WEBVTT - Chuck’s Commentary - The Shutdown Has Become A Choice + Trump’s Showdown In Chicago 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.080 Okay, campers, rise and shine and don't forget your booties 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.280 because it's cool out there today. Yes, I cliched it up. 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:15.200 I'm starting with a groundhog Day reference. I don't yet 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.840 have the finances to pay for I've got you, babe 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.319 or that, of course, so just have that in the 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:23.639 back of your head as you hear that. But we 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.040 are on groundhog Day with the shutdown. I certainly have 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.320 other topics I want to get to, but here we 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.640 are with the shutdown, and look, I will fall on 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.239 my nostrodama sword. I really did think we were going 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.519 to be done after a week. I think we should 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.120 be done with this by now. I think the Democrats 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.760 have accomplished what they wanted to accomplish out of it politically. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:45.400 Now. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.440 They don't have an agreement yet to extend these subsidies 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.960 for the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, whatever you want 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.600 to refer to it as. But it's pretty clear that 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.279 they've gotten the issue more front and center. They've got 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.600 more Republicans talking about it, They've got the President of 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.160 the United States concerned about it, they got the Vice president. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.760 It is if they want. As I've said in previous episodes, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.679 this week. If they want to declare victory, they could 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.840 and say they got what they wanted to get out 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.080 of this. And if the Republicans back off their agreement 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.680 to try to hammer out a deal on Obamacare, well 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.800 this continuing resolution is only for another six weeks, so 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:27.240 they have another leverage point. And I would say this, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.240 I mean, look, there's no evidence that this is going 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.000 to end this weekend. I you know, so I was 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.320 wrong about that, but we're we're going to be missing 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.360 a paycheck. The first paycheck missing happens at the beginning 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:45.680 of next week. We've got already impacts on the traveling 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:51.480 public right now. You know, I didn't have any problems 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:56.520 going from lax to Washington Dulles after visiting USC. But 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.840 I promise you, if you're traveling, whether it's Nashville, Indianapolis, 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:06.600 Des Moines, Albuquerque, any slightly smaller market than some of 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.240 the large ones, you know, it doesn't take too many 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.040 air traffic controllers in that region to suddenly call in 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.079 sick to where you're grounding all flights. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:19.680 Right. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.679 It had a huge impact in Nashville a couple of 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.440 days ago. This is in the LA area. Burbank essentially 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.320 had to go to a ground stop for a few 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.600 hours the other day. So this is only going to grow, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.720 This is only going to get worse. And this is 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:38.799 where the more the public is personally impacted by these things, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:43.280 the more they're going to be upset at all parties involved, 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.360 and they may no longer be as focused on the 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.720 issue that I do think Democrats have successfully gotten into 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:55.919 the pushed into the into the zeitgeist here a little bit. Look, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.480 it's hard for any issue to break through in the 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:02.680 Trump era for any given period of time, but this 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.400 issue of health care certainly has the attention of the 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.000 Republicans on this. So now it's a game of chicken 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.239 and the longer, frankly, if I look on the Democratic side, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.880 the longer they hold out what I say yesterday, then 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.919 this really isn't about health care. This is about something else. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.000 And frankly, it is about something else, right. It is 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.720 about the fact that Donald Trump is not respecting the Constitution, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.440 he's not respecting the appropriations process, he's not respecting the 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.880 legislative branch. But the Democrats have a problem. They're not 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.320 in charge of the legislative branch right now. It's the 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:40.640 Republicans who are allowing the executive branch to steamroll them 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.080 because they're the ones in charge, and it's an issue 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.880 that's hard to get the public to rally around. They're 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.440 going to rally around things and impact their lives. Yes, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.280 what's happening with the misuse of appropriations and the sort 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.160 of the aggressive nature of what O and B has 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.560 tried to do is impactful on people's lives, but it's 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.720 much harder for them to see it. You know, it's 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:07.240 it's healthcare hits their bottom line. That this is premiums 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.920 doubling that that is, that is the cost to live issue, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.640 which of course has arguably been what's been hanging over 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.040 our politics since we got out of the COVID shutdown. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.520 And I think in some ways, the healthcare the rising 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.240 healthcare premiums would only feed into the cost of to 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.400 live issues that the tariffs and some of the other 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:37.400 policies that President Trump has pursued has done. I mean, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.760 we are, as I said before, we have this. We 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:44.400 have this weird economy that will statistically look good for 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.000 those that have money, but it is completely impossible to 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.279 catch up or get ahead, or if you don't already 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.640 have a little bit of savings earning, you know, getting 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.560 taking advantage of the supercharged markets that we have right now, 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:07.560 fueled by all of this artificial intelligence investment. So we 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.400 are in a situation where either party can end the 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.160 shutdown right now. Democrats could declare victory, provide the eight votes, 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.000 open the government up, and have six weeks to hold 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.240 them accountable again if they don't come to the table. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.640 And of course Republicans could open the government right now themselves. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.760 They don't need a single Democratic vote. They'd have to 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.719 get rid of the filibuster, but they could do it 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.200 on a party line vote anytime they wanted to. So 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.640 we are in the This is a choice aspect of 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.240 the shutdown. This is truly a choice. And I just 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.800 would warn Democrats on this one. You've had some success 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.359 here getting this issue more front and center in the 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:49.480 public's mind, but by the way, your negatives are rising 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:55.440 as a political party over the polling that matriculated out 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.320 this past week one on two in that risks potentially 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.960 at some point, the more Americans have their lives disrupted, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:07.719 the more they're likely to then sour on everybody and 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.320 then whatever slight even issue advantage of just getting the 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.960 healthcare issue into the ether disappears, and then it becomes, well, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.520 what did you gain for all that adjuta with the shutdown? 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.640 So you know, there's a point of diminishing returns here. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.800 At what point does Team Blue see that? We shall 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.320 find out. But again, before I get to a few 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.960 other issues I want to get to, Republicans could just 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.880 do it on their own if they chose to. They're 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.640 also apparently don't mind, and that that gets sort of 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.680 what I said yesterday my groundhog Day response here, which 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.520 is I think the base of both parties think they're winning, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:46.880 and so when you think you're winning, you don't want 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:47.200 to stop. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.640 The problem is is how big? 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.680 You know, first of all, your feedback loop is unfortunately 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.720 very small. You know, where's everybody else? How big is 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.960 the every everybody else pile there? And I think that's, uh, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:09.760 that's an open question. But look, the the other issue 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.120 that's sort of front and center for a lot of 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.560 people is what's happening in Chicago. Uh, and this sort 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:19.320 of showdown between the Trump administration and the governor of 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:24.400 Illinois and the mayor of Chicago. This is you know 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.480 this it it is a few updates. Obviously you had 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.840 the President escalating his war of words with the mayor 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:36.760 and the governor, calling on the Democratic leaders to be impeached, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:42.120 actually be imprisoned for failing to protect ice officers. Trump 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.880 wrote on his truth social post, Chicago mayor should be 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.640 in jail for failing to protect ice officers. Governor Pritzker also, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.679 I don't think anybody's saying that they're not protecting ice 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.040 officers here. But of course this is this sort of 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.480 the the the the pretext that it appears the Trump 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:06.400 administration's trying to create in order to force this situation. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.280 I have to say, the most bizarre aspect of all 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.559 this is the is what the state of Texas agreed 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.600 to do? You know, It's one thing, Look, the President 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.120 has the authority to federalize the National Guard in Illinois, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.840 so he did it, but to use Texas troops to 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:27.360 essentially invade Illinois, right, And I don't you know, I know, 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.640 it can come across that everybody's getting very dramatic here 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.160 about some of these things, but nobody seems to remember 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.480 the golden rule in life or in politics. Right, do 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.240 unto others as you want done unto you. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.640 And I asked the governor of Texas. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.080 How would you feel if a Democratic president decided to 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:54.360 send a governor of Illinois decided to offer up National 0:08:54.440 --> 0:09:05.000 Guard troops to occupy a city in Texas, right without 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:11.320 the governor's essentially acquiescence. I think I know where Texans 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:16.000 would stand on this. And that's the point here. Nobody 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:20.280 seems to be thinking about, Oh is you know what 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.520 happens if the roles are reversed? Right, And this has 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.640 certainly been a virus. It's in our politics these days 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.760 where nobody thinks of the of the reactionary consequence to anything. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.559 We don't treat people the way we want to be treated. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.559 In some ways, we're treating people the way we we 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.320 think how poorly we're being treated. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:39.960 Right. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.520 Part of that is internet brain, right. I think there's 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.160 way too many people right now in high level leadership 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.640 positions on the left and the right who are live 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.440 online and don't live in the real world. And so 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.800 I do think this is why there's a disconnect between 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.839 those that are extraordinarily alarmed by what's happening and the 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:05.199 those that are like, here we go again with things now, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:11.000 I would say, you know, the courts are are playing 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.160 a role here and are providing. You know, the Constitution 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.640 hasn't been shredded yet, okay, and I think that should 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.520 be seen as a positive and not something that is 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.520 that is it is me being naive on this front. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.800 We had a federal judge in Chicago on Wednesday extending 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:38.400 a nationwide consent decree that requires ice to better document 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:43.000 and report probable cause for their immigration arrests, and they 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.680 have found this judge found that the agency repeatedly has 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.720 violated the twenty twenty two agreement by making warrantless arrests, 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:55.880 both before and during what they called Operation Midway Blitz. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.560 The judge also took particular issue with the practice by 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:04.720 ice A here, according to the Chicago Tribune, of carrying 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.680 blank warrant forms known as I two hundred's with them 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:13.040 on missions and essentially filling them out at the scene. Right, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.599 they cannot prove that where they're going that there was 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.160 a there was a criminal intent by the person that 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:24.120 they believe is in this country illegally, so they're basically, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.720 you know, getting there and then coming up filling out 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.600 the form to try to to try to sort of 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:35.640 come up with a legal pretext after the fact. And 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.480 the judges rightfully, I think, lecture them about this and 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:44.320 I can't imagine this one that this part of the 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.520 ruling somehow gets over overturned or overruled by. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:49.440 A higher court. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.720 We'll see on that front. But I think more importantly 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.280 it's what is the public see and what are they thinking? 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:55.520 Right? 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.200 If you live online, right, if you live only in 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.640 the blue sphere, this is the beginning of the end 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:02.320 of the republic. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:03.960 If you only live in the red. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:09.559 Sphere, it's about time that the federal government did something 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.280 that the mayors and the governor refused to do in 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:14.359 protecting Americans. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:14.640 Right. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.320 But the question is that we live we you know, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.559 most of the rest of us live in this gray area. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.679 And what's interesting about the polling here is that there's 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.400 comfort in the poll numbers for both sides, and there's 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.720 warnings in the poll numbers for both sides. So there's 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.520 a new Reuter's zipso's poll that shows fifty eight percent 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:40.560 of Americans, including seventy percent of Democrats and fifty percent 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.760 of Republicans, they feel the president should only deploy armed 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.880 troops to face quote external threats. Now, part of that 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.200 may explain why the president Stephen Miller in particular, keep 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:57.280 using overheated rhetoric to describe what they say ICE agents 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.440 are dealing with and what they say the threat is 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:07.160 from some of these undocumented immigrants. But it is there's 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.800 clearly a line here where the more militarized this looks, 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:15.559 the more uncomfortable the public gets, including plenty of Republicans. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:22.280 Now that said, and what's interesting here is that there 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:26.480 is not a majority that believe that the president has 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.680 some sort of huge authority to do this. Thirty seven 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.600 percent agree that the presidents of either party should have 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.920 the power to deploy troops into states even when state 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:40.960 governors object, but forty eight percent disagree with that, and 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.520 in fact, eighty three percent overall in this poll agreed 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.880 that the military quote should remain politically neutral and not 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.680 take a side in a domestic policy debate. Now, there's 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.640 another poll that was out in the New York Times 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.280 Siena Poll, and it's part of the same poll that 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.600 came out last week that I was telling you about. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:06.360 But they released their immigration questions on Wednesday, and essentially 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.199 it's showing you the same thing that I've been telling 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.160 you for a while, which is a majority agree with 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.600 the goal of what Trump is doing, but a majority 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.679 don't like how he's trying to do it. Let me 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.960 put some numbers around that. Fifty four percent of registered 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.720 voters broadly favored deporting immigrants living in the country illegally. Okay, 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.440 that's ninety percent among Republicans, fifty two percent among independents, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.760 and about twenty percent of Democrats think this. Now, you'll 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:38.440 see on that issue of mass deportation, Independence much closer 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.560 to Republicans than they are Democrats. Right, it's a majority 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.960 of Independence. That to me a little warning sign there 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.280 for Democrats on their stance on immigration. Now, that said, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.280 fifty three percent of voters feel the process of deporting 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:56.440 people has not been fair, and forty four percent said 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:01.320 it was mostly fair. So that tells you. And fifty 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.760 two percent of those surveyed also disapprove of Trump's handling 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.840 of immigration. The point is this, a majority of people 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.800 in this country do think that too many people were 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.720 let in illegally and many of them should be returned. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.440 But there is a discomfort in the aggressive tactics that 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.560 are being used, and the more that is front and center, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.640 the more Americans may sour on the policy. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:27.120 Itself. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:31.200 But this is to me the warning sign here a 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:36.360 little bit. What's interesting is fifty one percent said they 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.120 thought the government was deporting mostly people who quote should 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.720 be deported. Forty two percents of the government was deporting 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.000 the wrong people. But there's a narrow majority there. So 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:50.280 the point is is that Democrats have to find realize 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.320 that a majority in this country want the law followed. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.960 At the same time, a majority of the country's more 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.920 open to immigration than perhaps the Trump administration is behaving. 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.560 So like everything in our politics, there's more nuanced in 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.960 gray area than the two parties are presenting each other. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:13.200 But it is where we are at this moment. I 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:19.760 do think the Trump White House believes that Pritzker and 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:24.080 Mayor Johnson are good foils for them politically. I think 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.960 they're personalizing this on purpose, and Pritzker and Johnson are 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:29.840 playing right into it because I think they think it's 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:34.200 good politics to get personal right back, It is worth 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.840 noting that Trump put out that truth social statement on 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:44.960 Wednesday after Pritzker on Tuesday night opened wondered aloud whether 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:50.600 Trump has dementia. So it is certainly getting personal, and 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.200 in that sense that's also a bit of a you know, 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.320 it goes back to my whole who's going to be 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.240 the adult in the room. And when you start to 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.160 go name calling against Trump, you have to remember the 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.680 rule of the pig, which is careful getting to a 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.639 mud fight with a pig, because you'll both get dirty 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:08.960 and the pig will enjoy it. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:10.480 This is a classic case. 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:11.960 You want to get into a name calling fight with 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.720 Donald Trump. He's always willing to go lower. He's always 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:21.400 going to be more outlandish, go to places you'll never 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.600 be comfortable going, and you'll look and then all of 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.160 a sudden, you'll look feckless for some reason. So it's 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.400 a warning there, and it's obvious what the political motivation 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.800 is there. Clearly is an attempt by the Trump administration. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:41.679 Perhaps this is the Stephen Miller plan to create a confrontation, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.919 to create a pretext to then do more of this 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.120 and get more aggressive of these tactics. But the political 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.399 warning signed to Miller and the Trump White House is 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.600 the more aggressive they get, the more Americans are going 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.480 to turn on them on this, and even among Republicans, 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.000 so as much as it looks as if they're completely 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.760 ignoring sort of the reality of the situation, and they're 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.760 frankly lying about the threat. The level of threat that 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.840 folks in Chicago are dealing with. 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Their fee is free unless 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:15.040 they win. The DNC is starting to circulate its after 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:20.080 action report on the twenty twenty four election. Politico has 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.240 gotten a few sources to talk about the sword of 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:27.879 top lines that are being circulated to certain Democratic leaders, 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:32.840 and here's sort of the early take on this according 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:37.200 to the political report, DNC officials argued Democrats. This is 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.000 I'm reading directly from the political article. DNC officials argued 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.679 Democrats didn't spend early or consistently enough to engage and 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.520 persuade voters, one of several problems the party face in. 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:47.159 Twenty twenty four. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.960 According to the committee, swapping Joe Biden with Kamala Harris 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.840 the top of the ticket intensify those systemic long term 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.159 problems for the party, the official said. And this is 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.240 according to two people that were brief by the DNC 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.119 this week and granted anonymity to discuss the comments for 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.280 what it's worth. So far, in these early briefings of 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.080 this after action report, the so called autopsy of twenty 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.000 twenty four by the DNC, Biden's age has not come 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:11.200 up now. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:13.240 The DNC officials also. 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.760 Said the party's failure to respond to voters's top issues 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:20.080 led to losses across once core constituencies, including working class voters. 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.920 That is one of those duh, Right, When you don't 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.680 talk about the issue that's most concerned to the voters, 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.119 you're going to likely be on the losing end. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:29.560 Of an election. 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:32.239 I'm glad it's taken them eight months to write an 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:37.280 autopsy to come to that conclusion. On that front, Another 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.399 person briefed on the report said that they understood the 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.320 assessment to mean that Democrats quote didn't talk enough about 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.440 bread and butter issues, and instead we talked about social issues, 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:51.680 social anxieties. Now here's the thing. This idea that the 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:57.159 Democrats didn't spend early enough actually doesn't fit the facts 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:02.200 the job. Back when Biden was still actively running for president, 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.639 their campaign actually bought twenty five million dollars worth of 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:10.000 ads in September of twenty twenty three. It was earlier 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.760 than either Barack Obama or Donald Trump aired ads during 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:18.359 their first reelections. They also spent another thirty million dollars 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.879 on ads in March of twenty twenty four, and they 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:24.399 were arguing. Biden's team at the time was arguing, according 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:27.119 to Political that this early investment for activate key voters. 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:30.080 So I'm confused here. The DNC is claiming it was 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.120 too late of investments and money in this idea when 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:37.879 actually Democrats had the advantage early with money. Look, it 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.000 sounds like this autopsy is going to end up if 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.160 this is what it is. If this is what they concluded. 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:49.280 Then they've it is just a a whole bunch of 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:52.240 words to not say what the real problem was, which 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.639 is Joe Biden shouldn't have run. Joe Biden didn't have 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.120 the capacity to articulate the message that they needed to do. 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:04.840 But more importantly, the Biden white House totally disagreed with 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:08.199 the public on what the top issue was. Remember you 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.560 had the Biden white House putting out surrogates constantly saying, 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:15.280 the economy is recovering, the economy is great, look at 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.320 all the job creation. And they kept arguing making the 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:22.399 job creation argument, saying, this economy, you know, pay no 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:27.200 attention to what the rest of the country essentially we don't, 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:29.960 you know, pay no attention to what you think the 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:31.479 problem is with the economy, i e. 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:31.960 Costs. 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:34.359 You should listen to us and we'll tell you that 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:38.600 the economy is okay. I mean, it is so this 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.280 initial if this is really the autopsy, it tells me 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:44.240 that they're just trying to I don't know, are they 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:48.520 protecting people's personal feelings or is it just I mean, 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:50.439 do you need an autopsy to find out you had 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:53.560 a candidate that wasn't capable of running for president. That 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:56.239 was the issue. He couldn't sell his agenda, and then 0:23:56.280 --> 0:24:00.600 more importantly, whoever was surrounding him totally misread the did 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:03.360 have any clue at what the country was upset about, 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:09.680