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About eight or nine minutes of reading talking points supplied by her colleagues in the White House Press Office, doing so staring down at the talking points.

That's not really a stylistic problem.

On your first day as press secretary, you wanna make sure you read the words carefully and do so properly, but there's probably some stylistic demerits she'll get if that continues.

And then she took three questions.

And look, under President Trump, the role of the press secretary has really been inverted.

The press secretary used to be the placeholder for the President of the United States on a daily basis.

Could that actually happen?

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About eight or nine minutes of reading talking points supplied by her colleagues in the White House Press Office, doing so staring down at the talking points.

That's not really a stylistic problem.

On your first day as press secretary, you wanna make sure you read the words carefully and do so properly.

But there's probably some stylistic demerits she'll get if that continues.

And then she took three questions.

And look, under President Trump, the role of the press secretary has really been inverted.

Could that actually happen?

[laughs]

About eight or nine minutes of reading talking points supplied by her colleagues in the White House Press Office, doing so staring down at the talking points.

That's not really a stylistic problem.

On your first day as press secretary, you wanna make sure you read the words carefully and do so properly, but there's probably some stylistic demerits she'll get if that continues.

And then she took three questions.

And look, under President Trump, the role of the press secretary has really been inverted.

The press secretary used to be the placeholder for the President of the United States on a daily basis.

Could that actually happen?

[laughs]

About eight or nine minutes of reading talking points supplied by her colleagues in the White House Press Office, doing so staring down at the talking points.

That's not really a stylistic problem.

On your first day as press secretary, you wanna make sure you read the words carefully and do so properly, but there's probably some stylistic demerits she'll get if that continues.

And then she took three questions.

And look, under President Trump, the role of the press secretary has really been inverted.

The press secretary used to be the placeholder for the President of the United States on a daily basis.

Could that actually happen?

I guess I just have to ask, with your analysis, what accountability does exist when a president makes, joking or otherwise, the suggestion that the destruction of an American city could be a small price to pay, if any?

Right.

I mean, not only as an American city, my hometown, that's why I love the Padres so much.

I grew up in San Diego.

Uh, yes, do, do San Diegans have a chip on their shoulder about Los Angeles? Yes, we do, but we don't wanna see Los Angeles harmed, and Los Angeles doesn't wanna see San Diego harmed.

And the White House is trying to say, "Oh, no, no, no, no.

What the President was saying, he's protecting, he has protected San Diego and Los Angeles from the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran." Listen to the full clip.

Regardless of the seri- the level of seriousness, it's serious every time the president speaks, especially like that.

I guess I just have to ask, with your analysis, what accountability does exist when a president makes, joking or otherwise, the suggestion that the destruction of an American city could be a small price to pay, if any?

Right.

I mean, not only as an American city, my hometown.

That's why I love the Padres so much.

I grew up in San Diego.

Uh, yes, do, do San Diegans have a chip on their shoulder about Los Angeles? Yes, we do, but we don't wanna see Los Angeles harmed, and Los Angeles doesn't wanna see San Diego harmed.

And the White House is trying to say, "Oh, no, no, no, no.

Regardless of the seri- the level of seriousness, it's serious every time the president speaks, especially like that.

I guess I just have to ask, with your analysis, what accountability does exist when a president makes, joking or otherwise, the suggestion that the destruction of an American city could be a small price to pay, if any?

Right.

I mean, not only as an American city, my hometown.

That's why I love the Padres so much.

I grew up in San Diego.

Uh, yes, do, uh, do San Diegans have a chip on their shoulder about Los Angeles? Yes, we do.

But we don't want to see Los Angeles harmed, and Los Angeles doesn't want to see San Diego harmed.

... or he didn't mean that." But just using those words so dangerously to say, "Oh, just a couple of cities," you know, for the betterment of everyone else, regardless of the seri- the level of seriousness, it's serious every time the president speaks, especially like that.

I guess I just have to ask, with your analysis, what accountability does exist when a president makes, joking or otherwise, the suggestion that the destruction of an American city could be a small price to pay, if any?

Right.

I mean, not only as an American city, my hometown.

That's why I love the Padres so much.

I grew up in San Diego.

Uh, yes, do, uh, do San Diegans have a chip on their shoulder about Los Angeles? Yes, we do.

But we don't wanna see Los Angeles harmed, and Los Angeles doesn't wanna see San Diego harmed.

"... or he didn't mean that." But just using those words so dangerously to say, "Oh, just a couple of cities," you know, for the betterment of everyone else, regardless of the seri- the level of seriousness, it's serious every time the president speaks, especially like that.

How are negotiations going? Because the President was alluding to negotiations will continue with Iran again.

So they're continuing.

Uh, they're not direct negotiations, they're through intermediaries.

And the problem that the administration has had persists.

They don't know who the actual deal maker is within the Iranians that they deal with through mediators.

And they can't get to the real heart of the matter, which for the administration is the future of nuclear ambitions in Iran, less the Strait of Hormuz.

'Cause the president believes enough oil is getting through to keep the prices elevated, but not...

... four months ago.

How are negotiations going? Because the President was alluding to negotiations will continue with Iran again.

So they're continuing.

Uh, they're not direct negotiations.

They're through intermediaries.

And the problem that the administration has had persists.

They don't know who the actual deal-maker is within the Iranians that they deal with through mediators.

And they can't get to the real heart of the matter, which for the administration is the future of nuclear ambitions in Iran, less the Strait of Hormuz.

... four months ago.

How are negotiations going? Because the president was alluding to negotiations will continue with Iran again.

So they're continuing.

They're not direct negotiations.

They're through intermediaries.

And the problem that the administration has had persists.

They don't know who the actual dealmaker is within the Iranians that they deal with through mediators.

And they can't get to the real heart of the matter, which for the administration is the future of nuclear ambitions in Iran, less the Strait of Hormuz, because the president believes enough oil is getting through to keep the prices elevated, but there's no crisis in supply globally.

But it also seems like we're no closer to them saying uncle than we were four months ago.

How are negotiations going? Because the president was alluding to negotiations will continue with Iran again.

So they're continuing.

They're not direct negotiations.

They're through intermediaries.

And the problem that the administration has had persists.

They don't know who the actual dealmaker is within the Iranians that they deal with through mediators.

And they can't get to the real heart of the matter, which for the administration is the future of nuclear ambitions in Iran, less the Strait of Hormuz, because the president believes enough oil is getting through to keep the prices elevated, but there's no crisis in supply globally.

But it also seems like we're no closer to them saying uncle than we were four months ago.

What do we know apparently happened here?

Well, we can tip our journalistic cap to ProPublica, which first disclosed much of this information.

It's subsequently been confirmed by The New York Times and others.

A couple of distinctions which may be significant, but probably not.

This was not the wedding itself.

It was two days after the wedding, a celebration on private islands arranged for Donald Trump Jr. and his new bride, Bettina, by Umar Kremlev.

Who is Umar Kremlev? Well, he's the president of the International Boxing Association, which is backed by Gazprom, the largest...

And we do need to point out that Donald Trump, the president, was not at these lavish post-wedding celebrations, right?

What do we know apparently happened here?

Well, we can tip our journalistic cap to ProPublica, which first disclosed much of this information.

It's subsequently been confirmed by The New York Times and others.

A couple of distinctions which may be significant, but probably not.

This was not the wedding itself.

It was two days after the wedding, a celebration on private islands arranged for Donald Trump Jr. and his new bride, Bettina, by Umar Kremlev.

Who is Umar Kremlev? Well, he's the president of the International Boxing Association, which is backed by Gazprom, the largest...

And we do need to point out that Donald Trump, the president, was not at these lavish post-wedding celebrations, right?

What do we know apparently happened here?

Well, we can, uh, tip our journalistic cap to ProPublica, which first disclosed much of this information.

It's subsequently been confirmed by The New York Times and others.

Couple of distinctions which may be significant, but probably not.

This was not the wedding itself.

It was two days after the wedding, a celebration on private islands arranged for Donald Trump Jr. and his new bride, Vatina, by Umar Kremlev.

Who is Umar Kremlev? Well, he's the president of the International Boxing Association, which is backed by Gazprom, the largest, um, fossil fuel company in Russia with very close ties to Vladimir Putin, both Gazprom and Umar Kremlev.

... wedding celebrations, right?

What do we know apparently happened here?

Well, we can, uh, tip our journalistic cap to ProPublica, which first disclosed much of this information.

It's subsequently been confirmed by The New York Times and others.

Couple of distinctions which may be significant, but probably not.

This was not the wedding itself.

It was two days after the wedding, a celebration on private islands arranged for Donald Trump Jr. and his new bride, Vatina, by Umar Kremlev.

Who is Umar Kremlev? Well, he's the president of the International Boxing Association, which is backed by Gazprom, the largest, um, fossil fuel company in Russia, with very close ties to Vladimir Putin, both Gazprom and Umar Kremlev.

... post-wedding celebrations, right?

Repeat.

We saw it with our own eyes on live television, but we couldn't believe our brains could not comprehend what we had just in real time seen.

That's the first part of 9-11, the incomprehensibility of it all.

Because until that moment, We were all still clinging to the hope that that first plane in that first tower was somehow a small plane, that there had been sun in their eyes, or it was some kind of accident.

It couldn't possibly be this thing we were in the sort of marrow of our bones, deeply dreading the most, that this was something bigger and more dramatic.

Well, in fact, it became bigger and more dramatic moments later when the second airliner went into the second tower.

And from that moment on, once the disbelief lifted and it took a minute or two, trust me, we began to try to go to work to try to figure out what was happening.

My question to you is if you're a victim's family member today, one of the family members of someone who was lost that day or lost in the years since due to this exposure to these chemicals, does this have you feeling vindicated that the fight you've been fighting clearly was with cause? Or are you feeling more anger over the fact that these findings were kept a secret?

Repeat.

We saw it with our own eyes on live television, but we couldn't believe our brains could not comprehend what we had just in real time seen.

That's the first part of 9-11, the incomprehensibility of it all.

Because until that moment, We were all still clinging to the hope that that first plane in that first tower was somehow a small plane, that there had been sun in their eyes, or it was some kind of accident.

It couldn't possibly be this thing we were in the sort of marrow of our bones, deeply dreading the most, that this was something bigger and more dramatic.

Well, in fact, it became bigger and more dramatic moments later when the second airliner went into the second tower.

And from that moment on, once the disbelief lifted and it took a minute or two, trust me, we began to try to go to work to try to figure out what was happening.

My question to you is if you're a victim's family member today, one of the family members of someone who was lost that day or lost in the years since due to this exposure to these chemicals, does this have you feeling vindicated that the fight you've been fighting clearly was with cause? Or are you feeling more anger over the fact that these findings were kept a secret?

How did we get here? What is happening, and how serious is the situation?

Well, if you want to go through the stepladder, as described by the President of the United States, it started with fentanyl, that Canada wasn't doing enough to stop fentanyl coming across the northern border.

That was never a true issue, not numerically, but the President used it as a pretext to start a trade conflict with Canada.

Then it was, oh, there are wildfires and we're getting smoke in America from Canada, as if we could do something about that with tariffs.

But that was another pretext.

And now it's just the president thinks that there's been a long running series of abuses because of the tariff structure of Canada vis-a-vis the United States.

That's where we are.

Is this just harmless bluster or could it be damaging rhetoric with a president who takes a lot of things personally? Well,

How did we get here? What is happening and how serious is the situation?

Well, if you want to go through the stepladder, as described by the President of the United States, it started with fentanyl, that Canada wasn't doing enough to stop fentanyl coming across the northern border.

That was never a true issue, not numerically, but the President used it as a pretext to start a trade conflict with Canada.

Then it was, oh, there are wildfires and we're getting smoke in America from Canada, as if we could do something about that with tariffs.

But that was another pretext.

And now it's just the president thinks that there's been a long-running series of abuses because of the tariff structure of Canada vis-a-vis the United States.

That's where we are.

Could this lead to deeper issues with countries like China and UAE and other places that have supported Iran traditionally who seem to be in the crosshairs?

It faked me out.

I ran a clip of what he said on Meet the Press on Sunday, which was a conversation with Kristen Welker about how independent the Justice Department will be under his watch.

And he said, "Look, I interact with the president.

I push back on the president.

He doesn't call me up and tell me who to prosecute.

But I am going to take some direction from the president." And this is sort of an ongoing debate.

How independent should the Department of Justice be? Todd Blanche, and I would also say Democratic attorney generals in the past, have said, "Look, the president is the leader of the country.

So where is that line between regulation and retaliation that appears to be forming here?

Are you looking at what observers are saying about her relationship with him?

I mean, so she works in the White House.

She has been a close friend.

aid of the presidents for a very long time.

Senator Ossoff sort of injected this into the political conversation by suggesting the president is flying around with Natalie.

He just dropped the name Natalie, which has gotten a tremendous amount of very harsh blowback from the White House.

They considered it a complete cheap shot.

So where is that line between regulation and retaliation that appears to be forming here?

Are you looking at what observers are saying about her relationship with him?

I mean, so she works in the White House.

She has been a close friend.

aid of the presidents for a very long time.

Senator Ossoff sort of injected this into the political conversation by suggesting the president is flying around with Natalie.

He just dropped the name Natalie, which has gotten a tremendous amount of very harsh blowback from the White House.

They considered it a complete cheap shot.

Was

Are you looking at what observers are saying about her relationship with him?

I mean, so she works in the White House.

She has been a close friend.

aid of the presidents for a very long time.

Senator Ossoff sort of injected this into the political conversation by suggesting the president is flying around with Natalie.

He just dropped the name Natalie, which has gotten a tremendous amount of very harsh blowback from the White House.

They considered it a complete cheap shot.

Was

Why are voters interested increasingly in this type of candidate?

So Francesca Hong has organized apparently somewhat well in Wisconsin.

We'll find out how well the race has been chaotic beneath her.

And that's certainly helped her because people have come in and come out of the race.

I don't need to explain to listeners what's going on there, that instability and her stability in terms of organizing has put her in a good place.

I'm not saying she's going to win.

We'll wait for the votes to be counted.

frustration that's what i'm hearing from people who are hung supporters uh and they're just they're just done with the you know the same thing over and over and you know republicans keep winning and there is that blue wave and i think that they are going to kind of the opposite extreme if you want to say that word