WEBVTT - Rick WIlson & Rob Sand 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.120 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.400 today's best minds, and of political polls. As seventy two 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.200 percent of Americans think there's too much money in politics, 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.560 we have such a great show for you today. The 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.240 Lincoln Project's own Rick Wilson joins us to discuss Trump's 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.400 Golden Cap. Then we'll talk to Iowa State Auditor Rob 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.200 sand about his run for governor. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.720 But first, Somali, the people are pissed because they love 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.640 their SSRIs and RFK Junior is threatening to come take them. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.440 We long heard this rumor. People brushed it away, said, oh, 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.400 you're so paranoid. This is in nineteen eighty four. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:44.080 Ed. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.880 No, Now we have very credible reports that he really 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:47.599 wants to do this. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.000 Let me explain to you how fuck this is OURFK 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:57.480 Junior is doing a lot of very unpopular stuff, and 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:02.160 this is probably the most unpopular. I don't know, but 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.920 he basically is obsessed with SSRIs and wants to make 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:07.959 it so that people have to come off of them, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.600 which is like an insane thing that literally nobody wants. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.000 And it's just like one of the most fucked up things. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:20.120 Kennedy is blaming the country's mental health crisis, not on 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.160 our guns, not on our lack of therapy, not on 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.800 many many things that are a problem in this country, 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.840 but on the one thing that maybe helping people, and 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.920 that is SSRIs. I mean, I have to tell you, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.600 this guy is such a fruitcake and it makes me 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.440 so angry, and it's just insane. And there's someone who 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.120 has had great success taking effects or and who is 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:50.840 the child of two people who took SSRIs and had 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:56.080 it saved their lives. This is just really absolutely insane 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.800 and it's terrible, and I mean, I'm very curious to 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:01.720 know at the polling on this is because I bet 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.560 the American people fucking hate this. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:04.360 Yeah. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.320 And you know, the other really crazy thing is is 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.000 the details of what it's like to get off these 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.880 pills are not not pretty details, right. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:18.160 No, No, I mean the whole thing is completely But 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.320 it's also like, why should we go off for SSRIs 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:25.360 because RFK Junior, a guy who we saw to a 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.640 zin and who tans I mean, and this doesn't exist 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.920 in a vacuum, right. We also know that this HHS 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.560 has made it so they're trying to bring flavored vapes 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.559 back on the market, flavored vapes which are used primarily 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:47.360 by children. And they are also trying to make it 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.240 so that underage people can use tanning beds, tanning beds, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.680 which is something that causes cancer. You know, they're trying 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.320 to bring Roundup back. I mean, these guys do not 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.000 give a fuck about your house. What they care about 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.000 out is whatever they're weird agenda is, and so you 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:12.960 know it's anti vacs, anti anti antidepressants, pro smoking, pro tanning, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:19.320 pro I mean these guys pro chemicals and roundup, and 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.840 I mean, these guys are fucked and their idea of 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.880 health is insane and no one should listen to them. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.560 And you know, this guy should be fired tomorrow, agreed. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.400 Speaking of people who should never have been hired and 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:38.840 should be fired tomorrow, we have Janeine Piro Janin Piro 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.800 really demonstrating what you're starting to hear. John Ossuf and 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.560 Graham Platner explain really well. I think on the campaign 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.520 trail that the rules for Trump and his friends are 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.040 a world apart. They don't even resemble the rules for you, 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.800 and you're the people, you know, because she thinks that 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.839 the penalty for anybody who's involved with them. 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:03.440 They should just really be late. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.400 Okay, So Judge Box of Wine, you may remember her 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.640 from being on teav on Fox News, says that a 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.120 lobbyist who embezzled one million dollars should get no more 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.400 than twenty four months in prison. Why because this guy, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:25.360 Jonas Murphy says a romantic relationship prompted his crime. Yes, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.600 Jeanine Pierro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.360 recommended that a lobbyist who admitted to abasling more than 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.520 a million from his employer's political committee, received no more 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:40.120 than twenty four months in prison, according to a sentencing 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.040 memorandum a wild Thursday. So he is the former director 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:49.760 of the National Venture Capital Association, and FYI he used 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.880 their capital for his venture. Oh, I have longed to 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.440 make such a joke. Yeah, I mean, look, this is 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.880 they don't think of white collar crime as crime because 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.320 there's a reason for that. Do you know what the 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:04.160 reason for that. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.880 Is because it's their business model. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.840 Well, yeah, and right exactly, there you go. That's a 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:11.479 good line. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.560 So, speaking of their business model, this is the reality 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.760 TV in Fox News administration. So Sean Duffy, who has 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.280 a job that he's been not doing very well and 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.320 just believes Pete boota judge all day for every problem 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.479 he encounters. He decided he has enough time to have 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.039 a reality TV show, since that's the world he comes from. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.720 Yeah, I mean, look, these are actors. These people are 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:40.480 not politicians, they're not legislators, they're not cabinet members. They're actors, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:46.120 and they're not very good actors. So Sean Duffy was 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:52.520 over the last seven months not working in the Department 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.599 of Transportation, which he was ostensibly, at least supposed to 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:02.040 be the secretary of. No, he was doing The Great 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.120 American Road Trip, which will air for free on YouTube 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.239 ahead of America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. He says 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.000 it costs zero taxpayer dollars were spent on my family 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.119 and he did not receive a salary, though he did 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.679 receive a salary. Can you guess what he did receive 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.919 a salary for, Oh, I know, being the head of 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.800 the Department of Transportation. Also, let me just add I 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:35.200 know that since these guys all they do is cryptocracy, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.120 we don't really think about that much anymore. But like 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:43.040 the sponsors. Okay, so these are companies which sponsored a 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:51.040 television show which features the head of the Department of Transportation. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:56.400 These are companies now that have like a special relationship 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.479 with the head of transportation in the government. Do you 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.520 understand how fucked this is? So Boeing and Shell and 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.719 Toyota and United Airlines and Wereal Caribbean sponsored this? So 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:13.560 does that mean that Airbus doesn't have the same relationship 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.920 with our government because they did not sponsor this great 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.000 American road trip? Do you see what I'm saying? Like, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:24.400 this is why you can't fucking do this? You need right? 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.320 It is because you can't. We cannot have a government 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:32.080 that does deals with some people and get uses those 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.080 deals to you know, do their little side hustles. And 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.680 it's funny because it goes back to what Obama said, right, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.480 Obama said, we need to have a president who doesn't 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.880 do side hustles, like who doesn't do real estate, who 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.840 doesn't have crypto, who doesn't do you know, who isn't 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.920 making money five different ways? And there's a reason for 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.080 that because this is our money, This is taxpayer money 0:07:56.120 --> 0:08:00.440 and should not be used to enrich or to use 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.000 the people who serve in government is just cleptocracy all 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:09.200 the fucking way down. Also, the hilarious, the truly hilarious 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.240 part of this is that gas is like ten million 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.200 dollars a gall. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:13.280 Yeah, great stuff. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.120 So it really does remind you that gas is ten 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:17.360 gazillion dollars agall. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.320 Yeah, And I can't wait to see another TSA shortage 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.080 or another air traffic controller shortage, and it's like, no, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:26.960 I have to be taping my road trip. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:28.720 It's just ridiculous. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.920 So this is another one of those articles that we 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.600 could have predicted really easily that this was happening, but 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.040 we now have proof. FEMA club blocking grants the states 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.200 that didn't vote for Trump. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.640 Yeah, and he said he was going to do it, right, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:47.480 he said, I'm going to block grants for blue states. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.920 I mean, this is this is how it works with 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.800 Donald Trump. Right, he is the president for the people 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.319 who voted for him, and that is it. So FEMA 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:01.360 has been deliberately delaying grants to blue states. The Washington 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.800 Post reported that FEMA significantly decreased the amount of hazard 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:10.480 mitigation grants to Democratic led states last year. I mean, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.600 this is the agency appears. I mean, this is just 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.120 exactly right. California received only eight hundred and thirty thousand 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:22.439 dollars from FEMA. Since July twenty twenty five, Colorado has 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.960 not received anything. Experts say this is deliberate and targeted. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.240 A deliberate and targeted decision. I mean, there you go, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.160 ladies and gentlemen. Very unsurprising. This is how it is. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:42.240 This is Trump World in a nutshell. Hey, it's Molly 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.480 john Fast here. My memoir How to Lose Your Mother 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.720 is out now on paperback, arriving just ahead of Mother's Day. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.240 How to Lose Your Mother has garnered a lot of 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.760 praise from Good Morning America, then Your Kind, Book Review, Vogue, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.160 Vanity Fair, and a lot of other outlets Washington Post. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.760 The book is about what it's like to be part 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.679 of the Sandwich generation, to take care of your mother 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.640 and your children. And I talk about being a mother 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.840 and a daughter and the relationship I have with my 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:20.560 mother and all of its complexities. It's funny and it's fraught, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:26.560 and it's sad, and it's about life. My story, this story, 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.000 the story of How to Lose Your Mother, follows a 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.719 year in which my mother, Erica Johng, is diagnosed with dementia. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:37.360 My husband faces a life threatening illness, and what unfolds 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.560 is a really honest story about what happens when the 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.840 shit hits the fan and everything goes wrong. As The 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.800 Washington Post said, the book is filled with lines so 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.440 good you won't just want to underline them. It's a 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.000 memoir that continues to resonate, so please pick it up 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.600 the news. Rick Wilson is the founder of the Lincoln 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.760 Project and the host of the Lincoln Podcast. Welcome, Welcome, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:02.440 Rick Wilson. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.079 Hey Molly, how are you now? 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.120 I am. I do not have a gold statue of 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.839 May not yet. Uh explain this? 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.440 Why you don't have a gold statue yet? 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.880 Because people don't love me the way they should? Can 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.960 you explain the gold statue story. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:26.200 Down at Durral? Yes, there has now been created a 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.120 It is a twenty two foot tall which, if you're 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:33.920 using biblical terms, that's fourteen point four to seven cubits. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:40.080 I had to golden statue of Donald Trump. It was 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.160 inaugurated by having a group of maga religious figures come 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.800 and praise and bless it now as it has been 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.840 a long time since Divinity class. But I do recall 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.240 thou shalt have no other God but me was very 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.760 early one of the prohibitions that the Lord in Exodus 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.600 laid out pretty clearly. But this is a example of 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.959 outright idolatry. This is an example of how MAGA has 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.200 become a religion. And you know that it hit home 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.360 because immediately after it, a lot of the MAGA pastors 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.320 were suddenly racing to the Internet writing five thousand word 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.600 screeds like oh no, no, no no. Even though we're 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.960 all talking about how Trump is better at the Bible 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.680 than the pope and and understands everything better than everyone 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.280 else and has magical powers, we're not really worshiping like 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.319 a god, except that we built a golden statue to it. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.679 The minute someone says that I'm not engaged in idolatry 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.360 and idol worship, they are engaged in idol worship. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.800 It is also like, you know, Trump, this week, we 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.320 had Marco go over and try to smooth things out 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.960 with the pope, and it is like Trump constantly runs 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.080 a foul with the pope, which shouldn't be something that 0:12:58.480 --> 0:12:59.360 a president does. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.960 One should not attempt to run a foul of the 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.120 pope in a deliberate way. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.079 What I think is interesting though about Trump running a 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.680 foul with the pope, is that the pulling on Trump 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.920 putting himself in an outfit to look like Jesus is 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:20.640 as like the maga no like maga no likey. Yeah. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:25.720 Look that has caused another one of these other And look, 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.840 I keep telling people like, never expect a single day 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.120 where fifty percent of manga goes. I'm done, But it's 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.679 half a percent here, a percent there, two percent here, 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:39.400 two percent there. And the religious stuff with Catholics fighting 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.160 with the Holy Father going up against the Vicar of 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.720 Rome is historically a bad debt politically. Yeah, and Trump 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.520 keeps doing it. Yeah, Marco going over there and giving 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.559 the pope a tiny crystal. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:55.520 Football and didn't he say didn't he say? Oh wow? 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.280 Yeah? The Pope was like oh wow. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.360 The interesting thing about the Pope is, so this is 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:09.840 young American pope who speaks English and who became pope 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:16.640 because of his work in South America and his ministering 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.920 to the poor. And he was not, you know, a 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.240 celebrity minister. He was a you know, he had a 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.440 small parish that was really you know, involved in in 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.640 sort of fighting poverty. I think this is relevant. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.880 I mean, I mean good works amongst the poor and 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.920 deserving rich. No private didn't get a private jet out 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:37.120 of it. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.920 You mean right, it's relevant when you're the administration that 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:45.480 is filled with kleptocrats and billionaires to be to have 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.520 run a foul with the pope who is known for 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.240 quiet service to the poor. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:58.880 There is a broad there's a broad area of Catholicism 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.840 that is about those good works amongst the poor. There 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:09.040 is a very different aspect of American evangelical Christianity that 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.640 is about prosperity gospel and who gets the biggest jet 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.200 and God wants you to be rich if you'll donate 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.560 to my church and all that stuff. I think that 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:24.040 culture clash in some ways really represents a It sort 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.600 of exemplifies what's going on in America right now, Molly. 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.720 This country has a choice to make. Broadly speaking, are 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.320 we going to do like that hard work of democracy 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:38.240 stuff which is more akin to what the pope does, 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:40.960 or are we going to do the cheap sugar rush 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.080 of you know, a church that has fireworks in it 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.280 on Sundays and smoke machines and trapeze guys. None of that, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.400 to me is clearer than when you see, you know, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.640 this pope who came out of a very strong tradition 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:02.160 of faith and works versus the American evangelical movement, which 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.440 got what they wanted in Trump, which was a new kind. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.000 Of god right prosparity, and that that. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.120 Statue going up there, you know it is it is 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.360 people are making the North Korea analogy that just doesn't 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.560 get there. Maga feels about Trump with a sense of 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.200 he has supplanted God in their faith structure. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:27.600 So I want it go from there to hear because 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:32.640 I both agree with you and also want to add, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.160 which is I think that when these people go to 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.160 the gas pomp, they are starting like so again to 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.040 this idea you don't get. You know, it's not going 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.400 to be one day that they all turn, but like 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.240 you're definitely like if using the huge number of truckers 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:54.440 sixty plus percentage of truckers voted for Trump, diesel is 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.320 as expensive as it has ever been, right, diesel is 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.800 breaking records and there are a number of reasons for that, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.760 but the biggest is because Donald Trump decided to go 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:11.720 into Iran, so to bomb the Iranians. So yeah, and 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.760 close the straits and diesel. So I do think that, 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.760 like if you're a trucker who is, people are are 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.000 smart enough that they understand that four weeks ago or 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.200 five weeks ago. And by the way, Trump today, I'm 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.160 true social did this war is not nearly as long. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.840 You talk about that, go I knieve. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.320 Donald Donald making the analogy and somehow trying to convince 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.760 people that either the war is over or that other 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.000 wars are much longer, and why not give me more time? 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:48.080 He's disciplination I'm having. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.760 Right. And as you and I talked about before, there 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.840 are things in the world that you just can't spend, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.000 even if you're the biggest Trump fan in the universe. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.600 You stit there at that gas pump, and there's no 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.919 way that the gas that is six bucks that you 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.240 can say to yourself, I just paid two bucks for gas. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.520 You can't say that it's not real, yea. And the 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.520 pain of the economic stuff. With global oil supplies now 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.160 reaching a record low, we've only got about three weeks 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:20.399 or so before we start having big energy shortages around 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.040 the world because of all. Yes, and here in America 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:23.560 as well. 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.080 And what I think is pretty interesting is that you 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:33.119 can tell that Trump gets that, and you can tell 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.200 that he is like, I want to end the war now, 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.320 because you're starting to see he's starting to say, well, 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.000 it's over. We got a one we got this one 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.760 page piece agreement. By the way, just because our leader 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.720 can't read doesn't mean they can't read. Like they could 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.200 give him five pages. You know, they could give the arrangement. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.320 Somebody I could summarize. Somebody could summarize it for Trump 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.200 in one page. But most diplomatic agreements in the world 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.719 have some complexity and some depth and some granularity to them. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.840 And this idea, there's a one page agreement. For me, 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.280 once again, that smelled like Trump trying to pump the 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:13.639 stock market rather than sealing a real deal that memorializes 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.359 America's defeat against Iran. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.879 But when we were talking before, I was thinking so 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:22.160 much about, like how we've had these moments in American 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.960 democracy where you and I and people on television, all 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.720 of us have said, you know, this is about American democracy. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.479 American democracy is important because of debat deat debt, and 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:33.960 people will be like, yeah, I guess, but we didn't 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.800 like the woman candidate, or no, I guess, but like 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.200 people don't actually vote on democracy, or at least they 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.040 don't in the way and they don't vote enough like 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:44.840 they might vote in the midterms on it, but they're 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.920 not going to defeat Trump on it now, especially. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.679 Now with the economic economic pressure being so high on everybody. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:56.399 But now that Donald Trump has just completely failed to deliver, 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.520 he basically has done the opposite of everything he ran. Yeah, 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.280 I do think people are I mean, like the polling 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:09.480 is gonzo, like it is literally like the strongly talk 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.800 us through the polling because you are and look, I. 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:13.919 Want to say so many Democrats really quickly. I know 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.560 everybody's kind of depressed about the redistricting stuff. Nothing has 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.919 changed about the polling environment in the country right. A 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:22.879 lot of these things that they've done are going to 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.320 help them a little, but they have a problem that 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.520 is so much bigger that you can't redistrict your way 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:27.920 out of. 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.959 And it could hurt them, right because if you were 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:31.359 an R. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:35.440 Plus four now you're in an R plus two or two. Yeah. 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.119 So I think one of the biggest things to consider 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:43.520 right now is his numbers on economic performance are at 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.000 record lows. They are where Biden's numbers were in the 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.800 worst when we had ten percent inflation. They are really, really, 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.199 really catastrophic. But one thing we're watching that's emerging in 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.919 more and more polling when you're asking people, is your 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.040 vote in favor of the Republicans, in favor of the 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.200 Democrats or to put a check on Trump? In Washington, 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:09.480 that number of people checking Trump's behavior they want someone 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.600 to slam on the brakes on Trump. I think that 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.760 is it should for Republicans be the most concerning number 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.840 because none of them have done the smart thing and 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.440 gotten away from Trump. Mike Lawler, who was one of 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.360 the most endangered Republicans in the country ten days ago, 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:28.399 is like, oh, we need the ball room. Well, and 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:31.159 this is that message is not working for the average 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.560 Americans paying five bucks plus for gas. 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:35.880 And I think this is a real problem for Republicans. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:40.800 Which is so what happened last week. Donald Trump ran 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.439 in ill in Indiana against all So there were people 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.680 who refused to redistrict and Donald Trump basically ran there. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.480 He primaried all of them and many of them lost. 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.760 So the idea here now is that Donald Trump has 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.919 the party in Lockstead. But here is the problem. Donald 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:03.840 Trump has control over the primary base. Right the Republican base, 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:07.080 but he doesn't have he can't grow the party enough. 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:09.800 So if you're running for if you're Mike Lawler and 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.720 you're running for reelection, you have to hit yourself to Trump. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:18.400 You have to do ballroom with Trump while still trying 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:20.680 to win in a purple district. 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.840 Right. And I think the problem right now for most Republicans, 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.400 most Republicans are so tightly bound up to Donald Trump. 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.320 They've epoxied themselves to Donald Trump. They're glued to him, 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:33.879 and that stuff doesn't go away in the age of 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.800 the Internet. It's always going to be there. Mike Lawler 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:38.240 could tomorrow go out and say I think we should 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.040 peach Donald Trump, and I'll still have a clip of 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.680 him saying, we got to build a ballroom for Donald Trump. Right, 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:46.280 And they're afraid. You know, as you pointed out in Indiana, 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:50.080 you saw Trump's ability in a Republican primary to blow 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.160 people out, to go in there and blow people up 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:56.800 and get rid of people he doesn't want. Well, these 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.119 guys all live in that sense of constant fear of 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:02.880 Trump and of his and I think I think as 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.159 primary season ends, you might see a few of them 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.959 running for Daylight it's been so long of them doing this, 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:10.119 I don't know how they get away. 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.399 But if you are running for Daylight, say you're making 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.199 the calculus that you are Michae Lawler, because he's a 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:18.880 good example, because he's in in a D district, right 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:21.160 and which is only going to get more is only 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:23.960 more democratic now, so that he's an ability. He is 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:28.200 in a districts at Harrisonon. If you're Mike Lawler, you're thinking, well, 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:32.919 this president has terrible this president has terrible numbers, so 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:36.120 I have to run against him. But if I run 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:38.639 against him at all, MAGA won't come out for me. 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:41.440 It's a terrible conundrum. And I really feel for them 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:44.160 right now. Yeah, my heart breaks for them right now. 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:48.439 And I mean you must see that everywhere, right, you 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:52.480 must see Republicans trying to be cause if you Trump 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:55.400