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goals.The personal relationship that he has with so many people.

I mean, how many times have I been watching Meet the Press or Face the Nation or, uh, CNN, people that aren't really too positive towards the president, and they start the conversation with, "I just got off the phone with the president, and he gave me this story, and he told me this." And the personal interaction that he has with reporters that aren't necessarily his favorites, and his favorites, uh, is never gonna be replicated again or do you think that there's gonna be other presidents that are gonna wanna go right to the press like this and make them feel, "Well, I don't want any filter in between the message"?

It's pretty hard to imagine, Brian, right? Having just like ...

You could imagine, I- I'll give you an ex- One of my colleagues managed to get hold of Joe Biden's cell phone number, right? And they called him up for comment on the book and, a- and the next day, or the next day or two days later, the team had shut off that number.

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So there I actually believe I handled it correctly.

I was on Face the Nation.

I remember the Plattner campaign wasn't happy about this because I had just done an event with him.

And I went and Margaret Brennan, as she often does, asked tough questions.

Like you gotta, you know...

And he was on, I was telling you, he was on Face the Nation.

I think it, yeah, it was this morning where, you know...

He, he didn't say on the Face the Nation thing that regulation was needed to protect Anthropic from Chinese open models, but he, he called China the, the hardest geopolitical dilemma and explicitly said it wasn't about- commercial competition, which I thought was interesting.

And his wording is adverse to open source and open weights.

If you go back and collectively look at a lot of the things he says, he's...

And they're bringing up things that won't happen.

Now again, Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei was on Face the Nation this Sunday, and he called the competition between the U.S. and Chinese AI companies a challenging dilemma.

The more long-term thing would be working together to put a speed limit on the rate of AI progress.

I think that's going to be very difficult.

I was on that show the other day talking about Lane, and it's always a treat.

Or I might put on Meet the Press or Face the Nation or whatever.

You know, the Fox News, Roundup, whatever, whatever you choose.

I've never really thought a college game day on Saturday morning is my go to for for news about important matters in Washington.

They're already having conversations about it.

Heck, Charlie Baker talked about it on Face the Nation a few months ago, right? They're already talking about how can they realign the Olympic sports to get this insane travel situation rectified.

Okay.

Okay.

Abdul's relationship with Hassan Piker continues to haunt him, and in his latest interview with Face the Nation, everything went terribly wrong.

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Well, several Republicans did continue to mention your campaigning with Hassan Piker, who is known for making incendiary remarks.