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GOP members face tough crowds at town halls over House bill_ _They are getting heckled_(MP3_160K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: Recent event in Cedar Rapids, I received overwhelmingly positive feedback
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  Speaker 1: about the work that Doge is doing my entire philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: I was also proud to vote for President Trump's One
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  Speaker 1: Big Beautiful Bill last week. This is a generational investment.
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  Speaker 2: Come right, hear that again. That is like the old
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  Speaker 2: fashioned movies with a laugh track or a grown track. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me hear it again.
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  Speaker 1: At a recent event in Cedar Rapids, I received overwhelmingly
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  Speaker 1: positive feedback about the work that Doge is doing. My
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  Speaker 1: entire philosophy. I was also proud to vote for President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill last week. This is a
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  Speaker 1: generational investment.
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  Speaker 3: Because somewhere in the Hollywood Eddie, they're like, scrap our
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  Speaker 3: grown track, we have something better. That was ruby read
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  Speaker 3: deep red America. And that just ruby read deep red America.
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  Speaker 3: That was ruby red, deep red.
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  Speaker 2: And those were spontaneous groans when she said Doge and
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  Speaker 2: big beautiful bill. And that was just a smidgew of it.
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  Speaker 2: That was one little, little tiny section of a town
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  Speaker 2: hall held there by Iowa Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hintson, reading
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  Speaker 2: nervously from her notes, where she was forced to defend
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's deeply unpopular policies and her own parties, and
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  Speaker 2: her own role in capitulating to him, and Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 2: who's so unpopular, decides to follow the one rule in
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  Speaker 2: law in Washington, which is the amount of time a
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  Speaker 2: person can serve as a special government employee, so he
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  Speaker 2: could leave. After Republicans spent much of the first few
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  Speaker 2: months of the Trump presidency dodging doing this at all,
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  Speaker 2: having town halls specifically when they had to talk about
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  Speaker 2: or defend the Doge cuts, they're now receiving the same
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  Speaker 2: reception as they booked to tout Trump's big beautiful bill
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  Speaker 2: that grown actually sound a little bit louder in Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, that big, not so beautiful bill is going
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  Speaker 2: to leave millions of Americans, including many of her own constituents,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure, without health insurance, while giving the richest people
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  Speaker 2: in her district or in the country tax cuts. Joining
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  Speaker 2: our conversation is managing editor of The Bulwark MSNBC contributor
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  Speaker 2: Sam Stein. Eddie's still here. Sam. You can fool some
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  Speaker 2: of the people, I guess some of the time, but
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  Speaker 2: not all of the people all of the time. When
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  Speaker 2: it comes to Doge and the big not so beautiful
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  Speaker 2: tax bill.
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  Speaker 4: Nicole, You don't think Elon Musk has deep reverence for
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  Speaker 4: the Special Government Employees Act, And.
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  Speaker 2: To me is like the funniest I haven't found anything
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  Speaker 2: that Elon Musk has done particularly funny. It's so bad.
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  Speaker 2: But the funniest thing ever is the cover story for
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  Speaker 2: why he's leaving right Like, Oh, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think no, I think he really respects that law specifically,
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  Speaker 4: and all the other ones he's fine trampling over, but
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  Speaker 4: that one has a really important for him. No, he's
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  Speaker 4: deeply unpopular. I think that's it, and I think you
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  Speaker 4: see the outcomes the byproducts of it in these town halls.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, DOJE is a deeply unpopular initiative that the
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  Speaker 4: administration put forward. Members of Congress are dealing with the
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  Speaker 4: consequences back in their district.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of interesting because there's two simultaneous conversations happening.
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  Speaker 4: One is a DC conversation and one is a back
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  Speaker 4: home conversation in Washington, d C. All the members of
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  Speaker 4: Congress are saying, you know what we really love, DOGE
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  Speaker 4: send over a recisions package where we can codify everything
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  Speaker 4: that they cut. We want to double down on it.
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  Speaker 4: We love Elon, and they know Elon. They want him
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  Speaker 4: to spend more money on Republican politics. But back home,
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  Speaker 4: when they talk about the cuts, they are getting heckled.
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  Speaker 4: There's groans in the audience. Some of the initiatives that
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  Speaker 4: Elon has done, members of Congress have privately assured their
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  Speaker 4: constituents that they're going to try to reverse. And that's
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  Speaker 4: everything from cuts to VA to government services. And this
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  Speaker 4: is not even Doge but in the big beautiful bill,
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  Speaker 4: the cuts to Medicaid are deeply unpopular among Trump's people.
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  Speaker 4: And we know this because people like Josh Holly, who
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  Speaker 4: is a conservative conservative, is out there warning everyone that
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  Speaker 4: this new coalition that Trump is trying to cobble together
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  Speaker 4: will fracture if they go forward with these types of cuts.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not surprised to see members of Congress being
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  Speaker 4: heckled back home. This is what happens when you reverse
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  Speaker 4: your promises to these people that you will not touch Medicaid.
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  Speaker 4: This is what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, We've spent I think nine years wondering why the
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  Speaker 2: sort of corruption and plain sight and Trump one point
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  Speaker 2: zero by today's standards, it was sort of quaint. It
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  Speaker 2: was the Trump International Hotel. Now it's a foreign trip
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  Speaker 2: that's advanced not by White House advanced people exclusively, but
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  Speaker 2: by his sons doing business deals and announcing hotels and
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  Speaker 2: golf courses. I wonder for nine years when that corruption
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  Speaker 2: out in the open catches up with Trump this scene,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe wonder if perhaps it has.
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  Speaker 5: Watch One of the things I'm really concerned about is
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  Speaker 5: the corruption in Washington, and I think that it undermines
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  Speaker 5: our faith in our government, and I think it undermines
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  Speaker 5: our faith in representatives. In particular. I'm thinking about the
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  Speaker 5: four hundred million dollar jet that was given to mister Trump.
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  Speaker 5: I'm thinking about the mean coins and the dinner at
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  Speaker 5: the White House. There's lots of reasons why somebody like
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  Speaker 5: you might be silent. You might be scared to say something.
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  Speaker 5: Could you help me understand why you are silent about
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  Speaker 5: this corruption?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it appears that have heard a lot of specifics
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  Speaker 2: about again, Whichrum's done in public brazenly in two point zero.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're hitting an important point here, which
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  Speaker 4: is when you keep saying in public, this is both
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  Speaker 4: a shocking amount of corruption objectively speaking, things that he
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  Speaker 4: is doing to profit off of the presidency have never
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  Speaker 4: been done before. We've never seen a scope like this,
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  Speaker 4: and it was scandalous, for instance, back in the Clinton
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  Speaker 4: era when donors to his campaigns were getting access to
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  Speaker 4: Lincoln bedroom. In this era, you get access to the
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  Speaker 4: president when you buy his meme coin. That's going directly
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  Speaker 4: to his profit, to his own profit. So it's a
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  Speaker 4: different layer. But because it's happening out in the public,
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  Speaker 4: my suspicion is that we've almost become oddly accustomed to it,
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  Speaker 4: or calloused, and it doesn't have the sort of shock
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  Speaker 4: value that comes when you unearth new levels of corruption. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I will say the one caveat I have here, and
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  Speaker 4: my colleague JVL is written about this lot too, is
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  Speaker 4: the Katari airline story. Because I think for some people,
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  Speaker 4: like you know, crypto meme coins, those are kind of
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  Speaker 4: esoteric and hard to follow, and we might not understand them.
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  Speaker 4: But on an intrinsic level, I think people do understand. Huh,
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  Speaker 4: a foreign government is gifting a four hundred dollars jet
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  Speaker 4: to the president and then he's going to be able
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  Speaker 4: to just use it after he's in office or even
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  Speaker 4: put it in his library. And now it turns out
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  Speaker 4: that maybe they in fact weren't gifting it. Maybe in
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  Speaker 4: fact he was shaking down the Kataris to get the jet,
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  Speaker 4: or at least that's what is being surfaced from recent
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  Speaker 4: reports that Qatar is saying they did not initiate the
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  Speaker 4: transfer of this. And so I think that's a lot
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  Speaker 4: more relatable for people, and they can say that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: seem right, that seems totally unethical, and those types of
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  Speaker 4: things can feed a culture of corruption type attack that
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  Speaker 4: you know worked very well for Democrats in two thousand
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  Speaker 4: and six for instance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's and it was a
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  Speaker 2: four hundred million dollar playing a dollar playing, that would
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  Speaker 2: be the legover.
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  Speaker 4: That would have been like a very expensive toy for
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  Speaker 4: the kids. But no four hundred million. Let me put million, okay,