1
00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:05,639
Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.

2
00:00:06,719 --> 00:00:11,960
Speaker 2: It's not only that he has gone up completely back

3
00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,800
on his promise to lower costs, to not start a

4
00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:20,039
new war, but it is this attitude of my family

5
00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:25,039
is making billions, We're busy building ballrooms. But you, you

6
00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:29,519
who can afford groceries, who's seen the price per gallon

7
00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,679
go up over a dollar thirty, who is struggling already

8
00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,399
to meet and pay their electric bills and find housing,

9
00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,840
you can afford? You just now, after Grin and Barrett

10
00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,439
and all of this started by taking away people's fundamental

11
00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,679
health care in order to give tax breaks to the

12
00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:55,399
billionaire class, layer on tariffs, and we have a mess

13
00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,799
and true despair for American families. We know that eighty

14
00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,920
four percent of families are giving up something. Just like

15
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,159
the person in the video clips said, you can't have

16
00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,280
it all. I can't fill up my tank and put

17
00:01:10,359 --> 00:01:13,640
food on the table for my family. These are the

18
00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,640
choices that Americans are making. And Donald Trump and his

19
00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:23,480
supporters in Congress are completely deaf to the cries for

20
00:01:23,599 --> 00:01:24,760
help that we are hearing.

21
00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:30,680
Speaker 1: So, Congressman, what I find somewhat ironic at this moment,

22
00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:34,200
given our conversation tonight is that there are a lot

23
00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,159
of Republicans who agree with you. I think we have

24
00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:42,840
found an actual bipartisan moment in Washington and around the

25
00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:47,959
country in which Republicans agree that the economy is a

26
00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,560
problem for this administration and for them. I give you

27
00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:56,560
one former House Speaker, Nuke Ingridge, who noted if the

28
00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,000
election were in May, Republicans would lose. Said Newke Gingridge,

29
00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,040
the Republican former House speaker who urged his party's leaders

30
00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:08,319
to quote get reality, get reality a little better, and

31
00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,120
get communications a hell of a lot better to challenge

32
00:02:12,159 --> 00:02:16,319
their majorities. This fall, the war, the sense of affordability

33
00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,240
and gas lines, some of that has to be cleared

34
00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:22,560
up in order to win. Mister Gingrid said, if it

35
00:02:22,599 --> 00:02:29,240
doesn't change, I'll start tearing out my hair. Brother, welcome

36
00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,719
to the party, because we've been doing that for a

37
00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:35,960
while over here, and it just speaks to the moment.

38
00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,479
But here's where I there's where I kind of rub

39
00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,439
up against some of this and scratch a little bit

40
00:02:41,479 --> 00:02:46,360
of hair I have left because folks like new Gangridge

41
00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,800
are part of the problem here. They helped create this

42
00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:52,919
landscape that we find ourselves in. When the President leveled

43
00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:57,000
up tariffs. Now, Gingridge is not a tariff republican, never

44
00:02:57,159 --> 00:03:01,879
has been. New Gingridge is not an an anti NATO republican,

45
00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,000
never has been. Newke Ingridge is not a Yeah, he

46
00:03:06,039 --> 00:03:08,560
wants border security, but he's not about putting kids in

47
00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:14,280
cages and separating families. Never has been. But when you

48
00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,199
stay silent and allow these things to transpire the way

49
00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,159
they have, you can't now come back and go, oh,

50
00:03:21,319 --> 00:03:24,960
you know, the war, the sense of affordability and gasoline.

51
00:03:25,039 --> 00:03:28,400
You've got to get a grip on that. I mean, So,

52
00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:33,599
how them do Democrats kind of lean into that messaging?

53
00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,360
Because the visuals are already being given to you, the

54
00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,319
images of Donald Trump with the ballroom and his little

55
00:03:40,319 --> 00:03:42,639
model of his little arc, the Trump that he wants

56
00:03:42,719 --> 00:03:46,840
to put up. And meanwhile, you juxtapose that against the

57
00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:50,719
price of gasoline going from two dollars and ninety cents

58
00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,879
to four dollars seven dollars in other parts of the country.

59
00:03:56,639 --> 00:04:00,599
How do you see that, Madam whip in as part

60
00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:03,599
of the fall strategy, particularly given what we've seen the

61
00:04:03,599 --> 00:04:06,280
Supreme Court do and the obstacles that the Republicans are

62
00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,120
already going to be putting up in front of you. Yeah.

63
00:04:09,199 --> 00:04:13,080
Speaker 2: Our message is very clear to Americans at home, to

64
00:04:13,159 --> 00:04:17,120
American voters, we see you, and you deserve better than

65
00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,720
you're getting. You deserve to have a lower cost of

66
00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,680
living so that you can afford housing, groceries, and to

67
00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,600
pay your electric bills. You deserve healthcare where and when

68
00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,680
you need it. And you deserve a government that is

69
00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:37,160
working for you, not one that is working for self

70
00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:40,480
enrichment like we are seeing from the President of the

71
00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,040
United States.

72
00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,240
Speaker 1: CA's Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at

73
00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,680
seven pm Eastern on ms NOW