00:00President Trump wrapped up his trip to the G7 summit with a press conference on Wednesday.
00:04The majority of the questions concerned the Iran Memorandum of Understanding,
00:08and we'll get into that situation in detail later in the show, but here's some of what
00:13the president said about it. And it's a memorandum of understanding. If it doesn't
00:16get done in 60 days, that's all right. We go back to bombing. The past two days have provided a
00:21chance to discuss the details of this historic agreement with many of our closest friends and
00:26allies, including the G7 nations. They are thrilled that we made a deal, every one of them.
00:32He was asked about what happens if the deal goes south, to which he answered this.
00:37This way, if it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out,
00:40I'm blaming J.D. You better be careful, J.D.
00:43The last day of the summit got off to a late start. President Trump was the last one to enter
00:48the room.
00:48We can't be sure about the cause of his tardiness, but right about the time the meeting was scheduled
00:53to begin. The president was in the throes of a particularly long posting storm on Truth Social.
00:58When he entered the room, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant was in his seat, and the president
01:02joked, quote, I'm the boss. Now, Besant was promptly booted from the chair. French President
01:07Emmanuel Macron tried to get the meeting started by shooing the media out of the room, but President
01:13Trump piped up and asked the press corps, quote, would you like to stay for the meeting? It's okay with
01:18me. They were escorted out anyway, and we can assume the meeting began. Oh, and one more
01:23bit from the all-important G7. The group of world leaders released a statement this week promising
01:28to fight what they called lingering poverty around the world. Moments after that statement,
01:35they gathered for a ritzy dinner together, which thanks to a leaked copy of the menu for the event
01:39included caviar and $7,000 magnums of red wine. President Trump delayed the nomination of Jay Clayton
01:48as the next permanent director of national intelligence in an attempt to force Congress
01:53to pass his voter ID bill. What does one thing have to do with the other? Let me explain.
01:59President Trump appointed Bill Pulte a man with no intelligence experience as acting DNI earlier
02:05this month. Zero. That raised some bipartisan eyebrows. Pulte also raised concerns for his actions
02:12as a kind of political retribution enforcer for the president. Suffice it to say, he was not the popular
02:18choice. Democrats and Republicans did not like the idea of him in this DNI job and forced the president
02:24to act quickly to name someone else as a permanent replacement. The carrot at the end of that stick
02:30was the Democrats agreeing to vote to reauthorize part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,
02:36or FISA. So Trump nominated Jay Clayton, the current U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York,
02:42which is right here in New York City. Things aren't going according to plan as far as the president
02:46is concerned, though. In a Wednesday Truth Social post, Trump said, quote, Republicans moved so fast
02:52with the hearings of the great Jay Clayton that Pulte would be gone before the dumbocrats would
02:57vote on FISA. Now the dumbocrats are saying they will vote against FISA. We know how much the president
03:04likes being backed into a corner, so he went ahead and made the extremely unpopular Pulte acting director
03:09anyway against the wishes of both parties. And then he added a little extra zinger, posting, quote,
03:15to add a slight bit of intrigue, but for the good of the nation and the people of our country.
03:20I will
03:21not approve FISA without the Save America Act going along with it. And that is how the voting act
03:27comes into play. Luigi Mangione will plead insanity in his upcoming state murder trial. No pun intended,
03:34but is that not kind of crazy? Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Gregory Caro said Mangione's lawyers will
03:41argue that he was in the throes of an extreme emotional disturbance and experienced a profound
03:47loss of self-control when he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December of
03:522024. This is a big deal. It knocks the charges from murder to manslaughter, which carries a lot less
03:59time in prison. But that is only if the jury ends up buying that defense. And that is a big
04:05but.
04:06But prosecutors have a ton of really strong evidence that this was a carefully planned
04:11and plotted attack. The judge said Mangione's defense attorneys must reveal more details to
04:16Manhattan prosecutors by today about the specifics of their mental health defense. Experts the post
04:21spoke to were split on whether this defense would work. For my money, I don't think I'd buy it.
04:26Now, Mangione's state trial is set to begin on September 8th, and he'll face federal murder charges
04:31in another trial next year. For more on these stories and everything else you could possibly
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