well, i was going to say brad todd. i mean, it was his idea. i mean, mark warner will go out there and say, like, i didn't think we should necessarily do this. and then trump told us we should. and i actually got on board with that. >> well, it was josh hawley's idea to get it off government devices. and then it picked up steam and we got it. i mean, we got the head cut off the snake. let's keep the head cut off. this is a terrible idea. uh, and the only way to to get rid of tick to bring tiktok back is if it is completely disconnected to the chinese government. it doesn't need to be connected to ours either. i can't think of a worse idea than the sovereign wealth fund. >> yeah, i think this is another ridiculous idea that trump is throwing out there that will never go anywhere unless jared kushner is going to come back and, you know, talk to the saudis and run the sovereign sovereign wealth fund that he's, you know, sort of become accustomed to doing outside the government. but like, this is an absurd thing that's never going to happen in our

brad. todd, there's a lot of symbolism in this major gift.ind it slightly head scratching. >> i wouldn't press both buttons if i. if he gave me a pager that said that. i don't think so, but i think donald trump will appreciate it. >> kate. >> i mean, these moments are usually intended to just be a convey a message. this obviously sends a very strong one. i guess that i guess netanyahu is trying to underscore strength and thinks trump will respond to that kind of strength. and but the. >> implication, not that it's going. >> to blow up, but i. >> mean, that's what. >> killed the pagers, killed people. and he just gave one to trump. so i, i don't know, man. i don't know. >> you know, so so now that is officially the property of the united states. right. and there's a fun fact presidents can't typically keep gifts they get from foreign leaders. they become property of the national archives. and, you know, every now and again, presidents receive gifts of animals from foreign leaders. the president of indonesia, there's a fun story. president of i

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cnn political commentator van jones alyssa farah griffin, also gop media consultant and strategist brad todd. um, alyssa, does it make sense that they hired this guy or hired him? >> i think it underscores how different trump 2.0 in the second term will be than the first. and what i mean by that is, i think that there are many americans who voted for trump this time because they wanted what they got. the four years he was in office before. but this is already gearing up to be a very different administration. and somebody who was considered persona non grata and was fired in 2018 when these things came to light, is now in an acting undersecretary role, a position that was previously held. i would note, by two qualified women in the first trump term. and of course, he'll be serving under a cuban-american secretary of state, despite his comments about white men being in charge. i think it simply shows that a lot of sort of the checks and credentials you would go through the first time around and that there were folks in the administration who would have, you know, raised alarm bells about that.