Trump:

We could fix Chicago in literally three, four weeks.

Trump:

People said, "Boy, the soldiers are all so good. They look like soldiers."

That's what merit is, you know.

Trump:

The streets are disgusting. The doors going into stores are dirty. Everything's dirty. It smells, smells of marijuana and other things worse than marijuana.

Trump:

Does anybody know Kamala's surname? Nobody knows.

Trump:

NYC officials released a map showing ethnic communities. The map includes Little Senegal, Haiti, Yemen, but it doesn't include Little Italy.

We're going to work on that immediately, or we're not going to be sending them any of the billions of dollars they want to waste.

Trump:

We had a big war in Venezuela. It lasted one day. They don't even talk about that. We had a great war.

Trump on Iran:

Iran would probably hit places like San Diego, Los Angeles first because the route for a missile is much more convenient.

The UAE attorney general said the Omani co-pilot of the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv planned to hijack the aircraft and carry out a suicide attack on a terminal at Ben Gurion Airport.

The suspect confessed to acting alone, but authorities are investigating possible accomplices or links.

EU's Kaja Kallas:

The ICC is the cornerstone of the international criminal justice system. It prosecutes individuals responsible for the most serious crimes under international law.

I have spoken with ICC President Tomoko Akane following the United States’ announced intention to impose sanctions. The six-month period before the measures take effect offers a window for dialogue.

The EU has always supported the Court, and the EU has options to ensure that it can continue its vital work. Protecting the ICC remains an EU priority.

The FBI has arrested a Canadian man in Pennsylvania suspected of playing a key role in a ShinyHunters cyberattack that stole sensitive data on thousands of FBI employees last month.

The stolen information included home addresses, Social Security numbers, family details and sensitive job assignments.

The breach reportedly resulted from an Accenture contractor’s failure to install a security patch on a third-party platform.

ShinyHunters, which threatened to leak the stolen data, has allegedly breached more than 140 organizations and extorted $70 million since last year.

Source: NYT

Garry Kasparov:

Ukraine is under the heaviest bombardment one can imagine.

And it's quite amazing that there's so much talk about, you know, whatever. On CNN, you can see Gaza, Gaza, Gaza.

Garry Kasparov:

If Israel could do Putin in Gaza for one day, for 24 hours, there would be no Gaza, because it's much worse than carpet bombing.

Zelensky blasts the Trump administration:

You cannot, on the one hand, negotiate with the Russians about future economic projects and, on the other hand, say that we are in a diplomatic dead end.

We are not in a diplomatic dead end.

Zelensky to the U.S.:

Shut down Putin's entire economy. Shut Russia's mouth. Don't feed them with your sales. Just impose sanctions on their weapons.

Give us access to Starlink for Ukraine. You did it when you responded to Iran. Everything worked there. Israel completely controlled the skies over Iran.

So that means when you need it, it works that way.

Zelensky:

We are talking with various colleagues from Europe and America. I tell them honestly: Chinese representatives are involved in developing an alternative to Starlink.

They are getting closer, and they are passing it on to Russia. Russia could gain that kind of dominance.

Zelensky:

It would cost the U.S. nothing, absolutely nothing, to help Ukraine.

And I said openly: Help us defend our skies and dominate them. And then Putin will sit down at the negotiating table.

Why? Because he will lose everything. Lose everything. Three months, two months — he will lose everything.

Q: You have talked a lot about your Christian faith. How does that mesh with the Pentagon's announcement that they wish to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter?

JD Vance: I don't know if that's actually going to happen. This guy committed the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11.

If it's ultimately livestreamed, I am not going to be watching it.

Q: Eric Deters says Kimberly Guilfoyle asked him for $100,000 for access to Trump administration officials.

JD Vance: These are allegations. You don't take messages that people allegedly had or one person's story and reach a conclusion. I think that's absurd. Let's see what the facts are.

If there's something bad that happened, then people ought to suffer consequences.

JD Vance:

Democrats could have responded to Trump's landslide win in 2024 by saying, "You know what? We're going to moderate a little bit. We're not going to try to force women to play—or men to play in women's sports. We're not going to try to force boys into the locker rooms with girls. We're going to maybe try to build some common-sense economic policies that promote prosperity."

Instead, what they've done is they've doubled down on cheap labor, they've doubled down on open borders, and they've doubled down on men in women's sports.

That's not how you appeal to people, it's certainly not how you govern a country.

JD Vance:

We know that people are worried about affordability, and it's something we are laser-focused on fixing every single day.