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Why does President Trump see Canada as an enemy? "He hasn't liked their leaders. I think he sees them as a punching bag," @stephenfhaye says. "He doesn't like it when they stand up & defy him. He expects them to just capitulate & when they don't, that makes him angrier."
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Why is JD Vance going to Pakistan to negotiate a peace deal with Iran? "This will be the most senior in-person discussion between America and Iran since the 1979 revolution," said Karim Sadjadpour. "The Iranians actually requested to negotiate with JD Vance for a few reasons."
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.Peter Baker: "If you woke up on January 7th of 2021 with the glass still shattered on the floor of the Capitol and the smoke rising and the troops are surrounding the building, and you had said that Donald Trump will be president in 4 years, nobody would have believed that."
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"I'm going to confess something on your show, Jeff. I have no sources in this administration," said Thomas L. Friedman. "Having sources in this administration other than the president would be dangerous because ... Trump can go absolute 180 degrees the opposite the next day."
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"With Kash Patel, though we should be clear, there’s not exactly been a vociferous defense from the president for the FBI director, but he also still has his job, despite questions about his job performance, including those raised within the ranks of the FBI," said Jonathan Lemire.
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Why did President Trump first disavow Project 2025 but later hire Russell Vought to lead the OMB? "Because it was incredibly unpopular during the campaign trail, and there was polling that showed that and that voters weren't necessarily aligned with this," said Laura Barrón-López.
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!["Putin doesn’t name buildings after himself," said Franklin Foer. "The only leaders in the world who do this are in places like Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. There’s a tin-pot dictator quality to what [Trump is] doing and how he’s afflicting his insecurities on the world."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2002188818594537788/media/G8k0Gh-XkAAnNDv.jpg)
"Putin doesn’t name buildings after himself," said Franklin Foer. "The only leaders in the world who do this are in places like Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. There’s a tin-pot dictator quality to what [Trump is] doing and how he’s afflicting his insecurities on the world."
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.Jeffrey Goldberg: What would a Ukrainian defeat look like from an American national security perspective? Anne Applebaum: "Defeat means the elimination of the U.S. as a security guarantor for Europe. It means that the U.S. is no longer seen as a reliable ally by anybody."
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.Jake Tapper 🦅: "There were two Joe Bidens. There was the fine Joe Biden that we just saw in that clip right there, and then there was the non-functioning Biden that we saw during the debate." Alex Thompson: "They were propping up the best version of him."
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"Peter and I lived through Vladimir Putin's rollback of Russian democracy 20 years ago ... and the time to defend democratic institutions is before they're taken away," says Susan Glasser. "I don't think that people have really processed how quickly this can happen."
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"Iran didn't win the military conflict. They got set back significantly, their missile program got set back significantly, ... the nuclear program, clearly set back. But they won the peace negotiation," Jonathan Karl tells Jeffrey Goldberg.
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Osama bin Laden thought 9/11 would lead to the U.S. leaving the Middle East, says Graeme Wood. "It didn't work out that way," he says. "I believe over the last 25 years there's been a pretty continuous American presence. It's gotten larger, not smaller."
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"It's almost as if the Trump administration doesn't want to admit or can't understand that the war only ends when the pressure is put on Russia," said Anne Applebaum. "It's the most obvious solution to the problem, and it's the one they just won't take."
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.Susan Glasser on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance at a Senate hearing on COVID origins: “I found it very painful to watch, as I'm sure many people did. The person who was accountable ultimately for America's failed initial handling of the pandemic in 2020 was someone named Donald Trump.”
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![.Stephen Hayes: "It has been widely reported that Donald Trump was down on [Tulsi Gabbard], and there's nothing you can do ... that will get you back in his good graces sooner and faster than going and supporting his crazy arguments about the 2020 election having been stolen."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2017412135387574354/media/G_9JoNoWwAA-Jzp.jpg)
.Stephen Hayes: "It has been widely reported that Donald Trump was down on [Tulsi Gabbard], and there's nothing you can do ... that will get you back in his good graces sooner and faster than going and supporting his crazy arguments about the 2020 election having been stolen."
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!["Nineteen minutes long, that address was from the White House. It really was basically a 19-minute-long Truth Social post instead of a meaningful strategy for why [Trump has] taken such a consequential decision that has plunged the global economy into turmoil," said Susan Glasser.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2040220140948570224/media/HFBRY4UWcAEby90.jpg)
"Nineteen minutes long, that address was from the White House. It really was basically a 19-minute-long Truth Social post instead of a meaningful strategy for why [Trump has] taken such a consequential decision that has plunged the global economy into turmoil," said Susan Glasser.
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