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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
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🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I want to start tonight with a serious question. If you are a Republican running for reelection this year, what exactly are you running on? |
| 0:09.4 | If you are sitting in your strategy meeting with your whole team, all your strategists, your consultants, whatever may be, figuring out your stump speech, what you're going to say to voters or or where you're going to spend money on air or online. |
| 0:28.1 | What policy platform or list of accomplishments are you pitching to American voters, to the people that you are trying to get to vote for you? |
| 0:30.6 | Now, for most of the past 10 years, Republicans have outsourced that particular question to their |
| 0:35.4 | dear leader, of course, Donald Trump. |
| 0:37.5 | Whatever Trump was fixated on at the time became the Republican Party's de facto platform, |
| 0:43.3 | even when it's absurd or unpopular. |
| 0:46.1 | I mean, when Trump said, build the wall, Republicans would basically say how high |
| 0:50.1 | and how much money can we spend campaigning on that particular topic. |
| 0:53.8 | So what is Donald Trump fixating on these days? |
| 0:58.3 | Right up here, you probably notice a new black granite. |
| 1:02.1 | I have a special black granite. |
| 1:04.9 | Magnificent new granite, it's called charcoal. |
| 1:09.0 | It's black granite. |
| 1:10.5 | If we put the granite, you know what? |
| 1:11.6 | Your color is, it was gray. |
| 1:13.6 | It was gray. |
| 1:14.6 | It had a gray stone underneath, |
| 1:16.6 | whether it was the concrete or the granite. |
| 1:18.6 | It was a gray stone. |
| 1:20.6 | And now we actually picked the color. |
| 1:22.6 | It's called American Flag Blue. |
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