Clash Report

Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton on Trump's reaction to the defeat: Abnormal, uncharacteristically subdued.

Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton on the future of the Trump era: I think this is the beginning of the end.

Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton on JD Vance and the Iran war:

This is a remarkable statement. He's basically trying to say, I'm more MAGA than the president.

Abdul El-Sayed:

AIPAC spends $42 million to beat me, it is because I have the audacity to say what I said, which is that a Palestinian child and a Jewish Israeli child get to have equal rights of peace, dignity, self-determination. Most people are like, "Well, you can't say that." Why not? "Well, because I don't want AIPAC playing in my next race."

Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton on JD Vance:

Vance is really cutting himself off from the broad base of support within the Republican party for Israel. It's one he will not be able to back away from.

Abdul El-Sayed jokes: Look, I have a brother. He's Muslim, and he and I have a Muslim Brotherhood.

Abdul El-Sayed on Canada:

Canadians are nice people. They're the only people who preemptively apologize. You meet them and they're like, "Sorry." You're like, "For what?" They're like, "For whatever I'm going to do that's going to offend you." If you're picking a tariff war with Canada, you're the asshole.

Abdul El-Sayed on Iran War:

End this stupid war. It makes no sense. We're paying for it in the lives of our service men and women. We're paying for it at the gas station. We need to have a war powers resolution. We need to hold them accountable. They are not allowed to make war on their own. And this war needs to end. We go back to the diplomacy that had contained the nuclear threat in the first place.

Abdul El-Sayed on Iran War:

There is one person in the world that has been trying to get this war fought for nearly all of our lifetimes. It is the prime minister of a foreign government. Gets invited to the Situation Room, where he gets to dupe the dumbest guy who ever was president. And then now we're in a war that everybody could have told you was a dumb idea to fight, which is why every other president was like, "Yeah, no, I'm not doing that."

Abdul El-Sayed on Israel:

My approach is simple: Treat the government of Israel the way you would treat any other government that did the same thing. My family comes from Egypt, and I want to do the same thing with Egypt. Egypt violates human rights law. Egypt shouldn't be getting $3.3 billion of our tax dollars. And I would hate if somebody would be like, "Well, because you share the ethnicity of 95% of the people in Egypt, for us to say that the Egyptian government is doing terrible things must be anti-Egyptian." No, it is just applying our principles evenly everywhere.

Abdul El-Sayed on Israel:

We are actively funding their military. We're selling them the equipment that they're using to do genocide, maintain apartheid, and take us to wars we have no business fighting, the attempted annexation of southern Lebanon. And then we use the argument that if you push back on this state of affairs, it must be because you hate somebody. No, it is because I love both that Jewish Israeli child and that Palestinian child to the same degree.

Trump:

Israel and, in fact, the entire Middle East, WOULD NOT EXIST TODAY if I did not stop Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon. Nobody wants to say that, but everybody knows it’s true!

Trump: Israel and, in fact, the entire Middle East, WOULD NOT EXIST TODAY if I did not stop Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon. Nobody wants to say that, but everybody knows it’s true!

Syria has sent a limited number of military personnel to Saudi Arabia to advise and train Saudi and Yemeni units, two Syrian military sources and a senior US official told Reuters. READ MORE

Brazilian President Lula:

Bolsonaro didn't achieve growth. We came back, and the economy started growing.

Brazilian President Lula:

Which country has the conditions and the capacity to do what we are doing? China doesn't count, because China is much bigger than we are. China doesn't have opposition newspapers, it doesn't have opposition trade unions, it doesn't have opposition political parties. It's different. It's not the same assessment. We have to compare ourselves with our equals.

Brazilian President Lula:

We don't want to remain dependent on China or the United States. We want to be equal to them or better than them. Never worse. We have more than enough people to make this happen. We want to transform this country into an economic powerhouse.

French bank Credit Mutuel Arkea says around €100 million is missing after a cyberattack. Hackers used the bank’s own account to send money to other lenders. READ MORE

EU's Kaja Kallas:

So far, all the pressure has been on Ukraine, which is not correct, because we have one aggressor and one victim. In order to stop the war, the pressure should be on the aggressor.

EU's Kaja Kallas:

NATO posed no threat to Russia in 2021, and it poses no threat to Russia at the moment. Putin does not have a veto over European security.