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there’s something almost irrational to me about what’s happening here. Both because you would think that advertisers wouldn’t want to be around this. And you know, you think about it — I don’t know if you saw, last night, he was at the Chappelle concert in San Francisco, he gets booed on the stage. And you start to think about all the people who may not want to buy Teslas, genuinely literally, because of some of this. And so it doesn’t — I wish I could make sense of it, but I’m struggling.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Well — well, I’m with you. You know, I’m with you. It is like, when — when I’m looking at countries and how they react, I have never thought at the end of the day that Putin would be illogical enough to go in the U.K.. He did, right? And he keeps taking the country down a rabbit hole. And so it is disconcerting, because he’s acting every day against Russia’s own —”
SORKIN: “Right.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— self interest. In a —”
BRZEZINSKI: “Losing 100,000 soldiers.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— in a — in a much smaller area, you — you have a billionaire, richest guy in the world. He can afford to lose $44 billion. But again, what’s the logic in playing to a small slice of conspiracy theorists? Who — who’s he playing to? I’m always asking, what’s the end game?”