Trump On Hasan Piker: He's A Terrible Liability

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Why do the panelists consider Hasan Piker a terrible liability for the Democrats?

Unknown 0:00
Time for the f
Martha MacCallum 0:03
Hello everybody, I'm Martha McCallum along with Kellyanne Conway, Harold Ford Jr., Joey Jones, and Tom Shallux. It is five o'clock in New York City, and this is the five.
Unknown 0:19
Мені летні демократ хан фарлев стрімер Хасам Пайкер. What is your take on him and do you think he's a liability for Democrats heading into the United States? I do I think
Donald Trump 0:28
he's a terrible liability. I think they uh he's he's got a power over some of these Democrats and he'll be voting that way. I mean he's a communist, there's no question about it. And the Democrats have a lot of communist
Martha MacCallum 0:43
President Trump weighing in on Abdul Al Sayed's streamer sidekick, Hassan Piker, as Kamala Harris is about to head to Michigan to campaign with Al Sayyed next week in one of the country's biggest Senate battlegrounds. And the candidate sure he that he can use all the help he can get. Because right now Hassan Piker is causing more campaign controversy. This time he has said in a long-ranging, wide-ranging interview with Axios that he І thinks that Iran should have nuclear weapons. Watch.
Hasan Piker 1:12
Do you think Iran should be free to build a nuclear weapon? I think Iran, much like any uh other sovereign nation, uh, has a right to defend itself, regardless of its domestic policies. Do you think the Middle East would be more stable if Iran had a nuclear weapon? I believe yes. I think that the Middle East would be more stable. Having said that, once again, I'm not advocating, I'm not trying to uh you know, send Iran enriched nuclear uranium.
Martha MacCallum 1:40
Meanwhile, as Kamala Harris returns to the campaign trail, questions growing about her political future, Democratic megadonor Reed Hoffman weighing in, turning some of his attention toward another possible twenty twenty eight contender, regardless of his big support for Harris the last time around. Now he's got his eye on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Watch.
Harold Ford Jr. 2:00
Glad you brought up Kamala. Should she run again?
Unknown 2:03
I think it would be a very challenging path for and it's gonna be a very noisy field.
Harold Ford Jr. 2:08
Glad that you brought up, it might be a noisy field. Would you support AOC if she got the knot?
Unknown 2:13
Um well it depends a little bit on um I mean I think she's much more pragmatic than people give her credit for.
Martha MacCallum 2:23
Okay. Um Joey, I'd love to start with you. And I and I want to go back to what Hassan Piker said. And I think President Trump is exactly right that he is uh a distraction, an unwanted distraction probably at this point, but he seems to love being in the limelight. He's doing big long interviews, despite the fact that it may have a negative impact on some of the Democrats that he says he wants in office. But this phrase really stood out to me. When he talked about Iran, he said they have a right to defend themselves. Regardless of their domestic policies, which I would point out include slaughtering tens of thousands of their own people in the streets, squalor, no economy to speak of, killing gay people, zero rights for women in Iran, and chanting death to Israel with the intention of annihilation and elimination of Israel and the United States.
Martha MacCallum 3:10
But he says, regardless of their domestic policies, they should have a weapon.
Joey Jones 3:13
Yeah, I agree with him in the sense of my assessment of Iran is regardless of its domestic policies. Doesn't mean I don't have sympathy or empathy for people in Iran, but I care about the people in the United States, in the United States citizens stationed abroad. And it's Iran's actions against its neighbors in the region and against us specifically for, I don't know, the last forty years that allows most Americans to support taking action against Iran. Now, this w current war and where it is, a lot of people have questions. gonna affect the midterms and you know President Trump for his uh to his credit I guess believes that a change that is lasting has to withstand some arrows and that's where we are right now.
Joey Jones 3:49
But when it comes to Hassan Piker, it's easy to laugh him off as like a radical. But what he's doing is he's taking radical ideas and making them palatable.

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