Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics,
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Speaker 1: We have such a great show for you today, The
Speaker 1: Jim Acostas Show's own Jim Acosta stops by to talk
Speaker 1: about Trump's unpopular rule and its consequences. Then we'll talk
Speaker 1: to Congressman Jared Moskowitz about the Republicans bad bargaining as
Speaker 1: the government shutdown continues. But first the news Bi.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you this, Trump prosecuting his enemies. You
Speaker 2: feel like his heart would be more in it if
Speaker 2: he hadn't given the most incompetent person in the world
Speaker 2: the job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's talk about what the fuck is going
Speaker 1: on here. Donald J. Trump is prosecuting his enemies. This
Speaker 1: is norms, crushing democracy killing. There aren't enough cliches to
Speaker 1: spout in order to explain how fucking bad this is.
Speaker 1: This is bad. It's not what we do. It's what
Speaker 1: they do in Russia, and it's what they do in
Speaker 1: Banana republics and the good news is that, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, Donald J. Trump and his henchmen are not
Speaker 1: very smart. And so despite that, I think that Letitia
Speaker 1: James is actually going to win this. And by the way,
Speaker 1: what's really cool about this is like we have these
Speaker 1: people who are pushing back, they are fighting back, they
Speaker 1: are showing what we need to see, which is that
Speaker 1: all of this is ridiculous. And Lindsay Halligan is an
Speaker 1: insurance attorney and she does not know how to run
Speaker 1: the Justice Department, and so going after the president's enemies
Speaker 1: is going to fail. And also, this is not what
Speaker 1: we do in this country.
Speaker 2: Yes, agreed, you know it is a shame because these
Speaker 2: people end up spending tons of money to fight these
Speaker 2: coure cases while our textellars support mister Trump's grievances. I mean,
Speaker 2: I heard Boddick McIver, Congress would from New York talking
Speaker 2: about it's costing her over a million dollars that she
Speaker 2: has to raise to fight her lawsuit and it's gumming
Speaker 2: up the works when shames could be doing other things.
Speaker 2: But this is where we are with this stupid, stupid administration.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Donald Trump is really wetting the bed over
Speaker 2: Canada and Cardi running an ad against his stupid tariff's boy,
Speaker 2: he's really throwing a fit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, Mark Carney is a really skilled PM and
Speaker 1: they are really lucky. Like he's the guy who led
Speaker 1: England through Brexit, who is really smart and good. He's
Speaker 1: like the opposite. He's like bizarro Trump. He's like good
Speaker 1: at stuff luckily for them. So he is mad because
Speaker 1: Canada did this ad shows this video of Reagan talking
Speaker 1: about harems, and Trump is mad about this ad, so
Speaker 1: he's decided that he's going to cut off trade negotiations
Speaker 1: with Canada. Here's the truth. Donald Trump is out of
Speaker 1: his depths and likely out of his mind. And so
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan had the common Republican belief and now Trump
Speaker 1: is just not a free trader. So this ad quote
Speaker 1: it's drawn from a radio dress that Reagan gave in
Speaker 1: April nineteen eighty seven, which he's urges Congress not to
Speaker 1: pursue protectionist policies against Japan and gave a blistering critique
Speaker 1: of the economic effects of tariffs. Look, man, Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: is right. I mean that's the crazy part of this.
Speaker 1: Like this is correct. And again with every Trump truth
Speaker 1: I think this is like the most important part of
Speaker 1: the story. It was unclear if the President had spoken
Speaker 1: to mister Carney or anyone in the Canadian government before
Speaker 1: announcing that he was canceling trade talk Bye. Mister Trump's
Speaker 1: Thursday missive was not the first indication that he had
Speaker 1: noticed the ad. And look, you know again, this is
Speaker 1: we are being We are being ruled by a mad
Speaker 1: king who has emotional responses to things and then decides
Speaker 1: that he is going to run the federal government because
Speaker 1: of his emotional responses to things. I am reminded of
Speaker 1: a time when we weren't told that women were too emotional.
Speaker 2: I was going to say that I'm reminded of him
Speaker 2: saying this is how Hillary Clinton would run the government.
Speaker 2: And yeah, buddy, I'll take a firm book at the mirror,
Speaker 2: because it seems like that top of the bud for
Speaker 2: him every day.
Speaker 1: Oh period jokes, bum bum bum. Anyway, look, man, you're
Speaker 1: not wrong. Yeah, so it's just it's not good.
Speaker 2: Speaking of not good, I'm going to tell you they
Speaker 2: it's a total story here that I remember about a
Speaker 2: month ago, I was celebrating with a friend their new
Speaker 2: job achievement. I got a steak and the steakhouse came
Speaker 2: up to us because they knew us from internet stuff,
Speaker 2: and they said, we really apologize about the stake portion.
Speaker 2: We don't want to raise our prices. But beef is
Speaker 2: at at all time high. And I looked at a
Speaker 2: graph and I could not believe how much the hot
Speaker 2: price of beef had gone up. And so sure enough
Speaker 2: we see a new report that inflation has climbed to
Speaker 2: its highest level since January, and beef is at an
Speaker 2: all time.
Speaker 1: High fifteen percent over the year ending in September. Data
Speaker 1: shows Trump has set off an outcry. Look, these are
Speaker 1: people who voted for Trump who are actually just getting
Speaker 1: fun by Trump egg prices. You'll remember Donald Trump said
Speaker 1: he was going to make eggs cheaper. Wow, they are
Speaker 1: a little cheaper, but we've recently read that birdflu is back,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how cheap they stay. The price of
Speaker 1: coffee has starved nineteen percent over the past year, which
Speaker 1: is where most of my money goes. To Carolyn Levitt,
Speaker 1: who said that Donald Trump is laser focused on the
Speaker 1: renovation of his ballroom. As well. He should be, it's
Speaker 1: not like he's president. She said that the government shutdown
Speaker 1: would likely result in no inflation report for October. You'll
Speaker 1: remember that earlier this season, Donald Trump fired the head
Speaker 1: of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. So my guess is,
Speaker 1: my man, we'll be happy not to have that information.
Speaker 1: He might have to fire her again. Can he fire
Speaker 1: a third time?
Speaker 2: I imagine that the guy who got famous off of
Speaker 2: saying you're fired can just do it all night and day.
Speaker 1: Let us pray right, so bad somai.
Speaker 2: I'll tell another personally asident. My wife, as we've discussed,
Speaker 2: works for a congress person, and therefore she's working but
Speaker 2: not getting paid. So our house has been reduced to
Speaker 2: a single income house now and luckily I can cover us.
Speaker 2: But like so many families we're talking to of coworkers
Speaker 2: and other people we know in government, they're having horrible times.
Speaker 2: Their student loans are going to misspayments, which come with penalties.
Speaker 2: They don't know how to pay them because the government
Speaker 2: normally takes care of that process, but the liaison is
Speaker 2: shut down. This is a real shit show. With this
Speaker 2: government shutdown, have Russia Ron Johnson blocking Chris van Holland's
Speaker 2: measure to allow federal employees to be paid during the shutdown.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happens here. I mean, this shutdown
Speaker 1: could keep going until Thanksgiving. Democrats don't want a cave.
Speaker 1: Republicans don't want to extend these tax credits on Obamacare.
Speaker 1: They were like a bunch of different bills to try
Speaker 1: and pay some different people. There's the Military and Federal
Speaker 1: Employee Protection Acts, sponsored by Gary Peters, which would allow
Speaker 1: military service members, federal employees, and contractors to receive the
Speaker 1: pay they have missed during the shutdown. Again, Johnson blocked
Speaker 1: both measures. Van Holland, you know there are a couple measures.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a government shutdown with no end
Speaker 1: in sight, and it's fucked, and you know, you have
Speaker 1: people at food banks, and you know, government employees really
Speaker 1: have just been treated so terrible over the last nine months,
Speaker 1: and Republicans don't care, and it's a pretty stupid state
Speaker 1: of affairs, all told Stronger. Jim Acosta is the author
Speaker 1: of The Substack That Jim Acosta Show and the author
Speaker 1: of the New York Times bestseller Enemy of the People,
Speaker 1: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America. Welcome
Speaker 1: too Fast Politics, Jim Acosta.
Speaker 3: Hey, good to see you, good to hear you.
Speaker 1: And we are alive another day in Trump's America? Can
Speaker 1: you believe, Like, let's take a moment to recount the
Speaker 1: week that the East Wing was demolished, that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: said the American people should pay him two hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars two hundred and sixty four million dollars. I can't
Speaker 1: remember exactly the number of bombs and fishermen in the
Speaker 1: Caribbean Sea as well, it does next week, that's right.
Speaker 1: You know, all federal government remains closed all to prevent
Speaker 1: the American people from seeing the Epstein trials.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think, good night everybody that that's a perfect synopsis.
Speaker 3: Let's just go home. That's that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I you know, you know, I worked
Speaker 4: at the White House for seven and a half years covering.
Speaker 1: Before they pulled away your hard pass.
Speaker 3: Remember that my heart passed.
Speaker 4: Now like pulling away my heart pass is sort of
Speaker 4: like a Disney you know, after school special or.
Speaker 3: Something comparedable right now.
Speaker 4: But no, I mean, you know, I have some reverence
Speaker 4: for the place. I know that nobody does anymore, but
Speaker 4: I still do. And the fact that he could just
Speaker 4: go in and fucking raise the East Wing of the
Speaker 4: White House without you know talking to anybody about it.
Speaker 4: It's just like the perfect symbol of where we are
Speaker 4: right now as a country, and people just need to
Speaker 4: understand this is going to get worse before it gets better.
Speaker 4: He's unstable, the people around him are either corrupt or
Speaker 4: a name or both. And you know this is this
Speaker 4: is We're just heading towards the midterms and we all
Speaker 4: have to buckle up because I think this is going
Speaker 4: to get worse before he gets better, and his out
Speaker 4: of control behavior is going to get even more out
Speaker 4: of control when he basically tries to stop us from
Speaker 4: all voting next year.
Speaker 1: So I mean, yes, he has just said he will,
Speaker 1: but you know what I do think, And again, like
Speaker 1: why I think we should not despair is partially because
Speaker 1: it's too early to despair, but also because even Hitler
Speaker 1: was popular. I'm sorry, but popular.
Speaker 3: You know he wasn't Molly, I gotta go now. It
Speaker 3: was great talking to you, just saying.
Speaker 1: Like Mussolini, you have to be a little popular, Like
Speaker 1: if you want to be an autocrat, you got to
Speaker 1: give the carrots. And what's happening right now the federal
Speaker 1: government is closed because Donald Trump does not want to
Speaker 1: give more money for healthcare premium, which means because of
Speaker 1: tax cuts for very wealthy people, which means that all
Speaker 1: of these people who voted for him are about to
Speaker 1: get kicked off their healthcare. They're not about to not
Speaker 1: be able to afford to pay their.
Speaker 4: Premiums, right, And I know that strategically, you and I've
Speaker 4: talked about this, the Democrats have carved out a nice
Speaker 4: little strategy for themselves.
Speaker 3: That, you know, if they hold the.
Speaker 4: Republicans over a barrel over these Obamacare premiums, that they'll
Speaker 4: cry uncle at some point. And that may and maybe
Speaker 4: they will. Maybe they will, but maybe they won't. There's
Speaker 4: a part and maybe they won't. There's a part of
Speaker 4: me that wonders whether it might make sense for at
Speaker 4: this point for folks to understand what it feels like
Speaker 4: to touch the hot stove. And I just you know,
Speaker 4: I wonder when Donald Trump says, oh, these are Democrat programs.
Speaker 4: So I, as you and I have talked about, I've
Speaker 4: been to tons of Trump rallies. A lot of his
Speaker 4: people are on Medicare, a lot of his people are
Speaker 4: on Medicaid, a lot of his people are on Obamacare,
Speaker 4: but just may not. They may not fully understand that,
Speaker 4: but they are on Obama and they're going to start
Speaker 4: to feel these premium increases that you know, as Margie
Speaker 4: Taylor Green was saying about her own kids, maybe what
Speaker 4: doubling or whatever for a lot of Americans.
Speaker 3: And I think that you know that there there may be.
Speaker 4: A scenario where some folks are just going to have
Speaker 4: to get that sticker shock and understand like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is important. Look what's happening to the farmers in
Speaker 4: the Midwest where Trump is going to give billions of
Speaker 4: dollars to Argentina and now we're going to buy Argentinian.
Speaker 3: Beef because the price beef is too high in this country.
Speaker 4: And the cattle farmers are like, what the fuck were
Speaker 4: we just voted you back into office and you're screwing
Speaker 4: this already?
Speaker 5: Yes, and he is.
Speaker 4: And the answer is he's screwing you already. People should
Speaker 4: have known this the first time and not done this
Speaker 4: the second time. But here we are learning these lessons
Speaker 4: all over again.
Speaker 1: And I mean, this is the other thing that I
Speaker 1: would say about where we are at this moment. It's
Speaker 1: that we one of the big problems about Trump one point, oh,
Speaker 1: was that you could never convince people that Trump was
Speaker 1: going to do what he said he was going to
Speaker 1: do because he wasn't able to do them the last time.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a real so talk about.
Speaker 4: That well, I mean I I mean, when he was
Speaker 4: running for reelection in twenty twenty, I talked to one
Speaker 4: of his top advisors who said, you know, if he
Speaker 4: gets back into the White House a second time, it's
Speaker 4: going to be trump Ism on steroids. And now what
Speaker 4: we're getting we didn't get that because Joe Biden won
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty. What we're getting now is trump Ism
Speaker 4: on steroids and crystal mas. We're getting just sort of
Speaker 4: Trump unleashed. You know, every dark, you know, horrible thing
Speaker 4: that's going on inside of him is just being unleashed
Speaker 4: on all of us, and it's it's manifesting itself at Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm just going to destroy a giant part of the
Speaker 4: White House complex. And you know, I tell people buckle
Speaker 4: up because I think there's You have to understand the
Speaker 4: way his mind works. He thinks, he thinks out very
Speaker 4: devious schemes, and then as soon he's achieved one of
Speaker 4: those schemes, his mind is already working on the next one.
Speaker 4: And I would not be You look at these these
Speaker 4: renderings of what the ballroom is going to look like.
Speaker 4: Compared to the rest of the White House, it's ninety
Speaker 4: thousand square foot compared to the White House Executive Residents
Speaker 4: itself is fifty five thousand if you exclude the East
Speaker 4: and West wings. My guess is he already has in
Speaker 4: mind that he would like to demolish the West wing
Speaker 4: and rebuild the West wing to look like the East wing.
Speaker 4: And so you just have to understand this is how
Speaker 4: he works, this is how the people around him work.
Speaker 4: They will lie to the public and say, oh, no,
Speaker 4: it's not going to touch the existing building, and then
Speaker 4: they'll blow it the fuck up now, and it's going
Speaker 4: to say, oh, that's all we're going to do. We're
Speaker 4: just going to do the East wing, and then guess
Speaker 4: what the bulldozers are going to show up to knock
Speaker 4: down the West wing.
Speaker 3: Is this is just the.
Speaker 4: New normal that we're in right now, or the totally
Speaker 4: fucked up abnormal that we're in right now. It's just
Speaker 4: going to continue. And I think what we're building up to,
Speaker 4: in my view, so we're building up to a a
Speaker 4: massive voter revolt in twenty twenty six, I think, and
Speaker 4: we can talk about that, and I think that is
Speaker 4: going to keep building up to a massive voter revolt
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I'm glad you
Speaker 1: talked about here is that I truly believe that this
Speaker 1: is not I mean, he's the most unpopular he's ever been,
Speaker 1: yes ever, and there's a reason for that, because my
Speaker 1: man does not give a fuck. I think that what
Speaker 1: happened was Trump one point zero was a disaster for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. But you know, COVID was an
Speaker 1: incredible kind of amnesiatic, right. It created a sort of amnesia.
Speaker 1: People were traumatized. They didn't remember, they didn't know what happened.
Speaker 1: And then Biden made I think, really the biggest mistake
Speaker 1: that anyone has ever made as a in the in
Speaker 1: the in the messaging world, which is he really didn't
Speaker 1: do any interviews. So everyone got mad. You know, the
Speaker 1: mainstream media was pissed at him. Everybody forgot that he
Speaker 1: was president. People stopped caring about it, and then you
Speaker 1: and I mean, is.
Speaker 4: That his something There's also something stupid that was going
Speaker 4: on in the media, and let's just face it, where
Speaker 4: they felt this is where the both siding thing became
Speaker 4: so toxic and poisonous, correct, where it was like, well,
Speaker 4: we were so tough on Trump because he was an
Speaker 4: out of control maniam by Democratic zelot and so on,
Speaker 4: that we have to treat Biden as you know, this
Speaker 4: nefarious thing that's happening as well, and he just wasn't
Speaker 4: right just exactly. I wanted to bring broadband to the
Speaker 4: masses and help you rail lines and you know, do
Speaker 4: things that like presidents in the twentieth century did. If
Speaker 4: Joe Biden maybe made one big mistake, it was that
Speaker 4: he kind of acted like a twentieth century president in
Speaker 4: a world where Donald Trump and the Republicans don't give
Speaker 4: a fuck and they're just going to try to ram
Speaker 4: everything down your throat and when you get pissed about it,
Speaker 4: they're just going to troll and taunt their way out
Speaker 4: of it. And the Biden messaging machine was just way
Speaker 4: behind that curve.
Speaker 1: I don't, yeah, send them all to the Hague, I
Speaker 1: mean send that those That was the worst messaging. And
Speaker 1: you know, I would say to them, you guys, like
Speaker 1: nobody knows what you're doing, So nobody knows what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows what you're doing. And and it was like,
Speaker 1: and I do think, like, you cannot You absolutely just can't.
Speaker 1: You can't just sort of pray that people are going
Speaker 1: to be able to figure out what you're doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But and this is where I have a beef with
Speaker 4: the media because Biden being old and stumbling and stuttering,
Speaker 4: or they're messaging not being good or whatever whatever the
Speaker 4: fuck that was going wrong when Joe Biden was president.
Speaker 4: None of that measures up to what Donald Trump did
Speaker 4: in his first term or the way his first term ended.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't measure up to the threat that he
Speaker 4: posed during those four years when he was a disgraced.
Speaker 3: Ex president of office. It doesn't measure.
Speaker 4: So we're kind of gotten ourselves into as you know,
Speaker 4: as my mother likes to say, you make your bed,
Speaker 4: you lie in it. And I think that the press
Speaker 4: is now, you know, kind of getting their noses rubbed
Speaker 4: in it. There the Pentagon, the Pentagon, the press gets
Speaker 4: kicked out of They've got and they have.
Speaker 1: A new press corps. It's the Pizza Gate guy. That guy,
Speaker 1: I love that guy.
Speaker 3: Right, there's like TV, but also.
Speaker 1: Then there's there's pizza there's Jack Pasobiac.
Speaker 3: Jack the Pizzagate guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Jack Pisobia, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, and it's Brian Glenn in the Oval office.
Speaker 4: And you know, I'm just kind of waiting. And the
Speaker 4: way that the press this just this past week has
Speaker 4: covered Trump bulldozing the East wing of the White House
Speaker 4: has just been a colossal failure. It has just been
Speaker 4: an abysmal failure in terms of coverage. It doesn't it
Speaker 4: has not met the moment for the last nine or
Speaker 4: ten months. It didn't meet it this past week. And
Speaker 4: I think that is why people are gravitating the podcasts
Speaker 4: and independent media, new media and so on.
Speaker 3: They're just like.
Speaker 4: It's just sort of like it's also part.
Speaker 1: Of it is like serious, you can't there is when
Speaker 1: one party no longer believes in democracy, then how do
Speaker 1: you say, like one side is bad and the other
Speaker 1: side wants to give you glasses, wants insurance to pay
Speaker 1: for glasses. Like I do think that the media is
Speaker 1: so small right now, Like I don't know where you
Speaker 1: get that reporting that you need in order to have
Speaker 1: checks and balances. Like independent media is great. I have
Speaker 1: a substack. You have a substack. You have a humongous substack.
Speaker 1: I have a tiny, tiny substack.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to just work.
Speaker 1: I have a little I said a little bit, but
Speaker 1: but but the point is, like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: great opinion stuff on substack, but like the reporting is expensive.
Speaker 4: And it's expensive now, and I'm trying to do a
Speaker 4: little bit more of that. Like I went down to
Speaker 4: the White.
Speaker 3: House this week. I talk to people about the East
Speaker 3: Wing coming down.
Speaker 1: Did they chase you out of the park.
Speaker 4: No, I mean they have basically locked down the park
Speaker 4: and cordoned off and put up so much construction.
Speaker 1: Explain what's happened. So the East wing, the Treasury Department
Speaker 1: faces the East Wing, and so people who are working
Speaker 1: in Treasury started posting pictures of the demolition.
Speaker 4: And then the Treasury Department said, we don't want our
Speaker 4: employees to send out any more pictures, and you know,
Speaker 4: and then they did it anyway. And I mean, so
Speaker 4: what I did was I kind of know the grounds
Speaker 4: and how they work, and where the fences are and
Speaker 4: the gaps and the fences and stuff. So I knew
Speaker 4: I had to go to basically the south facing entrance
Speaker 4: of the Treasury Department, And if you look through a
Speaker 4: little tiny crack in the fence and hold your iPhone
Speaker 4: sixteenth up.
Speaker 1: It's like Mosca.
Speaker 4: You consume it all the way and see the destruction
Speaker 4: of the East Wing. So that's what I did, and
Speaker 4: talk to some folks down there about you know, it's
Speaker 4: kind of become a little bit of a dystopian tourist attraction.
Speaker 4: Molly and that course, they're like, just like regular Americans
Speaker 4: tourists are on vacation who are going over there to
Speaker 4: look at the East Wing being torn down and loaded
Speaker 4: onto dump trucks and cart it out. But they've put
Speaker 4: up so much fencing and construction barriers and things around
Speaker 4: the project. They've tried to make it very difficult for
Speaker 4: people to see what's happening. But they forget the fact that, oh,
Speaker 4: there are people in the Treasury Department, we take pictures.
Speaker 4: There's a lady on Twitter last night who posted a picture.
Speaker 4: She flew over her flight car. She flew over it,
Speaker 4: and she put out this beautiful picture. It's just so sad.
Speaker 4: The whole goddamn East Wing is gone.
Speaker 1: It's just dirt, and more importantly than anything, it's not
Speaker 1: his house to destroy.
Speaker 4: It's not his house to destroy. I talked to a
Speaker 4: White House historian who was the chief historian for the
Speaker 4: White House Historical Society.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that guy must be fucking is he.
Speaker 5: Mad or is he sad?
Speaker 3: He's so mad and sad.
Speaker 4: He said he calls himself, this guy, Ed Lengele, calls
Speaker 4: himself a conservative and said that Tom would, Yeah, Thomas
Speaker 4: Jefferson would be ballistically insane over what Donald Trump has done,
Speaker 4: and that the founding fathers are getting smacked in the
Speaker 4: face because they did not want the White House to
Speaker 4: be a palace. They didn't want it to be a
Speaker 4: symbol of the aristocracy. This is exactly what Donald Trump
Speaker 4: pulls up the pictures of President Liberacci's ballroom. That's exactly
Speaker 4: what he's trying to pull off. And it's just not
Speaker 4: who we are.
Speaker 1: And I think people, I think it is who we
Speaker 1: are at this point. I mean that's a difference Trump
Speaker 1: one point two point oh is one point oh is like,
Speaker 1: this is not who we are. Two point I was like, Nope,
Speaker 1: this is who we are.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: And and the fact that you have corporate sponsors like
Speaker 4: their NASCAR.
Speaker 3: Racing cars, Google Altria.
Speaker 4: I mean you go through the list of the sponsors.
Speaker 1: Pretty bad, pretty seazy.
Speaker 4: It's pretty pretty swampy.
Speaker 1: Coinbase coin coin base coin base me Metaea, I mean meadow.
Speaker 4: Does it get more toxic? I mean, it's it's pretty disgusting.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, I love Meta because have note because
Speaker 1: they don't give a fuck, right Like they're like they
Speaker 1: make tobacco companies look like children's charities.
Speaker 3: Basically.
Speaker 4: Yes, for a factoid for people to keep in mind,
Speaker 4: the existing executive mansion of the White House excluding the
Speaker 4: East and West wings, is about fifty five thousand square feet.
Speaker 4: The ballroom is ninety thousand squa. This is going to
Speaker 4: look like, you know, a back to the future too.
Speaker 4: Biff whatever his name was, monstrosity. And I mean there
Speaker 4: are already folks who are saying the next Democratic president
Speaker 4: who gets in there, if we're allowed to have one again,
Speaker 4: should just tear the fucking thing down.
Speaker 1: And I also think, like it's not you know, we
Speaker 1: have to just assume that we are going to have
Speaker 1: free and fair elections and that we are going to
Speaker 1: fight to preserve our American democracy. And this will be
Speaker 1: a very sad blip on the radar screen of what's happening.
Speaker 1: But I do think like we're going to need to
Speaker 1: have a real We're gonna need to have a real
Speaker 1: come to Jesus moment about like anti corruption legislation, and
Speaker 1: you know it's got.
Speaker 3: To be mixing type era where we just passed laws to.
Speaker 1: Prevent steroids and steroids. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I mean when Steve Bannon is saying things like, well,
Speaker 4: he's just going to run again, and the lady with
Speaker 4: the economist goes, but.
Speaker 3: Isn't that violating the spirits of the twenty second Amendment?
Speaker 1: Now it's like, yes, not even this verit, But you know,
Speaker 1: like Steve Bannon is saying that, because of course Steve
Speaker 1: Banner is. If Steve Bannon wasn't saying that, you'd be worried, because,
Speaker 1: like Steve Bannon knows that the only thing worse for
Speaker 1: Trump then being a danger to the Constitution, which he
Speaker 1: isn't give a fuck about, is being a lame duck.
Speaker 1: So these guys do not want you to think he's
Speaker 1: the lame duck. But I'm telling you he will be
Speaker 1: eighty three years old, not all he will be So
Speaker 1: this time he was the oldest person ever to be
Speaker 1: president at seventy nine. So now he's going to run again,
Speaker 1: and he will be four years older than the oldest
Speaker 1: person ever to be president.
Speaker 4: I tell people though Fidel Castro living to live into
Speaker 4: his nineties, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So like, you know, but it doesn't. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's not up.
Speaker 3: People has a long shelf life.
Speaker 1: Sadly, it's not up to him. It's not up to him.
Speaker 1: It's not up to him. It's up to us, the
Speaker 1: American people. And like we have our norms and institutions
Speaker 1: and we have to we have to keep going.
Speaker 4: And that's what gives you were saying earlier, like be optimistic,
Speaker 4: and I you know, I'm optimistic too, because I think
Speaker 4: that Donald Trump, as he went out with the bang
Speaker 4: last time, is going to go out with the boon
Speaker 4: this time, and he is going to get people so
Speaker 4: pissed off and so fired up that we will see
Speaker 4: a voter's revolt in this country. And you just have
Speaker 4: to hold out hope for that.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, I think we're there. It's just a
Speaker 1: question of like do we we need to make sure
Speaker 1: those people get to the polls free, fair, safe elections,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're going to see. But I'm telling
Speaker 1: you we are in Like you know, one point, oh
Speaker 1: was like we're in historic times. Two point zero is
Speaker 1: like we're in fucking whatever this is, man, Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I mean this is like, you know, this is
Speaker 4: the Mad Max sequel of our democracy.
Speaker 1: And we are going to have Thunderdome time, you know,
Speaker 1: Fury Road.
Speaker 4: We're going to have to drive through the bad guys
Speaker 4: and fight the bad guys and get past the bad
Speaker 4: guys to get to the green place. And I just
Speaker 4: you know, I think that people need to steal themselves
Speaker 4: for what is likely to be a long struggle. And
Speaker 4: he is going to and he's already beginning to do this,
Speaker 4: become very desperate and try to concoct ways to prevent
Speaker 4: what he knows is coming from happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, he doesn't want to face an investigation
Speaker 1: because he knows that he's going to go to jail,
Speaker 1: just like Elon mush Mush so all in on this
Speaker 1: presidency because he knew that otherwise he'd be in big trouble.
Speaker 4: We haven't seen the Epstein files, by the way. I'm
Speaker 4: just going to say, like, you know, there's that thing's
Speaker 4: on the horizon too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, correct, Jim Acosta, good to see you. Congressman
Speaker 1: Jared Moscow Itz represents Florida's twenty third district. Congressman Jared Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm here. Welcome to fast politics.
Speaker 5: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know, how's your vacation, Ben Well?
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm semi retired.
Speaker 1: Tell us how long have you guys been out obsession?
Speaker 5: Oh? I think we've worked like nineteen days in the
Speaker 5: last you know, like three months. It's some crazy number.
Speaker 5: And this is being done intentional. This is how you
Speaker 5: extend the shutdown. This is how you cause pain. In
Speaker 5: the past, we would all be stuck in Washington, away
Speaker 5: from our families, which would force a deal. We would
Speaker 5: be miserable, we would want to leave. It would force
Speaker 5: the deal so we could go home. The American people
Speaker 5: would benefit. And now by sending us home, what they're
Speaker 5: doing is they want us home, They want us comfortable. Right.
Speaker 5: They don't want us near the TV cameras, they don't
Speaker 5: want us talking to each other. Right to build a
Speaker 5: coalition to solve the problem. This is all intentional by
Speaker 5: Mike Johnson. And as an added bonus, we don't get
Speaker 5: the vote on releasing the Epstein files, so.
Speaker 1: How much of this is about Like he won't swear
Speaker 1: in Alita Garhalva.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's all about the Epstein files. That's one hundred
Speaker 5: percent about the Epstein files, and I love it. James
Speaker 5: Comer came out a couple days ago.
Speaker 1: Remind us who James Comer is besides being your mortal eneme.
Speaker 5: So James is a dear friend of mine and we've
Speaker 5: been close for a while now and I'm very proud
Speaker 5: of him. He happens to be the chairman of Oversight,
Speaker 5: which has been a great gig for him. It's worked
Speaker 5: out beautifully.
Speaker 1: He's not known to be a scholar.
Speaker 5: Well, no, look, James is calm, he's collected. He keeps
Speaker 5: it classy all the time. That's what I love about him.
Speaker 5: Quite frankly, there's.
Speaker 1: A response to the fact that he has many times
Speaker 1: called you a smurf.
Speaker 5: Well, look, I think his vernacular is a little different,
Speaker 5: and that's fine. We have a big tent, Molly, right.
Speaker 5: We got to allow people to express themselves in different ways.
Speaker 5: But yeah, you have the press conference the other day.
Speaker 5: He read the entire thing because he can read it
Speaker 5: a ninth grade level, which is good. And he basically
Speaker 5: said he's looked at the Epstein files and Trump's not
Speaker 5: in them. But Bill Clinton is in them. And so
Speaker 5: I say to my Republican friends, Okay, great news. If
Speaker 5: that's the case, then release the files. What are you
Speaker 5: protecting Bill Clinton? Now? So the White House, the Republicans
Speaker 5: in the House, the Republicans in the Senate.
Speaker 1: That is amazing too, because there's been reporting that said
Speaker 1: the FBI had one hundred people redacting Trump's name from
Speaker 1: the Epstein files.
Speaker 5: Well, look, if he's not in them, Okay, if he's
Speaker 5: not in the Epstein files, then they can release him
Speaker 5: like they're protecting Bill Clinton. Now, that's what the House,
Speaker 5: in the Senate and is all the threats, all of
Speaker 5: the political capital. Look at the political capital they have
Speaker 5: spent on this, all to protect Bill Clinton. Okay, James,
Speaker 5: I take James at his word. We've always taken James
Speaker 5: at his word. He is the face of truth. And
Speaker 5: so if what he is saying is accurate that Trump
Speaker 5: is not in him, then released the files. Let's get ready.
Speaker 1: He is seeing Trump's in the files.
Speaker 5: Oh. I think Trump is definitely in the files. Whether
Speaker 5: there's anything illegal, I think probably not, because I do
Speaker 5: think that probably would have come out. But there is
Speaker 5: definitely stuff in there that is thoroughly embarrassing maybe pictures, okay,
Speaker 5: and he just doesn't want it out there because he
Speaker 5: doesn't want to be embarrassed by it. I also think
Speaker 5: Molly in fairness, there are lots of people probably in there.
Speaker 5: Some of them may be on the Democratics Guide, all.
Speaker 1: Of them pieces of SHD.
Speaker 5: High net worth individuals. But remember they were the one,
Speaker 5: I mean literally the FBI director okay, and the second
Speaker 5: in command at the FBI. Both of them got their
Speaker 5: positions Cash Bettel, Dan Bongino. They both got their positions
Speaker 5: on the Epstein issue. They can't paignt on the Epstein issue.
Speaker 5: They got in there, and then it's like nothing to
Speaker 5: see what listen. That's why I said a cash hotel
Speaker 5: in the hearing when that picture came out of the
Speaker 5: body and the writing with Trump's signature, and they were like,
Speaker 5: that's not his signature. And then there were hundreds of
Speaker 5: documents that showed the same signature. And then they were like, well,
Speaker 5: Trump doesn't really doodle or draw. And then they were like, oh,
Speaker 5: there's hundreds of them at auction that are his doodles
Speaker 5: and drugs. He's actually a decent dudelerb.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he draws pretty well, let us take a moment
Speaker 1: to pour one out.
Speaker 5: We don't like to give him any credit, but let's
Speaker 5: take a moment. Kind of an artist. And I said
Speaker 5: to myself, We'll wait a second. This is the guy
Speaker 5: that had sued the Post, sued the Times, sued the
Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal, suit ABC, NBC. Right, and the Epstein
Speaker 5: estate puts out this document that he says it's a
Speaker 5: forgery of his signature and a complete forgery. And they
Speaker 5: don't sue the Epstein estate, The FBI doesn't open up
Speaker 5: an investigation. What I took in that was they didn't
Speaker 5: want to do that because then we would confirm that
Speaker 5: that document is indeed real.
Speaker 1: I mean, the other reason why you would think it
Speaker 1: would be true was because now Glaine Maxwell is in
Speaker 1: basically the chicest prison.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about, Molly, Well, hold on a second,
Speaker 5: I got to correct you on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a camp, it's not a prison, right, oh?
Speaker 5: Old, Then why are you suspicious at all? That Trump's
Speaker 5: former personal attorney who is second at command at the OJ.
Speaker 1: Todd Blanche For those keeping track at home, he.
Speaker 5: Went down to meet Glane right as one does, as
Speaker 5: one does, and by one does I mean, never in
Speaker 5: the history of America has deputy Attorney general gone to
Speaker 5: a prison to meet with someone. But as one does,
Speaker 5: Trump's former personal attorney goes to meet with Glane. That's
Speaker 5: a statement from Glane in the transcript that said, oh,
Speaker 5: she doesn't remember Trump ever being around. Oh and then
Speaker 5: within twenty four hours she's transferred. Were you think that's suspicious?
Speaker 5: I don't know. It looks above bored to meet Molly.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Jesse wants to talk about the shutdown. He's
Speaker 1: bored with the Epstein files, but the shutdown is caught.
Speaker 1: The Epstein files sort of caused the shutdown in some
Speaker 1: weird way.
Speaker 5: The Epstein thing is a piece. It's like, you want
Speaker 5: to know why Congress is not there? That's the Epstein piece.
Speaker 5: It didn't cause the shutdown, but it is why Johnson
Speaker 5: will not bring us back to Washington, which is extending
Speaker 5: the shutdown.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the shut down. We are like
Speaker 1: on the precipice of bad shit. So November one, premiums
Speaker 1: go way up in a bunch of different states, Nevada,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Then also we have food stamps run out.
Speaker 1: These are big things. It depends on the state, depends
Speaker 1: on what we had wick. They found some money for WICK,
Speaker 1: by the way, probably illegal, but who's going to complain
Speaker 1: because it's women and infinite assistance. And forty percent of
Speaker 1: American children are on WICK, which is absolutely insane number. Right,
Speaker 1: Like forty percent of this country qualifies for food so
Speaker 1: their babies don't starve. Richest country in the world. But
Speaker 1: talk us through the sort of like there are a
Speaker 1: lot of really scary deadlines happening soon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, it's why when they're like, go Democrats
Speaker 5: shut down the government. That's not the case at all.
Speaker 5: I voted against a cr that didn't have the requisite
Speaker 5: funding for healthcare. Okay, we've been talking about the fact
Speaker 5: that the money on these subsidies was running out. Okay,
Speaker 5: this was well known to Republicans, well known difference, and
Speaker 5: there's a bipartisan coalition many in fact, to extend the
Speaker 5: subsidies so that Americans' health care costs do not rise.
Speaker 5: We were saying we need to do that now, okay,
Speaker 5: and Republicans were saying nothing. Okay, you know, I know,
Speaker 5: Republicans all of a sudden like pretend to be holier
Speaker 5: than now on on healthcare. But to be clear, they
Speaker 5: have only been against stuff. They've never been for anything.
Speaker 5: They're still in the concept of a planned stage. They've
Speaker 5: been there since two thousand and eight. There's no plan.
Speaker 5: There is no draft of a plan. I would say
Speaker 5: to Speaker Mike Johnson, if you don't like our extension
Speaker 5: of the subsidies, put your plan forward and how to
Speaker 5: lower people's health care costs for a vote, Mike, not
Speaker 5: going topend because there's no plan. They've never done it, remember,
Speaker 5: and that's why it's still in You know, this is
Speaker 5: a product that's never coming to market, Malli. But right now,
Speaker 5: if they just took the CR with the extension of
Speaker 5: the subsidies, it would pass. It would reopen government and
Speaker 5: people's health care costs would stay the same or they
Speaker 5: would go down. Now you might say to me Moley,
Speaker 5: hold on, Jared, we're thirty eight trillion dollars in debt,
Speaker 5: a lot of it put on by Trump. We can't
Speaker 5: afford that. And I would say, well, we need thirty
Speaker 5: billion dollars for the subsidies. Trump just sent forty billion
Speaker 5: to Argentina. Right, Congress did not take a vote on
Speaker 5: so maybe that money should have been used for people's
Speaker 5: healthcare rather than going to prop up the economy of
Speaker 5: Argentina and the beef market in Argentina, which the American
Speaker 5: farmers are unhappy with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you don't get to cuos in an autocracy.
Speaker 5: Well, and if you want to know how broken things
Speaker 5: are in Washington in general, right, I want to give
Speaker 5: you two dichotomies. Obviously, we want the war in the
Speaker 5: middies to end. Everyone wants that to come to an end.
Speaker 5: But Trump literally made a deal with a maas with
Speaker 5: great we wanted the hostages out make a deal. I
Speaker 5: supported the deal that he made with the moss but
Speaker 5: he's not willing to make a deal with Democrats on healthcare.
Speaker 5: Like that is how bad things are that it's easier
Speaker 5: to sit down with terrorists and get a deal than
Speaker 5: it is with the other political party and bring down
Speaker 5: the premiums for people's health insurance. Do the right thing,
Speaker 5: help American citizens, not illegals, not the bullshit that they
Speaker 5: were spreading, which they don't say anymore because the American
Speaker 5: people didn't buy it because it was a lie. Okay,
Speaker 5: I got twenty five thousand people just in my district
Speaker 5: that immediately lose their health insurance when those subsidies stop,
Speaker 5: and then they have another one hundred thousand people whose
Speaker 5: insurance will immediately increase, they'll go for lower coverage, and
Speaker 5: then that cost will get pushed off the hospitals and
Speaker 5: then still on the American tax pair.
Speaker 1: Of course. So Democrats not in the majority, so don't
Speaker 1: have power really.
Speaker 5: Oh, you mean like the Republicans control of the House,
Speaker 5: the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was saying. So like Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: serves at the pleasure of Donald Trump, so basically doesn't
Speaker 1: do anything.
Speaker 5: Yes, the speaker gets the costplay a speaker when he's
Speaker 5: allowed to.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean Thomas Massey clearly furious anyone else. Marjorie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green sometimes sort.
Speaker 5: Of look at what we got going on, the misfit
Speaker 5: toys that we have to deal with over there. Marjorie
Speaker 5: Taylor Green, who one week wants a civil war and
Speaker 5: a national divorce and wants to split up the Union,
Speaker 5: and the other week is like, Democrats are right, you
Speaker 5: need to extend the subsidies. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: that's how that's how fucked up things are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's basically the most with it Republican.
Speaker 5: But she's also doing it because she's mad at the
Speaker 5: President because the President wouldn't endorse her for Senate. So
Speaker 5: she's like, now I'm just going to be against him
Speaker 5: on anything.
Speaker 1: But that is fine. However you get there's fine.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, listen. And Trump has launched the war on
Speaker 5: Thomas Massey. So Massey is responding in kind, and so, yeah,
Speaker 5: look in a very divided Congress where Republicans only have
Speaker 5: a small majority, Yeah, we'll take them where we can
Speaker 5: get them, Yeah, onered percent.
Speaker 1: Is there any effort to try to flip one or
Speaker 1: two of these Republicans?
Speaker 5: We don't have to flip them. We have them. The
Speaker 5: problem is the speaker won't put it on the floor
Speaker 5: mid right, Like, if the speaker were to put healthcare
Speaker 5: on the floor, it passes, but he won't put it
Speaker 5: on the floor.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. If you put it on the
Speaker 1: floor and it passes, it still dies. In the Senate.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. That's where the president has tremendous power.
Speaker 5: If the President came out tomorrow in Trump fashion and
Speaker 5: said I'm going to lower your health care it's now
Speaker 5: called trump Care, right, and he told Johnson to put
Speaker 5: the thirty billion dollars in the Trump Care. Okay, told
Speaker 5: soon to put the thirty billion dollars the Trump Care
Speaker 5: and we're going to open the government.
Speaker 1: They would do it, yeah, of course, but Donald Trump
Speaker 1: doesn't want to do it. For today, he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to do it. You think he caves and does it.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But what do you think?
Speaker 5: Well? I think the shutdown goes to Thanksgiving. I think
Speaker 5: we're going to miss see more pain. I think traveling
Speaker 5: is going to become very difficult as more people who
Speaker 5: work at the FAA and TSA continue to miss paychecks.
Speaker 5: I mean, how sad a state of affairs is that
Speaker 5: our federal workers miss one paycheck and they're in breadlines.
Speaker 5: I mean, the state of Virginia declared a state of
Speaker 5: emergency over this.
Speaker 1: It seems as if they won't compromise on Hell'scare.
Speaker 5: It's gonna get worse before it gets better. How it
Speaker 5: gets better, I do not know. I do not know
Speaker 5: the end. No side wants to capitulate. The Democrats are
Speaker 5: willing to make a deal, Okay, that is true. The Republicans,
Speaker 5: which have not made a deal with US at all
Speaker 5: for ten months feel like we still don't need to
Speaker 5: make a deal with these people. But again, and if
Speaker 5: they have a mandate, then then go solve it on
Speaker 5: your own. You told the American people you had a mandate,
Speaker 5: solve it on your own. Then now there is a
Speaker 5: possibility that they could change the filibuster rules and do
Speaker 5: this on their own. They would screw the American people.
Speaker 5: They would cause a terrible precedent in the Senate. But
Speaker 5: I do think the White House could do that because
Speaker 5: the White House could start pressuring senators to do that,
Speaker 5: and then the Republican senators because they want to serve
Speaker 5: in a Senate that doesn't resemble the House, which is
Speaker 5: what the filibuster does. If you get rid of all
Speaker 5: of that, then basically the Senate is the House majority rules.
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, you know, they'll have
Speaker 5: to decide whether they want to protect the institution or
Speaker 5: if they're going to cave. I do think that becomes
Speaker 5: a more viable alternative for Republicans the long way this
Speaker 5: goes on. Think about that again, they're willing to continue
Speaker 5: to break institutions then make a deal with Democrats on
Speaker 5: health insurance.
Speaker 1: But part of it, too is that there's also a
Speaker 1: world and where there are Democrats in the Senate who
Speaker 1: might cave.
Speaker 5: Well, we had a couple join them in the very beginning,
Speaker 5: and that number has not grown. There are a couple
Speaker 5: of the other day that voted obviously to pay federal
Speaker 5: workers in the military. But so far Republicans have had
Speaker 5: no shot at building a bipartisan coalition on their side,
Speaker 5: because what are they selling, Molly, the promise that we'll
Speaker 5: have a vote. I mean, listen, they have broken a
Speaker 5: lot of promises to the American people, right I'm in Florida, Okay.
Speaker 5: I mean Trump made a lot of promises to the
Speaker 5: Cuban community, to the Venezuelan community, to the Haitian community
Speaker 5: on TPS. Okay, during the campaign and broke that promise.
Speaker 1: Will you explain to us since you brought this up
Speaker 1: and I'm interested in this. Are Latino voters who really
Speaker 1: did cut for Trump, or at least moved towards Trump
Speaker 1: in ways that we did not see as possible. Are
Speaker 1: they having regret as Trump scoops up all their neighbors.
Speaker 5: Well, just like everything else, it's all partisan, and so
Speaker 5: I do think in certain pockets there are regret. They
Speaker 5: bought into the it's just going to be the criminals.
Speaker 5: And as we know, we haven't even gotten all the criminals,
Speaker 5: and we're going after your you know, families.
Speaker 1: Right, of course, this was never about the park.
Speaker 5: And then obviously that starts hurting the hospitality industry, it
Speaker 5: starts hurting the farming industry, which is why you started
Speaker 5: hearing Trump talking about well if they've worked for the
Speaker 5: farmer for a long period of time, Well, I didn't
Speaker 5: know that that was an exception to our immigration laws.
Speaker 5: So they've created a mess. Christy Gnome is a disaster.
Speaker 5: I gotta be honest. I don't know much longer.
Speaker 1: She stays, Wait, why she has got just got two planes? Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know, good for her?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I mean who likes to fly commercial?
Speaker 5: Honestly, like I've always believed, there are still a couple
Speaker 5: things that are by partisan left, and puppies are one
Speaker 5: of them. And I just don't think you can shoot
Speaker 5: a puppy in the face and get away with it.
Speaker 1: How would she leave? Because these people have no shame?
Speaker 1: So what do you think happens?
Speaker 5: Oh? I don't, I don't know. I don't need to
Speaker 5: figure out people's Edgit strategy. I don't know. Yes, yes,
Speaker 5: they run for something, or they get a promotion like don.
Speaker 1: Ji and Your's girlfriend, they get a promotion.
Speaker 5: I think they'll be changes I Homeland at some point
Speaker 5: because I just don't the number show Trump. You know,
Speaker 5: when he came into office, his immigration numbers were through
Speaker 5: the roof, and the fact that those have now leveled
Speaker 5: off and were almost even in a lot of cases,
Speaker 5: he's underwater ran people don't like it, which what it
Speaker 5: tells you is that they believed in his policy, but
Speaker 5: they did the execution, okay, has changed people's mind on that. Well,
Speaker 5: that execution was done by Christy Nom. Don't forget that
Speaker 5: we went into what was it a Handai facility and
Speaker 5: that caused an international firestorm.
Speaker 1: With South Korea and they just and also infuriated Brian Kemp,
Speaker 1: the governor who had worked really hard to bring this
Speaker 1: investment from South Korea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exactly right. And so I think the answer
Speaker 5: is in Florida, you will see change in pockets. There's
Speaker 5: no doubt about that. But again, like you know, Joe
Speaker 5: Biden has a really good quote. It's you know, don't
Speaker 5: judge me against the almighty, judge me against the alternative. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they might agree with us more now on this issue,
Speaker 5: but are they willing to vote our way? Well, that's
Speaker 5: just going to depend on the product that we put up,
Speaker 5: the person we put up, because at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, they're gonna we're running against somebody else.
Speaker 1: Right, That is a good point.
Speaker 5: But you can see the numbers in Dade County have moved.
Speaker 5: In Dade County, the numbers have completely moved on Trump
Speaker 5: as a result of this issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what it is. Jared Moscottz, thank you friend.
Speaker 1: Thanks Molly, no moment, perfectly, Jesse Cannon.
Speaker 2: Molly Jung fast.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: I like to be a person who watches Steve Bannett,
Speaker 2: even though I don't really want to look at his
Speaker 2: fashion style. And I think it's important because Bannon is
Speaker 2: often the whisper to those who are making policy. The
Speaker 2: way he's talking here is pretty disturbing.
Speaker 1: Steve Bannon has said this again and again and again.
Speaker 1: He's been saying that Donald Trump is going to be
Speaker 1: president in twenty twenty eight, that'll run for a third term.
Speaker 1: The constitution says he can't. The man will be eighty three.
Speaker 1: He'll try. Donald Trump will try to do anything he can,
Speaker 1: and that's why people have to stand up to him
Speaker 1: and tell him no. I think that the reason why
Speaker 1: Steve Bannon keeps doing this is twofold. This helps them, right,
Speaker 1: they don't want Trump to be a lame day because
Speaker 1: they feel like that reduces his power. So he's of
Speaker 1: course going to say that he's going to run. And
Speaker 1: then the other reason is because these guys they don't
Speaker 1: want democracy. And you know, if people are upset, they'll say, well,
Speaker 1: we're just trolling. So this fits the pattern of what
Speaker 1: they do. And I would have been shocked if they
Speaker 1: were like, well, he's constitutionally limited from a third term.
Speaker 1: Trump is going to try all the stuff. And look,
Speaker 1: maybe this is deep Bannon trying to increase Trump's power
Speaker 1: so he doesn't look like a lame duck, or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe this is some other thing. Maybe this is Bannon
Speaker 1: trying to get back in good graces with Trump. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of reasons to think that Steve Bannon
Speaker 1: is serving the Steep Bannon agenda.
Speaker 2: I mean, he does say there is a plan in place,
Speaker 2: which I do believe. I don't know that they can
Speaker 2: get that put across because these people are.
Speaker 1: Morons, thank God.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do believe that they probably are plotting to
Speaker 2: prop him up, as he looks like a drained ever
Speaker 2: Palpatine at eighty three years old.
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