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Speaker 2: We are seeing inflation, we are seeing gas prices close
Speaker 2: it and mister Trump is going to be here to
Speaker 2: the rescue.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, no, he's not here.
Speaker 2: He is talking to the money honey, Maria Bartiromo, and
Speaker 2: she looks horrified as he says this.
Speaker 1: Oh I love a clip. Let's go. So, do you
Speaker 1: believe the price of oil and gas will be lower
Speaker 1: before the Mitrom election?
Speaker 4: Yes, I hope. So.
Speaker 1: I mean I think it could be all the same,
Speaker 1: or maybe a little bit higher, but I think it
Speaker 1: won't be longer. All she wants is for him to
Speaker 1: say it'll be a lower.
Speaker 2: It's so funny because her eyes just bug out of
Speaker 2: her head, like, no, you fuck an idiot.
Speaker 4: I was trying to let you eye. If you didn't, if.
Speaker 1: You have a little time, go on the internet and
Speaker 1: search that interview with Maria Bartaroma, because it's like a
Speaker 1: masterclass in him cycling through various anxieties. At one point
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, the Iranians had nukes. We knew
Speaker 1: they were going to blow us all up. He goes
Speaker 1: into a hole like they were going to blow us
Speaker 1: all up thing, which is something. It's clear his levels
Speaker 1: of desperation, of anxiety, of you know, it just isn't
Speaker 1: a truly insane bit of everything bad. It's absolutely worth
Speaker 1: listening to.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna admit I was wrong about something on this podcast.
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Speaker 2: Would I see politicians like Jbi Raskin say Trump needs
Speaker 2: a head example, I'm like, I hate this kind of performative.
Speaker 1: It's like distractions.
Speaker 2: When I watched that interview, I was like, all right, up,
Speaker 2: bub tea brasket here, this guy's fucking gets saved.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, he's seventy nine years old, and like
Speaker 1: that is old. I mean, you know, there are some
Speaker 1: seventy nine year olds who are sharp as attack. My
Speaker 1: man is not one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so let's talk about some real ugliness in
Speaker 2: our congress. So, as we learned this weekend that Eric
Speaker 2: Swalwell has been having a few affairs here and there,
Speaker 2: it seems.
Speaker 1: It best he's a fuse. Yeah. Well, at worst it's
Speaker 1: something much darker, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, So it looks like in Congress the compromise is
Speaker 2: that there's been a lot of people whose behavior has
Speaker 2: not been so good. We've had, you know, other Congress
Speaker 2: people who have bet ethics.
Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez who's sexually harassed scatpers and one of them
Speaker 1: set themselves on fire and killed theirselves. I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: to step on the soapbox here for a minute about Beric.
Speaker 1: You know, Eric swahe and I have been friendly over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I did not know that
Speaker 1: he was capable of this kind of thing. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you this all has to be investigated. He needs
Speaker 1: to step down, and these women need to have be
Speaker 1: listened to. I have a number of thoughts about this.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing in my mind is that there are
Speaker 1: multiple women The allegations range from the distasteful to the illegal,
Speaker 1: and they all need to be listened to. I was
Speaker 1: really heartened to see that Alvin Bragg, who is really
Speaker 1: I have to say, I got to talk to him recently,
Speaker 1: and I just thought, this guy is really a good egg.
Speaker 1: That Alvin Bragg is taking this really seriously, and that
Speaker 1: he's not going to do partisan hacker, that he is
Speaker 1: going to despite the letter next to his name, investigate
Speaker 1: these allegations. Look, we give up the moral high ground
Speaker 1: the minute we dismiss stuff like this. It leads us
Speaker 1: to a place that none of us want to be.
Speaker 1: And there is a lot a lot of these members
Speaker 1: of Congress are given all sorts of, you know, second chances.
Speaker 1: And this is not that this is a person who
Speaker 1: needs to be investigated. This is behavior that is not okay.
Speaker 1: And I'm really glad to see Democrats taking this very seriously.
Speaker 1: You can't be the good guys if you enable stuff
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So what's interesting is it seems there's a compromise in
Speaker 2: Congress with some people are calling taking out the trash
Speaker 2: where they're going to vote to expel it looks like
Speaker 2: four different members to Democrats to Republicans. But what's interesting
Speaker 2: that you and I were talking about is we immediately
Speaker 2: wouldn't looked at their cook PBI. So for people who
Speaker 2: don't know, the cook PBI is about how much a
Speaker 2: district leans left or right, and the two Dems are
Speaker 2: over twenty points cook PBI, so they're very safe DEM seats.
Speaker 2: But both Republicans, in this environment where conservative estimates are
Speaker 2: D plus ten swings away. Both of these are swinging
Speaker 2: Republican favorite districts and could go to the Demos.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about this for a minute. Swawa is
Speaker 1: in a D plus twenty district, so that is not
Speaker 1: going to go to Republicans. Tony Gonzalez, who is his
Speaker 1: sexual harasser with by the way, six kids, Okay, jesus,
Speaker 1: I know six kids, and the staffer kills herself and
Speaker 1: there's other staffers, and I mean it's just this is
Speaker 1: like we have to take these women seriously, like we
Speaker 1: are either the society where women count, where their voices matter,
Speaker 1: or we are we are lost. So he is in
Speaker 1: an R plus seven, then they are the two other
Speaker 1: people with the Republican is Corey Mills. He's in an
Speaker 1: R plus five. He is in Florida, and he has
Speaker 1: all sorts of allegations. And then the other one is
Speaker 1: Shila Shurface McCormick. She's in a D plus twenty two.
Speaker 1: This is a case where she got by accident a
Speaker 1: check for five million dollars instead of I think she
Speaker 1: was supposed to get a five hundred thousand dollars check,
Speaker 1: and she just spent the five million dollars. It's fraud.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, guys, like as much as like it is
Speaker 1: a little bit hilarious, you can't spend the extra four
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars. But it was a COVID
Speaker 1: relief funds I think. And she's now in the middle
Speaker 1: of an ethics investigation. I think there's a criminal trial coming.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get that people want not to be
Speaker 1: as hard on the people on their team, especially in
Speaker 1: light of the fact that Donald Trump the Republicans have
Speaker 1: opened the door to this kind of like, it's not
Speaker 1: fraud if our guy does it. But you don't come
Speaker 1: back from Donald Trump by letting people still five million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's it. You just can't. You can't do it. And
Speaker 1: that's why it's both true with Eric and with share
Speaker 1: all shortfullest, you just can't do this. You gotta go.
Speaker 1: So look, I hope that they do this in a
Speaker 1: way that's fair because there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who need to be expelled from the house right now.
Speaker 1: And I think if the next chapter of American democracy
Speaker 1: involves no longer allowing this kind of sleazy shit, then
Speaker 1: that's where we are. So I'm glad to see it.
Speaker 3: Yes, agreed.
Speaker 2: So you know, well everyone else in America has gotten
Speaker 2: a memo that affordability politics that you know, no longer
Speaker 2: allowing workers to be robbed is a way to get popularity.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration is hard at work and making sure
Speaker 2: that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: So this is nurses, Okay, nurses. This is not something
Speaker 1: where it's like a fringe lefty issue. Okay, these are nurses.
Speaker 1: And as you know, we are in a healthcare crisis. Basically, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: friend of the Pod, Tim Walls, had this minimum wage
Speaker 1: floor for nursing home workers. By the way, nursing home
Speaker 1: workers like this is this is an unsexy job where
Speaker 1: people do the kind of work that families don't want
Speaker 1: to do for themselves. I say this as someone who
Speaker 1: has a mom and a nursing home. Like, I know
Speaker 1: how important the people who work in nursing homes are,
Speaker 1: Like this is you know, you won't have those people
Speaker 1: and you have everybody comes to live with you. You know.
Speaker 1: So this is a big, big, big deal and it
Speaker 1: is like really good stuff. It's what the government should
Speaker 1: fucking be doing is making sure that people who work
Speaker 1: in nursing homes get money. And the Trump administration because
Speaker 1: they have to be on the wrong side of every issue,
Speaker 1: those fucking guys are against the payment of nursing But
Speaker 1: if you want to do fraud, if you want to
Speaker 1: do nursing home fraud, there for that. Oh yes, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a big one.
Speaker 4: You'll probably get a pardon if you do it, or.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, or a cabinet position.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you could become the Senator from
Speaker 2: Florida if you do the work Dedicaid fraud of all time. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: speaking of total grifters in common. One of my favorite
Speaker 2: things of doctor Oz was when his first investigation when
Speaker 2: after Armenians, because as a guy who votes in Turkey,
Speaker 2: that's what you do. But what we've now seen is
Speaker 2: he's had a huge error in his Blue State fraud probe,
Speaker 2: and you'll be shocked to hear a lot of this
Speaker 2: was cooked up and totally botched.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if doctor Oz went to go vote
Speaker 1: for on this time, doctor Oz, who could not win
Speaker 1: for Senate and so instead, by the way, he probably
Speaker 1: would have been better than anyway. I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about it. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: I think we all picked up when you were played down.
Speaker 1: So doctor Oz just cited wrong numbers. He said that
Speaker 1: the New Yorkers who used personal care service was between
Speaker 1: six and seven percent of the state's medicaid and role
Speaker 1: is that is wrong? It is wrong. Now because it's
Speaker 1: a Trump administration, not everyone is buying this is an
Speaker 1: innocent mistake, of course. So I've seen your public information
Speaker 1: officer from York Department of Public Health told AP that
Speaker 1: Oz's false claims about the program where he targeted attempt
Speaker 1: to obscure the facts. She can just say he's a liar. Again.
Speaker 1: It goes back to Molly's rule of the Trump administration
Speaker 1: never trust their statistics because it's an administration filled with
Speaker 1: lying liars who are Rick Wilson is the founder of
Speaker 1: Lincoln Project and the host of the Lincoln Project podcast, Rick.
Speaker 4: Won Molly, what an amazing weekend we're having.
Speaker 1: Blocking the straits of hormuse.
Speaker 4: Nothing says strategic genius like turning the whole world against you.
Speaker 1: Weren't they already blocking the straits?
Speaker 4: Oh no, we're blocking the strates now. But we were
Speaker 4: blocking the straits. Was very very bad.
Speaker 1: Yes, and now we're doing now we're going to block
Speaker 1: the straits.
Speaker 4: Here's the problem with this whole thing. Yeah, Donald Trump
Speaker 4: truly believes this is some move like eighty seven dimensional
Speaker 4: quantum string theory chess. Yeah, when in fact, in the
Speaker 4: all time in the all time list of dumb shit. Yeah,
Speaker 4: land war in Asia? Check. Already there blocking the straits,
Speaker 4: which turns off the entire world economy. Yeah, that means everything.
Speaker 4: That means they're not making any more semiconductors in South
Speaker 4: Korea and Taiwan because we'll be cutting off the helium supply.
Speaker 4: We're not shipping any energy out of the Gulf to
Speaker 4: Asia to China. China is now like, well, I guess
Speaker 4: we'll just send some anti aircraft systems over to a
Speaker 4: run because they clearly need them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: The whole thing is just it is this is a
Speaker 4: string of genius moves on Donald Trump's park.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you read today in the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, which has been killing it on the
Speaker 1: reporting side because they hired only one that Jeff Bezos
Speaker 1: fucked at the Washington Post, and so they had an
Speaker 1: incredible piece today about how the Trump administration was warned
Speaker 1: that this was going to completely fuck up the whole economy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and it's like at every point we see
Speaker 1: they're warned this is a bad idea. Sure, they decide
Speaker 1: to do it anyway, because Trump gets tricked by net Yahoo.
Speaker 4: Or whatever, right or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then they end up being like, we didn't know,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Trump, we could have foreseen except for everyone.
Speaker 1: Trump was on Maria Bartaroma's podcaster was gonna say podcast,
Speaker 1: television show, this morning, podcast on Fox Business. Professional, yeah,
Speaker 1: less professional on Fox Business where the elite meet, and
Speaker 1: he was like, they were gonna have a nuke. Huh.
Speaker 4: I thought we had obliterated the nukes. But call me crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean but when when she asked him, Molly, I
Speaker 4: mean you you. I must have played that clip ten
Speaker 4: times today because when she says, well, interview prices and
Speaker 4: gas prices to be higher or lower by November in
Speaker 4: the life He's like, I don't know, maybe maybe a
Speaker 4: hoopsu but could be it could be the same, or
Speaker 4: it could be higher. One of my editors was like,
Speaker 4: dear God, sometimes we sometimes he writes the script for us.
Speaker 1: It's long term.
Speaker 4: Pain for no term game game.
Speaker 1: I mean that by the way, they had like this
Speaker 1: Maga messaging thing where they you saw them on all
Speaker 1: the Fox chat, you know, be like short term pay
Speaker 1: and long term game. It reminded me you saw this.
Speaker 1: Ashley Saint Clair had a video this week.
Speaker 4: Can I just say I was impressed by her. She
Speaker 4: made a cogent's argument about the MAGA influencer ecosystem and
Speaker 4: talked it through. I thought, in a very I mean,
Speaker 4: that was a concise, ten minute briefing. Yes, that a
Speaker 4: lot of people sort of intuitively feel, but I thought
Speaker 4: it was actually well.
Speaker 1: Done and it's what we've heard from these other exfluencers.
Speaker 1: The dom whatever is named Luger dom Luger, which is
Speaker 1: basically if your MAGA influencer, just like Charlie Kirk had
Speaker 1: bot farms, these guys get paid for they get paid
Speaker 1: for endorsements.
Speaker 4: Again, as we learned as we learned America's alpha male
Speaker 4: banana eating Gunther Eagleman. Right God, who has got a
Speaker 4: real name like Joe Smith? Right Hey, gun Through Eagleman
Speaker 4: is like a retweet is three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: The price is the price, Yeah, Gunther Eagleman. This crew
Speaker 1: is all just getting paid. And and I think the secret,
Speaker 1: which Ashley Saint Clair explains in a really smart way,
Speaker 1: I think he is the baby mama of Elon Mush.
Speaker 1: What she explains is that the part of the secret
Speaker 1: of this is just lockstep messaging.
Speaker 4: Stay on message, stay on message, stay on message, and
Speaker 4: if you're confused about it, stay on message.
Speaker 1: And this is since you are one of the architects
Speaker 1: of some of this, I love you for it. I
Speaker 1: know you major. You've made your piece with it, right,
Speaker 1: You've made penance. But I would love you to just
Speaker 1: like do a minute or two on how you get
Speaker 1: from Pap Buchanan w to this sure sure look.
Speaker 4: The Republican Revolution that was the seed corn of the
Speaker 4: eventual Tea Party movement which became the MAGA, started in
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety one when my old boss, George Herbert Walker
Speaker 4: Bush to be a responsible adult, decided that he and
Speaker 4: the Senate would make a deal on a tiny, marginal
Speaker 4: bullshit tax increase. It essentially was so marginal that it
Speaker 4: made very little difference in the depths, a little bit,
Speaker 4: a meaningful but not sweeping number. But the political consequence
Speaker 4: of that was that Pat Buchanan and a group of
Speaker 4: these incredible paleo conservative dipshits went out and ran a
Speaker 4: primary against a seeded president. Was not done at the time.
Speaker 4: That did not happen back in the nineties or the
Speaker 4: eighties or the seventies, It didn't really happen. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: Buchanan loses, gets his ass handed to him, of course,
Speaker 4: but then Bush loses the general election. You got Ross
Speaker 4: perrot who comes in also in that sort of space,
Speaker 4: Ross pro was like the original AstroTurf, though he had
Speaker 4: guys cheering for him who were just paid to cheer
Speaker 4: for him. And there was no social media then, of course,
Speaker 4: so we grow through the Tea Party. Still no real
Speaker 4: social media, but there is a bit of online messaging,
Speaker 4: a bit of online organizing through early platforms. Somebody reminded
Speaker 4: me of the day that Yahoo groups used to have
Speaker 4: all these Tea Party communications channels in them. Okay, back
Speaker 4: in the day when I hadn't thought about yeahoo groups
Speaker 4: for like a decade, but then that grew as social
Speaker 4: media expanded, really blew up on the scene in twenty sixteen. Race.
Speaker 4: These people are running these organizational chat groups and Twitter
Speaker 4: in their direct messaging, on Telegram, discord other platforms that
Speaker 4: are not as visible. But they follow a rule that
Speaker 4: was as old as when I got into politics, which
Speaker 4: is the thing every Republican consultant learns the day you
Speaker 4: are you get your first campaign one, stay on message two,
Speaker 4: just win. If you're confused about rule one, consult rule two.
Speaker 4: Confused about rule two, consult Rule one. Stay on message
Speaker 4: is the gospel. It is the Catechism. It is the
Speaker 4: singular moment that everybody in the Republican universe believes all
Speaker 4: the time. Democrats could not stay on message. If you
Speaker 4: have them like on a on a railcar and they
Speaker 4: were they were told this is the station you used
Speaker 4: get off at and you say my name is John Smith,
Speaker 4: they will fight about who they are. They will fight
Speaker 4: about every Oh, we're gonna get off at a different station.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do this differently. We're gonna take a plane.
Speaker 4: Republicans get on and stay on message. The unification of
Speaker 4: that message ramifies from Fox News to Newsmax to bright
Speaker 4: Bar to o An two to all these influencers online,
Speaker 4: whether they're on Rumble or YouTube or Twitch or wherever.
Speaker 4: And the superpower they have is they don't really care
Speaker 4: what the message is there. The point scoring system for
Speaker 4: them is are they on that message? Are they with
Speaker 4: the group? Are they in the pack? And so Donald
Speaker 4: Trump could say tomorrow that you know, our next cart,
Speaker 4: We're going to invade the planet Venus, and they would
Speaker 4: be like, it's about time somebody invaded Venus. And they'd
Speaker 4: all say it with absolute conviction. They'd all say it
Speaker 4: with absolute belief that as long as they were the
Speaker 4: loudest voice in the room, they were going to get
Speaker 4: a pat on the head, or they were going to
Speaker 4: get monetized for that tweet, or they were going to
Speaker 4: get rewarded by somebody sending them a Venmo. And it works.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to talk about Tucker Crawlson's numbers.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw that article two days ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Tucker Crawlson is actually and I was a little
Speaker 1: bit surprised by this. He's going through the same kind
Speaker 1: of thing that Ben Shapiro is going through, though probably
Speaker 1: for different reasons.
Speaker 4: Well, look, there was a period right after Tucker left Fox.
Speaker 1: His numbers are way down the point right fus.
Speaker 4: His numbers are way down, not only in the polling
Speaker 4: but in his ratings and his listeners. There is a
Speaker 4: moment happening inside MAGA right now for Tucker that is
Speaker 4: surprising because right after he left Fox, his numbers with
Speaker 4: Republicans were through the roof. He was a king maker,
Speaker 4: it was very popular, Ratings were amazing. There there was
Speaker 4: a real world where you could see Tucker winning a
Speaker 4: Republican presidential primary. And I'm not saying that jokingly.
Speaker 1: It's a nightmare scenario, incredibly.
Speaker 4: But what has happened now is not a symptom of Trump,
Speaker 4: but a symptom of the MAGA base fracturing very quickly.
Speaker 4: And for some of them, Tucker is now an apostate
Speaker 4: and an enemy of Trump, so they're going to not listen.
Speaker 4: For some of them, he's not going far enough against Trump,
Speaker 4: so they're not going to listen. It's weird, and and
Speaker 4: I think there are some Tucker stands out there who
Speaker 4: like that flavor. But he also put himself in a
Speaker 4: box as this leader of of the anti war, anti
Speaker 4: interventionist guy who also somehow ends up on the side
Speaker 4: of every you know Orbon in the world, somehow ends
Speaker 4: up on Putin's side on everything. And there's just a
Speaker 4: sort of sense that that he played out all his
Speaker 4: cards and ended up with a Paara tubes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild, like you think that guy should not
Speaker 1: have fucked himself.
Speaker 4: By the way, folks should remember, Tucker is not stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not a stupid No. I mean, that's why
Speaker 1: it's so dangerous. Ben Shapiro continues to create. But that
Speaker 1: I think is a marriage of pro zion as an
Speaker 1: anti Semitism.
Speaker 4: Ben Shapiro the Mark Levin of Yes, it's the Mark
Speaker 4: Levin of YouTube.
Speaker 1: We got to go across the Atlantic, Yeah, we do,
Speaker 1: to a country helmed by Victor Orbon, loved by conservatives worldwide.
Speaker 1: They sent in Jadi Vans the.
Speaker 4: Closer JD Vans. I would just like to introduce mister
Speaker 4: Orbon to an exclusive international club. Everything Trump touches dies and.
Speaker 1: Everything and everything JD vance, such as including the pope.
Speaker 4: Working destroyed and this this election was a absolute nuclear
Speaker 4: SmackDown As of the time we're recording this, Peter Magyar
Speaker 4: and the Teasa Party is somewhere very close within one
Speaker 4: or two seats in Parliament to a super majority. I
Speaker 4: think they need one thirty two and they were at
Speaker 4: one thirty when I saw it last. It probably will update.
Speaker 4: Obviously Orbon has conceded, which everyone has kind of shocked about,
Speaker 4: myself included.
Speaker 1: Which is good sign. By the way, that is good.
Speaker 4: Very good, sorry, very very good sign, very good.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know this is another thing. This The
Speaker 4: people in the conservative movement, Steve Bannon, Matt Slap, jd Vance,
Speaker 4: Peter Teel, who were deeply, deeply invested in in Hungary
Speaker 4: did so because they thought Orbon was the model for America.
Speaker 4: You could scale it up. He was the champion of
Speaker 4: illiberal sort of window dressing democracy. It looked like a democracy.
Speaker 4: It still had elections, but they were rigged. It's still
Speaker 4: had courts, but they were all his friends. It still
Speaker 4: had private enterprise, but they were all owned by his
Speaker 4: family members. But they really saw that as the model.
Speaker 4: And think about it. If you do that scaling exercise
Speaker 4: in your mind, that is what they're trying to do
Speaker 4: in America. Oh, no question, and Orbon was a beloved
Speaker 4: figure in that space, and now I believe he'll be
Speaker 4: joining the Shield of America to help Christine know he's good.
Speaker 1: That's right, She's Christino. By the way, underreported story in
Speaker 1: the Daily Mail, which is breaking all the news these days.
Speaker 4: Right, I don't know. I don't know, is.
Speaker 1: That the Christy Nome bedjet is now going to Yeah,
Speaker 1: she will not be using that bed with her husband
Speaker 1: to discuss.
Speaker 4: I don't think she's used the bed with her husband
Speaker 4: sometimes in the last twenty years. Yeah, I would think,
Speaker 4: like right after you have a kid and your husband
Speaker 4: gets caught banging porn stars. No, I'm going to pass
Speaker 4: on that anymore. That the horizontal mambo, no, thank you sir.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that ship is sailed.
Speaker 4: And I mean that that presser she did at the
Speaker 4: end of the week, Oh that is that is a
Speaker 4: dark hole from which no logic emerges yet except I
Speaker 4: look at it. I've been thinking about it since the
Speaker 4: day it happened. I look at it now as how
Speaker 4: do I get out of my prenup without more lawyers?
Speaker 1: I mean, the Millenia presser can be one of two things.
Speaker 1: One is she spends all day reading stuff about herself
Speaker 1: on the internet, and she's like, they're coming for me,
Speaker 1: And so she thinks that if she does this somehow
Speaker 1: it helps her. Or the other is she really just
Speaker 1: wants she wants to think them.
Speaker 4: I really want her to be that little girl on
Speaker 4: the meme who looks back at the camera and the
Speaker 4: house is burning down behind her.
Speaker 1: I mean that that I'm telling you. You know, I've
Speaker 1: talked to so many people this weekend who kind of
Speaker 1: know a lot of stuff and nobody can make any
Speaker 1: sense out of it.
Speaker 4: No, And I've talked to a lot of people too.
Speaker 4: I did pick up from somebody adjacent to that to
Speaker 4: the Trump Averse that the person described it to me
Speaker 4: as it was like a nuclear bomb, not a Ron
Speaker 4: style nuclear bomb, but a nuclear bomb went off because
Speaker 4: they did not know what she was doing. She didn't
Speaker 4: give them an they knew she was doing something. They
Speaker 4: thought it was some sort of be best you know, Milania,
Speaker 4: the power people and the children love goodly. Yeah, vetish
Speaker 4: husband for shovel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so orbon jd Vance Jade Vance is now
Speaker 1: the Elon Mosque of elections.
Speaker 4: Yes, he's he's basically He's basically the kiss of death
Speaker 4: for as Trump's electoral ambassador. But remember Trump put in
Speaker 4: he was calling over there, he was tweeting about how
Speaker 4: we were going to make Hungary's economy expand and explode
Speaker 4: and be great again. And Marco was on the same
Speaker 4: ticket as well, and all of them. I think it
Speaker 4: says something good for the world that Hungary was in
Speaker 4: the hands of Orbon. Peter Magyard, the guy who won today,
Speaker 4: started out when he was a young man, had a
Speaker 4: poster of a young Victor Orbon in his apartment because
Speaker 4: Victor Orbon after the Cold War was a pro democratic
Speaker 4: hero in Eastern Europe, and unfortunately he slipped into the
Speaker 4: corruption net that he made for himself. Wanted to get rich,
Speaker 4: wanted to have power great. It shows you that eventually
Speaker 4: even the billionaire class, and in a small country, even
Speaker 4: the super powerful in a small country, even a crooked
Speaker 4: court system in a small country like that, cannot sustain.
Speaker 4: And I think it's even harder to sustain over time
Speaker 4: in America, at least I hope so. But folks, the
Speaker 4: right wing movement around the world put in a full
Speaker 4: court press on this. They had a lot of American
Speaker 4: consultants over there who are Trump consultants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, a lot of them.
Speaker 4: They have not been uh, they've not been talking much today,
Speaker 4: which is kind of fascinating because normally they're a bunch
Speaker 4: of big mouths. But yeah, it is. It's a good day.
Speaker 1: It's a good day for democracy. A day that Victor
Speaker 1: Obamd loses is a good day for absolutely and a
Speaker 1: day that JD. Vans. I mean, that's the other thing
Speaker 1: about JD. Vance. And I want to talk about this
Speaker 1: for a minute because I feel like people are always
Speaker 1: you know, there are a bunch of doomers on the
Speaker 1: internet who are like, they're just trying to put in JD.
Speaker 1: Vans for Trump, and I'm like, you guys, bat dog,
Speaker 1: don't hunt.
Speaker 4: Don't hunt. Even if Peter Teele put it all in,
Speaker 4: shoved everything in the kitty in the middle of the
Speaker 4: table for JD. Vance, there's a reason why Trump sent
Speaker 4: him to do the two shittiest jobs in government, first
Speaker 4: negotiating with the Iranians with nothing to negotiate, and second
Speaker 4: trying to get Victor orb On a dictator reelected. While
Speaker 4: he goes with Marco, who looked absolutely like whacked out
Speaker 4: of his mind, at that at that event last night.
Speaker 4: It's the big shoes the USC. It may be the
Speaker 4: big shoes the USC event where you know, we're in
Speaker 4: the middle of a very consequential war and Trump has uh, well,
Speaker 4: let's put this way. Yesterday was golfing, then last night
Speaker 4: he was at UFC, and today he's golfing. So we're
Speaker 4: in great hands with JDA right now.
Speaker 1: It is amazing to me like that Donald Trump, he
Speaker 1: can look at his numbers, which are have they I
Speaker 1: don't know? Is he the lowest he's ever been.
Speaker 4: He's the lowest he's ever been. Yeah, cataly low.
Speaker 1: Right, he can look at his numbers and be like,
Speaker 1: you know, w who again I disagree with him a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff and who has been very quiet when
Speaker 1: we could use him saying stuff. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: longer story another day, but that he did knock golf
Speaker 1: during golf war. No, he made a real point not
Speaker 1: to golf because of the because partially because the optics.
Speaker 1: So like these are optics. You're already UFC fight. You're
Speaker 1: not going to make Joe Rogan love you. I mean
Speaker 1: maybe he can, but Joe Rogan is you know again,
Speaker 1: so at this UFC fight, there was a moment he
Speaker 1: saw all of his MAGA influencers. He saw Joe Rogan,
Speaker 1: he saw that horrible guy Fury with the stupid hair.
Speaker 3: He saw what was that about.
Speaker 4: I didn't even know he was MAGA, but guy.
Speaker 1: Fury like making out with Andrew Taate. Okay, I didn't
Speaker 1: have enough reasons to not like you, but I now
Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, and you saw all those guys discuss.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is now the guy who was the high
Speaker 4: school quarterback five years ago, and he graduated, and he
Speaker 4: went to community college for a year, then he dropped out.
Speaker 4: Now he works at a gas station. But every Friday
Speaker 4: night he still takes that corvette or that trans am.
Speaker 4: He circles the parking lot like that was my place, man,
Speaker 4: I loved it. That was when I was at my peak.
Speaker 4: And Trump feels like this is like, it feels like
Speaker 4: this could not be a more friendly audience for him.
Speaker 4: But I think that too has come to a sort
Speaker 4: of diminishing returns point.
Speaker 1: And then some yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 4: Edgar, Donald Trump, you really want to be hanging out
Speaker 4: with Andrew Taate, a child sex.
Speaker 1: Trafficker, unbelievably bad.
Speaker 4: Rick Wilson as always my friend.
Speaker 1: Ed Sir Gerald is a candidate for Congress in Ohio
Speaker 1: seventh District. Welcome, Welcome, Ed, Hi, Mike, let's talk about
Speaker 1: Ohio because you are running for Max Miller's congressional seat.
Speaker 1: You have run for office before in Ohio, and I
Speaker 1: feel like it's probably like one of the very few
Speaker 1: moments where Democrats can win in Ohio because of the
Speaker 1: craziness of the White House. Is that your calculus and
Speaker 1: talk us through it.
Speaker 5: It's a different vibe than I've ever seen before, let
Speaker 5: me put it that way. So I've been elected to
Speaker 5: local office. I was a mayor locally, and I was
Speaker 5: a county executive locally. So we can win, especially in
Speaker 5: northeast Ohio. And basically Democrats do win in the bigger
Speaker 5: cities like they do across the country, right, But this
Speaker 5: is a suburban district and it's a little bit of
Speaker 5: a rural district.
Speaker 3: But I've never seen a vibe like this.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, we've done We've done twenty two
Speaker 5: town halls in the last I think four months, and
Speaker 5: the level of anger and just confusion about what the
Speaker 5: country is turning into, I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 5: And so that creates a moment that you wouldn't see
Speaker 5: in a place like Ohio.
Speaker 1: Typically, the big story that the mainstream media is missing
Speaker 1: right now is it as uncomfortable as all of us
Speaker 1: in TV Land are with what's happening, the American people
Speaker 1: are ten times more furious and scared. And so tell
Speaker 1: me what it's like in these town halls. And also,
Speaker 1: first I want you to tell us the district you're
Speaker 1: running for is the what are the calculus like how
Speaker 1: republican is and then I want to talk about maximili
Speaker 1: So the.
Speaker 5: District is a district that Donald Trump won with about
Speaker 5: fifty five percent of the vote, and it's the Cleveland suburbs.
Speaker 5: It's the West Cleveland suburbs, and some suburbs that are
Speaker 5: south of Cleveland. And then it's three counties that are
Speaker 5: south of Cleveland that are more rural. They're kind of urban,
Speaker 5: but they're also kind of rural. So that's what the
Speaker 5: that's basically what the district is. Some parts of the
Speaker 5: district are kind of high income, high education. Some of
Speaker 5: them are much more like what used to be called
Speaker 5: Reagan Democratic areas.
Speaker 3: These are suburbs, by.
Speaker 5: The way, that all the presidential candidates, whether it was
Speaker 5: Bill Clinton or Barack Obama or George Bush, used to
Speaker 5: always go to these suburbs because they can swing one
Speaker 5: way or the other.
Speaker 3: So that's what the district is.
Speaker 5: The vibe that you get when we've done, like I said,
Speaker 5: we've done twenty two town halls. Max Miller hasn't done
Speaker 5: a town hall in two years. He's one of these
Speaker 5: people that's hiding out from his constituents. And I can
Speaker 5: see why because I have talked to these folks and
Speaker 5: they are pissed off. The thing is Molly that it's
Speaker 5: tough to describe in one sentence, but I'll do my
Speaker 5: best to do so is what it is that they're
Speaker 5: mad about. The way that I describe it is that
Speaker 5: they have this sense that the richest people in the
Speaker 5: country have teamed up with the most corrupt people in
Speaker 5: the country to hijack the government. The way that that
Speaker 5: unfolds in their personal life is a lot of times different.
Speaker 5: Sometimes that needs its higher grocery prices or higher gas prices.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it needs because they're being they're getting screwed over
Speaker 5: on healthcare, but they just know that something is seriously
Speaker 5: gone off the rails.
Speaker 1: I want you to talk about MaTx Miller. So Max
Speaker 1: Miller is a I don't even know how to explain him.
Speaker 1: He's a person from Trump world. He has a long
Speaker 1: and salacious history with ladies that includes allegations of domestic
Speaker 1: I mean, just talk me through. Like he's a very
Speaker 1: galvanizing candidate.
Speaker 5: I think he's one of the most vulnerable Republicans in
Speaker 5: the entire country. When you've been accused credibly by three women,
Speaker 5: including the daughter of Senator Bernie Marino, of abuse, you're
Speaker 5: in big trouble.
Speaker 1: Woke leftist Bernie Marino go on yes.
Speaker 5: Right, And by the way, the other woman that went
Speaker 5: on the record was Malania Trump's press secretary. So it's
Speaker 5: not like these were people that maga people can say, oh, well,
Speaker 5: these were crazy liberal acts of this that are making,
Speaker 5: you know, outrageous allegations. So he's just a very troubled guy.
Speaker 5: Let me put it that way. He's a trust fund baby.
Speaker 5: He comes from one of the wealthiest families in Cleveland,
Speaker 5: and he was a Trump staff person who win the
Speaker 5: previous Republican member of Congress voted for impeachment.
Speaker 3: He was one of those congressmen. His name was Anthony Gonzalez.
Speaker 5: He wasn't very nationally prominent, but he did vote his
Speaker 5: conscience and he voted for impeachment. Well, they pressured him
Speaker 5: out and they plopped Max Miller in. And he's never
Speaker 5: really developed a rapport with the district and that's only
Speaker 5: been heightened by the fact that he's just such a mess.
Speaker 5: And then when he doesn't really campaign much because he's
Speaker 5: not very good at it, but when he does speak out,
Speaker 5: you can see his.
Speaker 3: Lack of talent, quite honestly. So give you a quick example.
Speaker 5: After the Minneapolis shootings, he immediately made some really disgusting
Speaker 5: comments that basically blamed the victims there in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: Wait which Minneapolis shootings, Melissa Horton and her husband, or
Speaker 1: the two American citizens who got josh.
Speaker 5: The two American citizens. So what he said after that
Speaker 5: was that anybody that has it served in the military
Speaker 5: or in law enforcement needs to shut up and not
Speaker 5: say anything about that because they don't understand the situation.
Speaker 5: And by the way, I've been in law enforcement before,
Speaker 5: and that's not how I feel.
Speaker 3: I used to be in a special.
Speaker 5: Agent with the FBI, So look, that doesn't give me
Speaker 5: a special right to talk about when people's human rights
Speaker 5: are being violated, and you know, people might think that's
Speaker 5: just a liberal issue.
Speaker 4: It's not.
Speaker 5: There are very conservative communities. For instance, we have a
Speaker 5: big Ukrainian population in the district. Well they've been affected
Speaker 5: by ice, and so I just think this guy is
Speaker 5: completely out of touch. This is not a crazy, crazy
Speaker 5: right wing district at all. He only got fifty one
Speaker 5: percent of the vote, by the way, in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 5: so I think he should be at the top of
Speaker 5: the list. I'm not just saying that because I'm running,
Speaker 5: but I guess I have an extra reason to say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I've known about this guy as someone
Speaker 1: who writes about domestic violence or tries to make sure
Speaker 1: to highlight when I see that happen on the left
Speaker 1: or the right. The fact that there were so many
Speaker 1: women and he kept having you know, I just couldn't
Speaker 1: that really. I was really shocked there hasn't been any
Speaker 1: kind of follow up there. And the fact that it's
Speaker 1: not an extreme maga district. You know, even though we're
Speaker 1: seeing today we have Rome Georgia doing runoff your campaigning
Speaker 1: in this district the suburbs of Cleveland, and I've been
Speaker 1: there I'm curious to hear what people tell you are
Speaker 1: the big concerns, because that I think is very useful
Speaker 1: and important to know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, people do care about the corruption. I mean I
Speaker 5: talked about corruption a lot because my background wasn't investigating it,
Speaker 5: so I do focus on it a lot. The incredible
Speaker 5: scams that are going on that we find out out
Speaker 5: about on an almost daily basis, that really gets under
Speaker 5: people's skin because when you're struggling to make it and
Speaker 5: you know that other.
Speaker 3: People are getting rich off the system.
Speaker 5: That really does resonate with people when they talk about
Speaker 5: things though that how that kind of works out into
Speaker 5: their daily life. The biggest thing that we do hear
Speaker 5: about is healthcare. So Max Miller was one of the
Speaker 5: people that voted against extending the subsidy for the Affordable
Speaker 5: Care Act. That affected about forty thousand people just in
Speaker 5: this district. So that's a huge percentage of people. And
Speaker 5: by the way, that hit people harder in the rural
Speaker 5: areas than it actually did in the suburban areas. So
Speaker 5: we hear about that a lot. And everybody has a
Speaker 5: personal story about that.
Speaker 3: I mean I do.
Speaker 5: In my family, almost everybody has a story about how
Speaker 5: they're either underinsured or uninsured, or they can afford the premiums,
Speaker 5: or they can't afford the deductibles, and so that really
Speaker 5: hit people hard. So there's about twenty five thousand people
Speaker 5: that are scheduled to get kicked off of Medicaid. There's
Speaker 5: about forty thousand who just have their premiums go through
Speaker 5: the roof. So that's something we hear about a lot,
Speaker 5: and it's one of the reasons. I mean, I'm for
Speaker 5: Medicare for all, and I find that that issue really
Speaker 5: resonates with people. Not that Medicare is perfect, but they
Speaker 5: know it, they understand it, and they see that as
Speaker 5: I'm not just telling them.
Speaker 4: Hey, I feel you're pain. That sucks.
Speaker 5: I'm also saying there is a way to get there.
Speaker 5: We can finally get serious about this in this country.
Speaker 1: I would love to talk about Like, you're in a
Speaker 1: state that's been very republican. You have this governor who
Speaker 1: sort of was able to walk the line. Now he's
Speaker 1: turned out right, so you had shared shared's running again.
Speaker 1: Like I'd love you to just talk about the landscape,
Speaker 1: Like because I remember going to Ohio in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: and getting the sense that this this state was really
Speaker 1: going to vote for Trump, Like, I just really like
Speaker 1: I didn't see any Clinton lawn signs or I saw
Speaker 1: very few, and I thought, this is not going to
Speaker 1: be a Democratic win. You can sort of feel it,
Speaker 1: So tell me what it's like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was around in politics for long enough that
Speaker 5: I kind of saw the whole thing coming. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm old enough that I remember when we had Democratic
Speaker 5: governors in the eighties. But we basically the state wide
Speaker 5: party has, with the exception of Shared Brown, has been
Speaker 5: on a pretty big losing streak since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3: Now, the exception to that was back Obama.
Speaker 5: But I gotta tell you, Molly, that was different because
Speaker 5: they put so many resources into the state and they
Speaker 5: had so many volunteers. I mean, they had so many
Speaker 5: young people that we reactive. Two thousand and eight was incredible,
Speaker 5: although two thousand and four was also very competitive at
Speaker 5: the presidential level, but two thousand and eight was incredible.
Speaker 5: You just felt it on the ground and then kind
Speaker 5: of the air went out of the balloon and you
Speaker 5: started feeling in twenty ten is when it all started
Speaker 5: to kind of go wrong in the state, and you
Speaker 5: could just feel it on the ground. What's happening, and
Speaker 5: I think it's happening in other states like Iowa's really interesting.
Speaker 5: I think also Iowa, you see, they're kind of getting
Speaker 5: buyer's remorse. We've had a Republican government for so long
Speaker 5: in this state, Like I said, I mean except for
Speaker 5: four years, since nineteen ninety, every governor has been Republican,
Speaker 5: except for four years. That people are saying, you know what,
Speaker 5: we are getting screwed, and at what point in time
Speaker 5: do we need to start holding the people accountable that
Speaker 5: are actually running this state.
Speaker 3: So there's just a lot of buyer's remort. We did
Speaker 3: two polls against Maxi Miller.
Speaker 5: We were winning in both of them, one by two points,
Speaker 5: one by four points. And what was surprising was not
Speaker 5: that the Democrats were voting for me. It was how
Speaker 5: many Republicans and independents were saying, Okay, I finally had enough.
Speaker 3: I just think we're at a tipping point.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I'm thinking about the Bernie Marino Senate
Speaker 1: race from the twenty four cycle, and like it really
Speaker 1: did from the outside. Remember I'm not in Oha, but
Speaker 1: from the outside it certainly seemed as if Bernie had
Speaker 1: been like crypto had come in and just been like,
Speaker 1: no more Sharon Brown. Bernie Marino's our man. And like
Speaker 1: when you hear him, he seems real sleazy compared to Sharon. Right.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not friends with him, but I know
Speaker 1: him a little, and like he seems pretty folksy and
Speaker 1: Bernie seems really sleezy. Like it seemed like Shared might
Speaker 1: be able to hold on to seat. You think there's
Speaker 1: remorse there? I mean, do people talk to you about
Speaker 1: that at all?
Speaker 5: Well, twenty twenty four was a really crazy political year here,
Speaker 5: and I'll tell you why. First of all, your instinct, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, Shared Brown has had a long, long relationship,
Speaker 5: I mean goes back into the eighties with the voters,
Speaker 5: and he's always been somebody that can can it, talks
Speaker 5: like a regular person. And Bernie Marino I don't think
Speaker 5: has that ability at all.
Speaker 1: But he owned car dealerships, right, He's a.
Speaker 5: Car dealership guy, and I don't think people knew what
Speaker 5: his background was.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing.
Speaker 5: Over sixty percent of the ads, and if you lived
Speaker 5: in Ohio you saw this. Over sixty percent of the
Speaker 5: ads that Bernie Marino ran were negative ads against Shared Brown.
Speaker 3: And it was almost always on one issue. You want
Speaker 3: to guess what it was trans in sports exactly.
Speaker 5: You could not turn on a television here without somebody saying,
Speaker 5: I just can't vote for Shared Brown again because I
Speaker 5: don't think that men should be playing on women's basketball teams.
Speaker 1: Insane.
Speaker 5: It was the ultimate distraction operation, and it was I'm
Speaker 5: telling you, it was overwhelming. And there's all this bullshit
Speaker 5: going on where the super PACs, as you said, the
Speaker 5: crypto industry and so forth, they were running the same ads.
Speaker 3: Right, Supposedly these are independent, but that's all bullshit.
Speaker 5: They clearly are coordinating, and it was just absolutely overwhelming.
Speaker 5: The question is when you're living your daily life and
Speaker 5: you can see that your life did not get better
Speaker 5: because of all those commercials, and you're actually still struggling
Speaker 5: to make it. You don't have gas, that's a dollar fifty,
Speaker 5: it's four bucks. At what point do you in time
Speaker 5: do you say, you know what, I got conned by this?
Speaker 5: And I think we are getting Some people are going
Speaker 5: to be conned and they're never going to figure it out.
Speaker 3: But I do think a lot of people have figured
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 1: Have you had people say to you like, have we
Speaker 1: got conned?
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 5: And the other part of a winning an election is
Speaker 5: that your own base has to be motivated, and our
Speaker 5: base is I mean, look they said, listen, we thought
Speaker 5: think terrible things were going to happen. We didn't know
Speaker 5: it was going to be this terrible. I mean, every
Speaker 5: single day, I have a line that I always tell
Speaker 5: these tell these town halls.
Speaker 3: What do we do them? I say.
Speaker 5: I used to say I had to check my phone,
Speaker 5: you know, the morning of the town hall to make
Speaker 5: sure it's something crazy. Now I have to check it
Speaker 5: five minutes before.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And there's just this sense that the country is slipping
Speaker 5: out of control. So I think the combination of buyer's
Speaker 5: remorse plus a motivated base adds up to Max Miller
Speaker 5: taking an early retirement.
Speaker 1: Today is a really good example of you. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: threatened to basically just blow up all of Iran. Not
Speaker 1: entirely clear why he decided to do that today, but
Speaker 1: it certainly feels like we are a country run by
Speaker 1: Matt King who has very little accountability. Congress out of
Speaker 1: office for the holiday because God to have spring break.
Speaker 1: When you're talking to people, do they sort of remember
Speaker 1: what government looks like that we've been in this thing
Speaker 1: for a decade.
Speaker 3: It depends how old they are. Yeah, I'll give you example.
Speaker 5: So my kids, I've got four kids, they're my youngest
Speaker 5: is twenty six. Okay, so my daughter Bridget is twenty six.
Speaker 5: She doesn't really you know, her last ten years of
Speaker 5: her life and all of her adult life as a
Speaker 5: citizen who can vote right, has all been about this madness.
Speaker 5: So one thing that I am worried about is we
Speaker 5: do have young people show up at the town halls.
Speaker 5: But even if you look at No King's Day, which
Speaker 5: we had some great No King's Day protests here, it
Speaker 5: still was an older crowd. Because I think a lot
Speaker 5: of people that are on the younger side have said
Speaker 5: this is soft up, that maybe it can never work again,
Speaker 5: because these are people a lot of times that barely
Speaker 5: remember Barack Obama. I know that sounds crazy, but if
Speaker 5: you're young enough, you don't really remember that or that's
Speaker 5: part of your childhood, and all they've seen is this dysfunction.
Speaker 5: And those are the hardest questions to answer, I'll tell
Speaker 5: you at town hall. I mean, look, I don't know
Speaker 5: when this is going to air, but yesterday I saw
Speaker 5: the president basically promising war crimes while standing next to
Speaker 5: the easter bunny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's surreal.
Speaker 5: So you get to a point where you're like, look,
Speaker 5: I get it, while why you're so cynical and you
Speaker 5: don't think that things can work. So I always tell people, look,
Speaker 5: I don't want to over promise. I do think Democrats
Speaker 5: are going to take back Congress, and then we are
Speaker 5: in for two more crazy years until these assholes are
Speaker 5: totally out of office, because it's.
Speaker 3: Never going to be normal while they're there.
Speaker 5: That may not be an uplifting message, but I'm trying
Speaker 5: to be straight with people, and I tell people one
Speaker 5: of the reasons I think I'm a good candidate is
Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of stuff politically. I've done a
Speaker 5: lot of things in my career. I thought i'd seen
Speaker 5: the worst of the worst. Well, these people are the
Speaker 5: worst of the worst, and we're not going to get
Speaker 5: rid of them just because we have a good election
Speaker 5: this year. We've got to buckle up and get ready
Speaker 5: for two more crazy years at Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: When it's the.
Speaker 5: Primary primary is on May fifth, and actually early voting
Speaker 5: starts on April.
Speaker 1: Seventh, Is it a crowded field.
Speaker 3: It's a crowded field.
Speaker 5: But look a few years ago the Democratic Party had
Speaker 5: to scramble to find somebody to run in this district.
Speaker 5: And now there's all kinds of people running. But I
Speaker 5: think it looks pretty good for us. But we'll see
Speaker 5: what We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll come back.
Speaker 3: Banks appreciate it.
Speaker 1: No moment, Rick Wilson, Hey, Molly, it always must be
Speaker 1: that if there is a moment of fucker ey, it
Speaker 1: is somehow tied to Trump corruption. And if it's Trump
Speaker 1: corruption and it's attacking your enemy, is in a very
Speaker 1: well be fancy rich by friend of Trumps.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So a guy that most of us don't pay
Speaker 4: a ton of attention to except you and I, of course,
Speaker 4: named Bill Paulty. Inside the administration, he is a huge
Speaker 4: friend of the president. He runs the Federal Housing Finance Agency,
Speaker 4: which is the group that's been responsible for quote unquote
Speaker 4: finding these bullshit mortgage fraud accusations against Tis James and
Speaker 4: who god knows who else. Right, they've all turned out
Speaker 4: to be nothing burgers. But he is an eager Trump
Speaker 4: asked Kitter of the highest degree, and now Finance can
Speaker 4: has found out that Paulty gave sixty five thousand dollars
Speaker 4: to a charity Aham called One World love LLC.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing. One World love LLC was built by
Speaker 4: one of the partners at the Banal Law Group, the
Speaker 4: benal Banal Bi n All. But the way it sounds
Speaker 4: is the way it is.
Speaker 1: Michael Wolfe said, I say banal things on television.
Speaker 4: You know what. Michael wolf has thousands of emails I know,
Speaker 4: and you don't. So there you're go, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Keep going.
Speaker 4: Anyway, this was during a period of time where they
Speaker 4: were paying Banal Law Group. Trump owed them jillions of
Speaker 4: dollars and this looked like a charitable payment or charitable deduction,
Speaker 4: but it turns out it was just to pay Trump's
Speaker 4: fucking legal bills. These people are so shady. And now,
Speaker 4: since this was a five oh one C three, mister Polti,
Speaker 4: who apparently is a stickler for the rules, because everybody's
Speaker 4: mortgages have to be examined with a fine tooth, call
Speaker 4: miss party maybe entering the finding out territory. Oh, it's
Speaker 4: not always the big corruption. I mean, sixty five thousand
Speaker 4: dollars in Trump corruption money is like nothing. But I
Speaker 4: mean it's still the point. It's the point. Rick Wilson,
Speaker 4: Molly John Fast I'll see you next week.
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