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Khanna: Epstein Files Should Be ‘One of Our Highest Priorities’ if Democrats Take Back the Congress ‘This is not about politics’ grabienrecentstories613364 https://grabien.com/story?id=613364 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:53:12 -0400 John Brennan: Trump ‘Has No Concept of Exactly Just How Important Taiwan Is to the United States’ ‘I’m sure he sees Taiwan as simply an island’ grabienrecentstories613362 https://grabien.com/story?id=613362 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:31:19 -0400 Brennan: Trump Was ‘Fawning over’ Xi Jinping During His Visit; ‘That’s the Type of Thing that the Belarusians Do When Vladimir Putin Visits’ ‘President Xi sees the United States as the junior partner’ grabienrecentstories613360 https://grabien.com/story?id=613360 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:18:57 -0400 Condoleezza Rice on Iran: ‘Be Patient, Keep the Blockade in Place’; ‘I Don’t Think You Have To Go to Full-Scale Military Operations Again’ ‘We can wait’ grabienrecentstories613358 https://grabien.com/story?id=613358 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:50:35 -0400 Condoleezza Rice: ‘I Know that There Are Effects on Our Economy ... but Iran Cannot Get a Nuclear Weapon’ ‘This is a terrorist state’ grabienrecentstories613356 https://grabien.com/story?id=613356 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:43:13 -0400 Condoleezza Rice: AI Is ‘More than the Industrial Revolution’; ‘The United States Has to Keep the Lead’ ‘I see it as a very positive development’ grabienrecentstories613354 https://grabien.com/story?id=613354 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:39:20 -0400 Newt Gingrich: Trump Needs to Go ‘on the Stump Like Harry Truman’; ‘He’s Got to Stick to Telling the American People the Truth’ ‘Then the Republicans are going to be in pretty good shape’ grabienrecentstories613352 https://grabien.com/story?id=613352 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:32:30 -0400 Chuck Schumer: ‘Corruption Is a Hallmark of This Administration’; ‘It’s Endless’ ‘The corruption goes on and on’ grabienrecentstories613350 https://grabien.com/story?id=613350 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:19:32 -0400 CNN’s Kasie Hunt: A Trump Adviser Told CNN Midterms Are ‘Obviously Going To Be F***ing Rough’ ‘Diesel is sitting at almost $6.50 a gallon, and interest rates are over 7%’ grabienrecentstories613348 https://grabien.com/story?id=613348 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:09:08 -0400 Montage: Abdul El-Sayed Threatens People and Challenges Them to Weird Contests ‘With all due respect, if they go low, we don’t go high, we take them to the mud and choke them out’ grabienrecentstories613346 https://grabien.com/story?id=613346 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:50:10 -0400 Talarico: ‘When I Fight for Universal Healthcare, I’m Doing It on Biblical Grounds’ ‘So when I take on the politicians who are serving themselves and not the people, I am doing it on biblical grounds’ grabienrecentstories613344 https://grabien.com/story?id=613344 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:29:04 -0400 Trump: ‘You’re Twice as Wealthy and That’s Because of Me’ ‘Under Biden, you paid much more for gasoline than they’re paying now’ grabienrecentstories613342 https://grabien.com/story?id=613342 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:16:52 -0400 Trump: Canada Has to Treat Our Country with Respect ‘They feel entitled’ grabienrecentstories613340 https://grabien.com/story?id=613340 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:08:16 -0400 Trump: I’m Surprised the Attackers on the Base in U.K. Were Released on Bail ‘We know everything about them’ grabienrecentstories613338 https://grabien.com/story?id=613338 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:03:30 -0400 Trump on His Midterm Message: ‘We’re Running Against Communist Lunatic Socialists’ ‘If the Democrats took over, the border would be open immediately and you’d have millions of people pouring through, just like it was before’ grabienrecentstories613336 https://grabien.com/story?id=613336 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:55:41 -0400 Actress Camryn Manheim: ‘I Always Wanted a Gay Son’ ‘But no! He’s the only straight guy in his musical theatre company’ grabienrecentstories613334 https://grabien.com/story?id=613334 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:43:05 -0400 Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror’s Lawyer: Kevin Reddington’s Behavior Was ‘Astonishing and Horrifying’ ‘I believe that Kevin Reddington, ever since the moment he learned that Michael was not going to side with him, I believe Kevin Reddington lost his mind’ grabienrecentstories613332 https://grabien.com/story?id=613332 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:40:56 -0400 Iowa Dem Senate Candidate: ‘I’m in Favor of a Fully Funded Medicare, Medicaid, Returning the ACA Subsidies’ ‘I believe health care is a human right’ grabienrecentstories613330 https://grabien.com/story?id=613330 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:25:19 -0400 Ken Paxton Says He Can Give Some Relief to People by Eliminating Gas Tax ‘I know people need money in their pockets, gas prices are high’ grabienrecentstories613328 https://grabien.com/story?id=613328 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:18:30 -0400 CNN’s Enten: ‘Donald Trump Is in Big Trouble’ with Young Voters ‘This is a historic shift for the president of the United States with a group he did historically well with back in the 2024 election’ grabienrecentstories613326 https://grabien.com/story?id=613326 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:55:08 -0400 Gen. Keith Kellogg: Eliminating the IRGC Leadership Should Be in Trump’s Game Plan ‘And you can’t talk to the supreme leader because we can’t find him, we don’t even know if he’s alive or dead’ grabienrecentstories613324 https://grabien.com/story?id=613324 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:36:15 -0400 Steve Moore: Trump’s Proposed Diesel Export Ban Is ‘a Bad Idea’ ‘It’s just not fair to consumers to add all these regulatory costs on when we’re paying such a huge price today’ grabienrecentstories613322 https://grabien.com/story?id=613322 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:22:30 -0400 Jim Hanson: ‘It’s a Question of Pure Survival’ for Iran Now ‘So they’re at their last breaths and going to go under the water shortly unless they make a deal’ grabienrecentstories613320 https://grabien.com/story?id=613320 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:12:40 -0400 FBN’s Varney: Republicans Should Be Very Quick to Point Out That Dem Policies Would Start a Recession ‘Perhaps they should start talking about what will happen if the Democrats’ dreams come true’ grabienrecentstories613318 https://grabien.com/story?id=613318 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:53:31 -0400 Ankush Khardouri: AG Blanche’s Defense of Trump’s Press Ban in an ABC News Interview Was ‘Bad and Embarrassing’ ‘That was dumb’ grabienrecentstories613316 https://grabien.com/story?id=613316 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:34:58 -0400 Iowa Dem Senate Candidate Josh Turek Wants to Import Immigrants to Take Iowans’ Jobs ‘I think we also need an easier pathway to earn citizenship so that we can bring in more workers’ grabienrecentstories613314 https://grabien.com/story?id=613314 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:34:06 -0400 Eugene Daniels: Trump Admin Has Used the Press to Disrespect the First Amendment Over and Over ‘And I think that is something that everyone should be a little bit concerned about, because at the end of the day, the folks that we’re seeing in that room asking the president questions are on there on behalf of the American people’ grabienrecentstories613312 https://grabien.com/story?id=613312 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:30:17 -0400 Ken Dilanian on FBI Co-Deputy Dir. Stepping Down: ‘America Is Less Safe Because of This Brain Drain’ ‘Kash Patel saying he had nothing to do with it, a lot of my sources are very skeptical about that, but that’s their story and they’re sticking to it’ grabienrecentstories613310 https://grabien.com/story?id=613310 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:22:59 -0400 Sawyer Hackett: It Seems Like Trump Is Sabotaging Republicans Ahead of the Midterms ‘It’s that coupled with his focus on these vanity projects that I think is really starting to put some distance between voters and the Republican coalition with just 40-something days until the midterms’ grabienrecentstories613308 https://grabien.com/story?id=613308 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:19:23 -0400 Jim Acosta: I Don’t Think Trump ‘Gives Two Craps About Where This Country Is Now’ ‘And I think when the gas prices go up, the Trump flags come down’ grabienrecentstories613306 https://grabien.com/story?id=613306 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:14:13 -0400 Dem Rep. Glenn Ivey Dodges on Abdul El-Sayed Refusing to Condemn the IRGC ‘We’ve had Republicans who refuse to condemn obviously racist statements’ grabienrecentstories613304 https://grabien.com/story?id=613304 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:06:26 -0400 Ron Insana: Trump’s New Fuel Efficiency Standards ‘Is a Horrible Idea All the Way Around’ ‘One, it’s really ill-conceived’ grabienrecentstories613302 https://grabien.com/story?id=613302 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:03:41 -0400 Democrat Cait Conley Says ‘No I’m Okay’ to Campaigning with Mamdani, Dodges DSA Question ‘I’m focusing on making sure voters in New York 17 meet me’ grabienrecentstories613300 https://grabien.com/story?id=613300 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:53:13 -0400 Jeffries: As Democrats, We’re ‘Authentically Interested’ in Dealing with Waste, Fraud or Abuse ‘And we certainly have seen an unprecedented amount of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption unleashed on the American people by Donald Trump’ grabienrecentstories613298 https://grabien.com/story?id=613298 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:51:19 -0400 Dem Rep. Smith: Trump Offered Arms to China Because ‘He Wants to Cozy Up to Strongman’ ‘So those are the three things that I think are most contained in what they’re really talking about here, aside from some bizarre comment about whether or not he’s going to sell arms to China’ grabienrecentstories613296 https://grabien.com/story?id=613296 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:30:21 -0400 Dem Rep. Adam Smith: Trump Offering Arms to China ‘Is Illegal’ and It’s Not Going to Happen ‘It’s bad policy, and it’s not where we’re headed’ grabienrecentstories613294 https://grabien.com/story?id=613294 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:26:49 -0400 CBS: An AI Model Downloaded More than 3 Billion Times and Used by Companies in the U.S. Appears to Censor Answers and Only Provide Information Approved by the Chinese Government ‘An AI model created by a Chinese company censors information — even when it’s being used in the U.S.’ grabienrecentstories613292 https://grabien.com/story?id=613292 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:11:01 -0400 Mamdani: ‘My Vision Is for the Disbanding’ of The NYPD Strategic Response Group ‘I will fulfill that promise’ grabienrecentstories613290 https://grabien.com/story?id=613290 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:50:16 -0400 Mamdani Announces Launch of a ‘Jobs NYC Center’: It Will Also Fight ‘Loneliness and Isolation’ of Those Looking for Jobs ‘With this center, the job search, will no longer be something that New Yorkers have to contend with alone’ grabienrecentstories613288 https://grabien.com/story?id=613288 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:33:34 -0400 Mamdani: Every New Yorker Deserves ‘an Extremely Cool and Reliable Job’ ‘Today we are rolling out our job menu’ grabienrecentstories613286 https://grabien.com/story?id=613286 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:20:23 -0400 Talarico ‘Mentor’ Pastor: Capitalism Is in ‘Death Throes’ ‘Gandhi and Martin Luther King were democratic socialists, that’s the next chapter’ grabienrecentstories613284 https://grabien.com/story?id=613284 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:08:36 -0400 Bill Gates Warns Unchecked AI Could ‘Cause a Billion Deaths’ ‘So even though it’s pretty hard to get to 100%, there is never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools’ grabienrecentstories613282 https://grabien.com/story?id=613282 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:41 -0400 Bill Gates Says Getting Countries to Agree on AI Regulations Will Be Harder than Cold War-Era Nuclear Negotiations ‘You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like’ grabienrecentstories613280 https://grabien.com/story?id=613280 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:57:51 -0400 Trump on Iran: ‘They Have No Economy, the Value of Their Money Is, as They Say, Valueless’ ‘They have inflation now of close to 300%’ grabienrecentstories613278 https://grabien.com/story?id=613278 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:44:30 -0400 Trump on Potential Diesel Export Ban: ‘This Is More of a Russia Problem, that Ukraine and Russia Are Going at It’ ‘This isn’t really a Middle Eastern problem’ grabienrecentstories613276 https://grabien.com/story?id=613276 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:41:28 -0400 Trump on Super Intelligence: ‘It’s Really the Industrial Revolution — Maybe Bigger’ ‘And it is, in fact bigger than the internet’ grabienrecentstories613274 https://grabien.com/story?id=613274 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:39:06 -0400 Bill Gates Says He Met Jeffrey Epstein About 10 Times, Starting Around Three Years After Epstein Was Already a Convicted Sex Offender ‘My spending time with him, like many other people, kind of helped his reputation’ grabienrecentstories613272 https://grabien.com/story?id=613272 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:22:59 -0400 Adam Hamilton Admits That Democrats Screwed Up the Border ‘The first three years, really the Biden Administration was a disaster in terms of immigration’ grabienrecentstories613270 https://grabien.com/story?id=613270 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:52:22 -0400 Rebecca Bennett Fails To Provide a Ballpark of Her Net Worth Twice ‘I don’t know the exact number’ grabienrecentstories613268 https://grabien.com/story?id=613268 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:46:39 -0400 Tom Kean Says He Is Prepared to Upkeep ICE But Maintain Human Rights ‘We need more coordination, not less’ grabienrecentstories613266 https://grabien.com/story?id=613266 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:45:07 -0400