CNN's Wolf Blitzer returned from a commercial break to summarize the multiple topics President Donald Trump addressed during his latest cabinet meeting on Thursday.
The 79-year-old president addressed a variety of topics after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided a rosy update on the war in Iran, and Blitzer caught viewers up to speed before returning to the meeting at the White House.
"Welcome back, we'recontinuing to follow the newsover at the White House, thecabinet meeting," Blitzer said. "The presidentover the last several minuteshas been getting into all sortsof other issues beyond the warwith Iran, beyond the TSA linesat the airports. He's talkingabout the ballroom that he'sbuilding at the White House,talking about the new Trump Kennedy Center building that hewants to close for two years andthen rebuild. Talking about allsorts of other issues, goingafter Democrats at the sametime. Let's go back to thecabinet."
CNN cut back to Trump, who embarked on a four-minute tale about ink pens, with a brief discursion into his ongoing grievances against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and renovations at the central bank's headquarters, and the entire room burst into laughter as he wrapped up his story and handed off to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
"Well, sir, as always, you'rea tough act to follow," Bessent said.
"All right," Blitzer said, as producers cut away. "We're going tocontinue to monitor this cabinetmeeting. Scott Bessent, thetreasury secretary, justbeginning his remarks, heardfrom the president. It's beengoing on now for almost an hour. We'll take another quick break."