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Watters expressed, 'Many people are saying, do women have the emotional maturity to be president? Many people are saying, do they have the personal contacts in the business world to manage the economy?' He listed these claims to justify his controversial stance.

Trump stated, 'Well, it's winning.' He emphasized that leadership is about winning and mentioned that sports provide a clear way to determine winners and losers in a short time frame.

The cascading recent attacks point to a failure of the FBI, the primary agency for deterring attacks here at home,' as Patel boasted. Devine lamented the plight of FBI agents who were demoralized during the Biden-Obama years who stayed on in hope of positive reform under the Trump administration who now express disappointment in what they regard as Patel's unfocused leadership, preoccupation with his own image and mercurial purges.

On this week's episode of The David Frum Show, David opens with his reflections on the recent shootings in Minneapolis. He argues that these killings, alongside ICE's warrantless home raids and mistaken detentions, and the reports of deaths in custody, are not isolated abuses but signs of a rapidly deepening crisis in American democracy, one in which basic rights and due process are applied unevenly and increasingly contested.

"My general view here," the CBS News editor-in-chief wrote in a memo before shelving the now-infamous 60 Minutes report on El Salvador's CECOT concentration camp, "is that we do our viewers the best service by presenting them with the full context they need to assess the story. In other words, I believe we need to do more reporting here." Expediency, personal prerogative, servility to power, all smuggled under the cover of journalistic scruple:

"This is the first time I've seen any evidence of an attempt to try and force somebody out of the Fed board because you disagree with their policies," Tillis said.

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