The body cam footage from Britney Spears’ DUI stop revealed something about her memory. It is really, really sharp. There are tire tracks in this stop because she ran over some curbs. She backed up the bus over a close relative—her mom, Lynne. The CHP officer is talking to her about why you should avoid driving impaired. She did take a breathalyzer.

She was under the legal limit of .08, but she had, by her own admission, at least one mimosa. She had alcohol in her system—.064—but she also had taken Adderall, Prozac, and a mood stabilizer. That’s called “under the influence.”

The officer is talking to her about why it’s important not to drive impaired, and suddenly she remembers something from more than fifty years ago.

“So you are hereby advised that being under the influence of alcohol or drugs or both can impair your ability to safely operate a vehicle.”

“I take Prozac every morning. I’m like a lifer for life. This line is every—fifty percent of women take—”

“Therefore it is extremely dangerous to human life to drive while under the influence of alcohol or drugs or both. If you continue to drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs or both, and as a result of that driving, you could be charged with murder. Do you understand that?”

“Yes, sir. I know. My mom accidentally killed a man on a bike.”

“I never did that before.”

“He was a biker.”

“Okay, I’m going to read you what everything was called in ten seconds.”

“And nothing happened to her. Why didn’t they arrest her? How come my mom got away with everything? Because my mom tried to kill me.”

Oh my god. That’s really alarming. That her brain went down that path—that was not just something she was making up. Lynne did accidentally hit someone on a bicycle back in 1975. Britney clearly remembers that happening to her mom. But she remembers that story and went there. It’s really bizarre how her brain connected that immediately as soon as the officer said what he said.

The part I find interesting is when she says, “My mom tried to kill me.” The only thing I can think of is she’s going back to the conservatorship. We know Britney has had an up-and-down relationship with all members of her family, but it’s her dad that she really hates.

Her dad gets the blame for the conservatorship. But when they first had her committed to a mental facility, she said she did not want to go in and she felt like they were trying to kill her. It was actually her dad who got her in because he was the conservator. Lynne wasn’t.

She’s railed against the conservatorship before, but she never brings her dad up in this video. She brought her brother Bryan up at one point. But the fact that she says, “My mom tried to kill me”—she had so much hate for her dad in the conservatorship, yet she never brings him up.

But you’re thinking rationally here, and she was clearly not. Here’s how off the rails it was: at one point, Britney seems to be inviting the officers to come over for a meal.

“What if we have you get out of your car? We’ll put you in one of our cars and drive around the corner so we’re somewhere that there aren’t a bunch of people driving by.”

“Oh, I don’t want to get in here. So, you can come to my house. I’ll make you a lasagna or whatever you want. Oh, I have a pool. My babies are coming to my house tonight.”

It’s just a window into someone who is struggling with mental illness.

A viewer from Cleveland said: “Obviously what’s going on with Britney is heartbreaking. There are so many facets to this story. This is a classic case of ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.’ She’s suffering with addiction issues and she’s suffering from mental health.”

“Where are you leading the horse to water? Were you part of the Free Britney movement?”

“Of course I was. I’m a founding member.”

“Then how do you feel about it now?”

“I stand by it 110%. When you’re dealing with mental health and addiction, which she is dealing with both, you can’t force treatment upon anybody.”

“What about the mental health side?”

“I feel the exact same way. Obviously there is a fine line of becoming harmful to yourself or to others, and I get where the conservatorship could have come in. But she has to feel consequences. She’s been forced into this, and look where we ended up. We ended up in a dark place.”

Here’s what I’m going to show you. The Britney Spears police video is not what you think. It’s not about a DUI. It’s not about her driving. It’s about her mind. In the middle of a routine traffic stop, she opened a door that has been locked for decades.

She accused her mother of attempted murder. She relived a trauma from 1975. And she invited the cops over for lasagna. By the time we’re done, you’ll understand why the body cam footage is the most revealing document of Britney’s life since the conservatorship ended. Why the mention of her mom is more loaded than anyone realized. And why the lasagna invitation isn’t funny—it’s a cry for help.

The body cam footage is grainy, shot from a camera on a CHP officer’s chest. Britney is in the driver’s seat, her eyes glassy, her words tumbling out in a rush. She’s not combative. She’s not angry. She’s something more unsettling: she’s unmoored. The officer is reading her rights, warning her about the dangers of driving impaired, and her brain makes a leap that no one saw coming. “My mom accidentally killed a man on a bike.” Then: “My mom tried to kill me.”

The mention of her mom is not random. Lynne Spears has been a complicated figure in Britney’s life. Supportive in public. Controlling in private. During the conservatorship, Britney blamed her father, Jamie, for locking her up. But in this video, she doesn’t mention him.

She mentions her mother. She’s not thinking about the past thirteen years. She’s thinking about something that happened when she was a toddler. That’s trauma. That’s a mind that has been broken and repaired and broken again.

The lasagna invitation is the part that breaks your heart. She’s alone. She’s scared. She’s offering to cook for strangers because she doesn’t want to be by herself. “My babies are coming to my house tonight”—she’s talking about her sons, but they’re teenagers now. They don’t come over for lasagna like they used to. She knows that. But she’s pretending otherwise.

This is not a celebrity meltdown. This is not a DUI story. This is a woman who has been failed by her family, by the legal system, by the media, and by everyone who watched “Free Britney” and thought the story ended when the conservatorship did. It didn’t end. It just changed shape.

Now, the other story that broke this week. One of the greatest race car drivers ever, Kyle Busch, died yesterday at forty-one years old. We now have a sense of what happened in the hours before his death, what he was going through.

The day before his death, there was an emergency call made to a facility in North Carolina where Kyle was using one of the race simulators, still practicing for what he hoped would be the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte. While he was at that facility, he fell into a medical crisis, and someone called 911.

“Tell me exactly what happened.”

“I’ve got an individual that’s shortness of breath, very hot, thinks he’s going to pass out, and has produced a little bit of blood—coughing up some blood.”

“Is he awake?”

“He is awake. He’s on the bathroom floor right now.”

After he was sent to the hospital, they announced he was having some kind of severe illness. Six hours later, he died. He had been ill, and it seemed to be getting worse and worse over the last days of his life.

On May 10th, during a race in Watkins Glen, he radioed his crew: “Can somebody try to find Bill Heisel? He’s the doctor guy. Tell him I need him after the race, please.”

“Hey, do you want Mr. Bill at your car or at your bus after the race?”

“Bus. I’m going to need a shot.”

He sounds short of breath there. He’s in the middle of a race. The car is physically demanding. Despite what he was going through, he finished eighth.

He presumably met with the doctor afterwards. Whatever he was dealing with didn’t stop him from racing. On May 15th, he entered a NASCAR Truck Series race. He won. Afterwards, he made a comment that a lot of people are now talking about: “You never know which race could be your last.”

I don’t think he meant it ominously. But here’s the thing. There is a really horrible flu going around that turns into pneumonia. I know someone who just went through it. They didn’t go to a doctor because they figured, “I’ll give it one more day.” And it doesn’t get better. You can go downhill really fast with something like that. I’m not saying that’s what it was, but what they were describing is similar.

That call was made on May 20th. May 10th is when, as far as we know, he was experiencing symptoms. Over the course of ten days, we don’t know whether he actually went to a doctor, whether he was diagnosed with anything, whether he was being treated, or whether he was just toughing it out.

Why did he go to the simulator? If a doctor had diagnosed him and said, “You’ve got to go home,” he wouldn’t have been in the simulator. It does seem like he probably wasn’t diagnosed, and he just felt like crap and thought it would get better. It escalated and escalated and escalated.

A viewer from Chicago said: “I think one thing his final days reflect is that he died still committed to the sport and also to his family. One of his last posts on social media was about his son. The fact that we can remember him as not only an icon but someone committed to the race—having a medical emergency and still finishing in eighth place—is a testament to his legacy.”

He was an incredible driver and an incredible family man. Both of his kids—eleven and four—just celebrated birthdays this month. A sad loss for his family and for all racing fans.

Republicans have turned on Donald Trump. Our guys in Washington D.C. are hearing a lot. Republicans don’t necessarily side with the press on everything, and now a few of them are starting to defect over the “$1.8 billion slush fund.” It’s controversial even to some Republicans.

Not all of them are toeing the line lately. It does feel like this is the last straw for them. They went along with the president because that’s what they were doing, sticking with the party. But even on this, they said, “We can’t do this. This is too obvious corruption.”

When I spoke to Randy Fine, a Republican congressman from Florida, he was actually defending Trump, saying he has every right to use this money how he wants. He said the Justice Department went after him for a long time, and now he can basically do what he wants.

I was shocked that Ilhan Omar lit that fuse. When she was leaving the Capitol yesterday, I brought up what Trump said about not attending his son’s wedding this weekend given the Iran war and other things. She said that makes him a bad dad. She said if he really cared about his son and being a family man, he would go. Pretty strong words, but not surprising. They’re sworn enemies.

I loved the conversation with Senator John Kennedy. It was so interesting. A month ago, I thought of our guys as total outsiders and wondered how they’d get received. When I listened to Kennedy, he was saying, “I’m dying to talk to you guys on the level that you’re having conversations because I’m doing the same thing on TikTok.” Some of them relate to being outsiders. A month or two ago, Ted Cruz joined TikTok. He’s under 20,000 followers. Kennedy joined more recently, and he’s got hundreds of thousands. He’s going viral regularly. Tim Scott just joined last week.

Why are all these old Republican men joining TikTok? Some reason people relate to John Kennedy. I asked him, “What’s your secret sauce? Any advice for your colleagues who don’t make videos that slap yet?”

I think he’s a lot cooler than you give him credit for. He’s young at heart. He’s kind of serially online to be slapping this hard on TikTok. So yeah, I think me and him are kindred spirits.

He totally dodged that question. Did a D.C. two-step.

When our guys first went to D.C., they were saying, “I can’t believe we’re in Congress. We’re in the White House. We’re here.” Now it’s like old hat. Jacob just walked into the press briefing room at the White House like it’s nothing. He’s complaining about the rain. He was with Trump today. The magic is wearing off. It’s becoming a daily grind chasing the daily beast.

I still pinch myself. Even just looking at my backdrop, I’m like, “Am I really here?” It still feels special. I’m savoring it.

Trump just confirmed he’s not going to the wedding. He’s heading to New York. He’s staying at the White House. Jacob, you’ve got to choose your girlfriend or Donald Trump this weekend.

“Sorry, babe. I’m going with the president.”

This holiday weekend is going to be a real knockout for Ray J. The question is who gets knocked out? Will he be doing the knocking out or getting knocked out? He is fighting in an MMA-style event in Vegas against a guy named Super Hot Fire. He’s the co-main event.

Look at Ray J training. He’s got quick hands.

“This is a big fight for me. I’m undefeated. I have no wins and no losses.”

Undefeated, no wins. I love it.

He can kick, he can elbow, he can put him in a chokehold. Why is he doing it? It was on his bucket list. The older you get, the longer you can’t do it. He’s forty-five and he’s 0-0. He just wants to get in there. Whether he gets beat up or beats the other guy up, he was in the ring fighting for a championship belt, fighting for his life, fighting for his kids. That’s the angle—just never give up.

A few months ago, Ray J was in the hospital dealing with some illness. The doctors were giving him months to live. His lifestyle had caught up with his heart. Have doctors said this is something he should be doing?

“I did at least fifteen tests—eyes to heart to blood. Feet test, arm test, body test, heart test, EKGs, MRIs, everything came out clear. This is just a good opportunity to show my determination and will on never giving up on myself. I’ve been cleared through all the doctors. But all my main doctors said, ‘Don’t do it.’ My mom said, ‘Don’t do it.’ Brandy was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’”

If he comes out strong, he thinks it’ll change the dynamic of who he is. This could be a big turn on cleaning his act up. But he’s got to win. If he doesn’t win, he’s going to go into a darker depression and a dark side. That’s scary—that winning is the highest of highs, but losing would send him into that kind of depression.

“I don’t want to lose. Super Hot Fire is tough. He’s very cocky. I just saw him, and that didn’t make me feel any better. But again, if I get beat up, just remember me as a winner.”

He’s been training with Rampage Jackson, Chuck Liddell. He talked to Victor Ortiz. He talked to Mike Tyson today.

“Mike Tyson gave me some secret tips. He’s been my friend for a long time. He’s watching the fight. Drake’s album is so dope right now. I’m Iceman. He’s Super Hot Fire. I’m gonna put him out with this freezer.”

Is that your move? The freezer?

Have fun in there. We’re cheering for you. No matter what happens, do not go to that dark place. Ronda Rousey came back. She just won again.

“I wish I could do that. If I can do it in seventeen seconds like she did, I’ll be a fighter for another ten years. But it just doesn’t seem realistic.”

Confidence, Ray. We’ve got to build you up.

Good luck, Ray.

A rocket did not go up, but Nicki Minaj was there to watch. That’s what went down at SpaceX, where Nicki was an honored guest on the livestream for the Starship rocket launch. Appropriately, they brought her because she’s tight with the president and therefore with Elon. It was a Starship rocket—mega rocket—scheduled to go up. Of course, if you don’t know Nicki Minaj’s song “Starships,” that’s why she was there. She seemed into it, but she got a disappointment. They scrubbed the launch.

“What do you think the Barbs are going to say when they see you here at Starbase?”

“They better say all good things. But they’re going to be excited, and they’re probably going to want to come themselves next time.”

“I just noticed your shirt. You’ve got the right swag.”

“I love this shirt. It’s a great name. Starship. How did you predict the future? ‘Starships are meant to fly.’”

“I do not know. But major shoutout to Elon. Thank you for everything you’re doing for humanity. He’s the man.”

I love what’s behind her—the engines they had there. I don’t know if those engines worked any better than the ones on the rocket. It was a success not to take off when you’re not ready. You abort the mission. But it’s a little embarrassing—you have Nicki, you have your VIP there to see it, and then they scrub the launch. You take your chances. It’s a lot more embarrassing if it blows up.

Elon Musk is really the pioneer of our times. He’s the Thomas Edison of our era. The fact that he can do things that NASA has not been able to do for almost seventy years—and Elon never studied rocketry formally—he did it himself with engineers who worked for him. But he was intimately involved. He’s into electric cars, into space, and he’s about to go public with the largest company ever.

When he was walking around D.C. with a hatchet, did you ever suspect that a year later Nicki Minaj would be tight with him? I stopped suspecting things. Twenty months ago, did you suspect that Elon Musk would be on Air Force One with Donald Trump going to China after he trashed him about everything?

A viewer from Los Angeles said: “I find this trend of billionaires and pop stars collaborating quite interesting. Last year, Jeff Bezos and Katy Perry did a space thing. I just wish we were doing this earlier as a civilization. In the ’80s, we should have had Warren Buffett send Michael Jackson to space so he could quite literally moonwalk.”

That’s a good one. Michael Jackson moonwalking in space. Would have been interesting.

Ann Hathaway has been dealing with a lot of rumors about her face. Some people think she’s had a facelift. She has an answer for those folks. She said, “I felt like the conversation was becoming distracting. These are huge medical decisions that people are presuming. I wanted to show that no, I didn’t make a huge medical decision. And by the way, I might still get a facelift someday.”

Her explanation: she braids her hair along the edges, and that pulls her face back. That’s it. As Black people, we know when you get your dreads or your braids done, sometimes it pulls your face back. It gives you a little lift.

I’m Lauren from Philadelphia. “I think Ann Hathaway is exuding confidence. The older you get, the more comfortable you become in your own skin. There are so many little procedures you can get done without it being a facelift. She does have that hack where she braids and pulls it back, and it really does lift. She has little tips and tricks without doing the whole facelift yet. She’s not against it.”

Tricks of the trade.

We are talking about people who are cozying up to President Trump. Jeff Bezos defended his relationship with the president, saying in a sense he’s nobody special—he nuzzles up to all presidents. Mark Cuban, who was a supporter of Kamala Harris in the last election, was at the White House working with the president on a prescription drug plan.

What’s really in it for folks like this? Are they doing it for themselves? For the country? Both? Joining us to follow the money is our good buddy Daymond John from “Shark Tank.”

“I know one thing about Mark Cuban: he cannot be persuaded. He has way more money than he needs. But for years he’s been working on this Cost Plus Drugs—a horrible name. When somebody can get a $1,000 pill for $50, and he knows how many lives he’s saving, he is by far somebody who publicly objected to a lot of things the president said. But he said, ‘This is more important for Americans to be able to save lives, and I will cross whatever aisle I need to.’”

Daymond sees a huge difference between Mark Cuban and Jeff Bezos. Bezos said, “I’m for America.” But America depends on who you are and how you view it. Mark Cuban truly is not doing it for lining his wallet. He has causes.

Jeff Bezos has to work with the sitting president because he has thousands of people he employs. Every single president has called him. They say, “What can we do for you? What can we do for the people?” At the end of the day, 130 million people are employed by the private sector. People don’t wake up in the morning thinking about what culture they’re going to fight. They want to know how they’re going to pay their bills, how they’re going to have infrastructure, how they’re going to have medicine.

If a billionaire can help with that, you put aside your differences. You may object to 50% or 75% of what this person says, but if this is going to help, it’s your obligation to be Americans first.

Does America go as Amazon goes? If these companies do well, is that better for everyday Americans? If their companies do well, it is better for Americans because these people have a lot of money. They can move their companies elsewhere. They can buy other countries’ presidents and do better over there. We wake up every day and get mad at the billionaire. But who doesn’t want to be a billionaire?

I can talk about Mark’s passion toward what he’s trying to do. I don’t agree with everything Trump has done, and I don’t agree with everything Obama has done. But at the end of the day, we’re all Americans. Let’s move forward and cross that aisle when we think it will benefit every single one of us.

Preach. I love Mark Cuban. I love you too, Daymond. Happy Memorial Day.

Something very strange happened in the middle of a Fox News interview. They were talking to retired Vice Admiral of the Navy Robert Harward. Bill Hemmer asked him a question, and the Vice Admiral—he’s on Fox News a lot—look at his neck. This image has gone viral because a lot of people think he was wearing a Mission: Impossible-style mask, and they did a bad makeup job. The wild conspiracy theory is that it wasn’t even him. It was someone wearing a mask to appear like the Vice Admiral.

I don’t understand where the mask is. The brown thing online is that they think he started to rip the mask off. It’s very weird. When you watch the interview, whatever it is is moving just like his mouth does. It’s almost like a reflection. I don’t really know what’s going on.

I’m a big Reddit user, and this was the biggest video on Reddit yesterday. There was a noticeable jiggle. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a mask.

The Vice Admiral has been on Fox News plenty of times, so it’s not odd that he would be on. Why would they need someone to be in a mask to be him? Because he could take it off and suddenly it’s a Democrat who has invaded. That’s some of the theories—who’s under the mask.

The biggest non-conspiracy possibility is that it was heavy camera filtering. That’s supposed to be his neck under the mask. That’s the brown.

Fox News gave a statement: “He appeared on Fox News Channel earlier this week via a remote mobile camera operated by an outside vendor. During the interview, lighting conditions in the van contrasted with the Vice Admiral’s jacket, which caused a shadow to appear on his neck.”

They’re saying it’s a shadow. Why is the shadow moving? It’s a jiggly Halloween store mask, from the looks of it.

A viewer from New York said: “My question is, if they ID’d him, why would he need a mask? We know exactly who he is. Was it done for aesthetic reasons? If Fox responded, there’s still going to be people talking online. Who approved to put this on TV? It doesn’t help the audience trust the network if there are a bunch of conspiracies surrounding the report.”

It’s better for the network. It makes it more interesting. Nobody would be talking about that particular interview today. If it was Kamala Harris under that mask, now that would be good.

Jack Antonoff is going on a world tour. Good for him. The “Today Show” wanted to hear all about it. He famously writes songs with Taylor Swift and is one of her best friends. So we know the drill. Watch how he reacted.

“Wedding season is upon us.”

“Is it?”

“Yeah.”

“Are you married?”

“I am married. Fifteen years this year.”

“Oh, great.”

“Are you going to any big weddings this summer?”

“I hope so. I love being married, man. I’m happy you love being married too.”

“Yeah.”

“That’s all you’re going to give me?”

“Okay.”

Did we just have a moment? Don’t you love the way they want to get in our lane, but they don’t want to say they’re in our lane, so they try to do it differently, and everybody reads through it?

Have a good weekend, everybody. Enjoy the weekend.