WEBVTT - Evan McMorris-Santoro & Sen. Andy Kim 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 --> 0:00:11.640 today's best minds. And President Trump is polling at thirty 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.960 two percent approval rating. We have such a great show 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.960 for you today. Notices Evan mic Moros Santorro stops by 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.079 to talk about Trump's new low in his approval rating. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.880 Then we'll talk to New Jersey Senator Andy Kim about 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.680 his medikids proposal. But first the news. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:35.080 So Mally dald Trump has one fixation that is not decorating. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.320 Every time I see the Oval Office, there's some new 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.880 gold bullshit up. But when he's not thinking of that, 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.120 he's thinking of the Save Act. Even though Republicans are saying, please, 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.839 please stop. Trump has never been very into consent. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:53.520 He's not going to pass the Save Act. You don't. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.040 You have all of these senators who do not want 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.560 to knew the filibuster. You have the Yolo Caucus, Cornyn 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:06.720 and till Us. You have the Utah senator who is 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.960 already the new Utah Senator, the man who has Mett 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.360 Romney seat, who has already said that he has concerns. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.360 I mean, that's a junior Senator. There's no world in 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.440 which Republicans break the filibuster to pass the Save Act 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.960 by the August Research Recess, and Carolyn Lovett can say 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.480 whatever she wants, it's not going to happen. First of all, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.760 even if they pass the Save Act, they wouldn't be 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.360 able to get it going because, first of all, federalizing 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.959 elections would just go into court and court and it 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.480 would be in court forever. You and I both know, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.360 because there's no world in which they could federalize elections 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.880 in time between the primaries and the actual midterms. This 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.800 is just like Donald Trump freaking out trying to figure 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.720 out what he can do. And look. The other thing 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.600 is the fact that Todd Blanche. You know, Donald Trump 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.400 has this Todd Blanche nomination. It is not going to vote. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.360 It was supposed to go to a vote yesterday. They 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.920 pulled it because Cornan's is said no, is not going 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.320 to vote for it. Untill us too. So you have 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.400 Donald Trump tweeting about John Cornyan. You cannot be tweeting 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.679 about John Cornan and also asking John Cornan to kill 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.880 the filibuster. It's just not how any of this works. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.040 So my gas is that none of this is going 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.200 to happen, and they're about to go out to recess 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.280 and what they come back, it'll be September. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.360 Could you clarify for me. So you're saying you think 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.080 Todd Blanch is never going to get confirmed. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:36.959 Is that what you're saying. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.760 I think Todd Blanche is going to be acting. And 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:43.320 in fact, what's so stupid about this is Trump is like, well, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.880 we're just going to wait until after the mid Trumps. Okay, 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:51.560 So Cornan is from Texas, So maybe Trump gets Paxton. Maybe, 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.360 I mean, if the polling is right today, he gets 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.079 tell Rico, who is not voting to confirm Todd Blanche. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.120 And then that other seat, Tilla's seat. The Democrat is 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.040 way up in North Carolina, and you know he's been 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.640 on this podcast. Everybody's favorite governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.760 And there's a world in which those two senators are 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.720 replaced by Democrats who are not going to vote for 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.200 the Todd Blanche revolt. I mean, here's the thing about 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:24.480 the Todd Blanche confirmation fight. These two Republicans want Todd 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.200 Blanche to say that Donald Trump cannot have IRS immunity 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.799 forever and ever. This is not some crazy ask here 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.920 they want him to put in writing what he said 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.560 during his hearings where he is at least ostensibly under 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.680 o's I mean, this is not craziness, and he won't 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.720 do it now, well, I won't Todd Blanche do it, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.360 probably because Donald Trump doesn't want him to. And this 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.040 is where we are right. Cornon has refused to support 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.480 Blanche's nomination over Trump's cushy settlement deal with the IRS 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.040 and the fact that he won't put him. Writing that 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.680 the IRS is a no go and that the one 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.160 point eight billion dollars slush fund is a no go 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.000 is proof. I think that Donald Trump still thinks he 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.400 can get it from top Ranch. And I think also 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.760 it's important to remember like Cornin and Tillis are not 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.960 operating in vacuum. They see that Donald Trump is polling 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.920 at Bush numbers, they see he's pulling at thirty two percent. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.240 They know that the IRS thing and the slush fund 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.360 are both super unpopular, so like it's not going to 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.680 get more popular. This is not a moment to try 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.960 and pass some legislation which is like a very very 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.200 controversial legislation that almost no one wants, Like if he 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.000 wanted this, he should have tried to do it when 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.159 he first got into office. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.560 Yeah, Somali, I am sure you've heard, since you're often 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.000 on Morning Joe, that socialism was on the rise and 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.480 we really need to be fearful of this. And by 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.040 that I mean that Donald Trump's covers department quietly and 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.440 now seven new equity stakes in private companies. Our socialist 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.280 president is seizing the beads of production. How are you feeling, comrade, You. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:06.400 Stole my chick. So here's what's happening. Donald Trump is 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.760 seizing the means of production. The Commerce Department headed by 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:17.800 Howard Lutnik, who, as you may know, percent growth in 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.479 twenty twenty six, you know, we have not that we 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:27.479 have one percent, two percent. They're going to nationalize seven companies. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.840 What why? Because these people do not really believe in capitalism. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.880 And any time that Fox News insists that a Democrat 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.800 wants to seize the companies, wants to seize the means 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:48.240 of production, they should be referred directly to Howard Lutnik 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.720 and Donald Trump and all of the people who are 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:56.680 doing sketchy things with their beloved corporations, because none of 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.280 this is how capitalism is supposed to work. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.520 On the socialist president, and I got Donald Trump. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:07.840 Damn, that's right, baby. He's an atheist and he's a socialist, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.080 but not like you want. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.760 So I think that there's an interesting thing that you 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.240 and I have been talking about a lot recently, which 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.839 is that after Platner, a lot of people were shocked 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.239 that Jenet Mills was still down six poids compared to Platner, 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.520 even after the horrible accusations he had. So now we 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.600 have a poll that I think is telling you, because 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.920 I think Republicans got to this place first very obviously, 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.320 that two and three bags of voters say they'd support 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.599 a GOP kereded accused of sexual assault. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:38.080 So I read this totally differently. This is what happens 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.440 when you have a party that no longer believes women. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.520 I hope that this is a partisan thing. And in fact, 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.679 remember when Platner was accused of sexual assault or rape 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.920 when he was when he was accused of rape, Democrats 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.359 stopped supporting him. So I actually think that this is 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.120 a partisan thing. I think that Republicans are so bought 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.280 into Trump and trump Ism that they have decided, and 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.280 the misogyny writ large of that that they have decided 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.800 they will support Trump and trump Ism and assault. You know, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.320 here two and three mega voters say they'd support GOP 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.960 candidate accused of sexual assault. I mean, basically, in order 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.520 to support Trump, they've had to engage in the cognitive 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.440 dissidents of saying, you know, they just don't believe women anymore. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.800 And it's really interesting because if you look at the 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.360 Max Miller situation. So Max Miller as a congressman who 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.320 has numerous allegations, had allegations from another girlfriend, now has 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:40.720 allegations of violence of all sorts of terrible stuff. The 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.840 allegations include that he broke the collar bone of their 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.280 two year old daughter, that he poured scalding water on 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:52.840 his wife. Now, his wife is the daughter of Republican 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:58.200 Ohio Senator Bernie Marino, and Bernie has said nothing, right, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.400 he has said nothing as Max Miller runs for re election. Now, 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.640 if it were my daughter, I would be shouting from 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:06.280 the rooftops. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.120 Sofe was my daughter, I would I don't think his 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.280 neck would exist anymore. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.440 Yeah, So, I mean, I hope this is just limited 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.640 to Republicans. I would like it if it were limited, 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.800 if nobody were doing it but I think that it's 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.480 a sort of believe no women scenario. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.440 I think you're right about that. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.760 I think that though one of the symptoms of this 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.880 is is that people want change so bad in their 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.600 everyday life that they're like basically having cognitive dissonances to 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.640 try to get it because they're so desperate to have 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:35.160 it stop. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.040 I hope not. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.600 I mean, I hope that it's just that Trump made 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.280 Republican voters desensitize to it, and they will now go 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.240 back to being normal, or head to being more normal 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:57.040 or something. Evan McMorris Santoro is a reporter at Notice. Welcome. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:58.520 Welcome Evan. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:08:59.960 I'm Molly, how are you. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:05.560 I'm good because you know, I as it polls. I'm 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:10.080 good because I'm looking at these disapproval So Donald Trump, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.120 he's basically as unpopular as he's ever been. He has 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:19.200 hit the Bush line and thirty two percent approval rating. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:24.880 That is when you that is that is the worst 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:25.800 it you can be. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:28.560 It's a pretty bad I mean, I mean, I mean 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.840 you've seen I guess like sure, like George W. Bush 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.160 at the Amazon the twenties, but like it's very, very 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.560 bad for Trump, and it's especially bad for the Republicans 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.959 because you know, their entire electoral project in twenty six 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.240 is really like hinging on Trump. Like this is not 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.720 a party that has gotten much distance from the president. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.400 They have like very specifically not done that. And I remember, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.600 you know, a few months ago, I was talking to 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.640 Republicans strategists about the plan for the summer, you know, 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.560 like what they were gonna do, and some of them 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.640 even said they thought that maybe July fourth would be 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.440 a highlight for them, that they're do this great moment 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.680 where they could talk about you know, America and being 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.160 patriots and how unpatriotic the Democrats are and have this 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.160 great divide. And they had sure had this vision that 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.040 this Iran war thing which would cand of be behind 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.520 them and they would get and July would be a 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.760 time when gas prices will be able to come down, 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.480 we change the subject from some of this other stuff, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.640 and it would be like Trump will be back as 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.840 a viable party leader for them. And really, the this 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.840 month has ended with them in absolutely dire straits. I mean, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.800 these numbers are very, very bad, and the Republican nominees 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.520 that are running across the country are still basically boxed 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.640 in They can't really run away from Trump because that's 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.400 not going to be make the base that that still 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.120 really likes Trump happy, And they can't really you know, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.880 run towards him because that is incredibly toxic for the 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.160 general electric So this is basically as good a position 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.280 for the polls as Democrats could get. Really like, this 0:10:58.360 --> 0:10:59.760 is the case, This is like what they really really 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.160 want to see happen has now happened, and there's more 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:04.640 to come. I mean, you know, the thing is, the 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.040 things that made the polls bad, like the Iran war 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.520 and other things like that, those are still going on. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.720 Like we're not like in the there's no end in 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.400 sight for these negative poll numbers. How they play out, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:18.840 I don't, you know, I'm not totally sure. It's a 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.040 weird time with polls, with what to believe what not 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.280 to believe. But when every poll is telling you the 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.240 president is in a really really bad shape on polls 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.360 and you're not seeing the president's team put out their 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.400 own polls, you can assume that it's the numbers are 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:32.880 pretty bad. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:37.319 So the polling is very connected to gas prices, though, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.439 I mean, it's connected to other stuff, but it's really 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.280 connected a lot of this is on the economy. Certainly 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:48.600 people don't like ice killing American citizens. They don't. But 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.559 but most of this is the ability of the of 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.160 an American voter to see Donald Trump and see him 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.200 go into Iran, never make a case for it, and 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.200 then go to the pump and see gas prices be higher, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.720 and then see Donald Trump say We're gonna make peace 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:12.199 with Iron, and see gas prices go down, also possibly 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.800 because they were using the reserve the oil, some reserved 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:20.600 oil right to keep the prices low, and then see 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.680 that the war is back on and that gas prices 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.280 are up. I mean, like he has very clearly shown 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.679 that he had some control over making gas prices go down, 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.480 and now he no longer has that control. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.480 Right, Well, they try with that deal. You know. This 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.080 is that thing where Trump is a regular president in 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.360 a way that I think is kind of surprising given 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.360 how he came into the second term. I mean, there 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.319 really is no president for it in my life. Of 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.440 like the wrecking ball he came in with, if you know, 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.600 you know, the fear he created among everybody. Maybe he 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.920 can be president forever. Maybe we have no laws anymore, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.840 maybe no courts anymore. Really what's happening now is that 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.520 this is a guy who promised a bunch of stuff 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.240 to people and they're looking around and they didn't get it. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:07.560 I mean, the idea of the war in Iran is 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.640 he said, no new wars. He said, I'm not going 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.160 to do wars, and now we're doing a war. He said. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.200 Prices are going to go down because of these stupid, 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.520 woke democrats. They can't figure out how to make prices 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.679 go down. I can do it, can't do it. And 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.000 I think that when you look at some of these 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.360 pull numbers that I've seen, it's you know, in the 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.640 seventies of people saying he doesn't have our priorities, he 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.360 doesn't have American priorities as his top priorities. This is 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.720 the kind of stuff that dogged other presidents that sort 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.679 of head to a bad elections that the public just 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.880 is sort of looking at them and saying, I no 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.600 longer buy this stuff from you. I don't believe that 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:43.960 you can do the things you said you were going 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.360 to do, And in works in the case of Trump, 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.560 they're saying, I don't think that you even were serious 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.920 about doing those things at this point, like where like 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.120 we're in a way. It was like it was like 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:02.240 the main Trump thing if you were not like total 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.200 a total culture warrior type, the main thing with Trump 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:06.840 is well, look, everybody else is going to do a war. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.360 He's not going to do it. And he did it. 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:14.280 So his disapproval for inflation is seventy percent according to 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:20.680 the aggregates from Silver and it is. His approval on 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:26.520 inflation is twenty seven point one percent, which is pretty spectacular. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.400 And then if you pull on trade, it's not so 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.000 far away from the inflation numbers and the economy. I mean, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:38.440 they're all about the same, you know, but inflation certainly 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.520 is worse. Like to have seventy percent of Americans disapprove 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.720 of how you are on inflation when you ran on 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.800 lower inflation is kind of amazing. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:49.880 Well, and he used to sort of have the power, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.720 the power that he was supposed to bring when when 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.760 the Iran warforce started. You talk to a bunch of 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.320 people in Congress. We talked a bunch of them Republicans 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.160 in Congress, and they would say, okay, look, I mean 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.800 they would honestly say, like yes, we used to say 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.680 get being higher bad. Now it's good because we're fighting 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.200 for freedom of Americans and the American safety and we're 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.160 going to the President's going to make this case for us, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.200 and we're going to have this We're going to rally 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.520 around this guy. That has not happened, right, the big 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.800 beautiful bill that they all had to pass, which he 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.480 had to push through. I mean, a lot of them 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.200 did not want to do it, and it twists a 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:20.720 lot of arms push a lot of people through. You 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.040 that power that he had to make it happen. They 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.560 were like, Okay, well, that's fine, because at least we're 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.360 going to have these taxes and stuff, and he's going 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.520 to go out there with hdreetorical power and he's going 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.720 to sell this stuff for us, and we're gonna be 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.440 able to stand there and talk about no taxes on 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.440 tips or you know, no taxes on overtime or whatever 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.240 it is. We're going to talk about all this stuff. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.120 And none of that has happened either. The President is 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.280 not out there talking about those issues. I mean, if 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.840 you think, I think a perfect case of this is 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.480 that election integrity speech that he made on TV like 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.040 a few weeks ago when everybody was sort of geared 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:57.320 up for this thing. Bernie Moreno, the Senator from Ohio 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.800 Republican Center from Ohio. We're talking about this is like 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.080 the most important speech in the Cuba missile crisis. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:02.800 You know. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:07.120 They as like this is going to be like this 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.440 Trump is back, right, And I would talking to people 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.960 before that speech started who were very nervous about the speech, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.080 people who are involved in election integrity who were very 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.280 scared that this speech was going to be sort of 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:21.640 the full Trump two point zero or Trump like doing 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.040 a thing that would move everything from there on out right, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.480 which which he's been able to do. Instead, this speech 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.480 opened up with this weird rambling defense of all his 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.440 domestic stuff that I think landed fairly flat with everybody, right, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.480 and then the election stuff kind of he said it 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.840 and it kind of went nowhere. Now this is this 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:43.680 is it? I mean, what more do you need to 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.560 know than he is using and the most powerful thing 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.720 he has, which is his own voice, and at a 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.880 joint stretch in of Congress that he was able to 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.800 create the kind of excitement among his supporters in Congress 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.680 for this thing, and then he kind of just like 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.520 nothing happened, because that's sort of where he's at right now. 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.640 And I think the polls are showing that this is 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.160 not a guy who can go out there and say 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.760 I demand this. You guys should believe me, and they 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.800 do and they used to and they don't right now. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.000 So that's exactly what I'm saying that Democrats have are 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.280 in a good position with that because every step he 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:16.800 makes it seems to be the wrong one. I mean, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.600 we're still talking about the ballroom. We're still talking about 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.200 the new air Force one. We're still talking about I 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.240 mean now Dallas Airport. I mean like, yeah, no, no 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.840 in DC don't like Dallas Airport. Who cares about that? 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:28.320 Right? 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.600 So get Donald Trump, and this is a really good point. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:36.280 Republicans need him to go on and end inflation and 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.160 make this case. You know that he's going to lower 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.399 inflation to get the base excited. But instead Donald Trump 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.240 is laser focused on the reflecting pool in the ballroom. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.120 And this and the that the Wall Street Journal reporting 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:54.160 today is really good piece in the Journal headed by 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.679 Josh Daucy and another three reporters talking about how Donald 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.840 Trump has a fundraiser who basically calls up and says, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.159 do you want to meet with the president. Well, if 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:05.919 you want to meet with the president, we are going 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.560 to need some money for the library. It's a pretty 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.120 shocking piece all in talk to me about this idea 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.280 that it's like quid pro cool but plus plus plus 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:15.960 it is. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.160 I mean, look, the corruption and stuff, it's funny. Early 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:19.360 on in the Trump trumpet. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:19.560 We know. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.280 I also talked to a prominent person involved in you know, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.280 trying to you know, campaign finance stuff about corruption and 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.320 running on corruption, and they specifically said, you know that 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.480 they've done a bunch of focus groups on this, and 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.359 you couldn't really touch Trump with corruption. You try to 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.480 talk about that, voters and focus groups would say, well, yeah, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.520 he takes money, but like he's so rich it doesn't matter, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.840 Like he does whatever he wants anyway. And it was 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.239 other Republicans who wouldn't you know that they would get 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:45.639 sort of hard with it, like if they were in 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.160 the room with him. People think that those Republicans were 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.080 sort of the ones who are taking the money. But 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.520 we're seeing more and more and more of these stories 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:53.960 now and it seems like that kind of stuff is 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.439 sort of changing. I mean, look, let's take it all 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.800 the way back to twenty sixteen, right, Donald Trump is 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:04.359 the reason why the Republican Party regained any credibility in 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:09.280 the American electorate. The Republican Party was absolute trash in 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.159 the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen time. And Donald Trump is 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.879 the reason why they are back in power, why they 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:18.240 got the power that they got, and that's the reason 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.320 why they love him, why they rally around him. But 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.160 it also is sort of, you know, all those eggs 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:28.200 are in one basket, and when it stops working, they 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.040 don't have a backup plan. Like I mean, the Democrats 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.640 are of course in a very active identity crisis right now. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.840 What are they doing, who's in charge? What are they like? 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.080 What are they not like? But there's a bunch of 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.439 different people having those conversations. You can see in some 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.760 of these places, some of these districts, right, you can see, 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.800 you know, somebody catches fire and builds a constituency, right 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.720 like a mom Donnie emerges. But maybe also some of 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:55.760 these other people are also you know, but loss off too. 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.119 They're all doing their thing separately because they're kind of 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.080 don't have a leader. The Republicans, they can't really be 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.000 in the same room unless Trump tells them that they're 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.560 supposed to be in there. And when he can no 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.280 longer kind of after the attention that they need. When 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.840 these poll numbers are this bad, you can see they're 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.119 kind of like stumbling around looking to see what to 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.959 do because they don't really have an idea, right, they 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:19.639 don't really have a plan. Yeah, Mike Johnson said the 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.080 other day, you know, don't worry that God is on 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.199 our side where the midterms or whatever. This thing that 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.280 he said that is like not a message, but that 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.240 is sort of what they have. It really was that 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:30.960 Donald Trump was going to save us and it's not 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:31.640 really happening. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.040 Right, So you have these bad polls, but in a 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.680 normal party, the president would say, well, you need to win, 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.520 so just run against me. You can have some daylight here. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.920 And we saw some reporting and I don't know how 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.800 accurate this was when Trump went to Michigan, that he 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:54.200