Mark Halperin

That's bankonyourself.com slash mark one more time, bankonyourself.com slash mark.

All right, next up, joining me now to try to make sense of all the things I'm confused about, two people capable of doing just that, Beverly Halberg, president of District Media Group.

She's also a fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.

And Haima Moore, principal at Cornerstone Government Affairs, a former director of the office of the DNC chair.

Grateful to you both for making time.

Happy State of the Union Day.

Good to see you, Mark.

Hi, Ma.

I'm so concerned about AI.

I want it to be wonderful for America, for every family, every individual.

And then on Monday, some outfit writes a paper about how AI is going to destroy the economy.

And the stock market takes a crash.

And I don't think anybody thinks the Trump administration is going to lead us through this.

So if you were if you were White House chief of staff to President Bartlett or whoever, what would what would you think the proper role of a president is to lead us through the elites and the people at large in America to lead us through this?

Beverly?

All right, I love the way you both framed it and you lead to this gap between like this paper that got written that caused the market to go down.

Like, we're the people.

We need to take control of this.

We can't just be repeaters of doomsday scenarios.

And if the people are worried about the combination of the scale of change this is going to bring, not just in terms of jobs lost, although that's huge, but the scale it's going to bring to all corners of our society, along with, as you, Beverly, said, doomsday scenarios coming from some of the smartest people around.