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Sen. Ossoff Says He's Not Running for President; Trump Considers Calling off Livestream; Guilfoyle Resigns after White House Request; New White House Press Secretary. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired October 14, 2026 - 06:30 ET
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ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Let's talk the more -- let's talk about -- let's talk about Ken Paxton --
TERRY SCHILLING, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN PRINCIPLES PROJECT: He's family- oriented. The wife (INAUDIBLE) --
SEAWRIGHT: Let's talk about Ken Paxton and Talarico, the two candidates in Texas.
SCHILLING: Yes. Talarico says that --
SEAWRIGHT: Let's talk about twice he's been out of town with his mistress, that's been reported.
SCHILLING: OK.
SEAWRIGHT: Let's talk about the cuts to Medicaid and Medicare.
SCHILLING: Yes, well, we've had fraud. We've had illegal immigrants (INAUDIBLE).
SEAWRIGHT: Let's talk about farmers getting screwed. Let's talk about all those things.
SCHILLING: Let's talk about --
SEAWRIGHT: And that is the reason why Texas voters are saying, we are going to choose Talarico.
SCHILLING: They're not saying that.
SEAWRIGHT: We'll see.
AUDIE CORNISH, CNN ANCHOR: Well, we're going to find out what they're going to say because we actually -- there's no debate happening between Talarico and Paxton, as far as I know --
TAMARA KEITH, SENOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, NPR: That's correct.
CORNISH: Which is pretty crazy considering the fact that Talarico was off the trail for two weeks. SEAWRIGHT: It (INAUDIBLE) Ken Paxton.
CORNISH: I don't know why Paxton doesn't want to be on stage with him.
But you know those like Jubilee-type debates where one person sits in the chair and everybody talks to the person in the center, we're doing that. James Talarico comes face-to-face with Texas voters. We're going to find out whether he can actually turn this red state blue on all the issues we are talking about. Erin Burnett is going to moderate that CNN and Jubilee town hall. It's happening tonight at 8:00. And there's going to be a post-show with Kaitlan Collins. That's at 9:30.
Stay with us
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CORNISH: So, a promise from Jon Ossoff. If he wins his Senate race in three weeks, he says that he will serve the entire six year term.
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SEN. JON OSSOFF (D-GA): I have zero interest in running for president. I'm not running for president. I'm running for re-election to the Senate.
REP. MIKE COLLINS (R), GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATE: He is running for president. He's going to be your DSA candidate.
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CORNISH: OK. Two very different visions of what that would look like. He's either running or he's running as DSA. Sorry, don't mean to laugh at that.
But I do want to know about what's going on with 2028. People don't actually seem like they want to jump in. I know they're all saying that, but there's also some caution that I'm noting in more people than him.
Keith: Yes, I mean, I think that this is an era when more people are willing to openly kind of talk about maybe running for president than they would have in the past.
CORNISH: Yes, like a Newsom.
KEITH: Yes.
CORNISH: Yes.
KEITH: However, you also have a lot of people who are potential presidential candidates who are literally on the ballot right now, including Josh Shapiro and J.B. Pritzker and some of these other candidates --
CORNISH: Yes.
KEITH: Who kind of have to run for the race that they're in right now. Also, possibly Jon Ossoff.
CORNISH: If they lose -- if they lose, does it ding them? Does it take them off the board completely?
KEITH: Yes. Yes. Yes, I mean, if you can't win in your swing state, then you definitely -- or your -- yes.
SEAWRIGHT: Look, there are people doing some high-level political flirtation, but not necessarily wanting to date the fact that I'm going to jump out for 2028.
Ossoff has a math problem. In order for him to successfully run for the presidency and not neglect Georgia, we would have to have a Democratic governor in Georgia to appoint a senator. Warnock is on the ballot in 2028. So, there's some math problems there.
And then for the other candidates who are flirting high leveley (ph) at this point, Shapiro and others, they have to win handsomely their re-election and build a national brand. And I think that becomes problematic when you have Kamala Harris sitting, waiting to make a decision.
CORNISH: Yes. Speaking of which, she was on "Baby, This is Keke Palmer," one of my favorite podcasts. And she's actually turning into one of the better interviewers out there. Kamala Harris was on the show and was also asked about 2028.
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KEKE PALMER, HOST, "BABY, THIS IS KEKE PALMER": We have to know this. You know, the people want to know. Are we going to get another moment to see you?
KAMALA HARRIS, FORMER U.S. VICE PRESIDENT: I haven't decided. I haven't decided yet. I will. I promise you. I'm excited.
PALMER: OK. We'll be waiting to hear.
HARRIS: But the midterms. The midterms. The midterms.
PALMER: OK, the midterms.
HARRIS: '28 don't matter if we don't do '26 right.
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CORNISH: She's been disciplined in her messaging.
SCHILLING: I think Kamala will be a disaster because she, as we saw in '24 --
CORNISH: You skipped to disaster. Do you think she's going to run? SCHILLING: I -- yes, I would say so. I mean, I think you're kind of
crazy if your name is that prominent and you don't run for president. I think it'd be crazy if Ossoff doesn't run. His name is front and center. He has so much momentum.
But again, I keep coming back to this. We're going to have to solve the economic problem for working families and young people. And Kamala had no plans in '24, and she couldn't articulate them. She's a terrible messenger.
SEAWRIGHT: I -- I don't know -- I don't know --
CORNISH: It's also a wildly different environment economically to solve between war, tariffs, et cetera. So, there's some policy things there.
SEAWRIGHT: I don't agree with, she did not have a plan because Donald Trump --
SCHILLING: What was it?
SEAWRIGHT: Donald Trump talked about concepts of a plan. The difference is, Kamala Harris had to explain her plan, explain how she was going to pay for it, and do all these subsequent things, and Donald Trump just got a pass saying, drill, baby, drill concepts of a plan.
CORNISH: I don't think so, Antjuan, and here's why. I think Project 2024 --
KEITH: Five.
CORNISH: '25.
SEAWRIGHT: That he said he had nothing to do with the entire --
CORNISH: Which has more or less been implemented.
SCHILLING: And we've gotten most of it done, baby.
CORNISH: Yes, exactly.
SEAWRIGHT: But he --
CORNISH: But my point is, plans were articulated plans. Plans Democrats warned the voters about specifically over and over again. And the voter took that step and now has buyer's remorse. That is very different from, we didn't know what it would look like.
SEAWRIGHT: It --
KEITH: No, I'm pretty sure Project 2025 did not say invade Iran.
CORNISH: Oh, it wasn't in that one? It wasn't in that one?
SCHILLING: That's true. That is true. KEITH: Yes. Well, I mean, sorry, bomb Iran, (INAUDIBLE).
SEAWRIGHT: But it -- but it also did not come from the mouth of Trump directly. In fact, because there was media pressure, he distanced himself along the way from Project 2025. So, you can't say those were Trump policies. Now, he talked about them broadly, but not his policies.
Here's where Kamala's right. We have to get it straight in -- we have to fix it in '26 in order to get it straight in '28. And I think we do need to hyper focus on the midterms.
SCHILLING: It's like the most conventional wisdom of all time, Antjuan.
Look, I think the problem with Trump and the -- and the Republicans right now is, we've lowered taxes as much as they possibly can go. We've gotten rid of all the regulations to maximize growth. But the economy isn't changing. And it's because our system is fundamentally broken. We're printing trillions upon trillions of dollars, and it's hurting people that don't own things.
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SEAWRIGHT: You mean Republicans that ran up the debt and deficit?
SCHILLING: Oh, and Democrats don't do that?
SEAWRIGHT: No, no, no, just --
SCHILLING: You want to go toe-to-toe on deficits and debt.
CORNISH: All right, before you guys get into this discussion --
SEAWRIGHT: Republicans have ran up the debt and deficit. I'm glad you admit this.
SCHILLING: Crazy.
CORNISH: Oh, my God.
SCHILLING: I'm not going to be lectured by Democrats on this.
CORNISH: I'm not going to be lectured by anyone in Washington on this given the performance, OK.
SO, next, we're going to talk on CNN THIS MORNING, because the president might be having second thoughts about livestreaming and execution by firing squad. It seems he now thinks maybe the optics could be bad.
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KATIE ZACHARIA, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Good morning.
CROWD: Good morning. ZACHARIA: I am so honored to work for President Trump.
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CORNISH: White House officials now questioning Trump's pick after a press briefing that at least one insider called brutal. Is this the beginning of the end for Katie Zacharia?
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CORNISH: Is the president having second thoughts about plans to livestream an execution by firing squad?
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REPORTER: Have you decided on what livestreaming of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, have you decided on that and are you concerned --
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We're looking at it.
REPORTER: Yes, but are --
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CORNISH: The president initially embraced the idea. CNN has learned that it turns out he did not know the Fort Hood shooter is, in fact, paralyzed. Sources say that made showing the execution publicly less palatable to the president.
Now, I have to say, it had made it less palatable to his victims, who knew he wanted to be a martyr to the people who are anti-death penalty. This was known. So, help me understand the journey from, we're going to do this to the Oval Office.
KEITH: Well, sometimes things seem like a good idea, and then the public reaction comes in and more points are made and the president sees more inputs. And then he says, we're looking into it. And that's sort of the evolution of a lot of ideas in this administration. You know, this is -- this is a challenging issue.
CORNISH: Yes.
KEITH: And there are a lot of Republicans who came forward to say, this is not what a democracy does. This is what something like Iran would do. This is not something that America would do.
CORNISH: Yes. But to your point, Defense Secretary Hegseth announced it, you know, with a lot of confidence last week.
KEITH: Yes.
CORNISH: Here he is.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PETE HEGSETH, DEFENSE SECRETARY: An Army major betrays his country, radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood, of course we're going to do it at Fort Hood. We're going to do it on a Thursday. We're going to do it at 1:00, which is when he did it. And it's going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad.
It hadn't been since World War II since we've done that. Well, I kind of like the mentality we had in World War II, which was when which? Which was understand, when the enemy attacked you, you stand your ground.
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CORNISH: So, he's like, here's the time. Here's the place. This is happening. Is there a chance Trump would back down when it's been so prominently announced?
SCHILLING: Well, I hope they don't back down from the execution. I think this guy deserves the firing squad. I think the firing squad is much more humaine than --
CORNISH: Yes. And his victims have said that.
SCHILLING: Yes.
CORNISH: So, everyone's been like, this is the punishment. It's whether it should be publicized.
SCHILLING: But -- yes, but publicizing it and televising it, I think, is the wrong call. And I think President Trump is right to start backing away from it.
But I just want to --
CORNISH: Is that an embarrassment to the defense secretary, whose approval rating is already 32 percent?
SCHILLING: No, look, you want -- you want a defense secretary that's fired up and ready to go to get justice for -- and by the way, public executions have been happening since time immemorial in the United States Army.
In World War II -- I just learned this. In World War II, there were public hangings over in Europe when we were fighting against the Nazis. Any American soldier that committed war crimes against the people there, that raped the woman or killed people were hung in the war zone.
SEAWRIGHT: Terry, Terry, Terry, we -- we're in America and this is 2026. This is straight out of the box of Nutty Buddy to even be having this discussion. I think when we have this -- these type of discussions, one, they serve as a distraction because now the news cycle is zapped to this instead of talking about affordability, the president's unpopularity, and all the things that people are going to actually vote on. But two, I think the -- what the administration is trying to do with
this is trying to distract from this actual war that the defense secretary and the president are solely responsible for, because that is what everyday Americans are pissed off, including the base. Including he base.
SCHILLING: No. It took place in --
CORNISH: Well, to his point, Hegseth has actually gone out, not on the campaign trail, just on a trail near the campaigns, where he is speaking in places, right? We've seen him go out.
KEITH: He went to Iowa.
CORNISH: He went to Iowa. But there -- is there something to the idea that it's an unpopular war that people connect to gas prices, and now you're talking about something else, which it's pretty clear may or may not happen.
SCHILLING: No, I think this timing is actually much more related to the problems in our legal system. It takes a long time to put people through the --
CORNISH: Well, the military court martial system. Yes.
SCHILLING: Yes. And so this is -- this has been a long time coming. I mean this Fort Hood shooting happened a long time ago. Justice should have been served much, much sooner.
SEAWRIGHT: Can I ask you a question?
SCHILLING: Yes.
SEAWRIGHT: If this was Lloyd Austin and Joe Biden saying we're going to do a public execution in this manner at this tick of the watch this close to the midterms with all the policy and political challenges --
SCHILLING: I'd support it.
SEAWRIGHT: You would be --
SCHILLING: I wouldn't -- I wouldn't support publicizing it.
SEAWRIGHT: You would be supportive.
SCHILLING: I would not support televising it.
SEAWRIGHT: That's -- I'm sorry, you would be -- you and others would be saying this is a good idea? I'm asking?
SCHILLING: Yes, I -- look, I've been very clear --
SEAWRIGHT: No, no, not the execution part. The public display of it.
SCHILLING: No. I just said I'm not in support of that.
SEAWRIGHT: OK.
SCHILLING: And we haven't been (ph).
CORNISH: All right, well, let's move on then because I think everyone and their mother literally has weighed in on this in terms of not liking it in the last couple of weeks. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he wouldn't watch it. J.D. Vance says he wouldn't watch it. The list grows.
SCHILLING: Yes.
CORNISH: OK, here is where there is some consensus in the White House, it appears. Kimberly Guilfoyle waking up this morning a former U.S. ambassador to Greece. She resigned Tuesday after the White House asked her to. And this follows a string of reports that she asked a Republican donor to give her $100,000 to pay off her credit card.
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Guilfoyle posting on X, quote, the job was "the honor of a lifetime" and that she will fight "false" allegations.
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REPORTER: She was almost a member of your family. How surprised were you to learn about these allegations? What did you think of them?
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: No, she wasn't a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago, but she wasn't. No, she went to Greece. She was doing a good job. But we didn't like what we were reading.
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CORNISH: Group chat is back.
To give context to that question, she was famously engaged to Don Junior, who now is married to someone else, when she was firmly across the country in Greece.
KEITH: Off in Greece.
CORNISH: Is this over given that this donor, who feels burned, is talking literally at the opening of an envelope?
KEITH: Yes, this guy is on TV everywhere. Every time I look up, he's on somebody else's show, which is not the kind of thing that this White House wants in an election where corruption is also an issue.
But here's the real thing. There is nothing President Trump hates more than someone profiting off of their affiliation to him. And --
SEAWRIGHT: Excuse me?
KEITH: He does not like it when people make money trading on his name -- CORNISH: Without him.
KEITH: Without him.
SEAWRIGHT: Oh, OK. I was about to say, because have you seen the sons?
CORNISH: Here -- no, but here -- so, here's the Trump donor, because he's not going away. This is the latest thing we heard from Mr. Deters.
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ERIC DETERS, RETIRED LAWYER AND FORMER TRUMP DONOR: The reality of it is, is that right before her confirmation hearing, she decided to grift. And that's when she promised me everything. But she claims that these are false.
So, I'm being forced to sue her. And I am going to sue her for defamation by Friday.
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SCHILLING: Yes. No, look, I completely support this decision. I think President Trump acted as quickly as he could on this.
This is the type of stuff that is disgusting to everyone, myself included. I have so many good friends who work very hard in politics. They struggle to raise money. And then you have this elite class of people that really don't care about actually affecting the country and changing things, asking for $100,000 to pay off their AMEX. It's disgusting. She should -- it's gross.
SEAWRIGHT: The trail of corruption continues to follow this administration. The common denominator here is you have -- let me finish. You have unqualified people in roles that they would not ordinarily qualify for in a -- in a world.
And, Tamara, to just push back on one thing. There were people who were selling or positioning themselves to sell pardons tied to this administration that the president seemed to have gone along with.
So, I do think that the trail of corruption, meaning people using the Trump brand and name, including his sons and children and in-laws and so forth --
SCHILLING: Antjuan, were any pardons for sale under Joe Biden?
SEAWRIGHT: I don't know a firm that advertised pardons by --
SCHILLING: Oh. It's because they helped innovate the industry.
SEAWRIGHT: I don't know a firm that advertised pardons by Joe Biden --
SCHILLING: Come on.
SEAWRIGHT: And paid $500,000. And people paid before (ph). SCHILLING: Democrats are so much better at money than Republicans are at selling these pardons.
SEAWRIGHT: Well, just --
CORNISH: Can I ask you a question?
SCHILLING: He had the auto pen.
CORNISH: Because in this case, remember, the call came from literally inside the house.
SEAWRIGHT: What does the auto pen have to do with it?
CORNISH: There's a guy who is a Trump donor who basically says, this is a grift.
SCHILLING: Yes. Yes.
CORNISH: Now, something he hasn't been asked, widely I don't know is, why did you think this was the way in? What about this administration made you comfortable entertaining this conversation and paying out that money?
KEITH: It sounds like --
SEAWRIGHT: The trail of -- the trail of corruption.
CORNISH: We haven't heard the answer yet. Well, let me tell you who has to defend it, or who has to explain it on a day like this? The new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia. She held her first briefing. But, unfortunately, the reviews are kind of bubbling out and someone called it brutal.
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KATIE ZACHARIA, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Good morning.
CROWD: Good morning.
ZACHARIA: I am so honored to work for President Trump and the American people as the new White House press secretary.
He had a historic one-day war. And now we are -- have a booming economy and a great relationship with Venezuela.
Something President Trump is delivering on, just like he delivers on every promise.
In addition to that, we will be -- we will be doing -- he has -- there is $54 billion tied to the Alaska LNG pipeline.
The idea of not spending evenings with my kid -- kids are -- is completely unacceptable. So, my president -- excuse me, my husband, because -- that's a -- that's a good one. My husband is out here.
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CORNISH: This lasted 14 minutes. She took questions from three reporters.
The group chat is back.
As someone who has been new to my job, and according to Reddit, not so great, I have some sympathy. But what has been the reaction? What are you hearing from your sources?
KEITH: Yes, I mean, this is just really rough. And this is a hard job. And everyone knows that. And among the White House press corps, we talk about it. It's not a job any of us would want. It takes --
CORNISH: But people talked about Karoline Leavitt being young, right?
KEITH: She -- but --
CORNISH: It was like, is this person prepared? She turned out to be prepared.
KEITH: She was young but she was prepared and she --
CORNISH: Is this person prepared?
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KEITH: She found out she had the job just days before. The briefing was at 9:30 in the morning. There's no time to prep. I -- it -- I don't know how she was put out there.
CORNISH: Here's what Karine Jean-Pierre said, a former White House press secretary herself under the Biden administration, who did that job under a lot of scrutiny.
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KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, FORMER BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: When I was White House press secretary, it took me four hours every day to prep with my team.
And you cannot just go in there not prepared. And so, what I saw today was odd. I've never seen anything like this, right? You -- she took, what, three, four questions, whatever it was, less than 15 minutes. I mean, when we did press briefings, you were in there for 40 to 60 minutes. You took dozens of questions. Sometimes the same questions over and over again. And it is a difficult job.
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CORNISH: And to her point, Karoline Leavitt, in her first press conference, took 46 minutes' worth of conversation. Kayleigh McEnany, 31 minutes. Sean Spicer, infamously, 79, spent a lot of time talking up there, for better or worse.
SEAWRIGHT: Terry, she's a -- this is a great example of a DEI hire. And I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why.
SCHILLING: OK.
CORNISH: OK, looking at the photo, I don't know if that's the case. Do you want to see the photo of all the press secretaries?
SCHILLING: No, he's -- he -- I get his point.
CORNISH: Oh, OK.
SEAWRIGHT: I made a point to Terry. It's a DEI hire. And let me tell you why. This is a continued pattern and theme of people being hired for jobs they ordinarily would not be qualified for, or get an interview for in the real world. No doubt that the press secretary is a tough job.
However, I think it's very important to note that this was 14 minutes and reading from a script. And you could not do those basic things. I think that's a problem when you consider the scrutiny that Karine faced being in that same position. And I think she did a hell of a job of being press secretary.
CORNISH: Well, here's Megyn Kelly's reply to that, because obviously there's been a lot of people talking about this.
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MEGYN KELLY, HOST, "THE MEGYN KELLY SHOW": And you can make the case that she shouldn't be the press secretary then if she gets nervous in front of the cameras. But she'll get there. She doesn't seem to have a ton of experience doing it. I think she was probably hired because she's attractive, and she must have done a decent job behind the scenes at Truth Social.
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CORNISH: That Truth Social bit sort of drew my attention.
SCHILLING: These are big shoes to fill. I mean, the list of former press secretaries you read off, they are all very skilled.
I think we should give her some grace. I think, you know, give her more than just one day. I -- you know, you saw her. She kind of, like, had to catch her breath.
I've been in that position. I'm going to give her some grace and some leeway. I've seen her on TV. She is, like, she goes on TV a lot and she does well. But this is a super tough job under scrutiny for a lot of reasons.
CORNISH: But we know this president, though, does like a polished TV presence.
SCHILLING: He does. He does.
CORNISH: That is one of the defining aspects of many cabinet members. I want to talk about what's in your group chat.
And, Tamara, I haven't seen you in a while. What's in your group chat?
KEITH: So, I have been following this Kelly Clarkson situation. She --
CORNISH: This is Kelly Clarkson versus a Brooklyn oddity shop where she tried to buy a automated bird.
KEITH: An animatronic-ish bird, which the store insists isn't for sale. She says she was treated like Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman." Basically, your money's not good here. Unclear, but the latest turn of the screw is that Pablo Torre, the journalist --
CORNISH: Pablo Torre found out.
KEITH: I should have --
CORNISH: He posted security footage.
KEITH: He posted -- I should have been sleeping last night, but instead I was watching this. And he posted security footage. The sad thing is, there's no volume. There -- you can't tell what anybody said.
CORNISH: Yes, but now it's like the new Zapruder film but for an automated bird and a pop star.
Go on.
SCHILLING: So, back in 2017, I built a $300,000 tree house. I am -- so back in 2017, my wife and I bought this house when we only had three kids.
SEAWRIGHT: (INAUDIBLE).
SCHILLING: And we bought it for $600,000. But we're now getting offers in the mail to buy our home for $900,000, $950,000. And the only improvement that I have made to my -- I don't have a new kitchen. I don't have a new bathroom. I built a two-story tree with a zip line in it, and that's the only thing. So, it's got to be the treehouse.
CORNISH: So, you think this is what has driven the value of your home, your Swiss Family. Robinson house in the back.
SCHILLING: It's the only thing that makes sense, unless you factor in the problem that we have with our dollar and how we have printed trillions upon trillions of dollars that we didn't pay for.
CORNISH: I did not expect that turn.
SEAWRIGHT: Terry --
KEITH: Oh, we are back here (ph).
CORNISH: I did not expect that turn. SCHILLING: This is inflation. This is unprinting (INAUDIBLE).
CORNISH: It all gets back to the dollar.
SEAWRIGHT: Terry's not dealing with the affordability crisis.
CORNISH: What is in your group chat?
SCHILLING: No, I absolutely am. More than anyone. I have eight kids.
CORNISH: What's --
SEAWRIGHT: What's in my -- what's in my group chat?
CORNISH: Do they live in the Alps? What am I learning here?
SEAWRIGHT: What's in my group chat is this awkward video of Marsha Blackburn dancing to a hip-hop artist.
CORNISH: This is Tennessee senator.
SEAWRIGHT: And the only thing I can say --
CORNISH: OK, this is A.I. generated.
KEITH: This is A.I., right?
CORNISH: Yes.
SEAWRIGHT: But she's posting about it. The only thing I can say is, they're not like us.
CORNISH: Wait, wait, so she reposted or --
SEAWRIGHT: She posted this from her social media. This has been a topic of conversation in trash TV talk, trash group chats across the board. I picked up that a member of the --
CORNISH: Don't you think, though, it's like showing that you're like hip with the kids and you understand the meme's.
SCHILLING: I think we should just laugh. I think we should just laugh.
CORNISH: Yes.
SEAWRIGHT: It's OK -- it's OK to laugh, but I just wanted to make the point that she's -- she's not like us. She's not like us.
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SCHILLING: There's Tim Burchett (ph).
CORNISH: Who's the -- wait, who's the wrestler? What's going on?
SEAWRIGHT: She's not like us.
SCHILLING: (INAUDIBLE).
CORNISH: So much going on here.
OK, I'm glad we could bring all of these timeline cleanses to you.
SEAWRIGHT: Terry, don't you -- don't you do it. Don't you do it.
CORNISH: Thank you, guys, for being here. Thank you for waking up with us. We've got more Heintz -- more headlines coming up on CNN NEWS CENTRAL next.
