ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel got more than he bargained for after a Tuesday bit he did to celebrate reality show personality Spencer Pratt falling outside of the top two in Los Angeles’s mayoral primary. As part of his victory dance, Kimmel and his crew decorated a U-Haul to help Pratt move, but the next day, Pratt would respond by posting a video on X of his burned-down home and claim he doesn’t need the U-Haul because he has nothing to put in it after the wildfires. Kimmel began, “He clearly promised that if Karen Bass or Nithya Raman were elected mayor, he was going to move out of L.A. He said he was done with L.A. and Spencer, if you are watching, we are so, so, so sorry to see you go. But what we do know, we're going to miss the hell out of you. You're a man of your word. And you've got to go, you said you were going to go, and I know things might be tight right now, especially the out-of-state donation money is running out, moving is expensive. So, to help you out, we rented you a U-Haul.”   ABC's Jimmy Kimmel decorated a U-Haul with balloons, streamers, and cans for Spencer Pratt, "He clearly promised that if Karen Bass or Nithya Raman were elected mayor, he was going to move out of L.A. He said he was done with L.A. and Spencer, if you are watching, we are so, so,… pic.twitter.com/4BCnbUwHGD — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 10, 2026   The U-Haul was decked out with balloons, party streamers, a picture of Pratt’s face next to the words “just defeated,” and aluminum cans tied to strings like you might see on a car of a recently married couple. Kimmel continued, “So, to help you out, we rented you a U-Haul. This is—it has plenty of room. It's got two beds, tables, chairs, all your crystals, whatever you want. Our staff spent the whole day decorating it for you. And everybody that will notice you and wave good-bye as you leave, and I hope that you and Heidi are happy wherever it is you go. Maybe you can be mayor there or maybe just run for mayor and finish in third place. It could be fun for your new reality show season two. Either way, mazel tov and good-bye, Spencer Pratt. Let us know if you want it. We'll drop it off in front of the Bel Air hotel.” Pratt has insisted that he stayed at the hotel for security during the campaign. As for the U-Haul, Pratt posted on X on Wednesday, “Jimmy Kimmel i guess you missed the part of the story i don’t need a U-Haul… I have nothing left to pack” followed by a shrugging emoji. Jimmy Kimmel i guess you missed the part of the story i don’t need a U-Haul…I have nothing left to pack

Tuesday was primary day in Maine and three other states, so Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s life of ruin was seemingly unavoidable. While we saw NBC finally get off the sidelines and offer consistent coverage following last week’s allegations by ex-girlfriends in The New York Times, the peacock network gushed Platner’s stormy seas have “energized progressives” and “strengthen[ed] his bond” with them despite a tattoo “some say resembles a Nazi symbol.” Appearing Wednesday on NBC’s Today, chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles gushed “oyster man” Platner’s “series of scandals” have “seem[ed] to strengthen his bond with a Democratic base, and now he’s prepared to take his progressive message into November.” NBC’s Ryan Nobles gushed on ‘Today’ that Graham Platner’s “a series of scandals” have “seem[ed] to strengthen his bond with a Democratic base, and now he’s prepared to take his progressive message into November” even though Susan Collins has “seiz[ed] on the reports” against him… pic.twitter.com/M6WFRkpRxb — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 10, 2026 Nobles even deployed a classic proverbial drinking game word for conservatives as he huffed Republican incumbent Susan Collins has “seiz[ed] on the reports” against Platner. Seize! Drink! Along with ignoring the Nazi tattoo, Nobles bragged, “[t]he oyster man and Marine vet has energized progressives despite facing multiple scandals, alluding to the controversies overnight.” “His campaign confirming last month that he set multiple women sexually explicit text messages at the beginning of his marriage. And last week, several former girlfriends told The New York Times Platner’s behavior was sometimes toxic and unsettling,” he added. Before shifting to results in South Carolina and a projection in California that Republican Steve Hilton will advance to November’s gubernatorial general election, Nobles included a disturbing soundbite from a younger, white male in which he laughed in saying “I hate saying this, but sometimes I feel like it’s a lesser of two evils.” Hours earlier on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, Nobles kept it more under control. While he boasted “[t]he Marine vet-turned-oyster farmer has tapped into a wave of progressive support,” Nobles did say Platner “face[d] several controversies, including past social media posts where he blamed victims for sexual assault,” a “tattoo resembling a Nazi SS symbol,” and “accusations from a trio of former girlfriends...describ[ing] his toxic and unsettling.” Like we’d see with CBS, Nobles did some man-on-the-street interviews, including an extended soundbite from Maine voters, including the one who had the “lesser of two evils” justification. This time, Nobles included said voter relaying Platner came off as a “down-to-earth” guy. ABC omitted Platner mentions from Tuesday’s Good Morning America (GMA) and World News Tonight, but came around to it for Wednesday’s GMA. Correspondent Jay O’Brien made the most of it in the 89-second segment as, unlike Nobles and most of the media coverage surrounding Platner’s Nazi tattoo, he was unequivocal in calling out the “questions about a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.” ABC’s Jay O’Brien said a Platner has faced “questions about a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest” and his path to victory was “complicated by a string of recent controversies [about] past, including sexually explicit text messages he acknowledged sending to up to six women when he… pic.twitter.com/kTWJr4YRKj — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 10, 2026 O’Brien also said Platner’s path to victory was “complicated by a string of recent controversies [about] past, including sexually explicit text messages he acknowledged sending to up to six women when he was first married in 2023.” “The New York Times also speaking to several of Platner’s ex-girlfriends who described ‘unsettling behavior.’ One even saying that he was physical, which Platner denies,” he added. CBS’s coverage of the Maine primary was far more substantive and consistent. On Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Matt Gutman said Platner has “admitted to a sexting scandal and is now fighting off allegations from several former girlfriends.” Maine is one of four states where primary voters headed to the polls on Tuesday, and it has one of the most closely watched races in the country, as Democrat Graham Platner seeks to lock up the nomination to take on incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins despite his recent string of… pic.twitter.com/StN4Yd9hIl — CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil (@CBSEveningNews) June 9, 2026 Congressional correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns said he “has caught fire among progressives” to the point that “many Maine voters told us” they cared more about defeating Susan Collins (and, therefore, Trump) than Platner’s behavior, which she described as “unsettling and toxic behavior” and grabbing by ex-girlfriends. Huey-Burns has also stood out from ABC and NBC by repeatedly mentioning a devastating Monday Washington Post column from a former top campaign official, who wrote Platner “exhibits a pattern of dishonest behavior that’s impossible to ignore.” By Wednesday’s CBS Mornings, Huey-Burns returned to say Platner “nodded to some of those controversies” in his victory speech by saying “he’s made mistakes in life, but he vowed to make them proud[.]” She said he won “despite a number of headline-grabbing controversies” and having been “beset by a series of scandals, including allegations of physical abuse, by a woman he dated over a decade ago, which Platner denied, calling them, ‘politically motivated.’” Once she touched on results in South Carolina, Huey-Burns cleverly said “Platner may be running as an outsider here in Maine, but last night, Washington top Democrats lined up behind him.” Ahead of voters heading to the polls, CBS and NBC had reports on Tuesday morning. Zooming in on NBC’s Today, their report marked the first time the new show invoked Platner since The Times story broke featuring allegations from Lyndsey Fifield. Incredibly, Nobles was wildly esoteric in describing the negative headlines, including the “unsettling” behavior with ex-girlfriends and having had “a tattoo that some say resembles a Nazi symbol.” Tuesday's 'Today' marked only the second time a morning or evening NBC newscast mentioned Graham Platner since last week's The New York Times article about Lyndsey Fifield. Talk about vague when explaining it away: “But Platner has weathered a series of scandals, including the… pic.twitter.com/vnhgecTCRF — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 9, 2026 He gushed that Platner had “set the progressive world by storm” as “a political newcomer, a Marine veteran, and an oyster farmer” (with that last descriptor being dubious). Over on Tuesday’s CBS Mornings, co-host Gayle King remarked Maine voters have “heard a lot of negative stories about Platner’s relationship with women” and Huey-Burns correctly framed a Platner win as a “test” of “just how much voters are willing to tolerate to ensure success for their party.” Later, she also brought up The Washington Post column from a former senior Platner campaign official denouncing his candidacy and character as unbecoming. To see the relevant transcripts from June 9, click here (for CBS Mornings), here (for the CBS Evening News), here (for NBC’s Today), and here (for NBC Nightly News). To see the relevant transcripts from June 10, click here (for ABC’s Good Morning America), here (for CBS Mornings), and here (for NBC’s Today).

The foul odor of TDS is definitely in the air when the editor of the Washington Monthly, published on the pages of Friday's Atlantic magazine website, can somehow connect the actions of an enraged Democrat congressman in 1856 caning anti-slavery Republican Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate to President Donald Trump. The author of the hit piece incorporating an incident from a couple of centuries ago is careful to discount the idea of making historical comparisons but that was exactly what Rob Wolfe did in "The Vicious Beating That Reshaped America." First Wolfe fills the readers in on some of the details of the infamous 1856 Democrat upon Republican attack before turning his ire on his real target: On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks, a young representative from South Carolina, confronted Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts during a visit to the upper chamber. Sumner, known for his fiery abolitionist orations, had recently given a speech leveling insults at Brooks’s kinsman Senator Andrew P. Butler, including that he consorted with “the harlot, Slavery.” Suddenly, Brooks began raining down blows on Sumner with a gutta-percha cane while an accomplice warded off lawmakers who tried to intervene. Sumner’s long legs were trapped under his bolted-down desk; the best he could do was raise his arms. Brooks beat him until the cane splintered in his hand, and then, even after the desk was wrenched free, he kept going. Finally, bystanders pulled the men apart. Sumner barely escaped death; his head and shoulders were slashed to the bone. One of America’s best legal thinkers had just been chastised like a farm animal. ...Today, political violence is again on the rise. Angry, alienated men have taken shots at the president, stormed the Capitol, and attacked state legislators in their home.  So nice of Wolfe to mention that shots were taken AT Trump and yet his conclusion is that the President is somehow the perpetrator of such violence: "Donald Trump’s insistence that calling him an authoritarian puts him in physical danger recalls those southerners who treated sharp challenges as fighting words." And there you have it. Wolfe is essentially claiming that Donald Trump is at fault for the violence directed at him. Oh, and the crazies are not merely calling him an authoritarian, they are loudly proclaiming him, over and over, to be another Hitler thus justifying the violence. Exit question: Will the would be Trump assassin at the White House Correspondents Dinner be given a copy of Wolfe's Trump as violent Democrat article to read as he sits in his cell awaiting trial?

MS NOW host Ali Velshi is moving to weeknights soon to take over The 11th Hour, as Stephanie Ruhle moves to daytime. On the final episode of his eponymous Sunday morning show, Velshi gave far-left Democrat Brad Lander a forum to bash ICE and to accuse Israel of committing "genocide" in Gaza. The MS NOW host also tried to convince his viewers that some illegal aliens are not actually illegal, as he accused ICE of being "Trump's thug force." After bringing aboard his guest, Velshi talked up Lander's history of going to courthouses and trying to interfere with ICE agents: MS NOW's Velshi Lets Far-Left Dem Accuse Israel of 'Genocide' pic.twitter.com/xbZpPS654V — Brad Wilmouth (@bradwilmouth) June 9, 2026 VELSHI: .The reason you're on the show as regularly as you are is about something else. It's about your battles to try and help -- I don't even call them undocumented immigrants because the people you're talking about are documented. They're going to court, they have an agreement with the court about when they're supposed to arrive, and you have been showing support for them long before you were running for mayor of New York and member of Congress. A bit later, even though some asylum seekers are also illegal aliens, the MS NOW host that grew up in Canada reiterated his push to convince his viewers that asylum seekers should not be thought of as illegal: VELSHI: And I just -- I need people to understand this, that these people get adjudicated. They're often given a notice printed out saying, please, you know, come back in six months or a year or whatever. So you can't really call them undocumented. They're in the system. LANDER: That's right. VELSHI: They show up....They're not hiding A bit later, Velshi recounted that, when he visited the ICE detention facility in Newark that local police at one point made him move to another area. He then complained about local police helping protect ICE facilities: "We shouldn't be -- the country knows that ICE is bad. They know that CBP is bad. They know this is Donald Trump's thug force. Our municipal police should not be playing security contractor for them." A bit later, Velshi brought up the issue of Lander running against fellow Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman, with Lander running to the left of Goldman on Israel. The MS NOW host gave no pushback as Lander accused Israel of committing "genocide" in Gaza and obnoxiously invoked Nazi Germany: LANDER: And my opponent can't even say the word "occupation," much less say, "I'm going to stop voting to send U.S. military aid for Netanyahu's -- for Israel's destruction of Gaza," which I do consider a genocide. That term was coined by a Jew, Raphael Lemkin, who lost family to the Nazis and said, "Never again means never again to anyone." And that's a very Jewish thing to fight for. And, you know, I don't think there's good Jews and bad Jews. There's just Jews trying to navigate their way through a complex world. We deserve to be safe. Palestinians deserve to be safe. Palestinians are not. Israelis are not going to be safe until Palestinians are free. And it's a Jewish thing to say. VELSHI: So yeah, it's a -- it's weird that that sounds like an outside view, but it's not. It's a very mainstream, well understood view, including within Judaism. So thank you for being with us again. Transcript follows: MS NOW's Velshi June 7, 2026 12:24 p.m. Eastern ALI VELSHI: Joining me now is Brad lander. He's the former comptroller for New York City and current congressional candidate in New York's 10th district. A new Emerson poll from May shows that Brad Lander has 57 percent support against the incumbent, Dan Goldman's 23 percent. We're going to talk about that in a second, except, Brad, that the reason you're on the show as regularly as you are is about something else. It's about your battles to try and help -- I don't even call them undocumented immigrants because the people you're talking about are documented. They're going to court, they have an agreement with the court about when they're supposed to arrive, and you have been showing support for them long before you were running for mayor of New York and member of Congress. This battle continues. BRAD LANDER, DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: That's right. Right now. Yeah, I was in court this week because, as you were talking about, the Trump administration is using what they're calling mega master calendar hearings, just radically accelerating people's cases. I was in a room with all these young people who are eligible for special immigrant juvenile status, and the judge even said so. But they're basically manipulating the calendar and trying to throw them out, even though they're, in many cases, abandoned here without parents -- had parents who were tortured and killed. And what are we doing to them? It's really -- it's appalling. VELSHI: Your -- your opponent in the primary has taken to this. He is -- he's a little new to the game, but he's decided he also wants to show up at court. You showed up court. We showed video of you getting arrested. You linked hands with somebody who had just been adjudicated, walked outside a court. And I just -- I need people to understand this, that these people get adjudicated. They're often given a notice printed out saying, please, you know, come back in six months or a year or whatever. So you can't really call them undocumented. They're in the system. LANDER: That's right. VELSHI: They show up. LANDER: That's right. They've had a hearing. They've got an individual hearing date. (cross talk) VELSHI: They're not hiding LANDER: -- (inaudible) asylum application. We know where they are. VELSHI: And then they walk out and this happens. LANDER: Yes. I mean, masked ICE agents who don't present them with a warrant, who don't give a reason for the arrest -- they're really totally lawless. And then they take them to a place like Delaney Hall, where conditions are so bad, people are on hunger strike. VELSHI: So last Saturday night, I went out to Delaney Hall to get a handle on what was going on. And as it started to get hot, we started to get pushed back by Newark police. So the day before it had been state police, and that was Newark police. And this is video of me walking backward with all those police walking me backward. That was just for me and my team in -- in east New York. On Long Island, the same thing is happening. We shouldn't be -- the country knows that ICE is bad. They know that CBP is bad. They know this is Donald Trump's thug force. Our municipal police should not be playing security contractor for them. LANDER: That's correct. And actually, recently, the New York state legislature just passed and the governor signed a law strengthening the prohibition on collaboration by local law enforcement. Yes. You were not threatening the peace by reporting the news, and it shouldn't be that police forces are out there helping ICE do -- they're the ones breaking the law. I mean, right now, ICE is the one who is ignoring the rule of law in our country, and our local and municipal police should not be collaborating with them. VELSHI: Brad, you are -- you don't fall into the category of the kind of person that the Democratic establishment is supporting. They have decided they will support incumbents, generally speaking, and you even fall outside of the normal non-incumbent because you're -- you're sort of an activist and you're out there. How do you feel about that? You're -- you're -- you're running at double Dan Goldman, who's not just an incumbent, but a very well-funded and very well self-funded guy. What do you make of that? The party's on his side. (BRAD LANDER) Dan Goldman's been giving a lot of speeches recently. One of them didn't say your name, but it almost seemed like he was targeting you about whether you're really a good Jew because you've got nuanced views on Israel and Gaza and Palestine and -- and funding of Israel. LANDER: Yeah. I mean, look, I am a proud Jewish New Yorker. What this city has been for us after thousands of years of getting the crap kicked out of us around the world is amazing. And I even believe in the vision of a -- of a Jewish and democratic Israel. But there's no democracy with occupation. And my opponent can't even say the word "occupation," much less say, "I'm going to stop voting to send U.S. military aid for Netanyahu's -- for Israel's destruction of Gaza," which I do consider a genocide. That term was coined by a Jew, Raphael Lemkin, who lost family to the Nazis and said, "Never again means never again to anyone." And that's a very Jewish thing to fight for. And, you know, I don't think there's good Jews and bad Jews. There's just Jews trying to navigate their way through a complex world. We deserve to be safe. Palestinians deserve to be safe. Palestinians are not. Israelis are not going to be safe until Palestinians are free. And it's a Jewish thing to say. VELSHI: So yeah, it's a -- it's weird that that sounds like an outside view, but it's not. It's a very mainstream, well understood view, including within Judaism. So thank you for being with us again. LANDER: Congratulations on your run here. What a magnificent one it's been. Props on the new show. VELSHI: I hope you're a late-night guy so you'll join us (inaudible) LANDER: I'll be staying up late to watch for sure.

PBS welcomed hard-left professor and former Team USA U-23 player Jules Boykoff to the Tuesday edition of Amanpour and Company to preview the upcoming World Cup. Co-anchor Hari Sreenivasan wasn’t interested in who was going to win but rather in comparing the U.S. under President Trump to previous hosts Russia and Qatar with Boykoff, who claimed the U.S.-hosted tournament is actually worse than Qatar because, at least, Qatar being a small country meant its carbon emissions would be lower. Sreenivasan began by rhetorically asking, “Each World Cup we have a conversation somewhat similar to this. We talked before the last World Cup in Qatar about the challenges, about labor violations, what Qatar had to do to get that World Cup on. Before that, it was Vladimir Putin. And, you know, what does it mean to have this on Russian soil, so to speak?”   PBS anchor Hari Sreenivasan quotes hard-left professor and former U-23 Team USA player Jules Boykoff, "The 2026 World Cup is not only the most politically combustible tournament in modern history, also on track to be the most polluting.” Boykoff then says the U.S. in 2026 is… pic.twitter.com/3PFSCOtjxQ — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 10, 2026   Amanpour and Company originally airs on CNN International, and Sreenivasan is not the first CNN reporter to compare the U.S. to Russia and Qatar ahead of the World Cup. As it was, Sreenivasan then quoted something Boykoff wrote in The Guardian and wondered, “And I wonder now, in this context, you write that ‘The 2026 World Cup is not only the most politically combustible tournament in modern history, also on track to be the most polluting. Let's talk about the political combustion right now. What makes you say that?” Boykoff began by mourning, “Well, I would say the through line between those three tournaments that you just mentioned, Russia World Cup in 2018, Qatar in 2022, and the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 2026, is the idea of sportswashing. When political leaders use sports to their political advantage in order to make themselves look important or legitimate on the world stage while deflecting attention from chronic social problems at home and setting up opportunities for political and economic and diplomatic advancement.” He added, “And that term was used a lot, sportswashing, when people were talking about Russia and Qatar. And for good reasons, they were trying to use that event to deflect attention and make political and economic gain. But that's definitely what's happening in the United States as well.” According to Boykoff, Trump being president sucks any fun out of the tournament, “I mean, President Trump has made it clear, he said it many times in public, that the World Cup and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles are crucial to his legacy. And so, I think when you have someone like that, who is set on using sport to his political advantage in charge, and I think it must be said, I mean, he's a highly erratic individual, he can be impulsive at times, and he loves attention. That really sets up a recipe that could create problems, you know, for this event. Normally, people turn their attention to the sport at hand once the event finally starts, and we put those problems behind us. I'm not so sure that's going to happen this time around.” Boykoff would go on to suggest, without evidence, that ICE will harass fans and tourists because they have “been marauding through neighborhood after neighborhood in the United States. Masked up, they've actually killed people who are U.S. citizens.” When that inevitably fails to happen, PBS almost certainly won’t issue a correction. As for the second part of Boykoff’s Guardian article, Sreenivasan later lamented, “One of your concerns has also been about the carbon footprint of these games versus previous ones. FIFA, they say they want to be net zero by 2040, but researchers are saying that this particular tournament is going to generate more than 9 million tons of CO2, nearly double what recent World Cups have.”   As for the pollution idea, Boykoff laments "Also, the United States just simply doesn't have a strong train system, and so people are going to be flying from match to match, thereby jacking up the emissions. But in the bigger picture, FIFA has a real problem with greenwashing,… pic.twitter.com/H9rkT5UJIy — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 10, 2026   Earlier, it was mentioned that there are more teams at this World Cup, but repeating that context here would have been helpful. Instead, Sreenivasan continued, “Just kind of put that in perspective for us. I mean, I know that we've got games now that are in Canada and Mexico and the United States, and there's people flying from all over to these different countries and flying back and forth in between the games.” Because the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are three big countries, Boykoff decried that, “fans need to travel over vast geographical expanse to attend matches in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Also, the United States just simply doesn't have a strong train system, and so people are going to be flying from match to match, thereby jacking up the emissions.” After accusing FIFA of “greenwashing,” Boykoff returned to the previous host, “What you can say about Qatar is that once you got there, you could go around to the different matches on the metro and by car and have your emissions be relatively low. That's not the case here. So, while we have stadiums that were built, thereby keeping the carbon emissions low, people's travel budgets are going to be really high.” Ironically, Boykoff’s book that formed the genesis of this segment is entitled Red Card, but this whole segment was a red card. There is no credible comparison to be made between the United States on one hand and the authoritarianism in Russia and Qatar on the other. Here is a transcript for the June 9 show: PBS Amanpour and Company 6/9/2026 HARI SREENIVASAN: Each World Cup we have a conversation somewhat similar to this. We talked before the last World Cup in Qatar about the challenges, about labor violations, what Qatar had to do to get that World Cup on. Before that, it was Vladimir Putin. And, you know, what does it mean to have this on Russian soil, so to speak? And I wonder now, in this context, you write that “The 2026 World Cup is not only the most politically combustible tournament in modern history, also on track to be the most polluting.” Let's talk about the political combustion right now. What makes you say that? JULES BOYKOFF: Well, I would say the through line between those three tournaments that you just mentioned, Russia World Cup in 2018, Qatar in 2022, and the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 2026, is the idea of sportswashing. When political leaders use sports to their political advantage in order to make themselves look important or legitimate on the world stage while deflecting attention from chronic social problems at home and setting up opportunities for political and economic and diplomatic advancement. And that term was used a lot, sportswashing, when people were talking about Russia and Qatar. And for good reasons, they were trying to use that event to deflect attention and make political and economic gain. But that's definitely what's happening in the United States as well. I mean, President Trump has made it clear, he said it many times in public, that the World Cup and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles are crucial to his legacy. And so, I think when you have someone like that, who is set on using sport to his political advantage in charge, and I think it must be said, I mean, he's a highly erratic individual, he can be impulsive at times, and he loves attention. That really sets up a recipe that could create problems, you know, for this event. Normally, people turn their attention to the sport at hand once the event finally starts, and we put those problems behind us. I'm not so sure that's going to happen this time around. … SREENIVASAN: One of your concerns has also been about the carbon footprint of these games versus previous ones. FIFA, they say they want to be net zero by 2040, but researchers are saying that this particular tournament is going to generate more than 9 million tons of CO2, nearly double what recent World Cups have. Just kind of put that in perspective for us. I mean, I know that we've got games now that are in Canada and Mexico and the United States, and there's people flying from all over to these different countries and flying back and forth in between the games. BOYKOFF: The reason why you're seeing scientists jumping up and down about those jaw-dropping emissions numbers that you mentioned is because fans need to travel over vast geographical expanse to attend matches in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Also, the United States just simply doesn't have a strong train system, and so people are going to be flying from match to match, thereby jacking up the emissions. But in the bigger picture, FIFA has a real problem with greenwashing, which is to say talking a big green sustainability game but not actually following through on the ground. We saw this in Qatar where they said they were going to be the sustainable game, carbon neutral game. That definitely didn't happen. What you can say about Qatar is that once you got there, you could go around to the different matches on the metro and by car and have your emissions be relatively low. That's not the case here. So, while we have stadiums that were built, thereby keeping the carbon emissions low, people's travel budgets are going to be really high. So, I think this is another example, though, of FIFA saying one thing and doing another, and I think people in the United States, Canada, Mexico have seen numerous examples of this in the lead-in to the tournament.