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Um, I'm sure Xi is also thinking, like, "I would have this thing built in 20 seconds." Like, "It's so embarrassing that it's gonna take you a year and a half to be able to do this." Um, but I was, I was listening to Josh Rogin, who's a national security, uh, analyst and a columnist for the Washington Post, and he was talking about how Donald Trump genuinely thinks that he's friends with President Xi, and that they see the world the same way, and that he's actually not a China hawk at all, and now that the China hawks are out of the administration, like Pence and Pompeo from round one, and that Rubio, to a large degree, has been neutered, essentially, in terms of his old school, you know, neocon way of looking at the world, and has been given Latin America essentially as, like, the, you know, the toy dangled in front of him, saying, like, "You've always wanted, right, to have control of our hemisphere." Um, that we essentially are in no position and don't have people, top thinkers in the administration, who are actually concerned enough about the pernicious threat that China poses.

Obviously, you know, that comes to fruition with the fact that we had no deliverables coming out about this.

There was no evidence that they had any sort of substantive conversation about AI.

Anybody who wants to walk into a construction site that's nice and clean and sparkling.

Um, I'm sure Xi is also thinking like, "I would have this thing built in 20 seconds." Like, "It's so embarrassing [laughs] that it's gonna take you a year and a half to be able to do this." Um, but I was, I was listening to Josh Rogin, who's a national security, uh, analyst and a columnist for the Washington Post, and he was talking about how Donald Trump genuinely thinks that he's friends with President Xi, and that they see the world the same way, and that he's actually not a China hawk at all.

And now that the China hawks are out of the administration, like Pence and Pompeo from round one, and that Rubio, to a large degree, has been neutered, essentially, in terms of his old school, you know, neocon way of looking at the world, and has been given Latin America, essentially was, like, the, you know, the toy dangled in front of him saying like, "You've always wanted, right, to have control of our hemisphere." Um, that we essentially are in no position and don't have people, top thinkers in the administration, who are actually concerned enough about the pernicious threat that China poses.

Obviously, you know, that comes to fruition with the fact that we had no deliverables coming out about this.

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So up next, is China as panicked as America about this? And how open is President Xi to any sort of AI slowdown? Josh Rogin wrote the book on Trump and Xi, and he's with me for that conversation next.

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Sources also tell CNN that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang are expected to attend the state dinner for Xi.

We're also learning that White House officials are considering holding a meeting with AI executives on the sidelines of the Xi summit.

With us now, lead global security analyst for Washington Post Intelligence, Josh Rogin.

Josh, great to see you as always.

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At the same time, that same day, he was announcing D-Day, an economic D-Day against Iran, and this is what, uh, commentator Josh Rogin had to say about it last night on CNN.

It's pretty amazing that the Treasury Secretary announced an economic D-Day on Sunday, and then on Monday, when D-Day was supposed to come, he didn't announce what it was.

There were no specifics.

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Glad to have both of you guys here, and your collective expertise, because everyone's been reflecting on this, and today the CIA declassified warnings that President Clinton and Bush actually received in their briefings.

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