WEBVTT - Rick Wilson & Peter S. Canellos 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.120 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.160 today's best minds. And Gallup has found that China taps 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:17.160 America's approval rating for the first time ever, as our 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:22.360 leadership saw its approval rating drop eight percent two thirty 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.040 one percent. We have such a great show for you today. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.880 Lincoln Project's own Rick Wilson joins us to discuss the 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:34.240 escalation in Iran and how it affects life in America. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.040 Then we'll talk to Peter s Canillos about his new book, 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:42.239 Revenge for the Sixties, Samuel Alito, and the triumph of 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:43.640 the conservative legal movement. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.800 But first the news, Molly, every time mister Trump talks 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.320 about Christianity, we all can send see with those of 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.080 us who are lifelig aestheist, that he has no idea 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.400 what he's talking about. He's never bothered for one second 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.440 even learn how to fake this. But then as well, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.800 he skipped church on Easter. But what does he tweet 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.640 on Easter? Praise be to Allah? 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.720 All right, So I woke up at seven point thirty 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.200 and was like, I will pretend to sleep till eight o'clock. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.280 I get on my phone and I see Tuesday will 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.679 be power plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.399 in one comma. In around there will be nothing like it. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:24.520 Explanation point. Explanation point. Open the fucking comma straight, you 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.320 crazy fox, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:34.039 explanation point. Praise be to Allah period. President Donald J. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.000 Trump at eight oh three on Easter. I swear to God, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.280 I thought it wasn't real, and so I went on 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.720 true social to find it because I just couldn't believe it. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.720 Here's why I couldn't believe it because A it's very stupid. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.680 B he's clearly trying to like do the Holy war. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.880 Here's the here's the fundamental problem the Trump And we 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.360 see this with Hegseth too, like they really want to 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.960 be like you know, well, you know, Iran is this 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.639 very religious country and they're controlled by these clerics who 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:14.720 are very zealous. Well, here's the thing. Our country also 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.840 seems to be trying to pretend that they are a 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.880 country like that. But the truth is, and I think 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.560 this is an important point here is that, well, Donald 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.120 Trump thinks he wants a holy war because somehow that 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.200 will be I think he thinks that'll be funny or 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.560 I don't know what he thinks, but like, no one 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.880 wants this. The reason that no one wanted this war 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.240 to begin with was because it's huge country where they 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.919 have a lot of money and they have a lot 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.240 of people. And quite frankly, this has nothing to do 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.679 with us, and the idea that somehow, you know, he's 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.600 explored every which reason to go into this country, like 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.480 he wants to free the protesters. Okay, the protesters, they're 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.080 as mad at us as the clerics are. Okay, because 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.639 we're bombing, you know, parts of the country that are 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:09.760 or at least we're threatening to bomb desalization plans, power plans, 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.040 parts of the country that technically it's a war crime 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.839 to bomb, you know, civilian serving apparatuses. But the other 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.360 thing is like this a huge country, and destabilizing this 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:25.320 country will destabilize the region. We've already destabilized this country. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.720 We've closed the Straits. Even though the oil and gas 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.400 that comes through the Straits doesn't largely go to us, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.760 it has still made oil and gas more expensive in 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.560 the world. Because the world is all connected, and it's 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.640 just like a crazy, crazy moment and the other thing 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:46.640 is like when they were able to rescue the downed pilot, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.680 they did this thing where our military is obviously very 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.360 skilled and they were able to get in there and 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.320 get out of there without anyone getting lost, without anyone 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.840 getting hard and people have been killed in this war. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.400 It's just in this incident they were able to get 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.840 in and out in a really skilled way. So instead 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.160 of taking the win and backing out and even just 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.440 let a run charge a toll for the strades who cares, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:17.400 just get out because this is devolving into a complete disaster. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.680 Instead of doing all that, our leadership just seems insane. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.839 And there's no evidence that there is a negotiation going 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.640 on except that Trump says there's negotiation, and like, we 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.800 actually really need the Iranians to tell us if there 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.520 isn't a negotiation, because you know, we can't trust our 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:39.120 government and it is just a really fucked up moment 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:40.880 in an American life. And like I just want to 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.440 say one other thing, which is I you know, somebody 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.279 who's just like a normal person came over to me 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.440 the other day and was like this seems really bad, 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.520 and I was like, it is really bad, and we 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.760 kept saying it was going to be really bad, and 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.680 we knew it was going to be really bad. And 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.320 like the last time of its president, he had like 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.800 more than a million people died that didn't need to 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.240 die because of the pandemic. Like, this guy is not 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.680 a guy who should be president. It's not like a 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.000 Ronald Reagan where he's like a little domb or a 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.640 George W. Bush where he's like not the best choice 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.080 or a jab. It's like this guy is just really 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:18.160 responsible and doesn't care that he's leading this enormous country. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.240 And so we are all just kind of at his 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:26.159 whim and mercy right now, and it is just so jarring. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.600 And then we have a Congress that has absolutely no interest. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.200 You know, the Republicans are evil and the Democrats are 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.279 a little bit factless team, Like, we need people running 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:37.320 a check on this guy. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.320 So, speaking of things we need to check on, Trump 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.040 has released his budget plan. Would you be shocked to 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.040 hear this is just filled with some of the biggest 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:46.880 bullshit you've ever seen, I am not. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.800 The savings are achieved by reducing or eliminating woke, weaponized, 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.080 and wasteful programs and returning state and local responsibilities to 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.360 their respective government. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:58.920 How much does woke cost? 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.360 Woke it all no doctrum. Actually, there's like an insane 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.320 clip of him going around where he says, we can't 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.480 pay for daycare. We don't pay for daycare. The States 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.720 must pay for daycare. That's what he's talking about. What 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.960 he wants to do is he basically doesn't want to 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.240 pay for stuff. So this proposal includes a fifty two 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:24.440 million dollar cut for the TSA okay why nobody knows, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.080 but a huge decrease for ICE and the military because 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:33.279 you want a paramilitary but you don't want the actual 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:38.440 screening for people flying. And a golden dome because Donald 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.480 Trump loves Israel. They have an iron dome. We need 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.240 to have a golden dome. It's like an iron dome, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:50.040 but it's gold. It's so fucking stupid, And oh fyi, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.000 massive cuts to gut from an agency is and a 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.920 lunar base camp for visiting the moon, and ten billion 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.520 dollars into the President's Capital Steward Program in order to 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:06.039 make DC safe, clean, and beautiful again, and also changes 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.240 to housing k through twelve food assistance programs. If you 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.280 get anything from the federal government, you're not getting it anymore, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.200 but you will get Donald Trump spending a lot of 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.120 your tax dollars in renovating the White House where he 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.200 plans to live forever. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:24.200 Great stuff. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.080 So, as usual, what we've seen is Trump's revenge spree 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.240 where he tries to extort people and payback people for 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.320 what he feels have been done wrong to him. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:34.920 Keeps being these trumped. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.000 Up charges, which you know the irony of that word, 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:38.920 and one of them was against Jerome Powell, and that 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.520 has now been blocked by a judge. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.360 The judges. Here's what happens. Donald Trump does crazy shit, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:49.040 the judges tell him he can't, and then he just 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.800 tries to do it again. So here's a US judge. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.880 On Friday, I stood by the decision to cush Department 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.800 of Justice subpoenas targeting FED Chair Jerome Palell. These are 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.400 judge blocked wine specials. Here the government can appeal the decision, 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.040 prolonging a standoffs that could delay the confirmation of Donald 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.200 Trump's new FED chair. Okay, I'm good with that. The 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.440 US District Court for Washington, d C. Denied the government's 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.280 motion to reconsider an earlier decision to throw out the 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:22.720 Grand Jury subpoenas directed at Powell. Judge Boseburg, you'll remember, 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.320 Trump was really mad at him, and so was Elon. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.440 The court's chief judge quashed the spritest last week on 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.400 the grounds that the brog was aimed at pressuring Powell 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.840 and two yielding to Trump or resigning. By the way, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.920 anyone who has eyes can see this. In the aftermath 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.920 of the decision, US Attorney for the District of Columbia 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:46.240 and alcoholic Juanian Piro, otherwise known as Judge Box of Wine, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.880 said at a press conference that the investigation process had 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.720 been arbitrarily undermined by an activist judge. You know what's 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.920 arbitrary everything that Judge box of Wine does. Powell disclosed 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.760 in January that he was if the subpoena is seeking 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.439 records related to these Central banks multi billion dollar building renovations. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.080 The government was examining whether Palell had committed fraud and 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.120 lied to Congress. Here's what Palell didn't do, commit fraud 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.280 or lie to Congress. Well, here's who did commit fraud 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.640 Trump in a million different ways, probably Judge box of Wine. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:27.120 You know who didn't this guy to Rome pal You know, 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.400 this is just going to keep going up up to 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.680 the Supreme Court, where Alito and Thomas will say that 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.280 Donald Trump did nothing wrong, but probably the other justices 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.199 will not go along with that. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:41.160 Yeah. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.560 So, speaking of not going along with it, nearly two 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.119 dozen Democratic states. 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.440 Have hit Trump with the elections lawsuits. This is good news. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.640 After we saw this executive. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.079 Order about mail and balloting and we were wondering how 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.680 big the pushback would be. It's seeming pretty big. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.040 Yeah, I mean, this is totally a whoy. You know, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.720 this is the thing. Donald Trump will do any sketchy 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:01.480 stuff he can. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:02.480 That's it. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:07.360 Like, that's period paragraph. My man do sketchy stuff. That's it. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:08.560 You know, that's who he is. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:08.800 Now. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.760 Whether or not you let him do sketchy stuff, it's 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.600 a real question. That's where it is. So twenty three 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.360 different states and the District of Columbia taking Donald Trump 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.560 to court. It is unconstitutional and he will lose. The 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.600 President's latest attempt to interfere with the state's administrations of 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:33.120 their elections is as unprecedented as it is unconstitutional. Under 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.920 the Constitution, the president has no authority to restrict voter 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.959 eligibility or mail in voting to lists of voters pre 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.160 authorized by the federal government. Here's the one good thing 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:49.920 is that at least the courts are doing something because 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:56.800 the Congress is not. Rick Wilson is the founder of 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.200 Lincoln Project and the host of the Lincoln Project podcast. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:10:59.800 Rick. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.880 Hello, Molly, how are you on this fine day? 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:13.200 I'm good. So Donald Trump has gotten us into a war, which, yeah, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.760 I mean, does it when you start shooting down planes, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.920 that's when you have ground troops once you have, right, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.840 I mean, is that a fair definition? And explain to 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.800 us what's going on now? 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.080 So, look, the the inevitable has now happened, and the 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.480 Iranians have shot down an American F fifteen E Strike Eagle. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.480 Two crew members in the plane, very very effective, very 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.680 good strike bomber aircraft, but they shot it down with 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.760 a relatively cheap heat seeking missile. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:47.040 From the ground. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.040 One of the one of the crew has been recovered, 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:55.000 the other is still missing. If the Iranians captured that person, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.480 they're about to have a global spectacle. They also managed 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.600 to shoot down an A ten war yesterday damage Inn 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.480 F thirty five, which is supposedly impossible shoot down a 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.960 HH sixty helicopter. We don't have a ton of those 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.280 and two drones. So we have now entered the phase 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.880 of the war where it's not all one sided, and 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.360 eventually you're gonna have put more there. They've put a 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.679 lot of search and rescue operations into Iran. Now that's 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.400 a aerial and probably folks on the ground as well 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.200 in terms of pj's pair of rescue jumpers. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.680 Right, you have to at that point and. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.440 Special operators to go and try to try to recover 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:29.640 the other missing crew member. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.920 This will accelerate, these things always do. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.720 And so what's gonna happen is somebody who's been in 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.040 there to send in there to retrieve the missing crew 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.240 member from the F fifteen is going to get shot 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.120 or captured or the anti firefight. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:43.760 It just escalates. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.800 And the problem is right now we see a line 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.280 of C seventeen cargo planes flying from the US into 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.800 the Middle East. We're ratching up and up and up. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:59.240 The fake semi Taco twenty minute speech on Thursday night 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.760 did not make the markets feel better. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.880 No, in fact, it made the markets feel worse. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:05.880 Isn't real, That's right? 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.040 And BONDI Dow at fifty thousand moment. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.240 You know, I think Molly, and I love to get 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.320 what your thoughts on this is. It's like, have we 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.240 reached the point where the taco trick only works if 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.040 he actually tacos, you know, and he hasn't. He's still 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.560 he's still going all in on this war. And I 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.600 don't think, I don't think that the markets are going 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:31.720 to recover until or unless they see him, the world's 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.360 greatest negotiator, negotiate his way out of this box. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.679 Well, I think the problem is when you have the 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:44.080 straits closed ostensibly for American oil, which by the way, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.000 there wasn't so much American oil going to there anyway, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.800 So it just created a sort of situation with the 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.760 fungibowl oil and gas where you just there was less. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.280 Well that's closed. There's not anything Trump can do to 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.760 increase the global supply of oil, which is what we 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.839 just saw, right, And he took off sanctions on this 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.280 Iranian oil, the Russian oil, which by the way, a 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.559 is you know, diplomatically quite suspect, but also will not 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.120 necessarily make oil cheaper. I mean, the thing is we're 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.800 cruising into summer, which is oil and gas time, right, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.440 It's time for travel, It's time for airplanes. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.400 It's time for and high high energy bills for our 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.040 high energy useful. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.600 Conditions global warming. Yeah, and so we're gonna have this 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.520 very hot summer. We're gonna have very expensive gas and oil. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.960 And you know, I don't think that Trump. You know, 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.120 just to think about like this in the historical reference 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:49.280 for a minute. So this was what completely crashed Bush one. Right, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.160 it doesn't matter what you do if you make oil 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.680 and gas more expensive the American people, it's that's it. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.480 Like it's just you are gonna get. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.440 You were gonna get, You're gonna get. Right, Jimmy Carter 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.160 was in a period where expensive oil and gas coming 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.240 out of four going into Carter, we had expensive oil 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.240 and gas. Horrible for you, for your numbers. George W. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.040 Bush in the second term, expensive oiling gas, horrible for 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.760 your numbers. Even Barack Obama took some damage from it. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:15.360 For a little while. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:16.600 We had we had a spike. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:21.320 But with Trump, this was a decision that was made 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.440 precipitously with nothing in the background to support it. And 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.840 so now people are like directly connecting high price of 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.800 the pump, Donald Trump's war on Iran. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:31.600 That's it. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.040 It's a it's a it's bound together. And look his 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.560 numbers and we're seeing even more numbers over the weekend 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.360 that have come out, especially on the price of gas. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.440 He is sixty sixty one percent disapproved his performance. And 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.920 when it comes to the price of energy and gas, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.160 sixty one percent disapproval and that's forty five percent strong disapproval. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.960 That is a real five alarmed political fire for this, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.840 for the Republican Party and for Donald Trump. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.160 Yeah, and I mean there are two things too that 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.520 there are no as historical president for to have a 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:07.040 president who runs on affordability, I'm going to make gas cheaper. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.800 I'm going to make eggs cheaper. I'm going to make 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.000 fake and cheaper. Right, that was his message going into this. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.200 And also I'm going to end four and mores. And 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:19.240 then what does he do priffs, you know, which make 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.920 things more expensive for and more, which makes oil more expensive. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.600 Like just to have someone who immediately does exactly the 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.360 opposite of what they say they're going to do, I mean, like, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.600 I'm not sure there's a president for that historically. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.840 No. Look, we have not seen a president. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.960 Look I'll tell you, like presidents have very frequently big 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.640 externalities that hurt them. Okay, right, And look, while Bush, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.040 while the war was unpopular, what really knocked Bush's numbers 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.760 out of the box was Katrina. Okay, what the largest 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.080 percentage decline was at the post Katrina? When you had 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:01.400 the financial crisis? Even though Barack Obama didn't directly cause 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.000 it or wasn't there when it started, he was suffering 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.960 through the worst of the financial crisis, a big externality, 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.240 and it hurt his numbers, and that is in part 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.720 what led to the political climate for the ten Yeah, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.440 so all these you know, every president faces some external thing. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.320 Usually they don't cause it, right and that. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.200 But the difference here between every other president and Trump 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.040 is He's like, what can I do that's gonna absolutely 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.080 completely train wreck my economy? And what can I do 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.400 that's going to blow up my allies around the world? 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.640 What can I do that's going to harm the global economy? 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.320 And oh, by the way, what can I need to 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.280 pretend that the that the global petro market isn't a 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.280 global market. The reason gas is going up here, folks, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.800 is not because we buy gas from a run We don't. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.159 The reason is it's a global market and you can't 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.880 just hand wave away the fact that it's a global market. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:55.280 I heard yesterday that there's a some discussions inside of 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.679 the White House now of trying to if you just 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.080 want to watch the if you want to really to 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.679 watch the economic system meltdown to impose new price controls 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.520 on oil and gas in America. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.320 Right right, which I was told communism. Yeah, I just 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:17.200 getna say. I was like excited to watch that play out, 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.320 and we were. But I do think, like, you know, what 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.720 you see now is you see Donald Trump who sees 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.040 bad poll numbers and is like, fucking, I'm just gonna 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:30.040 start firing people, which is probably good for American democracy. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.440 Here follow my thinking here, So Trump two point out. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.320 The first year, you saw nothing out of that White House. 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.720 It was not leaky. It was so tight. Mike Walls 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.959 accidentally as the editor in chief of the Economist of 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.080 the Economists of the Atlantic to group chat and does 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.840 not get fired. He gets moved to a sort of 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:56.040 slightly different job, right, And we saw, really, you know, 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.520 it was just tight, and Trump was getting away with 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.080 it and people were making mistakes, but we weren't hearing 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.880 sort of what really happened. Now and this second year, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.160 Trump has just given up. He's firing people, he's moving 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:12.119 them around. So we're seeing like a Pam Bondy now 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.199 you know that story. There must be like fifteen people 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.600 leaking with that story because we found out when they 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.480 drove in the beast to the Supreme Court, we found 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.000 out that she sat with him and then he moved. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:28.920 That he was there for an hour and a half. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.280 I mean just like literally every bit. You know that 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.000 she had been begging to stay on till the summer, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.120 doug right, like we I mean, there was so much reporting. 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.840 I mean, he probably was leaking. She was definitely leaking, 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.000 and everyone she ever met was also leaking. And that 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.280 kind of transparency is actually probably much better for American democracy. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.320 Mollie, you have had the first year of Trump two 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.840 point zero a desire to not Trump didn't want to 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.080 give the media a in by firing anybody, because he 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:06.399 viewed firing people as letting the media win. And yet 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:11.000 this is absolutely driven by the fact that the media 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.760 was merciless about Pam Bondi's cover up of the Epstein files. 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:21.520 That they kept calling the media too, but actually you 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.720 were one hundred percent just getting there. Your You gotta 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.320 have a hundred percent correct. 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:27.399 No, no, no, no, no. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.280 But the horrific nature of her cover up of Epstein 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.920 was so bad that even Fox couldn't ignore it, even 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.880 a way in, and Newsmax and all the MAGA online 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.280 garbage couldn't ignore it. And so we may have a 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:47.480 moment right now where where the vulnerability of Trump's mental processes. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.240 He knows how bad Epstein is for him, and I 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.760 think they made a giant mistake. Todd Blanche rolled out 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.800 on Friday and said, We've really saw the Epstein files. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:58.399 It's over, it's done. Fuck you shut up. 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.040 Yeah, yeah, Black gonna say something. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.080 That ain't gonna that ain. I was texting with a 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.399 member of the committee. I remember the committee last night. 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:08.560 I said, you're gonna take this line down. 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.520 He goes, oh, no, my friend, we are not. 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.520 But it's also I mean. She also remembers she ran 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:20.119 a foul of MAGA influencers who are Dominant's core constituency. 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.960 She gave them those binders with the xeroxis of stuff 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:26.439 you can find on the internet, and they were so 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.879 embarrassed they posed for photos. Then they went home. They 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.120 looked in the binders and they were like, what the 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:37.040 actual fuck. And then those people committed the next seven 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.440 months to getting her fired and like it's a cautionary 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:42.680 tale for not being a complete moron. 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.679 Well listen, she she didn't. She also didn't understand. I 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.119 wrote a piece about this called Knives Out for Bondi yesterday. 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:52.760 Blanch was going to do this to her no matter what. 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.720 Blanche is the guy who's much smarter than Pam Bondy. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.800 And I will tell people that Pam is Pam is 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:07.159 not dumb, Like she's not a moron, but she's also right, yeah, right, 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:10.280 she's not Christine nom but neither is she you know, 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:14.399 some sort of mad you know, high level strategic thinker. 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:18.080 She's very obedient, she's very very good at being the 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.320 at being the good girl, the good guy for the 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:24.080