Jeffrey Sachs

Even in actual dictatorships, the public still is going to have a say at some point.

You're still somewhat constrained by what people are going to tolerate.

And yeah, if you are causing a financial collapse...

People are struggling to afford like basic necessities.

You're threatening to take all the jobs away with AI and you're getting us into a disastrous war.

You know, I think you're going to be I think I think you're going to people are not going to just go along with you also rigging and stealing the elections.

I think they'll have something to say about that.

Let's go and put up E2 on the screen here.

So Trump is saying now he wants to talk to the Iranians after assassinating their supreme leader and bombing their country and starting this war.

He told The Atlantic, quote, they want to talk.

I've agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them.

On the contrary, though, it does not appear that the Iranians want to talk for understandable reasons, especially after we used diplomacy now multiple times in a row as a ruse in order to attack their country.

But what do you make of this outreach from President Trump and also the relative silence from the administration after launching this war?

But is there a plan to make sure that happens, Senator?

Is there a plan?

Does the president have a plan to guarantee that that happens?

Let me go ahead and put E5 up on the screen to your point about the Gulf allies here.

So there was a Saudi analyst who went on Al Jazeera and told them, quote,

And we have seen some impacts throughout the region, including unbelievable images in Dubai, which is of course a playground of the global rich where some of the luxury hotels have been hit.

I can scarcely wrap my head around