Nov 3, 2026 · 39 min · 18 segments
What are the key races to be watching these midterms? Can the Democrats take both the House and the Senate? And, what do the results mean for the rest of Trump’s time in office? Join Katty Kay and…
Katty KayHost
Anthony ScaramucciHostWell, the polls, we have early voting in New York, so I was able to vote on Saturday before I came over here.
A couple of things happened today that I would love to get your reaction to.
So the president makes an announcement early this morning that he's ending the $3.8 billion of funding to Israel.
Israel is now just going to flat out buy arms from the United States, but we're not going to subsidize them anymore.
which was something that we agreed to way back in 1978 during the Camp David Accords.
We had promised to create an economic aid package to both Israel and Egypt to help facilitate that peace, and that was an ongoing mission from the United States.
And because, as you say, people like Al-Sayed are using this as what he called a political tool.
It's certainly true that we've seen Israel's favorability in the U.S. decline precipitously since the attacks last.
of october the 7th and the attacks on gaza after that and we've seen particularly amongst young americans less enthusiasm for america helping israel in the way that it has done over the decades i'm not surprised that america would move in this direction um it's a little odd that it's trump announcing this because he's had this on again off again cozy relationship with benjamin netanyahu He said he'd reached the agreement with Netanyahu on the phone.
What struck me as surprising, Anthony, is that he would say this on the morning of these important midterm elections.
It's not like suddenly you're gonna have a whole load of on the fence voters or Republicans who had been thinking of staying at home suddenly deciding that Israel and Gaza is the issue that's going to drive them to the polls at the last minute.
Well, the polls, we have early voting in New York, so I was able to vote on Saturday before I came over here.
A couple of things happened today that I would love to get your reaction to.
So the president makes an announcement early this morning that he's ending the $3.8 billion of funding to Israel.
Israel is now just going to flat out buy arms from the United States, but we're not going to subsidize them anymore.
which was something that we agreed to way back in 1978 during the Camp David Accords.
We had promised to create an economic aid package to both Israel and Egypt to help facilitate that peace, and that was an ongoing mission from the United States.
And because, as you say, people like Al-Sayed are using this as what he called a political tool.
It's certainly true that we've seen Israel's favorability in the U.S. decline precipitously since the attacks last.
of october the 7th and the attacks on gaza after that and we've seen particularly amongst young americans less enthusiasm for america helping israel in the way that it has done over the decades i'm not surprised that america would move in this direction um it's a little odd that it's trump announcing this because he's had this on again off again cozy relationship with benjamin netanyahu He said he'd reached the agreement with Netanyahu on the phone.
What struck me as surprising, Anthony, is that he would say this on the morning of these important midterm elections.
It's not like suddenly you're gonna have a whole load of on the fence voters or Republicans who had been thinking of staying at home suddenly deciding that Israel and Gaza is the issue that's going to drive them to the polls at the last minute.
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