend... You know, they're living high on the hog.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: Ex-boyfriend is stealing billions of dollars around the world. She's
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: not living any higher on the hog just because they
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: broke up. But those Amex bills keep coming. And so
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: she reaches out to a donor as she's preparing to
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: be nominated or preparing to be confirmed ambassador to Greece
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: and tells the donor, hey, good news. I found a
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: way that you can just sneak me money. It doesn't
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: have to be a paper bag. Just pay off my
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: pay off, throw a hundred K into my Amex bill. Um,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: put up C8. Uh, it looks like she also figured
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: out that somebody could just throw, um, 250 K straight
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: at her G series car loan.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, and so this is what we know about that's
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  Speaker 2: 350 K. This is daily mail.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: Daily Mail reporting she solicited a $ 250, 000 car loan payment
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: from several wealthy Greek businessmen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Do wealthy Greek businessmen have $ 250, 000?
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Maybe they got $ 25, 000? I don't
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: know about $ 250, 000.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: No offense to Greece. But OK, so Trump gets asked
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: about that and gives a pretty funny response. Let's roll C7.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: She was almost a member of your family. How surprised
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: were you to learn about these allegations?
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: What did you think of them?
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 6: No, she wasn't a member of my family.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: but she wasn't.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 5: No, she went to Greece.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: She was doing a good job, but we didn't like
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: what we were reading.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: We didn't like what we were reading. She dated my
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: son a long time ago.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: They broke up in 2024. Someone was circulating a Trump
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: quote around the time he named her ambassador to Greece.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: just lavishing Kimberly Guilfoyle in praise because at the time
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: they were clearly trying to smooth things over with Kimberly Guilfoyle.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: And he was saying, like, she's the best. We love
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: her so much. She dated my son a long time ago.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: She should have stayed with Gavin Newsom. She could be
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: first lady.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: That would be more likely at this point.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: Were they married or were they just dating?
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: They were married. Yeah, they were married. He famously cheated
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: on her.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: This is former Mrs. Gavin Newsom.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: No, he famously was unfaithful to Kimberly Guilfoyle. And so anyway,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: rough one.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: If you can't trust Gavin Newsom to be faithful, who
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: can you trust?
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: We can't trust anybody anymore. Yeah. So I just want
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: to say the Tucker had a good rundown in his
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: newsletter this morning of some of the reports. He says
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal reported last week that Guilfoyle flamboyantly
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: used her position and connection to the president as vessels
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: for personal enrichment, accepting gifts and services in exchange for
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: access to the Trump administration. So that's an important part
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: of this as well. In one instance, She allegedly begged
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: a top Trump donor to pay her $ 100K Amex bill.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: And the screenshots show her pleading, quote, honey, please, Sagar
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: and Crystal. And we've all covered this at this point.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: People are familiar with it. She then, we now have
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: a report, tried to claim those text messages were AI.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: She tried to tell the White House that those text
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: messages were AI. That is according to a new report
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: from the Wall Street Journal. She really tried to say
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: that it was AI. And hilariously, that announcement You just
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: saw about her saying she was stepping down. Will Chamberlain
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: asked Pangram if it was AI.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Pangram responds, we believe that this entire text is AI.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Of course it was.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: It's all AI.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: She's never written that much.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: It's AI all the way down.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: Written all of that together.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: AI all the way down.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, and I have actual sympathy for her because if
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: she ends up being like the only person going to
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: jail over any of this, it'd be so absurd.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: 100%.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: They're all super corrupt. Bloomberg reported yesterday that the CFTC,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which investigates kind of insider trading
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: in the commodities world, was probing the suspicious oil trades.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: So you'd have somebody who'd go in and buy the billions,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: buying the S & P and selling oil. And then
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: 15 minutes later, Trump comes out with some announcement about
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: the Iran war and they make an absolute fortune. Like
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: you could pay off Gilfoyle's Amex for a century with
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: the amount of money that they were making in five minutes.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: So CFTC is probing this and they get told by
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: somebody in the Trump administration. No need to look into
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: that anymore. Don't worry about that. We're good on that one.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: Yep. Well, news also that they're looking into the the.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: FTC is looking into FanDuel and DraftKings. And so we'll
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: see if something similar happens there because I guarantee you
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: they're now pouring all kinds of money. Well, they have
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: been already.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: They've got their best men on it working in shifts.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: We will see.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: We will see. You know soccer is going to follow
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: that one very closely. But you're right. The audacity of
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: the Trump administration. If you're Kimberly Guilfoyle, the audacity of
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: you people to make as much money as you have
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: off of this administration than to throw me under the
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: brass for trying to get in.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: And also it's embarrassing. You're texting people to ask... to
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: pay off your Amex bill. Trump wouldn't do that. At
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: least you can't set up a crypto company.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Just do it through crypto. Have some dignity, man. Please.