Discussion on stock trading bans and GOP election challenges (Part 2)

Accountability, corruption. We need finally to pass, you know, bans on stock trading, not just for the Congress, but also for the executive branch. That needs to be as rock solid as possible. So I think that there are ideas that are already in the queue that have to be, you know, just put up into legislative form and get passed as soon as possible. As soon as possible. Now, another thing is, is now Trump and Vance are conceding that the Iran war cost the GOP the election, especially. Vance is trying very hard. Trump's now downplaying his earlier strike threats, which were very severe, actually. And you thought he was gonna double down? Congress isn't sworn until January. Is there anything the emboldened party leadership can do in the meantime? And what will happen in this interim period, from your perspective, he seems rather docile this week for some reason. Except for the ballroom. Yeah. No, except for the ballroom. I am waiting to see. I found Vance's comments to be particularly unconvincing, in part because if you followed the polling, people began to feel relieved when they claimed there was a ceasefire. And then when the ceasefire collapsed, partly because Vance negotiated a very bad deal, people began to feel the pain of high gas prices again. So I think their attempt, especially Vance's attempt, to kind of wiggle out from under the responsibility of Iran is not going very well for them. And at this point, I think Trump is in a bit of a pickle because I think he was planning to double down on attacking. Yes, Murphy had said that before he had his stroke recently on attacking Iran, and he thought Bibi would be his once again, wingman partner. I'm just not sure that that's gonna fly right now because of everything going on in both Israeli politics and American politics. The Congress, I think both, you know, Jeffries and chairs of committees, as well as Schumer and the same in the Senate, can be sending, you know, very clear messages, like a formal notice to the administration that we intend to cut off every penny for further attacks. We expect you to negotiate to get the Strait of Hormuz open.