Chris Murphy: “The minute that money was released, the crackdown began in an absolutely devastating way.”

The biggest issue of trust is the lack of trust the people have that we’re going to actually protect them from the poison, protect them from the potential enormous downside of unregulated, unchecked AI.

To the extent that there was any glimmer left of political speech in Egypt, it is gone for one proximate reason: The United States government abandoned the people of Egypt and decided to remove all conditions on our funding.

Seeing it all for myself - wondering whether our flight would be able to leave as the Houthis targeted the Riyadh airport - reinforced for me, in a unique, personal way, the ongoing, compounding disaster Trump has caused.

This is one of our biggest and most important facilities in the Gulf region. I’ve been to the Middle East at least a dozen times as a Member of Congress, and I’ve never been denied access to military facilities. This is part of a…