Loading
Topic
US Senate Confirmation Hearings
- Episodes
- 1
- Communities
- 2
Where they stand
Talking points
Not enough disagreement in the transcripts to form camps. These are the positions taken by people with demonstrated expertise on this topic first, then by how many people heard them on it, then by VoiceRank.
Jay Clayton will be confirmed as Director of National Intelligence because he represents a safer choice compared to fringe alternatives.
“He's going to get confirmed because he is a safe pair of hands in that job in a room surrounded by crazies.”
The Rest Is Politics US · Jul 2026 · 1 episode · 170K views on this topic
The recent confirmation hearings for Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton served as loyalty tests to Donald Trump rather than examinations of their qualifications.
“I watched the hearing several hours each and my takeaway was that this was a big loyalty test. That loyalty to Donald Trump was being tested in public and both of these men, Jay Clayton and Todd Blanche who are respected figures otherwise, um and well known in Washington.”
The Rest Is Politics US · Jul 2026 · 1 episode · 170K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Related
Related topics · 2
In the transcripts
