Tulsi Gabbard, Kanye West, and Mar-a-Gaza

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It’s Trump’s third week in office and there is no shortage of news to report. Last week, RFK Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard advanced in their congressional confirmation hearings for Health and Human Services secretary, FBI director, and Director of National Intelligence, and criticisms of Gabbard resurfaced over her meeting with former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2017, and over her defense of Edward Snowden—who she refused to call a traitor. Meanwhile, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States, making him the first foreign leader invited to the new Trump White House. At a press conference with President Trump, he looked like the dog that caught the car when Trump announced that the U.S. would take control of Gaza, and that the 1.7 million people living there would be resettled elsewhere. Trump also issued an executive order imposing a 90-day pause on foreign aid programs, which totaled around $70 billion in 2023. Meanwhile, Kanye has gone nuts again; Trump backed DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts and said Elon would be heading to the Pentagon next, causing shares of defense stocks like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to tumble; and the vibe shift came for the Super Bowl. To unpack it all today is Newsweek opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon and political fundraising powerhouse Brianna Wu. If you liked what you heard from Honestly, the best way to support us is to go to TheFP.com and become a Free Press subscriber today. --- Get $10 for free when you trade $100+ with code HONESTLY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.1	From the free press, this is honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss.
0:44.4	It's Trump's third week in office, which is unbelievable
0:48.6	because if you are a journalist, you have been working around the clock.
0:52.8	Why? Because Trump is flooding the zone. There is
0:55.8	no shortage of news to report on. Just a few of those stories. First, last week Trump's more
1:01.9	controversial picks like RFK Jr., Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, advanced in their congressional
1:07.8	confirmation hearings for HHS, FBI director, and director of national security.
1:14.0	Criticisms of Gabbard resurfaced over her meeting with former Syrian president Bashar Assad in 2017,
1:20.1	but mostly over her defense of Edward Snowden, who she refused to call a traitor despite grilling from senators of both parties.
1:27.4	This Gabbard is simple yes or no question. Do you still think Edward Snowden is brave?
1:31.3	Mr. Vice Chairman, Edward Snowden broke the law. I do not agree with or support with all of the information and intelligence that he released, nor the way in which he did it.
1:43.3	There would have been opportunities for him to come to you on this committee or seek out the IG
1:48.1	to release that information.
1:50.4	The fact is, he also, even as he broke the law, released information that exposed egregious,
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