Episode 5542: Holding Jack Smith Accountable; Inflated Prices Of AI Stocks

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How real is the White House escalation and what happened in the Oval Office tirade?

Unknown 0:00

The White House escalation, what is your reporting regarding how real that is?

Ian Bremmer 0:06

I think it's very real, and it was mentioned in the intro, and this is great Wall Street Journal reporting, but a separate administration official confirmed to me that Trump did have this tirade during a recent Oval Office meeting.

Stephen K. Bannon 0:18

He called the Iranians lunatics and scumbags and used some other expletives to describe them. And then separately, it's sort of taking a personal toll on the president and his top aides. There's threats of assassinations against the president. The top aides have been told to not take um regular car services in terms of the threat they face and lastly you know the dignified return you know he met those families he talked very warmly about the families of family particularly of one soldier and i i think you know that brings the reality to him so he's frustrated but i would agree with ian he's got no easy answers here and and you're correct to say you know the decision to launch this war he's put himself in this position

Unknown 1:02

for the people behind me please go ahead hi mr president um i want to ask about the saudi nuclear deal uh this man over your shoulder announces a big deal after 18 months of negotiating with the saudis seems like it's all done it's signed and then you come out throw uh some new conditions on top of it the whole thing blows up so did he get out ahead of you or what happened there no nobody got out ahead i mean i just say that in order to do it they have to be a

Donald J. Trump 1:29

member of the Abraham Accords, which have been very successful. But it's time now that they do it. They and others didn't want to do it because of the problem that they had with Iran. You don't have that problem anymore. You don't have a great power there anymore. You have a problem, but the problem is disappearing day by day. They were the bully of the Middle East. They were not going to be that much of a bully anymore. Probably, I think, instinctively want to be. But you don't have the same problem that you would have had four or five months ago before they had no Navy, no military, no anti-aircraft, no leaders. I mean, their leaders are gone. A lot of things have changed with respect to that country.

Donald J. Trump 2:09

So, no, we want them to — it's a two-way street, and we think it's very important for the future of the Middle East. The Abraham Accords have been incredibly successful for the countries, as you know, for the countries in them. And I think it's very important. So, you know, at some point they'll join. They'll join and they'll do their civil. That's who I call a civil nuclear. But that's what it is. No enrichment is civil nuclear.

Unknown 2:34

About Iran. What is the exit strategy?

Donald J. Trump 2:38

Well, I think there's a lot of them. There's a military exit where we just keep going just the way we are and we can even make it. a heavier dose, and it's knocking out everything they have. Or there's a smarter strategy, and that's you make a deal. And they want to make a deal. I just don't think they're ready yet. But they do want to make a deal. Sometimes they don't want to say they want to make a deal. They want to be the tough guys. But they do want to make a deal. There's two ways. I mean, it's — you can just keep doing exactly what we're doing and take them apart piece by piece. We could do it in a more rapid fashion, which we might do. Or we can negotiate with them, which we're also doing right now.

Donald J. Trump 3:17

I mean, as we speak, we're talking to them.

Ian Bremmer 3:19

Of overreach, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jim Jordan, is now asking Trump's DOJ to investigate former special counsel Jack Smith.

Unknown 3:29

Late last night, Jordan sent a criminal referral to Todd Blanch, accusing Smith of lying to Congress about his investigation into Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Michael Steele 3:40

Now, folks, let's be clear. There's no evidence, non-zero, not a nilch, that Jack Smith lied about anything under oath, period. But we do know the president and his allies want to punish Smith for telling the truth about the president's actions.