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Frank Gaffney

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622 total appearances

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

Yeah. Well, I have to say, I know some of these people involved, and I sort of hate to see quick changes. And obviously, there are issues there that had to be addressed. I don't know why, but this was 100 days in this tenure. That's on the short end for those that are accounting. It's not the shortest, but it is on the short end. These guys have done like a thousand days of work.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

Yeah. Well, I have to say, I know some of these people involved, and I sort of hate to see quick changes. And obviously, there are issues there that had to be addressed. I don't know why, but this was 100 days in this tenure. That's on the short end for those that are accounting. It's not the shortest, but it is on the short end. These guys have done like a thousand days of work.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

Yeah. Well, I have to say, I know some of these people involved, and I sort of hate to see quick changes. And obviously, there are issues there that had to be addressed. I don't know why, but this was 100 days in this tenure. That's on the short end for those that are accounting. It's not the shortest, but it is on the short end. These guys have done like a thousand days of work.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

I have never seen a beginning of an administration that is this active in taxing. But no one has said the change is happening because it's been active in taxing. So I'm still waiting to hear what the explanations are. I never take the first explanation to be the truth that I'll pay to the bank. But, you know, so I look at it. This is a year nine president. He had one term.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

I have never seen a beginning of an administration that is this active in taxing. But no one has said the change is happening because it's been active in taxing. So I'm still waiting to hear what the explanations are. I never take the first explanation to be the truth that I'll pay to the bank. But, you know, so I look at it. This is a year nine president. He had one term.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

I have never seen a beginning of an administration that is this active in taxing. But no one has said the change is happening because it's been active in taxing. So I'm still waiting to hear what the explanations are. I never take the first explanation to be the truth that I'll pay to the bank. But, you know, so I look at it. This is a year nine president. He had one term.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

He was still really, really active in politics and policy when he was out of office, was planning, talking, dealing with other people. So, when you're at a year nine, you're not asking these people to tell you what you think. You're not asking these people to tell you what your priorities and policies are.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

He was still really, really active in politics and policy when he was out of office, was planning, talking, dealing with other people. So, when you're at a year nine, you're not asking these people to tell you what you think. You're not asking these people to tell you what your priorities and policies are.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

He was still really, really active in politics and policy when he was out of office, was planning, talking, dealing with other people. So, when you're at a year nine, you're not asking these people to tell you what you think. You're not asking these people to tell you what your priorities and policies are.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

It's really all about, do you believe things are getting done the way you want to get them done? And you can change the great people that might be in the cabinet with anybody else. It's still this president, his priorities, moving in the direction he's going. And so we're in sort of a different place when it comes to the personnel question.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

It's really all about, do you believe things are getting done the way you want to get them done? And you can change the great people that might be in the cabinet with anybody else. It's still this president, his priorities, moving in the direction he's going. And so we're in sort of a different place when it comes to the personnel question.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

It's really all about, do you believe things are getting done the way you want to get them done? And you can change the great people that might be in the cabinet with anybody else. It's still this president, his priorities, moving in the direction he's going. And so we're in sort of a different place when it comes to the personnel question.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

But is it a good look to make a change right at the heart of your national security team after 100 days? I mean, they're going to face questions about this.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

But is it a good look to make a change right at the heart of your national security team after 100 days? I mean, they're going to face questions about this.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

But is it a good look to make a change right at the heart of your national security team after 100 days? I mean, they're going to face questions about this.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

I don't know if it's anything that says, we live in a world of systems and at the top of the government, there's a lot of systems. You put these different parts together, you start the machine going, you see things bump into each other, you learn as you go. Our media cycles are at light speed further ahead at any time they've been in the past.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

I don't know if it's anything that says, we live in a world of systems and at the top of the government, there's a lot of systems. You put these different parts together, you start the machine going, you see things bump into each other, you learn as you go. Our media cycles are at light speed further ahead at any time they've been in the past.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

I don't know if it's anything that says, we live in a world of systems and at the top of the government, there's a lot of systems. You put these different parts together, you start the machine going, you see things bump into each other, you learn as you go. Our media cycles are at light speed further ahead at any time they've been in the past.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

The multiple things being done at once are not like anything I lived through in the Bush administration. I think someone could just look at it dispassionately and say, okay, this system isn't doing what I want it to do for me if I'm the president. But I'd be lying if I didn't say there's also these inputs that come from the political world, the media world.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 3rd, 2025: Economic Pain in Beijing & U.S.–Iran Negotiation Breakdown

The multiple things being done at once are not like anything I lived through in the Bush administration. I think someone could just look at it dispassionately and say, okay, this system isn't doing what I want it to do for me if I'm the president. But I'd be lying if I didn't say there's also these inputs that come from the political world, the media world.