Chuck Todd

You had all these people who, you know, the single greatest thing that Donald Trump has ever done is he made people feel like they wanted to contribute to society.

you know, child labor laws didn't pass overnight.

We had to see kids getting, you know, abused and die from these terrible workplaces before we made the changes that were necessary because we were letting the industrialists were running amok, right?

And yes, I think everything that you say to criticize Congress is fair.

AIs kind of may end up running amok.

I think it goes back way more than 20 years.

So we'll get there.

Because it was giving us some insight on their technology.

It's just how much damage has to be done before we collectively decide to act, right?

No, I went 40.

Our founders created a Congress that was the Article I branch.

We had more information about what they were up to.

It was where all the people were.

It was where all the budget was.

To quote Churchill, right?

It gave some stability to the region.

Congress is now less than one half of 1% of the total federal budget.

You can trust the Americans to eventually do the right thing after they've exhausted every other, what is it, every other path that doesn't work.

Now, the downside of that deal was releasing a set of funds that ended up being used for a lot of Iran's proxy terrorist contractors.

Because every time we identify a problem, we basically create an executive branch agency to fix it.