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John Kiriakou's election special puts Trump's phone call under scrutiny

The Briefing Room pairs a state-by-state postmortem with a follow-up asking what Democratic gains could mean for Iran.

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I Said Watch for a Blue Wave. It Was a TSUNAMI | Episode 34

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2:57Kiriakou argues that Republican redistricting plans backfired in several states.
5:48He uses George McGovern's campaign history to make a case for a nationwide electoral strategy.
9:04Trump's Fox News phone call includes his argument that he was not personally on the ballot.
15:52Bobby Pulido's Texas victory becomes Kiriakou's example of Republican redistricting miscalculation.
25:27Kiriakou examines Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan victory, followed by a clip of his victory speech.

John Kiriakou pauses his election-results tour to play Donald Trump's phone-in reaction on Fox News. "I don't like to consider it a defeat for me, I wasn't on the ballot," Trump says. For Kiriakou, that response becomes the central contrast: a president distancing himself from losses that will reshape his remaining time in office.

"I Said Watch for a Blue Wave. It Was a TSUNAMI | Episode 34" was the most watched of his four uploads this week, reaching roughly 909,000 views. Beyond the presidential reaction, Kiriakou moves through state results, revisits the argument for campaigning across the whole country and plays part of Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed's victory speech. It's an expansive postmortem, with room for his joke that an ambassadorship to Greece might have helped Trump.

The follow-up, "Trump's Election Nightmare Could Mean Disaster for Iran | Episode 35," is attracting the most daily views now. Kiriakou shifts from who won to what comes next, arguing that escalation in Iran remains possible and examining international reactions through newspaper front pages.

The channel added 24,000 subscribers over the week, even as its current daily views fell to about half their usual level. Nearby political channels had varied weeks: Lawyer Oyer drew a large weekly audience, while The Warning with Steve Schmidt was running slightly below its usual daily pace. For Kiriakou, the election-results special remains the week's biggest draw, but its foreign-policy follow-up is doing more of the viewing work now.

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