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Hi, everybody!

Welcome to The Daily Show.

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Man, we've got a show for tonight.

I know I said we had a great show for you tonight.

Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is going to be here tonight and like all

people with a nuanced understanding of the complex geopolitics of the Middle East, he's

not working in government anymore.

He has a podcast.

He's in the manuscript.

But before we get all that, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you had a pleasant weekend and got some rest.

Because the dizzying chaotic carnival ride that is Donald Trump's America continues to

careen down Shit Show Hill.

It's f***ing madness out there.

TSA lines longer than your actual trip.

Escalating threats in the Middle East.

Plains driving into trucks.

The only thing giving me joy is looking forward to this season of the Bachelorette.

I mean, they've got a strong Mormon woman.

She seems lovely.

I hope that she finds...

Hold on a second, I'm getting a call.

No!

But luckily, in everything that is going wrong in our country, our intrepid leader is utterly unbothered.

The world disintegrates around him largely due to his actions.

Yet he still managed to spend the weekend golfing a couple of times and partying at Mar-a-Lago.

I didn't know there was going to be a dinner.

I am supposed to meet Russia's Union of the War.

You know, I really think that the less fun we're all having, the better he seems to be doing.

Does he run on our misery?

Does that make him stronger?

Now to be fair, that was the weekend.

Obviously today is Monday, the only day of the work week.

It's time to focus and get down to the sobering business of wrapping up this war.

President Trump now arriving at Greece land for a bit of a detour on his stop.

Elvis had two eighths agreed, black belts and karate, and one was in Kentville, and that's what this was.

Was he really good, or was it just...

Actually, he was really good. He started practicing.

Could I have taken him in a fight?

Which Elvis are we talking about?

1950s Elvis? No.

1970s Elvis? Still no.

It's unbelievable how disconnected Donald Trump is from the chaos that he himself is causing the American people.

But I'm glad you could have a nice time golfing and visiting Greece land, while we're all freaking the f*** out.

President Trump issues a deadline to open the straight of war moves by Monday night, or he says he'll quote,

obliterate Iranian power plants.

Iran isn't blinking.

Saying if power plants are attacked, Iran will target the power plants of regional countries.

This escalates every day with no end in sight.

The countdown takes towards Monday night.

Oh, Monday, we've got plenty of time to wait!

If I'm here, that must mean...

But lo and behold, today Trump removed the sort of Donald's clease that he himself had hung over our heads.

The president, just posting moment ago, he has now decided to quote,

postpone any and all military strikes on Iranian power plants.

The president claiming the U.S. has been negotiating with Iran over the weekend, calling them in-depth, detailed,

and constructive conversations.

Oh, well, I guess we're all going to have a little less action and a little more conversation.

That's right.

Boys!

Two, three, four!

A little less conversation.

That's all we get due to budget constraints, unfortunately.

But you know what?

Take a step back.

You know, it's a good news story.

It's a sigh of relief for everybody.

It's progress.

And we've got to celebrate the wins, you know, in this way.

It's like our friend Punch.

You remember our friend Punch?

Yeah, I agree.

We brought Punch up previously.

Well, good news.

Does Punch the Monkey have a girlfriend?

Well, friend, Punch has been spotted canoodling with a female monkey.

There they are, hugging and kissing and affectionately playing with each other.

Fantastic.

It's really nice, although, um,

Hey, listen, girl, straight talk.

I know what you're thinking, but girl, you can't fix him.

I'm just...

Punch, seriously, if you're watching, I am happy for you, but little advice.

Pre-nope!

You're a famous guy now and you don't want to end up splitting your fortune in half.

I guess that's not quite half.

But back to escalating till, God, do I really have to...

But back to Iran.

Escalating tensions in the Middle East.

I must applaud the president for stepping back from the cliff of escalation

and engaging Iran in productive talks.

Iran has responded at state media saying there are no talks.

Well, now we're in the uncomfortable position of who to believe.

Normally, in this situation, I think we'd all be inclined to, in some measure,

not trust the pronouncements coming from this theocratic and corrupt regime.

Iran.

Talking about Iran.

The clarity.

Iran, we're inclined not to trust Iran.

So, let's give our president the benefit of the doubt and just probe a little deeper.

Sir, you say we're having talks with Iran.

Who did you talk to?

A top person.

A top person.

Or the.

Top person.

The article really makes a huge difference here.

Like, the guy.

Or some f***ing guy.

You know, it's a little tough.

We wiped out everybody.

So, a lower level guy.

Who's been elevated to a higher echelon.

A bottom who is now a top.

Versatile.

But not.

Not.

Stop it.

Or I will rip your stuffed monkey.

F***ing half.

So, you're talking to a guy, but not the top guy.

Not the supreme leader.

No, not the supreme leader, but the people that seem to be running it.

Again.

Running it.

Or seem to be running it.

It's a big difference.

Hey, where's our car?

Oh, I gave it to the guy who seems to be the valet.

Yeah, jacket standing by the curb seemed like a top guy.

And he did take the car.

What made you think he was the top guy when you had the talks with him?

Mr. Wakeoff and Mr. Kushner had them.

So, you didn't even talk to them.

Your guys, who quite frankly don't seem like top guys,

talk to their seemingly somewhat top guy.

Are Jared and Steve sure this is even a real person that they're talking to?

At a curiosity, did the top Iranian guy ever ask for their social security numbers?

Or target gift cards?

Is there top guy's name by any chance?

Ali Baba Bui?

Because it's sounding like bullshit.

Maybe if you walk us through the details, it'll feel more real.

You said there's many points of agreement with Iran right now.

What can you give us of those?

Many, like 15 points.

15 points.

Like 15?

Or 15?

God damn it!

Why do we f***ing have to do this?

What are we doing?

Well, well.

Looks like the creatine is working.

I only eat meats and ferments.

Seriously, like 15 or 15?

Just f***ing.

Just keep going.

What's the first point?

Well, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.

That's number one.

That's number one, two and three.

It's...

I want to believe this is real.

But there's no way that your 15 point agreement, one, two and three,

or no...

First of all, that makes it a 13 point agreement.

Just write off the bat.

And there's no way you went to a run over like,

all right, first point, no nuclear weapons.

And point number two, same.

Point number three, C, point number two.

That's what we're supposed to believe.

They will never have a nuclear weapon.

They've agreed to that.

Look.

Donald Trump is without a doubt

one of the most prodigious liars this country has ever produced.

He's our supreme misleader.

But the chaos, this very actual war is creating,

is making this question even his reality distorting powers.

Let's step back into the way back machine.

All the way back, I don't know, June.

When Israel and the United States first bombed Iran's nuclear program.

We wiped out the nuclear capability of Iran obliterated it.

It was obliterated like nobody's ever seen before.

I would say it's set back permanently.

That place is under rock. That place is demolished.

They're never going to have nuclear never permanently obliterated.

I'm sorry, Caitlin Collins, you have a question.

You've obliterated their nuclear sites last summer with your strikes.

Then how can you argue as an imminent run now?

Oh, we hit them so hard, we obliterated them, but obliterated them.

But that doesn't mean with the right equipment,

you can't dig down and go get it.

Actually, I think it's exactly what it means.

That's what a compliment.

It's so annoying.

It's so unbelievably annoying.

Here we go.

To obliterate.

To destroy completely leaving nothing behind.

There's nothing in here about what we completely obliterated it

unless they have shovels.

By the way, nuclear question to sign.

Are they even opening the Strait of Hormuz?

Isn't that what prompted your apocalyptic ultimatum in the first place?

That would be open very soon if this works.

I made it.

Be jointly controlled.

Maybe me.

Me and the Ayatollah, whoever the Ayatollah is.

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Jesus.

What the?

Maybe I'll run it with the Ayatollah, like two bridge trolls.

Whoever wants to take oil to sea must answer me these riddles three.

I hate.

Here's what I hate.

I hate how these questions of great importance and consequence to our country.

He handles with such shitty glibness.

Maybe I'll run it.

I hate a little stinker.

I bombed Iran.

Can't you just eat me up in the spoon?

Meanwhile, here in America, we don't even need a war to degrade our own infrastructure.

Our airports are collapsing all by themselves.

The Fox News Alert chaos erupting at America's airports.

This line in Atlanta showing people lined up around midnight for flights leaving this morning.

I've been here almost two hours.

Three and a half hours since we did that.

We might not make it.

My flight is boarding right now.

Oh, no.

Way ahead of you, kid.

Oh, no.

That should be the left's new don't tread on me flag.

Oh, no.

American travelers are so stressed out.

What incredibly uncontroversial American enforcement agency could we deploy, kid?

Oh, you're way ahead of me.

I believe the audience in mass just went, oh, no.

What agency could we deploy to our airports to ease passengers' journey?

This morning, the Trump administration is now deploying ICE agents to help TSA officers.

Oh, no.

We're sending in ICE agents to calm the situation.

It makes perfect sense.

It's kind of like the way we calm our dogs during thunderstorms with a blanket of fireworks.

You're okay, Rusty.

Ro-no.

Not to worry, our incredibly competent government knows exactly how these ICE agents can help alleviate these incredibly long TSA lines, right?

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

We have ICE agents who are trained and can provide assistance to agents.

They run those same type of security machines at the southern border.

Oh, great.

Well, that'll be really helpful if it's true.

Is it true?

Guy in charge of ICE?

ICE is trained on X-rays.

And look at X-rays, see if there's, you know, something dangerous, not luggage.

Well, no kidding.

And we're not going to be doing that.

ICE isn't trained on X-rays.

No surprise.

They don't really seem to be trained on anything, actually.

And by the way, who the f***?

Honestly, who the f*** even thought it was a good idea to send America's most hair-trigger agency into America's most hair-raising environment?

This idea was a good idea.

That was mine.

What in God's name possessed you to do that?

That was like the paperclip.

You know the story of the paperclip?

How many more years of this s***?

Go ahead.

182 years ago, a man discovered the paperclip.

It was so simple.

And everybody that looked at it say, why didn't I think of that?

ICE was my idea.

Right now and around, they're going,

are we talking to a top guy?

Because I don't think this is a top guy.

We're talking about negotiating nuclear.

And then he just went off on f***ing paperclips.

Why did I bomb around?

Do you know the story of 2,000 flushes blue?

Well, for centuries, people shittin' regular water.

And then one day, a guy said, what if it was blue?

And that's why I bombed around.

It's so f***ing stupid.

Meanwhile, the rest of us suffer under Donald Trump's attention deficit style of government by whim.

And as America, and really the world,

has to helplessly navigate the turbulence that Trump causes.

His administration, I shittin' you not this weekend,

had a message for all those who were suffering.

I think that given what has been done to President Trump and his family,

it is impossible for either of us to understand what he has been through.

We should all have a little empathy for what has been done to him and his family.

I think we have to offer the President grace.

He needs grace.

In fact, maybe let him live in a land of grace.

Grace land.

Where he can live his life out, asking the important questions.

Does Elvis get treated better than me?

He's dead, sir.

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Welcome back to the nail show. I guess tonight,

we started this National Security Advisor to President Biden.

You know, teachers at the Harvard Kennedy School

and his co-host of The Long Game Podcast, please welcome to the program.

Jake Sullivan, serve.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you for having me.

You are actually, you are in an unusual position here in this.

You have spoken with the Iranians in your life.

You have negotiated with them on nuclear issues.

I guess they call JCPOA that agreement that Iran was in before.

As you put yourself in the shoes of the people now,

who do you think they're negotiating with a guy?

What a guy are they talking to?

So, John, you're absolutely right.

I was part of the team that President Obama sent for secret negotiations

with the Iranians for several months, paving the way for the Iran nuclear deal.

One of the guys actually negotiated with is the guy you see on TV all the time now.

They're foreign minister of Basarakchi, one of the few Iranians

that's still showing his face publicly.

I actually have a good story about our guy versus the guy.

During those negotiations, President Obama wanted the opportunity

to speak to the then President of Iran, President Rahani.

And in our secret negotiations, I had a contact with one of the Iranian officials.

And he gave me a cell phone number to give to the situation room

for President Obama to be connected with President Rahani.

So, I hand over the cell phone.

And I'm standing there in the Oval Office while the calls being connected.

And I have a thought, have I just connected the President

to like a Canadian shock-jock or some random other person?

Or is this actually the President of Iran?

I'm going back through my head, what's the chain of custody of this phone number?

And in the end, the Iranians put out a statement saying,

in fact, their President had spoken to our President.

So, it was all confirmed and I was like, all good.

What if it was like a girl at a bar?

It was like, sure, here's my number.

Can you imagine this amazing moment in the White House,

President of the United States, speaking to the President of Iran

for the first time since 1979, a possibility of a real diplomatic breakthrough.

Right.

And I'm standing there just sweating bullets like, oh my God, what have I done?

Yes.

Turned out okay.

But look, you know, it to me is a damn shame

and you said this in your opening.

That it's really hard to know who to credit with their account.

The Iranians say there is no communication.

The President of the United States says there is.

You'd want to believe the President of the United States

over hard-line clerics in Iran.

But the reality is probably there's some kind of messages getting passed

without real conversations happening at least not yet.

In the times that you adult with the Iranians for the JCPOA

and then again dealing with them during the Biden administration,

how close did we come to physical escalating into war, into bombing?

Four years of Biden administration, we didn't get them back into the JCPOA.

We didn't do any of those things.

How untrustworthy regime are they?

Do sanctions work?

Like, it doesn't seem like there are any good solutions.

Well, first I would just say, you know, Reagan said of the Soviets, trust but verify.

Right.

I always said when it came to the Iranians, don't trust and verify.

And you had to do that all the way through.

And when we got the Iran nuclear deal in the Obama administration,

it had deep verification built into it.

Inspectors on the ground over every inch of Iran's nuclear infrastructure

to make sure they were complying.

Did they comply with that because the scuttle butt from a couple of guys

is that they didn't.

And that's why, and we gave them billions of dollars

that they used for Hamas and Hezbollah.

Is that what happened in your mind?

They got sanctions relief as a result of the deal.

But yes, John, they were complying with the deal.

Even the Israelis.

Even in the nuclear facilities you guys said they were there.

They were complying with the agreement.

And then in 2018 President Trump pulled out of it, said,

this is the worst deal in human history.

If that's true, that is quite remarkable.

Because there's been a lot of deals in human history.

Well, he also said that about trade with Canada.

So he pulls out of the deal.

And you're right.

In the four years of the Biden administration,

we got close at various points.

We negotiated to get back in.

But we couldn't get back in.

In part because the Iranians said, wait a second,

we did a deal with Obama.

Trump pulled out of it.

How do we know that if you come in,

you're not going to pull out of it again?

Then Trump comes back.

It's actually an opportunity to do a deal

because he's the guy who pulled out.

And just a few days before we started bombing Iran,

the Iranians put a proposal on the table in Geneva

that went a long way towards resolving the nuclear issue.

And my understanding is that our side, our negotiators,

simply didn't understand what they were being offered.

And they ignored it and decided to go ahead and strike.

Our guys didn't understand.

Was it in Farsi?

What do you mean they didn't understand the Iranians

negotiating code?

Well, if you listen to the way that are the Trump administration

officials who were involved in this,

spoke about what the Iranians were proposing.

There's a mismatch between that

and what the mediators, the Omani mediator,

said was actually on the table.

Right. So I think...

Well, the Trump administration said that Iran was threatening them

by suggesting that they had a lot of enriched uranium.

And apparently the Omani said, no, they weren't threatening you.

They were just telling you what they had.

Telling you what they had? And also saying,

we're prepared to downblend that uranium,

which basically means render it so that it's no longer fit for purpose to be turned into.

You know, you cut it with baking soda.

I don't know. I know what you do with the enriched uranium.

So, at the end of the day,

and I thought the way you laid out your opening segment

with the total obliteration was so powerful

because you can strike Iran's nuclear program.

Right. But at the end of the day,

they still have a stockpile of enriched uranium.

They still have centrifuges lying around various facilities

we may not even know about. Right.

And they still have scientists who know how to put all that together.

So this gets us to the interesting point

about belligerent countries and about belligerent nations.

And that is the difference between capability and ambition.

And I think we're seeing that now with netting out, by the way,

when you were in office,

how many times did you have to say to Netanyahu,

like, don't bomb that?

Like, did they listen? You know, I was so struck.

This is attention.

He seems f***ing nuts.

Like, it's the kind of thing.

I remember when Russia bombed Ukraine

and you guys came out with very powerful statements.

These are war crimes.

You're against that.

And then Netanyahu bombs Gaza and kills thousands and thousands of civilians.

And the U.S. is like, hey guys, be cool.

Like, it's so weird to me that we don't take...

Why is that?

Well, there's a couple things.

I mean, first, historically, the U.S. has been harder on our enemies than we've been on our friends.

And that's true across the board.

But secondly, John, the devastation in Gaza, the killing of civilians,

the harm, the suffering, the pain,

was something we tried to get up every day to end the war.

And we didn't end it fast enough.

But when we left office,

we did have a ceasefire in place.

And that's what we handed off to the truth.

But there's no conditions.

We could say, you know, no bombing.

We give them those weapons.

We can't dictate...

Because I don't know the end game.

Like, right now, he's bombing Iran.

But he's also still bombing in Gaza.

And now he's decided to invade southern Lebanon or bomb that.

Again, it gets to...

You can degrade capability.

But all you're doing is creating more ambition.

And how is that a recipe for a lasting peace?

Well, we had someone on our podcast a couple weeks ago named Annie Centrenowitz,

who is the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence Lead for Iran,

was that for 15 years.

And what he basically said was,

when it comes to Iran,

what Israel would like to do under this particular government is just break Iran, cause chaos.

Because as far as they're concerned,

a broken Iran is less of a threat to Israel.

Now, the United States of America cannot think about it that way.

Because a broken Iran means a broken global economy,

because they continue to threaten the straits of poor moves.

It means a potential refugee flow like we saw after the war in Syria into Europe.

It means a lot else besides.

So I do believe that when it comes to this war in Iran,

there is a real divergence between Israel's ultimate aims

and the United States's ultimate aims.

The challenge we've seen is that when we ask what is the administration doing,

they can't answer that question because they don't know why they're there in the first place.

They haven't been able to get us an answer as to what this is all about.

But look, I don't go along the route of,

because I know there's now all the theories like Israel is wagging the dog.

I never bought that.

I feel like they're a convenient scapegoat for the United States

to continue our imperialistic adventures

in that part of the world.

And I want to ask you because it really does what strikes me as maybe,

I don't want to say the fatal flaw in American foreign policy.

And I want to ask you if you guys have wrestled with this.

Is the difference between, we talked about capability and ambition,

but what about influence and control?

I think America hasn't figured out the difference

between to influence events and control it.

And our policies in the Middle East,

Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,

have shown an inability to understand the repercussions of those actions,

whereas China doesn't seem to fall into that trap.

What do you think of that for us?

I basically agree with you.

And when President Biden did not see that coming.

Look, when President Biden was elected,

one of the charges he gave all of us was end America's longest war

in Afghanistan.

Right.

And do not put the United States uniformed military men and women

back into war in the Middle East or anywhere else

if it can possibly be avoided.

That was his charge.

And we did end the war in Afghanistan,

and it was painful and it was brutal and it was tragic.

But when we left office,

America was not at war for the first time in 25 years.

And one of the reasons the President Biden gave for why he wanted to do that

is because China was extremely happy to see the United States

tie down in war in the Middle East.

Well, they went around the world with their largesse,

trying to win influences, you said.

And I think we do need to turn the page on the forever wars,

move forward to compete where competition matters

in infrastructure and technology and economic development.

But I would also say that in that post 9-11 period, John,

we did a lot of good things, too.

Every administration did.

If you look at the question of global health or people coming out of poverty,

or people gaining literacy all over the world,

those indicators are all up.

And that is because, in no small part,

because of the United States of America.

So in no way, though, over these last,

if you were to look back on these last, let's say, 25 years,

the reputation of the United States is not.

They'll come in and really help us take care of poverty.

The reputation of the United States is,

they'll bomb the shit out of you from wherever.

Maybe they'll stay for a little while.

Maybe they won't.

They'll tell you, like, with the Kurds,

we'll arm you and we'll support you.

And then we'll f***ing abandon you.

Or we'll tell you, like, where is our credibility

on the world stage given the just unbelievable cast that we've unleashed?

I think we're generally responsible for the right populist swing in Europe.

Because if we hadn't had done Libya and we hadn't had done Iraq

and all those different things,

would they be flooded with refugees in those moments?

I think Libya certainly contributed to that so-did Syria.

Right.

Of course, the difference between Libya and Syria is in Libya

we did take military action in Syria.

We didn't.

Right.

And in both cases, you ended up in Syria.

Well, we did, though, in Syria.

We just didn't talk about it.

We were arming.

You mean, I'll mute your front and all those others.

They were being armed.

I remember running into it.

This was so, it was so weird.

I was in a manjordan doing a film.

And it's all Emirates in the hotel.

It was the high end that had been bombed previously,

although they'd really patched that up when I was there.

My room, you could barely tell.

And it's Ramadan, and it's all Emirates,

and there's this one table of like dudes who very clearly were like

raised in Nebraska and had the crew cuts.

So I go over to the table.

And I go, hey, man, what are you doing here?

And the guy looks at me and he goes,

we're not here.

And I was just like,

and then I just got cold.

But we do do that.

And we do interfere in all these places.

And somewhat cavalier nature.

And then when it blows back on us,

we're like, well, I guess we're just going to,

we're just going to abandon that project.

But it seems like we haven't changed the approach.

Well, what I find really interesting is that

in his first term, President Trump said, basically,

I don't want to get involved in these four years.

Not doing anything, yeah.

President Biden comes along and ends the war in Afghanistan.

The United States is basically out of the business

of directly US forces in these countries fighting wars.

President Trump runs in 2024 saying,

I'm going to be the peace candidate.

It's awarded the FIFA Peace Prize a few weeks ago.

Very prestigious.

Very prestigious.

And then turns around and says, no, no,

I'm getting right back into this game.

The question is why.

And I think a lot of it is that the appetite for him

is grown with the eating.

He did the bombing of the nuclear facility last year,

total obliteration as he put it.

Yes.

He does Maduro.

He doesn't feel there are a lot of consequences

to your point about consequences and blowback.

He doesn't feel that at least not immediately.

There are those of us like you who are warning at the time,

there's going to be a bill to be paid for this down the road.

He didn't see that.

So then he thinks I can go to war against Iran

on a basis that could be up to an including regime change

and the Iranians aren't going to do anything in response.

Therefore, I don't even need to prepare

to protect the straight of war moves.

And that, I think, has been the fundamental flaw here,

a belief that despite all the evidence we have

from Iraq and Afghanistan,

that when we get into these kinds of Middle Eastern wars,

they do not work out well for us

and we need to turn the page on this.

Forget about Middle Eastern wars, South American wars,

Central American wars.

We are a regime change machine all over the world

and we're so overly extended.

When you are there, does each president have,

is there like a little like Iran?

Like there's a library.

And I'm assuming it's done alphabetically,

but so Iran, and then obviously Iraq, probably thicker book.

But they sit next to each other.

Doesn't it say, when you pull it out,

the work of 30 years of analysts,

here's what's going to happen here, here's what's going to happen here?

Don't they game this stuff out?

Add infinitum.

Add infinitum.

Yes.

So that's...

And he knows that.

The president must know that.

Well, what was interesting is there were a number of newspaper stories

in the days leading up to this war

because we could see it coming from weeks away

as we built up for it.

Right.

Where it was military officials, including the most senior military officials

in the Pentagon, basically being quoted on background saying,

we have misgivings about this because of the potential response

we could see from Iran.

But President Trump did not listen to that.

And my supposition for why is because he was on a high

from the 12-day war last year,

and the Maduro raid, and he basically thought,

I can do the Iran's week.

I can do this.

They're not going to respond.

They didn't respond last year.

They're not going to respond this year.

And it wouldn't just be the military,

but the intelligence community would have told him.

You start waving the possibility of regime change in Iran.

These guys are going to rightly consider that existential

and they're going to do whatever they can to respond.

You know, I said earlier that the United States

doesn't know why it's in this war.

And I really believe that because they've given

nine different explanations, the administration.

Iran knows why it's doing what it's doing.

Right.

It's trying to raise the cost on Donald Trump

so that he ultimately stops bombing.

Well, you see immediately, as soon as gas prices go up to 379,

he's like, we got, we're done.

We fixed it.

Everything is good again.

So they have a coherent and clear strategy

that they are pursuing here.

And at the moment, we have the opposite.

You really think he believes that he, like,

he cracked the code, and now he's invincible.

I swear to God, I knew people.

Cocaine did this to them.

This is the same.

This is how a cocaine person acts.

A cocaine person is just like, I'm the best.

No, I can't be stopped.

That's what we have.

I couldn't put it better.

Yes.

Okay.

Thank you.

Well, thank you.

Martin Parker, you can go over all this stuff.

You got to check out his podcast, The Long Game.

We're Jake Sullivan and John Finer.

Jake Sullivan, thank you for joining us.

Have a great day.

Have a great day.

Do you think?

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Before we go, we're going to check in with your host

for the rest of the week, Mr. Josh Johnson.

Don!

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Welcome.

Welcome.

What are you going to be covering this week?

John, I'll be looking at the increasing number of Democrats

who say they might not support Chuck Schumer's leader.

But the question is, who could replace him?

Who could it be?

Is that, is that, is that, is that your, if I may, and by the way, it's really beautiful.

Let me just ask you a quick question.

Is that your Schumer?

Yeah, I got the slump, I got the glasses.

But, but Josh, you got to really, it's not a slump.

It's just, you got to really just feel the hollowness of his bones.

You just, you got to really feel the just, the crappy nature.

Okay.

So like, like this?

But you got to, the, the, the, the, the key is you got to breathe like the air is being like the lung capacities, maybe 45%, 50%.

Just like, okay, okay.

Okay, okay.

It's a little less oxygen, a little more flame.

You got to stop me before this gets racist.

All right.

Listen.

You have my back, I have yours.

All right, all right.

I will definitely give it, give it your best.

I don't think I'm getting this right.

You know what?

I give up.

Hey, you gave up.

Now that's a good Schumer.

Josh Johnson, everybody.

Here it is, your moment is here.

Yay!

The real problem here is they have no plan for using these ice agents.

Trump says send them there, they send them there.

Some idea pops into his head.

He announces it.

And then the people working for him,

they have to rush to try and implement what they know is an idiotic plan.

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