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All right, 52 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:48.199 let's get to the news. Donald Trump made some real 53 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:51.960 progress this week trying to sabotage his Republican majority in Congress. 54 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.840 Minutes before he was scheduled to appear at a signing 55 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.599 ceremony for a landmark housing affordability bill that passed with 56 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.680 huge bipart some majorities, the President announced that it was 57 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.000 canceled and that he won't be signing the housing legislation 58 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:09.400 until Congress passes the Save Act which is the bill 59 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.520 that would require all Americans to show passports or birth 60 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:16.759 certificates in order to register to vote, and has failed 61 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:20.719 to pass in the Senate five times now. The housing 62 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:23.719 bill would reduce barriers to building new homes and limit 63 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:27.319 the ability of big investors to buy up single family homes, 64 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:31.240 ideally lowering the price of housing down the road. But 65 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.080 alas Trump doesn't want to give anyone the impression that 66 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.919 he and his party are focused for even a second 67 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:42.080 on affordability, so no housing bill this week. Trump elaborated 68 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.439 on his thinking in an Oval Office appearance a little 69 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:45.719 later in the day. Let's listen. 70 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:52.120 Basically, it's the Save America Act. Everybody wants it. Everybody is, 71 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.599 including Democrats. I'd set them on signing the housing bill. 72 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.759 I want to see what happens. We say, Look, the 73 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:02.360 housing bill is, how's it? I made billions of dollars 74 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.599 with housing. I know housing better than anybody maybe anywhere. 75 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.919 It's all about the interest rate. Lower the interest rates. 76 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:12.439 You can have all the housing you want. You have 77 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:13.960 to understand I don't want to have I don't want 78 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:19.399 to hurt people that own houses too. Affordability. We're doing great. 79 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.680 The Democrats gave us a tremendous affordability problem, and we're 80 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.040 reducing prices. 81 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.639 Over I'm a billionaire. I made a fortune on housing, 82 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.040 and we got to keep We got to help other 83 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:31.480 people who already own homes. 84 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.759 Take it from me, successful slum lord on how to 85 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:35.759 deal with housing prices. 86 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:40.759 So, considering that the housing bill will become law in 87 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:45.120 ten days even without Trump's signature, and that if he 88 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:48.720 does decide to veto it, Congress has the numbers to 89 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:54.279 override a veto. What was Trump thinking when he decided 90 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.720 to do this? What's the what's going on here? Dan? 91 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.439 You know there's been this debate over the years. Trump 92 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.480 is crazy. You're crazy like a fox. This is just crazy. Like, 93 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:05.720 just put yourself in the position of Republicans, right, you're 94 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.160 a vulnerable Republican. You're like a Susan Collins or a 95 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:10.240 Dan Sullivan, or you're one of these Republicans like Mike 96 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.040 Lawler in a purple district. You wake up on Wednesday morning, 97 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.800 here's what your day looks like. Democrats in the middle 98 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.079 of a giant fight because we've elected some socialists in 99 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:21.319 New York City that you're about to have a signing 100 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:25.560 ceremony for a massive bipartisan bill that would they would 101 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.240 be signed by Donald Trump, but written in part by 102 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:31.959 Elizabeth Warren that will address housing prices. It'd be a real, 103 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:36.199 actual tangible accomplishment. You could take the voters to say, like, 104 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:38.199 I'm trying to do something to deal with your cost 105 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:41.720 of living crisis. And instead of that, Donald Trump, just 106 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.680 minutes Beforehandson's had an insane truth demand cancer in the 107 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.040 signing ceremony, stopping on both the democrats bad message the 108 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:53.199 Republican's good message, because he has a near fatal attraction 109 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:57.399 to a bill that no one likes and if it 110 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:59.040 were to pass, we make it harder for Republicans wh 111 00:05:59.040 --> 00:05:59.600 win elections. 112 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:05.759 It is, it is wild, and that he just keeps. 113 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.800 First of all, let's just talk about the Save America Act, 114 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.360 which he has called it. It was the Save Act, 115 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:13.199 then he changed it to the Save America Act. It's 116 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.680 also supposed to like ban mail in voting nationwide. I 117 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.160 think that's part of it too, or that's like one 118 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:23.519 of the add ons that he included himself. So I 119 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:25.680 don't know why he's so, I mean, I know why 120 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:27.839 because he thinks that like it's going to help them 121 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.639 rig the elections and win. But it is wild to 122 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.000 me that no one has told him, None of his 123 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:37.439 political advisors have told him that actually, this bill would 124 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:42.680 probably hurt Republicans because it would make it harder for 125 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:47.600 the lower income Americans, much of many of whom vote 126 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:51.120 for Donald Trump and vote for Republicans now to register 127 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:54.639 to vote because not everyone has their passport, lying around, 128 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:58.040 not everyone has their birth certificate, lying around. Republicans run 129 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:00.519 around saying that this is only about like showing your 130 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.959 license and showing some form of ID, and isn't that 131 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.199 easy to do? And that's not actually what the bill does. 132 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.959 The bill is much more comp makes The bill makes 133 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.920 voting and registering to vote much more complicated than that. 134 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:12.720 I mean, it. 135 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:16.000 Would end in under current form basically end online voter 136 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:20.160 registration and automatic voter registration. We've talked about this before. 137 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.839 Not that many Americans have majority Americans do not have passports. 138 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:26.199 The ones who don't have passports are just unfortunately working 139 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.319 class and didn't go to college, which has been the 140 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.519 core of the Trump base. But it is like I 141 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.120 just so, there's there's a bunch of different things going 142 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.199 on here. It can't pass, right they tried several times. 143 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:38.560 It cannot pass there, it doesn't have the there are 144 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:42.040 sixty votes, obviously, and there run fifty votes to eliminate 145 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:45.439 the filibuster. And then even if it were to pass, 146 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.959 it would be bad for Republicans. And at no point 147 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:53.560 in these various junctures does Trump seem to understate like 148 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.079 it's just it's like, it's true, it's delusional. The whole 149 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:00.399 thing is ilutionial. And it seems his upset with this 150 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.519 seems genuine. He seems to. Maybe it's because it's something 151 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:06.600 he wants it he can't get. That's what bothers him, 152 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.959 because he like, up until this point with this Republican Caucus, 153 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:12.839 he's been with the exception of the E. Fsteine files, 154 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:14.839 what he has wanted he has got. You want to 155 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:17.560 confirm a bunch of fucking dunderheads to be in charge 156 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.160 of the military and health, the human services, will do that. 157 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:22.639 You want to us to stand idly by while we 158 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.759 prosecute people, will do that. But here's the thing he 159 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:27.560 wants and he cannot have, and it seems to be 160 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:29.519 driving him even more bananas than usual. 161 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:31.959 I also think that all all these things he wants 162 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:36.840 to do with voting in the election. He is being 163 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:39.679 told or has been also told by the courts that 164 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:42.720 he can't do via executive order, but you can tell 165 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:44.240 that if he doesn't get the same back pass, he's 166 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:45.600 still going to try to do a lot of this 167 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.679 shit around the election, which should alarm everyone. Of course. 168 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:52.600 On the housing bill, though, like the thing is going 169 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:55.600 to become law. In fact, right before we started recording, 170 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.639 Mike Johnson said that they will be transmit he talked 171 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:00.399 to Trump and that they will be trans admitting the 172 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:03.519 legislation to Trump. So I assume, although I shouldn't assume, 173 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.759 but seems seems like he might just sign it after all. 174 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.480 But even if he doesn't, it becomes law. Like great, 175 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.759 it's it's good legislation. His opportunity to take credit for 176 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.799 it is sort of gone now. And it's not like 177 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:19.759 people are going to feel the effects of this housing bill, 178 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:23.159 certainly not by the midterms, maybe not for a couple 179 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:26.480 of years, because really it's just sort of reducing barriers 180 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.480 to building more affordable housing and sort of changing some 181 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.240 of the formulas where the federal government gives money to states, 182 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.279 and now it's going to be based on you know, 183 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:38.080 whether they've actually produced more housing and built more housing 184 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.960 so they can still take credit for it. But I 185 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.240 don't think Trump's going to be taking credit for it. 186 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:48.200 But even then, so the when you like, we should, 187 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.360 we'll get into this. But as we know, a bill 188 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.639 that does not actually impact people's lives has limited political impact. 189 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:56.600 But the moment when people pay attention is the signing 190 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:01.759 ceremony ten days from today Thursday is the fourth of 191 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.480 July weekend. It seems like a bad time to get 192 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:07.039 attention for your bill. 193 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:12.159 Well. Also, he apparently the Wallsrey Journal has him saying, uh, 194 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:15.639 Trump saying to someone one of his advisors at my rallies, 195 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.399 no one cares about the housing bill at my rallies. 196 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:20.679 But when I say save America, then every they can't 197 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:25.720 sit down. And then apparently punch Bowl has four sources 198 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:28.960 saying that that Trump said to Mike Johnson directly, no 199 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:30.919 one gives a shit about housing. 200 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:33.639 Yes, I remember he said that. He said that a 201 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:34.519 few months ago. 202 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:39.120 Like literally, like affordability is the top issue. And then 203 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:42.600 when you dive into affordability, like sometimes it's groceries and gas, 204 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:44.799 sometimes it's housing, but housing is I think it's like 205 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.720 one of the maybe the top two or three concerns 206 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.399 of most American voters. 207 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.919 And particularly younger voters. Like this shows up in focus groups. 208 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.240 It shows it like, yes, is it true that people 209 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.120 are not cheering for the twenty first century Road to 210 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.200 Housing Act? Of course, would it be helpful for are 211 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.519 Republicans and Democratic incumbents to go to voters and say, 212 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:07.639 here is a thing I a bipartisan accomplishment I had 213 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:10.360 that is addressing your concern even if you're not feeling it. Absolutely, 214 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:14.480 And Trump is just making that messier for Republicans because 215 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.639 he can't. He's having some sort of insane temper tantrum 216 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:18.720 over a bill that can't pass. 217 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.879 After canceling the bill signing, Trump did attend his previously 218 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.840 scheduled lunch with Senate Republicans, which went about as well 219 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.879 as you can imagine given the circumstances. According to Senator 220 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:34.440 John Kennedy, Trump was quote mad as a murder hornet 221 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.480 and berated Republicans for not supporting him on an iron vote, 222 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.639 which then led to a shouting match with Bill Cassidy, 223 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:47.240 who Trump recently drove from office. CNN reports that Trump 224 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:51.480 told Cassidy to sit down Cassidy refused and raised his voice. 225 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:55.399 Trump called him a lunatic. Cassidy then referred to Trump 226 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:58.279 as brother, and Trump told him he wasn't his brother. 227 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:05.120 Eventually sat down. John Kennedy later said that the meeting 228 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.960 was a success because quote no one got stabbed, which 229 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:16.799 is an excellent bar to set. Trump also apparently isn't 230 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:19.679 done trying to force Republicans to eat shit on Iran. 231 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.519 The administration just ask Congress for eighty eight billion dollars 232 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.399 in funding, which would mostly help pay for the war. 233 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:30.360 How do you think that's going to go over, Dan? 234 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.559 Well, before we get to the war funding in this 235 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:35.759 meeting and the punch bowl reporting on it and punch 236 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.559 Bawl generally gets like a full live texting of these 237 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.799 sorts of things. It seems like no one pushed back 238 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.279 on Trump on the Save Act even though every Republican center, 239 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:47.840 with the possible exception of Mike Lee and maybe Rick Scott, 240 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:50.120 no it can't pass. None of them would say it 241 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.039 to Trump's face, which is why they're in this mess 242 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:55.519 to begin with, which is like a pure sign of 243 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.639 weakness and failure from John Thune. Yeah, like you have 244 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:00.600 him in the room. This is the big you can't 245 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.720 pass anything the House. It's why we should mention Trump's 246 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:05.519 got to run so chened up on this that Anna 247 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.600 Pauline A Luna has stopped will not allow anything to 248 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.639 pass on the House floor until the Senate passes the 249 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:12.919 same deck, which is something that it doesn't make a 250 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:14.000 lot of constitutional sense. 251 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:15.200 Shot. 252 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.039 Yeah, so it's like they can't pass the rule, they 253 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:20.279 can't pass anything. They're trying to pass through appropriation bills 254 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.159 the entire they they have to go home on Friday 255 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.000 because they can't do anything. And uh, and she's demanding 256 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.360 that they attach the Save Act to either the FAISA 257 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:32.600 Bill or the Defense Authorization Bill, which the Senate will 258 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:34.919 then take out in both those cases. But so the 259 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:36.559 whole thing is, you have Trump has got to win 260 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.039 chin up about this. No one will, but no one 261 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.600 will say to his face why this can't work. And 262 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.399 it's one thing for his like terrible slavish, obsequious advisors 263 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:48.840 to not say it. But here are members of Congress, 264 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.639 senators who are not up for reelection this year, maybe 265 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:53.440 some of them are not up for reelection ever again, 266 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.120 who are incapable of mustering the courage to say to 267 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.559 one man a simple math fact. 268 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:03.720 And it's like they could have even they could have 269 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.360 even talked beforehand and said, all right, I'm gonna bring 270 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.279 it up, but back me up if I do strength 271 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.519 and numbers still nothing still like Bill Cassidy, I guess 272 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.120 got up and yelled at him about the Iran war powers. 273 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.320 Vote yeah, and then and then changed his vote because 274 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:22.480 because the White House afterwards like gave him a briefing 275 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.159 that he wanted and he and then he was like 276 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.519 felt sad that he raised his voice. I'm like, the 277 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.720 guy cost you your job. You're not gonna be a 278 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.639 senator anymore because of this man, for for the for 279 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:35.320 for I guess voting for impeachment the second time. Apparently 280 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.000 Trump in the meeting too, is like all the people 281 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:39.799 that voted for my impeachment, voted to convict me, are 282 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.440 gone now. And then like he looked over at Lisa Murkowski, 283 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:43.960 who was just like sitting there in the corner. He's like, 284 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:54.279 accept her. Unbelievable, do sus A Collins Iff have for that? Uh? Oh? Interesting? 285 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:57.360 Did she vote for the second she had to vote 286 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:00.080 for the second impeachment? Maybe he may. 287 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.039 Maybe look in fairness, we have barely covered the main 288 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:05.039 Senate race this year. So probably. 289 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:08.720 Maybe Susan Collins got smart and just didn't go to 290 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.879 the lunch, you know that she probably didn't go the Like, 291 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:14.000 if I were Susan Collins, I would stay clear of 292 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.200 any anywhere where John Donald Trump was, Like, that would 293 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:19.000 just be that's got to be a base, like a 294 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.960 campaign one oh one kind of thing. Yes, So here's 295 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.799 the thing now with this Trump and the GOP Congress, 296 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.960 I'm wondering, like how much all this matters because not 297 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:32.120 many actual work days left between now and the midterms. 298 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:34.440 They're going to go home for the fourth of July break, 299 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:36.679 they're going to come back. There's going to be August recess, 300 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.240 then they come back, then everyone's campaigning, and then it's 301 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.480 November before you know it. Trump seems intent on sabotaging 302 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:48.720 any chance of anything passing before election day. I see it. 303 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.799 It seems hard to believe that this eighty eight billion 304 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.879 dollar war funding supplemental is going to pass, even though 305 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.679 they thought they were really clever and included some abola 306 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.639 funding in it to try to like get Democrats to 307 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:05.000 vote for it. It doesn't seem like anything else, Like 308 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.399 it doesn't seem like the same America Act is going to pass. 309 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:09.679 But then the question is, like does any of that matter? 310 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.639 What do you like in terms of the politics of 311 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:13.200 the midterms. 312 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.679 It's an interesting question because I don't think there's any 313 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:20.559 sort of bill, even this housing bill Republics could pass 314 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:25.399 that would dramatically change the political dynamics here. Look, I 315 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.240 think if you're an incumbent member of Congress and you 316 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:31.080 can pass something that addresses people's number one concern and 317 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:32.720 you can talk about that on the trail or in 318 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:35.080 a debate or in an ad that's better than nothing. 319 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:37.120 And so this is an opportunity cost for the way 320 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.759 Trump stepped on the housing bill. What I think probably 321 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.399 matters here is they're going to need to pass this 322 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.240 supplemental which is politically toxic. You know in that CBS poll, 323 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:50.440 sixty nine percent that people think the war hasn't been 324 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:52.080 worth the cost. We haven't even paid the eighty billion 325 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:53.360 dollars yet, so when you start paying the eight a 326 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.720 billion dollars, number is going to get worse. And so 327 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.240 they need and it's it'll be on reconciliation, So they 328 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.600 need fifty votes. And in our old world we used 329 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:04.279 to be like, well, Susan Collins doesn't have to vote 330 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.039 for it, and she'll be fine. But now you got 331 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:10.000 a bunch of other Republican senators. You have Dan Sullivan, 332 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:11.680 you have John Houstad. You got a bunch of people 333 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:13.799 who are gonna have to probably cast a vote here 334 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:15.839 and that's gonna be unpopular. You need everyone to do 335 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.440 it because you're gonna you'll probably get Fetterman. I guess, 336 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.200 so maybe you can lose three Republicans. Yeah, but that'll 337 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:22.559 be it. 338 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:25.880 It's good. Also, there's also a government funding deadline. By 339 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:26.559 the way, I was going to. 340 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:28.920 Bring that up too, is that that's the real that's 341 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:30.319 looming here right before the election. 342 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:31.720 It's looming. We got a Loomer. 343 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:34.119 We're already looming. It's over the June. 344 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.480 Yeah, it's September thirtieth. There's a government funding deadline. So 345 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.559 you got that. You got this war funding supplemental nothing 346 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:42.480 that anyone wants to pass, that's for sure. 347 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:44.559 If I was Donald Trump and I cared passionate about 348 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.119 election integrity, one thing I would do is demand that 349 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.680 I would suggest that I wouldn't sign a government funding 350 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:51.960 bill unless they include unless they passed the Save Act 351 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:54.640 I'm just an idea, just an idea, I'm sure. But 352 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:55.720 does it make it to his ears. 353 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:00.440 I'm sure that's already on a notepad somewhere Dan or 354 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:04.680 whiteboard in the White House for sure, No, I think. 355 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:06.720 And the other the other challenge here is I think 356 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.960 they thought that this eighty eight billion dollar war funding 357 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.880 supplemental would like they waited until after they thought the 358 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:17.640 war was over, and then so they could sell it 359 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.680 as like, oh, this is just backfilling, you know, like 360 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.279 now we just it's for future conflicts and now our 361 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:25.000 military is depleted and we need and what are you 362 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:27.079 going to do now? You know? Except the war doesn't 363 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:29.839 seem to be over. There was another tanker that was 364 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:33.799 attacked by an Iranian drone. Today it does not seem 365 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.160 like the traffic. The traffic has increased through the Strait, 366 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:40.119 but it is not anywhere near back to normal levels. 367 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.519 I believe, like the Chevron is saying the gas prices 368 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:45.680 will be elevated for a while, Trump's flipping out about that. 369 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:49.759 Now he's promising to go after price gouging gas companies 370 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:52.519 or open like a DOJ investigation, which, as we know 371 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:56.200 from the Bide administration works so well we tried. 372 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:58.119 We tried that newbom of years us too. 373 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:00.880 Yeah, it never works, but you say it any and 374 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:03.440 so he's going to have to deal with that. Gas 375 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:05.880 prices are going to be still high and so when 376 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:07.960 So that's going to make the eighty eight billion dollars 377 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.039 look even worse to voters. 378 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.720 I think, yeah, I mean it's it's terrible. Honestly, it's 379 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:14.039 probably would have been better to do it when the 380 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:15.640 war was going on, so you could make it be 381 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.200 about protecting the troops. And instead it's just it's like, 382 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.880 here's the bill has come due for this unfun thing 383 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:22.319 that no one wanted and everyone hated. 384 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.319 Yeah, and uh and by the way, we're we've cut 385 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:28.400 all your medicaid too and everything else in the government. 386 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:29.440 So good luck with that. 387 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.960 But we do we do have money for ballrooms and algae, 388 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:34.920 the world algae. I mean we as what's we're some 389 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:36.119 better for the world algae. 390 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.160 It really does make you think, like when these Republicans 391 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:41.880 hit the trail in the fall, like they don't have 392 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.519 much to say except that democrats are as our next topic, 393 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:47.720 Democrats are all crazy socialists, Like I don't know what 394 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:50.559 else they can say about themselves and what they've done 395 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.319 in Congress. I don't really imagine anyone talking about this 396 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:55.599 housing bill, because, like you said, if the housing bill 397 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:59.359 hasn't really had any effect on housing prices, I don't 398 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.039 think that's gonna and very well with people. 399 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.440 They're gonna they will do, and it's not gonna work, 400 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:05.400 and it's gonna be pretty pitophon and it is like 401 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:08.319