Rep. Jared Moskowitz slams Trump's Qatari Air Force One Scheme, Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump's love for MBS and Doctor Rob Davidson on RFK Jr's HHS mess

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

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0:00.0	Good, good, good. Thanks again for doing this.
0:06.9	Yeah, I know we did that one live. What was it? Gosh, I think it might have been right after I got
0:11.0	started and I thought, I got to get Ruth. I got to get Ruth. Anyway, we'll do it again.
0:15.5	We'll do it again. Yeah. All right. Welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show.
0:22.2	It is Wednesday, and Trump really, really wants everybody to stop talking about this free plane.
0:28.0	He wants to accept from the Qataris, and he really, really wants you to think it's all legal when it's not.
0:33.8	As you can see on screen with me, my first guest is Ruth Van Giot.
0:37.9	She is a renowned expert around the world on authoritarianism.
0:43.5	And Ruth, the frequent guest of mine on my old show, and hope to have her as a frequent guest here as well.
0:49.6	Ruth, great to see you again.
0:50.6	Thanks so much for joining us.
0:52.2	Sure.
0:52.7	Glad to be talking about this. Corruption is the topic of the hour.
0:58.3	Yeah. And, you know, it's interesting because it seems that this is one where, you know,
1:04.3	maybe people can't understand the crypto thing quite as well. And I get that. It's complicated.
1:09.3	But a free plane from the Qataris, I just feel like
1:12.5	is something everybody can understand. And you have people like Ted Cruz coming out of the woodwork
1:17.7	criticizing this, wondering how this works from a national security standpoint. But to me, I sort of
1:24.1	wonder whether this will sink in with just regular everyday Americans who just don't want to see the president of the United States selling out the White House. I mean, he was on truth social, his favorite form for lying. And he said, the Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force Department of Defense. Not to me. When the White House said, no, it's going to his presidential library or whatever it's going to be called, maybe it'll be a casino at the same time after he leaves office.
1:49.5	And, you know, he's just flat out lying about this. His hand has been caught in the Qatari cookie jar, I guess.
1:57.6	Yeah. And well, the symbolism, it's not none too subtle, of seeing the President of the United States flying around and giving the status of Air Force One to a foreign plane, it kind of brings home the idea, even if you don't follow corruption, that this president could be bought, that he's not wholly our president.
2:23.3	He's flying in a foreign plane.
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