Krystal Ball

The anything for cash is justified.

It's a good fit for him there as well.

Look, if you could put on your sort of political hat here.

Harry Anton over at CNN did an analysis of how Americans are viewing the idea of this event in general and didn't find a lot of broad based public support for it.

Let's go ahead and play E7.

So not a lot of support there.

And then I'm also curious for your view on, you know, you've made the case probably better than anyone how central UFC was to Trump's reelection, appealing to young men, young men who aren't particularly political.

You know, the whole podcast sphere, very important with that and also tied in directly with UFC with Dana White and Joe Rogan.

being sort of the entree point there.

Well, his approval rating with young men, as it has with virtually everyone, has really fallen off a cliff.

He won young men by a single point, which was an extraordinary accomplishment because usually young people in recent years have voted for Democrats.

Now he is underwater some 30 plus points among that same demographic.

So I'm wondering if you think that this type of event will hit the same with that group that was so central to his reelection.

I mean, it's some extraordinary reporting.

Either way, it's so accurate that the White House is afraid that they literally have the verbatim tapes.

I mean, that's pretty incredible and I think provides a lot of credibility to these accounts, which you always have to take with a grain of salt because it all depends on who is leaking to you and the way they want themselves to be portrayed.

I still suspect that it wasn't recorded.

I still suspect that it was, that they just had good sources in the room who were able to provide them with quotes that they were able to cross-check and get very close to how it actually unfolded is still my assumption.

But the very fact that the White House fears they have tapes sort of is a direct validation of what they reported out here.

You know, the other thing that's really interesting, though, is I think most people assume it was J.D.