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GOP PANIC! Insider calls Trump 'election KRYPTONITE' as fuel prices soar & approval hits new low · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's attack on the press is part of his
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  Speaker 1: larger inability to solve problems of his own making. Republican
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  Speaker 1: candidates are running away from him like he's, quote, kryptonite.
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  Speaker 1: One strategist telling Politico, quote, they know how to read
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  Speaker 1: the polls. Trump is getting openly mocked by major power
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  Speaker 1: players within the GOP, including Karl Rove.
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  Speaker 2: He called you and I am quoting a stone cold loser.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have announced that you will be backing it. So,
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  Speaker 2: so terrible. Total loser. He's a total loser. Nobody's ever
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  Speaker 2: seen anything like this. Hey, sir, total.
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  Speaker 1: Stone cold loser. Diesel is hitting record highs, $ 6. 50 per gallon,
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  Speaker 1: which will also drive up prices for all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: other items. And Trump is responding to all this in
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  Speaker 1: ways that range from disturbing to cartoonish. Posting about Iran, quote,
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  Speaker 1: And separately saying that he wants to put drones, snipers
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  Speaker 1: and ammunition inside the arch that he's trying to build
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  Speaker 1: at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: need or want that sort of thing in downtown D.C.,
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  Speaker 1: minutes from the Pentagon? Well, it's not clear, but it
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  Speaker 1: starts to evoke the cartoonish supervillainy from an Austin Powers movie.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I have one simple request, and that is
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  Speaker 3: to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
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  Speaker 2: Can you remind me what I pay you people for?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, throw me a bone here.
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  Speaker 2: What do we have? Seabass. Right. They are mutated, Seabass. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Are they ill-tempered? Absolutely. That's a start.
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  Speaker 1: And joining me now is Christina Greer, political science professor
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  Speaker 1: at Fordham University.
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  Speaker 2: Christina, it's good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I guess I'll start with, is it a
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  Speaker 1: coincidence that precisely as the losses just keep piling up
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  Speaker 1: for this president, the ideas are getting weirder and weirder
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  Speaker 1: and more dangerous?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Antonia, I would say more dangerous indeed. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we know that the president is losing on so many fronts.
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  Speaker 2: He's losing in Iran. Our European allies are not following
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  Speaker 2: us into this ill-thought-out and nondescript endeavor. We know that
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  Speaker 2: the region is destabilized. As you mentioned, diesel prices are
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  Speaker 2: going up. And for a lot of Americans who sort
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  Speaker 2: of say, oh, I don't like the news. It's too negative.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really pay attention to what's going on in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't really affect me. All of the products that
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  Speaker 2: we use on a daily basis are brought to us
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  Speaker 2: by diesel trucks. So, you know, it's not just gas
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  Speaker 2: in your own tank. It's how we actually get our
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  Speaker 2: goods and services. And this is why things at the
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  Speaker 2: grocery store are more expensive across the nation. And so
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  Speaker 2: many Americans, even upper middle class Americans are feeling the
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  Speaker 2: squeeze and not just sort of the working poor. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's affecting so many folks who were sitting on
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  Speaker 2: the sidelines. And I think, Antonio, we have to make
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  Speaker 2: a clear line between not just Donald Trump's erratic policies,
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  Speaker 2: but his attempts to decrease or possibly eliminate so many
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  Speaker 2: people from voting on November 3rd because he knows that
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are going to come out in droves. He knows
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  Speaker 2: that independents are going to vote for Democratic candidates. And
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  Speaker 2: now we're even seeing Republicans saying that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: vote for the Democratic candidates. So he needs to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that he limits people's ability to actually participate in
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  Speaker 2: their democracy because he knows that his policies can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, interestingly, I had a conversation yesterday with Senator
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  Speaker 1: Mark Kelly about some of this. And shortly before the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: Trump had posted this whole plan for snipers and ammunition
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  Speaker 1: in the arch. And when I asked the senator about it,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of made he was connecting similar dots.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's the ban on the free press.
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  Speaker 1: There's this sort of strange announcement to want to have
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  Speaker 1: all these stockpiles right in front of Arlington Cemetery. And
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  Speaker 1: then he was questioning sort of like as he feels
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  Speaker 1: like he's under pressure, you know, is some of this
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  Speaker 1: also about the possibility of like, you know, some kind
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  Speaker 1: of effort to dissuade people from coming out and protesting
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  Speaker 1: him as they had just days prior at the Kennedy Center.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so I guess when you take all of these
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  Speaker 1: things that are happening at the same time in concert halls,
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  Speaker 1: Does it make you concerned if he's if he's this
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  Speaker 1: nervous about just the polls and the prospect of losing?
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  Speaker 1: Does it make you concerned about what he might do
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  Speaker 1: when he actually loses, when his party actually loses in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And Tony, I've been concerned, you know, because we
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  Speaker 2: have to remember, it's not just Donald Trump. It's so
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  Speaker 2: many people within his administration who are catering to his
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  Speaker 2: sycophantic whims. You know, we're seeing a man who's becoming
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  Speaker 2: increasingly more erratic because he's backed himself into a corner.
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  Speaker 2: He's a political arsonist. He's used to setting a fire
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  Speaker 2: and then putting out the fire, being the victim and
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  Speaker 2: the hero simultaneously and saying, look, I put out this
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  Speaker 2: great grand fire. I'm so wonderful. But this time he
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  Speaker 2: set quite a few fires and he's lost control of
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  Speaker 2: so many items in D.C. and abroad. And so. As
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  Speaker 2: he gets more and more nervous, you see these attacks.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want people saying bad things. They're lies. They're
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  Speaker 2: clearly not lies. We've got two eyes and we can read,
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  Speaker 2: we can see for ourselves what is happening, not just
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  Speaker 2: in this country, but abroad. And so my issue isn't
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  Speaker 2: just with the president. It's with the people in his
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  Speaker 2: administration who know better. Some of these individuals have worked
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  Speaker 2: for several presidents. It's secretaries of state and elected officials
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  Speaker 2: in the Republican Party across the country who were saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, running for office saying, I want to be
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's lawyer. You know, if I'm elected to attorney general,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about Tanya Miller's opponent in Georgia. You know,
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  Speaker 2: she's the Democratic candidate running. And, you know, her opponent
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  Speaker 2: is essentially saying, I should be the AG because I
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  Speaker 2: want Donald Trump to have whatever he needs in Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: And we remember Georgia is the place where Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: demanded his 11,700 votes. So it's not just about the president.
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  Speaker 2: It's about these people who aid and abet this really illegal, dangerous,
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  Speaker 2: anti-constitutional— behavior. And far too many Americans are complicit in
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  Speaker 2: helping him sort of erode the Civil Rights Act, the
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  Speaker 2: Voting Rights Act, the Immigration Act, and so many principles
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  Speaker 2: and norms that we have in this nation.
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