All right, Alexander, let's do an update on the situation in Niger. And the latest news is that

Deputy Secretary of State, the number two person in the State Department now, Victoria,

Newland, made a trip to Niger. It doesn't sound like it was a very successful trip, to be

honest. Whenever they use the words, frank and difficult in their statements after a meeting

Victoria Newland had with the leadership team in Niger.

She used the terms frank and difficult.

Whenever they say those words,

it means that things went really, really bad.

But what is your take on Victoria Newland's trip to Niger?

She wasn't bringing cookies this time around. During this coup, she was not bringing cookies, Alexander.

Absolutely. No, I think what happened, and was not bringing cookies, Alexander. Absolutely.

No, I think what happened, and perhaps the key word is frank,

but I think what's happened is that she came to deliver an ultimatum.

I think she told the Nishire people to stand down, bring back the civilian president.

If they don't, there will be trouble.

And I know there are some people who think that the prospect

of foreign intervention in Niger has subsided. I disagree. I think that the moves in Nigeria,

Nigeria people are clearly not particularly keen, but I think the president most definitely does want to intervene in Niger.

I think the military chief in Nigeria also wants to intervene in Niger.

And I think Senegal and other ECOWAS countries have been put up to do it as well.

Nigeria is just too important to be left to go rogue, as Victoria Newland would say. I'm not

suggesting it really is going rogue, but that's how she would define it. So I think she's gone to

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