Shelby Talcott
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first heard Jul 2026
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More importantly for Breaking Points.
Yes, of course.
So Republicans writ large, I think we're really nervous ahead of this speech because, as we know, the president has been focused for years on the 2020 election.
We're getting into the midterms.
There was a real concern that
if the president came up last night and said the 2020 election was stolen, yada, yada, yada, that that was going to really set them back.
And so I actually think for a lot of Republican lawmakers, this speech could have gone a lot worse.
He did really stick to the script.
John Solomon told reporters afterwards at the White House that
Every single word of this was reviewed by the CIA.
So the administration was taking sort of the legal aspect of this, I think, pretty seriously.
And it's notable that the president didn't go off script because, I mean, this is maybe the first, the third time ever that he has stayed on script.
And so that's really unusual and I think speaks to just kind of how focused the administration was on what they can say and what they can't say.
Yeah, so there were several documents, and I think the big takeaway for me is that, you know, when you heard the president's speech, he was sort of, I think, insinuating a lot more than the actual documents say.
So the documents do note this sort of push from China, but we've also known that for a really long time.
The administration knew that during the first term.
Like, that wasn't necessarily new, and they didn't go so far as to say China did affect China.
the 2020 election, right?
And then there was the Venezuela aspect, which I thought was really interesting, where the president was talking about this alleged plot by the Maduro regime to influence Venezuelan elections.
And the Trump administration believes that that has sort of vulnerabilities
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