WEBVTT - Sam Seder & Ryan Mac 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 --> 0:00:11.360 today's best minds. And on Monday night, Donald Trump shared 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.720 over one hundred and fifty brain rot posts on truth 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.600 social We have such a great show for you today, 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:22.279 The Majority Report Sam Cedar stops by to talk about 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.840 Donald Trump's North Korean style press conference. Then we'll talk 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.520 to The New York Times his own Ryan Mack about 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.800 David Sachs and his double dealing in the Trump white House. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:33.840 But first the news. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:39.479 My the Republicans are in disarray. Elise Stefanic, whose aspirations 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.239 are very large, about as large as her mouth when 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.800 she's saying really racist and as long as public things. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.919 I was very very mad at the speaker today. How 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:48.720 are you feeling about this? 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.519 It's been a tough road for at least Stephonic and 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:56.120 I don't hate it. You'll remember that last week Democratic 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.760 Mayor elect Zori and mom Donnie went to the White 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.440 House and Donald Trump threw a last Dephonic right under 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.280 the bus, saying that she had called him a geh 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.720 hottist because that's what you do in a campaign, and 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.639 not because she's legitimately racist, which I guess is better. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.440 I don't know anyway, at least demonic. She's posting through it, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.039 and she's posting through it against the Speaker of the House, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.480 Mike Johnson, a lawyer who is known best for holding 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.200 the phone when Donald Trump doesn't tell a rally. I 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.520 don't know what's going to happen here. Look, he's got 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:35.920 a very small majority. He is trying to do everything 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.399 he can to keep control of the House. You know, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:43.120 you really see how having Donald Trump pick leadership and 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.440 just picking the people who will suck up to him 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.960 the best is really not working out so great. And 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.040 so here we have it. Chip Roy argued that Congress 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:59.000 should fully intervene a wide swath of issues in college athletics. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.880 Maybe we should fix the mess. I mean, again, these 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.240 guys can't fucking do anything, so why are they going 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.000 to get involved with college sports? It doesn't even make 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.440 any sense. It's just very, very stupid. I think that 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.600 we're going to see a lot more of these kind 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.639 of problems that are you don't even think that can 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.960 go wrong when you have someone like Nancy Pelosi in 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.440 the job, and now we have Stephonic blaming Johnson for 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.960 delaying and ultimately killing her nomination to keep the House 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.200 GOP majority from further dwindling. You'll remember Marjorie Taylor Green 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.880 is resigning in January. They're just in every point different 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.560 sort of stupid things happening here that have gotten us here, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.520 and Stephonic has more bills she wants to pass. On Monday, 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:51.200 Stefanic accuse Johnson of getting rolled by Democrats after Jamie 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.880 Raskin succeeded in stripping this provision she wants. I mean, 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.400 this is just like little backbiting in fighting, but it 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.720 wouldn't be coming out on Twitter were these guys not 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.000 in real trouble keeping the majority trying to pass stuff, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.560 and I, for one love to see it. By the way, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.920 this is Johnson said to a journalist. I don't know 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.200 why at least won't just call me. I do. I 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.800 texted her last night and said I would help figure 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.200 out what happened. Again, Stavonik, being you know, the ultimate 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.400 Trumpian move, she quickly shot back, posting on X just 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.600 more lies from the speaker. This is his preferred tactic 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.400 to tell members when he gets caught torpedoing The Republican agenda. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:41.720 I mean, just wild way to behave and pretty unusual. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.880 It's trump Ism has got to Congress. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.520 Yep. So this is a really interesting one. Costco is 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.280 suing the Trump administration for a full refund of the 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:55.240 tariffs incurred at their stores, which is quite a hefty 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.600 penny considering how much inventory Costco moves. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.880 Yeah, this is pretty nuts. There are a couple of 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.400 other companies that have lined up for refunds that are 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:10.400 suing the Trump administration. Trump unilaterally put together these tariffs. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.080 He did it as an emergency order, whatever that means. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.880 The Supreme Court may say he has no right to 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:22.359 do any of this. That is very possible, slash likely. Yeah, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.520 this is such a good example of how these private 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.200 companies can in fact push back. They just have so 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.200 far chosen not to. And here we have a really 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:38.479 good example of a private company that is a huge retailer. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.840 And you know, we're still waiting. There's going to be 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.200 a Supreme Court decision on this emergency powers law and 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.080 we'll see, and you know, it may be that this 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.560 gets repealed, that he has to pay back all the tariffs. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.840 The problem with having a president who does lots of 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.680 illegal stuff is that you really don't know what's going 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.800 to get ruled illegal by this court, and that's where 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.200 Costco finds itself. But it's good to see that they're 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.760 doing this, and probably this is the only way to 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:08.400 push back. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.320 Yeah, and it's interesting too because Costco is one of 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.120 the most different business models when it comes to employees, 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.840 is that they pay their employees much better than their 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.520 competitors at a bit of very lefty organization, as lefty 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.480 as corporations get. So this is a very interesting way 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.000 of fighting back against trump Ism. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.880 Yeah, and look, it's probably the best way to do it. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.719 Agreed. So another interesting move that could really really change 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.919 our politics. One hundred former wallmakers have called on the 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.200 House to band stock trading by members of Congress. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.599 Don't get my hopes up. I love those dock trading bans. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.000 That's like my favorite. You know, we were talking about 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.920 it earlier, Like I love a stock trading ban. So 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:53.240 let's hope it happens again. It's wildly popular. There's no 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.120 reason not to do it. It's called the Restore Trust 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.000 in Congress Act. I have a lot of trouble imagining 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.159 that Republicans will passet, but you know, the former lawmakers 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.039 to sign the letter. By the way, Tom Dashell, did 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:12.360 gepart Olivia Snow, Fred Upton, sixty Democrats, twenty eight Republicans, 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.560 two independents. Yeah, and look at the polling on it 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:20.400 is wildly popular. There had been some machinations to pass 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.799 something like this, and Donald Trump had said he wanted 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.560 to cut out for the president. I mean, we have 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.200 a president and executive branch that is doing corrupt things 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.719 at a scale we've probably never seen before. Makes Tibat 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.839 Dome look like Lincoln. So I do think it makes 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.240 sense that you would want to have broad, sweeping reforms. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.320 But I also think that you're going to have a 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.040 lot of trouble passing that in Trump world right now 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.279 because for obvious reasons. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:53.960 So the entire chain of command under Pete's hexas Department 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.480 of Work could be held liable for the boat strikes. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.760 I think this is pretty interesting. It seemed like in 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.520 that press conference to a whiskey, Pete was trying to 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.760 put on a smiley face as much as he could, 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.640 but really wasn't giving a good acting job. To me. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.720 Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Donald Trump hates firing 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.320 people at least in two point zero. He hates firing people. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.760 I must say, very ironic for the year fire. Yess. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.600 Yeah, he does seem to not want to fire. Hegseet 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.680 though ultimately, sooner or later, this whole thing is going to, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.800 you know, killing the fishermen. You know, there's only so 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.800 many Laura Lumer Pedagon press conferences. There's only so many 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.360 times you could have Matt Gates in there asking fake 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:41.640 questions and pizza Jack. I'm talking about that incredible, incredible 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.840 Pentagon press conference today where they called on an entire 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.600 media made up of MAGA to tell them how great 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.480 they are. But I think eventually the bill will come 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.640 due on this, and it's hard for me to imagine 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:01.920 that it's not going to end pretty terrible. Sam Cedar 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.880 is the host of The Majority Report. Sam Cedar, Molly 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.040 John Fast Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.480 I just figured out what fast politics meant. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:14.320 What does it mean? 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:19.520 It's your last name? Yes, I had not put that together. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.560 I was like, why fast politics? And then I realized, like, oh, okay, 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:25.400 oh got it. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.920 When I start my own school of political theory, it'll 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.560 be called FasTIS Oh? 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:31.120 I like that? 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.800 Yes, just like Trump's razor is that the stupidest explanation 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.440 is always the right one. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.600 It's also the easiest one for him to reach for. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:46.040 So I actually believe that his North Korean style cabinet 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.600 meetings where every member of the cabinet goes around and 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:55.000 praises him are appalling, hilarious and also actually quite smart, 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:56.480 and the Democrats should do them. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:01.199 I mean, it creates the mess of He's it's sort 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.319 of like, you know, what it does is it reprises 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:09.160 his role in The Apprentice, where everybody goes around and 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.920 sort of placates him and looks like they're supplicating themselves 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.160 to him. And in The Apprentice, to be fair, he 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.160 never fell asleep, and this time around he did on 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:21.199 multiple occasions. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.480 You know, I was reading this book. It's a very 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:30.160 smart book of political profiles by someone whose name I 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.640 will not mention because they are a serial fabulous and 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.200 I do not want to give them any attention. But 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.560 the writing is very, very good, and that's why I 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:42.240 was reading it. And what I found so interesting about 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.319 it is that it talked about Donald Trump as a 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:50.160 seventy year old, and it made me remember that we 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.200 have been doing this for an entire decade. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:58.280 Oh, I mean sort of more when it comes to Trump. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.760 But I mean, yes, we've been doing for a decade. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.240 It is exhausting. But you know, we had a problem 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.520 with politics before and we were just saying, you know, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.240 before the show, like people forget that Mitt Romney made 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.520 a big, big production of coming to New York to 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:18.280 kiss Donald Trump's ring and get his permission in his impromatur. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.680 I mean then that was in twenty twelve, and so 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.199 you know, Donald Trump was one of the intellectual pillars 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.200 of the Republican Party. All of the birth certificate stuff, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.360 the brother stuff was he was the main tent pole 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.720 for that, and people forget John Bayner wouldn't push back 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.760 against it. This is well, you know what this is. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.400 This is a Republicanism that has been around, I would 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.600 argue for close to two decades plus. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.280 And you know, if you want to go down that 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.680 rabbit hole of the America First Movement, I mean you 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:54.080 can you can parse it back Pat Nickson, Pat Buchan, Yeah, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.559 I mean, but even Nixon, I mean even you can 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.000 go further and further back. I mean, you have Republicans 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:05.320 supporting horrible dictators for you know, the. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.040 Last Democrats, Democrats too. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.959 I mean, look, you're talking to someone who's the granddaughter 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.600 of the last living recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.160 So people make mistakes. That's all I'm saying. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.600 It's true, people make mistakes. But also I mean I think, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.280 like you know, the we've had when it comes to 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.839 foreign policy and being supportive of dictators, that has been 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:33.400 largely a bipartisan project in many respects. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:40.240 But it stops today with Pete haig Seth bombing fishermen 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:41.600 in the Caribbean. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.760 See here's what I find stunning about this story. This 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.440 has been going on since September second, and we have 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.800 heard virtually nothing, and now you know the issue is 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.120 and I sort of, I mean, I sort of understand 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.040 this dynamic. I don't want to be sort of Pollyannish 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.200 about this, but the idea that it's only occurring to 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.680 people now that this is a crime, like I don't 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.959 even know if it's a war crime. People want to 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:10.080 argue it's a war crime because once you attack vessel 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.360 or the enemy, and if they're in a boat, and 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.920 if there's any chance of them surviving, you're not supposed 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.720 to double tap. But we're not at war with these people. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.000 We don't even know who they are, so it's not 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.840 a war crime. It's a crime crime that is being 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.720 committed on top of a crime. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:32.280 I laugh, to keep from crime, and. 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.800 With alute no substantiation as to who they are, no 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.000 authority even if they are who they say, who the 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.480 administration says they are, and there's no reason to believe that. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.800 I mean, we were told they were going into that 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.360 building in Chicago with the Blackhawk helicopters and they were 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:52.600 basically putting Latino people in one moving truck and black 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.400 people in another moving truck because that whole place was 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.160 full of trend to Agua and there was none. And 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.320 so there's only for us to believe them about this. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.520 But even if we were to believe that they were 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.760 trend to Agua in these boats that were incidentally both 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.120 on the Pacific and the Caribbean, there's no authority to 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:14.240 you laterally bomb these people. Yet we haven't heard a 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.400 word about it, and now it's just coming out as like, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.280 you know, because there are some Republicans who decide that 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.480 they see this as an opportunity to get rid of 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.680 HEG Sith, and of course heg sys is throwing his 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.040 uh you know, is admiral under the bus. This is 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.240 like three months overdue in my estimation. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:34.520 Yeah, oh yeah. And also I mean they very likely 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.480 are fishermen too. I mean there's there's the illegality of 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.560 the war, which is maybe not a war because it 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.640 has in Congress hasn't said it's a war. And then 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:46.760 there's also just the fact that they're probably not even 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.400 those people anyway, right. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.559 I mean, but who would you who would you declare 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.640 war against boats? Like well, honestly, like like these are 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.720 fish to not that there has any been any reporting 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.560 on who they are, right, there's a lot of evidence 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.520 that it was just uh, fisherman. But the United States 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:08.079 is going to go to war with a gang. I mean, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.000 now there's no like, there's no authorization for this. It's absurd. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.040 You know what I think though, is the most interesting 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.240 part of this is that in Trump one point, oh, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.200 we always see Trump is like a master of sequels, right, 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.720 he cares a lot about So in Trump one point, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.080 h he had this idea that he was going to 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.360 go to war with Mexico, remember that, And he wasn't 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.080 going to go to war with Mexico. He's going to 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.960 go to war with the cartels in Mexico. So I 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.360 think this is a continuation of that. But it makes 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:41.880 me wonder about the government in Mexico and how they 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:46.200 managed to distract Trump with a new government, because like, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.320 do you remember all throughout one point, oh, he was 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.360 like going to go to war with Mexico, And now 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.600 Mexico has a woman president sort of she's kind of 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.200 a cutout, but and she's sort of pretty, and now 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:00.680 he's not going to go to war with Mexican. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.880 I think it's frankly, it's because I think they have 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.680 stopped immigrants from traversing through Mexico. This is my guest, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.120 and I I've seen some reporting of about this, but 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.479 not much that they've you know, essentially shut their borders 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:20.280 to uh, Central America, at least for people, you know, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.600 for immigrants attempting to get to the US. And so 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:28.080 I think he's happy with the amount of immigrants that 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.280 are not coming into the border. And I think there's 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.040 also like a I don't know who's driving this compulsion, 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.720 if it's Rubio or what, but there's a serious compulsion 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:44.080 within his administration to overthrow a Maduro in Venezuela. And 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.720 I think there's probably you know, two projects, you know, 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.920 only one project at a time in that region that 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.280 he wants to pursue. I mean, that's why there, that's 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.480 why he's bombing these boats. It has nothing to do 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:58.360 with with drugs. And not even ten percent of drugs 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.280 that enter into the United States are coming from Venezuela. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:02.400 I mean, there's just. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.680 Now that's just coming from China. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:09.360 It's a complete pretense. And when he brought Juan Guido 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:14.400 to Congress, I can't remember what year it was, Guido 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.880 got a standing ovation for both sides of the aisle 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.960 and he clearly he was not the president of Venezuela 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.520 and he's never has been since. So you know, Trump, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.280 I think has they want Venezuela and oil, and that's 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.120 what I think a lot of this is all about. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:32.760 At the end of the day, I think he says 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.040 as much, almost. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:38.480 Let's talk about the Congress because Mike Johnson, I am 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:43.840 really enjoying this, the misery that is Mike Johnson's life 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.920 right now. He had he's fighting with a least aphonic 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:53.040 on Twitter. He has got this special election in Tennessee. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.440 It's in R plus twenty two, it's happening. So when 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.040 people listen to this tomorrow, they will be they will 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.640 know if it Democrats probably will overperform. How much we 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.120 don't know enough to make Donald Trump tweet about it 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.400 and call in on the phone. And it just seems 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.880 to me, you know, he has a four or five 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:17.520 seat majority, he has all these specials coming up, he 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.280 still has another year before the midterms. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.919 I think this race is going to have a lot 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:31.480 more relevance as a special election than most because putting 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.119 aside the first order issue of like this would flip 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.520 another seat, and he has a dwindling majority in the 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.280 in the House, and put aside you know, the sort 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.080 of like the tea leaves that people read from a 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.639 special election, it's a you know, it's a Trump plus 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.920 twenty two district. You know, you account for some Democrats 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:52.680 are going to be more motivated in a special election 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.760 than Republicans. But that's also case on the on the midterm. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.840 But I'm convinced that if ban gets in there, like 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.200 within like let's say four or five points, or wins 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.440 for that matter. But if she gets within four or 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.879 five points, I think you're gonna see another two or 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.600 three resignations or retirements, I should say, maybe even a 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:18.280 resignation of House members, because if she's gonna overperform by 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.080 seventeen points, again Trump, this with with with all the 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.359 deployment of all the money, all the Trump I mean, 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.760 most Congress people are not gonna get that much attention 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:35.480 in their midterm races, and from the national Party and 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.479 from Donald Trump. You've got a lot of people who 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.159 are gonna be like, I don't want to spend the 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:43.560 next year fundraising or running against somebody in the primary 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.520 who's gonna be a pain, then running in the general election. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.280 And even if I win, which means I have to 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.879 overperform what I did in the twenty twenty four election 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:57.160 by ten fifteen points, I'm gonna be in the minority. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.919 And so I think there's gonna be if this is 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.320 even remotely close, I think they we're going to see 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:04.520 more resignations. 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.600 Frankly, yeah, And I mean we already saw Marjorie Taylor 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.000 Green is out in January, which is like a huge 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.520 fuck you when you have such a small majority, and 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.280 then you have members of Congress using discharge petitions. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:18.960 Yep. 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:24.000 And so let's talk about Jeffries has actually put together 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:29.399 a discharge petition. I'm not sure about the Obamacare premiums, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.960 trying to sort of get that together. I mean, it 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:37.400 seems unlikely that goes. But Republicans don't have some other 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:39.480 healthcare idea. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.879 No, and you have you know, some Republicans like you 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:47.200 know Lawler, and you know, like New York Republicans, probably 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.600 some California Republicans to the extent that they're going to 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.640 exist as exist the redistricting. 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.560 Who darryl Isa, darryl. 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.960 Isa suppose're gonna run in Texas. You know, it's possible 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.520 you get a couple of Republicans to sign on to 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.959 something like that because they know they're going to get destroyed, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.520 you know, as these healthcare premiums go through the roof. 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.640 I mean, it's going to be really debilitating for millions 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.000 of people. But it also speaks to, I think, in 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:22.640 many respects, the failure of parts of the Affordable Care 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:24.840 part of the Affordable Care Act, right, it was the 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:29.879 Patient Patient Protection Affordable Care Act is what the official 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.080 name was. And the patient protection's pretty good. You know, 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.280 you have, health insurance is a better product now than 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:42.200 it was in twenty thirteen. But the affordable part. No, 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:47.119 not so much, and hopefully slowly the Democrats will get 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.760 to the point where they realize, like, we need to 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.680 have a fundamental shift in the way that we pay 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.320 for health insurance in this country, and that it'll be 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.760 a single payer system. It's just more efficient. 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.960 Yeah, I'm wondering if you think that, like there's any 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.880 way in which like Trump clearly sees this coming. Members 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.560 of the House understand, I mean, people see you know 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.640 that we so Trump said We're gonna like, let's extend 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.119 the premiums and basically let's do what Democrats wanted. That 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.240 was last week's drama, and then members of the House 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.639 were like, fuck, no, we're not doing that. But the 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:30.080 but it is, if you wanted to not get completely 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.040 creamed in the midterms, that would be really the only 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:35.120 way to do it. Right. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.760 Well, I mean, I think the problem is is that 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:42.320 you have so many of the Republican lawmakers who are 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:47.640 in such polarized and safe Republican seats. You know, we forget, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.440 this entire movement was built, you know, at least part 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:55.520 of it on voting to repeal Obamacare, and the idea 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.359 for them to like do a full one eighty one. 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.359 I think it opens them up to primary challenges in 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:06.399 their districts. And two it I think it you know, 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:10.920 opens them up to charges of being you know, rhinos 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.800 and the margins are so thin. I think it's wrong 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.119 these days to look at at least the Republican Party 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.359 and frankly on some level of the Democratic Party, to 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:28.400 look at them as the first lens being their party 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.439 affiliation on things like this, because I don't think there 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.800 is a if they wanted to do something. I think 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:38.200 it's a bunch of individuals who are making the assessment 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:41.760 as to what helps them in their district first, and 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.720 what their brand is, and you know, what their relationship 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:48.639 with their voters are. So I think it's hard to 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:51.479 you know, assess like if the Republicans were smart, they 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:53.280 would have done that. If the Republicans were smart, they 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:55.600 would have done this, they would have just brought it 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:59.080 to open up the government. But you know, in those things, 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:02.920 they don't function as a hive mind. They all, all 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.480