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Bill makes it so easy. I didn't even feel the two hours come by.
So we know that too, Dana Sadley, her dad passed away. No.
So you were asked to come up and help out for the last few days, right? And happy to do it. And my heart goes out to her. And, you know, what a tragic, I mean, 30 days or so after he retired. I mean, that's just, it breaks your heart.
And I know that they're very close.
So I'm happy to be here and help in whatever way I can. And my heart goes out to her. And you're hosting this weekend, too. I am. I'm doing the Sunday briefing on Sunday.
And I'm going to be back up in New York a couple days next week also filling in on the show. All right now, what else on the Sunday briefing? Who's on? We are working on our guest list still. Yeah.
The admin is probably not going to give us anybody because the president's doing an interview on another network. Oh, he is. It's what we've heard rumor of.
So. we're working on that, but we're we're focusing heavy on the Grand Platinar stuff because that race and the Tuesday primary could say a lot about where the Democratic Party stands right now. And I think it's being very closely watched.
So we're Pulling that apart in the uh the New New York Times reporting as well, which I mean, did you read that, Brian? The fact that they call that unsettling behavior and not domestic abuse is wild to me. You know what? I didn't pick that is great reporting on your part. That is, uh, I didn't really pick that up.
I've just read like what it was like every line was explosive. It's abuse, it's physical abuse. Physical intimidation and aggressive behavior during relationships, demeaning treatment towards women, affixation with weapons. Our prior knowledge of the meaning of a Nazi-linked tattoo before the explanation he gave publicly. And what they're talking about is he's got the tattoo, and the tattoo is something that prison guards had in the Holocaust concentration camps.
And he was proud of it. They say other people in his unit had the same tattoo, which obviously, let's find the other people in his unit. Maybe they don't want to come public. But I love the explanation. Yeah, it became public when I took my shirt off at my brother's wedding, and he married a Jewish.
People were offended because he married a Jewish girl. I'm like, excuse me? You took your shirt off at your brother's wedding and you revealed the tattoo. Right. You know, the New York Times, I know they've got their standards department.
I know that his lawyers are probably all over this. Who knows how many months they were working on this? I've heard through the grapevine people who are, you know, closely associated with it that it might have been in the works for some time. But they drop it on the Friday before a Tuesday primary. And you've already had early voting, mail-in voting in that state.
So you wonder, is that too late? And then it's watered down in a way where these things that are described: yanking one of these women out of a car, leaving marks on her wrist, locking someone in a room overnight, shaking someone so hard by her shoulders that there were marks left. I mean, the way that this was written is just it. I don't know. I look at it and I'm like, what happened with this story?
I d I Don't know why you why you dumb it down like that. Couple of things. First off, does it remind you of Eric Swalwell? First, there's nothing. You don't hear anything.
Maybe you'd heard in Washington that Eric Swalwell was cheating on his wife. Maybe. But all of a sudden, from zero to he's got to go, he could end up in jail. And then Grant Platter, Grant Platter's, okay, you know, this, and he's got his tattoo, but we're over that. And then all of a sudden, like a slingshot, it all comes out in this story.
But the Democrats who have endorsed him, I mean, watching Kristen Gillibrand be, you know, who's who is supposed to be like a woman for women, right? Like, that's her whole platform is women's empowerment. Right. And then she says, she's asked about this and says, we're still going to do Maine. I mean, beating, beating Susan Collins, by the way, who is maybe one of the biggest checks on the president's agenda.
It's worth it to. It's worth it to impeach him. Exactly. And, you know, you're going to go to bat for this guy. Purely so that you can have a Democrat vote on the Senate floor because you are against this president.
I mean, it just speaks volumes.
So what happened last night, when this story comes out, he scrambles to MSNBC, MS Now, and he tried to explain himself. Here's a little of him explaining, for example. Here he is insisting the Nazi tattoo. He had no idea what it meant, and he just got drunk one night and left it, cut through. We even released as a campaign a video, which you're putting up on the screen right now, of me dancing at my brother's wedding to his wife, who is Jewish, and her fully extended Jewish family.
I would not have taken my shirt off in that context if I had known. And so any statement saying that I did know is, again, totally false. That's the craziest explanation of ever.
Well, and then didn't the girlfriend provide the New York Times with time stamps on their text messages showing that he actually did know about this long before. I don't know. It looks like malpractice on the part of the New York Times to me. Just as someone, you know, I don't know what their standards department is or if there was other stuff that we don't know, but the rumor around it is that they have a lot more than they went with. And what they did go with was very watered down.
And, you know, hitting on a Friday before a Tuesday primary is just, you know, it's a statement in itself. They could have held it. They could have held it till Wednesday. Yeah. Unless they want them out.
I mean, this is so interesting because Bernie Sanders, evidently, the reporting was behind closed doors on Wednesday, was it? When he went out? Behind closed doors, he was asked directly by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders: Is there anything else here? And if there's anything else, is it abuse? Is it assault?
I can't help you if it's assault. And he says there's nothing else. Obviously, this other stuff. He says there's nothing else credible. I mean, Credible's doing all the heavy lifting there.
So there there may be even more than what we know of right now.
So, number one, this guy, what is he? Like this biggest womanizer in the world? It's amazing. I did not know that oyster farmers are that attractive, especially a guy who doesn't really clean up too well or clean up at all. Does anyone even Google him before they got behind him?
I mean, this is, he's not only a bad candidate, he's a bad person.
So, look at what he's done. Does Rokana introduce him tonight? He's supposed to go up and introduce him. Does he appear with him tonight? I mean, he says he's going to.
Still, since this came out. I believe, yes. I think that was the plan as of a a tweet from a He'll reporter, anyway. You know, you wonder if Rokan is thinking about his own national ambitions, that there's always the hint of that with him, I think. Hint of that.
He is absolutely running. That person running more is Newsome. Yeah. So here's maybe he hedges. I don't know.
Here's about Grand Platinum. With all this exposure, all your personal life's out there. He could have been an anonymous, always a farmer, now this, cut 10.
Sometimes say, why don't we get other people like, you know, in public office at a broader pool, and then, you know, you run for public office and. Galat, right, is going to come out. And given it. And I got to say, you know, watching your wife's video, which I, again, I found very affecting, very compelling, and very moving, like, do you regret doing this? No.
Not in the slightest.
So we'll see if he stays in. My sense is they'll have to pull him. And if my sense is Republicans should pray that he stays in because now the race is down to four. I know we don't go with the public policy polling, but it was an eight-point race a week ago.
Now it's a four-point race. And they say Susan Collins is always trailing and always wins. Trevor Burrus: And funny enough that on the eve of this, or on the same night the story dropped, she cast her 10,000th consecutive vote in the Senate. And they're celebrating her. Right.
A couple of things with Susan Collins. Number one, you notice they haven't said a word. I don't hear any Republican weighing in. They say Jared Golden is somewhat of a moderate congressman that's out. They might grab him.
And insert him in there. Because the 78-year-old governor. Yeah, he'd have to agree to do that. I mean, Jared Golden was a reliable, you know, he would not hesitate to buck his party, which is a high bar for Democrats. I mean, it's like pulling teeth to get them to vote against leadership.
And he would do it frequently. But, you know, that takes a toll. And he was, you know, personally, I think, kind of done with. Being in Congress mentally after that battle. And maybe he looks at this and says, I have a responsibility and a duty to serve the people of Maine.
We'll see what happens. He would be one that people are familiar with. They would recognize his name, certainly. And he's well liked there. Maine's an interesting place because you've got a lot of liberal folks around Portland, but then you've got a lot of conservative folks in the rural areas.
You know, Graham Platiner trying to masquerade as some kind of salt of the earth guy who's an oyster farmer. I mean, it's not like he's going out and hauling traps and, you know, he's supplying his mother's restaurant with oysters. Like, I don't know. I just, it had a house his parents bought him. Right.
And he went to prep school for a few years. And I was listening to his interview. Where was it? It was on some podcast, a New York Times podcast, The Daily. And he said, well, you went to a prep school.
He goes, yeah. But I realized I didn't want to be there, so I got myself kicked out.
So I went back to another school.
So instead of being in an expensive school, he got himself kicked. We don't know how, there was no follow-up question. But it's giving sociopath, in my opinion. I mean, I don't know. It's incredible.
We'll see what's going to happen. Jackie, the whole, like what I'm doing on Sunday. Is you know, playing Bill Clinton. UPL Harry Reid talked about the need to stop offering social services to illegal immigrants. Bill Clinton wanted to get the deficit down and crack down on welfare and talked about how crazy it is that we have an open border and then JFK cutting taxes.
We used to be, hey, the Democrat wins at center left, the Republican wins at center right. Then you compromise sometimes.
Now it is, I'm looking at the Democratic Party and I see these extreme candidates, the one linked to the blind shake win. Then you see Rab overwin in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia. This is a radical socialist. Usually, if you said someone's a socialist, they push back.
Now they embrace it. The question is: are they a communist like the mayor of New York City? I think the Democratic Party is going through something much more impactful than the Republicans did. With the tea party. Yeah, this is one thing that I'm paying close attention to, and I think the defining piece of it is.
Maybe not even socialism or communism, but I think the deeper ideological split in the Democratic Party is the Israel issue. Because it started to bubble up in the last election. Joe Biden was tossed out by half of his base for supporting Israel. Kamala Harris tried to sort of hedge it a little bit. And now you've got Democrats who are always asked by one half of their constituents, like, will you take the APAC money?
And they say no. And then they've got their own Jewish constituents who are like, what the hell? And they say, you know, we're going to. Pledge unconditional support for Israel. They don't know how to answer the question.
And then you have this new crop of Democrats coming up who campaign on opposing military funding to Israel. And those are the people, those are the Tallaricos, the Plattners, the Hamois. That is sort of the new generation of Dems coming in. And I think that that is something that is an issue that Republicans could, there's a lot of meat on the bone there. To pick over, because I think they all have a hard time answering the question because they know that their base is divided on it.
No question that when one of the first debate questions when those ten Democrats on stage, and Prayer is going to be Mark Kelly, I think, then you got to have Bashir, and you got to Vishapiro, and you got to have Newsome and Kamala Harris. And Pete Buttajaj.
So there'll be about at least 12 out there. One of the questions would be: put your hand up in the air if you want to reduce or remove aid to Israel. And that's why B.B. Netanyahu says we're preparing to make our own weapons, because we do not think we're going to continue to be supported by America. That to me is scary.
Yeah, and that's our number one ally. It's um Yeah. I I always say that you You can tell the people who didn't experience any real catastrophe on American soil. Like, you're too young to remember 9-11. You didn't fight in a war.
You don't know anyone who fought in a war. The further removed you get from seeing your liberties really threatened, the less grateful for them you are. I think that there's a lot of young people who live in these online spaces that are, by the way, manipulated by our adversaries and give a very warped view of the issues facing our country. A few more minutes for Jackie Heinrich. When we come back, don't move.
You listen to the brain kill me, Cha. Jackie Heinrich, a few more minutes with Jackie. Jackie, there's a few things going on right now.
Now, I know you're going to be getting married in New York City, but do you get the sense in this city how crazy they are for the Knicks? I sure do. My co-anchor this morning, Bill Hemmer, was a little short on sleep yesterday because he'd stayed up to watch the game the other night. I had to make a decision. I said, I'm three-quarters, but I'm going to go Monday.
And you got an earlier turnaround. You had an earlier call time than Bill. Right. So I'm just wondering, do you think they destroy the city like they did Paris when PSG won? They destroyed the Paris the other day.
I mean, do you think it's a weird way to celebrate? I don't know. I think if this were Philly, my answer would be yes, but it's not.
So hopefully New York will be pleasant and joyous, but not destructive. All right, now serious stuff. When it comes to the war in Iran, the president says the deal is close. I don't think it's close. I don't think there's for a second.
I just saw the foreign minister just spoke and said, no deal unless there's peace in Lebanon. Please. Hezbollah just spoke out and said there's no peace.
So General Jack Keene was on with me a couple of hours ago, and he's pretty sure where this is going. Um cut 36. I think we've got to come to the reality that we have to return to military operations.
So, what I'm suggesting is if we go back to military operations, and I believe that's the preferred option, I think we should return to full combat operations. There's going to be suggestions we just do a limited operation or a small operation to kind of get their attention. And here's the caution: the caution is: Iran's going to retaliate regardless of whether we go small or go big. Let's go big, take down as much of their capabilities we possibly can, and get these guys as close to collapses as a military operation can possibly achieve. And then, with economic pressure, we can put this regime truly on a pathway to collapse.
I think that is the best option in front of us. And he thinks we're going. Jackie, what does your reporting say?
Well I think the president talks about a deal coming together all the time because it helps the markets when he talks about it. I also think that you see all these signs that Iran is not going to negotiate. I mean, they're trying to make this negotiation apply to Israel and Lebanon, you know, Hezbollah. And Hezbollah wasn't even party to the talks where they agreed to a ceasefire there, and yet Iran is making their, you know, what happens with them a big piece of the broad negotiation. There's just so much evidence that they're not genuinely moving on these talks.
And so The longer that we talk, that the president talks about a deal coming together and we don't see it, I think it becomes hard for the American people to swallow the idea that a deal does not come together. Like Susan or Condoleezza Rice writes a piece about how, if there is no deal, that would be fine because what we've achieved there is so significant. I think that that would be hard for the American people to wrap their minds around when they are thinking that there's going to be either a deal or more action. Walking away with nothing at this point would be, I think, politically hard to settle. And the straits got to open no tolls at the very minimum.
But, Jackie, it was interesting. The most undertold story is Ukraine. What they have done, developing long-range missiles and drone technology, leading the world while formulating what has to be the biggest, most respected army in Europe. And all they're asking for us is just give me some patriots. We can handle the drones.
They have totally changed that war. And Vladimir Putin is starting to lose some of the elites around him, and for the first time, can't replenish his forces. in the four-year-old war. It's an incredible moment. I think we've seen these moments come before and not maximized opportunity there.
So hopefully, Ukrainians are talking to the right people and making their case right now. I know the House has voted to fund them to get more funding. Yep. You know, as some people have described it, like the Super Bowl for Ukraine package, there was a more. Um scaled back.
Package that Johnson didn't bring to the floor that would have included Russia sanctions. This one doesn't have all that, but we'll see where it goes. Jackie Heinrich, we're going to watch on Sunday in the briefing. What time? 11.
11 o'clock. It's going to be live. Jackie, they're working you to death. It's okay. Great to see you.
That's true. Yeah, that's true.
