WEBVTT - Rick Wilson & Heather Williams 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.160 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.400 today's best minds, and Scott Bessen says he's felt this 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.720 pain from China because he's quote actually a soybean farmer 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:21.520 and a one hundred millionaire, a multi hundred millionaire, a 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.919 five hundred millionaire. We have such a great show for 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.440 you today. The Lincoln Project's owner Rick Wilson joins us 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.600 to discuss Trump getting an illegal one hundred and thirty 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.919 million dollar donation from one of his creepiest donors. Then 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:42.400 we'll talk to the d LCC's Heather Williams about how 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:43.520 Dems win. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.479 But first the news, So, Molly, Scott Bessen went on 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.080 the Sunday shows, and I have to say there's a 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.320 very few appearances that generated more headlights because he said 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.040 more ridiculous things that most people do at these But 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.240 one of the things he says is that the US 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.680 will not lose money on the Argent bailout. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.040 So I guess we're all going to be eating our 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.240 Shetinian steak. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:04.720 Yeah. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.399 You know, one of my favorite things about Scott Essen 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.399 is not his woodenness on television and it's not him 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.080 saying ridiculous dishonest things on television. No, no, those are 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.639 my favorite things about seeing them on television. My man, 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.000 the US will not lose money on its massive bailout 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:25.240 of Argentina because history is no guide for what happens 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.520 in the world, he continued, despite the fact that the currency, 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:34.000 like the dollar, is just going down the tubes. They've 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:38.200 gone all in on President Malay. You know why tell me, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.080 because they want him to win. In order to rescue him, 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.000 they have pledged twenty billion dollar currency slop with the 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.040 Argentine Central Bank, the largest American bailout of another country 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.120 since we bailed out Mexico in nineteen ninety five. Besson 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.640 has also organized another twenty billion in aid from the 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.280 private sector. By the way, these people are very into 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.279 promising big money from the private sector. Usually that doesn't happen, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.440 so we'll see. But I remember many a private sector 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.720 deals that never came to fruition. You and I know 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.079 this to be true. Donald Trump is always saying that 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.919 we're going to get ten gazillion dollars from this or that. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.079 You're telling me President deals doesn't live up to his brand. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.560 I mean, by the way. I just am curious, like, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.799 did we get those ninety trade deals? Because it's been 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.120 more than ninety days, and I think it's. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.040 Been another ninety days since those ninety days elapsed. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.160 Right, it's ninety million days, That's. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.440 What every day this administration feels. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.560 Like there iny million years. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.480 So Senator Lindsey Graham, a man that for as long 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.720 as he's been a senator, has been downright giddy. It's 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.440 not even the word I want to use for war 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.160 because he's so enthusiastic to it you would think that 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.160 you wanted to marry it. So he is very, very 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.800 excited to announce that Trump's were on Narco Terris is 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.000 going to expand the lads strike, which when it's not 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.520 in international waters, it kind of sounds like war with 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:04.799 another country, am I right? 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:05.120 Molly? 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:05.720 Yeah? 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.560 You know, Congress is supposed to approve wars. Now, I 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.520 know I'm lame saying that I think that Congress should 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.080 get approval for wars, because that is the way it's 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:21.160 supposed to work. Congress should give approval. But for whatever reason, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.760 that is not what we're doing here, where just Trump 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.920 is just going to do whatever Trump wants. And you 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.560 know this happens to work for Trump because Mike Johnson 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:36.400 basically is at this point donald Trump's Valey and serves 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.520 at the pleasure of Donald Trump. As Donald Trump has 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.000 said before, by the way, this is just like this 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.000 narco terrorist thing is such fucking bullshit, because like, there's 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.440 no this is all completely crazy. Right, Like, we blew 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.920 up a bunch of fishing boats. Maybe some had drugs, 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.480 maybe some didn't. Most of them weren't heading towards the 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.920 United States. They were small boats. Nobody really knows, except 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.320 we know that the few survivors were they were so 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:04.480 guilty they were repatriated to their home countries without a trial, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:10.080 a pretty good sign that they were probably able to testify. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.680 So I'm going to say that clearly what's happening here. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.760 Is fucked Yeah. Sounds very very bad. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:24.039 Yeah. And also the pushback is coming from one Rand Paul. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:29.120 Ran Paul Republican says he's been invited to no briefings, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.800 adding a briefing is not enough to overcome the Constitution. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.719 We've had no evidence presented, So at this point I 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:42.440 would call these extrajudicial killings. Good for Rand Paul from 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.000 Kentucky for saying what we all know to be true, 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.159 which is the United States government cannot just kill people 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.000 and then make up a reason for it later one. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.560 Hundred percent Savali. As we know, they're having. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.400 To really dig through the bottom of the bear of 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.240 people who are willing to do this job as an 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.560 ICE agent since it's a not good job. And you'll 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.040 be shocked to hear they're not fully vetting people about 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:09.640 whether they have criminal records or not. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.320 I am just shocked. I am so shocked because I 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:20.280 was sure this ICE crew would be really thought, you know, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.520 that people would be interviewed and trained and explained how 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.479 rights work and do process and Nope, just kidding. Let's 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.359 pull back for a minute and realize that deportation Barbie Ice, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.000 Barbie Christy Nome spells it with an eye because that's 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:40.120 how she thought it was spelled, is just blowing billions 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.760 of taxpayer dollars. That is pretty much the good news 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.200 in a weird way. And again, you should look at 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.640 these videos out of Chicago. We should look at these 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.440 videos out of Chicago because Chicago is what this administration 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.120 wants for the rest of us. And they are smoke bombing, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.839 they are going into residential neighborhoods. They are passing people working. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.599 Here's what they're not doing anything helpful. Here's what they're 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.200 not doing fighting crime. Here's what they are doing. There's 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.719 a video of a couple, like a waspy couple. The 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.000 husband is in pajama pants and bare feet and they're 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.440 screaming at the ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.400 This is what is coming to all of us. This 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.640 is what our tax dollars are paying for. This is 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.840 what Christy Nome, who has two private jets for one 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.960 hundred and seventy five million dollars, and her right hand 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.320 hory Lewandowski, are doing to this country. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.279 So now, because the Democrats are going to make a 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:45.720 database where you can upload ICE's NonStop abuses of power, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.760 and we're trying to put a little fear into these 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.719 officers to behave a little better. The Democrats are making 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.440 a tracker for this, and Christy Nome is threatening them 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.400 because she thinks they should be able to act with 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.880 full impunity and ignorance of the law, which is unprecedented 0:06:58.839 --> 0:06:59.480 in America. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.120 Yeah, I mean, look, they are going to push and 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.080 they are going to do illegal stuff, and they're going 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.200 to do bad stuff, and the only way it stops 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.920 is if people say this is enough. And this is 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:15.760 a great example Robert Garcia doing God's work. We've established 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.440 in a misconduct tracker to document abuse and civil rights 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:25.680 violations by this administration, including where Ice has detained US 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.760 citizens and violated federal law. By the way, that is 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.440 what we should be doing. That is what all of 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.920 us should be doing. I mean, that's how all of 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.120 this is supposed to work. So correct. Good for again, 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:43.560 Representative Garcia. If life ever gets back to normal, I 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:52.600 hope that he will someday be in leadership. Rick Wilson 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.520 is the founder of the Lincoln Project and the host 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.040 of the Enemy's List. Rick Wilson, Well, I junk fast. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.160 How are you on this fine day in our so 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:00.800 called country. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.280 I'm just looking for a mysterious donor to donate one 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:10.480 hundred and thirty million dollars to pay one point three million. True. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.200 I'm not a math genius. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.360 You know. I kind of do no math. And I 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.760 will tell you that math is not, as the kids 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.720 like to say, mathing in this case. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.520 Yeah, So we're talking about Timothy Mallan volunteering to donate 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.720 one hundred and thirty million dollars, which is a lot 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.600 of money to us because we're poor, But to people 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:35.439 like this, you know, a childless billionaire, I think it's jumping. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.680 I mean, molly, let me, let me say this. He 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.400 is donating this money because Donald Trump does not want 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.080 Jeffrey Epstein files to be voted on in Congress. That's 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.920 why he's voting giving Trump this money. And he's doing 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.400 it with like the weirdest conditions and stipulations like you 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:56.800 must find Amelia air Arts. What fuck? And you know what, 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.520 It's funny because like a few weeks ago, I was like, 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.720 last Trump tweeting about a millionaire hurt? What is going 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:01.079 on here? 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:01.720 What? 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.440 What could be driving this? And you and I tend 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.800 to like no shit, And I'm just like I could 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.520 not figure it out. I was like, why is he 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.080 obsessed with Amelia Earhart? What is going on? And now 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.240 we know Timmothy Mellen wants to find Amelia air Art. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.480 So if they paid the troops out of this money, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.480 it would be one hundred dollars a troop pretty much period. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.920 So that's one hundred dollars that is, in case you're wondering, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:28.960 not enough money. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.240 No case you're wondering that is that is. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.240 Not enough money. Good but good headline for Trump. Go 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.360 the headline for Timothy Mellen. For people who don't read headlines, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.560 and I want to go to headlines for a minute 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.920 because I want to talk about this gubernatorial race in 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.959 New Jersey. Yeah, it's a good headline for Trump. It's 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.560 a good headline for Timothy Mallen. For people who are 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:58.480 not paying attention, they think, oh, Timothy Mellen, billionaire. Yeah, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.440 but if you can't actually pay, if it won't actually 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.280 pay the troops, then what what Hey, you. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.440 Know how we could pay the trips. You know, we 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:10.880 could pay the troops tomorrow. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:11.600 Tell me more. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.480 Open the government, stop being stop stop covering up the 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.120 Jeffrey Epstein files, and open the government. This is this 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.240 is something like like my tolerance for this because you know, 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.360 I'm not sure if you know this, but basically, people 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.360 in the United States military essentially do not make money. Yes, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.120 it is not a place that people go to just 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:35.679 like racking Kwan. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:37.200 Just so like. 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.160 People work in the federal government could be making more 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:41.120 in the private sector. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.200 Often they do it because they could be. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:50.640 They care about the country, which is why Russ Vaught 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:51.720 wants to put them in trauma. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:57.160 Quote in trauma in trauma. Yes, And look, Russ Vaught 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:58.959 is having the time. This is the best week of 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.560 restaurants that life. He is. He is getting a lot 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.680 of the torture of these so called evil bureaucrats that 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.959 he wants to apply, right he is. He's really getting 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.160 his way with a lot of the damage he wants 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.800 to do to these people. And he wants to make 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.400 federal service so miserable that they quit. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.520 Right or that they go. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.800 And look, a number of them are going to or 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.000 already have. But you know, the the the tiny little 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.240 inty bitty problems we're having in the country, like air 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.080 traffic controllers aren't getting paid, and our military isn't getting paid, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.480 and our veterans benefits aren't getting paid. But who's getting paid. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.880 Christy Noms film crew from Ice is getting paid. So yeah, 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.760 they could solve this problem tomorrow. Mike Johnson could say, Okay, 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.720 we're back in session, we're passing the cr I'm swearing 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.319 to add Grijalva. I give up. But they don't want 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.600 to give up because Trump is telling people. As we 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.920 saw that coverage of this week from the I think 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.360 the Washington Post. Trump enjoys how much a survi little 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.520 shipbird Mike Johnson is. How much he makes Mike Johnson obey. 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.439 So there was a good piece in the New York 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.040 Times by one Annie Carney, who's been doing a really 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.720 good job comm yeah, covering what little converce is doing, 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.520 and she actually had this quote that Trump had said 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.199 basically that he was the Speaker of the House and 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.400 the president, which I think is absolutely right. And in fact, 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.080 one of the reasons why they are not able to 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:32.800 make a deal right now is because Democrats don't because 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.079 Democrats don't want to make a deal with Mike Johnson 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.400 because they know Mike Johnson isn't he doesn't, he is 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:40.160 not the boss. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:45.839 It's like running the entire government from it's like the House, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:50.160 it's to the Senate, to the White House and everything 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.920 in between to the Supreme Court. There is no government 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.199 but Trump. You know, there is no data, only zuul. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.280 This is Donald Trump. He runs all this. This is 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.400 all by his choice. And if Mike Johnson cared about 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.760 the House and cared about his members, and cared about 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.560 doing the duty that he has as an elected representative, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.800 he would stop this bs, right, but. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.080 He doesn't have the power. He serves at the pleasure 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.640 of Donald Trump. And the thing is, Donald Trump has, 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.280 for whatever reason, decided he doesn't care right now about 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.439 domestic except because he's working on getting a Nobel Peace Prize. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:30.600 And he's doing that by going overseas building right, Well, 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.040 that's not for the Nobel Peace Prize. That's just for 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:39.079 the Nobel you know, just the fun of cleptocracy. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.960 The arrogant, kleptocratic bullshit prize. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:45.720 Right. But Donald Trump is overseas. He's going to Japan, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.439 he was, He's going to South Korea. He's zipping around 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.480 the globe. Even though I think that when you have 0:13:53.920 --> 0:14:00.679 tanks in Chicago, you may actually off be getting the 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:01.800 Nobel Peace Prize. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.760 Discuss I'm gonna tell you from my understanding, tanks in 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.640 the streets of your country. I think pretty much anywhere 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.760 it might be a disqualifier for the Nobel I mean, 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.040 I'm just gonna say, I'm gonna I'm gonna take a 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.360 big leap here, Molly and just sort of sort of 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.400 sort of make a piece of enforced speculation that Donald 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.320 Trump's vibe set is not working for the Nobel Prize 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.560 Committee ever, and he's not going to get in this 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.400 year because it's already been issued. He's not gonna get 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.360 in this year because there is nothing he can do. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.920 Except piss off India. Except piss off India. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.360 Why not, you know, because he's pissed off everyone else 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.080 at this point. That is very much on brand for 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.080 Trump at the moment, is to piss off as many 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.080 as many humans as possible. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.480 And this weekend we saw Donald Trump go basically to 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.800 again into trade war again with Canada because Canada had 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:57.680 this advertisement he didn't like, which was Ronald Reagan talking 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.400 about how he didn't believe in tariffs. Donald Trum got 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.160 very offended and said that it was fake news, despite 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.440 the fact that while it is a I it is 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:08.760 or no, it's not a. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:13.240 It was all this was footage from address Reagan read 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.880 on the radio and nineteen eighty seven about trade wars. Now, 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.840 what has pissed off the magas is that they didn't 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.960 run one line that was in the speech and said 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.560 sometimes tariffs for a brief period of time can be 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.120 useful and as a negotiating tactic or something like that. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:27.760 And this was not a speech like how much he 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.440 loved tariffs, a speech about how much he hated tariffs, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.680 and what freak Trump and his people out was. There 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.760 is still a core reality inside the Republican Party. Even 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.960 in today's perverse imitation of the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.920 is still more popular rapes and he does not like that. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.600 And this whole thing, this whole thing has become a 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.560 kind of pissing contest about now the legacy of Reagan, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.120 who was not a tariff guy. He was a free 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:56.760 trade guy. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:01.200 Free trader. Yeah, all Republicans have been free traders until 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:02.000 right now. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:08.160 Yes, yes, I mean talk, but I do know a 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.320 thing or two about this world. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.400 Yes, as we live in the bad place that is 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.080 in fact, Oh yes we do. Oh, yes we do. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.400 I want to talk about Donald Trump's poor coal link 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.800 for a minute, because I think this is my man 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.280 is underwater. Talk to us about those numbers. I feel 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.960 like you're looking up numbers right now. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.720 I'm looking at but I can just tell you Donald 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:35.120 Trump's numbers are shitty and yet visible, terrible and yet 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.800 also painfully obviously declining into the health space. The biggest 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.800 number you should look at right now is the thing 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.080 that subsumes all the other things, and that is the 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.480 right track wrong track. And about seventy percent of Americans 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.320 say the country is on the wrong track. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.600 Were united in everything is going to ship. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.720 Two percent of Americans agree that the cause of that 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:02.360 wrong track is one Donald John Trump. This is a 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.000 bad place for him to be in. He is not 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.159 he is not a popular president. And I just this 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:14.120 is one thing that in Congress there's a belief, well, 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.240 I if we cross Trump, we're going to face all 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.240 these political consequences. You might, you might if you let 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.960 Trump be the sole creator of the national narrative. And 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.000 you are the ones in Congress as Republicans who are 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.720 going to take all that radiation and take all that damage. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.560 Donald Trump gets certain exceptions because he was a celebrity 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.399 and all the other things We've talked about a million 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.360 times about who he is in the culture. Right that's gone. Now, yes, 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.040 that do not exist. Ain't that? Ain't this world anymore? 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.159 Because of that, these Republicans are going to take absolute 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.520 whippings from their voters because you know what, they are 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:56.119 not happy with Donald Trump's performance in office. They are 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.320 pissed at the economy. They think the country's off on 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.879 the wrong track. They think that the immigration stuff has 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.600 gone too far. They think that Harris are a terrible idea. 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.200 There's almost nothing he's doing right now that is popular 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.600 with the American people, and people have sort of like 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.399 kind of ignored that that really fundamental underpinning fact. He 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:20.000 is a bad president and people don't like him. I mean, 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:21.960 I'm trying to put that in words that even the 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.280 MAGA listeners can understand. But he's a lot popular. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.520 Let's talk about what's happening in Iowa, Okay, because I 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.200 think that this is a really good example of Iowa 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.760 art for Obama twice. Yep, they voted for Trump, and 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:40.879 Trump has done some stuff that has put their their 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.800 GDP in a kilspin. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:48.800 No, I actually tailspan Limbell the bad place, the bad 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.399 he has. He has fucked farmers in this country, in 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.679 rural communities like Iowa, in a way that if you 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.119 set out to do it, it would be hard to 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:03.640 imagine you could do a more a more damaging job 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.040 than what he's done. And so, you know, you see 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.639 in the farm belt the realization that we're not going 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.199 to sell anybody any soybeans this year. We're not going 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.120 to sell anybody any beef this year. The timber industry 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.760 is now freaking out that they're that they're slowing down. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.800 It was timber issue was a big export industry in 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.520 this country. They're now like freaking out because other countries 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.439 are like, no, we'll pass, We'll we'll get something, we'll do, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:29.880 we'll do, we'll work with somebody else. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.800 This is from the New York Times. I was GDP 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:37.320 dropped by six point one percent, more than any state 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.880 aside from neighboring Nebraska. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.639 You know how many people are on a snap in Iowa? 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.359 Eighteen percent? You know who? He doesn't get snap anymore 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:47.639 in Iowa? Everybody? 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.760 Yeah, because you know why why don't people get snapped? 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.879 Because Donald Trump closed down the government to keep the 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.760 Epstein fires from coming out, and Russ Vaud is a sadist. 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:01.359 And they could have done snap. In fact, previous shutdowns 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:08.000 had done snacks snap, just like just like they carved 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:12.040 out the bunny for wick right women, infant and children 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.639 so that you didn't have forty percent of pregnant women 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:18.840 dying starvation. 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:21.600 These these these starving women in. 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.520 Small Yeah, one weeksa do you see? 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.080 That was a good one, You know, what they can 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.399 lift themselves up by their bootstraps, smalling little bootstraps. I 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.880 think I've had enough of accommodating these slackers. 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:37.040 Manufacturing, which drives seventeen percent of Iowa's economic output, has 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:41.320 been hit with higher production costs, in part because of guests. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.280 It would it be terriffs, Why it would be tariffs? 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.080 Why the answer would be terriffs. 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:48.520 But I was told that the other people were going 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:49.520 to pay the tariffs. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.880 I keep hearing about these other people paying the tariffs, 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:56.040 and yet somehow it still seems to keep being Americans 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:56.960 paying the tariffs. 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:01.080 It is bizarre. Now, I would like to say, these 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:06.359 people voted for Trump now are starving, but they're gonna 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.480 give Trump just one more shot. 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.640 So look, I will say this, they are trust Trump. 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:15.680 There are still people who trust in Trump. There's still 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.359 people who believe in Donald Trump as the avatar of 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.120 all things, whatever you want, however you want to put it. 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:25.960 But that number is shrinking. The hardcore is now a smaller, 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:30.360 crazier edge, and the people who now understand the damage 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:34.199 he's done to them, that number is increasing, including in 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.480 these places where where you think, okay, it's rural Iowa 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.040 they're always going to love Trump. They're never going to 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:44.760 walk away from Trump. And what they'll do is many 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.840 of them will never walk away from Trump, but many 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:49.760 of them will say, you know what, I don't like 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:54.000 all this libtard blah blah blah, and quietly they're gonna say, 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.960 I can't vote for that. I can't vote for Republican X. 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:00.320 It is why you see even people like Ted who's 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.119 in a panic right now, there are a lot of 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.320 people in that Republican space who are looking at an 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.000