10/14/26: Houthis Hit Saudi Aramco HQ, GOP Abandons Entire States, Press Sec Collapse On First Day

Good morning. That was Ryan's losing it. I'm channeling the new White House press secretary who we're going to talk about today. Had a really rough start yesterday. And as we were preparing the elements for the show, that single line, we're going to play it for you later, was ringing in our heads.

Yes, she's currently White House press secretary. By the time you watch this, that may no longer be the case.

We will see.

She said she's moving her family to Washington, D.C. I'm like, Maybe hit pause on that.

Just rent. Just rent. See what happens.

We're going to talk about the war unfolding between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. We're going to be joined from Sana'a by one of my favorite journalists there, Hussein al-Bukhari, a kind of Houthi-aligned reporter who's going to talk to us about the back and forth. We've also got midterm updates. The midterms are going about as well for the Republicans as the war is going for Saudi Arabia.

Right.

Fair enough.

Well said.

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Really bad.

Which is completely impossible.

Yep.

And I don't know, maybe she's just a Chinese spy. It's one of those... Come on, China. Is this what you got?

Right.

And it's one of those segments that the kind of DC media is going to cover for the who's up, who's down element of it. But there are actually some serious questions about her record being raised right now that could get her in genuine hot water. So we'll break that down.

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So the Houthis have encircled Taiz. The Houthis are the primary power in the Ansar Allah coalition. So right now, you effectively have Yemen split between, and what you're seeing here is the advancement that the Ansar Allah military capacity is taken. There's been some debate online about that clip that you just saw, whether that tank was hitting a mine or whether the Houthis are able to kind of hit moving vehicles by mortar at this point. It does seem like there have been some incredible shots. So this is Western Taiz, which Ansar Allah now controls Taiz. the entrance to Western Taiz effectively, just a matter of time until they take the last city, which was one of the kind of lone holdouts that is not Aden. So

roughly something like 70% of the Yemeni population lives now in territory controlled by Ansar Allah. The rest is controlled mostly by forces linked to the UAE, whereas the Saudi forces have been almost completely expelled. They live in hotels in Riyadh. Last week, Saudi got their forces to kind of rush down the coast in armored vehicles with air support and retake some territory. But they had no plan to keep any of that territory at all. So they've since all been driven out. They lost most of the armored vehicles that they used. And now they're the Houthis are looking to encircle this last, this last piece after which there, you know, there's a lot of, we'll, we'll ask Hussein what, you know, he thinks is going on next,

but there's no indication that they're going to attempt some military assault on Aden that, that what we'll be talking about is some type of a coalition government. And the Emiratis are hoping that it'll be, that it will be a kind of two separate, states, so they'll remain weak. We will see. President Trump says they're behaving very badly.

Let's roll A2.

Well, the Houthis are misbehaving very badly. They're misbehaving very badly.

No good. Very badly.

And he elaborated on that on social media. We can put up A2B. The Houthis are behaving very badly. I thought they learned their lesson a year ago. when we bombed the hell out of them and at their request stopped. They've been silent. I love that idea. They just asked to stop and he stopped. They've been silent for a long time, but now they've emerged again, probably at the behest of Iran, which is a failing nation with no Navy, no Air Force, the world's worst economy and 301 percent inflation.

That's how you know it's true. It's a very precise figure. in a very nasty way, hitting Saudi Arabia and purposefully driving up oil prices, probably prior to the U.S. elections, not nice. Somebody should explain to them that I'm not running in the elections. I've already won in a massive landslide, but I'll be there after the elections and I will never forget. We could explain this to Hussein al-Bukhari when he comes on and then he can relay that to the Houthis. This may be sophisticated political analysis that they're not familiar with. What do you think?

That's the, well, you know, something tells me they've already heard this. That's going to be my guess, but you know, it is amazing the power he wields with his words.

And so yesterday we can put up a three Saudi Arabia hit, you know, significant, uh, oil sites in Yemen, oil depots in both Hodeidah and Sana'a. And the Houthis had said, if, if Saudi Arabia, uh, attacks their oil sites, they're going to hit back at Saudi oil sites, specifically they threatened Saudi Aramco's headquarters. We can put up A4.

There is some dispute about how significant the hit on Saudi Aramco's headquarters is. Saudi Arabia is acknowledging that they were, quote, targeted. They said there was some minor damage. There are other reports that the entire building was on fire. Maybe the truth is somewhere in between, but it does seem like Saudi Arabia did not hit Yemen as hard as it necessarily could, and the Houthis did not respond necessarily with a full-on escalation. So I think both sides are still leaving some room for an out here, because there's now a world kind of petroleum... conference going on. And because of the Houthi attack on Saudi airport, a bunch of the oil executives didn't come. Saudis had to cancel another conference.

They also canceled air raid sirens. Mohammed bin Salman is just a wild figure. He's like, I'm sick of these air raid sirens. He just turned them off. So just, just not, that's how I'm going to deal with the missile problem.

You're just not going to hear about it.

Just not here until it gets you. They are arresting journalists in Saudi Arabia who are just reporting what they're seeing with their own eyes. It was a very long time until they were willing to even confirm that there was a significant casualty event inside the civilian airport. They're desperately clinging to this idea that everything's fine, come to the conference, it's gonna be good, vision 2030, we're cruising.

It really is that Leslie Nielsen meme where nothing to see here. Nothing to see here and literally behind them is fire and explosions.

Sagar and I were not arguing but debating this a little bit last week How much longer do you think Trump can withstand the pressure he's certainly getting from MBS?

I think Trump is. I think so. And I'm glad you asked that because it goes to Trump's point about we they asked we bombed the hell out of them and they asked us to stop and we did. Yeah, it is true. We bombed the hell out of them. It is true that we reached a one to one ceasefire with them. But if you remember what Trump said afterwards, because.

He said they took a hell of a beating. And they kept knocking MQ-9 drones out of the sky. Two planes, two American fighter jets fell off of aircraft carriers because our aircraft carriers were running away from Ansar Allah missiles. And they have this domestic missile production capacity inside of mountains that... with billions of dollars of munitions dropped on them, we were not able to stop. They also have the capacity to stop traffic in the Red Sea. This, a year and a half ago, was before they controlled the Bab El Mendab Strait. They were controlling it through their ability to cast ballistic missiles in that direction. Now they control the islands right there and the coastline. So if Trump attacks Yemen, they will close that down. So Trump,

I think, is just not going to help out MBS. And also, if you're Trump, the reason that you care about MBS is the money that he has. It's not obvious that he's even going to be in power by the end of Trump's term. This is an absolute existential disaster for him. I mean, I think he's going to be extraordinarily dangerous on the way down.

Well, I was going to say that actually ratchets up pressure on Trump even more, given all of the entanglements.

Well, I think he's probably asking who else in the royal family is going to run this thing next. And how am I going to get money from them?

The financial entanglements between our, what, main power broker in the Middle East right now, who also happens to be the president's son-in-law.

And our main media company. Right. Like CBS and that whole Ellison thing is... heavily financed by Saudi Arabia.

Right.

And so given the very real threats to MBS's power right now, whatever we think pressure Trump is facing, I feel like is 10x probably behind closed doors.

So they're basically two ways out for MBS. He can either win the war.

With which he would need, or to do which.

Which he has shown over the last 11 years he can't do. Unless we're Even with us and Israel helping him.

Likely.

We couldn't do it. Everybody was doing it. We killed half a million.

Let alone after we're already stretched with Iran.

Right.

We killed half a million civilians there. Bombed the hell out of them, as he said, for a decade plus. And they're only stronger now. So he just physically cannot win the war. It's not possible. The precision strike capabilities of these new munitions, drones and ballistic missiles, they're too cheap for countries to produce. You cannot... put your boot on the neck of smaller countries in the way that you used to be able to do. And also, he's in a glass house. There's all these targets in Saudi Arabia, whereas once you've hit a few oil depots in Yemen, there's nothing much left to hit because he's been hitting it for 10 plus years. So he can either win the war, which he can't do, or he can peacefully

coexist with a Yemen that has Ansar Allah as a significant power player there. He also has refused to do that. So those are really the two choices. The third is just to fall, like flee to south of France or whatever, wherever he goes, which I don't know how he does that either. He's super paranoid. Um, he's had his brother, uh, MBN under house arrest and allegedly torturing him for like a decade. And he has also been brutal to everybody else in his family. He's feared and despised by a lot of the rest of the royal family. So that's really scary. How's he even going to survive in exile?

Right. But again, that makes it even scarier from our perspective, from many people's perspective, but in the U.S., that like what he is going to do, to your point, on the way down and what he could do in our direction on the way down in terms of pulling us into different conflicts.

Yeah. And the CIA, if you remember, deeply opposed his coup against MBN. They said this guy is impulsive, reckless, short tempered. He's a nut job. So the CIA was like, we do not want this guy in here.

Why wouldn't the president's daughter then get into a financial bed with him to the tune of everything needed for her husband to start his private equity fund?

Money talks.

I mean, it's like incredible.

All right. Well, let's ask Hussein Al-Bukhari what he thinks. Joining us next is a journalist from joining us from Sana'a. Hussein Al-Bukhari, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you very much.

You got it. So I wanted to ask you about the back and forth. We were talking about that at the beginning of the segment here, where the Ansar Allah responded to the Saudi attacks in Hodeidah and Sana'a by attacking Saudi Aramco's headquarters. Where would you put, where do you assess that they are on the escalation ladder? Was this a significant counterpunch by Ansar Allah or Were they holding back a little bit?

Yeah, I think if you see that they have targeted the main HQ of Aramco in Daman, even though they have warned the Saudi and the Saudi could not stop this attack. And there was a huge damage to that building who controlled the entire Saudi Aramco operation. in the West Coast is where the Saudi most oil field actually located.

But I think this punch for Ansarullah is just a warning or just kind of sending a taste to the Saudi what Yemeni are well equipped to do. Because still till now, Yemeni has not launched a major attack against the Saudi oil field of themselves or gas field in West of Saudi Arabia, only a small attack using drones.

So I believe that Yemeni still have the upper hand. And if the Saudi will not stop our demand, simple, to stop the war, lift the blockade, withdraw from Yemen, stop interfering in Yemen, and then the Saudi could leave safely side by side with Yemen and we will not attack them or target them. If they do not do that, this means that I believe that bigger attack will come towards Saudi Arabia.

And how might the internal pressures and politics for MBS affect that decision, Hussein?

I think at one point when he's going to feel that he's losing it, he must actually stop. But I think there are maybe a huge pressure on him from the United States and as well from the Zionist state of Israel.

Because for Saudi Arabia to.

Be defeated from Yemenis, just simple people, they did those people just with sandals, it could actually break not the reputation only of Saudi Arabia, but the reputation as well of the United States, because it's the one who is Saudi Arabia is their greatest ally in the region. They have been buying weapons with hundreds of billions of dollars through the many years. So it could be as well difficult for Mohammed bin Salman, but I believe that always you should think about your own people. Look here in Yemen or Yemeni government, we think about our people, we do whatever it takes to protect our people. And for them and for Mohammed bin Salman, he knows that if you stop attacking Yemen, Yemen will stop attacking Saudi Arabia.

And even if Saudi Arabia at one point in the future will come under attack, a foreign attack from any country, I believe that Yemen will fight with the Saudi. We will try to protect them because we will not allow, as we did with the Palestinian people, we will do with any other country that will come under attack.

And I hope that.

He will listen to his sense, if he has some kind of sense. Because we have seen lately that the Saudi are not actually equipped and are not able in stopping Yemeni attacks. Saudi has conducted 300,000 airstrikes against Yemen. They have killed 20,000 Yemeni civilians by direct airstrikes. They have destroyed the entire infrastructure of Yemen. They have targeted schools, hospitals, mosques, markets, farms, everything you can think of. Bridges, power stations in entire Yemen, entire bridges have been destroyed and hospitals. And the blockade has killed more than 400,000 Yemeni civilians because of preventable diseases like malaria, cholera, severe.

Malnutrition, malnutrition, lack of food, lack of water.

It's because of this actually a result of this attack against Yemeni infrastructure and as well the blockade. That's why we've seen Yemen since they, before even launching any attack against Saudi, we formed an embargo. We say the blockade against blockade, airport against airport. But we didn't even target the Saudi Aramco facility. When they targeted Sana'a airport, we blocked the Red Sea and we sent warning, no ships allowed.

What the Saudi have done, they have targeted Hodeidah port. We targeted Yambu port. Then what the Saudi have done, we didn't target Aramco. What they did, they have targeted a prison in Al-Jawf, killing and injuring dozens of civilians, including women and children during the visiting hours. When they have done that, even though they've been bombing the battlefield, we said, okay, it's fine. They are bombing the battlefield.

At least they are bombing fighters. They are not bombing civilians. We ignored all this attack. We didn't target Aramco. But when they targeted the prison, it was like an obligation for Yemeni armed forces to take an action. If they didn't take any action against Saudi Aramco, at that time, I think people will rise up against Ansarullah Dahoud here in Sana'a. That's why they have launched that major attack against Aramco in Najran and in Jizan and in Asir.

And from that on, it has escalated more because Saudi continue to target Yemeni civilian infrastructure.

And just, sorry, one more thing.

The Saudi, why wasting a fighter jet that costs you or like three or five fighter jets to send them to a civilian area, to a market, to a school, to a bridge, to bomb it, while you can use those fighter jets in the battlefield to target the advance of Yemeni armed forces? So I think, I don't know, they enjoy killing civilians. They know every civilian is killed, have a tribe behind him. That tribe will join Ansar al-Adhawthi.

Because Yemeni know that they will never ever leave, like they will take their revenge even after many, many years.

They will not allow anyone.

To kill any of their relatives without taking revenge.

And this time, actually, the revenge is all on Saudi Arabia.

If the war is not brought to an end by Saudi Arabia, I've seen some talk about Ansar Allah potentially even moving into what is considered now Saudi territory. And I also saw Ansar Allah official, I think it was Mohammed al-Bukhari. By the way, is he your brother?

Yes, he's my brother.

He's your brother. I think I saw him talking about Yemen's willingness to support either rival factions in the Saudi royal family or other opposition groups inside Saudi Arabia. So what kind of offensive capabilities is Ansar Allah considering at this point?

If we still see that Yemeni retaliation attack against Saudi, we're still kind of nice towards Saudi Arabia because still Yemeni could launch hundreds of missiles against all the Saudi infrastructure and they could knock it out in a matter of hours. And as well, they can launch attack against Saudi power station. We did not do that yet. Saudi have destroyed all our power station. And as well against Saudi water plant. So actually they will die from thirst.

They will taste a little bit of what they have been doing to Yemen. But one of the strongest cards that Yemeni have is a ground attack to south of Saudi Arabia, to Najran and Jaisal and Asir. And those province, actually, we still, every single Yemeni, still consider those as a Yemeni province that were taken by the Saudi in the 30s because of the help of the United Kingdom.

They have bombed the hell out of Odeda.

Port and they have entered part there and then Our imam at that time, he was forced to give those to Saudi Arabia. In return, the United Kingdom stopped attacking Yemen and attacking Hodeidah. But he had an agreement called the Ta'if Agreement. He made the Saudi sign an agreement admitting that those are our land and they are kind of rented in the Saudi. And the Saudi should not interfere in Yemen, should not launch a war against Yemen.

They should stop any plan or anything that bad against Yemen. And as well, they should treat Yemeni as they treat Saudis. And the Saudis, since 1934 when it was signed, they have actually not implemented any of this paragraph in that agreement. So the Imam, when he did that agreement, he did it because he knew at one point we will have a strong army, we will have a strong leader like we have now, And we will have the power to take those back from the Saudi because he know that the Saudi will break and obstruct every single agreement.

That was signed in 1934.

That's why if this attack against Saudi Arabia will come, I believe it is not only will be the Yemeni armed forces with their hundreds.

Of thousands of fighters. It will be as well the entire tribes near the Saudi border. They are so fed up with the Saudi. Saudi has been.

And even during the truce that was signed in 2022, which the Saudi has broken in mid-July by targeting Sana'a airport, the Saudi have been bombarding those areas, but not by airstrikes, but just by artillery shells.

And you know, the news only catches if there is an airstrike.

And they have actually dropped hundreds of thousands of colostrum bombs on that area.

Children are dying on a weekly basis.

Because of those cluster bombs there. On the Yemen side of the border?

Yeah, on the Yemen side. And all those are tribal area.

So the only thing that's held in them from entering and launching war against Saudi Arabia is because our leadership here is still saying, no, it's not time. If we can actually make Saudi to have peace with Yemen and withdraw from Yemen, we can negotiate about Najran and Jaisal and Asir by asking the Saudi to implement what was agreed.

But if we enter those area, I think our demand will be different.

At the beginning, three months ago, our demand was simple. Lift the blockade, implement the roadmap.

And, you know, that was signed between us and the Saudi-backed government. The Saudi ignored all that. Now our demand, we don't care about the roadmap because we are now the one who have the upper hand. In every battle, if you advance... your demand will change.

This is normal. I mean, this is not something that we are ashamed of.

So the demand now is a total liberation of Yemen and to stop interference and all the things like that. The Saudis should not interfere.

With anything in Yemen.

If they didn't do that, and if at one point we enter those Nigerians, Nigerians and Asir, our demand will be different. And we will not withdraw from this area. We might demand something more from the Saudis. So those latest attacks against Saudi Arabia, actually, they are threatening the house of Saud. If your house is made of glass, stop throwing rocks at your neighbors. Saudi Arabia was involved in the invasion of Iraq and the killing of millions of civilians, the attack on Libya, the war of terrorists against Syria, because they always try in the Saudi United States to contain the war in the country, that country that they are attacking. But when it comes to Yemen, we will bring the fire, and we will open the

gate of hell against them, because we are not allowing them to burn Yemen while they are just having this Riyadh festival and... And I'm sure that they will not be able to hold the World Cup in 2034, because if they continue, Yemen will destroy their economy and they will not have a single dime, actually, to spend in that World Cup.

Well, you just mentioned that demands might change and demands could be even more ambitious. Could you tell us a little bit about what that could look like or what people could expect?

I mean, now the demand, Saudis should leave Yemen.

And pay total compensation and not interfere in Yemen and withdraw all the troops and stop supporting any groups in Yemen. And let us Yemeni, we can deal with each other, fight each other, kill each other.

They have nothing to do with it.

Yemen has been gone through coups, through revolution, through like fighting.

But there was no outside intervention. We at the end said to each other.

So the demand, Like I said, if the Saudi will not implement that, if they will not stop interfering Yemen, because they are now trying what? Trying to gather countries to attack Yemen.

They are trying to plan for a bigger war against us.

So if that will come, this means that Yemeni will expand its attack and it will enter Saudi Arabia. And if we enter Najran and Jaisal and Asir, it will be silly and stupid to withdraw from them if the Saudi will say, okay, I will leave Yemen.

No, that was before. We demanded that.

But now, because you are defeated, you have gathered all the evil from around the world to fight us.

And because now you failed, you need.

To have the same deals or the same demand that we were asking you for the last few months. So I think this is something that it's our right. And as well, I think one of the most important thing that if entering Najran, Jaisal and Asirq, To withdraw from this area, it will actually stain the reputation of Ansarullah till the judgment day. Everybody will say, look, at one point we were strong, we'd enter those area and we took them and they just handed it back to Saudi Arabia.

So that's what I think Ansarullah and they are actually not willing to enter. Saudi at this point, because they are thinking now about Yemen. But if the Saudi will gather all the efforts around the world to kill Yemenis, I believe the Saudi will lose its so-called territory now in Saudi Arabia. And it could be actually maybe the beginning of the end of the Saudi royal family.

Because if you knock out their oil, if you.

Keep targeting them and knock out their security, their safety, this means Saudi Arabia will not exist. It only exists on those things, security and a tyrant state and as well their oil revenue. If you knock it out, this means that Saudi royal family will not exist, actually.

And with that in mind, there's been some reporting that Mohammed bin Salman has been considering having Israel come in and assist with the war on Serala, but that Netanyahu is insisting on basically a visit, a state visit, and wants Saudi Arabia to ask publicly and be open about the relationship. That's not something that MBS is willing to do at this point. I would imagine if it's between him falling and allying with Israel, he would choose a desperate alliance with Israel. What is the current status, though, of Ansar Allah's relationship with Israel? In other words, are Israeli ships allowed at this moment to pass through the Red Sea? And what How is Ansar Allah thinking about these kind of negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Israel?

Yeah, I mean, this is regarding ships about Israel. It's actually funny because when we were targeting Israeli ships, trying to stop the genocide in Gaza and attacking Israel and declared war against Israel, we were the first, I mean, the only country who declared a war and targeted their ships as well. So the United States has come up with the prosperity guardian and they start targeting Yemen.

And then we have like.

Widened our target to as well to United States ship and UK ships. Everyone, even Saudi Arabia, they were condemning us and saying you are threatening the Red Sea. And now because we are not targeting Israeli ship or United States ship, The Saudi is crying out loud why we are targeting their ship and not targeting Israeli and United States ship. And regarding the Israeli ship, anyone can check this marine traffic. There is no single Zionist ship there to go through the Red Sea. As well, the Eilat port, or as it's called, south of occupied Palestine, is still closed.

I mean, there is no single ship in that port. And Yemeni, actually, they are.

Because our demand was to stop the genocide or that there is a ceasefire. If Hamas has accepted a ceasefire, this is actually our demand. And Hamas requested, it was like we said that the battle in the Red Sea.

Is a battle of Hamas.

And to stop attacking in the Red Sea is in the hand of Hamas.

So this means that in the ceasefire, Hamas requested.

From us to stop attacking the Israeli ships in the Red Sea.

We did our best. But as soon as there is any, I mean, we want to.

Target Israeli ship, but if Hamas is respecting that truth, I mean, they are the one, it's their land. I mean, they are more concerned about Palestine. I can say more than us, because they are the people who live in that land. So disregarding those ship of Israel, but I believe that, as you mentioned, that Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli actually, and United States, they are trying to blackmail Mohammed bin Salman, either to bring him to.

Of course, they have a good and close relation, but to make it openly. And I believe at one point, Mohammed bin Salman will do it. But if he do it, actually, it will be great. And it will show the entire world, especially the Muslim world. It's not about protecting Mecca and the Mecca Park and the Sunni country like Pakistan and Turkey to protect Mecca. It's all actually about the protection of the Zionist and the protection of the Saudi royal family.

And I can say that I believe and I'm sure that at one point Saudi, for them to gather to make the war with Yemen as a sectarian violent, like, you know, holy places is against Houthis. I believe that Saudi at one point will launch a drone attack against Mecca, Al-Kaaba, or against the holy mosque in Medina.

They will do it.

Because those attacks from Yemen that targeted Saudi Arabia is threatening the existence of the royal family.

I mean, believe me, they are so, they didn't know what to do.

They've been begging, calling every minister of defense to come and to save them.

So they will do that.

Because the United States have this locust drones, the copycat from the Iranian Shahid drones. And the Saudi as well, they have announced before the attack and during this recent three months, supplying a copy of Shahid drones or those locust drones, supplying it to the Saudi-backed forces in Yemen. So at one point, they will order them to launch attack against Kaaba, take only one drone. not like to destroy it, just, you know, to use that. And they will do that. I'm sure they will not hesitate. If they see that they are on the brink of collapse and that they could not keep things, help things together, I believe that they will do it. And I'm sure that if they do it, this means that they have

attacked our holy place. This means there is another reason to launch a major attack against Saudi Arabia to defend our holy place in Mecca and Medina. We are the ones who are defending them. We are not the ones who threaten those areas. Just imagine we consider Palestine as the third holy place of all Muslims.

We are one of the few who try to defend Palestine, to defend our gods, to defend... Gaza.

So all Saudi lie about us will try to attack Mecca. It just, I think, is because they are planning to do so with the Zionists and with the United States because they want to set the entire region on fire and on sectarian violence.

Hussein Abou-Kaidith, thank you so much for joining us. I think it's probably fair to say that if there is an attack on Mecca, it would be suicidal and absurd for it to come from Ansar Allah. So I hope that the Saudi-backed forces in Yemen who might be encouraged to do that would recognize that it would be... I don't think anybody would believe it. But anyway, thank you so much for joining us. It's always great to get your perspective.

Thank you very much for having me.

Thank you. It was great. All right.

We'll see you again soon.

Well, President Trump was campaigning in Alaska last night. He's set on another trip, set to head off on another trip today as a sign of how seriously he's taking the midterm threat. Whether it's helping is a different question. He's been storming the country. And now just yesterday, let's put our first element up on the screen, the Fox News power rankings. shifted 18 races towards Democrats in the House of Representatives, Ryan. So some of these probably are not entirely surprising to you. Anything in this list standing out, though?

We're looking at 1st District, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania 7. Remind me, is that 2018 Conor Lamb?

No, that is Bob Brooks, the Bernie-backed firefighter.

That's right.

So that's Allentown, Pennsylvania.

That's your hood.

Yeah.

Yeah, so Bernie dominating Allentown, that means it's over, like time for capital to surrender.

And they changed it from toss-up to lean D.

Yeah.

So for that race to not be a toss-up is, or even likely.

This was a race where Republicans spent huge amounts trying to get a complete lunatic nominated as the Democrat. They lost. Then they got a Republican to run as a Green Party guy. Mm-hmm. But he got kicked off the ballot for signature problems and fraud, basically. Like, you're not a green. You're a Republican. You have to be a green. Right.

So not looking good for that one. That's always been a swing district.

But it's actually kind of the quintessential district that should make Republicans nervous if it's in polling starting to look more like a lean than a toss-up.

Big Hispanic vote in Allentown, plus then it's very suburban and rural.

Now, another stunning bit of polling data, our next element we can toss up on the screen from Newsweek. Trump's approval rating is below water in every single state.

No pink.

Not even any pink. Rachel Bykofer pointed this out. If you look at this map, she said there isn't a single state where Trump has a positive approval rating as of today, the 12th. And this gets back into, obviously, whether or not the The question of whether or not him barnstorming the country is helping Republicans or not. Now, you listened. My understanding, Ryan, is that you listened to the Alaska rally last night. And he continues to dangle the prospect of $ 5, 000.

His whole speech, he's now it's a free offer because nobody thinks he's going to hold the house.

Right.

But his whole speech, he's like, $ 5, 000, $ 5, 000 in your pocket. And he's now putting strings on it. He's like, you have to spend it in the United States. It's like, I don't want you to say, darling, we're going to China with our $ 5, 000. You have to spend it here in the United States.

Like his press secretary?

Yes.

Right.

Yes, like his press secretary. So, yes, he's still promising the $ 5, 000. You have to go watch this and confirm it. But I swear, he said at the beginning of the speech, he told this anecdote about driving through Iowa at the very beginning of his term, looking up and gas was $ 1. 95 a gallon. He's like, and then I went to war with Iran. It's like, why are you? telling that story?

Meanwhile, there's still people who are saying it wasn't Iran. The gas prices, it's all Ukraine.

The Democrats. We'll get to that in a second. It's Democrats. It's Democrats. Environmental regulations.

We'll get to that in a second. Indeed, you're going to want to stick around for this particular soundbite. Now, another interesting bit of data here. Our next element from The Economist and YouGov polling, the Associated Press put this together. Voters who live near, I'm sorry, The Economist did. Voters who live near data centers are swinging hard towards Democrats.

according to this polling with YouGov. And I mean, if you look at it, it's pretty clear. It's a pretty clear trend. And it looks like it really started pulling apart late last year. And then just it's not even close anymore. It's a pretty, pretty convincing graphic that data center location in this midterm election is pushing people towards Democrats.

And Again, that even takes us to the question of how much Trump is helping because Trump owns that issue so hard, which is why it's a problem for Republicans, even like a Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, who is running against David Crowley. Leftists were supporting Francesca Hong in no small part because Crowley was open to data centers.

Yes, and Crowley, by the way, may end up blowing a Wisconsin trifecta.

It's not impossible.

By refusing to take a stand on data centers. This is the problem. This is the electability problem that you get with corporate Democrats, that they are so tied to the special interests that got them where they are that they can't do the obviously popular thing.

Absolutely.

And the whole reason they refused to go with Francesca was they said she's too crazy. She's not electable. And then they put in a guy who has a radical extreme position on like a 90-10 issue data centers.

Right.

And he's on the 10 percent side.

Right.

And he might tank it for Democrats.

Yeah, it's a close race. I mean, he's probably still feeling OK about it. But data centers are huge. And part of the problem that Tom Tiffany might not be able to capitalize it is obviously because the president of the United States owns it and is going around the country talking about super intelligence. Gets worse for Republicans. Let's put this Jake Sherman post from Punchbowl up on the screen.

Congressional Leadership Fund has now cut bait in three districts. The House Republican leadership has been telling members and the public that they are poised to expand their majority in November. They're welcome to tell the public that. Nobody believes it. They cut bait in New Jersey 7 and Iowa 1.

Tom Keene, the guy who hospitalized himself.

I forgot about Tom Keene's hospitalization spell. Yes, that race. And then Ohio 1 and Michigan 8. So we've been covering the moving of the money around. And that is really the tell. So that because that comes with their internal polling as well. And so we don't have access to the internal polling across the board. Something leaks every once in a while, but mostly we don't have access to it. So one of the best ways to read the tea leaves is to see if the public polling is matching where the money is being moved. And in this case, yes.

And that was the morning. And so throughout the day, you just had one after another. So you put up B6. Uh, so then they're like, Oh, Oh, actually put it, sorry, go to B five, um, B five. So like house Republicans are abandoning, uh, more districts, uh, what another, another Nevada district. Um, well, another, uh, anyway, they put up, um, uh, B six, that was the fifth one. Then this, there was a sixth district, uh, that they're abandoning California. Uh, and, And then this was not the last one. Like we couldn't keep up as we're putting the show together. We couldn't even keep up with it. They were abandoning so many different house races. Sounds like North Carolina and Georgia, they're moving money out of those states on the Senate side.

They're basically giving up on those races and moving the money to Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. They're dropping, I think, what, four or five million for now in Nebraska to try to beat Dan Osborne and trying to shore up Kansas.

Huge crypto influx in Nebraska announced yesterday. There was a Politico report on crypto coming in to try and rescue Pete Ricketts. So we'll see how that works for them.

If you're a special interest like crypto, how annoying is it to have to rescue a billionaire's kid? Ricketts' dad founded Ameritrade and owns the Cubs and half the country. I feel like if you're crypto, you're like, you pay for that. You're a billionaire, but no, nothing's free.

Well, but they want the favor, right? They want him to be indebted to them.

Yeah. But you think the class, there should be like a class allegiance, but no, no, you even got to buy the billionaires. It's outrageous. Um, so Andy Harris represents the Eastern shore of Maryland. Um, you know, would be my Congressman because he's my mom's Congressman. He's a tea party guy. Uh, Don't want to waste any time getting into old stories about Andy Harris. He's quite something. At a debate last night, this was the crowd reaction to his suggestion that it's actually Democrats' environmental regulations that are causing gas prices to go up. Let's play V8.

The facts are that diesel prices have gone up. There's no question about it. Why has it gone up? Because the Democrats' environmental regulations have not. Ma'am, I got to tell you that this is the problem. You all say you believe there's a First Amendment, but only if you agree with you. You should let me finish the sentence, ma'am. You are rude.

Oh, my gosh.

Stop violating Andy Harris's First Amendment rights. How dare you?

It's always funny to see someone who was... brought in on the Tea Party wave, swept on the Tea Party wave, face the exact fire that the Tea Party wave brought in against Democrats. Like how many Democrats lost their seats in 2010 after town hall meetings that look exactly like that? So you're going to be able to keep your plan.

No, I'm not.

No, I'm not. Just getting shouted down by the audience.

And one quick Andy Harris story. He ran against the public option. And when he won in 2010, he's a doctor. So he wins in November. His whole campaign was against the Democrat who had at some point said he was OK with a public option. His whole campaign is against the public option. Wins in November. He shows up in November in Washington at orientation and he asks the administrators of Congress how he can get health insurance between November and January when he's sworn in. They tell him you don't get health insurance until January. He's like, yeah, but I need it now. Isn't there some type of government option that I can buy into? And they're like, no, no, there is not. And then they leaked that he even

asked that. Of course. You ran your entire campaign about there not being that.

Anyway.

Of course.

Hopefully we're seeing the end of, uh, the Andy Harris regime on the Eastern shore of Maryland.

Um, he's, he's an amusing Congress.

He sure is. He, his big thing when he was a state legislator was going after the university of Maryland because they, they, uh, they had, they like screen some like soft core porn or something. And so he tried to defund with Andy Harris.

Yeah.

You would stagger.

And I stand with Andy Harris.

I'm sure you do. Um, So there were debates also in Georgia and Maine. Do a little bit of that. Troy Jackson finally bringing some fire against Susan Collins.

To the extent Troy Jackson has fire.

This is fire for Troy Jackson. Let's go to B7.

Senator Collins talks about how she voted nine times against the war. I know that very well. After— it was too late. She voted five times to make it happen. And, you know, voting against it— I mean, she's the chair of Appropriations. If she wants to stop the war, she can cut the funding off for the war. But she's not willing to do that, because Donald Trump wants this, and that's what is going to happen. Eighty percent of our fuel is higher this year than last year. I mean, there's no way around that. She wants to talk about electric rates.

You asked about fuel. Electric rates are 80%—fuel is 80% higher this year because of the Iran war. And, again, you can go and read the public advocate. She likes to bring up the public advocate. You can go and read the public advocate's report from last week that said that the reason why Maine's electric rates were higher is because of natural gas, the Ukraine war. The way that we get off this boom and bust of wars and things like that is to go with the northern Maine transmission line, get wind energy that is— less costly and is in deep supply and we won't have to worry about every time someone like Donald Trump wants to start a war that we'll be paying higher fuel prices. That's the way that we're going to lower our energy costs,

not by building a pipeline across the United States for Keystone.

Kind of painful to try to watch Troy try to finish paragraphs, but he did, he hit her throughout the entire debate on the Iran war and on costs because right before that she had said Like, look, yeah, I voted against the war some of the times, but the votes weren't there. He's like, okay, well, that's a good reason that we should have Democrats then. So what good are you? You're the chair of the Appropriations Committee. You're funding the war. How are Republicans feeling about her? Still pretty good?

They feel good about her compared to others because last time she was down, what, like eight points? I'm thinking of the RCP average. I think she was down about eight points in a lot of the polling averages. and ended up winning by about eight points.

So she's up.

That's what people are hoping for. Also hoping for just really the polling being off in rural areas. That's one of the hopes that people have in Texas as well, is that they're just not picking up on And that was the big problem in 2020 with Sarah Gideon is that when pollsters look back on what may have went wrong, they thought they were under sampling working class white men in rural areas. And so I think people are still hoping and probably have some good reason to believe that pollsters haven't found good ways to correct for that underweighting.

But it's such a 2018 was a bad environment. This feels like an environment that's at least twice as bad for Republicans. So maybe she can eke out a four-point win is their best hope at this point.

Democratic establishment should be careful what they wish for. If Troy Jackson loses, I feel like main voters are going to be pushing Grant Platter to run again.

That's a good point.

His approval rating in some poll was like, Over 40 among Democrats.

Yeah. And it'll be really high if Troy Jackson loses. People will be like, well, this guy could have won.

Down in Georgia, another just unfair, like, why are you putting Mike Collins up against John Ossoff? Ossoff ripping him for his daddy being a congressman.

Going on.

One news out of it, Ossoff definitively said he's not running for president.

Yes.

Now, I don't believe him. Do not believe him.

He was so definitive it's going to be tough to come back from. It will cost him if he comes back from that.

I don't think so. Because I think the calculation is if you want him to be president, you want him to break the promise. If you don't want him to be president, then you're going to use that against him. So there's nobody who Would have supported him. Who cares about him breaking the promise? Anyway, I don't believe him.

When he says he's not going to run, I don't believe him.

Only Georgia voters are going to know that he broke the promise. And if you're running for it, but it's like, well, yeah, but like that.

Also, they all do this. Susan Collins said she'd run for what? Two terms.

Ron Johnson.

1910.

No, I guess I've come around to your side. I actually think that's probably correct. But it was a pretty blanket election.

It was. It was straight.

So he will have to explain it. It'll take some explaining. Let's take a look at B9 here. Asif going in on Mike Collins on neo-Nazi propaganda.

How weak a person do you have to be to be unable to stop someone under your own roof from disseminating neo-Nazi propaganda while you run for the Senate? The paper reported it's still going on to this day. How about this, Mike? We can shake hands on it. Will you commit tonight that for the remainder of this campaign, it's just three weeks, Mike, you won't allow any more neo-Nazi propaganda to be produced from your house? Can you make that commitment?

Unfortunately, I'm 30 seconds. 30 seconds, sir.

Yes, ma'am.

You know what? I'm a little tired of this, John. There's a crazy person in jail right now because of your rhetoric. And you threatened my son-in-law and threatened to kill me. Had another threat just yesterday. That's because of you and your rhetoric that you're out there spewing, just vitriol hate.

Well, what about you?

You have not denounced. You've not condemned. Give me Reid Hoffman, one of your largest donors out there, one that's been supporting you with over a million dollars. Why don't you denounce that? Why don't you return that money?

Thank you. 30-second rebuttal.

Mike, if any of these folks were based in my house, then I'd understand you to ask me to take responsibility for them. What I asked you, Mike, was can you commit for just three weeks to stop the production of neo-Nazi propaganda from your home? It's happening. We all know it's happening. Why can't you stop it? Why won't you commit right now to stopping it?

All right. 30 seconds. And this was the last.

What I'm going to ask you is why don't you denounce Reid Hoffman right now? Why don't you give that money back to Reid Hoffman? The Epstein Files class guy.

You can't stop the production of neo-Nazi propaganda from your own house.

You don't know people that give you $ 20 or $ 15 or $ 10. But you know the people that max out to you. You know the people pumping a million dollars into your supermax.

So you're going to allow neo-Nazi.

Propaganda to continue to.

Be produced from your home while you run for the U.S.

Senate.

Is that correct?

You're just going to let the neo-Nazi propaganda continue.

Is that right?

Make the commitment.

Three weeks, no neo-Nazi propaganda.

Can you do it?

We are going to have to move on, gentlemen. We are going to have to move on.

No more money.

Give the money back.

Thank you very much. I just want to pause on the strategy of the Ossoff campaign and perhaps Ossoff himself to narrow the question to Mike Collins to will you commit for the next three weeks? Because it's such a specific ask of Collins that sounds to a normal person like the easiest ask in the world. And they know he's going to continue pivoting every single time, like he has done consistently, to saying, you're putting my family in danger, rather than addressing Ossoff's question. It is actually a very brilliant campaign strategy.

Three weeks. We can't do three weeks of no neo-Nazi stuff from your basement.

But it forces the absurdity of the fact that he can't control the neo-Nazi stuff coming from his own house. And he can't answer the question. He won't answer the question.

And then later Ossoff said, he's like, Mike, who on your staff suggested that you bring up Epstein. He's like, everybody can go and check this. When it came to the House floor for a vote on releasing the evidence in the Epstein files, you voted against it. What are you thinking bringing up Epstein? Because otherwise, it's a good hit.

Reid is an Epstein class guy.

Yeah.

But if you voted to cover up the Epstein files, I don't think people want to hear it from you.

They sure don't. They sure don't. Well, should we move on to the new White House press secretary, right?

I think we should. Let's hurry.

Well, the new White House press secretary, Katie Zakaria, did her first briefing yesterday after about three days on the job. She was announced on Friday, and there's a lot of reporting coming out now. Basically, what everybody expected, nobody expected this. Everybody expected it would come out that nobody expected this.

It sounds a lot like Donald Trump saw Katie Zakaria on TV. She was intentionally blanketing the airwaves, and he thought, all right, let's go with her. Some reports said he actually bypassed Susie Wiles. I don't know how true those reports are, but she had a few days to get ready for a White House briefing, and it was like 9.30 a.m. Tuesday, and she was appointed on Friday. It did not go well. Ryan's original idea was for us to try and play the entire briefing. It was only an awkwardly short 14 minutes. and see who could go without laughing first. If you successfully outlasted... If I had outlasted Ryan, I would have been the winner. I think it would be impossible, and you will see why as we play some of these... We're about to play 1

14th of the briefing, so you're going to hear... Maybe even a little longer. Yeah, see how long you could go before breaking. Let's just see one. Good morning.

Good morning.

I am so honored to work for President Trump and the American people as the new White House Press Secretary. I want to thank President Trump for his trust that he has placed in me. I have wanted to work for him for a very long time. I'm looking forward to working with each of you as well, especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and excitement never seen before in the history of midterms, thanks to President Trump. Just look no further than last night in Youngstown, Ohio, where President Trump delivered another blockbuster rally out on the trail. The arena was overflowing with enthusiasm as thousands came out to support President Trump, as well as special guest Jake Paul and football legend John Gruden.

So that was about what the first Part of the briefing felt like it was just a lot of that, a lot of that, a lot of reading off the script, awkwardly making eye contact, almost like a pageant, right? You sort of know you have to read the lines and look up at the camera every certain interval of time. But brutal, absolutely brutal. But wait, there's more. This was maybe the worst moment. Let's roll the next clip.

The idea of not spending evenings with my kids is completely unacceptable. So my president, excuse me, my husband, that's a good one. My husband is out here. He's in our family and we are very, very protective of celebrating birthdays as a family. So he brought the entire crew out here. Bless him.

It's a lot.

And we will be moving out here.

Oh, no.

Oh, no. Oh, no. Not doing any favors to the stereotype of one of the sort of MAGA women who is overly prostrating themselves at the feet of Donald Trump by mixing up your husband and your president in your first briefing. That one hurts.

And so probably not going to commit this press secretary's name to memory, but she's a Fox person? Like, why is she in our lives right now?

Not even just a Fox person. She's someone who did, I think, Fox, CNN, Newsmax, kind of a combo. And there was one report that she was doing it intentionally, timed with the president's truth social schedule. when she thought he would be watching, she would accept hits.

She's doing like 4 and 5 a.m.? That's a good.

Point, actually, because he seems to be up at 4 or 5 a.m., but also 1 a.m., so it's hard to say. Maybe she's just always on. But yeah, she would do kind of a lot of those networks that she thought he would be paying attention to. One more. Here's her trying to wrap the briefing. So she read from the binder, basically, the president's accomplishments according to her, and then took three questions. She went to three reporters.

She did make news. She's like, yeah, we're firing Guilfoyle.

She sure did. We'll get to that in just a moment. She took questions from Breitbart. She took questions from Fox News, Peter Doocy, and Daily Mail. Even her effort or her attempt to go to the questions was weird because everybody was trying to ask her questions. She wanted to answer the questions, but she knew she had three people that she was supposed to go to. So it was weird.

Here's her trying to leave the briefing, C3.

To the question on— the president will be back on Thursday, and that's what I will answer.

I'll leave it there.

He will answer those questions out. Okay. All right. So then they did move out to the new helipad, and she got this question. Actually, the president got this question. She may have gotten herself into serious hot water with her answer here. Like, actually, very serious. And that's where this entire segment, we're going to put some meat on the bones of all the fun we're having here. Take a listen. President Trump is going to get asked about whether or not she's actually an attorney. It's kind of hard to hear, but here's the clip.

Where did you pass the bar exam at?

You said she's an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam?

Which date?

What did she tell us?

Where did you pass the bar exam?

This is a serious problem. What she said was when she moved to China.

Like what state did you pass the bar exam? Yeah, when she moved to China.

When she moved to China, which doesn't make a lot of sense because the Chinese bar, as you might expect, is very difficult and I believe not actually even open to foreigners.

And probably Chinese.

And so Judd Legum's been all over the questions about her record. And he said, there's zero chance Zakaria took the Chinese bar exam, the mixed element we put on the screen. She doesn't speak Chinese and only Chinese citizens can take it. She was not a Chinese citizen. She did, however, move to China when her husband worked in private equity there.

And she worked for a major law firm in China that, as anybody would expect, if you're a major law firm in China, has all kinds of connections with the CCP. And so that is now coming back with all of these questions for Zakaria. I'm reading from The Washington Post here that notes, the White House on Tuesday scrambled to answer questions about the legal credentials of President Donald Trump's new press secretary. who made a brief and halting debut in the briefing room and later said she had passed a bar exam in China, a country where non-citizens aren't allowed to take the bar exam or practice in courtrooms.

Trump called Zakaria an attorney in his Friday announcement. That's an official White House announcement, even though it's like untrue social, of her appointment. And her LinkedIn profile says she served as general counsel for Fix California, which is a nonprofit founded by Rick Grinnell. Asked Tuesday where she had been admitted to the bar, Zakaria said China, not a U.S.

state or the District of Columbia where one would need to have been admitted to practice law in the United States. So, again, she was given the title general counsel for Fix California, which I believe is a nonprofit. Yeah, the post says it's a nonprofit. So it's this conservative nonprofit to turn around California. And she was. apparently representing herself as general counsel. Typically, I've known general counsels at many nonprofits. Ryan, you probably have as well. That means you are doing legal work.

If you are not barred and you are representing yourself as somebody who is doing legal work, that is a problem. She, on chyrons, was represented as an attorney. I went and yesterday saw a Fox News chyron where she was represented as an attorney. So not only now are there now questions about the fact she worked for this major CCP-connected Chinese law firm, but there are also questions, and we could piece apart how substantive those attacks on anyone would be, but now there are questions about whether or not she, A, lied in front of the president and lied to the press by saying she passed a bar when she was in China, and she doesn't appear to have ever passed a bar, and second of all, whether she was misrepresenting

herself as a barred attorney without ever passing the bar exam.

Now, she could defend herself by saying that her answer about China was totally incoherent.

Or she didn't hear the question.

That there has to be some coherence for something to be a lie. But yes, in California, and actually I think everywhere in the country, if you hold yourself out as a general counsel, even if you don't practice law as the general counsel, just by holding yourself out as a general counsel, you have to be licensed somewhere.

Right.

So you can't disbar this lady since you're just not barred anywhere.

Right.

Good Lord.

It's a big problem for her because we're about to talk about Kimberly Guilfoyle. Trump is very sensitive about people making him look bad. And there she may have flat out lied. She heard that question. She said she passed the bar when she was in China. There's really no other way. I mean, you can try to say you couldn't hear the question well because you're outside at the helicopter.

But she pretty clearly was responding to that question. And that's why, what else would she have meant by when I was in China? So now it looks like she lied in front of the president, lied to the president, to the press, in addition to the bad performance. I just want to also add the leaks. This is a really bad sign for her. The leaks are already starting.

So I pulled some of the leaks from people that are close to the White House or are actually working in the White House. So CNN had a story where one person called it brutal. CNN characterized what it was hearing from sources as saying it was unusual, awkward, stilted, and at times uncomfortable. One Trump advisor said, quote, she should have been doing murder boards for two weeks before going up there. The best thing she did was break the news. We're going to get to in a second that Kimberly Guilfoyle was gone. A White House official said, why did they put her out there so quickly? Literally zero reason to put her out there on her second day.

I'm prepared. Another one said, no question. We're all missing Caroline. Another said, you either got it or don't. This is to Politico, and she don't got it. I think the press and the admin were on the same page today in terms of missing Caroline. Another one to MS Now said, getting behind the podium is tough, but she got off on the wrong foot. She needs to get much better fast, otherwise she'll break Scaramucci's record. This is a White House official.

Her first impression is leaving staff without confidence in her abilities. Not really what you want after your first press briefing, but also, again, a sign. The press secretary, at least from Caroline Levitt's example that she set for this White House, is in charge of the White House press operations. You have a communications director, Stephen Chung. But the press secretary does strategy. They're not just a spokesperson, typically. Put Chung up there. Put Chung up there. Hell yes. That's what we all want. At the end of the day, that's what everybody is gunning for. Nobody is going to be good until you use Stephen Chung. But actually, the fact that White House staff— is already leaking suggests, yes, they

have no confidence in her, but also that her ability to wield power and have some control over the white house press operation is already significantly damaged.

Sounds like she didn't even know there was an operation. This is what Trump deserves though, for passing over Scott Jennings. Just Scott has been prostrating himself before the president for years. And all he wants is to be press secretary. Uh, and he, he, dissed him.

Like so i think he saw i think what they did is they saw your debate with scott jennings on after party they were like no like he can't stand up to ryan grimm.

That crushed him uh so anyway um good luck to her i guess.

Good luck to her uh we will be eagerly awaiting the next briefing if there is one.

But yeah so she announced during the um press briefing that kimberly gilfoyle was being uh pushed out we can move on to this yeah uh this section that's.

Announced it in the most painfully awkward way. She got the question and gave like a one sentence response and then just smiled and nodded.

She's been asked to resign. So Guilfoyle, I put up C6 here, was the ambassador to Greece. This is her. You can pause that and read it if you want. This is a very long statement about how it was the honor of her lifetime to be the ambassador to Greece. So apparently, Emily, you correct me if I'm wrong here.

So she's dating Donald Trump Jr. We'll get into that in a second from Trump. That wasn't going well. The boy needed a way out. And Trump did his son a solid and named her to be ambassador to Greece, which... It's a good dad. That's a good dad. And then set his boy up with like a multi-billion dollar grift.

But meanwhile, who doesn't get cut in on that grift? Guilfoyle. So I have some sympathy for her.

Gets cut in on her own grift.

Her ex-boyfriend... You know, they're living high on the hog. Ex-boyfriend is stealing billions of dollars around the world. She's not living any higher on the hog just because they broke up. But those Amex bills keep coming. And so she reaches out to a donor as she's preparing to be nominated or preparing to be confirmed ambassador to Greece and tells the donor, hey, good news. I found a way that you can just sneak me money. It doesn't have to be a paper bag. Just pay off my pay off, throw a hundred K into my Amex bill. Um, put up C8. Uh, it looks like she also figured out that somebody could just throw, um, 250 K straight at her G series car loan.

Yeah.

Um, and so this is what we know about that's 350 K. This is daily mail.

Daily Mail reporting she solicited a $ 250, 000 car loan payment from several wealthy Greek businessmen.

I don't know.

Do wealthy Greek businessmen have $ 250, 000?

I don't think so. Maybe they got $ 25, 000? I don't know about $ 250, 000.

No offense to Greece. But OK, so Trump gets asked about that and gives a pretty funny response. Let's roll C7.

She was almost a member of your family. How surprised were you to learn about these allegations?

What did you think of them?

No, she wasn't a member of my family.

She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago, but she wasn't.

No, she went to Greece.

She was doing a good job, but we didn't like what we were reading.

We didn't like what we were reading. She dated my son a long time ago.

They broke up in 2024. Someone was circulating a Trump quote around the time he named her ambassador to Greece. just lavishing Kimberly Guilfoyle in praise because at the time they were clearly trying to smooth things over with Kimberly Guilfoyle. And he was saying, like, she's the best. We love her so much. She dated my son a long time ago.

She should have stayed with Gavin Newsom. She could be first lady.

That would be more likely at this point.

Were they married or were they just dating?

They were married. Yeah, they were married. He famously cheated on her.

This is former Mrs. Gavin Newsom.

Yeah.

No, he famously was unfaithful to Kimberly Guilfoyle. And so anyway, rough one.

If you can't trust Gavin Newsom to be faithful, who can you trust?

We can't trust anybody anymore. Yeah. So I just want to say the Tucker had a good rundown in his newsletter this morning of some of the reports. He says the Wall Street Journal reported last week that Guilfoyle flamboyantly used her position and connection to the president as vessels for personal enrichment, accepting gifts and services in exchange for access to the Trump administration. So that's an important part of this as well. In one instance, She allegedly begged a top Trump donor to pay her $ 100K Amex bill.

And the screenshots show her pleading, quote, honey, please, Sagar and Crystal. And we've all covered this at this point. People are familiar with it. She then, we now have a report, tried to claim those text messages were AI. She tried to tell the White House that those text messages were AI. That is according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. She really tried to say that it was AI. And hilariously, that announcement You just saw about her saying she was stepping down. Will Chamberlain asked Pangram if it was AI.

Of course.

Pangram responds, we believe that this entire text is AI.

Of course it was.

It's all AI.

She's never written that much.

It's AI all the way down.

Written all of that together.

AI all the way down.

Meanwhile, and I have actual sympathy for her because if she ends up being like the only person going to jail over any of this, it'd be so absurd.

100%.

They're all super corrupt. Bloomberg reported yesterday that the CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which investigates kind of insider trading in the commodities world, was probing the suspicious oil trades. So you'd have somebody who'd go in and buy the billions, buying the S & P and selling oil. And then 15 minutes later, Trump comes out with some announcement about the Iran war and they make an absolute fortune. Like you could pay off Gilfoyle's Amex for a century with the amount of money that they were making in five minutes.

So CFTC is probing this and they get told by somebody in the Trump administration. No need to look into that anymore. Don't worry about that. We're good on that one.

Yep. Well, news also that they're looking into the the. FTC is looking into FanDuel and DraftKings. And so we'll see if something similar happens there because I guarantee you they're now pouring all kinds of money. Well, they have been already.

They've got their best men on it working in shifts. We will see.

We will see. You know soccer is going to follow that one very closely. But you're right. The audacity of the Trump administration. If you're Kimberly Guilfoyle, the audacity of you people to make as much money as you have off of this administration than to throw me under the brass for trying to get in.

And also it's embarrassing. You're texting people to ask... to pay off your Amex bill. Trump wouldn't do that. At least you can't set up a crypto company.

Just do it through crypto. Have some dignity, man. Please.

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