Anthony Zurcher
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So it is a kind of an unseemly look, but whether anything can be done about it at this point, as Sarah says, it's kind of the way this administration operates.
And I guess we shouldn't be too surprised that someone out there is lining their pockets if they have a little bit of heads up notice.
You did a great job here, Anna.
Anthony, are you excited?
I actually think that a lot of Americans care about soccer and they care about the World Cup.
They get into it.
But I also think this is part of a larger political spat between Mikey Sherrill and the Trump administration and FIFA, because it all comes down to
money.
And New Jersey wants more money to pay for security and for the mass of people that are going to be coming in for these games.
And they see an opportunity to squeeze some out of FIFA, understandably.
But I think a lot of people are going to enjoy the soccer games.
But if you've been
following the united states for even you know a few years you know that companies are going to try to squeeze as much money out of all of this and commercialize it and corporatize it as much as they can so you shouldn't be shocked the tickets are more expensive you shouldn't be shocked that hotels are going to be very expensive and that the train to the stadium at least in new york city of all places is going to be more expensive that's kind of the way things work here
Absolutely.
The head of the FBI is a really important job.
It's overseeing the entirety of federal law enforcement efforts.
The FBI investigates terrorism.
It investigates abuses that cross state lines, high profile missing person murder, anything.
You've seen the FBI get deeply involved in this and Kash Patel, who is the FBI director, who is a Trump loyalist dating back to his first term in office.
He was a controversial pick, didn't really have much of a law enforcement background when