The FEMA Teleportation Mystery

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Fature subject to change, availability and results vary, not intended for medical purposes, Wors independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy And we're live on Match dayay as Doug reaches for a buffalo wing He's got it. Oh and he's gone for a can of Pepsy too. What a finish There's no doubt about it. it just tastes better. Match days deserve Betssy She is fueling his delusions. She is providing him with endless praise that she prints out of random social media and then it's all been put out in public and she is with them round the clock. We also have a mystery He is with her more than any of the other aides. She is absolutely with him later at night than other people. The White House is refusing to give us any details, any comment on this in this situation. If a woman of thirty four has access to truth social and truth social is the most important way to communicate for the president. thenen who's in charge? We don't know I'm Joanna Coles, this is the Daily Beast podcast and we have so much to get through today. Who is the mystery blonde that's been traipsing after Donald Trump? waving a shef of papers how many people have actually turned up at the State Fair, Cue It's not what Donald Trump is saying. What's happened to those janky bits of rubber from the reflecting pool. And what about that guy who said that he was teleported? Yeah, you know, the guy that was running FEMA, the federal emergency program, well, he's kind of disappeared It's all spooky. Who better to dissect it or with than Hugh Dockery, our Scottish executive editor who knows more than anybody else about almost everything actually, but he certainly knows about the blonde babe that's causing a lot of raised eyebrows at the White House. So no time to waste. please, if you haven't, remember, subscribe to the Daily Bees podcast. We're almost at seven hundred thousand. We want to try and get there by the end of next week And it's how we bring you these episodes of conversations that really you don't have anywhere else. So let's get into it. Hugh Oy Thank you, Docy, I'm so glad to see you. It's been far too long Johanna, it's amazing to see you. I detect that you might still be in France, possibly even in Paris, it looks like you are in some sort of is Garrett And I hear things are hot It's incredibly hot. I think it was the hottest place on Eth officially yesterday. It was so hot I cannot begin to tell you. but today I braved my way down to the Sine to the Pont Earth, which has for those of you who know the artist Christo It's been wrapped. Christo famously wrapped the Pont Neuf in sort of gold fabric. and there is a new installation there by the artist J R, who has turned the Pont Neuf, which is one of the bridges that leads to Notre Dame, into a sort of snow cave It's really extraordinary. I hope we can show some pictures of it. So I went down there today and who should I run into also poking around there? O let's see lets see can we guess Was it? Was it Charles Kushner? The United States Abassador to Fr Interesting question. It was notough I wonder if he's seen it. It was not. It was George Lucas and Frell Williams, the creative director of Louis Vuiton Ferrel is and George, obviously better known for creating the Star Wars Bar, which looks a bit like Trump's cabinet It sounds like it was busy at this incredible installation It just made me think of another capital with another installation that is celebratory be isn't so busy that I think we want to talk about. Oh, so I think we should definitely I've got so many questions for you. I definitely want to talk about audience size at the state Fair. No problem here. I want to talk about the blonde who's trailing Trump and it's all according to her brother somewhat inappropriate relationships. I'm very curious to hear about that. And of course, JD Vps, who else would JD Vance feel sympathetic to? Let me guess. only president who's ever resigned. the only American president who's ever resigned, Richard Nixon. So Hugh, where do we begin? Can we begin with the Mystery Bonde? Well, the Mystery Bonde is just the most extraordinary story I should just do a tiny bit of scene setting here on Tuesday The authors and New York Times reporters, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan published regime change And this has become an instant bestseller and it has a whole load of insights and revelations about what goes on in the White House. But the thing that is really exploding this morning as I'm speaking to you, is This four year old blonde assistant who trails Donald Trump everywhere She is somebody that I know you and Michael Wolf have discussed before Natalie Harart AKA, the human printer But what we are getting at, what we have got out of this book is incredibly Like just unbelievable amount of time that Donald Trump is spending with a woman who is Almost fifty years his junior other aides are really worried about, who the secret service we're worried about I know whose brother has come forward to say that he is concerned about what he calls an unhealthy relationship An unhealthy relationship. So what does that mean? Because we know that she was writing him notes where she was saying, You are the most important person in my life We know that he has said O people will leave him, but she will never leave him. So So what has the brother said? Because it's the brothers's revelations that have caused such consternation, correct? Exactly. So we've got the book and the brrotherss Revelations together in the space of a couple of days which have just exploded this whole this whole issue Her brother Natalie Harp has said is thirty four. herer brother, Preston Harp is four years old older and they've become estranged and You know a sort of tamp of a divided nation, maybe He has actually quit the United States to go and live in Nicaragua which as we know It's something of a communist is you in a sort of far left regime. Anway he has spoken out He spoke to the Daily Mail. I have to credit them here Im to see give an insight into their upbringing and their background. And what he says about their relationship is he can't understand why anybody in his family is even near Donald Trump. that this relationship is very unhealthy It's a national embarrassment and he says just to quote this correctly, she's just like his fan club. I'm He explains that this is a family that was brought up Their mother was very devout and apparently fairly intense Christian. Their father was seemingly a more relaxed person. But Mat he was a Christian, but he was, you know, much less intense about it And I rather sadly Their father died in late, I believe twenty eighteen. Um and kind of astonishing is that a month after their father died and again, rather tragically by suicide She was on the stage I'm sorry I got the date. I said in twenty eighteen, I at twenty sixteen. She was on the stage at the at the Republican National Convention praising Donald Trump talking about how he had He had enabled her being cured of cancer So It's a very strange background story. and no, she is now one of his key aids. the aid that's clos to him all the time. she has the password to his truth social She appears to be the person that posts many of his truth socials or at least ceues them up for him and he then posts them And She provides printouts to him When he asks for printouts, he often, you know, he's provided with bits of paper, you know I' It's got like a beautiful mind of this Th all these papers are spread out before them. One of the really worrying things that we learned about from this Habberman and Swann book is He has officials in, including Scott Besscent, the Treasury seecretary, Howard Lutnk, the commommerce secretary, Fraser Greer the trade representative and He says your numbers are BS Get me the right numbers, get me the right numbers. and he turns to Natalie Harp to overrule the representatives of three different deartments the of the United States federal goverment to provide the right numbers. So she is fueling his delusions, she is providing him with endndless praise that she prints out of random social media and then it's all being put out in public and she is with them round the clock. It is an extraordinary story. We've chronicled it in great detail, the limited amounts of time that he appears to sleep between truth social. So when we're saying that she's with him twenty four seven, are we suggesting that she's in the White House bedroom with him late at night and in the early hours of the morning uth soialing for him? Well, we don't have any evidence of that is the case, but we also have a mystery He is with her more than any of the other aides We don't there are You know, it's very clear that there are no witnesses who are being who are in a position to say exactly when their interactions stop She is absolutely with them later at night than other people We know What then happens? How does how does how are they interacting? We are unclear We know that Donald Trump will pick up the phone to people in the middle of the night littleittle Markco Rubio has complained about this he gets calls from Donald Trump. He saw this as proof that Trump was somehow you know, really commandingly energetic. otherther people may say that he just has unhealthy sleep. but means we know he's active, we know he's m going to use the word working because I'm struggling to find another verb here. Others may come up with a better description, but he is doing things And it appears that she's at hiside a lot. So putting two and two together. imp possible. The White House is refusing to give us any details, any C in on this in this situation. they didn't Really elaborate on it to Maggie Hamerman and Jonathan Swann who asked about it One of the things that's worth pointing out is The reason that she has become such a prominent character in the, you know, the sort of the book in the launch and the rollout of the book is because she was in the room when they interviewed Donald Trump and It was hard Caroline Lever and Stephven Chung and that was it So it shows just how intensely close to the inner circle she is and I just See, Suzie Wiles, who is the chief of staff clearly has very great concerns. She learned about the letters that Natalie Hartp was sending to Donald Trump, which said things like, you are all that matters to me I don't ever want to let you down Um and They appear to have gone through some sort of you know, sort of emotional journey I want to bring you joy to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk work. Susie Weiles's reaction, according to the book Where am I So As scientific discovery changes the landscape, advances in cancer care may offer new hope for your patients See how Pfizer is helping reshape what's possible at cancer. pfizer. com So Hui, is there an argument that actually, given that Malania is not in that White House very often. It's actually better for Trump to have a friend than to not have a friend. that said His sleep does seem very disordered and his truth socials seem ever more erratic So is there also a suggestion that perhaps Natalie Harp is making up policy on the go, which is frequently what his trruth Socials are. And as we have written in the Beast, cabinet ministers wake up in the morning, go to trruth Social to find out what on earth the presresident has got in store for them today. I think there's a number of things that sort of raises. First of all, yes, Millennia is rarely at the White House. We know this. Michael Wolf has chronicled this U Michel Woof has been to court over this Secondly Who is Who is running Donald Trump inner circle, who is making the policy decisions. One of the things that this book makes a point of is it's a very small number of people. It's maybe five or six. key people are not in the loop. Scott Besson, who I just named, D didnn't know key elements of the Iran warar before it happened. He's a treasury secretary, kindind of important So who's making this who' making these policies happen? Incredibly good question that we do not know the answer to You mentioned the disordered sleep, there are clear questions over the presresident's cognitive health and his physical decline, which we don't get answers to I'm just going to give an extreme example of Woodrow Wilson and his wife, that his wife essentially ran the govern ran the government towards the end of his administration after the stroke The thing that was thrown at the Biden administration by the MAGA side by Trump himself was that Sleepy Joe was not in control Who was? Who was? Who was the auto pen There's a lot of questions here that sound a bit like that. If a woman of thirty four as access to truth social and truth social is the most important way to communicate for the president thenen who's in charge? We don't know. So what does the reaction mean of Do we know JD Vance, Marco Rubio to these revelations? did they know all along that Natalie Harp is hanging out at the White House long after they've gone home to the observatory and wherever Marco Rubio lives. There has been an absolute absence of reaction to that. I mean, there are so many questions that need to be asked of Marco Rubio when he's on tour in the Middle East. There ares so many questions. JD Vance Not somebody that lets himself get in front of reporters too often, although I know we're going to talk about what happened when he got on a stage U but neither of them so far have reacted in public obvious that everybody in the White House has been talking about the presence of Natalie Harper. That's why she is so prominent in this book. I go back Michael Wolf Chronicled Tar extraordinary presence at that trial Riding around behind Donald Trump in a golf cart with a portable printer So everybody knows about this. Ebody knows that she's there And there are very, very good questions for them to answer, very legitimate questions for them to answer. I would very much like someone to follow me around and print things out. I wonder if Natalie, I mean, I wonder if that's a new kind of job, human printer that you know in the days of AI. I know we're all supposed to be super digital, but sometimes just much more efficient having loads of pieces of paper in front of you So I think it's an interesting job. humuman printer, I thinkan pr life once the day Yeah we should advertise for one, the Daily Beast. We can't get a golf cart in the office If you're okay with one outside She had a golf cart in the office t think definitely Maybe. Okay, okay. Or we could get one of those child's toys. I could write around in one of Oh, they could write around behind me in one of those. All right. so or the other thing that they could do, the other thing they could do here is teleport themselves. Oh Teleport themselves like Greg, Phillips, I am obsessed by this story. Greg Phillips Head of FEMA who said on a podcast that he had been teleported several times once outside a church in Georgia, another time to a waffle house. and even Donald T even Donald Trump when presented with the idea that one of the leaders of FEMA, which the know federal emergency unit, which is incredibly important for people who've had hurricanes or terrible storms tearing through their states and have to rebuild. And it's a desperate situation often for thousands of people as the weather seems to get more and more extreme Even Donald Trump said he didn't know much about teleporting and he was going to find out more about it, clelearly thinking, who is this strange person that we have hiding out at FEMA. So can you fill me in? He'sone he's gone missing, right? He's obviously been teleorted. teleported. was he was employed at FEMA. by Christisyome Ice Barbie And u he he's he's very he's I mean he's a strange man Who gets teleported? I just have to read out his words because they are epically fun. I was with my boys one time I was telling them I was going go to Waffle House and get Waffle House endnded up at a waffle house. this was in Georgia And I end up at a waffle house like fifty miles away from where I was There is an important caveat here. Teleporting is no fun. It sounds super fun. I mean, I mean it sounds great. Yes, Wh would be teleporting? There's no CSA It fun. Yeah, it's not fun. It sounds fantastic, fun. It's too warm in Paris, you can go, Ohh, I'll just teleport to somewhere cooler. Oh I would love to teleport to the beach right now. where I need I mean, who would not rather be at the beach? Unfortunately does seem the teleporting had not necessarily the happiest of endings the next time it happened because he was dropped in a ditch near a church. So I don't know. he fell out with the teleporter, He didn't pay en off and who knows? So what do we think? Is this a case of someone having hallucinations? Do his colleagues think that he was taking some kind of mind altering substances What do we think was actually going on here? Because he seemed to I watched the podcast that he was on. and as you say, he ended up at a waffle house in Georgia and when he called his kids and he's He said, Hey guys, I'm at the waffle house. and they were like, Well, which waffle house and he was like the one in Georgia? And they were like, Well, that's not possible. You just left And he was like, I've been teleported. I mean, what do his colleagues think? Do they think that he's sparking at the moon? What do we think? I think The charitable thing that one could say is this's a sixty five year old man who is a born again Christian and I'm assuming that there is some faith based element of his beliefs here u that is in some way engaged However, it was very clear that people within FEMA did not really want to interact with them that he was a very str he was obviously a strange appointment. and that he was very, very much isolated and left left well alone And the incredibly lucky thing for FEMA As you just said, Joanna, People absolutely need FEMA when we think about hurricanes, about floods, about appalling natural disasters Bye by I was could say by the grace of God, perhaps, but maybe that's who was doing their teleporting U byight By chance There actually have not been significant national disasters During Greg Phillips time at FEMA whichich means that now that he's out, we luckily do not know what the teleporter would have done in this situation. So perhaps we have in fact been teleported away from crisis It It's it's such an important such an important agency and u It's it seems like a lucky escape I want to say to any people out there who've been teleported I mean, Please write and give us your comments on YouTube. Listen, if you've been teleported, it doesn't matter why you've been teleported to a waffle house, Kind of strange to get teleported to a waffle house of all the restaurants you could go to a waffle house, isn't the one I choose although I do like occasional waffles. There's one thing worth seeing about Waffle House and FEMA The Wafflehouse index is one of the most important ways that people are able to find out when disaster is approaching because waffle houses are always the last to close And when they start closing, that is when you need to evacuate. So that may be that he was onto something here Ryan Reynolds here from MintMobile with a message for everyone paying Big wireless way too much. Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop. With Mint, you can get premium wireless for just fifteen dollars a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpaying, no judgments, but that's weird. Okay, one judgment? Anyway, give it a try at mintmobile d. com slash switch. Upront payment of forty five dollars for three month plan, equivalent to fifteen dollars per month required, intro rate for three months only, then full price plan options available. taxes and fees extra. Saf terms at mintmobile. com. Okay, the Waffle House Teleporting index. Okay. So She, what, maybe he's teleported himself to the state fair. He might have unfortunately Not a lot of people have teleported, not a lot of people have taken the train, notot a lot of people have even turned up. Well, I was gonna to say he'd be very visible at the state fair because there's no one else there. There's no out there. And there's no wafflehouse So the great American state fair and It is almost july fourth. We are about to mark two hundred and fifty years of the United States. I just see that Maybe maybe these celebrations have gone slightly Trumpy, maybe a bit MGa U One of the celebrations that was actually predated Trump was supposed to be a state fair but for the whole nation on the national mall. And to be honest, sounds pretty good, right? Who doesn't love the state fair? There's butter sculptures, there's deep fried stuff Everybody it's crowded, it's busy, it's summer, there's games, theres shows. U Unfortunately uh, it got it got sort of taken over by the Trump lot and I'm afraid I have to tell you It's not been well attended so far And there was quite literally a meltdown at it A meeltdown. Well, first of all, I think lots of states haven't taken part. Crect The Democratic states haven't taken. Many of the deemocratic states. for example, Josh Sapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania As just said that he was aware of it And there was very little interest from businesses in his state in taking part because It had become partisan, it had become Trumpy. and what business wants to be associated with just one bit of political division. Right because customers come from both sides, right? So what was the meltdown exactly? I have a feeling I know where this is going. The literal meltdown was that they lost power in the food tent and what do what do you want to get at a state fair on a warm day? you want a nice ice cream corner, an nice tub of ice cream the ice cream melted Oh no, the ice cream melted. Ice cream melted. and you know, many people have pointed out that Joe Biden was still president, there's no way ice cream would have been allowed to melt Well, he would have dropped it though. Do you remember how Joe Biden was always dropping his e? He did drop There's something so nice about a president admitting he likes ice cream. Although we know Donald Trump likes ice cream because he needs carttons of it around his bed. tubs of it aroundound his bed. So is this an embarrassment and a humiliation for Donald Trump? this sort of state fair thats nobody's going to? I mean, I saw there's a big ferris wheel. I mean, it sort of looks like it should be fun It should be, you would think. There is a big ferris wheel. There is also a kind of miniature version of the Arc de Trump made out of plywood and looking kind of a bit tacky. and I know you are near the Arc de Triomph. Um, so you've got the real thing, and in all itss Parisian Parisian, I should say, for Americans, magnificence Uh This one's Kendataky, it's plywood. the gold's not quite right. The other attractions are basically people aren't there There's no sign of really a crowd. and the whole thing started. It was opened on Wednesday night by who would you get to open this than none other? Of course than Donald Trump Oh of course, Donald Trump. I thought actually I was going to say Lee Greenwood. Well, you were right. You were right. And Lee Greenwood, I'll just say I discovered today he's only eighty three. so Sightly surprising. but And there was a Lee Greenwood. There was Sean Duffy, the transportation seecretary And I'll just say it was tone to say it was tone and deaf,'m you know, I'm not an events organizer This was the event that was supposed to have, we will all remember, eighties and maybe a nineties charitable acts, including Millie Vanilli. Vanilla Ice Buster M And if you remember all but vanilla ice pooled out when they realized that the whole thing was MGa So Sean Duffy opened it by getting up on stage and saying, oh, we've got the Marine Corps band here. Obviously, they don't get to pull out, you know, they they may have their views, but they're stuck there and said, aren't they better than those lib tards that cancellled? I just want to say this is a phrase that's used on the right a lot But when you break it down, really pretty revolting liberal retardred horrible wed. And Id just say the hypocrisy of this is awful. Sean Duffy is the very proud father of an eight year old daughter who has D Syndrome and he has spoken often about that. He and his wife who is a Fox newews anchor because obviously in Trump worlds, that's what you are I'm have spoken about their love of their eight year old daughter and they are very prominently anti choice and have made that a thing. And then he gets up and uses this phrase, which calls back to the worst sort of prejudice against people with Down S syndrome and with all sorts of other conditions and that they have to that they and their families deal with Anyway, that that was pretty bad U Lee Greenwood signang obviously and that was That was what you expect. And then Donald Trump got up And we know because we saw the pictures, the crowds just started to melt away, rather like the ice cream from the back It was the same usual Donald Trump speel that we have all heard So notot auspicious opening Donald Trump has been raging on trruth social. about how this was the biggest crowd possible. There were forty five thousand people there. There were not. And none of them left before the end. That's the thing that has really angered him. He's back to obsessing about crowd sizes on the national mall So crazy. And do people have to pay to go to the state fair or is it free It is free but ticketed and you cannot take in anything I I presume in case you vandalize it because obviously that's been a problem at the reflecting pool. So let's talk about where we are with the reflecting pool. As we know, it's not reflecting or it's reflecting badly on Donald Trump. A lot of people have suggested that this is the perfect modern day example of narcissis. He said and he got caught out and we wrote about this by Caitlyin Collins after he'd said that the pool had been vandalized and it had a sort of rubber bottom that it was completely unvandalizable. And then it turned out he said that some people had snuck down at the dead of night and managed to avoid any CCTV cameras and they'd slashed it and slashed it and were bit The bottom sort of floating up. and then Caitlyin Collins of CNN very smartly pointed out to him that he'd specifically said this thing was unslashable. It was unvandalizable, and that it was the best, the most incredible. ever Nobbody's ever seen anything like a bottom of the reflecting pool.. And in fact, we know it's had algae, ducks have died swimming around because they'd put such harsh chemicals in people are going down to see it because it's become a perverse tourist attraction They're getting arrested if they put their hand in the water. So where are we now? Have we drained the reflelecting pool at this point? orr what's happening to it? We've drained the swamp. This reflecting pool as of as we speak stillill has water in it. It is now surrounded by Fening close to it that Obviously they don't want people close to it. They are claiming that this is because they're preparing the national Mall for july fourth Nobody really believes that U it is not quite as ale filled as it was earlier in the week because they haveve been pumping water in and out to try to filter it They the lucky break of a lot of rain And algae needs sunlight There's a lot of rain, that diluted it. they've been cleaning the water. but everybody knows this ale coming back. It's still there. It's going to grow again manyany people who are watching will have been and seen the reflecting pool. and remember All the times I've ever seen it. It's kind of like it does have algae in it. DC is a swamp. We all know that, you know, that's kind of Pierre Charl Long Fong did an amazing design of DC. It's still a swamp so don't We expect it to be drained shortly, maybe over the weekend, maybe Mbe maybe later we don't expect it to be fixed quite frankly, because the company that repaired and you know, did it up fifteen years ago has Be asked about whether about what they think. And this company says, in fact, they were asked if they could come back and have another a refurbishment of it and they said, yourour plan is not possible. you don't have enough money and you can't do it in that timeline. So we know that it's not going to work. The people that can fix the pool that can drain the swamp are unavailable. So we're back to the pool guy, I fear This episode is brought to you by Credic Karma. When it comes to your money, Credit Karma keeps you ahead of the game. You can count on Credit Karma to keep up with your financial needs as they evolve, helping you monitor your progress and giving you personalized recommendations. so you can make strides towards your goals. Make sure you're on the right track No matter where you are on your financial journey Int a credit karma, Karma you can count on downownload today To what extent, Hugh, is this just a problem a perennial problem with the reflecting pool. And to what extent is it because the The contract system didn't work. it didn't go out to bid. It just went to someone who'd never done anything like this before, but is a friend of Donald Trump's Is it resolvable? I mean, I don't ever remember hearing about the reflecting pool having problems under Biden? It's always had a bit of algae in it, right? That's just how it is. since nineteen twenty two The reflecting pool has never been as pure as you might want, but it's been pretty reflective Trump became obsessed and this is, you, I think this speaks to this current presidency, not as much as last one, this one. he became obsessed by the appearance of Washington, DC And We became obsessed by chucking gold on the White House, which we've heard about, hand gluing bits of gold to the fireplace mantle And he looked at the refight to people that I want it to look like a blue bottom and you know U and he American flag blue? American flag blue. What other color do you expect? He wants to put his mark on it Unfortunately, he has put his mark on it It's a mess It's resolvable, one would expect, but it's expensive The Obama administration spent triple digit millions on it because It is an expensive problem It is difficult to keep water in DC that pure On that scale, six point four million gallons of water A lot of water is exposed to intense sunlight It does not move very much. Those are problems of on a scale that needs expensive solutions, And one of the other aspects of this is where do you get your water from U DC has the river the potomac going through it It's not actually an area with a brilliant water supply. They take the water from the potomac, they purify it, they put it in I't You know, it's what they're going to do build an aqueduct to mountains far away. Whatever the solution is is expensive. And Dond Trump doesn't want expensive. He doesn't want long term He wants immediate now and with with a bit of gold or in this case, a bit of American flag blue I know, I'm amazed they haven't just painted it gold on the bottom. Well that would be even better I just point out by the way that the lining the company that provided the lining, usually its expertise is not in floor lining. It does do that. But its main business is lining flat bed trucks So flat bed trucks where you really don't want any water at all.. And it's such a shame because it's such a beautiful space in DC to go and have a quiet walk. I always like to try and You know, spend some time if I'm down there and I've got a sort of twenty minute break to just actually go and walk the reflecting pool because it's such a wonderful idea that you pause to reflect. Well, we'll keep an eye on it and the reporting at the Daily Beast has been first class on this. It's such a messy problem and our gossip column, the swamp, which is all about. 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You write it, Nico Heinz our Global Affairs editor writes it And it's the joy of my mornings. My first the first thing I turn to every morning because it's so much fun. Well, that is very kind. Google the dailybeast on sububstack or go to the dailybeast. sububstack. com and you will be able to sign up for it. We'll put a QR code up. for those who are watching a video, sorry if you're watching or sorry if you're listing on a deal, Q codes are pretty great. Yes, we are doing that twice a day. morning morning and afternoon bringing you the latest and the livevelliiest of what's happening in the news. And I will say it is usually Usually focused on the Trump administration. Surprise, surprise Be they just keep delivering. They do keep delivering. so We mentioned the Star Wars bar and the strange group of characters that George Lucas pulled together. and I should remind people, by the way, the Hont Nf installation, which I was recommended, the last day is on Sunday. So if you happen to be in Paris or you feel like a sudden last minute trip to Paris, I can't recommend it highly enough and it won't be there on Monday. So you need to go down and A tip you have to act on. Yes, you do have to act on it now. It really is enormous fun. Less fun was listening to JD Vance talking about how actually The one president who resigned for Iillegal, I mean, criminal behavior He's saying, well, if it was now, you know, Richard Nixon, the Watergate scandal, it would' have been twelve hours on social media as part of the news cycle and we would have moved swiftly on. Not so far. It's justust amazing. and I think it's worth playing every word of this because it really is something. So we were talking about this a little bit backstage, but I'm actually fascinated by Nixon as a character in history I think that his historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a Rnaaissance, but I think deservedly so As I joked with Robert backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a twelve hour news story The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy And by the way, if you look at the story of how Dep state took down Richard Nixon It's not all that different from what The same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump and the first Trump administration. There is a parallel I also just at a personal level, you know Okay Young senator, vice president, writes some best selling books, is hated by the media. It kind of sounds like JD Vance. So I'm a little Ive always lik I've always liked Richard Nixon. I've always liked Richard Nixon. and he compares himself to Richard Nixon. He's young, he's the vice president. He writes best selling books. He's always liked Richard Nixon literally the only president, the sole president Out of forty seven No one's ever seen anything like it Who's resigned? It's incredible So I would just sort of say, let's game this out you're a young vice president who Hs elderly or not elderly, but certainly a possibly sickly president who's coming towards the end of his second term, one who's never held elected office before. And you're wondering what to do next And u you discover that the only person that's been in this situation before is unfortunately, Richard Nixon Do you? Oh my God, I'm never going to utter that man's name in public. People are going to then attach his name to mine and it's going to be a nightmare and I would just be crazy to do that Do you go on stage at the Richard Nixon? Ridential library with their name plastered behind you and say, I've always liked Richard Nixon and basically say I'm just like him. he's my hero, laugh about it and think that you've done a great job. And obviously if the answer is a, you're probably kind of sensible politician who's a You've got a decent chance of people being persuaded that you're not Richard Nixon. If the answer is B you're JD Vance, congratulations. I think Democrats who follow this thing to work out how to attack I future candidates M this morning being going like, oh great, we can take summer off Who knows? I mean, the interesting thing too is he says there's been a renaaissance because among some you know, academics and u political activists, I guess, you would say The idea that Richard Nixon opened conversations with China, he tried to get the Soviet Union to come up with a nuclear deal. I mean Yes, that's also against what Donald Trump is doing right? So Donald Trump is not trying to do the same thing with China. In fact, he slapped tariffs on China and he's snuggling up to Vladimir Putin. you know one of the more intended elements of Richard Nixon's eventual taking of the presidency in nineteen sixty eight was whether he intentionally delayed peace or intentionally sabotaged peace talks to end the Vietnam War so that he could end of the Vietnam War. Nixon end a war. Dixon actually didn't start any wars. We can talk about his administration of the Vietnam War, but See it out of Vietnam Kind of awkwardly kind of badly, you know, but He didn't go and bomb Iran for fun or whatever it was that caused him to cause Trump to bomb Iran. He also set up the EPA, the ennvironmental Protection Agency. Yes, there is there is in I think fair to say right of center circles, but also just broadly E intrigue or insight or an interest in reassessing the administration of Richard Nixon separate from Watergate What there is not In these circles is any belief that it's a good idea to say, do you know what Watergate, not that bad and the Dep state did it Richard Nixon paid people to commit a crime. That's why he had to resign. He was going to be impeached. He got a pardon. He got a pardon because he was going to be prosecuted. and Are you sure this is who you want to be your u Your elite motif, JD I wrote a little song to remind you, Choice Hotels get you more of the experiences You val.. The Cambria hotel's got it all. a rooftop ball, have a ball. Ccktails up and feel just right. M Cambria your homeaz right Bring a date, your teen, or even your mom, Brook direct at choiceuails dot com. See y on the roof Well, Jie Vance is no stranger to doing one hundred and eighty degree turns, Isy. We know that. And again, I recommend anybody who is curious about JD Vance or curious about the Vance's marriage to run, D't walk to Usher Vance's story time with the seconde lady. I dissected it and analyzed it with Michael Wolf on inside Trump's head. this week second lady has her husband on the very busy vice president, who has, as we know, been negotiating hopefully peace with the Iranians, rushed back to read Winnie the Poo. So there you have it, Hugh, a fan of Winnie the Poo. He's a fan of Richard Nixon. What is this man not a fan of? He is the Renaissance man of I mean I was going to say actually he comes from Cincinnati, so he's kind of you know The classical background there is very very hybro interests which seem, let's be honest, really weird. And that's That's one thing I think that comes across in this is It is impossible for people not to watch this and they are going to see this on TV ads if he runs for president It is impossible for people not to watch this and think, This guy's weird. This guy's weird. Well, actually we should just throw in a final note to Katie Miller. wife of Stephen Miller, who this week tweeted out given the Sotuses decision to appeal the temporary Protection order for Haitians and for Syrians in this country. Well, you can see what she said here. She's referring to that famous moment during the debate when Donald Trump suddenly from nowhere, decided to say that Hasian's in Springfield, Ohio were eating their neighbour' pets. Can we just play that clip in Springfield They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. they're eating They're eating the pets of the people that live there. So Katie Miller, the wife of course of Stehen Miller who is Probably putting aside Natalie Harp Donald Trump's most significant and in terms of policy, powerful aid She is a full time social media influencer She has a YouTube channel and she is prolific on X the social media platform whose boss Elon Musk she used to work for in a situation that became a sort of intriguing intriguing question over her relationship with Stephen Miller. However, moving past that And as you rightly say, the Supreme Court lifted or the Supreme Court gave Trump quite an unexpected victory of saying that they could remove temporary protective status from people from Haiti and Syria And these are people who had fled this country, had come to the United States because Haiti, we know, is in a bad way. Many of them have settled in Springfield in Ohio whichich is, um mium medium sized industrial city There's about ten thousand people there of hat and origin And The had this crazy val attack on them by JD Vance. by Donald Trump And of course, that was almost two years ago Katy Miller, straight back to that clip, straight back to this incredibly twisted racist approach to attack these people. And I'll just say that She She obviously received a lot of feedback is perhaps one word for it from people. But among those who were really, really angered by this ruling itself where the rock ribbed Republican governor of Ohio, Mike De Wwine, who issued an extraordinary statement U that this was This was a mistake. that's a very you know, sort of measured word to use about the Supreme Court. But when we talk about the Supreme Court The language is you know, often measured unveiled he described it as a mistake. And he said that if this is not in the best interest of the United States or Ohio So Katy Miller U your own party doesn't agree with you on this But this is about Stephen Miller and his fanatical deportation agenda and As Mike De Wayne the Governor of Ohio was pointed out These ten thousand Haitians in Springfield are immediately eligible to be rounded up by ice is what Stephen Miller would rather clearly like to do, and I believe we have a clip Which just shows you his sort of spitittle fck effect. And we can finally remove these Haitian illegal migrants from the United States. It is a momentous victory, albeit this should have never taken ten years. It is outrageous that we have judges in this country who continue to supplant their own radical beliefs for the democratic views and judgments of hardworking American citizens Just when you're getting warmed up, I was starting to laugh about the definition of temporary. ten years That's the definition of temporary. So I think kind of mask off there, right? You perform and then you laugh and giggle about it This is this is a major problem affects clearly these people from Haiti and from Syria U You can't you actually cannot fly from the United States to Haiti The Federal Aviation addministration doesn't allow you to because it's not safe. How are we going to remove these people? and Stephen Miller is obviously f firstirsting over the idea that we can round them up That's what went wrong in Minneapolis. It's what cost Ice Barbie her job It's what u It's what Republicans who care about polls and who care about the election in November are thinking, this is a nightmare. If we see those scenes again People are disgusted when they see Families brought out at da and families marched down streets, children rounded up None of this is popular and yet here is Stehven Miller. Thirsting over the possibility of this happening to a very specific group Well, and you also saw him there almost performing for an audience of one, knowing that Donald Trump is probably watching it and that he's very much still engaged. We haven't seen as much from Stephen Miller recently because of course, people have been focused on the war in Iran. but he's been working all along. Hugh, it's always good to see you and to have an up some of the week I hope we can do this again next week. and I can't wait to get back to New York. I might be teleporting to the st the state fair, Joanna. I'm not sure if we should risk going on the ferris wheel if anybody's going I don't know. I mean, I'm sure it's fine. But nothing would persuade me to get on that ferris wheel. I was thinking about that with the melting ice cream, with the reflecting pool, producing all sorts of weird gaseous bubbles, nothing You would get stuck at the top of it and you would never come down. That would be my fear. 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