Chuck Todd
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FDR did that.
FDR put that coalition together, and he was a responsible actor.
So we're going to have very little.
You know, we'll probably get more out of Israel.
I know as a reporter, Israeli sources in some cases are going to be more trustworthy, at least on some of the military aspects and some of the truth about Iran than what we're going to get out of the Trump administration.
And if you don't know what you want written on your tombstone, there's no worse job.
because you have such enormous levers that you can pull on.
Because the Trump administration, even those that want to be truthful to the press, fear getting in trouble for being truthful to the press.
And so, you know, in my private sector life, we deployed a couple hundred million dollars worth of capital projects, made some money for various investors.
So it really has created a very questionable atmosphere for getting the truth, particularly.
It looks good on a resume.
My first year in Congress got a billion dollars of legislation passed specifically to deploy clean energy technologies.
Not that things are measured in dollars, but this was a freshman member of Congress and moving in different ways.
I mean, you know, the truth is usually the first victim, right, in war.
And the part of it that I think is sort of beautiful and inspiring is that I flipped a seat that had been Republican for 50 years.
Well, it's been the first victim of the Trump era.
That's for sure.
All right.
Next question comes from Mark and he writes, hey, can you speak to the scope of President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran?
There were 40 of us in that class of 18 who flipped seats.