Oliver Darcy

I respect them because they at least tell me what they think.

And that's so rare in politics today.

I mean, the one thing Donald Trump does is he tells you exactly what he thinks on probably too much, right?

Right, he's not afraid of it.

He's not embarrassed about it.

He just says it.

And it's like the Democrats can maybe learn some lesson from that.

I hate to both sides of this.

I see both, right?

You see the good and the bad.

I guess my answer to you right now would be that it does feel like people are being awakened and that does give me some hope.

But you know, one thing I'll say too, looking at Iran right now and people are risking everything to go to the streets.

And it's sad to say that in the United States of America, people are also risking their livelihoods, in some cases now their lives, to go protest in the streets.

And the fact that there would be even...

A little bit of parallels between a very oppressive Islamic regime and what's happening in the United States is disturbing.

No, I mean, I think I think you are actually listening to you reminded me of a lot of conversations I had yesterday reporting this piece about how people inside CBS News are feeling because they're also very worried, I think, very alarmed about the direction that they're

newsroom is headed and seeing this reboot of CBS Evening News and seeing the way Tony DiCoppo is framing January 6th or praising Marco Rubio or going on ride alongs with Christine Noem or giving softball interviews to Pete Hegseth.

I mean, this is this is this is causing deep concern inside the CBS newsroom, Don.

What was that?

Have you ever seen anything like that on the evening news on any program?