Katty Kay

Everybody watches what happens.

Everybody watches who gets rewards and they watch the playbook.

And they've got enough experience now to look at the playbook and learn how to play it themselves.

And I think we saw that play out, by the way, in China last week.

I think that was unnecessary.

I mean, some people might be listening to this over breakfast.

Especially in the light of the PP tape.

No, too many images.

In our bonus episode this week, we dived into the ballroom.

I have a few theories about that for our founding members.

Take a quick listen.

That's the question.

I was just on set this morning with a whole bunch of people and we were raising this same question.

Is the ballroom actually going to be built?

Because the speculation around Washington at the moment is that it may not get done before Trump leaves office.

And the Senate rulekeeper, Elizabeth McDonough, has actually ruled against the use of taxpayer funds in the bill on Saturday after Democrats argued that security money doesn't belong in it.

for this ballroom.

So I think the financing is still up in the air.

He's getting quite a lot of blowback, both for the amount of money that initially the ballroom was going to cost 200 million, then it was going to cost 300 million, then it was going to cost 400 million.

But now Republicans are proposing this $1 billion, as Anthony says, by