Harry stays with us as we play the government-funded television spot featuring Trump and ask where legitimate public-service messaging ends and self-promotion begins. Senator John Kennedy criticizes public money being used to promote elected officials, which opens another argument over politicians putting their names on public institutions and the cost of repairing the Kennedy Center.
Iran brings out one of the morning’s most heated disagreements. We debate the cost of the conflict, the administration’s stated intelligence rationale, defense spending, energy prices and what history may eventually say about the decision. The conversation then turns back to voter participation and the federal voter-verification fight before Harry’s cut sheet returns.
Dario Amodei’s warnings about the destructive potential of artificial intelligence send the room into a much different argument. Trump confirms a private dinner with the Anthropic CEO, and we discuss whether federal guardrails or other policy announcements could follow
