I wanna start with you, Bryan, on the, the, the fact that the president has said-

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Why now?

It's probably just become a distraction, right? I mean, the, the, the context of the ads, you know, are what they are.

They're, they paint this positive message of what he feels he has done in the first couple years, but that's just become a distraction.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and you're, and you're seeing that again.

Uh, but you got...

But, but, you know, but so there's clearly empathy and there's clearly a policy that the administration wants to do to try to help these farmers through these difficult transition, especially if we do these tariffs.

But it's important to understand, we are ta- we are having this, this, this tariff dispute with China to fix real problems that exist in our structural economy, where China has taken advantage of the United States for decades now.

And if it is short-term pain, and he said this in the Trump one presidency.

He goes, "If it's short-term pain, we will help the farmers get through." But in the long run to sort of stabilize our economic engine as this competes in China, that's a priority for the entire economy, n- not just one section.

How?

Mm-hmm.

I mean, it became very theatrical.

It became, you know, you sh- yeah, Saturday Night Live special moments.

And, and that's part of the thing that sort of, that, that sort of, you know, when Trump is watching, you have that audience of ones.

When he sees those performances, and if they're not good performances, that's gonna stick with you.

And I think part of her performances when she testified before Congress stuck with her in a negative way in the president's eyes.

Some people have figured out how to do it masterfully.

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Um, why does Donald Trump and Pam Bondi and the DOJ have such a problem releasing the full Epstein files, telling the truth about them, uh, that was on display again today? And why keep someone in the cabinet, uh, who lied about going to Epstein Island, and now only admits it when the files are out?

Well, first of all, thank you for having me.

I- listen, I'd say the first thing, regarding Epstein, you know, what started off as a small brush fire, it has turned into, you know, an inferno.

Uh, you've seen these Epstein files, you know, in the process of potentially taking down a government i- in Europe.

Uh, there's certainly a, a test of leadership for the Prime Minister in the UK as a result of these things.

And then, the brush fire has spread, you know, transnational.

You know, here in the US, you know, this is more than just a drip, drip, drip.

Uh, have they gone too far? Should the President apologize to the Americans killed, uh, in this overreach?