Trump drops BOMBSHELL military announcement

Some stunning new reporting from the. Washington Post, quote, "The Pentagon is. preparing for weeks of ground operations. in Iran, US officials said, as thousands. of American soldiers and Marines arrive. in the Middle East for what could become. a dangerous new phase of the war, should. President Donald Trump choose to. escalate." So, on the off chance that. you thought maybe, just maybe, Trump. would be smart enough to realize the. error of his ways by engaging in exactly. the kind of war that he swore he'd avoid. when polling showed this war was the. least popular at its outset in US. history, you can just kiss that goodbye.

as he now digs 10 toes in and actually. ramps up the war, or incursion, or. excursion, or military operation, whatever synonym we landed on this week. to avoid actually going to Congress as. is legally required. But, here's the. reality of engaging in a protracted war. You're not going to be able to unwind. it. So, when Trump inevitably gets bored. and wants his unpopular war to suddenly. go away, it's not going to be that easy. because every day he continues with this. means that the cost of gas rises, it.

means that the cost of oil rises, it. means other countries get sucked into. the conflict, and it spirals out of. control. And that is already happening. Which should already be enough of a. blinking red light for Trump to. recognize the error of his ways, and yet. he's choosing to do the polar opposite. He's choosing to make the conscious. decision to plunge this country into a. protracted war, even despite the fact. that it is already unpopular and already. out of control. Which would be bad. enough onto itself, but even worse. considering it's leaving Americans with.

higher gas prices, it's resulted in more. than a dozen dead service members, and. it's costing billions of dollars per. day. Money that could and should be. going to Americans at home. All of which. Trump railed against on the campaign. He. has literally become the caricature of. exactly the kind of politician that he. condemned in hundreds of his rallies. Which is the whole game. At the end of. the day, this is what Trump does. He is. an entertainer. He says words that. people want to hear, but they bear no. resemblance to what he actually intends. to do. I mean, I'm sorry, but how many.

times does he have to go back on his. word before we all realize that his. pandering was nothing more than window. dressing? And this is nothing new. In. his first term, he promised an. infrastructure law that never. materialized, a healthcare plan that was. cheaper and more comprehensive that. never materialized, a middle-class tax. cut that never materialized, a jobs boom. that never materialized, a manufacturing. renaissance that never materialized. Then in this term, his second term, he. did the same thing, promising reduced. costs and cheaper groceries, lower rent, cheaper housing, free IVF, getting. inflation under control, justice when it.

comes to Epstein's victims, accountability for his criminal. associates, but he is not delivering on. any of those things. The only thing he's. actually done in both terms is give a. tax cut to himself and his rich pals. He's building himself a ballroom, doubling his own net worth, setting his. own family up with military defense. contracts. Like, I don't know how to. make this any clearer. He does not give. a about you. He never did. He just. says things that people want to hear, but he never delivers. His entire. presidency is a graveyard of broken. promises. He didn't end the.

Russia-Ukraine war on day one, didn't. lower prices, didn't bring down. inflation, didn't release the Epstein. files, didn't usher in a manufacturing. renaissance, and guess what? He won't, because those are just things he said to. get your votes. But now that he's got. them, he doesn't need you anymore. Now. it's about him. It's about his legacy. It's about giving himself a tax cut. It's about giving himself headlines. Trump is broadcasting every which way. that his priority is not regular. Americans, it's himself. He will not. lift a finger to help you. He'll make.

all the excuses in the world, but when. it comes to continuing the same failed. policies that he once railed against, apparently there's a blank check. And I always make a point that it's not. just Trump. Every other Republican could. serve as a check on him, should serve as. a check on him. But instead, they've. chosen to prostrate themselves for him. in in desperation to, what, like, avoid. a mean tweet? And look at what it's. gotten them. Now they all own this. Now. they all own high gas prices and a new. Middle Eastern war and surging costs,

higher rent, expensive groceries, suppressed Epstein files, ICE murdering. Americans, rising inflation, non-existent job growth. They put on a. master class in what a weak, incompetent, corrupt majority looks like. and it is being rejected by Americans. And the response by Trump and the GOP is. to just double down. So maybe they feel. unaccountable to public pressure. Maybe. they feel like they can suppress enough. votes that what Americans really want. won't even matter, but they're in for a. rude awakening if they think that.

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any reason, they'll refund your money, no questions asked. Remember to head to. zbiotics.com/btc. and use the code BTC at checkout for 15%. off. I'm here with local area man. Your. name? Uh my name is John. John, what do. you do for a living? Uh I'm a podcast. host. Podcast host. Well, good luck on. your podcast. Thanks a lot, buddy. Yeah. We're here uh with the giant Trump baby. I've never been this close to the. I've never been this close to the Trump. baby before. The Trump baby is always. out here on No Kings. I've never gotten. up this close to him before. We are we.

are almost inside the Trump baby, which. I know has been a. It's a lot It's a dream of ours. >> A dream of yours. >> Yeah, yeah. Uh so, love it. Here we are, No Kings Day protest. This is expected. to be the biggest protest in American. history. Why is it important for you to. have been out here? So, I was thinking. about Get this guy. Yes. So, here's what I was thinking about. You got to just. But, yeah. It's up. There you go. Love it out here. So, here's what I was.

thinking about when I was walking up to. it. Cuz by the way, this looks bigger. than the one last time, I think. It's a. huge protest. And I was thinking about. what MAGA is versus what this is. And. you hear a lot of talk about how the. right wing has become this nationalist. blood and soil party. But, here's the. problem. There's no blood and there's no. soil. It's a bunch of people in their. houses consuming right-wing news, propaganda built on social media that. has agitated them and radicalized them. and made them part of this big.

un-American, frankly, anti-democratic movement that we have to. stop. We have to fight. It has way too. much power in this country. But, then I. look out here and I think. I see a lot of people, real people, with. actual blood on the actual soil coming. together to try to to try to stand up. for for what we think America really is, what it's meant to be. They don't have. this. They don't have the guys. That's. what's so embarrassing about the Ted. Cruzes and Rubios and Vances and Mike. Johnsons and John Thunes of the world.

They're capitulating to a. populist right-wing movement without the. populace. They don't have this. We have this. Because this is the actual. real country. This is the majority of. the country. Whatever happened in the. election, Americans did not vote for a. war in Iran, for ICE at the. airports, for grifting corruption, for a. White House in which somebody makes. billions five seconds before the. president makes an announcement about. life and death in the Middle East. It is. absurd. I This is yet another reminder.

of what the country actually stands for, what Americans actually stands for, and. why we have to not allow the the. cynicism and the defeatism that we all. feel sometimes to stop us from doing. what we have to do in the midterms and. after. That's what I think. Love it. >> That's what I think, Brian. I I love it. You YouTube's best boy. You're going to. Your podcast is going to go somewhere. I. can I can just feel it. You got to. Listen, I'm trying to get this podcast. off of the ground. Trying to get it off. the ground. >> Yeah, yeah. Uh love it. How does this make you think. about popular movements? Because, you.

know, in the lead-up to 2016 and even. 2020, we heard so much about these these. boat parades. I mean, there was a lot of. like like on the street action. happening, which has has vanished from. the right and is now present in what. are, you know, consecutively becoming. the most attended protests in history, whether it's No Kings 1, 2, or 3. And. so, how does that How does that inform. like how you're thinking about this. moment? So, the two biggest challenges. when facing a revanchist authoritarian.

right-wing movement. One is that you're. relying on institutions that they are. trying to destroy. You're trying to. prove that the institutions can work. even as those institutions are being. undermined from within. Now, I actually. think that's an area where we really. kind of blew it. Merrick Garland. blew it, right? But, the other big. challenge is remembering that in order. to defeat a rising authoritarian. movement, you need as big a. pro-democracy movement as possible. And. that has to run all the way from. anti-Trump Republicans to the furthest.

left that you are willing to go, which. is as far left as you can go. And that's. frustrating to people at times. That. makes people mad cuz there are real. moral differences inside of this. coalition. But, all these people here, I. assume have a huge range of views. I. assume that there are people here that. have. diametrically opposed views on really. important, serious issues from from. Israel to healthcare and everything in. between. But, we are part of one. movement. And as long as we can show up. and and and remind ourselves of that, Uh.

doing the work we need to do to defeat. Trump and whatever the Republican Party. it looks like that he leaves behind. Love it. What kind of a permission. structure do you think events like this. give people. who for whom. you know, being a Democrat was always a. non-starter or for whom being a. Republican was always a part of their. identity. How does this this kind of. stuff change things? All right. I think. there are the hardcore MAGA Republicans. and there are hyper-engaged Democrats.

But everybody in between. politics isn't as much a part of their. identity. >> Yeah. And politics has been kind of an. ugly slog on television for a really. long time. And it didn't seem like the. government worked. It didn't seem like. voting maybe mattered as much as we. claimed it did. Uh people didn't take Democrats. seriously enough about the threat we. said Trump posed. But this is just a. reminder that like uh. uh it's not just hardcore partisans out. here. It's not just uh Nancy Pelosi and.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and. and the kind of faces people don't trust. on television. It is a like grassroots. movement of people who want something. different. And the job of it's not our. job. The Democratic Party isn't an end, it's. a means to an end. And this is also part. of how we kind of figure out how to. change this. Love it. What gives you uh what what. should people be looking out for in. these last, you know, 6 months in the. lead up to midterms right now? What what. What do we have to take the most.

seriously? And what gives you the most. hope? That's good. Donald Trump is at his lowest ebb. He's genuinely on his heels. There is a ridiculous. uh uh. poorly planned conflicts. that is $7 gas on my way here uh. costing lives, destruction, unleashing. chaos. Our job is to tell a story Keep going.

about. Our job is to tell a story. about by the the corruption and. viciousness and cruelty of this. administration. is having a genuine negative impact on. people's lives and. that there are people who actually have. the capacity to stop it and ultimately. build something better. And. uh that's our job. This is to not be. distracted by by infighting without. being afraid of hard questions and hard. debates. It's about getting everybody.

here to understand those stakes and days. like this are a part of that, but so is. every day in between. And we're going to. have some big primaries and those will. be contentious and that's how it should. be, but then we got to get to the other. side of those primaries and whoever wins. uh put differences aside, put egos aside. uh and do what we need to do to to to to. win and that includes by the way here in. California some of these Democrats need. to drop out of the governor's. race. Uh everybody's got to put their egos. aside, >> Yep. their personal.

their personal differences aside and do. what it takes. Lovett, are we going to. win the House and the Senate? We don't do predictions. We don't do. predictions. >> But if we did. But if we did I'm not doing it. I'm not. doing it. All right. We can. We can do. it. Make it happen. I don't I'm not in. charge of this. I'm not from the future. Last question, Lovett. How does it feel. to be surrounded by this many people. with the crippling anxiety that you. carry with you on a daily basis? Uh.

Uh. I feel like I can basically. go in and out of the crowd like in the. movie K-19 The Widowmaker. They had to. run into the nuclear soaked cauldron to. protect the ship but only for a few. seconds. That's right. Uh but they had. to that was their duty. And so for me. being in a crowd, I got to like psych. myself up. >> That is. >> your nuclear That is your nuclear. cauldron. Everybody remembers of course. Cain 19 the Widowmaker starring Harrison. Ford who himself on an episode of David.

Letterman said it was the stupidest name. of a movie he's ever been in. And that's. also what this is about, I think. I I. think that's perfect I. I'm I'm with you like I. I agree 100%. Project Chimera now. appears. Love it. Thanks, man. I'm joined now by candidate for the US. Senate in Ohio, Sherrod Brown. Thanks so. much for joining me. Good to be with you again, but thanks. for the way you reach out to people and. have such an impact on American. democracy. Thank you. Well, I I. appreciate that. Um I want to talk about.

some some big news out of Ohio, which is. not a state that that Democrats normally. look at or normally feel like they have. a an opportunity to really compete in. There have been two recent polls the the. Ohio Environmental Council posted a poll. that showed you leading Senator Husted. 51 to 47. That was on the heels of. another Republican aligned firm now On. Message Public Strategies putting you at. 47 to Husted's 45. And so, what do you. attribute the fact that in a state like. Ohio, which has been increasingly out of.

reach for Democrats over the last decade. plus, that the polling is showing you. ahead in large part? Well, I think it's the the anger people. have towards uh the government now. I. think it's uh it's the war where people. it's costing it's costing a dollar more. for a gallon of gas. It's costing. farmers and truckers close to a dollar. and a half extra for diesel. Uh they see. John Husted a lot of anger aimed at him.

who has voted to take people's health. insurance away. uh almost half a million Ohioans and and. raising the price for another several. hundred thousand Ohioans and their. premium increases. Uh. all all for a billionaire tax cut. So, people want a very different direction. Uh when I lost in '04 and '24, I lost by. three points. Trump won the state by 12. It's a very different environment now. And when when I announced you know, I'll. stop. When I announced uh 31st of back.

in August, 31,000 Ohioans went online. and contributed within 24 hours. And. I've never seen that kind of enthusiasm. and that kind of just desire to change. things. You know, while you've been traveling. the state and talking to voters, what. have you heard from Republican voters. out there? And I ask this because it's. normally really difficult to extract. people from their political affiliation. as their affiliation becomes more and. more intertwined with their own. identity. Like people will come up and. say, you know, my my my my grandparents.

voted Republican and my and my parents. voted Republican and I'm a Republican. It's it's part of who I am just like, you know, your job or or or whatever. would be, you know, your job, your. religion, whatever it is would be part. of your identity. And so, have you heard. from some of these folks who have for. whom their Republicanism is is a part of. their identity who can't do it anymore? Yeah, I I had a meeting the other day, a. young a lawyer in Cleveland. Uh youngest woman I should I shouldn't. say it that way. A woman that practices law and practiced.

for probably 10 years, 15 years in Ohio. Um it's always a Republican. She worked. in Republican campaigns. And she she. came up to me and said, "I want to put a. group of people together." So, she got a. group of about 15 people. um ages 22 to 60 maybe who had whose. families had been exactly what you said, who had been Republicans, who believed. in fiscal conservatism, and believed. government should stay out of your. lives, um who believed in a responsible foreign. policy, who believed that we should side.

with Ukraine and not engage in attacks. on other countries whether it's fishing. boats in the in the Caribbean or Iran. And they um they're ready to move. It's. but then they're generational. Republicans, but I I I I've also noticed. this when you start asking that. question. I I've done a lot of things. I. grew up working on a family farm. Um I I'm not a farmer, but I was a farm. worker. Um I milked cows. I've done all. that. And I've seen Well, I've I've. spent a lot of time in rural communities. in this campaign. And there's a lot of.

unhappiness, but they don't really talk. about Trump. They talk about tariffs. As. if that wasn't Trump that did those. And. my focus in this race is not Trump. It's. Jon Husted. And they know Husted was was. supporting that. And they're kind of not. ready to move, but they're close to. They're close to moving because they've. seen their markets disappear. They've. seen cost of feed go up especially, and. fertilizer go up especially because of. the what's happening in the Iran war. Um. they know diesel prices, and they rely.

on diesel, not gasoline, for their. tractors and their their combines and. all. And there are not that many family. farmers, but if you go and you talk to a. family farmer uh in Pickaway County or. Van Wert County, you know that how. they're doing affects the whole rural. economy. So, people are very tuned into. those issues. We're going to do. significantly better there than Kamala. did 2 years ago or than I did 2 years. ago because people are ready to to vote. to vote for their their family farm and.

agricultural interests. Well, you know, speaking of that kind of. open disdain for working-class folks, uh. especially those in your state, Jon. Husted um had a had a comment that has. gotten gained a lot of controversy for. him. I'm going to play that right now. >> And people living in poverty are just. not very They're not very um experienced. at navigating the real world, right? That. I I remember talking to one young lady. who. said, "Well, I don't really know how.

money works at a grocery store." Because. she grew up and has lived all of her. adult life using snap cards to buy. groceries. And so, you literally have to. teach people how to budget. If the. buzzword today, let's face it, it's. affordability, right? >> So, that was John Husted say claiming. that people who are living in poverty. are not experienced at navigating the. real world. Again, just kind of dripping. with disdain for for. for working-class Americans, working-class Ohioans. Can I have your.

reaction to that quote? Yeah, I I mean, it's he also said that. Americans don't have the same work ethic. that they used to. He clearly has a disdain, maybe contempt. for people that that are making. you know, are not or struggling. I mean, it really is a question of so many. people are struggling and it's not just. poor people, it's working-class people, it's people that that are making $15, $18 an hour and can't can't live at all. comfortably, can barely get through the. next week. He also said they don't know.

how to budget. I would say they know how. to budget a whole lot better than John. Husted or than other members of the. Senate who don't have to think about. this a lot. So, fundamentally, people understand that. that um. the system's rigged against them, that. it's more rigged today than it was, where corporations are making more. money, corporate CEOs and. executives are are taking big stock. stock buybacks, where these workers are actually more. productive than they've ever been, yet.

more money's going out the door than. coming in. And that's the struggle, that's the rigged system. And then on. top of that, John Husted's taking. people's health care away and so he can. get more tax cuts to the rich. And. people. I don't see politics as left or right, I. see it as whose side you're on. And it's. clear John Husted's on the side of the. billionaires, he's on the side of First. Energy, um the electric company that's. overcharging and he was part of the. corruption where the speaker of the. house went to prison for taking a $61.

million dollar bribe and now the. executives are on trial and John Hustead. was called to testify. All of those. things are his life, not the struggles. of so many middle class and working. class and poor people in this country. Which might explain why even as we're. spending what, a billion dollars a day. in Iran? I think the first six days of. the war in Iran cost $11 billion, so. even double what I what I had just said. before. He's claiming that it's going. much better than expected. So he is, you.

know, cheerleading on this effort that. sends money overseas instead of keeping. it right here at home. Should the US be. engaging in a foreign war in the Middle. East right now? And can I have your. reaction to the fact that John Hustead. seems to be cheering it on? Yeah, thanks Brian for that question. Absolutely. The White House, the government has not. explained why we're there, has not. explained any plan to get out. and hasn't really given any answers for. what's happened to the price of gas,

what's happened to the price of diesel, which affects rural America especially. Hasn't done to talk about the cost. That. number you gave just keeps going up. It's not just I was with a bunch of. veterans in Jackson County last this. this past week and the many of them were. Vietnam vets. There's a there's a VA. hospital which was going to close and we. kept we meaning all the veterans and. working together with my office kept it. open. They understand it's not just the. cost of this war and they're.

overwhelmingly against it. It's the cost. for a generation or two of health care. for these men and women. There were at. least three people in this crowd that. have had health that have had illnesses. coming out of exposure to Agent Orange. even though the government fought them. one at a time. This time when we wrote. the PACT Act, veterans are going to get. their care immediately, but it's money. that we should spend, but you start a. war like this, and it's money that again, we're going.

to spend and we should spend it, but. what's the point of this war? And I. would add to the cost today, the number you gave is sort of the. updated number every, you know, every. every day or two or three, Brian. In. Ohio alone, the cost of the war to Ohio. taxpayers are paying about $60 million. a day for this war. We're underfunding. education. We're underfunding highways. We're underfunding the EPA. We're. underfunding things that matter in.

health clinics, all that. We're. We're underfunding things that matter. every day in people's lives. And people. increasingly are saying, including. veterans, maybe especially veterans, why. are we in this war? What's the point? Why did we go to war? How are we going. to get out? What's the plan here? And. And damn it, explain to to the American. people and explain to the soldiers. you're sending and the Marines you're. sending to the Middle East why we are. there. As of Sep 13 people as of this. interview or this taping of have been. killed, 13 Americans. Three of them are.

from Ohio. Ohio has always paid a larger. price than our population would suggest. in in foreign wars. And it's it's just immoral to be doing. this when we should be focusing on. people's everyday lives in our state. You know, I think that you touched on a. really important point, which was what. we could get instead of paying for this. And so I want to I just want to pose. that question to to you, and I know that. you alluded to this a little bit in your. in your previous answer, but but what.

could Ohio get? What could the United. States get with the billions upon. billions of dollars that are right now. being spent dropping bombs overseas, which by the way would be bad enough. onto itself, but even more egregious. given the fact that that is expressly. what Trump campaigned against. That is. expressly what Republicans campaigned. against. This entire party embraced no. more forever wars in the Middle East, and yet all of them are are approving it. and and enabling it by virtue of their. actions. That's what they campaigned. against, no more forever wars. What they.

campaigned for is lower prices. on everything from eggs to gas, to healthcare, to going to the grocery. store and shopping for everything. So, it's it's kind of both things there. But. what the the money I think about I think. about what's happened this year, the. money we're spending the billions of. dollars a day now, it's it's close I believe to $2 billion. a day that we're spending. At the same. time they they refuse John used it nine.

times voted against putting a lid on. premiums for healthcare. 120,000 people. in Ohio alone, 120,000 have dropped. their health insurance because of the. doubling and tripling of those premiums. They could have funded that. They could. have funded the child tax credit, which. is a bill I worked on for years. The. child tax credit dropped the child. poverty rate by 40%. Middle class kids, working class kids, poor kids it made a. huge difference in their lives. We're. not doing that. We're not funding health.

clinics. We're under funding the VA. People that go to the VA now, it's not. just they've they've laid off doctors. and physical therapists and nurses. They've also laid off administrative. administrative costs. They've there. aren't people answering the phone as. quickly. All the things that you're a. frustrated veteran you can't get the. appointment you need because you can't. get through on the VA line. I mean, things like that that not not to mention. what's happening right now with TSA. agents they're not paying. So, we're.

spending we're spending so much money on. tax cuts for the rich and a war that is. so unnecessary. You put those two. together and government can make such a. positive difference that would have. immense public support across party. lines, could make such a positive. difference in people's lives. You know, I think I think all of this. kind of pointing out where John Husted. stands, who he stands with, um the ways. that he's emboldened some of the least. popular parts of this MAGA GOP agenda, that's one thing, but I think it's also. important to have.

an affirmative vision for what. Democratic leadership could look like if. and when Democrats are able to take. control. Um and so what does that look. like for you? If if if you're in the US. Senate again and Democrats have a. majority and you know, it's obviously. going to be a little different from 20, uh you know, from 2026 to 2028 while. Donald Trump is still president, but. what does Democratic control look like. if we get to that point um and what. could it mean for people in in your. state if you've got the majority?

Yeah, I I thank you, Frank. Very much. appreciate that question. I mean, it's. it's displacing people like John Husted. who was a special interest guy in. Columbus in state government and goes to. Washington, he's a special interest guy. there. We we know who they are. Uh and. we have to we have to do a couple. things. First, we we need a government, we need a House and Senate uh that's. going to build guardrails so these. things can't happen again. I was with a. I was talking to a flight attendant on a. plane recently who's based in Columbus.

and she said, "What what's going on? Why. is all this happening?" I said, "Well, all three branches of government failed. The the Congress, the Senate failed, the. Senate House failed to do their job. Uh. the judiciary failed to do its job and. the White House has gone beyond anything. we've ever seen. um to do to do its job. So, um the first. thing we do is is is come back is build. guardrails so they can't do that kind of. power grab. Uh the second thing we do is. hold people accountable um for things. they've done, but I don't want to spend.

the next 2 years. making it look like we're just getting. even and tit-for-tat. I we need to do. affirmative things and thing I thought. of partly cuz I worked for 10 years to. get the child tax credit is one of the. first things we should do is pass the. child tax credit. Uh 2 million so the. families of 2 million children in the. state of 12 million in my state, families of 2 million children. So a. huge swath of the state uh benefited. immensely from the child tax credit. And. um it it gave it gave poor kids,

families of poor kids that it raised. them above the poverty line, kind of. middle-class kids, working-class kids it. gave their parents maybe they have a. little money to pay school fees to uh so. you so their daughter can play. basketball or their son can be in. theater or just take their kids to all. the things that that um people in this. country ought to be able to have if. they're working hard and playing by the. rules. So that's that's why we need to. do some a few things really affirmative. quickly. We passed the house, we passed. the Senate. Um Trump may sign some of.

them, but if he doesn't, uh we know. whose side people are on. Again, it's. it's not left or right, it's two sides. you're on, and we need to show uh we. need to show in an affirmative way how. we're going to fight for people. It. means, you know, un-canceling the clean. energy projects he canceled. Means a lot. of things like that. But we've got to do. something very tangible that people can. feel and people can see. And something. like the child tax credit, there are. there are probably a dozen others that. we should move quickly on. I think we're. at a moment right now where the top 1%.

controls about $53 trillion in this. country, while the bottom 50% control $5. trillion. So a massive wealth uh. disparity in this country happening. right now. And and frankly, it's egged. on by the policies of this Republican. Party and this administration. Which. again, they ran on this idea that they. were going to be champions for the. little guy. And all that we've seen thus. far is a tax is a tax cut that. disproportionately uh benefited uh the. ultra-wealthy in this country. So I'm. I'm glad to have heard you uh um focus, you know, on on uh on the right things.

And frankly, the things that Republicans. pretended to care about when they were. running in 2024. So with that said, >> and then people then cite like like you. Brian knew they weren't, but that's what. they said. I mean, look at I wasn't. going to get in this race. I thought I. was done. I don't want 5 years from now to look. back and say I wouldn't beat Sherrod if. I didn't try. But on that first day, these billionaires stepped down from. their limousines and they walked through. the hallowed halls of Congress. I still. believe it is that. And they walked in.

like they owned the place and it's. pretty clear by day two or three or week. two or three that they did own the place. and still do. And you know you know it. sort of begs the question, how much do. you need? But the richest people, most. powerful people in the country, maybe in. the world, they never have enough. They. have a lot of power, they never have. enough money and it's up to Congress not. not to help with that. It's up to. Congress to change direction. And this. this Senate and this house with people. like John Husted just feed into those.

special interests by giving them more. and more and more and more. Well, look, your election is is crucial in terms of. making that happen. So, for folks who. are looking to help your campaign, where. can they go? Um they can go to sherrodbrown.com. Uh we want volunteers, we want dollars, we want any help you can give. One of. the things that's exciting this year is. um as I've said before, the day I. announced 31,000 people went online and. contributed to an average something like. $40 each. But those 31,000, most of them.

because we have their names, we're going. to be in touch with them. Most of them. want to do something else. Maybe they. want to stand at the polls to make sure. elections the elections are fair. Maybe. they want to um hold little parties in. their neighborhood and get people. registered to vote or to get make sure. that that you know it's people that go. to No Kings rallies um who often are a. little bit older make sure their their. children and grandchildren vote. Um. older people vote in large numbers, young people in lower numbers and. there's a real generational. uh sort of synergism there that we can.

and. uh I I I'm so optimistic because I've. never seen this kind of energy this kind. of you know in Texas for instance so. more Democrats won the primary than. Republicans. I know you've talked about. that. I mean think think what that means. in a state like that in Ohio we're. seeing the same energy. Yeah, we can. absolutely see see you know the the the. course of history change here and. frankly Ohio is ground zero of exactly. that. So for folks who are watching and. listening right now if you have the.

ability to contribute to volunteer again. I'm going to put the link to Sherrod. Brown's webpage right here on the screen. and also in the post description if. you're listening on the podcast I'll put. it in the show notes. Please do whatever. you can because if we're able to flip. this seat that means that we will. control the US Senate as well. So with. that said Sherrod Brown thank you so. much for taking the time best luck in. the campaign trail. Brian thanks for. making a difference for our whole. country like you do. Thanks so much. >> To listen to the audio version of this. episode click the link right here on the. screen and make sure to subscribe and of. course to see more of my video content. that subscribe buttons on the screen as.

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