WEBVTT - Rick Wilson & Rohit Chopra 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 --> 0:00:12.719 today's best minds. And Marco Rubio says Europe and Ukraine 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.000 will be a part of the Russian peace talks, though 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.560 that actually is maybe not true. We have such a 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.760 great show for you today. The Lincoln Project's own Rick 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.560 Wilson joins us to discuss Trump's latest dictator language. Then 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:34.920 we'll talk to former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head row 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:40.520 heat Chobra about the accomplishments of the organization and why 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.000 Trump ended it. But first the news. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:49.400 So Malli RFK Junior got right to work dismantling the CDC, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.279 just as we feared he would. And I don't like this. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:58.320 You'll be shocked to know that RFK Junior is doing 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:03.440 all the anti science stuff he has long advertised himself 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.560 to be. By the way, I just want to pause 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.360 for a minute here and say, like, we're basically in 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.840 between pandemics. We have bird flu, we got birds dying, 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.360 we got cows, a person got bird flu, they had 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.280 pink eye. There are all sorts of reasons not to 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:25.280 gut public health organizations, and yet here we are the 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.440 Trump administration fired nearly half of the members of the 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.080 vaulted public health program that works on the frontlines of 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.480 disease outbreaks. You don't need it only a day after 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:40.039 anti vax or conspiracy theorist and might add lover of 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.080 many women who are not his wife. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:44.720 You could say it because it's true of a lot 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:45.960 of people in this administration. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.520 Yes, yes, yes, and members of this intelligence service, which 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:55.360 deals with etymology. Thirteen hundred layoffs there at the Center 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.160 for Disease Control and Prevention. We don't have diseases, so 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:02.440 that should be fine. Look, he is stripping the Health 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.800 and Human Services staff. He's doing this. And look again, 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.200 Remember there are two things to remember here. One is 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.880 this is about this larger ethos of Project twenty twenty five. Right, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.919 dismantle the federal government, make it small, make it inefficient, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.520 make it not work so that the people don't believe 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.440 in it. Right, that's part of it. And then part 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.320 of it is you put someone who really is against 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.320 almost all of the important and meaningful parts of public 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.320 health in charge of the public health agency. So like 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.840 the fact that this is happening, no one should be surprised. Right, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.320 this is exactly how we thought it would go. Some 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.760 of the people that he laid off, experts from this 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.960 EIS have been dispatched for decades to investigate disease outbreaks 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.840 in the United States and abroad. Disease outbreaks. Well, it's 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.760 good because we don't have diseases anymore, so that should 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.560 be fine. And you know these are high paying jobs, right, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.760 millions of millionaires. Now, I mean, this is fucking ic right. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:05.400 These are the people who investigated anthrax, investigated. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.799 Abula, which we just got two cases of in New York. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.320 Right, this is absolutely insane. Stat News reports the entire 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.200 incoming class, sixty to eighty people were told their positions 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.520 have been canceled. This is so fucking stupid. This is 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.519 cutting a tiny bit of money to cost a lot 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.639 more money soon. And I want to add that we 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.560 should not be surprised that these people are doing stupid 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.240 destructive things. Stupid destructive things are what they said they 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:37.000 would do, and now they are doing it. So welcome, welcome, welcome. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:42.040 So the Republicans have unveiled their budget, and I'm going 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.840 to shock you here, Molly. The economists say it'll disproportionately 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:46.880 benefit the one percent. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:52.240 Never what that's crazy talk. So House GOP's budget proposal, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.800 which ames four point five trillion dollar tax cut but 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.400 only for a very very much people with roughly two 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.400 trillion and spending cuts, but likely that those spending cuts 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.560 will only affect the very poor and also the people 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.440 who need healthcare and also people who are affected by diseases. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.360 This was always trickle down economics. None of us should 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.599 be surprised that these people are trying to practice the 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:22.240 sort of worst of Reaganism and the worst of Bannonism. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.000 So here we are. They want to cut two trillion 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.840 in spending, cut taxes four point five trillion, and the 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.279 good news is and also in top line numbers, Republicans 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.279 are hoping to pay for their gigantic tax cut for 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.640 very wealthy people by reducing spending between one point five 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.560 and two trillion. By the way, Medicaid in case you're wondering, Medicaid, 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.960 which is the healthcare for poor people that is in 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:51.800 their crosshairs because it always has been. House Republican leadership 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.200 has specifically asked the Energy and Commerce Committee to find 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.240 eight hundred and eighty billion dollars in cuts over the 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.479 next ten years. This is all I want to pause 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.760 again to pay four tax cuts for very wealthy people. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.440 And funny enough, though US in the resistance have an 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:13.480 ally in one Steve Bannon, who warns Trump and Musk 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.560 that they shouldn't cut Medicaid because there's loads of mega 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.760 that is on Medicaid. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.200 Yes, you will be shocked to know. Look, Steve Bannon, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.640 you may not agree with him, but he is very smart. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.119 I mean I don't agree with him, and nor should 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.719 you agree with him. And we most people don't agree 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.680 with him, but don't use a meat axe. Steve Bannon 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.919 warns Trump and Musk that loads of megas are on Medicare. Again. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.360 You know, one of the things that we've seen with 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.360 Steve Bannon is that he actually really is smart and 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.240 pays attention to what's going on. I do not agree 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.320 with him. I've said this before, but he said he 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.040 warned that many of Trump's mega supporters rely heavily on Medicaid, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.680 a subsidy for low income Americans, and not to take 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.400 a meat axe to the program more than six hundred 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.960 billion dollars when to Medicaid last year. Bannon nevertheless wants 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.320 to cut programs to help whack away at the one 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.919 point eight trillion dollars in debt. I mean, yes, the 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.839 whole goal here is to cut spending, is to cut 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.080 the things that you have gotten from the government, right 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.919 to cut away at that. So we shouldn't be surprised. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:21.880 But Bannon is smart, and Bannon wants to keep winning elections, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.159 and he knows if you do this to the people 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.279 who voted for you, then they won't vote for you again. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.280 I mean, that's just math. Right. One of the things 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.240 that Trump was able to do in his first term 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.640 was he was able to have set all this crazy stuff, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.760 but a lot of it didn't happen because Democrats were 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.800 able to prevent him from doing it, so people didn't 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.760 believe he would do it. This time, there are no 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.120 checks and balances, and there's a real opportunity here for 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.839 Donald Trump just to do the craziest stuff. And that's 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:51.400 where we are. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:56.000 Fun times. Speaking of doing crazy stuff, Borders Are, Tom 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:00.839 Homan has suggested that the DOJ should prosecut AOC. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.080 So this is one of these dumb things. It's dumb 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.640 because it's just bullshit. Right. So Tom Holman, who was 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.880 the Borders Are, he actually worked under Obama and had 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:16.000 some kind of weird meltdown and now has become completely 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.240 a zealot as zealot when. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.480 He's not embarrassing Eric Adams on air. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.080 Yeah, that amazing interview on Fox and Friends. But anyway, 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.320 so that guy said that AOC could have broken the 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.840 law by holding a webinar informing immigrants of the rights 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:35.000 during encounters with ice. Now there's no law against that. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.239 It's covered under this amendment. That Republicans are so concerned 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.800 about the First Amendment, the freedom of speech. I mean, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.160 they don't love it as much as the Second Amendment, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.520 but it still gets a lot of play. It's a 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.440 stupid thing because it can't happen, and it's not true. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.920 This is this Republican bravado, this idea that if you 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.120 say something we don't like, we think you should go 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.280 to jail, or we think you should be prosecuted. And 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.800 Dana Bash asked Tom Holman, do you think that she 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.440 should be prosecuted about AOC, and he suggests he said, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.640 I am suggesting that I would ask the Department of Justice, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.360 where's the line on implementation. I think that that's a 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:18.360 broad statute. I mean, look, it's so dumb. I mean, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.120 it's so dumb, and it is meant to be a distraction. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.480 But remember so much of the Sadman is about doing 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.480 things to get attention. Maybe he wants to get the 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.160 big guy to see it. Maybe he thinks that Trump 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.720 will love him more if he picks on AOSA. Shouldn't 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:41.480 be surprised about this. Rick Wilson is the founder of 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.199 the Lincoln Project and the host of the Enemy's List 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.000 Welcome Back, Too Fast Politics, Rick Wilson. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:54.400 Hello, comrade, this was the weekend when, even though what 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.880 Trump is doing has been bad, I feel like this 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:58.280 was the. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.840 Weekend where we were like, all my a month into 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.200 this experiment, and this was a weekend where I was like, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.560 oh wait, what not me? 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:13.400 I mean, look, I have expected this, this increasing tempo 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.960 and the increasing outrageousness of it, and the increasing degree 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.520 to which the Democrats have still yet to grapple with 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:22.480 how to deal with it. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.319 Right, First, we need to talk about the Trump tweet 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.640 that is Napoleonic. We need to talk about the providence 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:35.720 of it. It's not actually Napoleon. It's a movie about Napoleon. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:36.760 Right, correct. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.400 It's from the nineteen seventy film Waterloo by Robsteiger. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.000 Say more. If you dare. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.680 This is the classic problem with Trump and his people. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.600 They find something superficial, like that famous quote from Abraham 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.079 Lincoln about you can't trust anything on the Internet, and 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.600 so they'll run with shit like that. They will not understand, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.760 and they still refuse to understand that the presidency of 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.840 the United States, even with a crapulous fuck wit like 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:13.559 Donald Trump in the office, that words matter, that assertions 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.479 like that matter. And let's be very clear, Napoleon Bonaparte 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.360 was a dictator. I've written I am unfortunately in one 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.480 of one of my mani historical rabbit holes. I've studied 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.559 a lot about the Napoleonic Wars, and I've written a 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.800 lot about Napoleon. I've written a lot about the French Revolution, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:34.280 partly because Trump idolizes a person like Napoleon, because he 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.880 believes he got away with things because he took power 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.959 and no one could resist him taking power. This is 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.520 what Trump idolizes most. This is why we're now on 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.280 the wrong side of history. This is why our allies 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:51.559 now are putin g mbs and Kim Jong un because 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.000 he loves that quote. But let me tell you something. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.400 I read it, and I knew it's provenance, and I 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.560 knew it was one of those famous sort of faux 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.320 historical whatevers. What Donald Trump was doing there wasn't just 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.480 asserting his own power. He was also sending a very 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.800 very very loud dog whistle through a billion assholes. That 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.960 was the moral equivalent of saying, we're going to march 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.080 down to the Capitol because if you don't, you're going 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:16.160 to lose your country. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.600 Right, And Nate got very excited by it. But I 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.280 want to point out, just for two seconds, just back 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.679 to this quote. So it's a line from a screenplay 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.280 from a nineteen seventies movie which David from SAZ was 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.880 funded by the Russian government and then Waterlieu with Rod Steiger, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:37.200 Christopher Blummer and sixteen thousand Red Army extras. But I mean, look, 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.240 the message here is the same message we're hearing from JD. Ben's, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.000 is the same message we always hear from Trump, right, 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.160 which is I am an autocrat and I the laws 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.640 don't apply to me, which is, you know, none of 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.200 this should be surprising, but all of it should be galvanizing. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.040 It should be I desperately need the folks out there 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.760 to not normalize this in your head. I desperately need 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.440 people out there to really think this through what it means. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.640 This is intentionality on his part. This is clarity on 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.040 what he will do and will try to get away with. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:12.280 Napoleon inherited from the French Revolution an internal security mechanism 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.120 that would persecute, prosecute, or kill opponents. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.600 Right, But there's no way that Trump knows. 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.640 He knows that he defied convention, he defied law, he 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.680 defied order, he defied the constitutional for what it was 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.520 framework of how France was organized in or Trump knows 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.280 those things at an ansert visceral level. But Molly, it's 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.720 also an invitation to these assholes out there. Oh, if 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.000 you attack Trump's opponents, now you're doing it for the country, 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.240 so you're not breaking the law. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.679 There's a lot of wink wing, no, no, let's go, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.880 And that's always been true for Trump and iatarily worrying. Now. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.280 The problem on the other side is that Democrats are 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.040 having real trouble breaking through. Some of them are out there, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.040 some of them are trying, but it's not connecting for 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.280 whatever reason. So let's talk about what they could do 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.840 to break through. Let's not even trash then, let's just 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.600 get going on like solutions. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.080 Okay, here's a solution. Build an apatrol rapid response team 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.520 of actual rapid responders. It's not members of Congress. Okay, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.480 more about that right now. The average age of the 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.200 people on the Democratic rapid response team, a fucking kid, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.079 you not, is seventy seven years old. This is insane. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.040 You need a bunch of pipe swinging young people to 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.319 get out there and be on the rapid response front 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.960 every day, grinding out these messages, giving them to members 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:33.200 and saying, hey, in your district, Congressman Smith, here's how 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.400 many people are getting fucked by this tariff deal. Here's 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.600 how many people are getting hurt by firing some government jobs. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.160 Here's how many veterans don't get suicide prevention care. Now 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.800 they should be driving information into the hands of every 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.200 member of Congress, and Hakeem Jeffries should be there with 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.600 a baseball bat going to every member saying, have you 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.600 communicated to your district every single one of these facts. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.200 Are you pushing this out to your local media, to 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:03.240 local radio, to local newspapers, to local influencers. Are you 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.000 blasting your email list every day? Not just asking for 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.640 fundraising but telling people in your district, in your state, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.560 telling them, get on the phone to your Republican neighbor, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.000 get on the phone and spread this message. Here's how 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.920 you're being hurt. Here's how Trump is fucking you. Here's 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.480 how Trump is burning your community to the goddamn ground. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.200 That is a message out there. The rapid response faces 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.400 need to be the members of Congress, and they need 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.040 to be aggressive about it. The team needs to be 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:35.160 a bunch of pipe swinging, vicious, bloodthirsty motherfuckers who are 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.320 out there try to have the maximum pain on Republicans 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.800 in their districts and their states. They should be laying 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.160 in as much pain as they can. If Congressman Smith, 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.320 a Democrat, is next door to Congressman Jones, a Republican, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.640 in their districts, he should be in that guy's fucking 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.840 district saying you're getting screwed by this guy. You're getting 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.960 screwed by this guy. Trump is hurting you. He is 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:56.480 hurting you. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.560 But there's a ton to sort of work off of. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.840 For example, R. FK. Junior, you may have heard of him. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.880 Some of the people Trump has put in this cabinet. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.600 I don't even want to say they're crazy, because crazy 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.680 is probably the wrong word for whatever it is. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.760 Evil Molly, evils, the what are you're looking for? 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.480 Yeah? But RFK Junior, he has decided that he's going 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:27.600 to target one of America's greatest problems, which is antidepressant Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:32.560 because depressed people are obviously much better for the country. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.040 And I mean, this is the problem antidepressants, right. RFK 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:42.080 Junior is like an ad for Democrats right every single day. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.960 And the fact that Donald Trump put him in there, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.000 I guess because RFK got a lot of voters for 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:52.360 Trump is insane. And I think there's a real question 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.280 about why we are not talking about RFK Junior every 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:56.160 minute of every day. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.480 We ought to be talking about RFK Junior every minute 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.160 of every day. We ought to be targeting suburban mothers. Hey, Democrats, 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.360 here's a free one for you. Get an ad campaign 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.720 running right now into Republican districts for suburban mommies, and 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.320 you tell them over and over again, RFK wants your 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.720 daughter to get cervical cancer because he wants to ban 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.440 Gardisil because he's in a lawsuit. One of his law 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.360 firms is suing the manufacture of Gardazil, because that's what 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.360 they do, that's their business model. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:23.520 Is to sue. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.800 But I think you should be telling Republican women out 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.320 there in the country, they should be advertising because they're 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.600 still sitting and they and future four it is still 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.840 sitting on a giant mountain of money. They should be 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.000 advertising to these people saying, say goodbye to your daughter. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.280 She may not died today, but there's a chance she'll 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.480 die of cervical cancer. Preventable cancer, cancer that has a 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.400 safe and effective medicine that treats it, but no longer 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.200 because Robert F. Kennedy, Donald Trump's Health and Human Services secretary, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.240 is taking it away. Yes, I mean, it's not like 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.400 I do this in my sleep or anything, but but 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.160 I can't understand why they can't recognize you can't just 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:02.920 go out there and say and I saw this the 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.240 other day. It was like, what did Democrats do about 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.520 on this day? And one of the two of the 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.760 bullets were just like, we offered to continue to bring 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:15.119 up a resolution to reintroduce the Veterans Nice Puppies and 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.800 Kittens Act or whatever the fuck it was. It's just like, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:18.440 come on. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.200 No, I know, but they just need to be focused. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.040 And I think part of the problem is a lot 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.679 of these people are very elderly, so they remember a 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.399 time when there was a rich and robust mainstream media 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.720 that would highlight abuses. That mainstream media is gone, right, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.919 that does not have the world works anymore. The media 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.640 is of the New York Times and that is it. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.439 And so there is no one who is going to 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.639 draw attention to these abuses if they don't do it. 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.480 So if they ever want to win elections again, and 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.760 it's not even just about winning elections, you have constituents 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.159 in this country who are very angry as well, they 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.760 should be right people in the federal government. I mean 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.280 this weekend, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:04.760 he fired the people who watch the nukes for ten hours. Okay, 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.959 you need those people, you need those people, thank you. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.200 So in an area in which all the members of 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.920 our family have had some encounters with the National Nuclear 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:19.679 Surity Administration, I can tell you these people do something 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:24.160 really important. They are folks who provide security and oversight 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:25.720 for nuclear weapons. 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:29.240 Preventing a nuclear holocaust. Like you just can't get people 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:30.399 off the street to do that. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.000 And the purpose of nuclear weapons is to not use them, 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.399 ironically enough, but you do have to monitor them and 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.920 make them safe and keep them carefully locked away from 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.600 idiots and make sure that they're all accounted for at 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:45.199 all times. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.440 And yet, but the thing that gets me the most 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.960 sort of agitated about all of this, if you can 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.600 believe it, is like this is to pay for tax 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.160 cuts for very much people. This is not because there's 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:02.600 some huge financial crisis. This is not because there is 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.120 some budget shortfall that none of us saw coming. This 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.080 is because Donald Trump does not want the tax cuts 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.640 to expire. I mean, you know, and I think there's 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.959 like a real lack of understanding there, right, Like these 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.200 are tax cuts that should expire that you know, their 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.120 corporate tax cuts. No one wants a corporate fucking tax cut. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.040 Nobody wants that that's not for anyone but very rich 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.840 people and tax cuts for billionaires. Let these fucking tax 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:32.040 cuts expire. It is insane. I would also add that 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.199 I think that this rabbit hole that we're in, like 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.240 should be messaged as this is the richest man in 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:42.520 the entire world. He is interested in keeping his taxes low. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.320 He is cutting cancer research period paragraph. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.120 Yeah, and he gets upset when you mentioned that he's 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.919 cutting cancer research, which, by the way, guys, considering what 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:57.240 a sociopathic weirdo he is, when even Elon Musk gets 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.240 that imaging him with taking away kids cancer treatment is bad, 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.200 you know, it's really bad. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.960 But it's also you know, it's like the right thing 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.240 to be saying, right, because he has some sense of 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.600 what is going to hurt him, and that is something 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.879 that's gonna hurt him. But I want to like just 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.359 pull back for a minute and pause and think about 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.040 for a second sort of the unintended consequences we are 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.959 hurtling towards here. There was a headline in the New 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.879 York Post. Again, I do not, you know, Rupert Murdock 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.200 owned New York Post, that there was an abola scare. 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.240 I have a number of reasons not to believe this. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.480 Number one, it's the New York Post, number two, whatever. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.240 But the point is, like, there is a real pandemic. 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.240 There's there's bird flu already, it's in the milk of 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.639 the cows. So like, could be nukes, could be the economy, 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:46.159 it could be bird flu, could be weather. I mean, 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.160 there are so many things that could be terrorism. I mean, 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.360 there's so many possible terrible things that could happen when 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.879 you dismantle the federal government. And there's no reason to 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.359 do this except for tax cuts for very rich people 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.000 and ideological beliefs rich people. I mean, there is, as 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:03.800 I see it, no other reason. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:09.360 The reason for the tax cuts is exclusively so that Elon, 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:14.679 Peter Thiel, David Zas and a cluster of hedge fund 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:18.359 bros and crypto bros can get their income tax burden 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.840 down to essentially somewhere around zero. There is nothing built 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.280 into this tax cut. If you make under three hundred 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.840 and sixty some thousand dollars a year, you are going 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.360 to pay more in taxes. If your kids get college loans, 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.400 you're going to be taxed on those fucking college loans 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.040 and scholarships. I mean, none of this is going to 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.760 help anybody that is not in the eight zero's class 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.800 of Americans. It also puts the lie to all there, Oh, 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.640 we've got to go through the government and cut every 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.080 job out because we're in such deep debt. Okay, right now, 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.880 if you trimmed out every bit of what professionals think 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.040 about at the fraud and waste level, you trim out 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.080 a few billion dollars here in there. Okay, you trim 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.840 out three to five percent of the budget, call it waste. 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:07.000 They're asking for ten trillion dollars, four trillion dollars to 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:11.119 keep up the Trump's spending plans, and then that additional 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.320 load is going to go to pay for a tax 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.600