Fans who were disappointed with the lack of insight into Mauricio Umanski And Kyle Richards‘ distributed over The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills should consider tuning in to season 2 of Buy Beverly Hills.

The second episode of the Netflix reality show centered around Mauricio’s real estate agency, The Agency, began streaming on Friday, March 22 and opens with Mauricio talking to his daughters (who also work at The Agency) Farrah, Alexia And Sophia about the split.

“I had 26 wonderful years with your mother. An amazing 26 years. I wanted to do everything I could to just make it. So you know, your mom came and she talked to me and she said, ‘I think I need space,'” Mauricio said in the first episode. “I just need, you know, some time and a clear head, and maybe I’ll spend a month in Aspen.”

As all three girls become emotional, Sophia notes that their lives have “changed so much,” adding, “We only found out there were problems a few months ago and now things are just changing so quickly.”

The screen then fades to black and jumps to six months earlier, starting the season.

Buy Beverly Hills is streaming on Netflix. Keep scrolling for more quotes from Mauricio about Kyle — including how the rest of that aforementioned conversation with his daughters went. (Spoiler alert: They discovered two important updates about their parents through the media.)

Under pressure

“I’m so stressed out and obviously the traveling is affecting us,” Mauricio told Kyle in the premiere after his mental breakdown at the office. “And you work hard and we’re as busy as can be. It was just so stressful. …I had a complete meltdown at the office the other day. … I lost my st.”

Marriage takes work

While discussing Farrah’s own relationship issues with then-fiancée Alex Manos (in the finale it is revealed that Farrah and Alex called off their engagement due to his lack of willingness to make a wedding plan), Mauricio shares his views on marriage.

“It really feels like the relationship is a bit stuck right now,” he said of Farrah and Alex. “I know Farrah wants the fairytale but the reality is that marriages are hard and I’m really happy and proud that Farrah is taking the time to figure out what to do because marriage is a huge commitment and even the best marriages sometimes not so. it doesn’t work.”

The Hilton and Hyland of everything

“I think I was kind of let down by Hilton and Hyland,” Mauricio said of working with Kyle’s brother-in-law, Rick Hilton, at the beginning of his real estate career. “And when I say f–ked, you know, like today, I’m happy. But there were 100 officers at Hilton and Hyland. They made $1 billion a year for the first time – I was 19.6 percent of their production. Then I went home and talked to Kyle. I say, ‘This is really going to cause a lot of stress between you and your sister and your family. And I don’t want to do this step of leaving and starting a business if you don’t feel comfortable. She supported me 100 percent.”

Kyle checks out

By episode three, it’s clear that something is wrong with the one-time Bravo golden couple.

“With Kyle, I’m starting to feel like she’s checked out a little bit. I definitely reached out and wanted to kiss her, but she actually said no,” Mauricio told Netflix cameras. “I’m starting to see and feel that, but I’m not there. I’m still fighting 100 percent for our relationship and I still think I’ll be married to her for the rest of my life. … We have been to couples therapy three times now with the intention of trying to work on the marriage and understanding and communicating with each other. So I can understand a little better what Kyle is really bothering me about. But we haven’t talked to our daughters yet about what’s going on.”

During the next scene, Kyle discussed her plans to go to Nashville to be with her girlfriend Morgan Wade‘s music video. (There has been endless speculation about the nature of Kyle’s friendship with the country singer.)

“I’m sitting here and I realize that maybe Kyle is no longer in love with me, right?” Mauricio added in a confessional. “And doesn’t love me like she used to love me anymore, and yeah, I mean, it just hurts. There’s no doubt it hurts.”

How the news broke

In July 2023, People magazine reported that Kyle and Mauricio had divorced. The family was on vacation in Aspen at the time and the news came as a complete shock to Farrah, Alexia, Sophia and Kyle and Mauricio’s youngest daughter. Portia.

“I first heard about the article when my family and I were paddle boarding in Aspen and I saw my mom looking at her phone and I saw her face change and I saw panic come over her,” Alexia recalls . “And then my dad came out and all he got was a call, a text, a call, a text.”

In her own confessional, Sophia said that as far as she knew, her parents “weren’t divorced.” She continued: “I thought, ‘Oh my God, is there something I don’t know?’ However, Farrah said what makes things different “this time” (the pair have weathered split rumors before) is that there is some “truth” to it.

“Before the news broke, we hadn’t actually talked about any problems with the family. … [We] kept it out of reach of the children,” Mauricio noted.

As Kyle and Mauricio then prepared dinner for their daughters, Mauricio noted that he and Kyle have “started to look at things differently,” explaining, “She has really adopted a super healthy lifestyle. She has stopped drinking completely. Kyle wants to be home and wants me not to be the big personality that I am: partying and having fun, coming home late. I am still a very social person. I’m not ready to slow down that part of my life right now.”

The family dinner turns tense, with Kyle revealing that she has to go back to Beverly Hills to film scenes RHOBH because of the split news.

“Kyle and I have always dreamed of growing old together, being grandparents together and watching our grandchildren play,” he said in a confessional. “The thought that Kyle and I might not be together and break up is definitely something that is sad and difficult.”

During episode 10, the show resumes the scene with Mauricio, Farrah, Alexia and Sophia and it is revealed that the show was filmed in September 2023 after Mauricio told TMZ that he and Kyle were indeed divorced. Their daughters reveal they didn’t know anything was official and are angry that they discovered another aspect of their parents’ marriage in the news.

“I thought your mother had already told you that and I apologize for that,” he said.

The rules of divorce and the lack of communication

“Your mother came and spoke to me and said, ‘Listen, I want us to be separated. The rules are I’m not going to ask you what you’re doing. I don’t want you to ask me what I’m doing. You go out, you go out,” Mauricio told the girls in the final.

Mauricio acknowledged that he “was the cause [Kyle] some pain” and he “wanted to do everything possible to just save [the marriage].” Although he said he tried to do something about it, their daughters were not convinced.

“My mother and I haven’t really had any conversations at all in the last two months,” Mauricio told them as they pressed why they haven’t talked more about the breakup. “I have reasons why we haven’t communicated, but I don’t want to say.”

The Morgan in the room

“So Morgan Wade is a country star. There are a lot of rumors going around that Kyle is sleeping with Morgan,” Mauricio said in a confessional in Episode 8. “I have to tell you, I don’t believe she has anything going on with Morgan. Maybe I’m the only dumbass who doesn’t, but I don’t actually think she has anything going on with Morgan.’

In episode 10, Morgan is brought up again when Mauricio admitted that he didn’t even ask Kyle “directly” if she was dating Morgan. “They definitely have some kind of bond with each other, there’s no doubt about that. They spend a lot of time together,” he told a colleague. “Maybe one of the reasons I don’t want to ask is because I don’t want to put any extra pressure on her. If it works for her and gives her a chance to deal with our divorce…then that’s fine with me.”

While Kyle and Morgan have denied dating, a source recently shared We weekly that Kyle “really cares about Morgan.” The insider noted that she was “confused,” but “Kyle was excited about these feelings after losing connection with Mauricio in their marriage.”

The chance for reconciliation

“She took over the entire top floor. I still live in the bedroom,” he said in the finale. “If there’s any chance of reconciliation, I feel like I really need to move on and do some soul-searching, like, ‘Do I miss her?’ Don’t I miss her? Is it time to really move on with life?’”

Former President Donald Trump blamed his successor, President Joe Biden, for some awkward moments with his teleprompter as he spoke at a rally in Ohio on Saturday afternoon.

Trump spoke Saturday at a windswept airport outside Dayton in support of his presidential rematch with Biden and his favored Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.

The presumptive Republican nominee, 77, repeatedly noted that he was having trouble reading his teleprompters, which were visibly flapping in 35-mph winds.

As the prompters rolled around and Trump became increasingly visibly frustrated – at one point saying, “Don’t pay these suckers!” to those who set it up – about the inability to understand his speech, he joked: “I think Joe Biden put them in there!”

Although he bragged about how nice it was to have “a president who doesn’t need a teleprompter,” he made some obvious speaking errors during the meeting without being able to use them.

Notably, he claimed that President Biden once defeated former President Barack Obama in an election, after saying Trump would beat Biden by “the largest margins ever.”

‘You know what’s interesting? Joe Biden defeated Barack Hussein Obama, has anyone ever heard of him? Biden defeated Obama in every swing state, but he was assassinated in every other state.”

He was also recorded struggling to pronounce the name of the band The Rolling Stones, whose music Trump’s team uses at rallies, calling them “The Rolling Storns.”

Trump also mispronounced the word “bite” while retelling his infamous “The Snake” story.

Progressive media also claimed that Trump made a mistake in pronouncing candidate Moreno’s name, pronouncing it more like “Marino.”

Moreno, a former Trump critic who is a wealthy Cleveland businessman, supported Marco Rubio for president during the 2016 Republican primaries, once tweeting that listening to Trump was “like watching a car crash that makes you sick, but you can stop looking’. ‘

In 2021, NBC News reported on an email exchange around the time of Trump’s first presidential run in which Moreno called Trump a “crazy” and a “maniac.”

On Saturday, however, Moreno praised Trump as a “great American” and railed against those in his party who criticized the former president, who this week became his party’s presumptive nominee for a third straight election.

“I’m so sick of Republicans saying, ‘I support President Trump’s policies, but I don’t like the man,’” he said as he stood on stage with Trump.

Trump also dismissed the recent allegations against Moreno, comparing them to attacks he has faced over the years, including his criminal charges.

The former president has been charged in four separate cases involving his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“He’s getting very harsh bogus treatment from the Democrats right now,” Trump said. ‘And we will not support that.’

Trump also accused Biden of posing a threat to Social Security in his comments as he continued to clean up comments from an interview earlier this week in which he appeared open to cuts.

“Your Social Security will be gone,” he warned of a second Biden term, even as Biden has pledged to protect and strengthen Social Security as it faces a projected budget deficit.

“With this man in office, you cannot get social security because he is destroying our country’s economy. And that also applies to Medicare, by the way, and American seniors are going to be in big trouble.”

“I have promised that I will always adhere to Social Security and Medicare. We will always keep it. We’ll never make it,” he said.

Trump is scrambling to catch up on President Joe Biden’s huge fundraising advantage with just eight months until the election.

The Republican National Committee has just $40 million in the bank, compared to the $130 million the Democratic operations had last month.

The massive funding gap is steadily widening as Democrats open their wallets to support Biden’s campaign to retain the White House.

Democrats raised more than $10 million in the 24 hours after last Thursday’s State of the Union, far more than Trump’s biggest day, where he raised $4.2 million after his mugshot in the Georgia election fraud case was released .

By Ashleigh Gray for Dailymail.Com

Published: 02:04 EDT, March 16, 2024 | Updated: 02:04 EDT, March 16, 2024

President Joe Biden previously said Russian President Vladimir Putin would face “devastating” consequences if opposition leader Alexei Navalny were to die in prison.

On Friday, Russian news media announced that 47-year-old Navalny had died while serving a sentence in a Siberian prison – something that has not been unilaterally confirmed by the US government.

The president did not immediately respond to the news, but members of his administration and Democratic members of Congress went after Russian President Vladimir Putin as they spoke about Navalny's death.

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed Navalny's death during her appearance Friday at the Munich Security Conference.

“If confirmed, it would be a further sign of Putin's brutality,” the vice president said. “Whatever story they tell, let's be clear: Russia is responsible.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Navalny's death in a Russian prison and one man's fixation and fear only underscored the weakness and decay at the core of the system Putin built.

“Russia is responsible for this,” Blinken said.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was interviewed on NPR Friday morning when the news broke.

“If it is confirmed, it will be a terrible tragedy. And given the Russian government's long and sordid history of harming its adversaries, this raises real and obvious questions about what happened here,” Sullivan said.

Senator Mark Warner of Virginia wrote on X Firiday that “Alexei Navalny's death is yet another heartbreaking reminder of who Vladimir Putin is: a bloodthirsty tyrant who thinks he can get away with anything.”

“It's one more reason why we must continue to stand with the cause of freedom in opposition to Putin's brutality,” the Virginia Democrat said.

Several congressional Democrats responded by also pressuring Republicans.

“Putin kills Navalny the same week that Donald Trump invites Russia to invade Europe and MAGA Mike Johnson blocks aid to Ukraine,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat. “This is not a coincidence, it is the green light that Putin has been given.”

Former President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee, raised eyebrows when he said at a rally on Saturday that during his presidency he told NATO leaders he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever they want” against members who didn't. I don't pay enough money to the alliance.

In addition, Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson has so far declined to bring to the House of Representatives a Senate-passed supplemental spending bill that would provide additional funding for Ukraine's war effort against Russia.

“More blood on Putin's hand with the tragic death of Aleksei Navalny in prison, all because of the 'crime' of wanting a free Russia,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin wrote to appease this Russian tyrant?' Durbin asked.

Rep. Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, echoed his fellow Democrats' comments about Trump in an X-post about Navalny.

“Mass murder war criminal Vladimir Putin has murdered one of his most courageous critics,” Pascrell wrote Friday morning. “Reminder that Donald Trump openly encouraged Putin to attack America's allies and Republicans are blocking aid to Ukraine.”

Rep. David Trone, a Maryland Democrat, wrote to X that Navalny's death should motivate Congress to pass the Ukraine financing bill.

“Reports of Alexei Navalny's death in a Russian prison are a stark reminder of the brutal repression that Vladimir Putin is willing to use to suppress political opposition and treat millions of innocent people as pawns in his own chess game,” Trone said.

“Americans and our allies must immediately provide essential military and humanitarian assistance to enable Ukraine to successfully combat the Russian invasion, protect its citizens, and defend its democracy,” he added.

In a statement released Friday, Johnson, who became speaker of the House of Representatives in October, called Putin a “cruel dictator.”

“While Congress debates the best path forward to support Ukraine, the United States and our partners must use all available tools to cut off Putin's ability to stop his unprovoked war in Ukraine and his aggression against the Baltic states.” finance,” Johnson said.

Trump's latest rival in 2024 GOP primaries, former UN official. Nikki Haley also lashed out at the ex-president after learning of Navalny's death.

“Putin did this. The same Putin who praises and defends Donald Trump. The same Trump who said, “In fairness to Putin, you're saying he killed people. I didn't see that,” Haley wrote to X on Friday.

Former Vice President Mike Pence responded to the news by saying, “There is no room in the Republican Party for apologists for Putin.”

Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, praised Navalny and encouraged Biden to respond.

“Alexei Navalny died as he lived: a champion of the Russian people and a courageous voice of dissent in Vladimir Putin's Russia. President Biden promised 'devastating' consequences if Navalny died in prison; now he must move on,” Cotton wrote to X. “America cannot afford another erased red line.”

At a press conference in June 2021, after Biden met Putin at a summit in Geneva, the president was asked what he told Putin would happen if Navalny died in prison.

The 47-year-old opposition leader was serving a 19-year prison sentence on charges of extremism.

“I made it clear to him that I believe the consequences of that would be devastating for Russia,” Biden said at the time.

But the deaths of US service members, most of whom were military reservists, will almost certainly increase pressure on President Biden to retaliate more forcefully as fighting intensifies in the Middle East following the October 7 attacks that killed 1,200 people in Israel .

“Three American service members were killed — and many were injured — during an unmanned aerial drone strike on our troops stationed in northeastern Jordan, near the border with Syria,” Biden said in a statement on Sunday. “While we are still gathering the facts about this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iranian-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.”

Later, in Columbia, S.C., Mr. Biden said, “We have lost three brave souls.” The president then observed a moment of silence before adding, “We will respond.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III also blamed Iranian-backed militias for continued attacks on U.S. forces in the region, but he could not identify which country launched the attack. “The President and I will not tolerate attacks on American forces, and we will take all necessary actions to defend the United States, our troops, and our interests,” Austin said.

The Pentagon declined to identify the dead soldiers or their units pending notification of family members. The military's Central Command said in a statement that eight of the injured service members had been flown to “higher level of care” outside the country, which other officials said was in Iraq. The Central Command said it expected the number of wounded to “fluctuate” as more soldiers sought treatment.

In a statement, Iran-backed militias, calling themselves the Axis of Resistance, claimed responsibility for the attack on the base in a remote desert area of ​​Jordan. They say it is a “continuation of our approach to resisting US occupation forces in Iraq and the region.”

A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, said at a news conference on Monday that the militias “do not take orders” from Iran and act independently to oppose “any aggression and occupation.” He said allegations that Iran ordered the attack were “baseless” and blamed Israel and the United States for fueling instability in the region.

The drone strike came as Israel and Hezbollah, another Iranian ally, exchanged fire across the Lebanese border. A Houthi militia in Yemen, also backed by Iran, has fired missiles and drones at commercial ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, calling it retaliation for Israel's bombardment of Gaza. The United States and its allies have fired back, striking at least a dozen times in Yemen.

And on Jan. 20, at least four U.S. service members stationed in western Iraq were injured when their air base came under heavy missile and rocket fire from what U.S. officials said were Iranian-backed militias. It was the latest in at least 164 attacks by Iranian-backed militias against US forces in Syria, Iraq and Jordan since the October 7 attacks.

Until Sunday's deadly attack, senior government officials said only luck could have spared the United States from more serious casualties. A drone packed with explosives landed on a barracks at the Erbil air base in Iraq on October 25. It turned out to be a dud, but several soldiers would likely have been injured or killed if the drone had exploded, a senior military official said. .

The drone strike in Jordan on Sunday showed that Iran-backed militias – whether in Iran or Syria, or the Houthis in Yemen – remained able to inflict serious consequences on US forces, despite the efforts of the US military to weaken them and prevent them from getting involved in a wider battle. conflict, possibly with Iran itself.

“We do not want to go down a path of greater escalation that leads to a much broader conflict within the region,” Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday.

When asked in a pre-recorded session on ABC News' “This Week” whether he thought Iran wanted war with the United States, General Brown, echoing U.S. intelligence assessments, said, “No, I don't think so.” '

In his statement, Mr Biden called the fallen US troops “patriots in the highest sense” and said they “risked their own safety for the safety of their fellow Americans, and of our allies and partners with whom we stand in the fight against terrorism. It is a fight that we will not stop.”

On Sunday, the Pentagon declared two Navy SEALs dead after they disappeared 10 days earlier during an operation at sea to intercept weapons from Iran bound for Houthi fighters.

The naval commandos were the first known U.S. fatalities in Washington's campaign against the Houthis, who have launched dozens of attacks on ships in the Red Sea from territory they control in the country's north since November, roiling the global shipping industry brought.

The Americans killed on Sunday were the first known fatalities from enemy fire in the region since Hamas' attacks on October 7.

About 350 army and air force personnel are deployed at the Tower 22 border post. It serves as a logistics and supply center for the nearby Al Tanf garrison in southeastern Syria, where U.S. forces are working with local Syrian partners to combat the remnants of the Islamic State . The United States also has about 2,000 troops stationed at an air base in Azraq, Jordan, as well as Special Operations troops and military trainers.

“By targeting Jordanian territory, Iran could exacerbate a new US relationship in the region,” said Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute in Washington.

The Jordanian government issued a statement condemning the attack, saying the Americans were “cooperating with Jordan in countering terrorism and securing the border.”

It was unclear Sunday why air defenses at the outpost failed to intercept the drone, which appeared to be the first known attack on the site since attacks on U.S. forces began shortly after the Oct. 7 raid, according to former military commanders.

In 2016, the US military turned Al Tanf into a small base. It is on the strategic Baghdad-Damascus highway – a crucial link for forces supported by Syria's ally Iran in a corridor running from the Iranian capital Tehran, through Iraq and Syria to southern Lebanon.

The Rukban refugee camp, with around 8,000 inhabitants, is close to both Al Tanf and Tower 22.

Troops at Al Tanf have previously come under fire from Iranian-backed militias. The Defense Ministry said last fall that 21 troops had suffered minor injuries but had returned to duty after the Oct. 17 and 18 attacks on the Al Asad air base in western Iraq and the Al Tanf garrison.

Republicans in Congress who have criticized Biden's dealings with Iran and its allies seized on Sunday's attack to demand the administration take stronger action.

“We must respond to these repeated attacks by Iran and its allies by striking directly against Iranian targets and its leaders,” said Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee. “The Biden administration's responses so far have only led to more attacks.”