WEBVTT - Andy Levy & Jacob Rubashkin 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 --> 0:00:10.640 today's best minds. And a majority of Americans have a 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.920 negative view of billionaires spending more money to buy elections, 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.680 according to a Washington Post IPSOS poll. We have such 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.600 a great show for you today. Author of Evil Geniuses 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.040 Kurt Anderson stops by to talk about Trump, saying the 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.400 Democrats should be hung. Then we'll talk to Aten ben 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:34.240 about her run for Congress in a swing district in Tennessee. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.080 But first, the news and disapproval of Donald Trump is 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.240 now higher than in his first term. At the same time, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.800 we have such a great show for you today as 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.120 the world churns Andy Levy stops by to talk about 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.360 the fight inside Democratic leadership. Then we'll talk to Inside 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:58.040 Elections Jacob Rubashkin about the Democratic chances of flipping the 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.279 House and perhaps even the Senate. But first, the stories 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.000 the media is not covering enough. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.520 So Lally, you're going to be shocked to hear this, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.960 But Lindsay Halligan totally really, really really messed up. I 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.039 wanted to say something much more bad, but I know 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.360 I caught myself and didn't say the same, and body 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.000 vows to take this up to the top of the 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.480 courts to get mister Kobe from mister Trump. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.119 But I don't know. This doesn't look good for them. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:31.480 Despite being a pageant Queen Lindsay Halligan Lindsay Michelle Halligan 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.600 born in nineteen eighty nine in Portland, Maine. She is 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.680 the interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.080 And here's the problem. Here is the problem is that 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.759 she has no experience doing anything pretty much at all 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:54.000 besides pageants and industrial law commercial properties. And then eventually 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.760 she was an insurance lawyer and also pageant Queen Donald 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.960 Trump's lawyer, and it turns out putting her as the 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.440 US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, she should 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.680 have maybe had a few jobs between insurance law. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.160 And that, and she didn't. And now you know who's 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.160 benefiting from. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.400 That, mister James Kobe, who is not by. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.640 Hobie, mister James Comy, who is too dall and a 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.160 terrible writer. But in this case, we want him to 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.760 not go to jail for a trumped up crime. And 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:30.720 so we will in fact say that this is actually good. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.959 Both cases, the Comy case the James case both dismissed 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:42.120 because Judge Cameron Curry said the loyalist prosecutor and still 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.720 by mister Trump to bring the cases was in her 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:50.760 position unlawfully. And so it turns out you can be 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.200 hot and still be very, very bad at your job. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.440 There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Abby Law, the 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.600 lawyer for missus James James, since there are only five 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.600 people in the world, also was the lawyer for Hunter 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.400 Biden Avilall said mister Trump went to extreme measures to 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.919 substitute one of his allies to bring these base those 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.080 charges after career prosecutors refused. This case was not about 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.639 the justice owned law. It was about targeting Attorney James 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.840 for what she stood for and who she challenged. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.600 Bill Baldy Yet again. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.960 That guy is battle average a good well. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:32.239 The fact that he is able to find mortgages at 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.640 every point that Trump can then use to go against 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:37.200 his enemies. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.480 And by the way, at every point this doesn't work. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.840 So Bill Poulti is being I don't know if they've 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.640 quite opened a formal investigation, but expect to hear the 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:51.040 name Bill Paultie again and again and again so. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.120 By Yesterday on Twitter Republican Propaganda News, I'm sorry, punch 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:59.080 bowl News, Jake Sherman sent out a tweet saying that 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.200 there are many Republicans were looking to exit just like 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.200 Barjorie Taylor Greed, and that they're fed up with big 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.960 props for mister Trump. Politico has a giant explator of 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.720 what's going on today? Where do you see him? 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.320 Okay, first of all, don't be me into Jake Sherman. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.440 He is got it. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:17.360 I'm serious. 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.720 Covering Congress is a thankless job, and they do some 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.760 really good reporting, and then I. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:24.920 Won't be saiding committee. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:25.719 Thank you. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:30.360 You can send him an edible arrangement. Mike Johnson, let's 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.920 talk about this because it's interesting. House Republicans are really 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.200 mad at Mike Johnson. Here's why they're mad at him, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.800 because he took advantage of what they let him do. Okay, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.600 Like this is an incredible bit of House Republicans, Like 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.800 why did you let me hit me? You know, like 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.800 just so bad? Okay, So Donald Trump's Republican Party goes 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.880 in there when Donald Trump gets sworn in. We said 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.240 this was coming, We told them it was coming, right, 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.159 got Russ Vought, and the crew is like, you're not 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.520 gonna have the power of the person anymore. Sorry, Congress, 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:10.480 that's ours. Now. Congress rolls the fuck over with everything. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:15.479 They roll over on cabinet appointments, they roll over on spending. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.960 They let the Trump administration do this five billion dollar 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.560 pocket recision which takes back all the foreign aid money. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:28.520 At every point, they just roll over. Now Republicans are mad. 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.640 They don't like the job anymore because they have no power. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.720 They took this job for power. They give all their 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.480 power to Trump, and now they're mad they have no power. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.640 Okay, I mean you didn't have to give. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.360 Trump all your power, So good news for Democrats. Mike 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.120 Johnson is not good at his job. If you had 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.960 a Tom Emmer in there, you had someone who had 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.080 been doing the job for a while, they might be 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.000 able to stop these discharge petitions. They might be able 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.600 to whip votes. But luckily you don't. You have Mike 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.560 Johnson in there. So Mike Johnson has Now there's another 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.359 diste arch petition. These discharge petitions are ways to get 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.800 around leadership, to find a piece of legislation, and to 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.080 get around leadership by getting the two hundred and eighteen 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.440 signatures you need to force a vote on legislation. This 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.400 is something that does not usually happen because usually you 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.320 have a Speaker of the House who has some control 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.520 over their caucus. But Mike Johnson has no control over 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:28.000 his caucus. And so we have a discharge petition palooza. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.600 And Republicans did this to themselves. You guys. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.679 By the way, Nashville, Tennessee, you have this special election, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.680 so and there are more special elections or two more 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:43.600 special elections coming up, so one in Texas. Mike Johnson's 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.680 his majority is getting thinner. So we'll see what happens. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.280 But it's nice to see these Republicans reap what they sew. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.560 So byie, mister Trump seek the writing on the wall 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.200 of the affordability crisis. That might be because he just 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.400 had his crush at the office or on Bob Dottie 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.800 who talks about it extensively. Anyway, he's announce saying an 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.440 extension of ACA tex credits for two years. 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.680 Yeah, so this is Trump has decided he's going to 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.960 solve healthcare. You'll remember that in Trump one point zero, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.760 which is the world we live in forever and ever, 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.200 until we die. Trump said, he who knew healthcare could 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.240 be so complicated? 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.920 You remember that I do it, did lives rent free 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:23.520 by Edge. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.920 Yeah, well, it turns out is very complicated, and so 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.000 in typical Donald Trump fashion, he's decided that he's just 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.080 going to quick fix it. So he said on Monday 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.880 he was going to announce a new like a Trump Care. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.400 It was the Monday before Thanksgiving, not a time that 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.040 Congressional anyone want. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:41.600 To do anything. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.120 They want to go home for Thanksgiving because they're extremely 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.320 hard working. Politicians basically ended the shutdown because they were 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:53.080 worried about traveling home for the holidays. Okay, they ended 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.200 the government shutdown because they were worried about holiday travel. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:01.240 This is a crew that takes holidays very serious. Anyways. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.400 So Donald Trump wanted to extend the ACA tax credits 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.360 for two years. This is what Democrats wanted from the 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:13.080 government shutdown. I am interested to see if this happens. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.040 If it happens, it's billions of dollars. It will increase 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.960 the deficit. But you know, none of these Republicans particularly 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.160 care about that. If it happens, it will be so 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.680 interesting because it runs contrary to basically all of the 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.720 Republican goals. So we'll see what happens. But I could 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.199 see how Trump would want it, because they're going to 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.480 get killed on these premiums. They're going up, up, up, abup. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.520 You have voters who are very mad by inflation, and 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.160 now they're going to be even madter. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.360 So let's see what happens. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.400 Yes, so famously, Senator Jib Justice, very new to the Senate, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.240 former governor of West Virginia. He is not so into 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.000 paying taxes. And we now see that his legal woes 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.960 or even bigger because his wife's been sued for five 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.760 million dollars in unpaid taxes from two thousand and nine. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.840 Yeah, so this is interesting. Jim Justice, my man, he 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.600 flies back and forth to Congress on a private jet 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.000 every week. So okay, that is insane. You can get 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.240 an apartment at private jet, okay, to work. He does 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.360 not have an apartment in DC. He takes a private 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.120 jet there and back. Even for a rich person, that 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.960 is wild. But he has a little bit of a 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.280 tax problem. So the US government on Monday. Now, by 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.480 the way, this is the Trump government. Okay, so think 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.640 about just what had to happen here for the Trump 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:47.600 government's irs to decide that they were going to sue 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:53.680 a Republican senator from West Virginia. We're more than five 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.280 million dollars in unpaid federal income taxes, penalties, and interest 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.559 dating to the two thousand and nine tex following you. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.160 I think this is wild, and Jim Justice is supposed 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.760 to have billions of dollars. We'll see where this lands, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.520 but this strikes me as wild. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.960 Andy Levy is the host. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.920 Of As the World churns Andy Levy. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.280 Hello, Molly john Fest. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.200 You know what the first rule of fight club is? 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.079 I do what is it? 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:25.680 Well? 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.320 You know, even the fact that we are violating. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:29.559 It now. 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:31.800 He's not great. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.600 But obviously the first and second rules of fight club 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.959 are that you do not talk about fight club. So 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:39.160 let's talk about that. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.239 Let's start fight club. Yeah, Tux Humor. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:48.559 And a woman you may know, Kristian Jili Brian. They're 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:54.000 catching a little heat for their wildly unpopular senate picks, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:11:00.360 putting their hands on the scale for Haley Stevens. Gifted 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:08.760 Orator Haley Stevens and the always young and refreshed seventy 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.760 seven year old Janet Mills discuss. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.280 Yeah, you're referring, of course, to this group of is 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:21.360 it six Democratic fake senators? Yeah, we're calling themselves the 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.480 fight club, and yeah, they're not happy with Schumer and 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.920 Joe Brand and look good for them, and they want 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.599 to win. They want to win. And this is way overdue, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.720 but better late than never, and it would be nice if, yeah, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.600 if we could get different leadership. Molly, do we have 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.680 to have this leadership? Is there? Is it a rule somewhere? 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.120 Is it another rule of fight club that we have 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.120 to not fight? 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.880 So here's what I would say, Chuck Schumer does not 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.480 need to be the leader of the Senate Democrats. In fact, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.280 Chuck Schumer is a choice. And I think that you know, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:05.960 Chris Murphy is available, Brian Schott is available. Even you 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:15.000 know Tina Smith or your favorite from Minnesota, Clomentum. God, 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.000 even those people are all available to be in leadership. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.679 And by the way, this is a job everyone wants. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.960 I understand why Schumer got the position. He you know, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.760 he's been working his whole life for it. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.520 And it was one of those things where you know, 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.800 the Democrats are very big sometimes on sort of I 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:35.959 don't know if coronation is the right word, but it's 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.680 sort of you know, next in line, like you know, oh. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.920 Your suppers coronation is I think you it doesn't work. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.240 And all those people you named, with the possible exception 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.640 of my not so favorite senator from Minnesota, would be 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.160 much better than Chuck Schuman. None of them. It's going 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.720 to be an imperfect person. We know that. And so 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.000 the idea to me is get someone who's at least 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.640 less imperfect than Chuck Schumer. And I know that sounds 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.920 like damning with fate praise, but that's the way politics works. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.079 The problem with Schumer is not that he's not perfect. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.319 The problem with Schumer is that he's not a fighter. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.160 And this is again goes back to this adage from 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.679 Pritzker's chief of staff. It's not left versus senator, it's 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.520 fight versus cave. And with the fight club the six senators, 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.240 what you see is they're not ideologically all the same. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:35.319 Maryland Senator Chris van Holland and Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.880 are not the same as Bernie Sanders of course, and 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.520 Elizabeth Warren, but they are the same in the fact 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.319 that they want to fight. Whereas the Gillibrands and the 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:51.760 Schumers want to raise money and pick bad candidates. 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.800 It's twentieth century politics versus twenty first century politics. And 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.839 that's not even necessarily an age thing because you look 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.960 at the people in that fight club. You've got Bernice Anders, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.040 You've got Liz Warren. You know, it's not like these 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.720 are people in their forties or fifties or whatever. They 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:15.560 are elder statespeople. But they at least recognize that it's 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.040 not nineteen ninety six. This is not George H. W. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.680 Bush's Republican Party. I mean, let alone Mitt Romney's Republican Party. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.200 But they recognize that it's Donald Trump's Republican Party. And 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.680 you can't sit there and do twentieth century politics in 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.920 this environment. And Chuck Schumer does not and apparently never 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.560 will understand that. I don't think Jilli brand does either. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.400 And look, Joe Biden was and should have been the 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.680 last gasp of twentieth century politics for the Democrats. That 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.000 caused a lot of problems his not being comfortable going 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.120 after the jan six people. You know, So I'll let 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.400 that be in the past. Let's move forward. That the Mark. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.240 Garland school of not doing anything. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.880 Exactly exactly, and that's the same school that Schumer and 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.560 Julibrand are part of. And it just it has to 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.880 it has to go. It has to die. That school 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.240 of politics has to die. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.600 I think that what you're going to see is and 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.160 this is not from the pundit class. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:13.040 This is from the base. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:18.440 The base is mad about Biden, the pundit class. And 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.120 I was as skilty of this as anyone said, go 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.880 along with Biden. He'll be good. Voters will like him. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.000 He's not too old. He's going to just do one term. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.800 He got in there, he was not going to do 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.840 one term. Everything was exactly the worst case scenario, right, 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.600 he was too old, he did this, he stayed in 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.680 too long. They couldn't have a primary process at every point. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.000 It was just a disaster. And so you do not 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.840 have the base's full faith and credit now like in 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.960 twenty sixteen, Chuck Schumer could tweet Orange Man bad and 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.760 raise ten million dollars. No no, no, no no. And we 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.400 see this when we look at the DNC number, like 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.480 they're taking out loans to pay for the DNC. Like 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:10.160 voters are not happy. And even if they want Democrats 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.480 to win more than they want Republicans to win, you 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:13.960 don't have a blank check. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.760 No, but look, I think if they send me one 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:23.960 more text that'll do it. You know, I just it's 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.720 it's unreal. But you're absolutely right. Look the base and 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.200 forget about the pundit class, forget about you know, well 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.120 except for me, because I really am. I'm much more 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.200 of a man of the people, a man of the 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.200 base than I am. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.960 You were in the army, certainly more than many a 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.240 NASCAR come on, yeah, but you're. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.880 Absolutely right when it comes to the base. And that 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.760 gets back to what you were saying before from Pritzker's 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.200 people about it's fighting versus not fighting, and everybody wants 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.080 fighting now. And the thing is, Chuck Schumer will now 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.520 get on Twitter, I suppose, and definitely on Blue Sky 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.560 where I see it, and he'll post things that maybe 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.040 ten years ago would have been effective or you would 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.680 have said, all right, good for you, Chuck. Now what 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.960 they look like, because it's what they are, is a 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:17.040 guy who is trying desperately to catch up and to 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.840 be someone he's absolutely not, and so it just comes 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.120 across as completely performative when he sits there and goes, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.920 we will fight this, and we you know, we have 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.000 to do this. It was like, you've been in power 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.639 for a long time and you haven't done any of this, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:33.560 and so you get a lot You look at it 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.879 and you see people applying saying, why are you telling 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.840 us this, Why aren't you doing this? Because that's who 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.840 Chuck Schumer is, so it all rings false when he 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:46.040 tries to do it now and again it's, you know, 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:51.000 twentieth century versus twenty first. The twentieth century politicians have 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:55.280 got to, if not completely go they've got to step back. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.800 They've got to step back. We saw this when AOC 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.000 wanted to be the I forget which committee it is now, 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.800 and we went with the guy that oversight, guy that 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.800 nally he died, who died in office, who you know, 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.760 had cancer, and the. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.320 Democrats sex he was seventy six. It wasn't like he 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:18.280 was a young guy. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.359 Right, and the Democratic leadership said, no, we need to 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.280 give this position to him. It was not term exactly, 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.440 and that shit has got to go away. And it's 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.560 one of the biggest things I think holding back the 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.679 Democratic Party right now is this sort of refusal to 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:38.359 let the next generation, or at least the people you know, again, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.640 Liz Warren is not young. Bernie Sanders certainly isn't young. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.439 But they know what's going on and they always have 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.800 because they've been those kinds of politicians in their whole 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.320 lives where they do fight. You've got to start turning 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.080 it over to the people who recognize the world in 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.000 which we live in twenty twenty five. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.120 Yeah, now I want to talk about where we are 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.080 right now because Donald Trump he's going to bring peace 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.800 to Russia Ukraine. Like, I feel like he's doing everything 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.000 he can to distract from the Epstein files, right Like 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.000 he's like hoping that if he just keeps going on 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.879 with the news sources like that, how that the that 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.879 Pam BONDI will never release any of the Epstein stuff, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.080 even though he had to file, he had to sign 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.320 that discharge petition which says in his law that they're 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:25.960 going to release it within thirty days. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.359 Yeah, but Molly, remember he instructed everyone to vote for 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:30.639 that because he really wants it. 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:32.119 Yeah, he did. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.080 He changed the very last minute when he saw he 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.040 was going to lose. He was like, I think we 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.120 want those, you want those? 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.399 Yeah, And look at least he's not, you know, maybe 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.480 starting a war in it with the South American country 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.399 to distract from everything else. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.720 But look where your favorite of the way the ways 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.800 in which Donald Trump is trying to distract is your 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.359 favorite that he's starting a war, or is your favorite 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.360 that he's trying to bring peace to Russia Ukraine. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.320 It's the war for me. It's always the war for me. 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.760 I mean, if you're going to distract, you got to 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.760 do it with a war, because that's when you get 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:13.000 the CNNs of the world can prepare their their theme songs. 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.480 Right and exactly, Caribbean. 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.960 Caribbean freedom. You know, that's when you get all the 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.480 all the newspapers and everyone's there, well, we have to 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:25.440 support the president. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:26.080 We're at war. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:28.960 You get people saying this is the day Donald Trump 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.879 became president. You can't beat a war if you're trying 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.360 to take the focus off of something else. I mean, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.800 I'm fairly certain there was a whole movie that was 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.480 kind of about that. Yes do yeah, that sort of 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.720 gave us a praeze. So it's absolutely that for me. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:48.520 The the Ukraine Russia stuff is I mean, have you 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:52.960 seen anything more incompetent than well, this is our plan. No, 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:56.879 this isn't our plan. Marco Rubio have nothing that doesn't 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.200 even know about this plan. Oh, Marco Rubier wrote this plan. 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:03.520 It's unbelieve and beyond the incompetence, just the national security 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:07.880 implications of having a plan out there. And we can't 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.320 get a straight answer as to whether this plan is 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.080 Russian talking points or whether it's from the administration because 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:15.440 we can't tell the difference. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:21.080 Yeah, yeah, you know, it's nuts, but it's part of 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:25.880 Donald Trump's tri facta for trying to get the Nobel 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:30.679 Peace Prize, which he has now missed the window on 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.639 at least for twenty twenty five. But it is funny 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.080 to me because it's like, you know, he does on 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.119 some level like he kind of wants to do the 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:42.360 stuff presidents do, but just not with any of the 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.440 follow up for any of the you know, like he's 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:47.640 like he's like, yeah, I'm gonna bring peace and I'm 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:51.760 gonna do this. Like it's a very sort of distracted view, 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.960 kind of you know, half hearted view on presidenting. But 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.280 ultimately he's really just trying to make money. 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.040 Well, he's just trying to make money, finds me of 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.320 you know, there's a sort of a famous saying that 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:06.040 writers have I love to have written, but I hate writing. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:07.439 Speak for yourself. I hate all of it. 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.719 Right, But it's the same. That to me, that's Trump 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.639 with presidenting. He doesn't like presidenting, you know. He doesn't 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:19.600 like having to negotiate a peace treaty or doing any 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.879 of the work. What he wants is the credit. And 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.720 it's just that simple. That's all he wants is the credit. 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:27.040 He's not interested in the work. He couldn't care less 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.960 if there was peace between Russia and Ukraine. Obviously he'd 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.080 probably just be happier if Russia had been able to 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:37.080 swallow up Ukraine. Yeah, but he just ultimately doesn't care. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.400