WEBVTT - Jim Acosta & Rep. Jared Moskowitz 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.120 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:12.920 today's best minds and in Emerson College survey says fifty 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:17.799 seven percent of likely voters in California support Newsome's redistricting plan. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.279 We have such a great show for you today, The 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:26.760 Jim Acostas Show's own Jim Acosta stops by to talk 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.920 about Trump's unpopular rule and its consequences. Then we'll talk 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.639 to Congressman Jared Moskowitz about the Republicans bad bargaining as 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.599 the government shutdown continues. But first the news Bi. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.040 I gotta tell you this, Trump prosecuting his enemies. You 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:45.839 feel like his heart would be more in it if 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.840 he hadn't given the most incompetent person in the world 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:49.280 the job. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:55.040 Yeah, so let's talk about what the fuck is going 0:00:55.080 --> 0:01:00.080 on here. Donald J. Trump is prosecuting his enemies. This 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:06.080 is norms, crushing democracy killing. There aren't enough cliches to 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.920 spout in order to explain how fucking bad this is. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.840 This is bad. It's not what we do. It's what 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.160 they do in Russia, and it's what they do in 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:20.520 Banana republics and the good news is that, believe it 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:25.080 or not, Donald J. Trump and his henchmen are not 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:30.520 very smart. And so despite that, I think that Letitia 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.959 James is actually going to win this. And by the way, 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.479 what's really cool about this is like we have these 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.399 people who are pushing back, they are fighting back, they 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.240 are showing what we need to see, which is that 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.000 all of this is ridiculous. And Lindsay Halligan is an 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.600 insurance attorney and she does not know how to run 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.240 the Justice Department, and so going after the president's enemies 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.440 is going to fail. And also, this is not what 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.640 we do in this country. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.880 Yes, agreed, you know it is a shame because these 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.280 people end up spending tons of money to fight these 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.680 coure cases while our textellars support mister Trump's grievances. I mean, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.079 I heard Boddick McIver, Congress would from New York talking 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.200 about it's costing her over a million dollars that she 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.160 has to raise to fight her lawsuit and it's gumming 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.799 up the works when shames could be doing other things. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.959 But this is where we are with this stupid, stupid administration. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.680 Speaking of Donald Trump is really wetting the bed over 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.720 Canada and Cardi running an ad against his stupid tariff's boy, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:33.840 he's really throwing a fit. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:39.000 Yeah. Look, Mark Carney is a really skilled PM and 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.800 they are really lucky. Like he's the guy who led 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.160 England through Brexit, who is really smart and good. He's 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.040 like the opposite. He's like bizarro Trump. He's like good 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.680 at stuff luckily for them. So he is mad because 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:59.359 Canada did this ad shows this video of Reagan talking 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:04.840 about harems, and Trump is mad about this ad, so 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.480 he's decided that he's going to cut off trade negotiations 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.080 with Canada. Here's the truth. Donald Trump is out of 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.560 his depths and likely out of his mind. And so 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.480 Ronald Reagan had the common Republican belief and now Trump 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.560 is just not a free trader. So this ad quote 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.800 it's drawn from a radio dress that Reagan gave in 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:30.160 April nineteen eighty seven, which he's urges Congress not to 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:35.080 pursue protectionist policies against Japan and gave a blistering critique 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.840 of the economic effects of tariffs. Look, man, Ronald Reagan 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.480 is right. I mean that's the crazy part of this. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:46.000 Like this is correct. And again with every Trump truth 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.360 I think this is like the most important part of 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.120 the story. It was unclear if the President had spoken 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.120 to mister Carney or anyone in the Canadian government before 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.320 announcing that he was canceling trade talk Bye. Mister Trump's 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.839 Thursday missive was not the first indication that he had 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.160 noticed the ad. And look, you know again, this is 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.800 we are being We are being ruled by a mad 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:13.200 king who has emotional responses to things and then decides 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.560 that he is going to run the federal government because 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.280 of his emotional responses to things. I am reminded of 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:25.000 a time when we weren't told that women were too emotional. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.080 I was going to say that I'm reminded of him 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.640 saying this is how Hillary Clinton would run the government. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.760 And yeah, buddy, I'll take a firm book at the mirror, 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.200 because it seems like that top of the bud for 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:37.000 him every day. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:43.680 Oh period jokes, bum bum bum. Anyway, look, man, you're 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.960 not wrong. Yeah, so it's just it's not good. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:48.919 Speaking of not good, I'm going to tell you they 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.719 it's a total story here that I remember about a 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.520 month ago, I was celebrating with a friend their new 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.320 job achievement. I got a steak and the steakhouse came 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.520 up to us because they knew us from internet stuff, 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.400 and they said, we really apologize about the stake portion. 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.960 We don't want to raise our prices. But beef is 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.400 at at all time high. And I looked at a 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.600 graph and I could not believe how much the hot 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.760 price of beef had gone up. And so sure enough 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.960 we see a new report that inflation has climbed to 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.760 its highest level since January, and beef is at an 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:17.359 all time. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.800 High fifteen percent over the year ending in September. Data 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.840 shows Trump has set off an outcry. Look, these are 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.480 people who voted for Trump who are actually just getting 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.839 fun by Trump egg prices. You'll remember Donald Trump said 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:34.120 he was going to make eggs cheaper. Wow, they are 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:40.599 a little cheaper, but we've recently read that birdflu is back, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.880 so we'll see how cheap they stay. The price of 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.400 coffee has starved nineteen percent over the past year, which 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.640 is where most of my money goes. To Carolyn Levitt, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.599 who said that Donald Trump is laser focused on the 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.720 renovation of his ballroom. As well. He should be, it's 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:01.239 not like he's president. She said that the government shutdown 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.279 would likely result in no inflation report for October. You'll 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.200 remember that earlier this season, Donald Trump fired the head 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.520 of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. So my guess is, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.279 my man, we'll be happy not to have that information. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.080 He might have to fire her again. Can he fire 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:18.880 a third time? 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.320 I imagine that the guy who got famous off of 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.719 saying you're fired can just do it all night and day. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.040 Let us pray right, so bad somai. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.400 I'll tell another personally asident. My wife, as we've discussed, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.680 works for a congress person, and therefore she's working but 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.360 not getting paid. So our house has been reduced to 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.120 a single income house now and luckily I can cover us. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.480 But like so many families we're talking to of coworkers 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.400 and other people we know in government, they're having horrible times. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.479 Their student loans are going to misspayments, which come with penalties. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.719 They don't know how to pay them because the government 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.680 normally takes care of that process, but the liaison is 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.039 shut down. This is a real shit show. With this 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:03.680 government shutdown, have Russia Ron Johnson blocking Chris van Holland's 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.040 measure to allow federal employees to be paid during the shutdown. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.640 I don't know what happens here. I mean, this shutdown 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:14.559 could keep going until Thanksgiving. Democrats don't want a cave. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:20.280 Republicans don't want to extend these tax credits on Obamacare. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.600 They were like a bunch of different bills to try 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.160 and pay some different people. There's the Military and Federal 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:33.040 Employee Protection Acts, sponsored by Gary Peters, which would allow 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.880 military service members, federal employees, and contractors to receive the 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.600 pay they have missed during the shutdown. Again, Johnson blocked 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.480 both measures. Van Holland, you know there are a couple measures. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.760 You know, this is a government shutdown with no end 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:53.120 in sight, and it's fucked, and you know, you have 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.960 people at food banks, and you know, government employees really 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.480 have just been treated so terrible over the last nine months, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.480 and Republicans don't care, and it's a pretty stupid state 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:14.840 of affairs, all told Stronger. Jim Acosta is the author 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.480 of The Substack That Jim Acosta Show and the author 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.360 of the New York Times bestseller Enemy of the People, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.000 A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America. Welcome 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.400 too Fast Politics, Jim Acosta. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.160 Hey, good to see you, good to hear you. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.240 And we are alive another day in Trump's America? Can 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.480 you believe, Like, let's take a moment to recount the 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:43.000 week that the East Wing was demolished, that Donald Trump 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.679 said the American people should pay him two hundred million 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.640 dollars two hundred and sixty four million dollars. I can't 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.640 remember exactly the number of bombs and fishermen in the 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:57.360 Caribbean Sea as well, it does next week, that's right. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:03.200 You know, all federal government remains closed all to prevent 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.240 the American people from seeing the Epstein trials. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.240 Yes, I think, good night everybody that that's a perfect synopsis. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:11.800 Let's just go home. That's that's it. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.640 Yeah, I mean, I you know, you know, I worked 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.119 at the White House for seven and a half years covering. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.800 Before they pulled away your hard pass. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.680 Remember that my heart passed. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.079 Now like pulling away my heart pass is sort of 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.680 like a Disney you know, after school special or. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.120 Something comparedable right now. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.680 But no, I mean, you know, I have some reverence 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.400 for the place. I know that nobody does anymore, but 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.680 I still do. And the fact that he could just 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.640 go in and fucking raise the East Wing of the 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.760 White House without you know talking to anybody about it. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.720 It's just like the perfect symbol of where we are 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.400 right now as a country, and people just need to 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.800 understand this is going to get worse before it gets better. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.680 He's unstable, the people around him are either corrupt or 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.880 a name or both. And you know this is this 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.679 is We're just heading towards the midterms and we all 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.680 have to buckle up because I think this is going 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.640 to get worse before he gets better, and his out 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.280 of control behavior is going to get even more out 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.120 of control when he basically tries to stop us from 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:18.160 all voting next year. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.320 So I mean, yes, he has just said he will, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.000 but you know what I do think, And again, like 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.080 why I think we should not despair is partially because 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.360 it's too early to despair, but also because even Hitler 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:40.040 was popular. I'm sorry, but popular. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.440 You know he wasn't Molly, I gotta go now. It 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:46.160 was great talking to you, just saying. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.080 Like Mussolini, you have to be a little popular, Like 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.719 if you want to be an autocrat, you got to 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.600 give the carrots. And what's happening right now the federal 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.960 government is closed because Donald Trump does not want to 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.080 give more money for healthcare premium, which means because of 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.920 tax cuts for very wealthy people, which means that all 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.080 of these people who voted for him are about to 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.840 get kicked off their healthcare. They're not about to not 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.400 be able to afford to pay their. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.439 Premiums, right, And I know that strategically, you and I've 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.280 talked about this, the Democrats have carved out a nice 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.320 little strategy for themselves. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.920 That, you know, if they hold the. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.200 Republicans over a barrel over these Obamacare premiums, that they'll 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.480 cry uncle at some point. And that may and maybe 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.000 they will. Maybe they will, but maybe they won't. There's 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.920 a part and maybe they won't. There's a part of 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.240 me that wonders whether it might make sense for at 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.480 this point for folks to understand what it feels like 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.040 to touch the hot stove. And I just you know, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.040 I wonder when Donald Trump says, oh, these are Democrat programs. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.679 So I, as you and I have talked about, I've 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.200 been to tons of Trump rallies. A lot of his 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.200 people are on Medicare, a lot of his people are 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.880 on Medicaid, a lot of his people are on Obamacare, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.880 but just may not. They may not fully understand that, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.680 but they are on Obama and they're going to start 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.160 to feel these premium increases that you know, as Margie 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.520 Taylor Green was saying about her own kids, maybe what 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.280 doubling or whatever for a lot of Americans. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:13.440 And I think that you know that there there may be. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.880 A scenario where some folks are just going to have 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.439 to get that sticker shock and understand like, oh, yeah, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.720 this is important. Look what's happening to the farmers in 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.160 the Midwest where Trump is going to give billions of 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.240 dollars to Argentina and now we're going to buy Argentinian. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.760 Beef because the price beef is too high in this country. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.320 And the cattle farmers are like, what the fuck were 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.080 we just voted you back into office and you're screwing 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:38.800 this already? 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.080 Yes, and he is. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.200 And the answer is he's screwing you already. People should 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.000 have known this the first time and not done this 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.800 the second time. But here we are learning these lessons 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:49.439 all over again. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.080 And I mean, this is the other thing that I 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.120 would say about where we are at this moment. It's 0:12:55.200 --> 0:13:00.800 that we one of the big problems about Trump one point, oh, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.840 was that you could never convince people that Trump was 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.199 going to do what he said he was going to 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.640 do because he wasn't able to do them the last time. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.319 And I think that's a real so talk about. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.640 That well, I mean I I mean, when he was 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.040 running for reelection in twenty twenty, I talked to one 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.520 of his top advisors who said, you know, if he 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.559 gets back into the White House a second time, it's 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.480 going to be trump Ism on steroids. And now what 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.600 we're getting we didn't get that because Joe Biden won 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.080 in twenty twenty. What we're getting now is trump Ism 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.160 on steroids and crystal mas. We're getting just sort of 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:38.880 Trump unleashed. You know, every dark, you know, horrible thing 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.240 that's going on inside of him is just being unleashed 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.880 on all of us, and it's it's manifesting itself at Oh, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.719 I'm just going to destroy a giant part of the 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:52.160 White House complex. And you know, I tell people buckle 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.040 up because I think there's You have to understand the 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.360 way his mind works. He thinks, he thinks out very 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.080 devious schemes, and then as soon he's achieved one of 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.600 those schemes, his mind is already working on the next one. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.000 And I would not be You look at these these 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.680 renderings of what the ballroom is going to look like. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.959 Compared to the rest of the White House, it's ninety 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.319 thousand square foot compared to the White House Executive Residents 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.960 itself is fifty five thousand if you exclude the East 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.640 and West wings. My guess is he already has in 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.640 mind that he would like to demolish the West wing 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.720 and rebuild the West wing to look like the East wing. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.840 And so you just have to understand this is how 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.720 he works, this is how the people around him work. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.440 They will lie to the public and say, oh, no, 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.560 it's not going to touch the existing building, and then 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.880 they'll blow it the fuck up now, and it's going 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.760 to say, oh, that's all we're going to do. We're 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:40.360 just going to do the East wing, and then guess 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.440 what the bulldozers are going to show up to knock 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:44.160 down the West wing. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.640 Is this is just the. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.760 New normal that we're in right now, or the totally 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.240 fucked up abnormal that we're in right now. It's just 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.680 going to continue. And I think what we're building up to, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.120 in my view, so we're building up to a a 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.120 massive voter revolt in twenty twenty six, I think, and 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.920 we can talk about that, and I think that is 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.600 going to keep building up to a massive voter revolt 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:09.560 in twenty twenty eight. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.840 You know, one of the things that I'm glad you 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:18.600 talked about here is that I truly believe that this 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.080 is not I mean, he's the most unpopular he's ever been, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.480 yes ever, and there's a reason for that, because my 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.080 man does not give a fuck. I think that what 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.720 happened was Trump one point zero was a disaster for 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.720 a lot of people. But you know, COVID was an 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.360 incredible kind of amnesiatic, right. It created a sort of amnesia. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.880 People were traumatized. They didn't remember, they didn't know what happened. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.480 And then Biden made I think, really the biggest mistake 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.200 that anyone has ever made as a in the in 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.200 the in the messaging world, which is he really didn't 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.080 do any interviews. So everyone got mad. You know, the 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.760 mainstream media was pissed at him. Everybody forgot that he 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:03.280 was president. People stopped caring about it, and then you 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:04.320 and I mean, is. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.200 That his something There's also something stupid that was going 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.480 on in the media, and let's just face it, where 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.040 they felt this is where the both siding thing became 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.560 so toxic and poisonous, correct, where it was like, well, 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.520 we were so tough on Trump because he was an 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.920 out of control maniam by Democratic zelot and so on, 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.040 that we have to treat Biden as you know, this 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.480 nefarious thing that's happening as well, and he just wasn't 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.040 right just exactly. I wanted to bring broadband to the 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.840 masses and help you rail lines and you know, do 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.680 things that like presidents in the twentieth century did. If 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.280 Joe Biden maybe made one big mistake, it was that 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.160 he kind of acted like a twentieth century president in 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.720 a world where Donald Trump and the Republicans don't give 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.720 a fuck and they're just going to try to ram 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.200 everything down your throat and when you get pissed about it, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.520 they're just going to troll and taunt their way out 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:57.040 of it. And the Biden messaging machine was just way 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:58.040 behind that curve. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.800 I don't, yeah, send them all to the Hague, I 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.679 mean send that those That was the worst messaging. And 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.520 you know, I would say to them, you guys, like 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.000 nobody knows what you're doing, So nobody knows what you're doing. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.720 Nobody knows what you're doing. And and it was like, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:22.200 and I do think, like, you cannot You absolutely just can't. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.040 You can't just sort of pray that people are going 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:26.440 to be able to figure out what you're doing. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:26.960 Yeah. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.040 But and this is where I have a beef with 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.440 the media because Biden being old and stumbling and stuttering, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.040 or they're messaging not being good or whatever whatever the 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.600 fuck that was going wrong when Joe Biden was president. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.560 None of that measures up to what Donald Trump did 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.879 in his first term or the way his first term ended. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.960 And it doesn't measure up to the threat that he 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.480 posed during those four years when he was a disgraced. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.000 Ex president of office. It doesn't measure. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.040 So we're kind of gotten ourselves into as you know, 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.080 as my mother likes to say, you make your bed, 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.240 you lie in it. And I think that the press 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.840 is now, you know, kind of getting their noses rubbed 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.800 in it. There the Pentagon, the Pentagon, the press gets 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.920 kicked out of They've got and they have. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:14.240 A new press corps. It's the Pizza Gate guy. That guy, 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:15.440 I love that guy. 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.200 Right, there's like TV, but also. 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.960 Then there's there's pizza there's Jack Pasobiac. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.640 Jack the Pizzagate guy. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.280 Yeah, I love Jack Pisobia, so. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.040 Yeah, so, and it's Brian Glenn in the Oval office. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.000 And you know, I'm just kind of waiting. And the 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.320 way that the press this just this past week has 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.000 covered Trump bulldozing the East wing of the White House 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.080 has just been a colossal failure. It has just been 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.919 an abysmal failure in terms of coverage. It doesn't it 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.119 has not met the moment for the last nine or 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.000 ten months. It didn't meet it this past week. And 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.879 I think that is why people are gravitating the podcasts 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.040 and independent media, new media and so on. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:58.800 They're just like. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:04.840 It's just sort of like it's also part. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:09.080 Of it is like serious, you can't there is when 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.320 one party no longer believes in democracy, then how do 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.440 you say, like one side is bad and the other 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.600 side wants to give you glasses, wants insurance to pay 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.840 for glasses. Like I do think that the media is 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.720 so small right now, Like I don't know where you 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.640 get that reporting that you need in order to have 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:33.439 checks and balances. Like independent media is great. I have 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.760 a substack. You have a substack. You have a humongous substack. 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.440 I have a tiny, tiny substack. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:39.840 Well, I'm going to just work. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.080 I have a little I said a little bit, but 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.439 but but the point is, like there's a lot of 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:49.479 great opinion stuff on substack, but like the reporting is expensive. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.240 And it's expensive now, and I'm trying to do a 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:53.679 little bit more of that. Like I went down to 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:54.160 the White. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.600 House this week. I talk to people about the East 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:57.440 Wing coming down. 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.840 Did they chase you out of the park. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.359 No, I mean they have basically locked down the park 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.520 and cordoned off and put up so much construction. 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:12.160 Explain what's happened. So the East wing, the Treasury Department 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.240 faces the East Wing, and so people who are working 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.840 in Treasury started posting pictures of the demolition. 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.960 And then the Treasury Department said, we don't want our 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.840 employees to send out any more pictures, and you know, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.520 and then they did it anyway. And I mean, so 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.240 what I did was I kind of know the grounds 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.080 and how they work, and where the fences are and 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:34.160 the gaps and the fences and stuff. So I knew 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.879 I had to go to basically the south facing entrance 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.920 of the Treasury Department, And if you look through a 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.000 little tiny crack in the fence and hold your iPhone 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:42.679 sixteenth up. 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:43.600 It's like Mosca. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.400 You consume it all the way and see the destruction 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:49.679 of the East Wing. So that's what I did, and 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.080 talk to some folks down there about you know, it's 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.520 kind of become a little bit of a dystopian tourist attraction. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.480 Molly and that course, they're like, just like regular Americans 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:00.800 tourists are on vacation who are going over there to 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.760 look at the East Wing being torn down and loaded 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.600