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Frank Gaffney

👤 Speaker
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

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 movement world where there's questions that get raised and presidents sometimes weigh that in. And ultimately, whether you like it or not, all of these jobs are at the pleasure of the president. You are switchable from day one or day 1000 and you don't get to know. And so I like Mike Waltz. I think he's a pretty smart guy, shrewd guy. The signal thing didn't look good.

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

The movement world where there's questions that get raised and presidents sometimes weigh that in. And ultimately, whether you like it or not, all of these jobs are at the pleasure of the president. You are switchable from day one or day 1000 and you don't get to know. And so I like Mike Waltz. I think he's a pretty smart guy, shrewd guy. The signal thing didn't look good.

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

The movement world where there's questions that get raised and presidents sometimes weigh that in. And ultimately, whether you like it or not, all of these jobs are at the pleasure of the president. You are switchable from day one or day 1000 and you don't get to know. And so I like Mike Waltz. I think he's a pretty smart guy, shrewd guy. The signal thing didn't look good.

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

I didn't understand why that happened the way it did. Was it a firing offense or worthy of moving or was it a symptom of other things that were just not clicking? But ultimately, the national security advisor's job is to be at the center of a tough, competitive coordinating process. It needs to flow. It needs to click.

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

I didn't understand why that happened the way it did. Was it a firing offense or worthy of moving or was it a symptom of other things that were just not clicking? But ultimately, the national security advisor's job is to be at the center of a tough, competitive coordinating process. It needs to flow. It needs to click.

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

I didn't understand why that happened the way it did. Was it a firing offense or worthy of moving or was it a symptom of other things that were just not clicking? But ultimately, the national security advisor's job is to be at the center of a tough, competitive coordinating process. It needs to flow. It needs to click.

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

And if change was required, the people on the inside would know better than I would. Yeah.

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

And if change was required, the people on the inside would know better than I would. Yeah.

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

And if change was required, the people on the inside would know better than I would. Yeah.

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

It would be very, very unusual if Secretary Rubio did this long term.

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

It would be very, very unusual if Secretary Rubio did this long term.

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

It would be very, very unusual if Secretary Rubio did this long term.

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

It's a pleasure to be with you, Mike. Thanks for having me.

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

It's a pleasure to be with you, Mike. Thanks for having me.

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

It's a pleasure to be with you, Mike. Thanks for having me.

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

I don't know what to make of it, honestly. The idea that we are continuing to have such discussions is frankly a bit of a puzzlement to me as well. We know for sure that the only thing that comes out of these things is delay and more work by the Iranians on their nuclear weapons program, which of course they deny they have, but we know they do.

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

I don't know what to make of it, honestly. The idea that we are continuing to have such discussions is frankly a bit of a puzzlement to me as well. We know for sure that the only thing that comes out of these things is delay and more work by the Iranians on their nuclear weapons program, which of course they deny they have, but we know they do.

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

I don't know what to make of it, honestly. The idea that we are continuing to have such discussions is frankly a bit of a puzzlement to me as well. We know for sure that the only thing that comes out of these things is delay and more work by the Iranians on their nuclear weapons program, which of course they deny they have, but we know they do.

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

And it's made more worrying by the fact that easily over a year ago, we were told they were only a couple of days away from having a nuclear weapon. At some point, that ceases to be in prospect. If it wasn't before now, the idea that we want to have further discussions with these guys, at the risk of it being in the near future,