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seems disconnected from reality during a group photo, delivers rambling comments that left other diplomats scratching their heads, and we will also look at the growing crack In the administration's Iran messaging, even Trump-friendly voices have started asking good, obvious questions.

And JD Vance can't seem to answer them in anything approximating a coherent way. Later Trump's latest vanity project, the reflecting pool, is turning literally green, an algae-ridden mess. And JD Vance pounded on live TV by a group of middle-aged women. And it doesn't go well for JD Vance. All of that and much more today.

So I'll tell you what we know and we'll go from there. We have a letter that outlines a period of 60 days to negotiate a deal. We don't have a deal. Even when the letter is signed Friday, which I hope it will be in Switzerland. That is signing that we are starting 60 days of negotiation. They wouldn't be signing the deal. They'd be saying we are signing that we'll take two months to hopefully get a deal.

From what is in the letter, the expectation is that this deal will have fewer restrictions on what Iran can do than the Obama nuclear deal. What happens, for example, to Iran's nuclear stockpile per the MOU? It has to be adequately addressed. That sounds very weak. That is not strong language. What does the letter say about the nuclear material that Iran has? They might get to keep it. Enough to make multiple weapons, by the way.

And Donald Trump already seems to be surrendering on that yesterday when he was asked, How will you get that enriched uranium back from Iran? Trump kind of said, Ah, I don't even know that we really even need to get it back. What that means is Trump isn't going to be able to get it back. The whole point of this optional war, supposedly, we've been given a lot of different explanations, but supposedly one of the main reasons to do this war in the first place.

was to prevent Iran from ever, ever, ever getting a nuclear weapon. And in fact, for the last 48 hours, MAGA has been going around touting, we won because Iran will never, ever, ever get a nuclear weapon. Well, you know what? That's what the Obama deal did, which Trump canceled.

And it's not at all clear that that's what this d deal is going to accomplish, uh aside from all of the other supposed goals of this optional war, none of which have been accomplished. Now the letter also says that the United States would end all sanctions on Iran and it would release billions of dollars in frozen funds back to Iran. That would be more funds than Obama's deal released. And remember that when Obama's deal released funds back to the Iranians, frozen sanctioned money.

Iranian money that was being held, it was considered borderline treason. They wanted Obama investigated, removed from office, whatever. And now MAGA and Trump seem to have no problem doing the exact same thing. Now, above and beyond the release of billions in frozen funds. Iran has the possibility of getting access to$300 billion for quote rehabilitation and economic development, and they would be allowed to resume oil existence. That is a lot of stuff for Iran, very little for the United.

Coming at the cost of months of war. Now, contrast this with the Obama deal. It limited Iran's stockpile to 300 kilograms of low enriched uranium, period. It restricted Iran's development of new technology. it dismantled some Iranian facilities. It gave the IAEA, the agency that oversees and uh inspects nuclear.

It gave the IAEA authority to call inspections at a moment's notice. They're called SNAP inspections. Remember when Trump was asked, when J.D. Vance was asked, well, what about inspections? Vance goes, Well, you know, that's something we'll have to negotiate, I guess. Trump was asked about it. Oh, it's unclear, you know, maybe, maybe not. This is a weak deal. Now Trump has tried to hang his hat on. The letter says Iran agrees. It will never produce nuclear weapons. Two important elements

First of all, that being in the letter does not mean it will be in the deal. There might be something in the letter which is not in the Importantly, the letter hasn't been signed. And secondly, even if that is in the letter when it is signed, that is something Iran has said before.

and still tried to produce nuclear weapons. So it's not really worth that much. It's sort of like when Trump went to North Korea and Kim Jong-un said, oh, we're gonna do A, B, C, D, maybe, and Trump came back and goes, look at the concessions I got. And then we all knew those are the things that North Korean leaders have been saying to Americans for literally for generations.

That doesn't mean that they're actually going to do them. So that's our understanding. It is about a page and a half. The letter leaked. That's our understanding of what's in the letter. Was any of this worth four months of war? Was any of this worth Trump? uh getting out of the Iraq the Obama-Iran nuclear deal in twenty eighteen, which at that point had been in force for roughly three years dating back to twenty fifteen, which precipitated the twenty twenty-five bombing and ultimately this war.

I I would say it is so obviously not worth it. It has not been worth it. It has not panned out. The the billions in cost, depleting our own weapons, conflict with allies. shaking up the economy and energy and raising prices for Americans on gas and oil and so many other things. And by the way, the human cost of people who have died.

for a weaker, more shriveled deal than what Obama had to begin with? It's funny that it's funny and tragic, that Trump has been saying this deal will be the opposite of Obama's. In reality, it's the same type of deal, it's just weaker. It's a lot of the similar types of things, but more pathetic. Uh uh, not lacking teeth. It's it's humiliating and I think it's important to remind you.

of the standard that Donald Trump originally put in place here, which is we need unconditional surrender from Iran. This is obviously not unconditional surrender. It's cl if anybody here has surrendered, it's the United States under Donald Trump. And if a democratic president did this and then was willing to get out of it with what is in the MOU, in the memo of understanding the letter as it's being known.

Every single right-wing media outlet and Magapotamium would be going, they sold out. This is treason. This is pathetic. Now, one other little note. The 60 day negotiation period over enriched uranium. That is going to put us, imagine that they signed the letter Friday, which is June 19th. 60 days puts us roughly at August 19th. That's within days of early voting starting. Iran knows. that at that point, if Trump doesn't like what's in the eventual deal.

And he resumes the bombing. That's it for Republicans in the midterms. Iran knows Trump knows. And Trump, of course, knows that. I don't think these threats from Trump that we're gonna look at later where Trump goes, if they don't do what we say, then we go right back to bombing. You're gonna go right back to bombing on August nineteenth.

and destroy your p guarantee the destruction of your party in the midterms. By all means, do it, but I don't think that he's going to. And that also gives Iran more leverage, which is they know Trump must get. Because politically, he and the Republican Party simply can't go back to war at the end of August, going into September, potentially into October or even November. That would be political suicide. They know that, and that gives them leverage. As usual, Trump ends up being the weakest.

Scary moments at the G seven in France. As President Donald Trump wandered off, had to be helped back, was disoriented, and looked completely and totally lost. When they argued that this was what was happening to Biden. They demanded the immediate removal of the President of the United States. Trump doesn't know what is going on.

Here is a group picture being taken, and for reasons unknown, Trump wanders off in the opposite direction of every other leader and has to be brought back. Grandpa had to be turned around.

Even though then we got a better camera angle and Trump uh Biden was waving to people. They said that's enough to remove Biden from the presidency right now. Another moment where Donald Trump seemed, quite frankly, just to need help. Like I'm almost feeling bad for the guy. He uses um Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

For physical support, as he has to get up one step at the G7 summit. Remember that we now are are aware that most events are being designed around Trump not standing much, and Trump needed help to climb a single. Look at this and oh help me there and up he goes. Embarrassing based on the standards that Trump established for presidents. Aging is no crime. But weaponizing these issues when you are the one affected by

is something we have to call out. Then Trump embarrassing the United States as usual, arriving late to a meeting, everybody's sitting, everybody's waiting. I know the Magas will go, what a power move. Trump making everybody wait. It's just kind of pathetic that this is where we are. And Trump shows up with everybody already seated and goes, I'm the boss. And you see sort of nervous cringe chuckling.

It's amazing that Trump is even awake and upright, that he's even able to walk is amazing. Really? That wasn't the standard for Joe Biden. Every stumble for Biden was a national crisis that required his immediate removal. And every stumble for Trump is a joke, is a meme, it's a power. The greatest political skill uh that Trump has. And I don't think Trump is that skilled politically, but he has a couple things that he is able to do. Uh the greatest skill is convincing his supporters.

Not to trust the things their own senses interpret. What do I mean by that? We can hear Trump's strained voice, limited and and diminished vocabulary, and inability to communicate coherently and assess. We can see Trump's physical problems and his disorientation and confusion. And then we make assessments on that basis. But Trump has convinced millions, tens of millions of his followers to ignore what their eyes and ears are telling.

And simply to listen to the stories that people tell about Trump. Stephen Chung going, this is the most vital person. He is just so strong and energetic. Ignore everything you're seeing and hearing, but just listen to Stephen Chung.

Or listen to Pete Hagseth, or listen to Stephen Miller or whoever it is. And if Biden had done these exact same things, Republicans would have already drafted impeachment articles. They'd be demanding the 25th Amendment. And it just goes and goes. And all of this is before the talking started. So let's get to that. His brain shut off. is what the headlines are saying about Donald Trump at the G7, oblivious to what is happening around him, disconnected from his surroundings.

This is a shocking bit of video where now there's a group photo being taken indoors at the table where this meeting is taken. And Donald Trump is completely oblivious to what's happening around him. The French president you will see sort of directing traffic and speaking to the photographer and getting organized. And Trump is s hunched over. looking in the completely wrong direction and seems to have no idea what is taking place in the room. Take a look at this.

They want the president to turn and look for a picture, and he is saying to them, No, I'm gonna ignore you. There is zero evidence that that is what's Z just there is no not a single shred of evidence that it is a power move. Trump seems lost. Trump then stroking out on geography with an explanation of Middle East. that do not comport with reality. And you see Secretary of State Marco Rubio sitting there going, Oh

And I'm gonna go back a few seconds because this moment where the emir goes, What the hell is he talking about? and looks around the room is an in it's a representation of this entire presentation.

And obviously, also with just what's going on around him. They're taking a picture, he has no idea. They're walking off the stage this way. Trump wanders off in the wrong direction. That G7 photo op moment. is a metaphor for this presidency. Everyone else knows the assignment. Trump is a step behind. He's confused and he's disoriented. And the Qatar Iran, you know, you can walk across the border comment.

It's sort of revealing because of course nobody corrects him in real time. That's I mean, try that that that wouldn't really work very well. Everyone has learned to work around Trump's ignorance. You just you just work around it. The standard defenses are people are nitpicking, this doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you can't walk from Qatar to Iran. It's the big picture of it Trump understands. But you kind of need to understand the details to understand the big picture.

And Trump gets every single detail wrong. So humiliatingly awkward moments yesterday at the G7. We're gonna close our G7 coverage after the break. with some insane statements about Barack Obama. And it th there's a funny, funny, sad, ironic, I don't know. Barack Obama is playing a much larger role in Trump's behavior today than might be obvious to the Cowboys.

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There were high-level meetings at the G7 in France, and they involved, unfortunately and fortunately, fortunately because the United States is part of the G7, we want to be there. Unfortunately, because Trump was the person representing the they devolved into demented nuts. Trump erupting, rambling, confused, unwell, stroking out, according to some, and stunning everybody in the room.

Just to set it up, Trump again showing up looking worse than ever. Here he is sitting, attempting to sit down and struggling to sit down.

The topic of the Iran deal was a major topic during this media uh discussion. And Trump goes, it's a great deal. No one knows what's in it, but it's a great deal.

People are right to be looking around going, wait a second. We got out of the twenty fifteen Iran nuclear deal under Obama uh in twenty eighteen because Trump didn't like it. And then as a result of that, Trump bombed Iran in June of twenty twenty five. And then after that, Trump went into a multi month war with Iraq. And all we're getting, all we're getting is

A weaker version of the very deal we started with. That doesn't sound so good. So Trump goes, Nobody knows what's really in it. Donald Trump, in a weird Freudian slip, He wants to say Democrats caused high price. But instead he says Democrats caused affordability. Kind of an interesting Freudian slip, I must admit.

I'll take that, would love that to be the case. Donald Trump speaking about the president of Egypt and they fell in love. Remember when Trump fell in love with Kim Jong-un? We wrote each other love letters. Well, the he is deeply in love, I guess, with the Egyptian.

of talking about relationships with other leaders, particularly ones where we go, okay, is this d do we really have shared interests here in all cases? All right. Um back to the Iran deal. And it's like ping pong. It's like a paint by numbers where you're using the wrong colors. I guess is the is the way that I would call it. Trump on the deal with Iran. He goes, it's not final. Well, we know that. You haven't even signed a letter to start negotiating.

And obviously if you go back on out August nineteenth, you don't go back for a day. We're probably talking weeks, if not months minimum, which puts us into a war at the time of an election. Now there's a very interesting dynamic that I think is worth talking about. There is this conventional wisdom of twenty years ago from the George W. Bush neocon era. which is war is good for the incumbent.

Because people don't want to change horses midstream. If he is in the middle of a war, then you let him finish the war. And this was to a degree considered part of why George W. Bush very narrowly defeated John Kerry in two thousand. I think that that logic goes completely out the window at this point in time because this war is number one, so unpopular. Number two, the American people by and large don't buy that this was necessary.

Number three, Trump ran on, I'm not going to do this, and he did. And number four, the economic impact is tangible and emotionally salient for the average American. So I think that in this case, the whole idea of rally around the president if we're at war, let's not change horses midstream. Number one, Trump's not actually on the ballot in November. It's about the Republican Party. And number two, I think there will be voters seeking to

punish the Republican Party, not reward it for this war. So I think assuming that the war will bring people together and reinforce keeping the people in power in power, I don't think that that's gonna work. Finally, what is all of this really about This is all about Donald Trump's unending envy. Barack Hussein Obama, you ever heard of him? Obama. Trump is so jealous that Obama is smarter. Uh Obama.

Taller, Obama is more well liked. Obama is res was respected and is still respected by global leaders in a way Trump never has been and never will be. And so here is what Trump chooses to say, which actually says a lot about how Trump is thinking of this whole

is to consider and use Trump's mental deficiencies and what they describe as mental illness against On the other hand, maybe they thought Obama was a stupid son of a bitch. I don't know. But they stayed in the deal and they were complying with the deal until Donald Trump said, I think I'm gonna cancel this deal. That's the truth. And Trump is deeply unwell and jealous.

And what is taking place with Iran so bad for the average American and for the American people. This is an anti-American decision to go to war. That even Megan Kelly now has started saying, What on earth are we doing? And she points out. The Strait of Hormuz has to be open. It was open before Trump did any of this, and JD doesn't really have a good answer.

Why can't we just see the the damn letter at this point? If the letter is so good, show us the letter. Now, within minutes of this uh being recorded, the letter leaked. We already talked about it at the top of the show, but at the time it hadn't And Megan's going, show us the letter, especially if it's good.

This is Megan Kelly is horrible and deranged, but the Iran fiasco is so blatantly bad, even by the standards that Trump laid out during his campaign, and the standards that people like Megan Kelly adopted of Donald. It's so bad that even Megan Kelly realizes it and is asking skeptical questions. That's the interpretation. Not wow, Megan Kelly, so great. It's even Megan Kelly is in a situation. And there's audience capture where she has people in her audience who are going, wait a second.

the anti-war guy and prices would come down, and he ended up being the new war guy and prices went up. So let's not praise Megan Kelly too much, but sh it's so bad even she realized Um she then points out, by the way, the Constitution does say you need approval to decide.

No regime change, no elimination of their ballistic missiles capabilities, no guarantee that they will never have a nuclear weapon, none of it. No, we did a little more. The White House wants credit. for the military strike and they want credit for the peace deal. even though these narratives don't really fit together because the whole thing was optional and nothing was gained.

They want everybody to celebrate a deal that as of this recording of that interview that we played hadn't even been released. And it wasn't even a deal. It was a letter to start negotiating. And then they go, it wasn't technically a war in order to bypass Congress, but also we won the war. So I don't think Meghan Kelly's the real story here. It's the contradictions are now so obvious that even Trump-friendly voices are noticed.

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A critical gubernatorial race is in the state of Ohio. And today we're speaking with Dr. Amy Acton, former director of the Ohio Department of Health and Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio. Uh great uh uh to speak to you. Really appreciate your time today.

Because governors are really administrators on a day-to-day level for the residents of their state. That includes citizens, but also people who are non-citizens living in the state. These races, I believe, are of critical importance this year. Talk to us about how Ohio has kind of shifted. More red recently. I mean, there was a period where it was really like this is a purple state now. It's a state that can go either way.

It's considered a lean Republican state now, according to most analyses. What do you think has happened in the state over the last couple?

And so, you know, in Ohio, like where I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, you know, we went Obama twice and then we went Trump. And what we're seeing now is that Ohioans life isn't getting better. Um, they're feeling the effects of all these terrible policies and they're ready for change.

Yes. Unfortunately, that does confer a significant significant amount of amount of influence in American politics. How do you deal with that as a candidate up against that sort of spending?

I've actually worked with five different governors. Um, it has not known party, because I'll work with anyone who actually wants to solve problems instead of make problems and solve the problems affecting everyday lives of everyday Ohioans. And and what we actually when we entered this race, you know, I I was well known to Ohioans. Um I had a constituency that absolutely doesn't know party.

And we have been on the ground for two and a half years, going everywhere in this state, going places quite frankly, Dems haven't been in a while. And we listened deeply. And and we are fighting in this race. Uh, to make Ohio affordable again. That's what I'm hearing about. People are working harder than they ever have. I've been traveling this state.

in my old Jeep while my opponent has been traveling this state when he's in state in his sort of Air Force One type jet, um, from play you know, Columbus, Ohio to Akron, you know, which is a very easy car drive away. And that is sort of uh has become somewhat of a meme that epitomizes so much of this. Uh my opponent is a self-funding billionaire.

um who wants to buy this state. Make no mistake. We've been very blessed. We've had set records every single quarter in fundraising. We've been either neck and neck or head in every single pool. We are in double digits ahead with independence. We're getting tons of Republicans and now Republican institutions crossing over. And we actually outreached a self-funding billionaire the last two reporting cycles.

And what's fascinating is that we did it, we collapsed the Secretary of State website. It can't take the number of individual donors and the average gift we just learned this morning. Twenty-three dollars. Ninety five percent of our gifts outraising him. We're under$100. So this is a movement of the people. Everyday Ohioans are going to tell Mr. Ramaswamy in no uncertain terms that you cannot buy our state. You can't buy Ohio and you can't buy us.

And I did my residency training when Bob Taft was governor, Republican governor, learned leadership, learned how to work all the levers. Ohio and saw me once again do that when we went through one of the most unprecedented crises where I had to run all of government. But the unheard thing and the part of being a public servant, which I would asterisk, you know, there's being a politician, and quite frankly, I'm learning.

and knowing quite a bit about that, I've been blessed to be trained by a group that's helped every woman governor since Ann Richards. Um but but what I am as a public servant who who knows how to make life better for Ohio and using those levers. And a governor above all things, and we sometimes forget that, it's not just knowing how to run, you know, fifty-four thousand employees and endless boards and commissions.

A governor, above all, has an opportunity to be a catalyzer and a convener because the wicked hard problems we face, the ones I've been working on my whole life. housing, childcare, you know, trying to figure out what to do about our economy, which used to be one of the best in the state and and now is struggling forty-fifth in growth in GDP.

you know, unemployment there and our biggest export being young people. The way you solve wicked hard things like I did in COVID, is you put the hard cards on the table. And I'm trained to do that. We became very well known for that all over the country. Then you get the right people around the table. And often it's not just government alone. It's how you're gonna work with the business sector. It's how you're gonna work with

academia and universities and with unions, you know, I happen to be sitting today, just received a big building trades endorsement that meant the world to me. Someone who grew up in a town that was all about unions. It's about sitting with nonprofits. It's about sitting with everyone to solve the wicked hard problems. That's what I've done my whole life. And that's what I'll do as governor.

Um and what we did in Ohio is, you know, we took swift and decisive action on a pandemic playbook George W. Bush made, recognizing after nine eleven it was the gravest security risk above all things. to this country. Um and we saved a lot of lives. In Ohio and we actually reopened earlier and got back to life sooner because of doing that. You know, we had the supply chain completely collapse before single order was ever written. And we knew that bad actors would take advantage of it.

So I'm proud of the work Ohioans did. We're always learning. I'm a big proponent that we always learn from everything we did, but I can't say enough. Um Ohio was a leader and and and was able to get back to life sooner. But I also had to stand up to someone during that, you know. Ultimately I wouldn't sign orders. That was coming from a speaker of the house we had at the time. Very special interests. I keep saying to people it's no longer

you know, about Republican or Democrat. It is now about extreme wealth, power, ideology, playbooks shoved the state houses where no one can name who works there. And that is a big change from the state houses I worked in my entire career. What has taken hold in these corrupt, gerrymandered states with these playbooks. And this gentleman wanted orders that frankly would have killed people. I wouldn't sign those orders.

I told the governor I'd keep advising him, which I have, and we still talk, we still work together, but I did not sign those orders. Uh two weeks later he was arrested in the largest scandal in Ohio's history, sixty million in bribes. He's now in federal prison, energy company scandal. Biggest scandal in this country's history, and uh sadly Ohio is now the complete lineup of HBO Max with docuseries on our corruption.

That's another thing. We are fighting to make life affordable and we're fighting to end the corruption. I'm running with David Pepper. My my running mate, we pick our LG in Ohio, wrote a book called Laboratories of Autocracy. Explaining what's been happening in our state houses and how they're being used in this way. And what Ohioans want, quite frankly, they don't even care what party you are anymore. They want you to be a public servant who solves problems.

of our everyday lives. They want you to take this vitrail and hate and chaos down to help us all row together. And they want a good quality of life. And they want you to end that corruption. And and uh David Pepper, who wrote a book on it, is the dwarf's enemy of corruption. Um, I believe we can do this in our state. We're so blessed. We Sherrod Brown is running for Senate again. He is very helpful.

I am now considered flip opportunity in the country for governors races. You will probably be seeing we've seen some of those rating systems go to toss-up, and I think you'll be seeing that soon after the Cook report. And some of this data and fundraising we just outraised him again. And I think um

You know, we now actually the state's project is investing heavily. We need six more house seats and we're gonna break. I think we're gonna have many more in this cycle. We're breaking the supermajority in my state. We're gonna get veto power back. And then in twenty seven we're ending gerrymandering in Ohio once and for all in a bipartisan way.

That'll give us good public servants again, whose job it is to answer to us and get to work on solving things for Ohio and I absolutely know we're capable of this and I'm honored to be in this fight.

He's on record where his mother did the face three trials in Bermuda and dropped that drug and and left everyone hanging. That's how he began his fortune. This is a man who moved his business to Texas. before running for governor of Ohio. This is a man who has said that Medicaid and Medicare are mistakes. He wants to completely dismantle them. And he got kicked out of doge, something he created, saying that people are lazy and mediocre and not working hard enough.

What we want in taxes and tax policy is fair tax policy that is taxes that go to things that make life better for Ohioans, that help with housing and education and jobs. And childcare, things that my corrupt statehouse won't work on at all. The 95% of things I'm hearing about from Ohioans that they want done. That my opponent took$20 million from a guy in Philadelphia into his pack called Victors Not Victims because he wants to end public schools as we know it when Ohio literally was founded.

by saying we're gonna invest in public schools, unlike the East Coast in Europe. Everyone in the Northwest ordinance, they chopped up the blocks of land and everyone would have access to education. It made us a great state, eight presidents, industrial revolution later, rock stars and astronauts later, but we're going backwards on every single measure because he and his running mate who architected this gave tax breaks to people at a billion plus.

Instead of tax breaks for the rest, we are putting forward tax breaks for everyday working Ohioans. We're doing a child tax credit. We're increasing the earned income tax credit on top of the federal tax credit instead of giving breaks. You know, we have a governor, a public governor, that said if you eliminate the income tax, which is already low in Ohio, 2.5 flat.

You don't need to do that. That's not what's keeping businesses from coming here. It's not having housing and childcare and great jobs. It's creating an environment with strange culture wars by a supermajority that is corrupt. that literally have an entire generation saying a meme right now over the entire country that that is so Ohio, which means that we're weird and cringy and backward.

Which is a travesty. A travesty. That's not gonna attract business to the state. And what he wants to do, he came in the door saying he wants to eliminate all property tax. Our property taxes are going up in Ohio because of failed policies by this supermajority that's had the state house, by the way, the corruption and fraud also under their watch that they're saying.

And and and that eliminating that would basically end our our state budget. It's a reckless claim to say that when that is our schools and our our police. That they're defunding, that is the the the mental health and disability services that we rely on and so much more in our communities. They went up because they won't fully fund our local funds in a state that has home rules. Instead, they gave tax breaks to people at a million plus and argued about a six hundred million dollar break.

for a very wealthy individual building a football stadium. That's what we got in Ohio. So our values are taking care of fair tax policy for the rest of us.

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I hate to tell you this because it's more of your tax money and my tax money flush down the toilet, but the whole reflecting pool thing. has become a real, real fiasco in Washington, D.C. I'll remind you that Donald Trump decided that on an emergency basis, we must drain the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. and repaint or add a liner to the bottom that will be American flag blue.

Part of what Trump didn't like was that the water was green, it was filled with algae, and it didn't look good. It's unbecoming of the United States. Well, after it all took place, after a$1.5 million project turned into$14 million and it was done and it was beautiful, over the weekend people noticed, damn, it's looking green again. The algae is back.

So they were telling us, no, that's just residual algae from the pipes and it's going to be gone, and we're treating it. And we have a picture from yesterday morning. It is greener than the Boston Celtic. Parquet floor edges at the TD Bank North Garden. I don't know. It's it's greener than a leprechaun. Um, it is green.

And it is happening again. And video was captured of workers dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool. There's a couple really funny things about this. One is this guy's got some gallon bottles. Look at the size of the reflecting pool. There was some math done about like you would need thousands of leaders to kill Uh the algae that is that is in this thing. It it's d y they can't do anything right and they're just dumping in little gallon gallon bottles of this stuff.

Um so CNN actually went and collected uh some of the water to have it tested. And it's like it's all just totally embarrassing and humanoid. Look at this.

But then the thing just it looks like crap. It's it's all green. It's greener than it ever has been. So the algae is a funny story. It's not really the story. The story is spending millions and ending up where you start. We spent billions in Iran and we're ending up worse than where we started. We've spent 14, 15 million on the reflecting pool, and it's ending up in exactly the place place where it started. And seeing people dump in chemicals.

Is like a metaphor for this administration. They do like, what can we visibly do? Let's get guys there with gallon bottles and dump them in. rather than let's be thoughtful. Let's meet and do due diligence and go through the correct processes for these things. And the more that they publicly try to fix this thing, it becomes more and more obvious that the original fix failed. Now I wouldn't be surprised if they end up having to dump in millions more.

In order to try to really deal with this algae issue, um, because it's not residual algae or phosphate or whatever, I wouldn't be surprised if that happens and it just ends up coming out of our pockets again, because this is all taxpayer money that's going. Think back, close your eyes first. Think if a democratic mayor

spent fifteen million dollars on this in a city and it failed in days. Right wingers would be going, This is the scourge of Democrat cities and left wing mayors screwing up and wasting money and it's embarrassing and they should be fired The project was supposed to be like a symbol of how competent we are. Very quickly, I'm so good at pools. I've built many pools. I've built buildings. This is my area of expertise, is what Donald Trump said.

And it's become another one of these symbols of wasting taxpayer money, over promising, under delivering, and ending up much like with Iran after spending a ton of money. where we were or in an even worse. Now, bigger picture. Did anyone really care about the state of the reflecting pool? Now I I let me make that comment a little clearer. Of course. I think one of the great things to be proud about about a country.

is look at our cities. Look at these great cities, public transit and housing, restaurants, cultural institutions, all this different stuff. Great. I love it. Was the reflecting pool specifically, the algae, the color? Was this really something that people were using to evaluate the state of Washington, D.C. or the state of infrastructure or whatever? It was they used an emergency process to do.

And it was barely on the radar of anybody. So another pathetic failure for the Trump administration. This is Trump's area of expertise. Foreign policy he's not so good at, building pools and structures and rebar and all of the stuff he's an expert in. And it is another pathetic failure. JD Vance is on book tour. We already looked at his appearance with Megan Kelly. Didn't go particularly well. He spent the entire day yesterday during appearance doing appearances trying to sell books.

And very few of these appearances went well. JD Vance appeared on the view. They were ready for him. And JD tried to do the old dance song and dance around the Epstein Files and around Iran and around all these different things. And it just doesn't work. Take a look at this. The ladies were ready for'em, that's for sure.

You know, one of the things you see in the Epstein emails is that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump and that Donald Trump literally reported Jeffrey Epstein to the police. That's one of the things that came out of these.

And Anna, you know the Republican Party probably better than I do. The idea that Donald Trump runs around afraid of Republican congressmen as opposed to the other way around is kinda crazy.

Hey, let's get this stuff out there and let's simply get beyond it. And Susie Wiles said Trump doesn't want it out, and that was the end of the conversation. JD now goes, Trump wanted to have it all out. No, he didn't. Vance wanted it out, and he may have had his own reasons for wanting it out. Another uh conversation from the view here the topic is inflation.

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