Sept. 22, 2026
NEW: Trump Renames Artificial Intelligence, Threatens to Send Iranians To Hell And Confronts CNN
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RSS Feed It was a hell of a day at the United Nations for President Trump and everyone listening. Trump began by telling CNN that they shouldn’t be covering him at the UN after banning the news organization’s access, and then told the world they shouldn’t be calling AI, “Artificial” Intelligence. Trump essentially issued a world-wide decree to change the name to “Super” Intelligence, or SI and said he opposed international regulation of the technology. The President also threatened to annihilate the Islamic Republic of Iran, calling them the bullies of the Middle East and questioned whether or not he would “drive them into hell.”
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and President Trump just went all President Trump at the UN and told 100 world leaders they need to change the name of artificial intelligence. And with that, welcome to this episode. Of Amy and TJ. He went Trump because he really did a Trumpian thing, which telling everybody, I'm just deciding I'm going to rename something and y'all need to get on board.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, rename something that's taking over the world and all of y'all just need to call it what I'm calling it because what we've been calling it isn't exactly accurate.
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Speaker 1: This was bizarre, babe. Lake Ontario, Gulf of Mexico. I mean, how many things?
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Speaker 2: The Kennedy Center.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. That one at the top. Sorry. Keeps renaming stuff. I'm just going to call to hell the Department of War, for God's sake.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He just renamed stuff. Rome's doing this. It's like, I don't want the rest of the world to see that. It's like, this is our guy.
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Speaker 2: It's our private embarrassment.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Let's keep it in-house.
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Speaker 2: He spread it to the world. Everybody saw it. Loud and proud.
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Speaker 1: That's how it felt. But we're talking about the president, and he's talking about artificial intelligence. We're going to let you hear yourself. What he says... The world needs to start calling it now. Going to play two other sound bites for you as well. Those two, that's not one of them. That has to do with the court case we're watching. But the other one we're going to play for you, two of them actually. One, Ropes, he's at it once again, threatening to wipe Iran off the planet. He has some more strong words. The only thing that gave me a little pause there is what day is it?
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: You know what that means.
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Speaker 2: It's Taco Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Don't take any of this seriously.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he likes to be a little blustery and then not actually follow through.
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Speaker 1: The last thing we're going to let you hear is a confrontation between the president and a CNN reporter, Robes, because I thought CNN wasn't supposed to be covering the president. And he thought the same and decided to make an issue. Why couldn't he just let that go?
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Speaker 2: Because I think he was trying to say, oh, I thought you weren't going to cover me. It was, yeah. Look at you now covering me. Ah, you just couldn't help yourself, could you?
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Speaker 1: That backfired on him, too. That wasn't the point. Okay, so let's get to all this. You want to do Iran or the artificial intelligence first?
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Speaker 2: Well, let's start with artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is what the president, again, he's talking about something else altogether, and you'll hear it from the top of this soundbite, but he's talking about one thing and transitions into artificial intelligence, which he says now needs to be called something else.
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Speaker 3: We want to remain a sovereign nation, and so should you. The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now, here and after officially called superintelligence, changing the name, and that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake, and.
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Speaker 1: It is not fake. It's actually fake. Amazing, but we have to be careful.
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Speaker 3: In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports. From this point forward, all of United States documents, and hopefully the world's, will be changed to use the much more accurate term, super, as opposed to artificial. So it's superintelligence. In other words, welcome to the new world of superintelligence-SI. SI.
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Speaker 4: Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better. And it's much more accurate. Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't. We're going to find out pretty soon.
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Speaker 3: Superintelligence. Every major new technology brings challenges.
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Speaker 1: Take it away, baby.
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Speaker 2: That was super weird, is what I would say. It's like, I hereby declare from this day forward, it's like he's a king. He's at Buckingham Palace making a declaration to the world. And it's almost a test of his importance and power. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Are y'all going to get on board? You can tell when he's ad-libbing and he's going off script. It was a bizarre, very weak thing. Let's see if I have any power. You all start calling this this because I say so. Is he expecting the entire world is now going to switch places? And start calling something that we've known for quite a while to be artificial intelligence. Something else. This was a bizarre turn, baby.
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Speaker 2: It's like he was making an executive order for the world. And yes, continuing his obsession with name changes. Things will be spoken of the way I so choose. Herein, wherefore, I declare. I mean, he was using weird words there. It was so strange.
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Speaker 1: But why is it so important? I'm saying, why is artificial intelligence for one man not good enough? Therefore, everybody get on board with... Robes, it was in the speech. He ad-libbed some stuff around it, but they put it in there, didn't they? This wasn't an ad-lib, was it?
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Speaker 2: No, no. I mean, he had this idea. This was going to be a big part of his speech, that he was going to let the world know that the name has changed. It's no longer artificial intelligence. It's now super intelligence. And look, he gets the PR problem that it has right now. But the reason why it has a PR problem is because the founders and creators and researchers who know this technology more than anyone else have said it's potentially going to lead to the end of the world.
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Speaker 1: Hoax. That's what he threw at it. Hoax. That the guys creating this tech have come out and said they're scared of it and we need to slow down and regulate. He says that's part of a hoax that's being, like, people are working to do this, like in coordination with each other.
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Speaker 2: The reason why that makes no sense is because if the creators and researchers and leaders of this industry, why would they want to make their industry scary? From a financial standpoint, you'd want it to be and continue to be positive and forward thinking and going to do great things. There's no incentive for anyone who is working with this technology to make it appear scary. It benefits them zero. That's why I believe them. They have no incentive to make it scary. They have every incentive to make it seem scary. powerful and wonderful and our future.
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Speaker 1: Have you heard one person who is working in that industry, Robes, come out and say anything similar to the president?
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Speaker 2: No, I've not heard one industry leader come out in defense of the technology and say, nothing to see here, we're all good, nothing to be afraid of. These other people who are speaking are insane or crazy or outliers or not the norm. In fact, no, the only people I've seen coming forward are bolstering and backing up the people who are saying it's potentially going to end all of mankind.
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Speaker 1: By the way, there is something they call, they use it already in artificial intelligence, a reference to super intelligence. It doesn't exist. It's not out there. It is theoretical at this point. Literally, that's the word they use. It is theoretical. It does not exist. So there is no super intelligence to refer to that's AI.
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Speaker 2: And isn't the super intelligence that we heard them refer to the thing that we're trying to avoid? Stop.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Because that's when the artificial intelligence starts making decisions on its own without any sort of human prompt response. Or intervention. And that's why it's super scary. We don't want superintelligence. We don't want to get to that point.
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Speaker 1: Because that's when you get Judgment Day, Terminator. That's what that is. That's what happened. Artificial intelligence took over, started learning on its own, started launching weapons.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Bad. That's bad.
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Speaker 1: That's what they are warning us about. The president got up in front of the world, said, nothing to see here. Now, talking about destroying the world, if artificial intelligence doesn't do it, the president.
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Speaker 1: Said he is considering destroying a part of the world, and I guess everybody could know what he's talking about. We knew this was going to be a big moment, Robes, when he got to talking about Iran. And you've been looking at this more than I have. I didn't see it happen, but Iran was in the room briefly. Briefly.
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Speaker 2: The Iranian delegation walked out when Trump started to talk about annihilating the country or making a deal with them. However, it was, look, I say it was funny because the camera then quickly turned to where the Iranian delegation was sitting, and only one person was sitting there. So in some of the media, it says one lower-level staff member remained. I'm not sure why he chose to continue. Maybe he was designated as, you have to sit here and listen. The rest of us are leaving just in a show of protest, basically. But maybe we should have someone in the room. But it was kind of comical. This one lone man was sitting there.
00:09:45
Speaker 1: Never made a facial expression. I never saw one.
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Speaker 2: Stoic as hell.
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Speaker 1: He looked like an overage intern, almost. It looked like somebody they just have sitting there, this is what you have to do.
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Speaker 2: He was too old to be a lower level staff member, to be honest. That's how he's been described.
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Speaker 1: But yes, one guy in the room and the guy in the room had to stick around and hear this from the president. Once again, warning to wipe Iran off the face of the earth, even though he used some new, more colorful language this time.
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Speaker 3: But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election because it doesn't make sense for them not to.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we've heard all this before, right?
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Speaker 2: We have, but to say it there is.
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Speaker 1: It was meaningful, yeah.
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Speaker 2: In the United Nations during the General Assembly, to make these bold statements and these bold threats in front of the world is of significance. So, yes, most of the Iranian delegation walked out. By the way, Cuba walked out, too. Some of the headlines read, two countries walked out during Trump's U.N.
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Speaker 4: Address.
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Speaker 1: Cuba walked out quite dramatically. It almost looked like a couple of people were shuffling people out. Like they were dipping down and bouncing out of there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they all left.
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Speaker 1: The whole group.
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Speaker 2: They didn't leave one person. A lower level.
00:11:40
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Like, we're all getting out of here.
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Speaker 2: A lower level staff member did not stick around.
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Speaker 1: They looked like they had a lunch appointment, the way they were getting out of there. And, Robes, one thing before we get into the CNN part of this. The president looked bad. He just, I know he's older and he's exhausted. He just didn't. And even listening to some of these soundbites, some of you all might recognize him. There's no energy.
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Speaker 2: Low energy. That's exactly what I was going to say. As soon as he got to the lectern, to the dais, before he even opened his mouth, I said, damn, he looks tired. And look, we get it. It's a very demanding job. But even for President Trump, he looked exhausted. And yeah, there wasn't a pep in his step. There wasn't... There wasn't energy behind his words. They spoke of terror and demanding that we rename everything, but there wasn't any energy behind the words. I thought that was interesting and fairly unusual. This is the biggest stage he could be on, truly, at any point in his presidency. Wouldn't you say this is the biggest stage he's on?
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Speaker 1: It's the most important stage, Robes. All of them are in the room, and it's a damn shame. You have an Iranian delegation there. They are here in New York in the same building as the United States and our delegation. Let's get into a conference room. We don't have to go meet for another summit over here and here or there. He's sitting there in their faces threatening them. Talk. I know diplomacy doesn't work that way. That's fine. As a layperson, we're a little exhausted of All of this and threats and annihilation. I'm not proud to be a nation that's threatening to wipe another nation off the planet.
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Speaker 2: Right. And he says all of this just after he brags once again for having settled or brokered the peace deals in eight wars across the world. And he actually took time to read. It was almost like he was reading like. positive tweets, and he was reading all the statements of other world leaders praising Donald J. Trump. That was embarrassing. He was reading his own positive comments to the world. See, look how much everyone loves me.
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Speaker 1: Ew. But stay here. Before he even got into the room, there was drama. You need to hear this. The confrontation with a CNN reporter. Also... We'll tell you what we thought about his, I guess, extended comments about Melania while he was out there. And one other little thing we want to mention. Somebody made a pretty good joke as the president was heading up the escalator. You had to be listening closely and you had to remember what happened last year. All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. Everybody knows the president does not have a U.S. network following him around per usual, right? He kicked out CNN, Politico, and MS Now. Other networks said, nope, if you're going to ban them, then we're not going to substitute and be the pool reporter that CNN is supposed to be. So essentially, Robes, this is a pretty significant move. Rose, this is a big deal. We don't have an independent news camera on the president right now.
00:15:09
Speaker 2: We do not. But that doesn't mean that any of those journalists wouldn't want to still cover the president and what he does.
00:15:16
Speaker 1: They're trying to. Of course.
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Speaker 2: It's the president who isn't allowing them access to him. It doesn't mean that there aren't other ways of covering the president. And obviously, journalists do what journalists do. They worked around the impasse. And they all got credentialed through the United Nations versus or rather than being with the president as the traveling pool reporters.
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Speaker 1: And obviously he has no say about any other organization credentialing these folks. But he has not permitted CNN to cover him. So being on the plane with him here, being around, just a pool camera. And it's already, we talked about this this morning, babe, it immediately backfired. You don't have a pool camera. That means you don't have a network-level producer. This is important. You have to get it right because you're shooting for.
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Speaker 2: All of us. Right. So when the audio isn't there, like we saw happen on the helipad as he was heading this way, yeah, that's what happens when people aren't used to. I mean, this takes skill and experience. You have to be ready to go at a moment's notice. You have to be prepared for any and all technical issues. And the folks who cover the president daily know how to do it. When it's suddenly given to some, I'm not suggesting that this person is inept or any way, but they're just not as experienced. So yes, it's not shocking that there were technical issues.
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Speaker 1: Yes. So the president walks into the UN, Rose. He's about to make his way. A lot of people know that famous escalator. All the world leaders have to go up. But as soon as he walks in the doors, before the escalator, there's a group of reporters gathered there. A lot of world leaders would stop, take a question or two. The president couldn't help himself. He walked over to the reporters. And he couldn't help but, Robes, he wasn't there long, but he couldn't help but point out that there was a CNN reporter in the group. Now, listen to this quick but pretty comical exchange.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 4: President, two-thirds of Americans don't think the U.S.
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Speaker 2: Is winning the war with Iran. When will it end?
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Speaker 3: It's an honor to be here. I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me.
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Speaker 1: The United Nations allowed us in, sir.
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Speaker 3: You should not be here covering me. You said you weren't going to cover me. You shouldn't be covering me.
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Speaker 2: Two-thirds of Americans don't think that the U.S. is winning the war with Iran.
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Speaker 1: When will it end?
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Speaker 2: We're making a lot of progress.
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Speaker 3: Our country is doing really, really well. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you your response, but you're laughing as your first response.
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Speaker 2: Well, I love that he didn't acknowledge the question. That was Caitlin Collins. And look, she made a very clear point when she got back on television shortly after this saying, we never said we weren't going to cover the president. That was never an assertion by us. We are always going to continue to do our job. He just tried to make it harder for us. But we got credentialed by the U.N.
00:18:10
Speaker 1: But he tried to flip it.
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Speaker 2: As we should.
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Speaker 1: Tried to flip it. Oh, I thought you didn't want to come. You couldn't stay away, could you? That's obviously he knows that's not the case.
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Speaker 2: No. The only thing that is the case and is his doing is that there wasn't a television camera crew from one of the five major networks covering him the way they typically would. It doesn't mean that any one of those reporters and photographers and producers wouldn't be covering him from the U.N. They just aren't traveling with him. They just don't have access to him the way they would have otherwise.
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Speaker 1: And they need it is the thing. We need it. Folks, again, I guess a lot of people are getting caught up on this, Robes. But MS Now, what is it? It's ABC, CNN, NBC, and who's the last? Fox. Fox. Those five networks provide you. independent coverage of this president. I know you don't like a lot of stuff maybe Fox might say or CNN might say or MSNOW might say, but you don't even realize when you are looking at the president in press conferences, looking him in the Oval Office. All of that stuff is being shot by one of those networks because they are providing a service. This is what we're talking about, Robes. When is this going to end, actually? When is... Oh, we've got to wait for court. When is that, tomorrow?
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, I believe, yes. So they've filed this emergency or they've asked for an emergency ruling on the constitutionality of being denied or turned away... having their press credentials revoked for what reason you don't like how we report things.
00:19:48
Speaker 1: It's not how it works. It ain't.
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Speaker 2: Gonna hold up.
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Speaker 1: And he knows it. And he knows it.
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Speaker 2: It's a matter of time.
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Speaker 1: He already put out a true social post saying he's going to appeal before they even go to court.
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Speaker 2: Right, because he knows that a judge, any judge, I don't care who appointed the judge, I don't care what political leanings you may think this judge has, there is no way to interpret the Constitution in any other way than to say what President Trump has done is unconstitutional.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the last thing we'll mention here, this was just funny to me, Robes. There was someone, after the whole Caitlin Collins thing with the CNN thing.
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Speaker 2: You forgot Melania. I just want to make sure we get that in.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute. What did you think of that? He spoke about Melania longer than I'm used to hearing him on a world stage.
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Speaker 2: I think that he owed her. They must have had a fight. They must have had something going on. And he owed it to her because it wasn't like just one mention. It was multiple mentions. The First Lady, the First Lady, the First Lady of the United States. Yes, he made sure he gave her a lot of love in front of the world.
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Speaker 1: A lot, baby.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. It was not typical.
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Speaker 1: And I'm okay with what he did. I love what he did. I wish he'd do it more often. But he talked about some of her work and some stuff she's doing around the UN. She chaired a council meeting. She was the first First Lady to ever do something like that. I was digging it. I loved it. Obviously, she looked impeccable.
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Speaker 2: Of course she did.
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Speaker 1: She always does. She always does.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Warm. He knows the art of the deal. He knows how to close things. He knows what he's got to do and what he's got to say to keep things a certain way. And he did what he needed to do.
00:21:27
Speaker 1: Well, I did think it was, I actually thought it was nice. Also, do they always call their wives first ladies? The first lady, the first lady. Like, I'm trying to think of Bush or Clinton or Trump, excuse me, or Obama, Michelle, Michelle, Laura, uh, He said it so often. It was almost as.
00:21:50
Speaker 2: If she were elected. It was bizarre that it was some earned title. But I guess some people would argue it is an earned title at this point.
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Speaker 1: But hey, thank you, baby.
00:22:01
Speaker 2: Just want to make sure we didn't forget that.
00:22:03
Speaker 1: It did stand out as well. The last thing was just funny to me. And I want to track down who this reporter was. I don't know if it was a U.S. reporter, actually. But when the president got done with Caitlin Collins, I say got done with her, that confrontation we just let you hear. It's strong to call it a confrontation. I'm sorry. I'm messing all my words up here. That interaction.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he did choose to confront her in that moment and tell her she shouldn't be there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine.
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Speaker 2: So I actually think confrontation is the correct way to describe what we heard and saw.
00:22:33
Speaker 1: Thank you, baby. Thank you, baby, for making me feel better. Okay, but after that, the president walks off with the first lady and people around him, and he's getting on that escalator. Everybody knows that escalator by now, right? At the United Nations, there's a long escalator ride when you come in the door, and they come out up top, and they have cameras, and it's always something to see. Last year, the president was about toâ no, no, no, no. He was getting on those escalators. He puts one-foot robes on that escalator, and it stops.
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Speaker 2: It stops. And remember Carolyn Leavitt, they were all like one, like saying someone is to blame. Someone sabotaged the president. They did it on purpose.
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Speaker 1: It was literally one foot. And the thing just stops and they're stuck there and they don't know where to go, what to do. So that was last year. People remember that. So as the president was walking off, people were trying to yell questions at him.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: President, what about Iran?
00:23:28
Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: President, all this stuff. And then you hear one little voice. Be careful with the stairs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:23:36
Speaker 1: And then you hear her laughing with another female a little in the background. It was cute. I needed that moment of levity today, babe.
00:23:44
Speaker 2: Some of the reporting is that officials warned the first couple as they walked in the main lobby and headed to the moving stairs. Be careful of the stairs.
00:23:55
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. This that I heard, and it's clear on the video. Maybe I should have plucked it, but it was so low that I didn't think folks would be able to hear it. And they start giggling. So if it was a staff member she was clearly having a good time.
00:24:08
Speaker 2: Yes, yes. And look, I think you have to kind of laugh at that.
00:24:12
Speaker 1: Why not?
00:24:13
Speaker 2: That's perfect. Especially after he went off on Caitlin Collins. We needed a little levity at that moment.
00:24:18
Speaker 1: We'll take it. But folks, yes, you can go to Politico. You can go to CNN later. You can watch Wolf Blitzer. If you're trying to get a whatever breakdown politically of what the president said. But he said a lot of the same stuff he said before. And they can analyze it all day long. We just want to pass along what we observed, right? And how it felt. And actually what it means moving forward, Robes. And the annihilation of Iran, we don't want to, we're hearing that once again. Another big threat on the biggest world stage. He's threatening to kill an entire civilization.
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Speaker 2: He's threatening to send the citizens of Iran to hell.
00:25:07
Speaker 1: That was relevant. That was significant. It's worth pointing out. The SI thing, Robes, I don't know if Sports Illustrated will get upset with him trying to take what they've been called. I wish they would.
00:25:18
Speaker 2: He hereby decrees that we shall all from this day henceforth call it SI. And that's just... Super intelligence, okay.
00:25:31
Speaker 1: I didn't think of it until you said it. It did come off as a king on high decreeing something that you all don't have a choice in the matter.
00:25:39
Speaker 4: It did.
00:25:39
Speaker 1: It felt that way.
00:25:41
Speaker 2: I will just say the last, what, two weeks? I cannot wait to watch SNL because they have been given gold over the past couple of weeks.
00:25:51
Speaker 1: And here's the thing as well on SNL. We are starting to become fans of Of SNL UK.
00:25:59
Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
00:25:59
Speaker 1: Because they have a lot of material to work with over there as well.
00:26:02
Speaker 2: They do.
00:26:02
Speaker 1: With Harry and Meghan.
00:26:05
Speaker 2: And now, of course, Charles Spencer, Harry and Meghan.
00:26:08
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
00:26:09
Speaker 2: They're like just chomping at the bit for this Saturday night.
00:26:13
Speaker 1: Oh, goodness gracious. You have to smile. I'm glad we were able to smile, Rogues, because these are some very scary and even dangerous times. But, folks, just wanted to give you an update. Yes, the president spoke at the UN today, and it was fantastic. probably as you could expect.
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Speaker 4: Eventful.
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Speaker 1: And with that, we appreciate you as always spending some time with us. I am TJ Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Robach. We will talk to you all soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and President Trump just went all President Trump at the UN and told 100 world leaders they need to change the name of artificial intelligence. And with that, welcome to this episode. Of Amy and TJ. He went Trump because he really did a Trumpian thing, which telling everybody, I'm just deciding I'm going to rename something and y'all need to get on board.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, rename something that's taking over the world and all of y'all just need to call it what I'm calling it because what we've been calling it isn't exactly accurate.
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Speaker 1: This was bizarre, babe. Lake Ontario, Gulf of Mexico. I mean, how many things?
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Speaker 2: The Kennedy Center.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. That one at the top. Sorry. Keeps renaming stuff. I'm just going to call to hell the Department of War, for God's sake.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He just renamed stuff. Rome's doing this. It's like, I don't want the rest of the world to see that. It's like, this is our guy.
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Speaker 2: It's our private embarrassment.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Let's keep it in-house.
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Speaker 2: He spread it to the world. Everybody saw it. Loud and proud.
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Speaker 1: That's how it felt. But we're talking about the president, and he's talking about artificial intelligence. We're going to let you hear yourself. What he says... The world needs to start calling it now. Going to play two other sound bites for you as well. Those two, that's not one of them. That has to do with the court case we're watching. But the other one we're going to play for you, two of them actually. One, Ropes, he's at it once again, threatening to wipe Iran off the planet. He has some more strong words. The only thing that gave me a little pause there is what day is it?
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: You know what that means.
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Speaker 2: It's Taco Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Don't take any of this seriously.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he likes to be a little blustery and then not actually follow through.
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Speaker 1: The last thing we're going to let you hear is a confrontation between the president and a CNN reporter, Robes, because I thought CNN wasn't supposed to be covering the president. And he thought the same and decided to make an issue. Why couldn't he just let that go?
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Speaker 2: Because I think he was trying to say, oh, I thought you weren't going to cover me. It was, yeah. Look at you now covering me. Ah, you just couldn't help yourself, could you?
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Speaker 1: That backfired on him, too. That wasn't the point. Okay, so let's get to all this. You want to do Iran or the artificial intelligence first?
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Speaker 2: Well, let's start with artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is what the president, again, he's talking about something else altogether, and you'll hear it from the top of this soundbite, but he's talking about one thing and transitions into artificial intelligence, which he says now needs to be called something else.
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Speaker 3: We want to remain a sovereign nation, and so should you. The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now, here and after officially called superintelligence, changing the name, and that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake, and.
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Speaker 1: It is not fake. It's actually fake. Amazing, but we have to be careful.
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Speaker 3: In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports. From this point forward, all of United States documents, and hopefully the world's, will be changed to use the much more accurate term, super, as opposed to artificial. So it's superintelligence. In other words, welcome to the new world of superintelligence-SI. SI.
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Speaker 4: Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better. And it's much more accurate. Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't. We're going to find out pretty soon.
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Speaker 3: Superintelligence. Every major new technology brings challenges.
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Speaker 1: Take it away, baby.
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Speaker 2: That was super weird, is what I would say. It's like, I hereby declare from this day forward, it's like he's a king. He's at Buckingham Palace making a declaration to the world. And it's almost a test of his importance and power. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Are y'all going to get on board? You can tell when he's ad-libbing and he's going off script. It was a bizarre, very weak thing. Let's see if I have any power. You all start calling this this because I say so. Is he expecting the entire world is now going to switch places? And start calling something that we've known for quite a while to be artificial intelligence. Something else. This was a bizarre turn, baby.
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Speaker 2: It's like he was making an executive order for the world. And yes, continuing his obsession with name changes. Things will be spoken of the way I so choose. Herein, wherefore, I declare. I mean, he was using weird words there. It was so strange.
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Speaker 1: But why is it so important? I'm saying, why is artificial intelligence for one man not good enough? Therefore, everybody get on board with... Robes, it was in the speech. He ad-libbed some stuff around it, but they put it in there, didn't they? This wasn't an ad-lib, was it?
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Speaker 2: No, no. I mean, he had this idea. This was going to be a big part of his speech, that he was going to let the world know that the name has changed. It's no longer artificial intelligence. It's now super intelligence. And look, he gets the PR problem that it has right now. But the reason why it has a PR problem is because the founders and creators and researchers who know this technology more than anyone else have said it's potentially going to lead to the end of the world.
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Speaker 1: Hoax. That's what he threw at it. Hoax. That the guys creating this tech have come out and said they're scared of it and we need to slow down and regulate. He says that's part of a hoax that's being, like, people are working to do this, like in coordination with each other.
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Speaker 2: The reason why that makes no sense is because if the creators and researchers and leaders of this industry, why would they want to make their industry scary? From a financial standpoint, you'd want it to be and continue to be positive and forward thinking and going to do great things. There's no incentive for anyone who is working with this technology to make it appear scary. It benefits them zero. That's why I believe them. They have no incentive to make it scary. They have every incentive to make it seem scary. powerful and wonderful and our future.
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Speaker 1: Have you heard one person who is working in that industry, Robes, come out and say anything similar to the president?
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Speaker 2: No, I've not heard one industry leader come out in defense of the technology and say, nothing to see here, we're all good, nothing to be afraid of. These other people who are speaking are insane or crazy or outliers or not the norm. In fact, no, the only people I've seen coming forward are bolstering and backing up the people who are saying it's potentially going to end all of mankind.
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Speaker 1: By the way, there is something they call, they use it already in artificial intelligence, a reference to super intelligence. It doesn't exist. It's not out there. It is theoretical at this point. Literally, that's the word they use. It is theoretical. It does not exist. So there is no super intelligence to refer to that's AI.
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Speaker 2: And isn't the super intelligence that we heard them refer to the thing that we're trying to avoid? Stop.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Because that's when the artificial intelligence starts making decisions on its own without any sort of human prompt response. Or intervention. And that's why it's super scary. We don't want superintelligence. We don't want to get to that point.
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Speaker 1: Because that's when you get Judgment Day, Terminator. That's what that is. That's what happened. Artificial intelligence took over, started learning on its own, started launching weapons.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Bad. That's bad.
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Speaker 1: That's what they are warning us about. The president got up in front of the world, said, nothing to see here. Now, talking about destroying the world, if artificial intelligence doesn't do it, the president.
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Speaker 1: Said he is considering destroying a part of the world, and I guess everybody could know what he's talking about. We knew this was going to be a big moment, Robes, when he got to talking about Iran. And you've been looking at this more than I have. I didn't see it happen, but Iran was in the room briefly. Briefly.
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Speaker 2: The Iranian delegation walked out when Trump started to talk about annihilating the country or making a deal with them. However, it was, look, I say it was funny because the camera then quickly turned to where the Iranian delegation was sitting, and only one person was sitting there. So in some of the media, it says one lower-level staff member remained. I'm not sure why he chose to continue. Maybe he was designated as, you have to sit here and listen. The rest of us are leaving just in a show of protest, basically. But maybe we should have someone in the room. But it was kind of comical. This one lone man was sitting there.
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Speaker 1: Never made a facial expression. I never saw one.
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Speaker 2: Stoic as hell.
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Speaker 1: He looked like an overage intern, almost. It looked like somebody they just have sitting there, this is what you have to do.
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Speaker 2: He was too old to be a lower level staff member, to be honest. That's how he's been described.
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Speaker 1: But yes, one guy in the room and the guy in the room had to stick around and hear this from the president. Once again, warning to wipe Iran off the face of the earth, even though he used some new, more colorful language this time.
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Speaker 3: But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election because it doesn't make sense for them not to.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we've heard all this before, right?
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Speaker 2: We have, but to say it there is.
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Speaker 1: It was meaningful, yeah.
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Speaker 2: In the United Nations during the General Assembly, to make these bold statements and these bold threats in front of the world is of significance. So, yes, most of the Iranian delegation walked out. By the way, Cuba walked out, too. Some of the headlines read, two countries walked out during Trump's U.N.
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Speaker 4: Address.
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Speaker 1: Cuba walked out quite dramatically. It almost looked like a couple of people were shuffling people out. Like they were dipping down and bouncing out of there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they all left.
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Speaker 1: The whole group.
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Speaker 2: They didn't leave one person. A lower level.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Like, we're all getting out of here.
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Speaker 2: A lower level staff member did not stick around.
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Speaker 1: They looked like they had a lunch appointment, the way they were getting out of there. And, Robes, one thing before we get into the CNN part of this. The president looked bad. He just, I know he's older and he's exhausted. He just didn't. And even listening to some of these soundbites, some of you all might recognize him. There's no energy.
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Speaker 2: Low energy. That's exactly what I was going to say. As soon as he got to the lectern, to the dais, before he even opened his mouth, I said, damn, he looks tired. And look, we get it. It's a very demanding job. But even for President Trump, he looked exhausted. And yeah, there wasn't a pep in his step. There wasn't... There wasn't energy behind his words. They spoke of terror and demanding that we rename everything, but there wasn't any energy behind the words. I thought that was interesting and fairly unusual. This is the biggest stage he could be on, truly, at any point in his presidency. Wouldn't you say this is the biggest stage he's on?
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Speaker 1: It's the most important stage, Robes. All of them are in the room, and it's a damn shame. You have an Iranian delegation there. They are here in New York in the same building as the United States and our delegation. Let's get into a conference room. We don't have to go meet for another summit over here and here or there. He's sitting there in their faces threatening them. Talk. I know diplomacy doesn't work that way. That's fine. As a layperson, we're a little exhausted of All of this and threats and annihilation. I'm not proud to be a nation that's threatening to wipe another nation off the planet.
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Speaker 2: Right. And he says all of this just after he brags once again for having settled or brokered the peace deals in eight wars across the world. And he actually took time to read. It was almost like he was reading like. positive tweets, and he was reading all the statements of other world leaders praising Donald J. Trump. That was embarrassing. He was reading his own positive comments to the world. See, look how much everyone loves me.
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Speaker 1: Ew. But stay here. Before he even got into the room, there was drama. You need to hear this. The confrontation with a CNN reporter. Also... We'll tell you what we thought about his, I guess, extended comments about Melania while he was out there. And one other little thing we want to mention. Somebody made a pretty good joke as the president was heading up the escalator. You had to be listening closely and you had to remember what happened last year. All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. Everybody knows the president does not have a U.S. network following him around per usual, right? He kicked out CNN, Politico, and MS Now. Other networks said, nope, if you're going to ban them, then we're not going to substitute and be the pool reporter that CNN is supposed to be. So essentially, Robes, this is a pretty significant move. Rose, this is a big deal. We don't have an independent news camera on the president right now.
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Speaker 2: We do not. But that doesn't mean that any of those journalists wouldn't want to still cover the president and what he does.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to. Of course.
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Speaker 2: It's the president who isn't allowing them access to him. It doesn't mean that there aren't other ways of covering the president. And obviously, journalists do what journalists do. They worked around the impasse. And they all got credentialed through the United Nations versus or rather than being with the president as the traveling pool reporters.
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Speaker 1: And obviously he has no say about any other organization credentialing these folks. But he has not permitted CNN to cover him. So being on the plane with him here, being around, just a pool camera. And it's already, we talked about this this morning, babe, it immediately backfired. You don't have a pool camera. That means you don't have a network-level producer. This is important. You have to get it right because you're shooting for.
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Speaker 2: All of us. Right. So when the audio isn't there, like we saw happen on the helipad as he was heading this way, yeah, that's what happens when people aren't used to. I mean, this takes skill and experience. You have to be ready to go at a moment's notice. You have to be prepared for any and all technical issues. And the folks who cover the president daily know how to do it. When it's suddenly given to some, I'm not suggesting that this person is inept or any way, but they're just not as experienced. So yes, it's not shocking that there were technical issues.
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Speaker 1: Yes. So the president walks into the UN, Rose. He's about to make his way. A lot of people know that famous escalator. All the world leaders have to go up. But as soon as he walks in the doors, before the escalator, there's a group of reporters gathered there. A lot of world leaders would stop, take a question or two. The president couldn't help himself. He walked over to the reporters. And he couldn't help but, Robes, he wasn't there long, but he couldn't help but point out that there was a CNN reporter in the group. Now, listen to this quick but pretty comical exchange.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 4: President, two-thirds of Americans don't think the U.S.
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Speaker 2: Is winning the war with Iran. When will it end?
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Speaker 3: It's an honor to be here. I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me.
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Speaker 1: The United Nations allowed us in, sir.
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Speaker 3: You should not be here covering me. You said you weren't going to cover me. You shouldn't be covering me.
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Speaker 2: Two-thirds of Americans don't think that the U.S. is winning the war with Iran.
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Speaker 1: When will it end?
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Speaker 2: We're making a lot of progress.
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Speaker 3: Our country is doing really, really well. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you your response, but you're laughing as your first response.
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Speaker 2: Well, I love that he didn't acknowledge the question. That was Caitlin Collins. And look, she made a very clear point when she got back on television shortly after this saying, we never said we weren't going to cover the president. That was never an assertion by us. We are always going to continue to do our job. He just tried to make it harder for us. But we got credentialed by the U.N.
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Speaker 1: But he tried to flip it.
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Speaker 2: As we should.
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Speaker 1: Tried to flip it. Oh, I thought you didn't want to come. You couldn't stay away, could you? That's obviously he knows that's not the case.
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Speaker 2: No. The only thing that is the case and is his doing is that there wasn't a television camera crew from one of the five major networks covering him the way they typically would. It doesn't mean that any one of those reporters and photographers and producers wouldn't be covering him from the U.N. They just aren't traveling with him. They just don't have access to him the way they would have otherwise.
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Speaker 1: And they need it is the thing. We need it. Folks, again, I guess a lot of people are getting caught up on this, Robes. But MS Now, what is it? It's ABC, CNN, NBC, and who's the last? Fox. Fox. Those five networks provide you. independent coverage of this president. I know you don't like a lot of stuff maybe Fox might say or CNN might say or MSNOW might say, but you don't even realize when you are looking at the president in press conferences, looking him in the Oval Office. All of that stuff is being shot by one of those networks because they are providing a service. This is what we're talking about, Robes. When is this going to end, actually? When is... Oh, we've got to wait for court. When is that, tomorrow?
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, I believe, yes. So they've filed this emergency or they've asked for an emergency ruling on the constitutionality of being denied or turned away... having their press credentials revoked for what reason you don't like how we report things.
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Speaker 1: It's not how it works. It ain't.
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Speaker 2: Gonna hold up.
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Speaker 1: And he knows it. And he knows it.
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Speaker 2: It's a matter of time.
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Speaker 1: He already put out a true social post saying he's going to appeal before they even go to court.
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Speaker 2: Right, because he knows that a judge, any judge, I don't care who appointed the judge, I don't care what political leanings you may think this judge has, there is no way to interpret the Constitution in any other way than to say what President Trump has done is unconstitutional.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the last thing we'll mention here, this was just funny to me, Robes. There was someone, after the whole Caitlin Collins thing with the CNN thing.
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Speaker 2: You forgot Melania. I just want to make sure we get that in.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute. What did you think of that? He spoke about Melania longer than I'm used to hearing him on a world stage.
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Speaker 2: I think that he owed her. They must have had a fight. They must have had something going on. And he owed it to her because it wasn't like just one mention. It was multiple mentions. The First Lady, the First Lady, the First Lady of the United States. Yes, he made sure he gave her a lot of love in front of the world.
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Speaker 1: A lot, baby.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. It was not typical.
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Speaker 1: And I'm okay with what he did. I love what he did. I wish he'd do it more often. But he talked about some of her work and some stuff she's doing around the UN. She chaired a council meeting. She was the first First Lady to ever do something like that. I was digging it. I loved it. Obviously, she looked impeccable.
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Speaker 2: Of course she did.
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Speaker 1: She always does. She always does.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Warm. He knows the art of the deal. He knows how to close things. He knows what he's got to do and what he's got to say to keep things a certain way. And he did what he needed to do.
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Speaker 1: Well, I did think it was, I actually thought it was nice. Also, do they always call their wives first ladies? The first lady, the first lady. Like, I'm trying to think of Bush or Clinton or Trump, excuse me, or Obama, Michelle, Michelle, Laura, uh, He said it so often. It was almost as.
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Speaker 2: If she were elected. It was bizarre that it was some earned title. But I guess some people would argue it is an earned title at this point.
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Speaker 1: But hey, thank you, baby.
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Speaker 2: Just want to make sure we didn't forget that.
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Speaker 1: It did stand out as well. The last thing was just funny to me. And I want to track down who this reporter was. I don't know if it was a U.S. reporter, actually. But when the president got done with Caitlin Collins, I say got done with her, that confrontation we just let you hear. It's strong to call it a confrontation. I'm sorry. I'm messing all my words up here. That interaction.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he did choose to confront her in that moment and tell her she shouldn't be there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine.
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Speaker 2: So I actually think confrontation is the correct way to describe what we heard and saw.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, baby. Thank you, baby, for making me feel better. Okay, but after that, the president walks off with the first lady and people around him, and he's getting on that escalator. Everybody knows that escalator by now, right? At the United Nations, there's a long escalator ride when you come in the door, and they come out up top, and they have cameras, and it's always something to see. Last year, the president was about toâ no, no, no, no. He was getting on those escalators. He puts one-foot robes on that escalator, and it stops.
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Speaker 2: It stops. And remember Carolyn Leavitt, they were all like one, like saying someone is to blame. Someone sabotaged the president. They did it on purpose.
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Speaker 1: It was literally one foot. And the thing just stops and they're stuck there and they don't know where to go, what to do. So that was last year. People remember that. So as the president was walking off, people were trying to yell questions at him.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: President, what about Iran?
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: President, all this stuff. And then you hear one little voice. Be careful with the stairs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And then you hear her laughing with another female a little in the background. It was cute. I needed that moment of levity today, babe.
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Speaker 2: Some of the reporting is that officials warned the first couple as they walked in the main lobby and headed to the moving stairs. Be careful of the stairs.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. This that I heard, and it's clear on the video. Maybe I should have plucked it, but it was so low that I didn't think folks would be able to hear it. And they start giggling. So if it was a staff member she was clearly having a good time.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes. And look, I think you have to kind of laugh at that.
00:24:12
Speaker 1: Why not?
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Speaker 2: That's perfect. Especially after he went off on Caitlin Collins. We needed a little levity at that moment.
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Speaker 1: We'll take it. But folks, yes, you can go to Politico. You can go to CNN later. You can watch Wolf Blitzer. If you're trying to get a whatever breakdown politically of what the president said. But he said a lot of the same stuff he said before. And they can analyze it all day long. We just want to pass along what we observed, right? And how it felt. And actually what it means moving forward, Robes. And the annihilation of Iran, we don't want to, we're hearing that once again. Another big threat on the biggest world stage. He's threatening to kill an entire civilization.
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Speaker 2: He's threatening to send the citizens of Iran to hell.
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Speaker 1: That was relevant. That was significant. It's worth pointing out. The SI thing, Robes, I don't know if Sports Illustrated will get upset with him trying to take what they've been called. I wish they would.
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Speaker 2: He hereby decrees that we shall all from this day henceforth call it SI. And that's just... Super intelligence, okay.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think of it until you said it. It did come off as a king on high decreeing something that you all don't have a choice in the matter.
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Speaker 4: It did.
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Speaker 1: It felt that way.
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Speaker 2: I will just say the last, what, two weeks? I cannot wait to watch SNL because they have been given gold over the past couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: And here's the thing as well on SNL. We are starting to become fans of Of SNL UK.
00:25:59
Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 1: Because they have a lot of material to work with over there as well.
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Speaker 2: They do.
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Speaker 1: With Harry and Meghan.
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Speaker 2: And now, of course, Charles Spencer, Harry and Meghan.
00:26:08
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 2: They're like just chomping at the bit for this Saturday night.
00:26:13
Speaker 1: Oh, goodness gracious. You have to smile. I'm glad we were able to smile, Rogues, because these are some very scary and even dangerous times. But, folks, just wanted to give you an update. Yes, the president spoke at the UN today, and it was fantastic. probably as you could expect.
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Speaker 4: Eventful.
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Speaker 1: And with that, we appreciate you as always spending some time with us. I am TJ Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Robach. We will talk to you all soon.