IHIP News: 🚨 Trump TORCHED in NYC! Met With MASSIVE PROTEST After His DISASTER STUNT!

All right, joining me today on I hit. news is the creator and host of the. majority report live here in studio on. game three day Sam Cedar. How are you? >> I'm well. I'm very well. Thanks. >> Well, you know who's strolling into New. York to rain on everybody's parade. They're shutting down Midtown Manhattan. pop this up. NYPD news starting at 4:00 p.m. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic will be. closed from West 30th Street to West. 35th yak yak blah blah and he's already.

being. met with a lot of pushback. First they. had to build a wall around MSG which is. so stupid. Let's put the here it is. Here's the video. >> Oh jeez, I hadn't seen that. That's. ridiculous. >> And so what's so sad about that is so. many people I I live pretty close to. there like celebrate in front. They. can't afford to go but they can at least. get close. >> Yeah, I mean you know, well, there's two. things, right? Obama. was a huge NBA fan.

and refused to go to any games because. of the disruption it would cause. But also. New York ticket prices are insane. I. mean this is. you want a perfect example of the K. shaped economy. This is it, right? I. mean because you got tickets nosebleed. seats are for thousands of dollars. I saw some breakdown that it was like. cheaper for New York fans to fly to. Texas. to see a game in San Antonio, pay for a. hotel, buy yourself a meal and buy the.

tickets then to see one in New York City. and at least the overflow stuff with. like the the you know, the the feed was. provided for that and Trump has taken. that away and there's a clip of him. I. don't know. Maybe you were playing on. play it where he's just like that's. that's life. And for him, it is life. Like his whole life has been. uh m-. avoiding the fact that this guy was born.

with hundreds of millions of dollars in. his bank account. And, uh, the idea that. like none of this stuff has been out of. his reach at any time in his life. Uh, and it's just life for him to have to. like realize like I'm going to. inconvenience people, but, uh, what I do. is more important than them. >> Yeah, he's just like tough titties. Well, of course New York is already. greeting him appropriately. Pop this up. So, this is in the subway. Go next [ __ ]. Trump. And then there's sidewalk chalk. all in front of Madison Square Garden.

Go next [ __ ] Trump. And I love this for. him. Now, predictions. Do you think they're going to put his. face up on the Jumbotron? When he went. to the US Open, they did not. >> I. I I I can't imagine they're going to do. that because they have to know. Someone. in his entourage has to know cuz I think. Mondani's going to be there. I think. he's going to be in the nosebleeds. >> be in the nosebleeds.

>> And, um, I suspect they won't put his, uh, face. up on the Jumbotron because then people. will be like, "Why didn't you put. Trump's face on the Jumbotron?" But I, if I had to bet, and I don't I actually have a problem. with how, uh, how easy it is to bet on. these things. But, uh, that if there. isn't a F Trump, uh, chant that happens at one point, I'd be. shocked. >> I would be, too. Okay. Okay. Truth serum. polygraph.

Do you think Trump deep deep down is. hoping he runs into Zoran? I mean, the happiest I've ever seen. >> just like a chasing him around and. >> You know, he texts him. He gets all. fluffed up in his bed and texts him. Like, he texts him frequently. >> I, uh, you know, I have no idea, but I I. wouldn't be surprised. He's a he's a. very demented guy. I mean, I think like. literally and sort of like colloquially. speaking, I think he's a very demented. guy. I think he's just so excited that.

he doesn't have to deal with the war. that he has lost. Uh and uh you know, just all of the planning about. got to go to New York and I'm going to. see the game. I mean, uh the best is. going to be if it's a tight game when he. leaves with like 10 minutes left in the. uh in the game because he doesn't really. care. >> No, he doesn't give a [ __ ]. >> No, he doesn't give a [ __ ]. >> All right, speaking of not giving a. [ __ ] I came across this tweet. on Twitter and this is Congressman Ted. Lieu and this is just really revealing. and I want us to analyze this. Pop this.

up. I endorsed um Xavier Becerra. That's why I hope Republican Steve. Hilton remains in the top two. The. latest vote updates show Hilton will. likely beat Steyer. So, let's dissect it. Here is a Democrat. rooting for a Republican. And we see this right now. This is at. the epicenter of the Democratic Party. where you have corporate Dems. And I have a question. Do they hate.

progressive Dems more than they hate. MAGA because why wouldn't he want two. Democrats in there making us a stronger. party? >> I I mean, that's the I mean, his his. tweet doesn't hold up because it's not. going to be Steyer versus Hilton. It. would be Steyer versus Becerra if if if. Steyer got in there because Becerra is. clearly going to be the candidate. You. know, there was a a writer Kevin Drum. from the Washington Monthly who years. ago wrote about the iron law of.

institutions which was that. people would rather um. have the institution fail and not lose. their position in it than have the. opposite. They lose their position and. the institution succeed. And I think. there's a lot of uh Democrats who feel. really threatened by. the the energy behind the more sort of. progressive wing of the Democratic. Party. And I think that's a big fear and.

I think. you know, Lou doesn't understand that. he's telling on himself in that. instance. This is not a choice between. uh you know, um. uh Hilton and Steyer. It's a choice. between Becerra. It's Steyer if Steyer. gets in there. I mean, we see it like. you know, that that's the funny thing. about what's going on with the. um. uh the the Democratic. or the the conspiracy theories around. the the mayor race. Because the. establishment which ostensibly would be.

in charge of, you know, faking the. ballots, they want Bass. >> All right. >> And Bass has a much better chance. against. Spencer than. she would against. a progressive Democrat. >> Right. >> And so, um. it's fascinating. But this is something. that I feel like I've seen for a long. time and I think we're seeing it a lot. with like. uh in the. the the Platner race. I think we're. seeing it. I mean, the the level of. desperation there is is intense.

Uh I think there was, you know, this. goes back to like the abundance stuff. Um there was a sense that. the establishment and the corporate. influence could influence Harris. And that they were gearing up for that. They were gearing up from it like, you. know, trying to demonize Lina Khan. They. were trying to undermine some of the. more progressive things that by the. Biden administration did. And um.

when Harris lost, they were not ready. for it. And um. you're seeing it I think like, you know, progressives don't have the strength. They don't have the money, uh yet that the the corporate wing of. the party does and frankly like. the APAC money that filters in through. derivatives. Um but there's. you know, Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania. Um. Uh we have others and Mejia and.

>> Williams Sayed. >> And well, they're worried about Sayed. and they're worried about Platner. uh because it it's. in the event that these guys make it to. the Senate, it's going to be a very. different Senate caucus. uh than we've seen in the past, without. a doubt. And I think we're going to see. a more progressive uh Democratic caucus. That doesn't necessarily mean that it's. like dominated by them. It won't be, but. it's it's headed in the right direction. from my perspective anyways. >> I agree. It's like baby steps, but I.

think at the epicenter of Ted Lieu's. tweet, where he's cheering for a. Republican to win, because he wants a. Republican versus a Democrat, is really. telling. And it reminded me a lot of the. mayoral race here. And you had all of. these headlines. You know, everybody's. going to leave New York, crime's going. to go uh. >> 25% I think was the prediction. >> and then so his accomplishments in 2026, major crime is down 8% citywide. He. secured over 1.2 billion in a.

partnership with centrist Hochul, so. they work together. He secured more than. 9 million in restitution for workers and. small businesses. He expanded protected. time off for 4.3 million workers. and filled 100,000 potholes in his first. 100 days. And here were the headlines. before. Let's look at these. Electing Zohran Mamdani New York City. mayor would spur huge cop exodus, rising. crime, straight out of Gotham City. Zohran Mamdani success is a warning.

Escape from New York, researcher. predicts New York City business exit. exodus if Zohran Mamdani wins. Well, then he does the pied-a-terre tax. numbers like, oh, luxury real estate's. going to tank. It's up. Right. >> Well, and you know, um. >> Are they scared that once somebody like. him shows us. >> 100%. You know who didn't leave? Who promised. he would? Is Andrew Cuomo. >> [laughter]. >> He's supposed to be in Florida right. now. I I honestly like I don't know I I. like the idea that this guy's still even.

in New York State is. uh an abomination. Um but yes, they are scared. And I think. like this is, you know, and and I think. to some extent this is what what scares. them about Platner. With New York, and remember they also. compared him to Spanberger, right? Like. in Virginia. Like they were trying to. make it like both Spanberger and Mamdani. after Mamdani won, they were trying to. make a comparison there. Her uh approval. rating is in the toilet now, and. Mamdani's has soared. It has increased.

by I don't know, uh 25% since he's not. 25 percentage points, but maybe 10 15. percentage points. >> [snorts]. >> But uh since he's gotten in office. And. there's also like even from an. intangible standpoint, the there's he's he's worked on like. creating a spirit about the city and. about what government can do. And I. think to a large extent that's very. threatening because, you know, part of. the reason why a a corporate wing of the. Democratic Party wants to get out there.

and say there are certain things you. can't do. You just can't do them. Well, we'd love to, but we can't do them. And. to see uh Mamdani have this success, they said he's never going to get the. money for. uh for uh universal child care. They're. not going to do anything with the buses. You know, like you said, people are. going to leave, etc., etc. And then their fallback position is like. this is New York. The rest of the country is not like New. York. Then you start to see Platner build a. movement up in Maine and really just.

destroy the established candidate. I. mean, regardless of what people say about like. there's no way that Janel is going to. win. Um, and we're going to find that. out tomorrow, but. for sure, but obviously he just. destroyed her and he motivated people. with a a very similar tact, not the. exact same policies, but this. perspective of like. um. there's there are people who are. responsible for the immiseration of the.

American public. Like we are making the. country has huge GDP, somebody's getting. that money and it's increasingly in the. hands of a smaller group of people and I. think that is very threatening and then. once it happens in in Maine, I think. there's even a fear like what if it. happens in Nebraska? Um, and then, you. know, this is something that begins to. undermine the narrative that we've been. told that like you don't understand New. York what people want in the in the.

heartland of the country. And it's true. I mean, there are states that there's a. lot of conservatism, a lot of it is like. social conservatism and cultural. conservatism and that's what's most. important to those people as opposed to. sort of like a material benefits, but at. the end of the day, I think they're very threatened by an. economic populism. They are and every. time it succeeds, they've got to find. something and and now in New York, the the complaints against Mondaire have. gotten increasingly sort of like narrow.

and just bizarre. >> Yeah. >> I mean, at one point they were trying to. push that he had cursed the Mets. >> [laughter]. >> How much do you think the through line. with the hysteria over Zohran, the. hysteria over Mondaire, the hysteria. over Abdul El-Sayed has to do with AIPAC. and Israel and the optics for somebody. like me who grew up in Middle America. Muslims bad, terrorists, multiple wives,

kill white people with impunity. I mean, that's that's the propaganda. And then. you see this. Muslim man in New York [snorts] that has. the you know, the trans flag and he's. fighting for workers and I've never. really talked about religion ever where. the politicians where I come from are. using religion, you know, to control. How much do you think. these people bashing that stereotype, a. senator named Abdul El-Sayed, bashes. that stereotype. How How scared do you.

think the propagandists that keep all of. that intact, the Israel dream intact, how scary is that for them? >> Well, I think for for like from a. Zionist perspective, it's very scary. because. um. much of what, you know, having grown up. in a Jewish family where I don't I don't. know that we perceived ourselves as. Zionist back then. It was just you. supported Israel and and there was a. narrative about Arabs and. you know, maybe not till after 9/11 from like a.

Muslim perspective. And I think like. without the ability of demonizing. Arabs or Palestinians or whatnot, things. become a lot harder. And I think you know, what has happened. over the past couple years, we saw with. Cori Bush, we saw with Jamaal Bowman, um. [snorts]. is that. the. corporate forces found a way to. basically launder their money. to run against these progressives.

through DMFI or AIPAC and their their. and and then it also combined with. Democrats who are also Zionists. And they all sort of found like a common. home. Like this these are the these are. the same people that we're going to go. after. So, I think like a lot of that. money has commingled. And yeah, I think. there's a tremendous amount of fear that. these things are being normalized and. it's harder to other eyes. people who are of Arab descent or Muslim.

and that's a problem. I mean it's. and it's a problem that is. happening at such a rate for them. I. mean it's it's stunning. The popular. opinion has changed both. in the Democratic Party for sure and. amongst independents but even younger. people. in the Republican Party. No longer sort. of knee-jerk. support Israel and I I. I think they're going to get. increasingly desperate frankly. And I don't know how that plays out but.

it's scary. >> Don't you think that desperation is. playing out a little bit right now with. Netanyahu knowing, okay, we have this. idiot in America right now, Trump. We. can go all gas, no brakes. This is our. moment. This is the time to balkanize. Iran. This is the time to for the. greater Israel product project. And and. it not only is it Netanyahu but it's all. of these tech oligarchs. Everybody's. just sucking out of him and he doesn't. give a [ __ ] He's just worried about. his, you know, vanity projects.

>> Absolutely. I mean I think that's the. dynamic. I mean I think. it it. it Netanyahu knew this was his last bite. at the apple. I mean also for him. personally probably too. I mean he's you. know, he's in his 80s. And I think Trump allowed him and I. think Trump was is you know. either of not sound mind enough or. easily convinced or I mean I. I'm convinced that there's a dollar that.

he feels like he's going to make from. this or at least initially. I don't know. what that was but that's usually what. and so yes, I think they're going full. force. There's a real quality. And I think amongst the Republican Party. in general and we're seeing it like you. you. with like guys like Russell Vote and the. Heritage Foundation, there's a real. quality of like, we're in the getaway. car now. Like, this is it. I mean, we know so, polling be damned, politicizing, you know, trying to trim. our sails in some way to try and.

maintain. be damned, we need to get everything we. can. And we're seeing that like on a. daily basis like. >> Supreme Court. >> Well, the Supreme. >> Shadow docket. >> The shadow docket, but. just the other day, you remember. schedule F from the end of the first. Trump administration and this was a. plan, there's about 40,000 civil. servants in the government and there was. a plan that the Russ Vought and the. Heritage Foundation and the whole. project 2025 people had. to get rid of the civil service.

protection. They wanted to do it for. 40,000. They've done it now just the. other day for 8,000 of the top level of. civil service. So, these jobs are going. to be in this we're talking about this. has been in something that's been in. effect for, you know, 150 some odd years. in this country. uh. to make sure that we have good. government. And um. Trump is going to replace this with a. political patronage system and he's. going to make people take a, you know, some type of loyalty test and whatnot.

And and this is you know, when we when I. came in here like, how you doing? I'm. like, this is the thing that's really. keeping me up at night because there is. there's things that a new Democratic. administration in 2029. can change, right? And there's you know, stuff that's more obvious and there's. policies that you can reverse. But my biggest fear is regardless of who. who wins that election in in 2029 and. hopefully it'll be a Democrat. is that there's only so much bandwidth.

There's only so much resources an. administration has. There's only so many. bodies, there's only so much money. And the. the destruction of our administrative. state. is so extensive. Uh that nobody coming in in the first 4. years is going to be able to fix. everything. I mean, it's going to take. two terms, three terms, four terms to. fix this stuff. And you don't start in. the in the destruction that's happening.

today, you don't see for years. And so 5, 10 years from now as we start. to see like the degradation of of. sciences. I I had. on the program today we had Jonathan. Cohn who had written this piece about. that there has been a incredible. discovery or. the development of a. treatment for pancreatic cancer. One. that like caused like all these. oncologists in the middle of a. presentation to get up and like. spontaneously.

standing ovation. But the mechanisms. that led to that like you know, it. doesn't happen overnight. You're talking. about 20, 25 years of government-funded. research. that has led us to this moment. Well, now that pipeline is done. Like we've destroyed it. We've destroyed. the grant making. You've got people, you know, you've got a somewhat of a. brain drain. You've got people going. into other professions and not pursuing. this stuff. We're not going to feel that.

as a population for 5, 10 years down the. road when all of a sudden there's just. nothing in the pipeline. None of these. things are being built on because we've. lost a generation of scientists. And I don't know how many people are. going to be say like, oh, well, the reason why we haven't had this. progress is a function of what happened. >> That's. >> 5, 7 years ago. And this is the case. with the the EPA, the FDA, with. climate change. There's a whole host of the SEC. The.

next financial crisis we have. if it doesn't happen, you know, immediately is going to the seeds are. being planted down the road, whether. it's from like, you know, the. deregulation and crypto. I mean, on and. on. And this is the part that really. keeps me up. at night because this is. we're undermining the structure of. things in such a way that even a. candidate that we would love. uh pick your favorite coming in, they're. not going to be able to fix all this.

uh quickly. And I don't know. what kind of patience the American. public is going to have for this. I. don't think there's a broad. understanding of it. We don't even cover. it because there's so many other. stories. Like, you know, the what would. have been a top-line story, you know, 5. years ago is like. the 12th story of the day type of thing. It's scary. >> It's really scary and it bring. everything always brings me to how the. Democrats are messaging. That's why when. I come across Ted Lieu's tweet, I'm.

like, "Our number one mission should be. anybody who is a Republican we want to. defeat. Yeah. Period. We don't care if. it's a primary where, you know, like in. the ranked primaries like they have in. California." And the patronizing way. that corporate Democrats treat the. elector electorate really uh bothers me. And so, here's a video of um David. Brooks who was married to a woman for 28. years and he left his wife to marry a.

research assistant who was 23 years his. junior. And I don't give a [ __ ] if he. does that, free country, what have. What I hate is our hypocrites. I can't. because I grew up in the Bible Belt and. always the most sanctimonious people are. always the biggest [ __ ] hypocrites, 12 times out of 10. So, here's David. Brooks talking about Graham Platner. Play the clip. >> into a public office, a person of basic. integrity, and second, do I agree with. them? But But you haven't if you've.

gotten rid of the first criteria, then. you have weakened your democracy and. Republicans clearly did that with Trump. And now Democrats really, if they if. they side with Latner, I don't want to hear too much about. Trump in the future and his moral. degeneracy. >> Jonathan, to that. >> Okay. So here's my thing about this. Susan Collins has a record of being a. fascist. Period. She is It's no longer. fascist collaboration. I called her a. fascist the other day and we have a. decades-long record. >> Yeah.

>> of rat-fucking [clears throat]. women in states where I'm from in. Oklahoma where she voted to give rapists. more rights and more privacy than a rape. victim. She has enriched herself, you. know, millions upon millions of dollars. She votes with Trump over 90-something. percent of the time. She voted for all. of these. unqualified [ __ ] to be in his. cabinet that are dismantling all of the. stuff that's keeping you up at night. She is a an absolute fascist. And this. guy gets on here and lectures us.

And. I think it was James Carville who said, "Look, we got a fucked-up candidate, but. he's got to win.". >> Right. >> And that's kind of where I think we are. in this fight for democracy. What's your. take on all that? >> Well, David Brooks is a Republican. He's. nobody's taking him seriously. And the. thing is he's not had a constituency for. years. You know, the. The New York Times would hire people. like David Brooks ostensibly to. represent the conservative perspective. on things, but he's not a conservative. I mean, he he is hated by the conservatives just. He is He is the corporate Democrats'.

fantasy of what a Republican is. Honestly. And And you know, part of the. problem has been and it's changing. slightly, but we still have some. holdouts. Starting in 2016, the Democratic Party. had the opportunity to tie Donald Trump. to the Republican Party. Like if you go back in October and. September of 2016, they were not. attacking Paul Ryan. They were not. forcing Paul Ryan to say like, "What is. your perspective on this guy?" They were. not saying it to Mitch McConnell. You. had uh Chuck Schumer, in fact, in.

October of 2016 was saying, like, "I've got Schumer." For whatever reason, talked about himself in the third. person. "I've got Clinton.". >> impersonation. >> Uh well, I don't have the my right. glasses, but I've got Schumer. >> [laughter]. >> I've got. I've got I've got Clinton, and I've got. Paul Ryan, and we're going to do a. repatriation of overseas taxes, and. we're going to do an infrastructure. bill. And they wanted to protect, like, you know, and we've had this over and. over again. Obama, Biden,

uh the fever's going to break. The. Republican Party is going to return to. the mean. Uh. Nancy Pelosi, we need a strong. Republican Party. They rhetorically, and and I would argue also even. legislatively, in some respects, protected the Republican Party. Instead. of tying Donald Trump to it, he was not. a Republican. He was not the Republican. Party. He was MAGA. And then he wasn't. just MAGA. He was extreme MAGA. Like, I. mean, they constantly add these. qualifiers. to take him away from the Republican.

Party. In fact, you know, Kamala Harris. going around, "The Republican Party and. I, represented by you know, Liz Cheney, and I, we're you know, we're the normal. people. He's this outsider." No. He. exists today as president because the. Republican Party was this party. They. had created a suit, and he walked into. it. He was exactly what the Republican. Party had been building. >> They incubated him. >> They incubated him. Well, they were. waiting for a guy like him to come.

along. >> Totally. >> And the the Democratic leadership. refused to sort of acknowledge this for. years. Now, even Democrats who I don't. agree with from an ideological. perspective, younger ones of a different. or I should say of a different political. generation, um recognize that you need to be. partisan. That the Republican Party, you. can't but we still have a leadership. that refuses to to take this position. And and it gets complicated with a guy.

like Chuck Schumer who is in fact, I. think very much behind a war with Iran. I think he would argue like maybe Trump. has messed it up in some way, but he was. very slow to come out, you know, he was. complaining about side deals with Iran. Side deal to avoid a war? Like I mean. this is not the messaging that is. helpful and. I think Democrats are going to. underperform. Now, we they very well may. do.

they may take the house, they very may. well take the Senate. But I think. there's probably a point or two that. they're underperforming because. they're trying to build a narrative now. that these Republicans are supporting. Donald Trump. That there is no. difference. When you vote for Susan. Collins, you're voting for Donald Trump. and. they're behind and they've had 10 years. to do this. But our last president was. was inviting the Republicans and when. they were talking about the Build Back. Better Bill, the reason why that thing.

stalled and ultimately fell apart was. because Joe Biden instead of after the. American Rescue Plan passes in February. or March of 2021. he puts the brakes on and he says. the Republicans mind you at that point. in the wake of the passage of that you. can go back and look at this. You know. what they were talking about? They were. talking about Dr. Seuss. They were. talking about two books that Dr. Seuss. were not publishing. So you have your. opponents. like completely failing or flailing.

around. Joe Manchin at that time, if you go back. and what Joe Manchin was saying in March. and April of 2021, he was saying that. the Build Back Better Bill, while Bernie. was saying it should be 6 trillion, Joe. Manchin was saying it should be 9. trillion. And instead of like taking this uh. momentum, Joe Biden says like, "I got to show the. American public that we're bipartisan.". And he invites [clears throat] the. Republicans in, and they dick around for. two or three months. because they have no interest in doing.

this. I mean, come on. Like like how. many times do you have to learn this. lesson? They have no interest in voting. for any of this. And then when they don't come up with. anything, he allows uh Portman, no longer an elected Republican, and. Sinema, no longer an elected Democrat, come in with their deal. And meanwhile, just around that time is when Joe. Manchin's on tape with his donors. finding out like, "Oh, I shouldn't vote. for this." And that's when Joe Manchin. becomes a problem there. And that's when. the whole thing And that's when.

uh. health insurance expires for Americans, extended unemployment. dies for Americans, the child. uh the earned child income or I should. say the child tax credit, which kept. which took 45%. of children out of poverty. We did that. in a year. Yeah. We did that. That's when that expires. I mean, all of. the benefits that came from the American. Rescue Act just vaporize, essentially,

because of this notion. that the Republican Party is still a. a legitimate, good-faith partner in. governing, and it is so clear they are. not. >> It's so clear they are not, and it's so. clear that when we're talking about. Schumer, that he isn't really a. good-faith. actor in our government. And here's what. I have to say as a person who lived 51. years in a red state. Republicans love rat-fucking Democrats.

And when they rat-fuck Democrats, everybody gets [ __ ] And I wish that. Democrats would rat-fuck Republicans. because what that ends up looking like. is a lot of the way that Zoran is. governing here. You get They will hate. it so much so you get to satisfy that. you know just [ __ ] you you fascist. pieces of [ __ ] We're going to govern. well but it it trick it actually is. trickle down. The only thing that. trickles down in Republican policies are. lies. They are pathological liars. The. branding that they have done marching. into red sites saying wealth will.

trickle down and you know we have to we. we have no regulations at all and the. you and I talked about this one night at. a party and Christmas over Christmas was. um. how the Democrats abandon all of these. rural states. So where I live right now. in Oklahoma you have the primaries. tomorrow. These Republican gubernatorial. candidates Sam they are out. anti-transing. each other so bad. One of the candidates. has a banana on a butcher block.

and talks about we're going to get rid. of the woke trans ideology in school. like he's castrating the banana. and it's it's such a race to the bottom. and one of these nuts is going to win. but what happens is the electorate gets. crazier and more unhinged. So this this. idea that Biden or that Obama has we. have to work with Republicans. the Republican party and their media. ecosystem is incubating something worse. than Trump and I know this because I saw.

the tea party become maga and I just. know these people maga is now going to. become the groypers or the Tucker. Carlson thing and it's not good. The. Mormons are finding out right now just. how welcome they are in that tent. >> Yep. Um. yeah I mean the the the failure of the. 50 state or I should say to maintain the. 50 state strategy. Rahm Emanuel resented it and shut that. down when Obama got elected in 08. I. mean it was sort of like you were. starting to develop an infrastructure.

You're not going to necessarily win not. necessarily at least in the short term. maybe long term you'll hit some places. and you'll win. You'll also draw. resources. I mean, I don't know if. Tallarico is going to win, but I do know. that the Republicans are going to have. to pour a ton of money into that race. Uh same with Dan Osborn in Nebraska, I. don't know. Um. and it's going to pull money from Maine. or Maine is going to pull money from. other places. I mean, there's uh. it makes a difference. And it also makes.

a difference just because so many races. have become nationalized that it's. important to to. spread your message to these other. places. Um and I think it's been an. abject failure of the Democrats from a. strategic standpoint to go after uh to. compete in these states because you. don't know. You don't know who's going. to come out of these elections. You. don't know if you're going to build one. person. You don't know if there is a, you know, a particularly talented. politician in one of these. uh these states that could uh.

become national. I mean, you know, here's one of the things about Plathner. that I'm excited about. He's going around the state. He's been. around the state. at least once to places like where no. candidates have gone in a long time. Maine's a small state. I mean, it's. physically big, but it's but it's, you. know, not many people. People know each. other, but he's getting people involved. And the value of that is not just like. whether he can win in the fall. I think that's going to help him and. hopefully he can, but again, Collins, you know, Collins is like she survives a.

lot of these things. But um. if he does win, not only is he built an. infrastructure to support him from a. legislative perspective going forward, um but you know, Angus King. is 81, 82 years old. I think he's I. don't know if he's up for re-election. now. I can't remember in 28 or. or 30, but the the fact is is that like. that infrastructure that Plathner is. going to build gives us a much better. shot.

Then she's I mean, just as how flawed. Mills was as a candidate. Like, you. know, she's one term. Like. >> Yeah. >> First of all, that would have hurt the. Democratic Party because then they got. to restart again, right? >> Yeah. >> Um. Uh typical manner would be like, wait a. second, we're we're trading the. seniority of one 80-year-old in Collins. for an 80-year-old who's not going to. have the seniority and then then it's. going to go and we have to start the. clock again? But if Plittner builds this. infrastructure and and can win, that's. an infrastructure that is going to get.

us a much better candidate. when Angus King goes. And you know, he's. 82 182. I don't. >> And I would argue. because I see the rot at what happens in. a red state where Republicans are the. only operating party and all of the. electorate is is pathologically lied to. and propagandized to. And they end up, you know, they're capitalists with no. capital that go and vote for Elon Musk. and all these people that have all these. tax breaks. It it makes for a better electorate. Texas keeps trending and trending and.

trending and it's helping people realize. what the fundamental problems with. unregulated capitalism and uh uh. the fundamental problems in the United. States, what they are. Because in. Oklahoma, when you just hear these two. nut job radical, I'm talking everything. that everybody thinks a Muslim is, those. people exist and they're Christians and. they are in the Bible Belt. >> Yeah. >> They it is the scariest [ __ ] ever and it.

keeps a healthier electorate for the. electorate to hear two different sides. of what's going on. If it's only. Republican politics, these people get. incubated and so mad and so crazed. Oklahoma in the early 2000s, we had a. Democratic governor, Brad Henry. We were. ranked 17th-ish in education. Since. then, we've had Republican. supermajorities, House, State House, State Senate, supreme court, and. governorship. We went through Mary.

Fallon and now Kevin Stitt. We are ranked 50th in education. >> And there's nobody there. There's no. infrastructure there to remind people of. this and point it out. I mean, the you. know, the. how did we kept that 50 state strategy. in the odds? I think about Kansas when Sam Brownback. came in and brought in Arthur Laffer of. the Laffer curve and they did their big. experiment. They got rid of. regulations. They got rid of. income taxes. They let the S corps.

essentially run wild there. And it took about I think it was two or. three years. They They had full control. of everything. They imposed the, you. know, the Laffer curve and the whole. theory that like, you know, without If. you're not taxing, then you're going to. get more revenue. Well, turns out if you. don't tax, you don't get more revenue. >> revenue. >> [laughter]. >> They start cutting. the education system in Kansas including. the higher education which was like the. jewel of Kansas.

Um. and there's no Democratic Party. The. Republicans voted to increase taxes. because they were in such dire straits. And you don't have a Democratic Party. there that's functioning in a way that. can articulate this to people in real. time in local media markets. >> It makes people sick. It makes for a. sick electorate. >> They took Brownback in the first Trump. administration and they literally made. him ambassador to. >> to faith. >> Cuz they wanted to get rid of this guy. so quickly they like shot him into the.

ether. Because this was a perfect. example of like, you got everything you. wanted. >> Yeah. >> You followed the the Laffer curve which. is like their Bible, right? >> Yeah. >> The less we tax, the more people are. going to make money. It's going to. trickle down. This is where trickle down. uh uh. or voodoo economics came from as George. Herbert Walker had said to to Ronald. Reagan, and we had the perfect. like from from the perspective of of. Democrats who. who believed that we should have taxes.

both to fund government, which you. definitely need on a state level, but. also to maintain. um. some type of. not total uh wealth equality, but the. inequality we have now is just. absolutely insane. And that opportunity was completely. missed. You never hear any reference to. Kansas, and it was a perfect example. I. mean, Arkansas when they did the um. when they did and Georgia also when they. did the uh um. uh the means testing or the uh you need.

to work if you're on Medicaid. Complete failures. Complete failures. But there's nobody there locally. there's not enough infrastructure there. locally to communicate this. >> And that's the thing. My husband always. says, cuz people in Oklahoma are like. you know, Oklahoma is just in such a bad. place, blah blah blah. And he always. says, if there were a Democrat here to. say, "If you're upset with the way. things are being run, it is a. Republican's fault. They control. everything, and they have for over 20. years. This is what Republican policies.

look like. You have it live and in real. time." Okay, I want to play one final. video for you. This is um Tom Homan uh. fuming to Lara Trump. Play the clip. >> When you keep using those, you know, the. the. Nazis, secret police, racist, that instills violence. That's why death threats against ICE. officers are up 8,000%. When a US senator or a congressman or a. governor or a mayor can come out and.

call us the Nazis, racist, secret. police, that encourages these protests that turn. violent. And that small percentage of. >> I mean, what do you call a police force that. >> They're all in masks. They're all in masks. >> Yeah. And they can kill people and. there's no investigation. They get just. relocated to another place. >> I mean. the. um.

the idea that like this is that. complaints are up or that threats are up. against them and and God knows, you. know, how they're they're calculating. that. But here's what strikes me is. incredible. They're going after the. worst of the worst, right? They're going. after Trend Agua or. or you know, a gang land of I. If there had been. an ICE agent. shot in a shootout with one of these. really dangerous immigrants,

do you think we would have heard about. it? I mean, honestly. I mean, this person. would be you know, running for whatever. for governor of of whatever state. I. mean, they are going after. mothers, grandmothers, fathers, children, um. >> They're going after people with. paperwork issues and not criminals. >> Oh, 100%. Right. 100%. And you know, look, the the Biden administration, the Obama. administration, the Obama administration. went hog wild with it, went after.

you know, immigrants who. with criminal records. Um. this this stuff. when Homan does that, this is just he's. just talking to the base. I mean, that's. that's the only thing that like I you. know, gives me some encouragement, whether it's like the people going after. Momdani at this point, um they're just talking to an. increasingly smaller Now, granted, it's. making them more rabid. >> It is. >> And making them more intense, but.

it's an increasingly smaller group of. people and they're not even trying to. extend their message. And the. and the trouble they have and you know, this maybe this is hope thinking on my. part is that. the more they talk to those people. the crazier they sound to other people. I don't know if you remember when. Michelle Bachmann did the response to. the State of the Union. It was a. fascinating thing and I call this the. the Bachmann after that that speech she. gave.

She was doing she CNN had their camera. in and there was a closed-circuit camera. for the Tea Party. And so. she's this is the CNN camera. But she's talking to the Tea Party. camera. So the CNN camera. is looking at her and she's talking like. this and it looks like you're just. sitting there going like, wait, who is. she talking to? And it just seems like you and the point. is like increasingly you can't talk to. those people simultaneously.

>> Yeah. >> Because. you if you're talking to normal people. >> Uh-huh. >> on that camera. the the MAGA people or the Republican. Party says like, what? That's crazy. But. if you're talking to the Republican. people. the majority of the country go, that's. crazy. And so they are talking to a. smaller increasingly smaller group of. people and um. it's scary because. you know, I don't know what Trump is.

going to do. I mean if they. the Democrats are able to take both. houses of Congress, at least there's. going to be some, you know, leverage. there. Uh less so if they just take the. house, but. um. it's going to get a lot uglier. >> It's getting uglier and he's already. completely rat [ __ ] uh J.D. Vance. I. mean he has completely rat [ __ ] him. He sent him to Pakistan. He sent him to. an Erica Kirk thing. He sent him to uh. campaign with Victor Orban. He made him.

the fraud czar. He said he could if J.D. does a good enough job with as the fraud. czar, he'll clean up the national debt. So it's such intentional rat [ __ ] and. I love it. But I'm on a Marco Rubio rat. [ __ ] watch cuz right now they need Marco. because Marco's the only one that. actually knows how to govern, that has a. an idea because the rest of them are. such [ __ ] But Trump doesn't have. the decency to be like all right Marco, you take on the mega movement. He. doesn't have that in him. He's a petty. old queen. So I'm on this Marco Rubio.

rat [ __ ] watch because I think it's. coming. Because he doesn't want to think. about anybody being the heir apparent. And now Marco Rubio's like uh. going up in the markets, the betting. calshier whatever all that [ __ ] is. And. as soon as that gets on Trump's feed the. rat [ __ ] of Marco's going to happen. and I cannot wait. >> And the only thing I can imagine is that. Susie Wiles is saying that uh Marco can. help with the Senate in a way that Vance. can't. And. if the Senate is, you know.

51-49. after this election I mean if the. Democrats take control then Marco is. useless. >> Yeah. >> Right? I mean he's just useless. Um but. if it's very tight then Marco probably. has some utility to uh to Trump. >> So uh we'll see. But I think yeah, he. just gets like. he gets bo- you know, he wants to see. which one is going to be um. you know, more uh sycophantic to him. And I think on some level also Trump is. in the the realm like I'm not going to.

run again. I don't need Peter Thiel's. money. I don't need you know, this money. All I. need is I need to like have my. my beak wet by whatever is going on at. any given point. He's just like. >> It's just. >> just they're just like literally in the. getaway car and just grabbing as much. cash as they can. And that's it. >> So my grandmother before she died, she. was in a nursing home. And I'd go see. her and she'd go "Hey Jennifer, come. here darling. I got this wheelchair from. the lady across the hall. Make sure you.

take it right out to your your car, honey. You can have it. And then she'd. stolen some other people's clothes. And. there was all this all this drama at the. nursing home going on where they were. gossiping about each other, stealing. [ __ ] from each other, stealing. wheelchairs. And I would just take it up. to the nurses station. But that's what I. imagine Trump is doing right now, except. for it's our federal government. Yeah. And we have these impotent. losers, degenerates, Republicans. And. that's why it makes me so insane when I. hear like Obama recently said, "I want a.

strong Republican party." And I'm like, "My God, we have to. do something.". >> they should be blamed for every single. thing. It doesn't like, you know, it's. fine to blame Donald Trump. He's despicable. But in terms of like any type of like. political salience and balance going. forward, you need to blame. every Republican for every horrible. thing that Donald Trump does because. they're enabling it. >> Totally.

>> They could have hearings tomorrow on all. the pardons. They could have hearings. tomorrow on the slush fund. They could. have hearings tomorrow on the idea that. he's got a free pass from the IRS. They. could have hearings on on all of the. like like the. millions of dollars from like the. detention centers. The AI They could. They could have hearings on every single. thing. Every time we don't, it should be the. Democrats saying, "They're standing in. the way of this.".

>> Well, they're the pro-crime party, pro-corruption party over and over. again. >> It's not that, you know, Trump owns the. Republican party. The Republicans own. Trump. >> Yeah. >> That's the dynamic that has to happen. Like Republicans own Trump. And you've. got to every day remind people that. Donald Trump would not be able to do. anything. He wouldn't be able to tweet. He wouldn't be able to He wouldn't be. able to like, you know, build whatever he's going to build or. whatever it is that you find not you. know obnoxious or disgusting about.

Donald Trump. He's able to do that. because the Republicans are okay with. it. And you put them on the spot. You. make them like you make them deal with. it. And you know and and part of the. problem is is like this notion of like. the Senate collegiality and John Thune. really wants to do the right thing. If no, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. He Donald Trump is because of John. Thune. >> Agree. >> That should be the that should be what. is articulated by Democratic leaders at. this point. And we don't hear it. We. don't hear it.

>> No, and we need to. Sam Seder, thank. you. I hope that you. >> As always, this is so. >> It's the best. Watch The Majority Report. every day with Sam and my friend Emma. And it was so great to have you in. person. >> Thank you. It's just great. I love the. news hat. >> Thank you. >> [music]. [music].