All right. I think we are live. Hi, everybody. I am Andrew Eger with the bulwark. This is Bill Crystal with the bulwark. We write the Morning Shots newsletter every weekday morning coming to you free in your inbox. And on Tuesdays, we go live for, now this is interesting. People were calling it Morning Chaser. I've noticed people have stopped saying that. Now people are starting to say Morning Shots live. I mean, people like my coworkers, my colleagues. So I'm actually not sure whether this is Morning Chaser anymore, whether this is just Morning Shots Live. Maybe if you have a consumer preferences, you can tell us which we should use from now on. Anyway, it's Tuesday morning. We're here to talk. And we are here to talk with some fresh, real hot off the press's content for you, because Donald Trump, our president,

whom you have probably heard of, just wrapped up a long, a rambling, a very strange and rich

interview on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning. They talked for a very long time. Donald Trump

these days, he's become

very kind of fragmented in his communication. Obviously, he's always there on truth social. He's

always, you know, picking up the phone and calling random reporters for 90-second chit-chats.

But he has not done a lot of these real big sit-down interviews recently. You talked to Maria

Barteromo and Fox the other day,

and then this is kind of the other, the other, you know, major one he's done recently. Like I said,

rich text, so we're going to talk a lot about it. Bill, just maybe right off the dome,

was there anything in particular that stood out to you from the president this morning? Maybe, maybe as far as Iran is concerned, or anything else, was there a in particular that stood out to you from from the president this morning maybe

maybe as far as iran is concerned or anything else was there was there a major highlight moment for

you or should we just should we just go through it i guess i just like to register at the beginning of my

complaint that he does these 830 a.m. interviews live we put morning shots to bed around nine and

it gets proofread and you know lay out stuff happens and you guys get it in your inbox around 930. So we did, I think, put the Topper in based on something he said on morning on his interview this morning at 8.30, but obviously can't write the whole thing based on an 830 interview or what he's saying stuff at 845 and 9 o'clock. So a little annoying that he doing 8 3 a.m. interviews and I've you're our white house correspondent Andrew that's one of your titles so you should you should weigh in there with Caroline and tell her you know look six a.m.'s fine I can we can write off at 630 7 30 or 10 p.m. the night before that would be our preference frankly. Yes. I will start throwing my weight around. I'll start throwing my weight around at the White House.

Look, I don't know. I mean, I think almost any given day, I totally agree with you. On Tuesday, it's kind of nice because it gives us something fresh to chew over here. That's good. Tuesday's okay. That's right. So let's chew over. You lead off. You've, you've, you looked at more closely what he said. He went along, right? He was supposed to be his

guy, his team, whatever he put it. My guys only gave me You lead off. You looked at more closely what he said. He went along, right? He was supposed to be his

guy, his team, whatever he put it. My guys only gave me 20 minutes, but then he wanted to go longer, and he did go longer, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, this happens when Trump built up ahead of steam sometimes with an interviewer that he likes. And obviously, Joe Kernan over there at CNBC, the very Trumpy guy, very sort of solicitous interviewer.

Not a bad interviewer.

You got asked him some interesting questions and got some obviously Joe Kernan over there at CNBC, very Trumpy guy, very sort of solicitous interviewer.

Not a bad interviewer.

You got asked him some interesting questions and got some interesting answers.

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