and he's peter thiel's guy. and did i mention that donald trump owes hundreds of millions of dollars right now, and his whole campaign now is about doing whatever the last billionaire who spoke to him wants him to do. no matter the incoherence. part of what is so weird about the donald trump campaign right now is whatever the last very rich person said in his ear, he immediately said if that's his new policy and always has been. but in the case of appeal, donald trump really does not want to lose this billionaire, right? he does not want to lose peter thiel. he lost him one before, and he has gone out of his way to get peter thiel back. he just put peter thiel's other bizarre protege on his ticket with him, for which he is paying dearly, because j.d. vance out of the gate looks like a terrible running mate for donald trump. but even still, even after trump did that for him, peter thiel isn't ponying up. he really needs this guy. so what's he going to do in this arizona congressional race? what can he do? he's al

and he's peter thiel's guy. and did i mention that donald trump owes hundreds of millions of dollars right now, and his whole campaign now is about doing whatever the last billionaire who spoke to him wants himwh to do. no matter the incoherence. part ofs what so weird about thw donald trump campaign right now is whatever the last very rich person said in his ear, he immediately said if that's his new policy and always has been. but in the case of appeal, donald trump really does not want to lose this billionaire, right? he does nothi want to lose pete thiel. he lost him one before, and he has gone out of his way to get peter thiel back. he just put peter thiel's other bizarrehe protege on his ticket with him, for which he is paying dearly, because j.d. vance out of the gate looks like a terrible running mate for donald trump. but evenrr nistill, even after p did that for him, peter thiel isn't ponying up. he really needs this guy. so what's he going to do in this arizona congressional race? what can he do? he's

at the same time, peter thiel financially backed j.d.fornia. he then pumped $15 million into a j.d. vance for senate race in ohio that j.d. vance otherwise had absolutely no shot at. it was the largest amount ever given to boost a single senate candidate ever. and, it worked. peter thiel created a senate candidate out of whole cloth. especially once peter thiel personally introduced j.d. vance to donald trump, walked j.d. vance and donald trump's office and helped convince trump to endorse j.d. vance, despite the fact that he just a few years earlier had called trump "reprehensible," and called him "immoral and absurd," had wondered if trump was, "americans hitler." holding peter thiel's hand was enough to get j.d. vance the endorsement from trump. now, peter thiel has got his guy, j.d. vance, onto trump's ticket as his running mate. whatever you think about j.d. vance, the working-class champion who is a venture capitalist a millionaire, his patron in politics, the reason he at age 39 has risen from a guy who was only famous for writing

peter thiel created him in a lab. peter thiel on the vice president and have elon musk on the president at a time when donald trump has personal financial liabilities in the hundreds of millions of dollars that are not going to go away because he is president. we are looking at a situation. >> it is giving harlan crow. >> more than that, think about the government contracts that elon musk is pastor start link. he is so tangled and now he could be in a position where he is sitting behind this the and getting exactly what he wants from a sitting president. >> if you think about the way that these billion years stash my billionaires are purchasing policies that they want and the american government. elon musk as a person to go back to the amber rose, he is someone who is sued by his own employees because they created such a racist environment inside of tesla that people cannot stand to work there. there were parts of the factory called the slave quarters under him. he is someone who said to don lemon when he briefly had

of that book he wrote and then essentially beat the senator of peter thiel and say the senate party say he is working for silicon valley ever since he got there and did nothing for the people he wrote this book about in terms of his own background, that his heart -- hard. that will stick with him.

thiel and say the senate party say he is working for silicon valley ever since he got there and did nothing for the people he wrote this book about in terms of his own background, that his heart -- hard. that will stick with him. >> in 2016 he was comparing donald trump to hitler and he begins this particular piece saying a few saturdays ago my wife and i spent the morning volunteering at a community garden in our san francisco neighborhood. and it goes on from there. now, if that was the description of kamala harris about how she spent her san francisco weekend, he would say i get it but it is stunning and

vance's career i think would not be possible without peter thiel.he $10 million in the 2022 senate election -- amy: in ohio. >> pushed him to make a sort of legitimate candidate at a time when the republican establishment in ohio, there wasn't one particular candidate who was behind, did not know him very well, and wasn't backing him. i think it is important to dwell not just on thiel here, but on the question of silicon valley money. elon musk this would pledged $45 million a month to support a trump super pac from here until the election. amy: almost $200 million stop >> 1/5 of what the truck campaign cost in 2016. up until fairly recently, one of the big dramas around trump's campaign was whether he could raise any money. donors had backed away from him and part because of his many trials and the questions about whether he would continue through the election. this is a situation where you have a relatively few people that have been able to bail out both the men at the top of the republican ticket. amy: i'm peter thiel, people talk about some of h

vance's career i think would not be possible without peter thiel.he $10 million in the 2022 senate election -- amy: in ohio. >> pushed him to make a sort of legitimate candidate at a time when the republican establishment in ohio, there wasn't one particular candidate who was behind, did not know him very well, and wasn't backing him. i think it is important to dwell not just on thiel here, but on the question of silicon valley money. elon musk this would pledged $45 million a month to support a trump super pac from here until the election. amy: almost $200 million stop >> 1/5 of what the truck campaign cost in 2016. up until fairly recently, one of the big dramas around trump's campaign was whether he could raise any money. donors had backed away from him and part because of his many trials and the questions about whether he would continue through the election. this is a situation where you have a relatively few people that have been able to bail out both the men at the top of the republican ticket. amy: i'm peter thiel, people talk about some of h

this is a belief shaped by his relationship with peter thiel.e thinks technological innovation has been perverted by feckless elites who cannot get their act together and use technology to control their economic interests. thiel as a line that we wanted flying cars and we got 140 characters. technology had the potential to revolutionize our lives but instead it gave us twitter and thiel blames that on the perversity and fecklessness of political and cultural elites. when vance describes himself as a postliberal or a liberal, that is what he is getting at. amy: as we talk about billionaires, what about elon musk saying he will be giving $45 billion to the republican efforts to elect president trump every month leading up to november, which would be nearly $200 million? and j.d. vance's relationship with these tech millionaire and billionaires. >> vance, after he went to yale and briefly practiced law he went into silicon valley and work for peter thiel's venture capital firm and spun off his own firm that did not last long. he lived in silicon va

vance ran for senate in 2022 peter thiel was a donor and a big supporter.he question now is will peter thiel come off the sidelines now that his protege is donald trump's running mate? that is something we are looking into. amy: peter thiel took down gawker. amy: with the help of -- >> with the help of hulk hogan. amy: i want to give one more clip of the tape you uncovered of j.d. vance speaking in 2021. >> challenge two is basic truth telling. we live in a society that is terrified to tell the truth. on the left people are terrified to point out the obvious that men and women are different and want different things, at least as an average matter and there are real biological, cultural, religious, spiritual distinctions between men and women. what did transgender -- what the transgender thing is about as fundamentally denying basic reality. amy: that was j.d. vance. talk more about the significance of what he is saying. >> the statement in a way speaks for itself. deny that transgender people anywhere exist. that that identity is not real and not legitimate

he is a creation of peter thiel, he won the primaries because peter thiel is a very weird guy , came in and spent $15 million and then when he was on the ballot after he won the nomination he underperformed on the ticket for 400,000 votes, which, i mean, think about it. that is actually hard to do. then vote for jd vance. he has made a living on saying these are the things and these various podcasts and different interviews and nobody would approve this. you know, i think he is not very likable. and really, part of it is always struck me as not very confident source because he is a base choice and if you really think politically, you have your base lockdown, why in the world would you pick a guy like jd vance? who, you know, has this problem with the 19th amendment, apparently. so yeah, i don't think it is going well and i think i think trump hates people who he feels are making him look bad and that is going to be vance and that is going to be a campaign of his pick. >> well, we are going to definitely be watching. to stewart's point, the trump campaign has said that this was, that

peter thiel put money behind us run for the senate. he has put money against blake masters. j.d.ce was his guy and continues to be his guy. however many years he has been doing this, and i know i read the journal story and it mentioned, he said somebody said he didn't even see vance in the office when he worked at the firm, that peter thiel founded. at the end of the day, however long he was there what little time he was working as a venture capitalist, he's been able to leverage those relationships. that's why he is in silicon valley tonight. >> that is the question why? if he didn't have a successful career, why exactly is he able to leverage those relationships? what do those people know about him? what can they control in him, you've written a lot about this. one of the companies he founded, app harvest was sued by its investors months after vance left the board because he was running for senate, and they sue the company because they claimed they were misled. that company went bankrupt last year when j.d. vance was one year in office as a junior senator in ohio. what is this

back in 2015, vance joined a venture capital firm run by billionaire investor peter thiel. in 2017, he moved back to his native ohio to start a nonprofit. he was elected to the senate in november of 2022, with the help of more than $10 million in donations from thiel. now, from vc to tiktok, our business and tech reporter scott budman has silicon valley reactions to this vp pick. yeah, jd vance spent time here in the bay area, both working alongside tech investors like marc andreessen and peter thiel, not to mention tech ceos like eric schmidt and steve case. now, some say that experience could pay dividends in the silicon valley, both during the race. and should he win and enter the white house without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid. jd vance has been both a supporter and critic of tech companies. among his past jobs working for a few years as a venture capitalist. i think in general this is exciting. we need that tech vc tatiana khanna bailey calls the idea of a vc vp potentially good news for silicon valley. but someone who comes from technology backgroun, k

we have covered peter thiel backing him for some time.in the audience might be asking, we don't get the point here. who is he? what is he about? mike: what they might be seeing in j.d. vance is somebody that's a lot more than a venture capitalist. he has expressed skepticism about the u.s. support for ukraine and its efforts to repel the russian invasion. people aren't just a single issue voters. they aren't thinking that because he is from the venture mill you are therefore must support him. they will look at other positions he has taken over the years including on that as they make their choices and are trying to decide. one interesting thing about j.d. vance is how he has aligned against what he calls a big tech oligarchy. he has gone so far as to express praise, where praise, for a biden administration official, ftc chair lena con who has been pursuing competition enforcement cases against big tech companies. >> we will get to the antitrust position in policy. mike shepard, thank you. let's continue the conversation on j.d. vance and

vance donald trump's endorsement and now, 18 months after peter thiel put him in the senate, peter thiel his guy, j.d. vance, on trump's ticket as his running mate. whatever you think of vance, the working-class champion who is also a venture capitalist millionaire. the reason he at age 39 has risen from a guy who was only famous for writing an autobiography to now being the republican nominee for vice president of the united states, it is because of peter thiel. because of a handful of radical tech billionaires, mostly thiel, but also others. his worldview off the senate floor makes that background pretty clear. he told the podcaster recently that in a second term if he is reelected to the white house donald trump should defy supreme court rulings. he said trump must seize power because the entire american system is collapsing. he said, quote, we are in a late republican period. he doesn't mean republican party , he means republic, but we are not going to be one much longer. if we are going to push back against it, we are going to have to get pretty wild and pretty far out there and go

he has close ties to peter thiel.if you've heard paypal mafia, there's a group of tech executives who have gone on to do other things, build other tech companies. elon musk is in that group. you've got names like david sachs. they have helped raise the profile of j.d. vance among the tech community here that started to shift a bit to the right. this is historically a liberal bastian in terms of donations and where they tend to give their support. that tends to be -- it's shifting now, you're seeing that reflected with elon musk, for example, supporting and endorsing former president trump. you've got some of the big tech names that also have ties to vance. that really goes back to his days as an investor. >> and kate, so what benefits and how much support has thiel given to j.d. vance? >> reporter: so peter thiel is actually among the names who have yet to endorse at least president trump. he's been a big gop donor in the past. it's really come in the sense of connections. you've got names that are close to peter thie

thiele, who is directly involved in not just the israeli military, but israeli military intelligence gathering, some of the things that their military is currently testing on the palestinians in the gaza strip that could come right back home to the us to be used and even further increased surveillance state here we discussed. all of this in more earlier with the special guest, so let's take a listen to that conversation now. joining me now to discuss is journalist and geopolitical analyst viarella isabelle. viarella, thanks so much for taking the time to join me today. thank you for having me, nice to see you. good to see you too, and i know that you're over there in moscow, but i did want to ask you about some of the things that are affecting, well, i guess both the us and maybe russia in the long term, and that is that trump has officially picked his running mate who is jd vance and he's getting lot of applause i've noticed for being critical of the conflict in ukraine and the ongoing us support that is enabling it, but if you read deeper into it, it seems like vans just wants the

oh no, he's also bankroled by billionaire peter thiele who is directly involved in not just the israeli military, but israeli military intelligence gathering. some of the things that their military is currently testing on the palestinians in the gaza strip that could come right back home to the us. to be used and even further increased surveillance state here, we discussed all of this in more earlier with the special guest, so let's take a listen to that conversation now. joining me now to discuss is journalist and geopolitical analyst fiarella isabelle. viarella, thanks so much for taking the time to join me today. thank you for having me, nice to see you. good to see you too, and i know that you're over there in moscow, but did want to ask you about some of the things that are affected. well, i guess both the us and maybe russia in the long term, and that is that trump has officially picked his running mate who is j.d. vance, and he's getting lot of applause i've noticed for being critical of the conflict in ukraine and the ongoing us support that is enabling it, but if you read deepe

he worked with peter thiel at mithril capital. >> and obviously peter thiel has been a really long time supporter of donald trump. >> back in june, a fund raiser in san francisco raised $12 million for trump's presidential campaign. that big money event was hosted by billionaire david sacks and his wife. sacks is a prominent gop donor and venture capitalist. sacks spoke at the first day of the republican national convention in my hometown of san francisco, democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of crime. >> homeless encampments and open drug use. >> senator jd vance, who is friends with sacks, spent months getting silicon valley's biggest players to support trump. >> so i think we see his connections to silicon valley money really tightly intertwined. elon musk, the ceo of tesla and spacex, says choosing vance for vp was an excellent decision. i think that we've seen this sort of right movement in tech over the past several years, and i think really a great exemplar of that is elon musk, who just launched a pro-trump super pac. >> musk says he plans t

he worked with peter thiel at mithril capital and obviously peter thiel has been a really long time supporter of donald trump. back in june, a fund raiser in san francisco raised $12 million for trump's presidential campaign. that big money event was hosted by billionaire david saxe and his wife. saxe is a prominent gop donor and venture capitalist. saxe spoke at the first day of the republican national convention in my hometown of san francisco. >> democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of crime. homeless encampments and open drug use. >> senator jd vance, who is friends with saxe, spent months getting silicon valley's biggest players to support trump. >> so i think we see his connections to silicon valley money really tightly intertwine. >> elon musk, the ceo of tesla and spacex, says choosing vance for vp was an excellent decision. >> i think that we've seen this sort of right movement in tech over the past several years, and i think really a great exemplar of that is elon musk, who just launched a pro-trump super pac. >> musk says he plans to donate $45

peter thiel is a person who effectively single-handedly funded his senate campaign, peter thiel is the introduced him to donald trump, peter thiel played a large role convincing trump to pick j.d. vance as his running mate. peter thiel kind of adopted hulk hogan. peter thiel had a grudge against a very snarky, aggressive media outlet called gawker because he did not like the way they covered him in silicon valley and elements of his personal life. one hulk hogan -- >> you can say tape, sex tape, peter dr. bankrolled aggressive and creative campaign designed -- >> that was the weird thing, to avenge mr. hogans having been done wrong by this media outlet . it was specifically designed, not just to get redress for mr. hogan, it was designed to put gawker out of business, which it did. peter loaned that lawyer to melania trump to bring antimedia cases of her own. mr. hogan, peter thiel spoke at donald trump's rnc in 2016, now hulk hogan, i don't know if anybody else on that sex tape will appear. everything else going on this week , one story we keep talking back that we keep coming back tw

he won the senate primary in 2022 and part thanks to the billionaire tech investor peter thiel who poured a record-breaking $10 million into his campaign. j.d. vance's political positions have shifted dramatically over the years. once a trump credit come he went on to embrace the maga movement and far-right positions on abortion, climate, immigration, and other issues. donald trump appeared alongside j.d. vance monday at the republican national convention as he made his first public showing since saturday's assassination attempt. trump appeared with a bandaged ear as he sat next to republicans. we will have more on j.d. vance and the first day of the republican national convention after headlines. meanwhile, in related news, elon musk said he is will give $45 million per month to the new pro-trump super pac, america pac. outside the fiserv forum where the rnc is taking place, activists gathered to protest the republican agenda. >> letting the republicans know we are here, we care about the climate, immigrant rights, palestine. there is a large contingent of different organizations because

he won the senate primary in 2022 and part thanks to the billionaire tech investor peter thiel who poured a record-breaking $10 million into his campaign. j.d. vance's political positions have shifted dramatically over the years. once a trump credit come he went on to embrace the maga movement and far-right positions on abortion, climate, immigration, and other issues. donald trump appeared alongside j.d. vance monday at the republican national convention as he made his first public showing since saturday's assassination attempt. trump appeared with a bandaged ear as he sat next to republicans. we will have more on j.d. vance and the first day of the republican national convention after headlines. meanwhile, in related news, elon musk said he is will give $45 million per month to the new pro-trump super pac, america pac. outside the fiserv forum where the rnc is taking place, activists gathered to protest the republican agenda. >> letting the republicans know we are here, we care about the climate, immigrant rights, palestine. there is a large contingent of different organizations because

amy: let's talk about peter thiel.nces, his former venture capital loss, gave something like $10 million to his campaign. where his philosophy fits in here. >> if i'm being honest, he is wrapped up in this idea that the society could not propagate, but his interest in vance is primarily thinking about the relationship between democracy and freedom, second, the role that technology plays in society. thiel is a techno-libertarian which occasionally goes into techno-authoritarianism. he thinks technology holds the potential to be completely revolutionary but has been perverted by various economic incentives, the poor leadership of liberal elites, to become anything that shackles us, prevents us from building a better society as opposed to liberating us. his famous slogan is that we wanted flying cars but we got 140 characters. we thought technology could change the world, but instead we turned it into twitter and instagram, which make us anxious, unhappy, more open to exploitation by companies. he also doesn't think that

we do have, you know, some some real conservatives in the mix, including peter thiel, who, vance workedith in the past. elon musk is another who's who's definitely trending in that republican conservative direction historically, silicon valley was more libertarian, and then, of course, we have many more on the progressive side, but it's a mixed bag. you can't really, you know, pigeonhole silicon valley, with either political party or any particular ideology. and of course, they are recognizing that they want to be more engaged in politics as there are more and more issues raised around regulation, of social media and privacy issues and use of data and things like that. >> but does it seem lately, though, that there are a lot more republicans fund raising here in the bay area? the silicon valley area? >> yeah, i think that is a tren. but, you know, you follow the money, you go where the money is, and there's a lot of money in silicon valley. >> so let me ask you this. now that we're seeing this, you know, we still have steve garvey here, running for a senate seat. do you see at some poin

he won a close republican senate primary in 2022 in part thanks to billionaire tech investor peter thielwho spent a record-breaking $10 million to support vance's campaign. on wednesday night, vance was introduced by his wife lucia vance, a lawyer who once clerked for john roberts and future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh when he was a federal judge. this is part of j.d. vance's speech at the republican national convention on wednesday night. >> never, go my wildest imagination could i have believed i would be standing here tonight. i grew up in middletown ohio. a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands, and left their god, family, community, and our country with their whole hearts. but it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by america's ruling class in washington. when i was in the fourth grade, a career politician by the name of joe biden supported nafta, a bad trade deal that sent countless good jobs to mexico. when i was a sophomore in high school, that same career politician named joe biden china a sweetheart trade deal that destr

i guess that is peter thiel, who got him to where he is now. >> that's one of the things that is so disturbingvoters like what they are seeing are going to go right to donald trump. they want to find a way to stay with joe biden. the democratic party needs to find these signs of strength, not the constant freak out they are doing. i think what joe biden has done, and i've been saying this. he has 3894 delegates, and he is like come get them. you want them, come get them. they are mine and i'm keeping them. you know what? to me that's a sign of strength, and that's a sign of vitality, and that's a sign that he wants this and he is in this. and why is there this creation of these stumbling blocks to make him look weak, make the party look weak? because all we are doing is sending voters away. and when they actually want to stay with us. >> right, and the other piece of it is the disc to a woman on this side, the democratic side, as well. a >> right, that is the most disturbing, and i saw you had natosha brown on, and i think that there is enormous anger. there is a fear of putting her in a posit

let's be honest you had elon musk and peter thiel backing him.p love when a nd the base is rich business community that shunned him for ever say you are my boy and jd vance will like at the same. so this notion that maybe jd vance will be different on business and trump will pay attention, he absolutely will. one of the favorite things he on said was i will cut your taxes and have you looked at the stock market? and you know who can say d to that is joe biden. he broke a record. >> it reminds me in 2016 when people said that donald trump was going to be great on rights and the remember that ? >> peter thiel gave a speech at the rnc. >> it is still ringing in my ear right now. i thought it was tonight us but it was peter thiel. >> coming up, on display the donald trump family and the apex speech and we have that coming up. stay with us. >> how could the message be anymore simpler than just that. so why wait? talk to your doctor. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as di

thiel. according to cnn, jedi vance was recommended to trump by his son. donald trump jr. at a dinner in marolalaga. he assured his father that senator atagaya, the voice of america's rust belt, truly believed in his program. but wentz began his career in politics as an ardent anti-trumpist. the ex. he called the president the american hitler, a politician who was voted for based on russian motives, but after the first personal meeting in 2021, vance apologized to trump, and although vance became the first senator in 50 years without experience in government, he began active work in the senate, more trump than trump himself, how they nicknamed him the media, calls himself a representative of the new right, nina’s exemplary family, father. third year, and received an offer to be a candidate for vice president already on july 15, 2020, that is, a career path in american politics in a year and a half, but faster, probably, only obama was given the nobel peace prize after he became president. va

you talk about peter thiel. this is somebody who put millions of dollars behind his run for senate. money behind blake masters when he went up against mark kelly and lost but j.d. vance was his gyan continues to be his guy, in a way. over the years he's been doing this, and i know i've written a journal story about how you mentioned, he said, somebody talking to the journals that he didn't even see vance in the office when working at the firm that teal founded. so at the end of the day however long he was there, how much time he's working as a venture capitalist, he's been able to leverage those relationships and i think that's also the reason why he's the silicon valley candidate. >> and that's the question why, if he didn't have some big, giant, successful career, why exactly is he able to leverage those relationships? what do those people know about him? what can they control in him that they can get? teddy, you've written a lot about this and one of the companies he founded,. harvesting, was sued by its investors just months after vance left the board because he was running for

thiel.cnn, jedi vance was recommended to trump by his son. donald trump jr. at a dinner in marolalaga. he assured his father that senator tagaya. the voice of america's rust belt sincerely believes in his program, but wentz began his career in politics as an ardent anti-trumpist, he called the ex-president american. for banning gender reassignment for minors, the eu called trump’s choice a disaster for ukraine, since j.d. vance from the first days of the conflict was an ardent opponent of assistance to kiev and a supporter of resuming dialogue with moscow. in fact, he was elected senator of ohio on january 3, twenty-three, and the proposal for... which means the candidate for vice president received already on july 15 , 2024, that is, a career path in american politics in a year and a half, but probably only obama was given the nobel peace prize faster after he became president. vance is a man of the generation who will replace the lingering baby boomers at the helm, and not only in the unit

vance also has ties to peter thiel , ties to peter thiel, entrepreneur, billionaire and all round svengali accounts, the man behind paypal and more recently, palantir, a private company backed by the cia that harvests data about citizens spying on them. to an extent, george orwell's big brother could scarcely have dreamt of. vance and trump have called for an end of the war in ukraine, sure enough, but there's plenty more war where that came from. out with the old, in with the new. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, received several ovations in the capitol building in washington this week in front of a joint session of congress politicians. most of whom have undeniable ties to aipac being the israeli lobby. netanyahu told republicans and democrats alike that the war in gaza was america's war, as well as israel's . he said that iran is israel's. he said that iran is america's most radical and murderous enemy. he told protesters, many holding placards declaring him a wanted war criminal in reference to an arrest warrant sought by the international criminal court that they were iran

thiel and trump’s eldest son, who, however, doubted the loyalty of his party.f statements by vence made over several years remind us of reasons for doubt. the german press, whose authorities in recent years have followed the course set by biden in everything, is trying to understand what to do next; they call trump a wounded commander, and vence is his general. spiegel notes that the candidacy of the vice president has almost been eclipsed. and after it panic, an attempt to build relationships with the trump team and, possibly, trump personally. but experience shows that this is not just. and, perhaps, in the entire eu, there is now only one person who has a very good connection with donald trump, and that is viktor orban. and the hungarian government does not hide its joy that a politician who criticizes washington’s course of supporting the ukrainian conflict could become vice president of the united states. hope for peace signed the photo of trump and wentz, the head of midhungary sejärt. and if the policy of official budapest has always been consistent, the

thiel and trump’s eldest son, who, however. doubted the loyalty of his party, similar collections oferal years ago remind us of reasons for doubt. i'm a not- trump type of person. i never liked him. as someone who never liked trump, i guess i 'll have to hold my nose and vote for hillary clinton. i didn't vote for trump, i can't stomach him. he seems to me harmful. the german press is trying to understand what to do next, since the authorities in recent years have followed biden’s instructions in everything. admired biden's form, his strength and how high his chances of winning again, and then there was this television duel, and after it panic, an attempt to build relationships with the trump team and perhaps trump personally, but experience shows that this is not easy, perhaps, in the entire eu, there is now only one person who has a very good connection with donald trump, and that is viktor orban. and in the hungarian government does not hide its joy that a critical politician can become vice president of the united states. to show resilience in the face of this horrific attack, i

thiel.ording to tsnn, the candidacy. he assured his father that senator tagaya, the voice of america's rust belt, truly believed in his program. but vance began his path in politics as an ardent anti-trumpist. he called the ex-president the american hitler, a politician who was voted for on russian grounds, but after the first personal meeting in 2021, vance brought fear. apologies, and although vance became the first senator in 50 years without government experience, he launched an active work. more trump than trump himself, as the media has nicknamed him, calls himself a representative of the new right. an exemplary family man, the father of three children, opposes abortion and advocates banning gender reassignment for minors. the eu called trump's choice a disaster for ukraine because... from the first days of the conflict, divenets was an ardent opponent of aid to kiev and a supporter of the resumption of dialogue with moscow. in fact, he was elected with senator otagayo on january 3 , 2

peter thiel. now. of course. security is top of mind at the republican convention. just two days after the shooting. at trump's rally in pennsylvania. california has is sending 61 officers to help out and mackovic is in the newsroom for us with the very latest on the investigation. >ott-1>and we're still waiting to hear more about what motivated the 20 year old shooter. the fbi is investigating this as an assassination. attempt. and the potential case of domestic terrorism. and another investigation is focused on the security. failures at the event. that allowed this to happen. former president trump, of course, was shot and injured on saturday night. in a shooting that also killed a spectator and critically injured. two others. form. president could be seen touching his ear. before he was shielded by the secret service and whisked off stage. and into an suv. the shots came from a roof of outside of the security. perimeter. where the shooter was able to fire off rounds. secret service snipers, then shot and killed him. the local sheriff confirming. that an armed off

peter thiel. now we spoke with the chair of the san francisco republican party, john dennis, who called vance the perfect complement to mr trump, giving him clout within the bay area tech community. >>>know him. i'm sure they respect him. he was successful in the industry. so now he gets the chance to come back to those folks and say, hey, you know, we know each other and maybe they won't support it. but don't disappoint. me. and i think that you never tell is a step in the right direction. >gianna>van. advance, married his wife you show while they lived here in san francisco. she resigned from her role as a corporate litigator. at a city firm just minutes after her husband was announced as trump's vp pick now, in a statement, the firm said she was an excellent lawyer and colleague and wished her well what we are expecting advance to formally accept the republican vice presidential nomination in a speech tomorrow night at the rnc. will eventually face off in a debate with current vice president ka

vance worked for several years at a venture capital firm owned by peter thiel, a co-founder of paypal and early facebook investor. vance introduced trump to venture capitalist david sachs, who held a fundraiser for trump in san francisco last month. osha worked for a san francisco law firm up until today, she resigned after vance was picked as trump's running mate. she worked on cases defending the university of california against title nine violations and defending the walt disney company against copyright infringement. live coverage of the republican national convention kicks off tonight at seven, right here on abc seven. >> the assassination attempt comes at a time when public officials are facing an unprecedented, unprecedented number of threats. i-team reporter stephanie sierra is digging into the safety of our local, state and federal officials in light of what happened in pennsylvania. stephanie >> yes, dan, we're specifically looking into current and past protocol that's been called into question when it comes to protecting our local congressional delegation. it's no question

thiel. vance has raised millions for the 2024 trump campaign, including a huge fundraiser in san francisco just a few weeks ago. tech vc tatiana canter's deli calls the idea of a vc vp potentially good news for silicon valley. but someone who comes from technology background knowing start ups, understanding the value of entrepreneurship. i think that's awesome. but vance was not always a trump supporter, as he told charlie rose in 2016, i'm a never-trump guy. i never liked him. something president biden brought up during his interview with nbc news lester holt tonight. even though if you go back and listen to jd, vance said about trump, well, he said some things about you. yeah, i know he says something about me, but see what he said about trump. what's with you guys? come on man. to which gop delegate conley says mr. biden should remember what a rival said about him just four years ago. like, kamala harris and joe biden, where she made some pretty excoriating remarks about the president. an

. >> he's a guy who is brought up in the peter thiel organization, worked in venture capital and high finance. what he was also doing is also look mining for new dollars, and that means crypto and the wild, wild west of bitcoin. and that area does provide an opportunity and leverage for finance and for campaign dollars that didn't exist previously. >> a skill set not lost on the sold out crowd of donors filing in since he was a vc, and he probably knows a lot of them. >> they're pretty comfortable with where he's been. he understands them. >> they they can talk ai and bitcoin and all of that stuff. he understands what they need. >> and again, this event completely sold out. unclear how much the campaign raised, but i can tell you those tickets, they were not cheap. starting out at $3,300 per person and going up to $50,000 per couple in east palo alto, zac sos, ktvu, fox two news tonight, a zoom group called white dudes for harris raised $3.7 million for the vice president's campaign, drawing celebrities like jeff bridges and mark hamill and grammy winner megan thee stallion says she w