WEBVTT - Jim Acosta & Gov. Roy Cooper 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 --> 0:00:11.520 today's best minds, and a new Washington Post ABC News 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:15.320 IPSOS poll finds it eighty percent of the twenty twenty 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.640 four Trump voters and seventy nine percent of Republicans reacted 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:24.720 negatively to Trump posting an image depicting of himself as Jesus. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.680 We have such a great show for you today, the 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:32.400 Jim Acosta Shows. Jim Acosta stops by to talk Trump's 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.800 unlawful aggressions against his enemies. Then we'll talk to former 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.520 North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper about his run for the Senate. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:41.880 But first the news. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.920 Smiling, you know, we're always shifting gears in Trump World, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.159 and we're always trying to cover up for something really stupid. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.000 He's done that he's going to have to reverse course on, 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.920 like sal a war in the Middle East, and this 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.840 week's destruction is lawfair. We're in lawfair. 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.760 When I saw this come across my feed, really upset 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.920 by this. This is a woman, she's a state senator. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.600 She's actually I think she is the Senate pro temp right, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:12.039 that's right, she's the head of the Senate in Virginia. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.440 Her name is el Louise Lucas and she's actually eighty 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.120 two years old. She was the driver behind the Democratic 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.440 redistricting of Virginia, which Donald Trump does not like because 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.240 he does not want to lose the House. And he 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.119 has started redistricting. Remember he started this when he asked 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.600 Texas Republicans to get him five seats. And now here 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:39.760 we are with the FBI reading the office of the 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:47.360 Democratic Virginia President pro temp. And it is completely wild. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.160 It's what we call law fair. It's completely not how 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.600 any of this is supposed to go. And the story, 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:55.840 which I think this is sort of the coup de 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:01.240 grass was leaked to Fox News. So you have this 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:09.399 administration doing something that is not okay and having their propaganda, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:14.880 their favorite propaganda outlet, leave the story so that she 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.680 gets as much bad publicity as possible. Look, do I 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:19.600 think this is law fair? 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:20.040 Yes? 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.440 I absolutely do. And we've seen Trump go after hiss 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.000 enemies before, and so many of us know what this 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.760 is and what it looks like because it looks like 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.520 what else he's done. But I'm sure we'll hear more 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.240 about this. This is like a very developing story. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.200 Yeah, and right at the same time of this Cash 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.960 Battel is the FBI on the reporter who covered his 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:40.960 drinking abuse. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.280 Yes, the FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation into 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.880 the Atlantic reporter who report on Cash Btel's excessive drinking 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:53.320 and unexplained absences. This is a journalist called Sarah Fitzpatrick. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.200 It is interesting, to say the least, that Patel is 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:02.000 denying the story while also investigating it. Usually a person 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.560 would either deny it or investigate the leaks. But the 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.480 idea that he's denying it and then investigating leaks makes 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:15.120 me wonder if in fact it's actually just true. She 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.359 reported last month that Patel was known to drink and 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.600 excess We saw photos of that. Remember when he went 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.680 to the Olympics in Italy and there was a picture 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.440 of him drinking with the hockey team, routinely delayed meetings 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:32.680 and time sensitive operations, and was often unreachable. So now 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.840 he has said that's not true, but is also trying 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.160 to investigate who told The Atlantic this story. After The 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.240 Atlantic published the story, Patel filed out two hundred and 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.720 fifty million dollar defamation suit against the publication. So here's 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.000 and he said quote that the story was replete with 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:56.280 false and obvious, fabricated allegations designed to destroy Director Patel's 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.680 reputation and drive him from office. But my is that 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.640 if it's not true, why would you investigate the leagues? 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.960 And we will see more from this, and my gas 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:13.960 is that like so many of the lawsuits coming out 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.480 of Trump world, it will either get dismissed or Patel 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.080 will you know. I think it'll end up getting dismissed 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:20.720 as my guess. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:25.080 Yeah, So mister Trump was very big mad that Indiana's 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.640 legislature did not want to do his bidding for redistricting, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.200 so he endorsed a bunch of kids in the state 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.560 House that did not go for it. And well, mister 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.000 Trump got his way, as most of them have been defeated. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:44.080 So these are Indiana state legislators who voted against redistricting 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.520 and Donald Trump was able to go into their primaries, 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:53.159 support their opponents and make them lose their seats. Now, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.880 I want to talk about this for a minute because 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.000 it is both bad and good for Democrats. So this happened. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:05.400 It's bad for democracy that the base supports Trump no 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.120 matter what, but it's also a piece of data we 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:14.120 already knew. We already knew that Trump World has absolute fealty, 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.800 that it demands it and it gets it. What I 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.680 think is meaningful here is that this is not the 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.839 same atmosphere it was in twenty twenty four. Trump is 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.279 as unpopular as he has ever been, and now you 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.920 have Republicans who must hitch their wagon to him in 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:37.160 order to win MAGA. But we'll lose in a general 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.960 or in a world that's not MAGA because of their 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.800 association with Trump. So this is a really bad spot 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.120 for Republicans. Right if the people who had gone against 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.240 Trump had won, then you could say, well, the base 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.080 had there's some room with the base in order to 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.400 you know, you can run, you know, like Biden let 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.160 people run against him, and some of them were able 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.520 to keep their seats because they said, well, you know, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.960 we're not full bidenight. But Trump doesn't do that. So 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.680 this means that if you are a Republican, you're going 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.040 to have to hit your wagon to Trump's start. There's 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.920 going to be you're not allowed to have any daylight 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:16.880 between him and yourself. And also he's wildly unpopular, So 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.120 I think that is going to be a real problem 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.800 for a lot of Republicans. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.520 I agree. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.919 So yesterday on the show, we had Mike Madrid on 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.279 and we were discussing the concept of our Republicans just 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.279 being caught flat footed coming into the midterm elections, and 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.840 this interview Notice has with the NRCC chair says that no, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.480 they're just absolutely delusional fools. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.839 Uh yeah, so, I mean again, like I just want 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.760 to so Trump is not so popular the National Republican 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:53.760 Congressional Committee chair. They are the people who are tasked 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.839 with Republicans trying to keep Congress. They know that the 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.400 House is looking really tight. And the reason that we 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.320 know that they know that is because Donald Trump will 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.000 not be trying to steal congressional seats if he thought 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.520 he was winning, right, I mean, my man is doing 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.680 everything he can to prevent it from being fair. They're 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.320 just doing whatever they can to try to spin this 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:22.080 because just like with those Indiana Republicans who all lost 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.920 their seats by not going full maga, these people know 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:31.160 that Trump demands fealty. So instead of saying, well, you 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.760 might be some headwinds, they're saying, we're still on a 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.240 rescue mission. Remember how bad it was before. Give us 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.960 a chance to continue to make your lives better. Problem is, 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.400 gas prices have risen and risen. In risen diesel is 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.360 a record highs. I just don't think that there's a 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:54.080 world where this message resonates in any which way. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.200 Really saying that there is nine dollars gas in some 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.800 parts of America and that the voters will be happy 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.600 with mister Trump six dollars guests won't resonate. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:03.440 I'm so shocked. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.080 It's, you know, yet another place where Donald Trump has 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.480 tied these people's hands. Right, they can't say anything that's 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:14.480 not maga, and yet they also can't make a case 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.800 for themselves. So I think it's a tough spot for them, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.000 which is good because they stink. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:20.960 YEP. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.080 So we are ten years past the debates about whether 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.400 the Democratic Party should have gotten involved in the primary 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:28.640 between Bernie and Hillary. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.800 Oh, tell us your view, tell us your view. I'm curious. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.080 You want to know a really funny thing. This is 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.760 not one of those things. I'm passionate about it. I 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.680 feel like anybody who was shocked that that happened was 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.760 a political fool. This is actually not my left wing 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:42.400 bone to pick. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:44.199 I'll take it. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.840 The point being there is a lot of fighting about 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.679 this right out. In fact, I even saw some fights 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.040 last night about the California governor's debate about how much 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.920 party officials were saying bad things about other candidates that 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.240 they should just stay out of. It was a big 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.720 war on Twitter in the past twelve hours or so. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.360 Oh, I'm so glad I miss that. How did I 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:03.000 miss that? 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.400 You're really missing just gripping commentary. I'll tell you how 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.080 you missed it. I was ready to get after midnight, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:09.840 after you've been turned into a pubkin. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.880 Yeah, I've been asleep for four hours at that point. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.640 So here's what's going on. There are a bunch of 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.920 candidates that Democrats that the leadership went and stuck their 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:25.880 finger in these races. These were primaries that were tight, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.760 some of them tight, some of them not tight. And look, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.720 Democrats should not do that. They should not be getting 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.920 involved in primaries, even leadership unless it's really I mean, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.480 I think they should stay out of it. But what 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.040 they did was they did they did something where they 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:46.439 got everybody really mad. And so here we are. Democratic 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.880 leadership is acting undemocratically to boost the candidate's They view 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.000 is more electable, and the truth is like, sometimes that's true, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.559 sometimes that's not true. Like, for example, Schumer got involved 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:04.120 in this Michigan Senate primary and boosted Hayley Stevens because 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.160 he felt she was more electable. She is not, by 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.640 any stretching imagination, more electable. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.800 And even just as egregious as Angie craig and versus 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:15.760 Peggy Flanna get. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.920 In it right, I mean, I almost feel like Angie 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.360 Craig versus Peggy flann And again is more egregious because 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:26.360 Peggy flan again is the lieutenant governor, so she's already 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.640 a known quantity in the state. She's won a statewide 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:35.000 elected office, and it's just baffling. But yeah, this is 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.760 another one though, where it's like the leadership may not 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.960 know better. You piss a lot of people off in 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.200 the party when you do this. I mean, it's a 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.679 really good example of what happened to Maine. So Schumer 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.280 endorsed Janet Mills, governor, who was seventy eight. The people 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.160 didn't want her, they wanted Graham Platiner, and so she 0:10:55.440 --> 0:11:00.560 just couldn't you know, the main primary people gave Platinum 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.160 money and polling showed he was way ahead, and so 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.640 she dropped out. And I think that's a really good example. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.080 It's like, I mean, I do not live in Maine, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.239 so I do not know what the people may want, 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.920 but they seem to like him better than their governor. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.640 And you know, who knows what the calculus there is. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:27.560 But it's a really good example of why, like probably 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.559 Schumer really got over his skis when he started. I mean, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.640 certainly there are some people like Roy Cooper who's on 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.280 this episode, who Schumer convinced to run, or Shared Brown, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.240 who was probably the only person who could really have 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.360 a shot in Ohio. Mary per Tola in Alaska, that's 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.080 another one where she's a really good candidate and a 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.240 really hard red state. But these things where they get 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.760 into a little congressional race and they upend the race 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.000 and they piss everyone off. It's just such a dumb, 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.680 enforced error, and there's no reason to do stuff like 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.600 that and let the people decide who they want and 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.480 then get in there when you're in a general and 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.240 get involved. I think it's a really important and just 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.719 really disappointing on the part of Democrats. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.880 Yeah, and especially when you and I keep hearing from 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.400 people that they really just choose this by who can 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.680 raise the most money, which is a really bad way 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:25.400 of doing this. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.440 I mean, who even knows because some of these candidates 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.400 it doesn't even seem like that's how they pick them. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.839 So well it sure it isn't from the Grassfords people 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.480 that they're talking about. They're talking about the donors class. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.360 Right, But even then, and the other thing is we're 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.240 in a moment where people are so mistrusting towards the 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:48.000 party and power and they're so angry, So why do this? 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:49.200 Why push it? 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.400 And one of the more funny things in this article 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.720 is they're talking about this that this is good messaging 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.520 for people, as they say the party endorsed this, so 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.720 that people actually go, great, I won't support that person. 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:09.120 It's stupid. It's just so stupid in every which way. Hey, 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.840 it's Mollie john Fast here. My memoir How to Lose 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.760 Your Mother is out now on paperback, arriving just ahead 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.559 of Mother's Day. 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Jim Acosta is the host of The Substacks, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.280 The Jim Acosta Show and the author of the New 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.360 York Time's bestseller The Enemy of the People, A Dangerous 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.000 Time to Tell the Truth of America. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.119 Jim, Hello, Hello, Molly, where are you welcome? 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:43.760 Welcome? I'm an undisclosed, tosstered location. I can say no more. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.800 Just like all that just a little jail cell. That's 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.040 how you know, you know what? I like this. The 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.080 lighting is so bad. Look at how bad that lighting is. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:53.680 I look at you. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.160 That's ten thousand. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.160 Years old of emotion. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.920 That's right, baby, So listen. Uh here we are. It 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.760 is another day in Donald tromp to America and the 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.760 war is over the. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.800 World until tomorrow morning. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.240 Until tomorrow because you know, by lows Sell High, all 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.720 the market manipulation happened, and all the betting markets they 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.440 did their thing before Trump called Axios or whatever he 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:22.160 did this morning. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.040 He really likes. He seems to have some kind of 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.560 relationship with Axios. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.920 It's like, get the people at Axios. I don't want 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.600 to make any accusations without any. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.600 They are just breaking a lot of stories which end. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.160 Up being I know, but it seems like it seems 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:44.440 like we're living in a crazy like it's like mad 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:49.400 money Twilight Zone. That's right where you know there's like 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.560 some mad there's a there's an evil Jim Kramer on 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.280 one of Donald Trumps shoulders, and then there's a there's 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.720 an angel Jim Kramer and they tell him, you know, 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.960 manipulate it this way a network. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.880 Now we're at war now we're at peace. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.920 And I mean, in Trim's defense, Donald Trump truly believes 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.960 that the markets are the only indicator of the economy. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.680 So he could be watching the markets freaking out and 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.800 then being like, let me see if I try to 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.200 you know, if I say the war is over. And 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.520 he's had a lot of success working journalists. I mean, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:26.360 you and I can. I mean, every time he calls someone, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.920 they're like, I talked to the president, and the President 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:34.240 says and that historically you could do that in reporting. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.720 But the problem is the president says a lot of stuff. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.400 Our president a lot does. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.600 Like he says that Jerome Palell should be prosecuted for 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.160 cost overruns at the Federal Reserve, while there are cost 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.200 overruns at the proposed White House ballroom that was initially 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.560 going to be funded by private donors, which will now 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.640 be funded by the taxpayers to the tune of one 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:57.280 billion dollars. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.040 But anyway, you know that, by the. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.240 Way, that's going to be in reconciliation, which means, if 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.679 you are a Senate Republican, you're gonna have to vote 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.600 yay or nay on a billion dollars of a billion 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:16.240 tax dollars to go to Donald Trump's ballroom. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:21.560 Huh yeah, no, I know. And and to me, I've 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.560 been making this point. I don't know if anybody else 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.199 wants to make this point with me, but all of 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.600 this is a sign of he's just not there anymore. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:31.320 He's gone. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.239 It's one flew over the cuckoo's nest, and we just 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.080 need as adults, as adults in the American family writ large, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.520 it's time we have this conversation and have this intervention 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.719 with one another and we just admit that he's cuckoo 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.560 for cocoa puffs and he's just building one thing after 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.159 another in his honor, because I don't know, that's what 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.760 some people do at the end. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:55.960 This is just what they do. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.880 There's the Palm Beach International Airport that's going to be renamed, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.360 there's the ball I mean, it's just it's all bananas, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:03.919 you know. 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.840 So I wonder if we could talk for a minute 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.120 about Trump has put his Republicans in a bad spot, 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.800 and I, for one, love it. I love it so 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.080 much I couldn't love it more. I do happen to 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.080 be in a jail cell, but if I were not 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.440 in a small jail cell, I would be you're like. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:29.760 You, okay, right now, that's right, go in the jail 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:30.320 cell next. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:36.880 But there was this incredible Indiana primary and in it, 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.439 Donald Trump exacted his revenge on the people who would 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.680 not go full maga, who would not redistrict for him, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.520 and he knocked out like five of seven. Okay, there's 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:52.120 one who may go, and there's another one who won. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.800 So he knocked out five of seven Indiana state reps. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.600 So here's the deal. My guess is that publicans will 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:05.040 take from this that they can that they must hitch 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.480 their wagon too MAGA full stop. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:08.800 Yeah. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.720 There, it's sort of we're at the Branch Davidian phase 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.000 of MAGA. And yeah, I think that they have to 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.320 stay in the cult to survive, even though at the 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.399 end everything's going to burn to the ground and they'll 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:29.040 be inside. Not to get too dark and descriptive, but 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.239 I don't think they have any other choice. A lot 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.159 of these guys, and I mean Indiana is kind of 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.560 like if a state were the Branch Davidians or the 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.880 Branch Davidians were a state, it would be it would 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.840 be Indiana. No offense to there're a lot of nice 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.680 folks in Indiana, but it's a very conservative state, right. 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.280 We're looking at the red part of the red state, right, 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.000 because these are primary voters. And what's important about this 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.080 is so goes the Republican primary voters are not so 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:56.040 goes the nation. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.720 That's right, if that's exactly right. And this they've done this, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.600 We've made this deal with the devil. They've hitched their 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.360 wagons to him, to the crazy train, and it's it's 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.320 going to go off the tracks and into the canyon 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.240 and there's going to be a giant bugs bunny explosion 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.399 at the end of it. But to me, they have 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.040 no other choice as political animals. Now, I will say 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.080 to the state lawmakers who risk their political skin and 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.400 you know stood against the redistricting thing that that Trump 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.159 wanted to do. There, you know, my hat's off to you. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.239 Thank you for your service to your country. But they 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:33.919 had to have known that this was going to happen. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.359 And this is going to keep playing out over and 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.200 over again wherever these ruby red districts and states are, 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:41.240 you know, wherever. 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:41.440 They may be. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.800 One of the things that I think is really interesting 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:49.600 about this moment is if you look at this in 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.080 the light of like Brad Rathensberger and the people in 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.840 Georgia who were able to keep their seats despite the 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:02.159 fact that they did not let Donald Trump cheat in 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:05.840 the twenty twenty election. I do think it's interesting, like 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.080 you do see just how hard it is too. And 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:14.639 remember Rathensberger got a ton that crew in Georgia and 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.520 Brian Kem they get a ton of outside money. So 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.600 there are people in the Republican Party who are trying 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:23.880 to shore up the not crazies. Now maybe they're doing 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.560 that to protect themselves and maybe they're not, you know, 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.560 who knows, but they not come in for Indiana. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.880 Yeah, George is interesting. George is an interesting Republican stronghold, 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.119 and that they have two Democratic United States Senators and 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.520 Atlanta continues to boom as the southern metropolis. And I 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:45.200 think it's really just sort of changed the political landscape 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.879 in Georgia and that they just they reward establishment type 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.600 Republicans and they're more and more not in the mood 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:57.280 to elect mega people like Donald Trump. And I think 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:58.879 that this is this is a trend that you're going 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:02.879 to see maybe continue, I think building across other parts 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:04.800 of the South. I mean, let's wait and see what 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.080 happens to Lindsey Graham and South Carolina. There are a 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.280 lot of folks who think that he could get knocked 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.119 off in the upcoming I mean, he's freaking out on 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.200 Fox every night, begging for money as if he thinks 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.800 that he might get knocked out in the upcoming midterm election. 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:22.560 So there's something happening, I think, and I. 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:24.880 Think it's somebody place, and newly is a big problem 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:28.800 for Republicans, right. It says they are now they have 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:32.399 to go full maga in an environment that is very 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:36.399