WEBVTT - Evan McMorris-Santoro & Ed Luce 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 --> 0:00:11.440 today's best minds. And the percentage of voters with significant 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.600 levels of confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.360 its lowest point since NBC began polling on this question 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.919 in two thousand. Just twenty two percent of respondents say 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.759 they have confidence in the Court. We have such a 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.000 great show for you today. Notice his own Evan mc morris. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:35.520 Santoro steps by to talk about the hopefully doomed Save Act. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.720 Then we'll talk to Financial Times and loose about what 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:45.320 the Iranian war means for Americans at home. But first 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:45.839 the news. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.320 So, Molly, big big news out of Marjorie Taylor Green's 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:53.080 district last night, an election where the Democrat got more votes, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.720 which everybody was told could never happen in that But 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.560 there's some people saying, if you give to this Democrat 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.880 for this frontoff, you're an idiot. We need this money 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.760 for the Senate races. I'm curious what you think, but 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.000 it really does feel like Dems can't stop winning. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.120 Yeah, So I was on my way home from something. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.959 I was like, let's check in at that special election 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.560 for Marjorie Taylor Green seat, which is like a ruby 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.479 red district. I mean, there's a reason that that is 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:23.200 the district that sent Marjorie Taylor Green to Congress. Right 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:28.240 Jewish space lasers qan one. You'll remember she used to 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.880 not be so refined. So I looked at it and 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:35.640 I thought the Democrat would be losing by less than 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.760 what the Democrats historically lose by in that district, and 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.399 in fact, the Democrat was winning. Now this advances to 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.600 a runoff because there are multiple candidates. It were multiple 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:50.080 Republican candidates, and that is how the Democrat got more votes. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.200 Do I think a Democrat will win Marjorie Taylor Green's seat, No, 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.160 I do not. But why this is relevant is because 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.160 this is a seat that Donald Trump endorsed to candidate. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:07.680 The candidate did not immediately win. That is important. That 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.720 is an important data point because it means that Donald 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:15.840 Trump is a president who has a cult of personality 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.920 around him. That means he can do things like do 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.120 things that are not what he ran for president on, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.639 if that makes sense. So he does things like he 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.440 goes to war when saying he's against wars, but his 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.160 cult of personality only works if there's a cult, and 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.080 the fact that he could not get this Republican in 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.800 a Ruby red district over the finish line means that 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.560 the cult is not as powerful as it's been previously, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.920 and that means that trump Ism is not as powerful 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.880 as it was, and that is a very good sign 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.800 for Democrats. So should you pour all your money into 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.320 a special election in a Ruby red district. I don't 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.119 think it's the best use of your cash. I think 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.000 you're better off giving money to Shared Brand in Ohio. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.880 I even think you're better off giving money to Marry Perota. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.680 I don't think this is the best use of your cash. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.440 But if you want to throw a little cash that way, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.840 you're certainly welcome to. It will go to a runoff, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.840 and the point again with these runoffs is that it 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.480 means that the Republicans have to spend more money. And 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:24.480 just like the Texas Senate primary runoff, which we talk 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.520 about later, these runoffs are good because they make Republicans 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:29.440 spend Yeah. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.400 And the list of how many times though Democrats, because 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.600 particularly last night, they flipped a district in New Hampshire, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.520 this list is just so impressive and really gives a 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.400 lot of hope. And I know we like to be 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.600 reminded since you and I can get a little down 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.280 at times, and we have to remember things are going 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:47.760 well when we hit the ballot box. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.000 Yeah, And I'm going to just read a few of 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:54.360 these numbers so people can see these special legislative flips. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.640 This is from interactive polls. So Texas's state District nine 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.960 was over performance by a Democrat by thirty two points. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.120 So if you think about that, if you think about 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.280 thirty two points would mean the entire map flips to Democrats. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.400 We had. Mississippi's House District twenty two was a D 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.000 plus eight, which means that Democrats overperformed by eight points. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.359 That's still is humongous. Now, will the midterms be like 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:26.200 special elections? It's possible, But it does mean that if 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.640 you could get showings like this, you could do You 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.120 could flip the House, you could flip this Senate. Will 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.200 we I don't want to say no, but I certainly 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.560 know that Donald Trump is pushing really hard for the 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.600 Save Act and there's only one reason for. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:43.000 That, yep. So we try to keep it domestic policy here, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.960 but I think it becomes very relevant to domestic policy 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.080 when we start talking about the cover ups at home 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.719 and Trump is pretending a tomahawk missile we sent didn't 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.640 hit a girls school that killed one hundred and seventy 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.000 five people. Molly, do you have any interest in hearing 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.520 how bad his defense of this was. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.680 Yeah, I actually heard his defense of this because I 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.800 watched the press conference. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:04.880 Well and I play for the listeners. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.920 Then, Yeah, you just suggested that Aron somehow got its 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.800 hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.480 on the first day of the war. But you're the 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.200 person in your government saying this. Even your Defense secretary 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.520 wouldn't say that when he was asked standing over your 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.919 shoulder on your plane on Saturday. Why are you the 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:21.880 only person saying this? 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.240 Because I just don't know enough about it. I think 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.320 it's something that I was told is under investigation. But 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:33.200 tomahawks are used by others, as you know, numerous other 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.680 nations have tomahawks they buy him from US. But I 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.400 will certainly whatever the report shows. I'm willing to live 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:41.200 with that report. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.880 Yeah, it's nice that he's willing to live with it, But. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.880 It turns out the report showed it that it's our fault. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.919 Yeah, And I think it was pretty clear that this 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.320 was going to come out being our fault because tomahawks 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:00.640 are our missiles and we were in a fight. The 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.440 other side didn't have them. And so when you saw 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.040 Pete head sth unable to defend, you know, their only 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.839 job is North Korean sycophants. And so the fact that 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.640 he couldn't defend it was really a moment to take 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.400 a pause and know that he probably knew, and probably 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.359 this weekend they knew that it was theirs, and Donald 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.480 Trump still kept going defending it. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:31.640 So Molly, I really love when Republicans just give up 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.159 on trying to defend Trump's ridiculous policies. I mean, he 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.360 does put them in a place I would personally not 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.640 like to be. But when Senator Roger Marshall says freedom 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.240 isn't free, about why you're about to pay double for gas, 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.440 it's just chef's kiss. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.679 Yeah, So this is the new message. The message last 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.800 week was we're not at war. Everything is fine this 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.440 week because gas is you know, teetering at one hundred 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.320 dollars of farrell. I think it went down, but it's 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.560 still quite expensive. Now they have to say something because 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.359 they've learned that the worst thing you can do is 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.160 be like nobody cares. Don't be a cock. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.720 That would make a great ladside BALI you should copyright 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:12.400 that immediately. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.080 But it's true. I mean, like, you know, we've seen 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.440 and look, this is a problem the Biden administration had 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.200 too write m h. Don't tell them the economy is good. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.440 If they can't afford eggs. They don't want to hear that. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.680 So this is this new Republican pivot. And the thing 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:30.559 they say now is short term pain for long term gain. Now, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.920 I want to point out, nobody knows why we are 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.440 in this war to begin with, so the gain would 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.200 be that what the gain would be more war in 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.560 the Middle East, killing a bunch of girls in a school. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.720 I mean, what's the gain here? Because I don't see 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.960 any gain right there in my mind. I understand that 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.160 Saudi Arabia and Israel both wanted America to go into this, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.600 but I see no gain anyway. The new thing short 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.520 term pain for long term gain, which means they know 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.600 it's going to be a summer of high gas prices. Luckily, 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:11.400 this administration has funded so much solar and wind just 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.720 kidding anyway, I don't know what to tell you. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.400 Oh yeah, even de incentivized electric cars. Great stuff. So, 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.640 speaking of defending the indefensible, the queen of it, Carolyn 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.920 Levitt had to admit today that the Save Act will 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.280 make it harder for married. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:27.720 Women to vote. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.240 Yeah, I mean, I'm shocked. I didn't know she was 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.560 allowed to admit things. But yes, she accidentally admitted what 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.079 opponents of the Act have long warned against. She's that 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.360 married women will need to update their identification documentation in 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.680 order to vote if the Save America Act passes Congress. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:51.200 According to White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt, look Levitt, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.120 one of the things I love about her is nothing. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.280 But I am impressed that she really does double down. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.240 You know, how dare you? Press? And Trump is the handsomest, youngest, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:07.880 most virile anyway, All of this Save Act is to 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.079 make it so that people can't vote, so that Donald 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.839 Trump doesn't get impeached, so that they don't lose the House. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.080 Because he knows that if Democrats retake the House, donald 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:21.000 Trump is getting impeached. Now will he get removed? Probably not. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.400 They probably don't have sixty votes to get rid of him. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.280 In the Senate. But his life is going to be 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:31.360 a trial after trial after trial after trial. You probably 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.080 will be that anyway, but you. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.720 Know, one trial after another. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:44.720 That's all right. We have exciting news over at our 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:49.480 YouTube channel. The third episode is out now from our 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:54.320 series Project twenty twenty nine, Reimagining, where we examine what 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.040 went wrong with democrats approach to policy and how we 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:03.319 can correct it and deliver changes for the American people. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:09.120 The first episodes dove into campaign finance, reform, anti trust 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:14.400 and regulation. Our newest episode is on how we solidify 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.640 reproductive rights for women. We talk to the smartest names 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.960 in the field like Abortion every Day is Jessica Valenti, 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:27.520 the Center for Reproductive Rights, Nancy Northam, UCLA, is oh 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:32.439 and Mary Ziegler, and the gout Macher Institute's Kelly Badden. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.480 Republicans were prepared for when they got the levers of power. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.880 Democrats need to be too. So please head over to 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.920 YouTube and search Molly John Fast Project twenty twenty nine 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.520 or go to the Fast Politics YouTube channel page and 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.720 you'll find it there. Help us spread the word. Evan 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:57.120 McMorris Santorro is a reporter at Notice. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.360 Evan Mallie, how are you. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.600 So great, so good? So Evan, we need to talk 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:11.119 about the Save Act. Donald Trump has decided that because 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.120 he cannot wait. I mean, basically this is he looked 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.400 at the polls and he was like, I'm gonna get 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.840 him paged again. He looked at his thirty five thirty 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.080 six favorability rating and was like, we gotta make it 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.760 harder to vote because otherwise we're all in a lot 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:27.280 of trouble. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.480 Discuss Well, I think that what's going on with this, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.360 right is he has a long term project heading into 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.800 these mid terms to really question the way elections work 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.920 in the country. I mean, you know, he has active 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:43.520 investigations going on in Georgia and Arizona, the places that 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.720 he lost in twenty twenty and then still sort of 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.640 carrying a torch for saying he got robbed from that 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.960 they're doing that. There have been calls from some folks 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.400 in his you know, in Maga world, that he should 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.959 declare an emergency so he can like take over elections. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.880 He's he talked about taking over elections and then. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:03.040 Say their business because he knows he can't win, right. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.720 I mean, he's not doing this because American elections, Like 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.800 a million different courts have said his own dej that 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:10.680 he did not win. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.240 Well, yeah, I mean that's right. I mean he didn't 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:13.640 win the election in twenty twenty. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.360 He lost the election in twenty twenty, and then the 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.680 thing is the best way to come back and that 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.760 is to win the following one, which he then did. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:22.840 So it's confusing as to why we're still talking about 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.400 twenty twenty. But I will say, look, I don't know. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.040 This is all about the majority in the House and 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.840 the Senate, which, like you know, it does look at risk. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.560 His poll numbers are very, very bad. It's not going 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.280 well for them. Yeah, but this really is a long 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.440 term Trump project has been undermining. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.040 The American elections. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.320 Yes, like since try beginning, I mean even before twenty sixteen. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.000 Right the lock up to that was a lot of 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.240 questions like are you going to accept the results, you know, 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:50.920 if they if they don't go your way? He's like, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.040 I don't know if I'm going to or not. Of 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.760 course he did go his way, then he of course 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.640 accepted them. But then when they didn't go his way, 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.040 he didn't accept them. January sixth, et cetera. This whole 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.880 thing is like of the whole piece. And what's fascinating 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.640 about it is that you have seen a lot of 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.360 Republicans get very upset about some of the stuff that 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:07.760 he was talking about. When he was out there talking 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:09.880 about Republicans should take over elections, and he listed to 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.760 several states those lessons that they should take over. Republicans 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.640 pushed back, They're like, well, well, you know, this is 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:16.800 a state sovereignty issue. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:17.400 We run them. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:18.800 We don't need to do this. We don't need the 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.280 federal government coming in there and telling us how to 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.120 run our elections. And on this issue of the Save Act, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:25.920 you know, the bill itself that does a lot of 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.440 things that you know sort of have are already the 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.080 law changes some other things, but the main thing is 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.559 the senators, the Republican senators are not letting him do this, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.880 do this bill. They don't want to blow up the 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.760 legislative filibuster, which senators really like. Literally, the only people 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.640 in America who like the filibuster are senators. It's one 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.080 of the strangest things in the world. Anybody you ever 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:51.000 go anywhere. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:51.280 Who likes it. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.880 But then today you saw the thing, you know, where 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.400 like John Fornyan running you know in that. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.600 Yeah, primary, So let's stop for a second and talk 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.040 about the Texas primary. So this is John thun who 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.520 is the new leader of the Senate. He is very 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:11.800 tall and tan and affable, and he is like great 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.280 a Senate guy, and he does not want to blow 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.880 up the filibuster because he knows that no matter how 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.440 much fuck up elections, eventually Democrats will in fact win 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:29.760 and then we will all have free breakfasts for children, 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.600 which everyone knows must be stopped. We cannot feed those 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.920 poor kids when that money could be better spent on 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:43.240 movies of Christy Nome riding horses and flying around in 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.520 her jet with a bedroom. So I want to talk 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.280 about you know, I'm right, You know I'm right that 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.560 money better spend. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.920 It isn't just about the next cooming election. I mean 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.200 I think that's true. Will you talk to senators from 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.680 both parties. They like this thing. This is this is 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.840 the think is a key component of what makes their 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.320 legislative body different other legislative bodies. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:09.600 And they're the very excited. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.600 There's always a vocal minority of people who want it gone. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:18.720 And now yes, and now now we run into the 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:25.680 Texas Republican Senate primary, which pits Ken Paxton, a man 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.240 who has been impeached but not removed just like Donald Trump, 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:34.600 and John Cornyn, a man who is slightly less nuts, 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:40.600 are running in a runoff for the primary, and so 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.280 both of them have now decided that the Save America 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.360 Act is the only way to suck up to Trump 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.200 to get the Trump endorsement, which you need, at least 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.240 theoretically to win this runoff. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.040 I have never seen an election about one person as 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.360 much as this one is. This is this is like 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.440 the movie with Kevin Cotun They made like swing voter 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:02.880 or whatever, and they off to go down there and 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.160 like campaign like what happened was Cornyn does surprisingly well 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.320 in the first in the first vote, come down on top, 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.560 you know, which is not supposed to happen. This sort 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.760 of shifts the winds that he's gonna get this endorsement 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.360 from Trump. Trump sort of previews saying I'm gonna endorse 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.760 somebody and then make the other person drop out. Pastons 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.520 of the brilliant idea of like, yeah, I'll drop out 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.520 if you if they pass the Save Act. And Trump 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.160 loves that, and so now the whole thing is reset 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.720 and I got Cordon, a longtime supporter of the Senate, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.600 a long time supporter of the Senate filibuster, and who 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.280 is kind of running as kind of like, look, I 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.280 like Trump, but I'm an independent guy, you know me. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.200 It's kind of what his whole thing. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.840 Is is that like I'm Baxton is like this weird 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.440 wild card who loves Trump so much and who knows 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.560 I'm like a normal Texan. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.520 I go my own way if I have to, guy uh, and. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.320 Now what he's doing this weird tick a fantic like 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.240 I do think we should blow up the filibuster and 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:03.640 that we should pass the Save Act. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.440 The problem is, there isn't that much time. There's twelve weeks. 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.920 It's a really long runoff, but that's not that long 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.760 in legislative calendar time. 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.199 So like it's pretty likely that the philibuster will not 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.320 be blown up nor the Save Act passed by the 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.600 end of this thing, but has put the race in 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.359 stasis effectively until something happens. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.680 It's it's like, because the whole thing about what Trump 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:27.040 going to do. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.840 I mean, meanwhile, there are like millions of Texans who 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.280 have to vote and make this decision, but like nobody 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:34.280 seems to be talking to. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:34.920 Them very much. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.320 Right now, they're only talking to Trump, which is an 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:38.720 interesting way to go about it. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.760 It is an insane story. I also want to add, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:46.000 my favorite part of this story is that in order 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.200 to pass the Save Act, what Donald Trump wants to 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.520 Save Act to say is not what the Save Act 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.520 says in the House. So the Save Act that they 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:59.800 passed from the House has vote by mail voting, which 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.720 Donald Trump wants to get rid of in his new 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.080 Save Act. Because part of this is that Donald Trump 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.600 is very incoherent, so he wants a lot of shit 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.800 taken out of there, which in itself is wild. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.159 I mean, the bill just simply as written right now 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.920 cannot pass. And that's sort of the way it is. 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:20.600 And this happens. I mean, I know we were going 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:20.960 to talk. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.399 About maybe go back to the House either. 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.080 Way, Yeah, it would have to go back to the House. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:25.840 I mean, this is the whole thing. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.199 This is an issue where the electorate in Texas is 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.720 very interested in keeping you know, the republic Actor wants 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:35.480 to keep this seat Republican. Some of them say they 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.040 can do it by having this Kent Action. There's a 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.520 real bomb thrower right wing guy. Something they got to 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.080 do it by having this sort of died in the 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:48.439 wall establishment John Corning guy. But you when you go 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:50.359 out there, if you talk to people who are running, 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:51.920 who are voting in that election, you know, I have 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:52.639 Friendsho been doing that. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.560 My colleagues have been doing that. They're not talking about 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.240 the Save Act. This is this is again another. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.080 Thing where we're spending all of this time talking about 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.840 something that is really legilate, the enterteric. It's very very important, 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.760 as I mentioned, with everything I have you do with elections. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.560 But in terms of an electoral strategy, you've got a 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.840 Democrat running around talking about affordability, Tallerico who just won 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.800 We're talking about afordability, bringing people together, bipartisan solutions, and 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.960 you've got a Republican primary that's frozen to see whether 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.320 or not this esoteric bill that has nothing to do 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.919 with prices will get passed in the Senate. It's a 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.359 very very strange circumstance, not what anybody who is like 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.840 a strategist in Texas would design, and I think it's 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:35.600 a tough one for them. 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.840 Yeah, thoughts, prayers, Okay, So let's talk about leadership on 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:46.520 the Democratic side. So right now, we have a House 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.880 that has a one vote majority for Republicans. Okay, one 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:56.280 Mike Johnson has lost his caucus. The women are so 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.120 mad they are talking. I mean your seat, Nancy May. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.440 These Maga women are furious, right, They're furious. You see 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:08.480 them furious. They say they're fearious. Marjorie Taylgreen laughed. I mean, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.280 it's just you know they are mad. Then you have 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:15.399 Thomas Massey also mad. Then you have Don Bacon people 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.119 who are retiring. You have such a huge group of 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:23.560 disaffected Republicans caucusing with Republicans being run by Mike Johnson. 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.560 So answer me this because I asked a member of 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.880 Congress this and she punted and wouldn't answer. But why 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:36.159 can't Hakeem get one of these people to either become 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.440 an independent and caucus with him. What can he offer? 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.919 Why can't he get somebody on board? Why can't he 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:43.119 flip the House right now? 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.639 Well, I will say that when you talk to Republicans 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.479 about being Republicans in this era of Trump being elected, 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.600 at probably this era of Trump, they have spoken about 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.520 physical safety, like they get worried that if they get 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.320 put on blast by Trump, do a certain enough they 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.280 become persona on Grada enough that it could really put 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.120 their at them at actual physical risk. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:04.720 This is the thing that they have talked about. 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.760 Yeah, you know, so I don't really know like the 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.040 mechanics of doing something like that. I think it's a 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.359 thing of like would that get you you know, you'd 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.800 have to request that, like they had they tried to 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.480 re elect you. You know, the Democrats right now are like, 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:19.560 we're just gonna keep steam rolling ahead. Everything's working for us, 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.480 and we're just gonna take this thing and when when 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.160 we can. But like that kind of maneuvering, we are 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.639 in that kind of weird type Yeah, yeah, slat a 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.920 place where strange things can happen. But really where it's 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:34.040 come down on mostly at this point has been on Johnson. 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.919 And we had reporting and notice this morning about the 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:40.640 House retreat that was supposed to be a legislative strategy 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.439 session planning for the you know, the full year ahead, 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.600 and really none of the moderates attended this thing. Uh 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:48.920 and even with none of the moderates there, they still 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.800 couldn't agree on anything to do. So they're a really 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.160 tough spot. And that's sort of where this is all fallen. 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:54.720 Down on right now? 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:56.760 Is that it's like I think democrats are started sitting 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:58.480 back and letting enjoying the show for the moment. 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.000 You know, we'll change, but let's pause for a minute, 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:07.240 because should they be like you and I, okay, whatever, 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.800 we know how it works. But like, let's just say 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:14.520 right now, thirty percent of Democrats are being primaries. There 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.080 is a kind of rage in the base. If you 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:21.800 talk to normal people, they are so mad at Jeffries, 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:27.399 they are so mad at Schumer. They do not feel 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.560 that leadership is doing for them what they want. Now, 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.320 you and I know there are certain things leadership is 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:37.879 doing that is really good, right, getting Mary Parota and 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.040 Alaska to run for Senate, like Chuck Schumer has a 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:46.440 mass some wins and hakeem too, right the Ebstein files release. 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:48.920 There have been certain things, but like if you look 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:51.840 at if you just talk to Democrats on the street, 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:56.520 they are furious. So are Democrats rolling along and doing 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:58.760 the right thing or do you think they should be 0:22:58.840 --> 0:22:59.359 doing more? 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.720 Well, it's truly not what I think. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.040 I do think there's a thing of what you're hitting 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:09.040 on is very very important, which is that we are 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:12.359 in a situation where things feel very much the same. 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:15.240 I know, you know we're having a war right now. 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.760 You have some lawmakers, right you have guys like Chris 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:20.960 Murphy and stuff who are thinking already for president and 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:24.440 thinking about tapping in to this Democratic rage. They're saying, 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:26.920 this war needs to end. Cut it off, cut off 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:29.400 the funding, end it, end it now, just like, get 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.040 out of this thing. We shouldn't be in the first place. 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:31.399 End it. 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:33.679 And you've got other people in. 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:36.679 The Democratic Caucus and they're sort of falling over themselves 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:38.840 in very different ways. You know, we did a lot 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:41.480 of reporting about this idea of maybe Trump might ask 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:43.600 for supplemental budget for this build that he did not 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.840 ask Congress Ford to do in the first place, and 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.560 it becomes to ask for this money they're a Democratic trip. 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:51.240 But maybe we do it, I don't know, maybe maybe 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:54.040 at the sitt of CEE, maybe it's possible that we 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:57.040 would do it. The public is sort of it's very 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:00.000 much against this war. Yes, the public is very much 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.840 against a lot of this stuff that's going on. And 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:07.200 the Democratic leadership is the same leadership that disappointed a 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:09.240 lot of them during the shutdown time. 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:09.720 Right. 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:12.040 Yeah, that now that's book backed on is now like, 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:13.199 oh that which is kind of big. You know, we 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:14.959 did pretty well there, We kind of won some stuff. 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:18.800 This DHS shutdown has been very successful in terms of 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:20.800 party unity and sort of getting the party on one 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:22.480 page about an issue that was tough for them. 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:23.000 Immigration. 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:26.840 But it is true that these things are happening, and 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:30.119 the you know what you hear from folks is that 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:34.080 the leadership sort of sounds the same. They're very careful 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:37.359 around talking about this conflict, and you know, those of us. 0:24:37.280 --> 0:24:40.440 Who remember the Iraq War, it sounds a lot like that. 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:42.000 It sounds a lot like, well, we don't want to 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:43.719 I don't want to be in the wrong side of this. 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:46.520 And just in case somehow this breaks out in like 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:50.399 democracy emerging in Iran, it's our new best friend, it 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:51.600 all works out great, we don't want to be on 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:54.960 the wrong side of that. This is a delicate area. 0:24:55.080 --> 0:24:58.359 But I'm not sure that they have at all figured 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:02.440 out how to deal with their angry base. I mean, 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:05.560 you look in Maine, for example, where Democrats are still 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:09.080 hammering tongs against this guy cram Plattner, who polls show 0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:13.040 is like crushing their chosen candidate, Janet Mills they have 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:15.920 not figured out how to harness that and calm that down. 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:18.000 I think that because we're in a moment now where 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:21.080 in a two party system, dependulum, the screening away from 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:24.679 the party in power. It feels good, but we got 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:28.040 a lot of primaries to go, and they need voter 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:33.760 enthusiasm and this ske problem of what do you do 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:36.960 with these base voters who are really really upset. 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:38.840 They have not figured that out, that's clear. 0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:44.000 Yeah, you know, behind the scenes, there are all these 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:47.399 house races that are flipp the ball. There are all 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:52.159 of these Senate races that are pretty heavy left. But 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:56.240 if we're if we see the kind of kind of 0:25:56.680 --> 0:25:58.960 blue wave that we've seen in the specials, which we 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:02.520 may not right because specials tend to be even more 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:06.760 exaggerated though who knows. I mean, there is a real 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:14.919 scenario where leadership can't necessarily tamp down the anti incumbent sentiment. Right. 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:18.239 Well, the question is should they I mean, should they 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:19.240 tamp be on anti numbers? 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:21.960 So they should do, but they might, but they will 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:22.640 want to. 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:25.040 Yeah, I think I think they do want to. 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:28.119 I think I think I think it's a natural tendency 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:32.359 in in Washington and in politics to sort of, you know, 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:34.320 do that go. You know, it's it's a safe thing. 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:35.840 We all saw it was Biden, right, that was the 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:38.560 Biden thing. He's president already. This is a great idea. 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:41.600 Let's stick with the guy who's president already. Politics is 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:43.480 moving in a very different direction and things are moving 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:46.239 around very very quickly. You think about these districts that 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:49.439 have been redrawn. Many of these incumbents are running with 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:51.240 all new with many new voters they have. 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:52.040 Never had before. 0:26:52.480 --> 0:26:54.760 So they're making a case as incumbents to some of 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:58.639 these voters. That's that's a tough one. But really it 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:01.320 is a thing that you know, when these moments come 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:05.280 along like we're dealing with now, where you look at 0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:08.240 the polling about something like, for example, public support for Israel, 0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:12.520 right our partner in this war in Iran, both sides 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:15.119 of the Aisle have seen that support for that country 0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:18.560 shift in big ways, especially in certain demographics. Younger demographics, 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:21.679 for example, has shifted away from supporting that country in 0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:23.440 the way that we've supported it in the past as 0:27:23.440 --> 0:27:25.439 an American, you know, as a country. 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:28.320 And those voters where are they going to go? 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:30.640 Do they totally know where they're going to go right now, 0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:32.760 I don't know how angry are they're going to be. 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:33.719 What are they going to do? 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:36.719 No parties really sort of reaching out to them at 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:38.440 this moment or trying to sort of deal with them 0:27:38.480 --> 0:27:41.399 and talk to them that much. And this is a 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.200 real it's it is a real wildcard for the midterms. 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:46.240 But it's also a wildcard for the Democratic Party going 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:48.000 forward because you know what can happen is they they 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:51.160 could win in twenty twenty six and they could immediately 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:55.119 face plant when they're in power. They need to build something. 0:27:55.200 --> 0:27:57.960 This is this is a party that had its reputation 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:01.840 and its brand absolutely trashed in twenty twenty four. 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:03.479 They need to rebuild it. 0:28:04.119 --> 0:28:07.359 And I have not talked to a lot of strategists 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:11.000 and folks involved who feel like they have rebuilt it. 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:14.880 They think that they're getting some chances to right. 0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:16.399 I mean, you know the way that they won in 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:18.919 New Jersey, way they won in Virginia in twenty twenty five, 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:20.760 those are good wins for them. They say that they 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:25.440 can rebuild, but overall I haven't seen them stamp down 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:27.439 this anger among their own supporters. 0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:33.159 Yeah, and we shall say, right, Evan, will you come. 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:36.040 Back anytime, of course. I love coming to this show. 0:28:36.119 --> 0:28:38.960 It's the best show so far, Y's the best. 0:28:40.440 --> 0:28:44.400 Ed Loos is the Financial Times chief US commentator and 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:47.000 the author of Za Big, The Life of the Big 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:53.760 New Brazinski, America's great, powerful profit edless. Welcome to fast politics. 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:55.360 Such a pleasure to be with you. Money. 0:28:55.800 --> 0:29:02.360 So the war expenditures. Donald Trump's DoD, which is actually 0:29:02.360 --> 0:29:06.400 now the Department of War, is at war multiple different countries. 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:11.760 But there are also a war with fiscal conservatism discuss. 0:29:11.600 --> 0:29:14.720 Yeah, well, the war with fiscal conservatism is the war 0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:16.280 that the DoD will win. 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:18.560 The war where they run is one. 0:29:18.600 --> 0:29:21.920 I'm afraid it doesn't look like winning a strategic victory. 0:29:22.040 --> 0:29:24.160 The money, it's about a billion dollars a day. If 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:26.880 it ends after a couple of weeks, might be manageable, 0:29:26.920 --> 0:29:31.320 although you know, the cost of quotation marks place following 0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:35.160 unilateral declaration of victory or some kind of off ramp 0:29:35.200 --> 0:29:38.840 that Trump fashions for himself that wouldn't be cost free either, 0:29:38.920 --> 0:29:41.760 because Iran has a vote on whether the war ends, 0:29:41.800 --> 0:29:44.800 and it's got every incentive to keep the strait of 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:48.880 Hormus closed in order to give Trump a price signal 0:29:48.920 --> 0:29:50.880 there that the cost of war is too high, do 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:53.760 not go back to war with US. And so those 0:29:53.800 --> 0:29:56.440 fifty thousand troops who are in the Middle East, those 0:29:56.760 --> 0:30:01.400 three aircraft carriers, when the USS Georgia hw Bush arrives, 0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:04.920 it'll make three the couple of hundred of jets. I mean, 0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:08.400 this all costs hundreds of billions a day. So that 0:30:08.880 --> 0:30:11.880 costs not going to go away even if Trump declares peace. 0:30:12.200 --> 0:30:15.880 Let's talk about what's going on here, because we have 0:30:16.280 --> 0:30:21.080 Trump in a war that has really spiraled out of control. Though, 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:24.320 I think if he had just read a few articles 0:30:24.800 --> 0:30:27.640 about the possible danger like the Straits of her Mouth. 0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:30.600 That's something I've been hearing about, right, twenty percent of 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:34.680 all oil and gas in the world goes through the straits. 0:30:35.240 --> 0:30:39.640 It seemed like an easy way for the Iranians to 0:30:39.720 --> 0:30:44.160 really make trouble and make life very expensive for everyone 0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:47.600 they are fighting, Like I feel like like the Ukrainians 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:50.880 just to stay alive, right, I mean, are there parallels there? 0:30:51.120 --> 0:30:52.400 Yeah, They're backit to the wall. 0:30:52.440 --> 0:30:54.920 I mean, this is a regime that if it didn't 0:30:54.920 --> 0:30:58.080 get struck by the remnants of it struck by Israel, 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:02.280 and I'm sure the new Ayatollah Mujtaba, you know, is 0:31:02.800 --> 0:31:06.040 taking every single possible precaution. But if they didn't get 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:08.760 struck by Israel, they'll be sort of consumed by their 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:11.320 own people. They've just killed tens of thousands off them, 0:31:11.360 --> 0:31:15.720 so their mindset is existential. And if Iran knows how 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:17.960 to do one thing, it's to mess with the Strait 0:31:18.000 --> 0:31:21.840 of Hormuz. This is the world's number one energy choke point, 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:25.000 number one, and it is within range of the Red 0:31:25.080 --> 0:31:27.640 Sea and the Sewers Canal, which are up there in 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:30.040 the top five as well. The idea that Trump didn't 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:33.040 foresee this or couldn't have foreseen this, Rather, he didn't 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:35.840 foresee this, but the idea that he couldn't have is 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:39.960 manifestly absurd. I mean Iran, it takes the rumors of 0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:43.720 Somali pirates to give the frights to these tankers and 0:31:43.800 --> 0:31:47.360 to the insurance companies or an RPG from Yemen. 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:48.080 From the huties. 0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:52.040 This, you know, is a waterway that is accustomed to 0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:56.000 suddenly closing off. And Trump now has handed Iran this 0:31:56.360 --> 0:32:00.360 magic weapon. It doesn't need ballistic missiles for this, doesn't 0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:04.320 need enriched uranium, just needs some drones and then. 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:07.520 There's this question of whether or not there are military 0:32:07.800 --> 0:32:11.800 escorts that are escorting ships. Yesterday there was a tweet 0:32:12.000 --> 0:32:14.360 that said it was and then it was taken down. 0:32:14.640 --> 0:32:16.000 What do you think was going on there? 0:32:16.200 --> 0:32:19.440 I cannot imagine why the Energy Secretary Chris Wright would 0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:24.240 tweet out something so market sensitive without having confirmed whether 0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:25.080 it was true or not. 0:32:25.160 --> 0:32:26.840 But it turns out it wasn't true. 0:32:26.920 --> 0:32:29.840 Now, I think everybody who works for Trump is always 0:32:29.920 --> 0:32:33.200 looking out for ways of confirming that he makes great decisions. 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:35.720 And Trump had announced a few days earlier that we'll 0:32:35.760 --> 0:32:37.719 solve the strait of one moves. Well, we'll back up 0:32:37.720 --> 0:32:42.200 the insurers, we'll send US naval patrols and that'll fix it. 0:32:42.280 --> 0:32:45.400 And it turns out A they just don't have the 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:48.800 intensity of ships in the region to do that. B 0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:52.960 Under US law, you can only provide convoy protection to 0:32:53.240 --> 0:32:57.200 American ships, and see, you know, the insurers you cannot 0:32:57.240 --> 0:33:01.480 with American taxpayers money under right global and so he's 0:33:01.480 --> 0:33:03.360 not going to be able to do this. But Chris 0:33:03.360 --> 0:33:05.760 Wright was clearly on the lookout for affirmation it was 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:08.520 still a brilliant, you know, decision by Trump, which it 0:33:08.640 --> 0:33:11.880 wasn't And the old prices sawed ten dollars, and then 0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:15.080 when the White House said it actually there had been 0:33:15.120 --> 0:33:18.400 no US naval escort through the Strait, then it regained 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:22.960 ten dollars in that gyration, in that wild move, Iran 0:33:23.040 --> 0:33:24.560 has all the knowledge it needs. 0:33:24.880 --> 0:33:28.680 I wonder if you could talk about Donald Trump's relationship 0:33:29.080 --> 0:33:32.680 with Putin, because he talked to Putin, and Putin sort 0:33:32.680 --> 0:33:35.520 of gave him an off ramp. Explain what the hell 0:33:35.600 --> 0:33:36.680 is going on here? Please? 0:33:37.040 --> 0:33:41.240 So, yeah, he had an hour's conversation with Putin which 0:33:41.280 --> 0:33:43.400 he didn't The White House didn't issue a statement or 0:33:43.440 --> 0:33:46.000 summary of we know this because the Kremlin issued a 0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:46.960 summary of it. 0:33:47.000 --> 0:33:52.480 Is that normal, by the way, for the Kremlin to do. 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:55.440 That, No, the normal thing is for everybody to do it, 0:33:55.680 --> 0:34:00.480 and usually some coordination. But that was a very interesting timing, 0:34:00.800 --> 0:34:03.960 that one out call, because it was in between Trump 0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:07.360 indicating in a telephone interview to a CBS reporter that 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:09.960 the war was pretty much won and done, and then 0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:14.520 a speech that he gave to the Republican Caucus down 0:34:14.560 --> 0:34:18.640 in Florida in which he said well, and then followed 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:21.880 by a press conferences, said well, yeah, we're almost achieved 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:24.399 all our aims, but we're not going to end yet. 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:26.680 And then he was asked by a reporter very sort 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:29.600 of clear question. Hegsas says, we're only at the beginning. 0:34:29.640 --> 0:34:32.600 You say we're almost done. Which is it? And Trump says, well, 0:34:32.600 --> 0:34:35.239 it could be both. That doesn't clear anything up, but 0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:37.839 it shows I think put In. The Putin call had 0:34:37.880 --> 0:34:41.920 an impact on his mindset. And Putin has been providing 0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:44.759 the Russia have been providing around with target They've been 0:34:44.760 --> 0:34:49.960 providing them with satellite imagery to help Iran target American assets. 0:34:50.239 --> 0:34:52.040 He made no public I don't know what he said 0:34:52.080 --> 0:34:53.759 on the phone to put him, but he made no 0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:57.800 public complaint about that. He has been complaining though about allies, 0:34:58.000 --> 0:34:59.240 including Britain. 0:34:59.239 --> 0:34:59.960 Day in and day out. 0:35:00.239 --> 0:35:02.920 Early a day goes by where he doesn't complain about 0:35:02.920 --> 0:35:05.480 Britain not being fully on board with this war. 0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:07.400 What do you think Putin said to him on the 0:35:07.400 --> 0:35:09.399 phone during that hour long call. 0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.600 It's an I mean remember an hour is really half 0:35:12.600 --> 0:35:17.120 an hour because you need thirty minutes for the interpreters. Nevertheless, 0:35:16.520 --> 0:35:21.360 it remains, with all of Trump's engagements with Putin, including 0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:25.680 this latest one, a mystery that he almost never calls 0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:30.040 Putin out even when he is actively helping the adversary, 0:35:30.080 --> 0:35:33.399 the enemy, to target American troops in a war that 0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:37.280 you know, Russia is not formally engaged in. Wit Cooff, 0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:40.400 Steve Witcoff, Trump's or, one of Trump's envoys, said that 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:42.799 he had been assured by Putin because he spoke to 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:48.239 Putin that Putin wasn't targeting American assets. And he said, 0:35:48.280 --> 0:35:50.239 I have no reason not to believe him. I mean, 0:35:50.360 --> 0:35:52.600 I've never heard such a naive statement in my life. 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:56.719 I mean, Putin is the world's most accomplished purveyor of disinformation. 0:35:56.920 --> 0:35:59.799 There's really nobody who quite masters the Russian art form 0:35:59.800 --> 0:36:03.400 there of which he is maestro. He's a KGB officer. 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:06.600 The idea that Wickkoff would have no reason to disbelieve 0:36:06.600 --> 0:36:09.000 what he was telling him is stunning to me. 0:36:09.200 --> 0:36:12.040 We're twelve days into this war, so like about twelve 0:36:12.080 --> 0:36:16.600 billion dollars into it to replace Ayatola Kahmani with Iatola Kameni, 0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:20.160 the younger, angrier version of the father who has many 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:22.759 more years to live. And like, what's coming out more 0:36:22.760 --> 0:36:26.600 and more is that this war was maybe caused because 0:36:26.960 --> 0:36:30.480 Wikoff and Kushner thought it was a good idea. Maybe 0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:34.680 because the Israelis rolled them, maybe because the Satis rolled them. 0:36:34.920 --> 0:36:37.680 Do you think these people should be making our foreign 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:38.719 policy decisions. 0:36:39.000 --> 0:36:41.560 Yeah, no, I do not. 0:36:42.040 --> 0:36:46.480 And bear in mind that Trump quoted Jared Kushner as 0:36:46.520 --> 0:36:49.879 having told him that what Jared Kushner took back from 0:36:49.920 --> 0:36:54.080 the final talks with Iran in Geneva was that Iram 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:57.320 was about to make an imminent attack, and no evidence 0:36:57.360 --> 0:37:00.960 has been provided at this attack. It is dispute by 0:37:01.000 --> 0:37:04.880 the Foreign Minister of Oman, who was mediating these talks 0:37:05.080 --> 0:37:08.080 and who flew to Washington the day before took the 0:37:08.120 --> 0:37:11.960 war to convey the Iranian offer on uranium, and Richmond 0:37:12.040 --> 0:37:14.480 to the White House because he did not trust Witkof 0:37:14.560 --> 0:37:18.160 or Kushner to convey that the implication being this war 0:37:18.280 --> 0:37:19.799 was already predetermined and the. 0:37:19.800 --> 0:37:21.400 Talks were just theater. 0:37:21.920 --> 0:37:26.640 The State Department has made severe cuts to its nuclear expertise, 0:37:26.800 --> 0:37:29.160 as has other parts of the federal government, some of 0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:32.000 this deliberately, some of this to do with DOJE, but 0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:36.360 even with the reduced expertise were critically important for national 0:37:36.400 --> 0:37:39.880 security at a time like this. Even with that reduced expertise, 0:37:39.880 --> 0:37:43.960 Wikoff and Kushner chose not to bring one nuclear expert 0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:46.600 with them to the talks, not a single one. Now, 0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:49.919 it is very hard even for people who are you know, 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:53.920 really up to date with the physics of nuclear weapons 0:37:53.920 --> 0:37:57.800 making a uranium and Richmond and the whole cycle, even 0:37:57.840 --> 0:38:02.080 for IAA inspectors to keep up with everything, because this 0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:07.000 is very complex and very technical and extremely oriented to detail. 0:38:07.080 --> 0:38:10.080 Kushner and Wikoff do not have the grasp of the detail, 0:38:10.200 --> 0:38:14.520 and even accomplished the most accomplished diplomats in America's modern 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:17.520 history have not gone into nuclear talks of any kind, 0:38:17.840 --> 0:38:21.480 or weapons talks anything within the ballpark without a whole 0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:25.560 raft of experts accompanying them. They went in essentially naked 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:29.720 to the negotiating chamber and came out with this completely 0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:33.719 phony imminent attack line that it's hard to believe the 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:36.080 Amanis or anybody else would want to mediate. 0:38:36.160 --> 0:38:37.239 Ever again, I was. 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:39.760 On Morning Joe this morning, and Joe had this really 0:38:40.000 --> 0:38:44.719 good point about how when Bush I and Bush two 0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:48.440 both went to war, they went and put together a 0:38:48.480 --> 0:38:52.279 consortium of countries, and even if you pushed even a 0:38:52.320 --> 0:38:57.200 bit further like bush on, there was an imminent issue 0:38:57.640 --> 0:39:01.200 in Kuwait and then Bush two was after nine to eleven, 0:39:01.280 --> 0:39:05.120 so it was not just like they were foreign adventuring, right, 0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:08.480 there was something else going on. And this is really 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:12.000 a radical, radical change. 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:14.959 It says, I would sort of separate Gulf War one 0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:17.719 from Gulf War two, and people recording this one Gulf 0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:21.120 War three. So yeah, I think Bushenia went to the 0:39:21.200 --> 0:39:25.000 United Nations, got an international coalition to enforce the law, 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:28.080 which was that you cannot seize another country. You can't 0:39:28.120 --> 0:39:32.000 just radically change borders by force. And he conformed to 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:35.879 a fault to that UN mandate, which is to get 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:38.920 Iraq out of Q eight. I'd say Bush two was 0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:41.200 a little bit more adventurous. This was more of a 0:39:41.239 --> 0:39:44.400 war of choice. I think what differentiates Trump from that 0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:47.360 is that Bush two still tried to get the United 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:50.600 Nations behind He failed, but he still went through the 0:39:50.640 --> 0:39:51.600 effort of doing that. 0:39:51.760 --> 0:39:53.279 He did have some allies with him. 0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:55.680 The Coalition of the Willing, you know, included countries out 0:39:55.680 --> 0:40:00.000 Britain and Australia and Poland that provided considerable ballast. Trump 0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:03.840 didn't attempt to get any legal permission, either from the 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:06.440 United Nations or from Congress, or even from his own 0:40:06.440 --> 0:40:07.320 Department of Justice. 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:08.400 He didn't even pretend. 0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:12.480 He didn't marshal public opinion, he didn't prepare public opinion. 0:40:13.040 --> 0:40:17.040 He didn't even build up America's strategic petroleum reserves a 0:40:17.160 --> 0:40:20.839 basic sort of precautionary measure. This is a war of wim, 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:22.320 not a war of choice. 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:25.400 Yeah, I think that's a really good point. It's a 0:40:25.400 --> 0:40:29.080 war of whim, not a war of choice. So talk 0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:33.840 me through what happens next, because there are some off ramps. 0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:36.800 There's some feeling that Donald Trump will get bored with this. 0:40:37.560 --> 0:40:41.520 We do have this Cubad situation which is wild. What 0:40:41.560 --> 0:40:43.799 do you think is sort of the map looks like 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:44.560 at this moment? 0:40:44.840 --> 0:40:48.520 I mean, so really in any sort of changing sentiment 0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:52.080 on that question that you've just asked, Molly sends markets 0:40:52.200 --> 0:40:55.000 wildly in one direction or the other. I mean, everybody 0:40:55.080 --> 0:40:58.120 wants to know what is the end? How does this end? 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:00.480 This around war? Because you know, as as we were 0:41:00.480 --> 0:41:02.120 saying at the beginning, you can take a couple of 0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:05.120 weeks some damage, but if this goes on for months, 0:41:05.200 --> 0:41:07.800 who you're looking at a global recession. So the difference 0:41:07.840 --> 0:41:10.399 between the two is enormous. And therefore people that have 0:41:10.520 --> 0:41:12.719 to know how this ends. What's the off ramp. And 0:41:12.760 --> 0:41:15.480 the problem here is that, you know, Israel has been 0:41:15.880 --> 0:41:18.520 This is the fourth Israeli war with Iran in two years. 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:21.680 The first two Israel was alone, the second to the 0:41:21.760 --> 0:41:24.280 United States has led them the twelve Day war last summer, 0:41:24.680 --> 0:41:27.520 and then this one, and there's about eight months between them. 0:41:27.560 --> 0:41:30.080 Iran has not won another war eight months from now, 0:41:30.360 --> 0:41:32.840 unlike last time, all the previous ones, it has no 0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:35.680 incentive to agree to a cease fire because this time 0:41:35.800 --> 0:41:38.800 feels regime changes on the line, and it's been given 0:41:38.880 --> 0:41:41.959 this weapon. It's been handed this tool by Trump, which 0:41:41.960 --> 0:41:45.960 it can see Trump responds to instantly at is oil prices, 0:41:46.080 --> 0:41:48.080 and when they went one hundred and twenty dollars at 0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:51.240 the end of last weekend, the next day, Trump's talking about, 0:41:51.280 --> 0:41:53.520 you know, ending the war and that it's all over 0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:55.840 and it's a success, and the oil price is dropped 0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:58.400 down again. They know exactly what the tool is to 0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:02.959 shape Trump's behavior. They have every incentive to make Trump 0:42:03.040 --> 0:42:07.160 pay for this well beyond he's declared unnatural victory. And 0:42:07.280 --> 0:42:11.080 so market's trying to guess, or investors trying to guess, 0:42:11.280 --> 0:42:14.280 or people who'se you know, family are deployed to the Gulf. 0:42:14.320 --> 0:42:17.640 Trying to guess when this ends from Iran's point of view, 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:20.400 that's the big question and it's very hard to answer. 0:42:20.440 --> 0:42:21.400 And meanwhile, as. 0:42:21.360 --> 0:42:24.839 You said, Molly, he's talking about Cuba and he's saying, well, 0:42:24.880 --> 0:42:28.160 maybe we'll maybe we'll occupy Cuba, maybe we won't. Again 0:42:28.239 --> 0:42:30.520 this sort of you know, maybe we're at peace, maybe 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:32.759 we're at war. Maybe it's at the beginning, maybe it's 0:42:32.760 --> 0:42:37.239 at the end. He has no ability to focus and 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:41.480 there's clearly no strategic plan there, so we're stuck with 0:42:41.920 --> 0:42:45.400 reacting wildly like sort of you know, manic depressive to 0:42:45.480 --> 0:42:46.440 everything that he says. 0:42:46.719 --> 0:42:49.040 I think it's worth pointing out too, is we're in 0:42:49.080 --> 0:42:53.000 the middle of a conflict, but we no longer take refugees, 0:42:53.040 --> 0:42:56.719 and if anything, we have refugees in our country who 0:42:56.800 --> 0:43:01.240 we are trying to revoke their refugee staff. So usually 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:06.680 when a country like America, which is theoretically at least 0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:10.240 trying to sort of sell itself as a soft power, 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:13.719 you know, up until pretty recently, Donald Trump was sending 0:43:14.200 --> 0:43:16.320 refugees to the Middle East. 0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:19.800 Yeah, I've got friends that you do sort of outside 0:43:19.800 --> 0:43:22.680 of America, all over the place, countries I've lived in, 0:43:22.719 --> 0:43:25.480 like India, the Philippines, and then friends you know from 0:43:25.480 --> 0:43:27.840 countries I haven't lived in, but people in what we 0:43:28.080 --> 0:43:31.040 might call the global self. It's a rather annoying phrase, 0:43:31.120 --> 0:43:34.240 but the majority of the world, and they watch Pete 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:39.360 Hegseth delight in language like lethality and kill the pleasure 0:43:39.400 --> 0:43:42.400 he takes in it. They see Trump talking about his 0:43:42.520 --> 0:43:46.040 power of life and death, something he clearly values. They 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:48.839 know he had other options here and that war ought 0:43:48.840 --> 0:43:51.640 to be the last option, after all the others have failed, 0:43:51.840 --> 0:43:53.400 but the talks hadn't failed. 0:43:53.640 --> 0:43:56.160 They know this. They see the videos the White House 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:57.000 puts out. 0:43:57.200 --> 0:44:01.759 Mashing up scenes of you know, miss strikes on Iranian 0:44:02.000 --> 0:44:05.240 missile sites or whatever it might be, or electricity grid 0:44:05.560 --> 0:44:10.000 and interspliced with flips from action movies. Is if this 0:44:10.160 --> 0:44:12.799 is sort of some kind of teenage video game that's 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:15.719 going on. The global South watches this. I cannot put 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:19.200 a measure on the damage this does to American soft power. 0:44:19.320 --> 0:44:21.160 It is reckless. It is a. 0:44:21.400 --> 0:44:25.319 Vandalism of America's standing in the world, and it's very 0:44:25.360 --> 0:44:27.560 hard to put a price on it. Long after the 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:31.560 oil prices are stabilized. Whenever that is, these images cannot 0:44:31.560 --> 0:44:33.360 be unseen ed loose. 0:44:33.560 --> 0:44:36.960 Thank you, thank you, go to the airport, goodbye, goodbye. 0:44:36.960 --> 0:44:39.799 Thanks so much money, and I'm sorry to stand so 0:44:39.960 --> 0:44:40.920 to prising. 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:44.000 Now I think that's just what we call accurate. 0:44:48.880 --> 0:44:53.600 Jesse Cannon, Mali Jung Fast. The DHS is trying to 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:58.080 seize a massive government database with Americans info. We know 0:44:58.200 --> 0:45:00.399 how bad this goes, yet it keeps going. 0:45:00.680 --> 0:45:04.600 Well. Remember DHS as most recently having spent two hundred 0:45:04.600 --> 0:45:08.880 and twenty million dollars for Christynome to ride horses and 0:45:09.040 --> 0:45:12.760 do videos of herself. Now she's out and Mark Wayne 0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:16.640 Mullen is going to replace her. Look, they will do 0:45:16.719 --> 0:45:21.320 anything anything they can, and this is one of those things. 0:45:21.400 --> 0:45:25.200 The Department of Homeland Security wants to access the Federal 0:45:25.520 --> 0:45:30.360 Parent Locator Service, which is considered to be the government's largest, 0:45:30.360 --> 0:45:34.480 most detailed database. This is really good reporting from Pro Publica. 0:45:34.680 --> 0:45:38.239 And it's a people finder for the US government. Why 0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:40.560 do you think they want a people finder for the 0:45:40.680 --> 0:45:42.680 US government? You want to guess it. 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:44.640 Does it have something to do with the porting people? 0:45:45.000 --> 0:45:47.160 It might, or it might have something to do with 0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:49.640 trying to knock people off the voter rolls, or it 0:45:49.760 --> 0:45:53.000 might have something to do with trying to hunt the 0:45:53.000 --> 0:45:55.760 president's enemies. I mean, there are a lot of choices here, 0:45:56.120 --> 0:45:59.239 but none of them are trying to help people. None 0:45:59.239 --> 0:46:01.840 of them are trying to give poor kids free breakfast. 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:06.040 They're all things that are nefarious and things that our 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:07.600 federal government should not be doing. 0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:07.920 Well. 0:46:07.920 --> 0:46:10.160 You know, when you get poor kids free breakfast, you 0:46:10.200 --> 0:46:13.600 just get people driving by your house yelling really stupid words. 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:18.440 Yes, that's right, like the Ursler. That's it for this 0:46:18.600 --> 0:46:25.000 episode of Fast Politics. Tune in every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 0:46:25.160 --> 0:46:29.080 and Saturday to hear the best minds and politics make 0:46:29.239 --> 0:46:33.239 sense of all this chaos. If you enjoy this podcast, 0:46:33.600 --> 0:46:37.000 please send it to a friend and keep the conversation going. 0:46:37.480 --> 0:46:38.600 Thanks for listening.