WEBVTT - Andy Levy & Sen. Ed Markey 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 --> 0:00:11.280 today's best minds, and House Speaker Johnson says there's no 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:13.240 path for a third Trump term. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.760 Oh wow? Is he allowed to say that? 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.000 We have such a great show for you today as 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:19.040 the world churns. 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:20.760 Andy Levy steps by to. 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.960 Talk about Trump's plan to distract and also to destroy America. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.680 Then we'll talk to Senator Ed Markey about the government 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.000 shutdown and its costs to the American people. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.680 But first we have the news. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.800 So, Molly, we've now reached the reports on private calls 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.800 where there's unrest of the clockus because the Republicans are 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.400 starting to feel the pain of the shutdown. Do you 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:44.080 feel the pain? 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.479 I didn't know they were allowed to disagree with Trump. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.760 Many people are saying the tide is turning. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:51.440 This is a new development. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:56.520 Republicans who theoretically serve the voters and not President Donald J. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.920 Trump, though they don't think that. They think they served 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.120 rosement Donald J. Trump. 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.959 So there was a GOP conference call this afternoon. They 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.320 did this call because in case you're wondering, they are 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.160 not in session. That's right, they are out of session, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.200 as they have been for almost a month. Of business 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.600 day is not in session. The calendar is empty. So 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.280 here we got Dan Crenshaw adding himself to a list 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.560 of growing lawmakers questioning whether or not they should be 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.800 home in their districts as opposed to at least pretending 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.640 to want to solve the government shutdown. So this shutdown. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:36.240 Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the Congress. Now 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:42.360 they shut down the government because Democrats would not sign 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.000 off on what was happening with the Obamacare subsidies, which 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.080 of course, obviously I think they were right to do, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.520 because the polling shows that people still blame the Republicans. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.400 Republicans are saying they won't come to the table. A 0:01:55.480 --> 0:02:00.280 lot of people are saying that the appropriators, the people 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.080 like Don Bacon, the people who work in appropriations, are 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.800 saying that Democrats shouldn't make a deal with Republicans because 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.880 Donald Trump will just come in and run ropshaw over 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.880 it anyway. And that is a real tension here because 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.320 as we saw in this really good piece that you 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.919 should definitely read by Annie Carney in The Times this weekend, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.840 donald Trump believes that he is the Speaker of the 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.040 House because Mike Johnson is just a supplicant for him. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.040 So it doesn't matter if you make it unique. You 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.640 can only make a deal with Trump. And here's the 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.160 thing about Trump, he changes his mind all the time. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.200 Yeah, speaking of Trump changing his mind all the time. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.480 Senator John Kennedy, person we know for playing dumb often. 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.520 Who has the best selling book right now? Did you 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:46.560 know that I did not? 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.560 But I will say that I keep my literature to 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.440 thoughts a little more advanced to that. Anyway, he's calling 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.359 just Dan's fance and saying to him that he would 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.440 really really appreciate it if Trump stopped to talk about 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.480 the filibuster and all these wacky things. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.280 So John Kennedy, by the way, who sounds stupid but 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.960 is smart. He's like one of those he had been 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.960 a Democrat, he went to Oxford. He pretends to be 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.800 fog horn like Horn, but he actually is quite smart. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.320 Clay Higgins, that's where you get the real foghorn leg hordeshit, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.480 unadulterated pure Basically. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.320 Trump is repeatedly called on senators to end this tradition 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.200 of allowing senators to block certain judicial nominations for the 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.320 states by refusing to return their blue slips. This is 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.400 like one of these Senate traditions. This is a way 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.600 to block a nominee. Now here's the problem. Donald Trump 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.480 doesn't like it. And since Donald Trump basically styles himself 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.880 as a king, he doesn't like this stuff. So Kennedy 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.520 had called Vance because he's furious about this fans, you know, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:56.280 who's got a very strong moral character. Equivocated, admitting the 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.880 votes were probably not there to make the changes anyway, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.200 but express frustration with the Chambers dysfunction. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.000 Why is the Senate dysfunctional? But why? 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.080 It's certainly not because the president is holding them all hostage. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:11.520 New it is not. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.880 It's not as if the president isn't shielded from the 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.040 citizens yelling at him all day and the senators don't 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.719 have to deal with it and have their staff get 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.560 calls all day and here complaints about it. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.880 This is my favorite thing. He argued that Democrats should 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.919 own the growing shutdown chaos, and that the momentum was 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.440 with the GOP. First of all, by the way, Senator 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:39.880 Kennedy's staff who leaked this Bravo Team vo. But more 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.599 than that, he argued that Democrats should own the growing 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:48.200 shutdown chaos. Okay, obviously you would like them to own it, right, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.040 but they don't because here's the thing. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.919 From a ten thousand foot view, all anyone sees is. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.599 A Republican House, or Republican Senate or Republican president strong agree. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.359 So may We've done a lot of interviews with people 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.800 from the CFPB, and under previous rules, they stood up 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.240 for consumers' rights. You'll be shocked to hear that in 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:15.240 this administration, where it is the feature to fuck over consumers, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.719 that Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to stop 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.520 states from like being medical debt from your credit report. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.839 This would be another thing that is detrimental to the economy, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.359 as people will not be able to get loans to 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.479 open businesses, buy houses and all sorts of things. And 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.560 feels another one of those well sometimes we say the 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.039 Trump administrations shooting themselves in the foot. This feels like 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.560 they're taking a M sixteen to their whole entire lower body. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:39.760 But it's also just. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:45.800 Like they obviously have some rich downer who's like, we 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.280 love medical debt, don't let them erase it because we 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.280 want the pores to drown in debt. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.400 So we can make our money. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.320 Well as well. They get higher interest rates when they 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:57.800 have worse credit ratings. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.440 Right, but obviously that's the move here, Like what Trump World. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.800 One of the many things I love about this administration 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.120 is they just don't give a fuck about anyone who's 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.880 not them. So, like here, we're going to have these 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:16.080 people drowning in debt. Those are voters, you assholes, like 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:21.000 these are voters. I'm sorry, they're voters. They will issue 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:26.320 guidance tomorrow prohibiting states from wiping medical debt from consumers 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.560 credit rating. This is so fucked like this is. No 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:35.159 one voted for more medical debt. No one voted for 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.640 more medical debt. This is Donald Trump said he was 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.480 going to make things cheaper, and here's what he's doing, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.120 making sure that you drown in medical debt. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:45.919 Good work. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.800 Nothing like having to pay off that medical debt instead 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.960 of putting it into local businesses and the economy and 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.600 bolster our economy. Great, great, great stuff. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:54.919 Good work everyone. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.520 Yeah. Okay, so here's an interesting one. It sounds like 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.040 there's a little trouble in paradise, if we could call 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.359 HHS paradise for some reason. Stephen Hatfill, who's a huge 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.160 COVID vaccine critic has been ousted from the HHS. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:09.640 I'm shocked. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.280 I'm kind of actually shocked. This seems a little weird. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:12.880 What are you seeing? 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.480 I mean, this is the thing like that I think 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.360 everyone should remember, is like Trump has lots of people 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.720 who should be fired. He just didn't want to fire 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.679 them because he knew it would look bad. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:25.760 And like who should be fired? 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.400 Heg SATs should be fired, Cash, I live in Las 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.120 Vegas should be fired. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:32.720 All these people should be fired. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.240 You know, Christy, we spent one hundred and seventy five 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.400 million dollars on private planes. Like, these people all should 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.440 be fired. But Trump doesn't want to fire people because 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.280 he knows firing people creates leaks, and firing people is 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.440 how he got that big wall. Remember Rachel Maddow's wall 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.960 of fired people in the first administration. Like Trump thinks 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:58.640 that keeping everyone hired will somehow keep the ship running. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:03.120 But like it's so it's so incredibly clear that this 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.600 whole organization is teetering on the brink of disaster. So 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.600 here's the question with this story, is did Stephen J. Hatfeld, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.720 a biosecurity expert who was publicly backed Health Secretary of 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.640 Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Do you think that he was 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.800 fired over the weekend because he was too crazy or 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.880 because the administration was too crazy? And think about that 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.760 for a while, because it could be either one. That 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.920 is an interesting quandary, right, and it's a little scary, right, Like, 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.559 here's an example. He's a one time Army biodefense researcher. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.080 In a recent appearance on Steve Bannon's podcast, he asserted 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:44.520 without evidence that mRNA COVID shots are more dangerous than 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.920 it is to contract COVID nineteen. So that's not true 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.960 and be hospitalized with it also not true. He said 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:56.320 he was accumulating data justifying mister Kennedy's decision to cancel 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.280 five hundred million dollars in contracts for RNA research. Now 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.760 all of this is true, right, We just saw reporting 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.319 that shows that mr and A Research is like this 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:09.000 miraculous thing, that it will soon be solving cancer and 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.839 this and that. But I bet you he didn't get 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.880 fired because of that. I bet there's some other even stupid. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:21.800 Always Andy Levy is a host of as the world churns. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.240 Welcome to past politics. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:28.840 Andy, I'm welt let's talk about how great everything is going. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.599 Everything is going great, It's going great. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.120 Yeah, you know, I was. I was sitting here because 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.000 it's been like a month or maybe more since I've potted, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:40.520 and I was like, all right, I gotta get my 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.480 head back in the game. I wonder what we're going 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.400 to talk about. And I was like, there's just like 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.360 every ten minutes there's something new. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:52.080 So we're in this government shutdown. We're almost a month 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:56.280 of like business days into the shutdown. Okay, Donald Trump 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.880 is on his second trip. He's in Asia. The administration 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.640 has decided they're not going to fund food stamps for children. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.240 It's like people are like, stop talking about the East wing. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:12.080 The east wing isn't where it is, no everything you have, 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.240 It's like it's one of those things where you have 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.280 to I feel like the situation is. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.319 You have to focus on all the things. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.719 Yeah, nothing is a distraction. Everything is happening. They are 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.200 doing everything they're doing for a reason, and it's all 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.480 the same reason. It's all in service of sort of 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:36.600 getting us used to this authoritarian style of government. And 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.679 you know, whether it's shutting the government down, you know, 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.240 to I don't even know what they're latest whatever their 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.760 latest accused is as an attack on trans people, which 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.760 is what it seems to be half the time. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.280 Just speaking of attacks on trans people, we just saw 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:58.640 a transwoman at Bennington, who at Middlebury, who killed herself. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.640 One of the is, lest you think that abandoning trans 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:11.800 people is merely a question of like electoral politics, it's 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.640 actually a moral impairtive. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.320 One hundred percent. And I was there to say I've 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.240 been saying that for a while, but I have been 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.640 saying that for a while. And you know, going back 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.640 a few years in talking to people, I would occasionally 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.200 have someone say, why why are you so hepped up 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.520 on the issue of trans rights? And there's two reasons. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.240 One is, you know, it's a cliche, but when you 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.040 say something like, you know, ex rights or human rights, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:42.480 whether it's trans, gay, black women, whatever it is, it's 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:47.720 true because nothing ever stops at a certain line. And 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.280 so even if in some kind of adult brain you're like, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.800 I don't care about trans people, or you know they 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.120 they creep me out, or oh there's so few of them, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.280 what does it matter? It all matters. It should matter 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:06.079 just because they're people, and you shouldn't be sitting there saying, oh, 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.760 these people, you know, their rights don't matter. But even 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.120 even if that's the way you see the world, then 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:19.439 please realize that you're next and stop, you know, stop 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:24.960 thinking you know you're safe, because you're not. And the 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.080 other thing is, I think what's happening to trans folks 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.160 is is in my mind, it's always been sort of 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:36.960 the nearest parallel to the Jews in Germany. People will say, oh, well, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.000 we don't want to take away their rights to exist, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.040 they just shouldn't play sports. Yeah, because that's how it 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.080 always always starts with one thing. You know, we're not 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.120 saying we're gonna put Jews in camps. We just think 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.920 they shouldn't do, you know whatever. And it always starts 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.560 that way. And we're really seeing now it's so far 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.280 beyond the sports thing. And you know, the sport thing 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.360 was always a stalking horse for people on the right, 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.640 even if there were a Centrists and you know, some liberals, 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:03.520 you didn't get that. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.360 But I also think more than that, like trans right 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.679 is like one of these issues that there has been 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.320 polling that shows that some people are uncomfortable with it, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:20.720 not the majority, but a vocal minority, and so this 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.080 is how we got here, right, and it is just 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.719 so appalling. It's morally wrong, but I also think it's 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.360 politically just disgusting. But I want you to talk about 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.120 being a veteran for a minute, because you and Pete 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.400 heg Seth. You'll remember Pete hegg Sath as being a 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.560 very handsome guy who loves beer. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.920 He just likes beer, like Brett Kavanaugh. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.520 You may remember Brett Kavanaugh from the famous Kavanaugh Stops. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.240 Also a beer drinker, also a weekend Fox News host 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:53.720 like you discuss. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.559 Okay, First of all, I was never a weekend Fox ghost. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.040 I'd like to get that straight. Second of all, it 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.760 sounds like you're blaming beer for all of this, and 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.160 I don't like that. I don't like that you're doing that. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.440 There's a lot of good beer out there, and you know, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.280 I don't think the bad beers. We shouldn't say that 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:11.400 all beer is bad. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:11.880 You know. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:17.160 Look, Pete Hegseth is he's a goober like I was. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.880 I saw the story earlier today where he talked about 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.640 there was a story I think in The Independent that 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.479 talked about him allegedly refusing to meet with bearded soldiers. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:33.280 Yes, he's very true. He's very looks conscious, my man. Yeah, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.840 and you know it makes sense because looks are really 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:36.840 where it's at for him. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.360 Yeah, Like if you had, if your. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:44.120 Looks were such an enormous part of your past, you know, 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:49.320 if the package was ninety percent looks and five percent 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.280 something else and five percent competency, you would care very 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.480 much about looks. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:55.520 You know. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.880 So I saw that story and I just like, he 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.920 was refusing to meet with bearded true, and I just like, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.760 I don't know why. I don't can't remember the last 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.760 time I used the word goober, but it just popped 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.600 up too. I was like, what a goober? And my 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.200 second thought was as someone who served, and who served 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.480 overseas and at some point we had some high level 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.800 official come visit, I think I was like Camp Casey 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.760 in South Korea. It's a drag. Nobody wants those people there. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.480 It's a drag for the troops. It's like parades. We 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:27.200 hated it. It's you had to be forced into doing parades, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.640 and you had to be basically ordered to go meet 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.800 with these high level officials who come in and generally 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.280 have no idea what your day to day situation is. Like, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.040 but are there to somehow impart their wisdom? But everything 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.680 that he is doing, like it's it's amazing to me. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.440 I mean I but I say this every day, the 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.960 fact that he still is Secretary of Defense and not 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.680 Secretary of War. As again this independent piece that I 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.840 saw the British newspaper kept referring to him as the 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.000 secretary of war. You're not, he's not the secretary of war. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.480 Or why why are you saying that you got him? 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.120 You got to tell how do you rank them? How 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:06.359 do you rank them? 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:10.640 How do you rank who is who is the least competent? Yeah? 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:15.400 Okay, so I'm gonna go with I think he said 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:16.360 is the least competent? 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.000 I want And in fact, I'm going to. 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.560 Ask you a question about this, because like, if you 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.080 are a sergeant or whatever, the highest level is a 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:30.480 lieutenant colonel, and you're in Japan, okay, with your staff 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.000 of five ten people who are with you, you're doing 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.960 some kind of high level, really important mission, top secret. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:45.320 Nobody knows. Maybe it's whatever. You're called back to d C. Virginia. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.840 You and all your people all go back, and you 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.520 were called back to a speech about facial hair and 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.200 then a campaign speech by Trump like are you then, like, 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.720 these are the people I'm really glad I work for? 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:00.800 Are you then? 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:01.360 Like? 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:02.480 Right? 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.159 I mean as someone I've never served, so tell us 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:07.600 what the vibes there would be. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.240 Look, I was a lowly enlisted man, so it's hard. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.679 I can't really get in the head of a general 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.439 or an admiral someone at that level who would have 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.680 been summoned to Washington for that insane. I wouldn't even 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.320 call it. It wasn't a meeting. I don't know what 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.240 you would call it. It was like a It was 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.359 like an Amway type thing, is what It struck me 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:27.960 as like it. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.240 Was some kind of ironic because Amway, there are people 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.960 involved in Amway, Like who are involved in this administration? 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:35.520 Oh? 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.720 Absolutely, it struck me as some kind of MLM type thing. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.120 But I'm sure they were pissed off. I'm sure they 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.399 were just you know, on the plane rides home, sitting 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.560 next to each other, going what the fuck was that? Like, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.840 I cannot imagine. And look, there are people who rise 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.359 to various ranks in the military who shouldn't be there. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.800 So I'm not saying that aren't some generals or whoever 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.399 who thought that this was like, you know, yeah, this 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.280 is the gung ho shit we need, you know. But 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.080 I have to imagine the vast majority of these guys, 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.560 who have spent twenty thirty years in uniform, taking what 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:19.320 they do seriously. I cannot imagine that they were in 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.240 that meeting and thought, Okay, well, you know what. I 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.960 was skeptical before I went, but hey, that was really good. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.680 I feel much better about my job now. I feel 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:32.960 much better about our operational readiness. No, I mean that 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:37.679 was that was absolutely it was a pathetic joke, is 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:38.280 what it was. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:43.600 There's so many moments in this administration where they have 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.199 sort of squandered goodwill. And if you think about like 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.639 when Trump came in, he had sort of this bump 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.760 right now, the kind of thing you didn't have the 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.480 first time. He had this sort of bump where people 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.359 are like, maybe this will work. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:58.880 I don't know what they were thinking. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:05.280 But now, after the trade war, the government shut down, 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:12.520 snap benefits that all of the insanity. Now he's finally 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.359 polling the lowest he's ever pulled, which is still somehow 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:17.359 not zero. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.800 I know, I know, every time I see that, I'm like, Okay, 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:21.560 that's low, but. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:27.480 Really did the other people not exist? Like what happened? 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.480 I don't know. I don't know. That's one of the reasons, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.359 by the way, I don't think you say anything is 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.960 a distraction, because the idea is they are trying to 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.720 do as many things as they can while they can. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.480 And you know, I mean, look, we'll see what happens 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:51.480 going forward with elections, but there have to be there 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.840 has to be some sense, you know, among the smarter 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.480 people around him. And you know that's on a sliding scale, obviously, 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:04.440 g that this is not Mussolini, this is not Stalin, 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.600 who's going to be in power for you know, decades 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.120 or whatever. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:11.040 And it's saying. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.119 That the oldest person to ever become president is old 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:15.320 or how dare you? 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.800 All I know is he passed his dementia test or 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.560 so he claims, like we don't even know whatshy. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.840 By the way, and he had it ever, right, let's 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.640 talk about this. So my man is giving a speech 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:28.280 and he's like. 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.080 You know, I had an MEMRII and they didn't find 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.359 anything there was in his second physical of the year. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:35.359 Do you remember his second one and the one that 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.280 was four months later than his first yearly physical it 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:43.040 said advanced imaging, and some people who we know were 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.080 like that this is the advanced imaging. 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:49.160 The White House was like nothing, like how dare you lib. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:54.680 Tard think that we you know, cock owned the real 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:56.320 enemy is the left. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.480 And then he's like, oh, yeah, I got an MEMORI. 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.480 Well look, the only thing I'll say, because we don't 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:03.560 know what the MRI was. 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.560 For, probably for nothing, as people get them all the time. 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.200 I mean, I got one just an hour ago. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.000 But the thing is, if, as someone was a relative 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:18.119 who's going through this, if you have a cognitive test, 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.400 which is what he took, not an IQ test, it's 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.440 the Montreal I forget the status that the complete name. 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.240 If you have that test and an MRI close to 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.880 each other, there's a good chance there's one thing that 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.480 they're searching for, you know, that is dementia. You know again, 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:36.480 I don't know. Maybe he had an MRI of his 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.160 hand where he has that weird you know. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.040 Whatever for his ankles, the ankles. 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.800 But I'm just saying, if you have an MRI, an 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:49.480 undisclosed MRI, and by the way, if you have it 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:51.720