Patrick Gaspard

He has a meeting with the president of South Africa, Sir Raul Posa, and he tries to push on South Africa a deal around Starlink. So here you have a person who is influencing

He has a meeting with the president of South Africa, Sir Raul Posa, and he tries to push on South Africa a deal around Starlink. So here you have a person who is influencing

Donald Trump's direction of travel and his foreign policy, of course, blowing up the government as we know it and blowing up our soft power footprint in USAID and basically punishing South Africa with the drawback that we have from PEPFAR, et cetera, at the same time that the same person who happens to be the richest person in the world is trying to convince the South African government that they should enter into a financial arrangement with him and his private enterprise, Starlink.

Donald Trump's direction of travel and his foreign policy, of course, blowing up the government as we know it and blowing up our soft power footprint in USAID and basically punishing South Africa with the drawback that we have from PEPFAR, et cetera, at the same time that the same person who happens to be the richest person in the world is trying to convince the South African government that they should enter into a financial arrangement with him and his private enterprise, Starlink.

Donald Trump's direction of travel and his foreign policy, of course, blowing up the government as we know it and blowing up our soft power footprint in USAID and basically punishing South Africa with the drawback that we have from PEPFAR, et cetera, at the same time that the same person who happens to be the richest person in the world is trying to convince the South African government that they should enter into a financial arrangement with him and his private enterprise, Starlink.

All of this stuff gets braided together in ways that we need to do a better job of interrogating and challenging the way Congressman Stephen Horsford, for instance, challenged the U.S. trade rep around whether or not market manipulation was happening. We have to call this stuff out and name it for the American people to be able to recognize it.

All of this stuff gets braided together in ways that we need to do a better job of interrogating and challenging the way Congressman Stephen Horsford, for instance, challenged the U.S. trade rep around whether or not market manipulation was happening. We have to call this stuff out and name it for the American people to be able to recognize it.

All of this stuff gets braided together in ways that we need to do a better job of interrogating and challenging the way Congressman Stephen Horsford, for instance, challenged the U.S. trade rep around whether or not market manipulation was happening. We have to call this stuff out and name it for the American people to be able to recognize it.

I saw that your interview yesterday with Catherine was great and spot on and touched on all the things. And it is important for us to kind of reiterate now that we didn't kind of go back to the normal. And even though the markets rallied for a couple of hours yesterday, the drops are still historic and precipitous.

I saw that your interview yesterday with Catherine was great and spot on and touched on all the things. And it is important for us to kind of reiterate now that we didn't kind of go back to the normal. And even though the markets rallied for a couple of hours yesterday, the drops are still historic and precipitous.

I saw that your interview yesterday with Catherine was great and spot on and touched on all the things. And it is important for us to kind of reiterate now that we didn't kind of go back to the normal. And even though the markets rallied for a couple of hours yesterday, the drops are still historic and precipitous.

And economists on the left and right in the center are waking up right now to the reality that's going to take some time to recover from this crisis.

And economists on the left and right in the center are waking up right now to the reality that's going to take some time to recover from this crisis.

And economists on the left and right in the center are waking up right now to the reality that's going to take some time to recover from this crisis.

And that 10% thing is a misnomer because we still have 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, on auto, and huge tariffs on... generic pharmaceuticals from India that's going to be hugely problematic for everybody in this country, particularly our seniors are going to be hit in a really pernicious way as a result of this. So all that said, on the economic front, really important, Tim.

And that 10% thing is a misnomer because we still have 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, on auto, and huge tariffs on... generic pharmaceuticals from India that's going to be hugely problematic for everybody in this country, particularly our seniors are going to be hit in a really pernicious way as a result of this. So all that said, on the economic front, really important, Tim.

And that 10% thing is a misnomer because we still have 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, on auto, and huge tariffs on... generic pharmaceuticals from India that's going to be hugely problematic for everybody in this country, particularly our seniors are going to be hit in a really pernicious way as a result of this. So all that said, on the economic front, really important, Tim.

But let's talk about that conversation that Steve Horsford had yesterday with the trade rep, as the trade rep is clearly finding out in real time that his boss has pulled the rug out from under him as he's like defending the indefensible. And Steve Horsford and many others say, well, what exactly is going on here?

But let's talk about that conversation that Steve Horsford had yesterday with the trade rep, as the trade rep is clearly finding out in real time that his boss has pulled the rug out from under him as he's like defending the indefensible. And Steve Horsford and many others say, well, what exactly is going on here?

But let's talk about that conversation that Steve Horsford had yesterday with the trade rep, as the trade rep is clearly finding out in real time that his boss has pulled the rug out from under him as he's like defending the indefensible. And Steve Horsford and many others say, well, what exactly is going on here?