Ari: Trump WH Resurrecting Parts of Failed Jan. 6 Coup

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said they supported aspects of Trumpism, said they liked things that he was doing. And that makes them very credible, again, as I said, in a time where summer is where people often see the breaking and campaigns. And you have people like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene. They've actually talked recently to each other. And they are trying to tap not a liberal or woke or democratic response to Trump. They're just saying, there needs to be changed. And there are those in Trump's orbit who theorized that this effort could actually become a vehicle for attacking the president to damage Republicans writ large in November. Remember, Trump has sowed a lot of chaos and civil war among Republicans by attacking so many of them. So what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Political reporting that another ally close to Trump says get just enough folks to stay home so we lose the house and the president gets destroyed. And then I want to show you something else that kind of is cross-cutting several of these issues that we've been reporting on. I mentioned Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene. We've seen how the Republican senators who lost primaries over Trump have made the second term more difficult. That's before you get to the midterms. And then you think about the way that Trump's kind of backup plan when he knows he's unpopular and things are going poorly is to try to rig the system, a word of course he famously used, but he does it when he tries to cheat or overthrow elections. He does it when he tries to shake down the press. from comedians to the news industry. And we've all covered that a lot. I want to show you something that's pretty interesting because the Trump theory is if you get enough of government power and your allies to control the media, maybe you can stem the other things I just mentioned, a poor economy and endless war and even Republicans criticizing you. But what happens if even your MAGA allies? change, say, let's pick an example, 60 minutes and hire new people. And then the people you get are also pointing out realities in the real world that are negative for Trump and Republicans. That's my introduction to the farewell column from Ross Duthat at the New York Times. He's considered a sort of independent conservative voice there. And in his last column at the Times, which he knew would be noticed, he says Trumpism has flailed and failed. That means not just one policy or criticizing on Epstein. That is, Trumpism has failed. Its leadership, its role for America and on the world stage. I mentioned the wider context because Duthut is only leaving that plum perch of being a New York Times columnist to head for what he views as a promotion to 60 minutes. You see him there. He's not as recognizable TV face, but that's Ross. In the middle you have Bari Weiss, who is the MAGA allied leader of that effort to change CBS in maybe 60 minutes. She got rid of Scott Pelley, a face you probably do know if you watch the news. And having ousted vets like Pelley and having been accused credibly by journalists and longtime independent, you know, non-partisan journalist there of meddling, she's hired someone like Ross. And that raises the question, if your replacement to Scott Pelley is more anti-Trump or at least more clearly... quoting reality to say Trump is failing than Pelly, then what exactly is going on over there? And are you going to be able to pull off the political makeover that you claim to want? And when I say pull it off, I don't mean for accurate news. I mean for the stated allegation by many people at 60 minutes that it's supposed to become more Trump friendly. And that's a merger we've been covering that may or may not ultimately happen.

The Trump folks say they want certain kind of coverage to help get them the rest of that deal, which would mean taking on CNN as well. So that's an aside amid these problems that Trump is facing because it reminds you that trying to change the channel isn't working for them either. And the polling is the wider crash. Pugh's polling approval rating of every president in the summer going into the key midterms. All the way back to Reagan, Trump is at the lowest. Republicans face broader headwins for polls show Democrats ahead when you look at the generic ballot. That doesn't tell you everything because there's no generic election, but these are the headwins. And that's where we begin with Gene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize, within colonists, MS now analyst, and Michelle Goldberg. colonist with the New York Times. Gene, your view on what looks like a kind of a perfect storm against Republicans and Trump's saying, maybe they don't need to win anything in Iran. Right. Well, look, Donald Trump doesn't really care about the Republican Party very much. I mean, loyalty flows one way as far as he's concerned. That's always been the case. And so I don't think anyone should be surprised that he's not really thinking about the midterm election politically in a lot of the things that he's doing. Even if he were to think about it. Right now, it's unclear exactly what he would do. He has done, he has made no gestures toward affordability, which is perhaps the biggest issue, the war. continues after he promised that we would have, we would not have these kinds of wars. So clearly it is a bad political situation for Republicans to be going into these elections. On the other hand, Democrats would obviously be foolish to start doing victory dances at this point. You know, there are 80-some days left. And so I think they'd better keep the pedal to the medal as best they can. Michelle, your view on all of that as well as what normally would be a kind of insider story. I mentioned people might not know what Ross looks like. He's more of a print journalist. And yet if this is the new voice that was promised to replace Scott Pelley at CBS, and it still says, hey, look, the reality is a lot of what Trump's doing is failing. I wonder what that tells you about the state of conservative commentary as well. Well, look, I'm not going to speak about kind of internal New York Times things. You know, Ross and I co-hosted a podcast together. I think he's somebody who has a lot of...

integrity and has always been quite critical of Trump, but more open to conservative views. And so I think, you know, what it seems to me that what Bari Weiss is doing is in some ways making 60 minutes more Trump friendly, but also embedding a set of conservative assumptions into kind of the operating system of the broadcast, into the kinds of questions that they ask and the kind of stories that they think is worth covering. And I think that what we've seen with David Ellison, who is, you know, who now runs CBS and who wants to run CNN, is that he was sort of pushing on an open door going into this year because there was this sense that like the vibe had shifted and the opposition to Trump and his kind of authoritarian attempts at consolidating the media behind his cronies was. was almost unchecked, you're starting to see more and more opposition as Donald Trump becomes more unpopular. And now his attempt to take over CNN is somewhat in doubt. Because, you know, even though you can, the president has power to rig a lot of things. But some of that power depends on popular legitimacy or at least on popular acquiescence. And that is what Donald Trump is losing day by day. Yeah, I think that's really fairly put, and it's a reminder of how much things can shift. Here we are about 10 minutes into the hour. We've largely been on the Republican side of the ledger, and they do control the White House and the Congress. I did want to turn while we're in this politics discussion to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a congresswoman who is very much seen as a potential future face of this party, and she has gone public very deliberately as a working woman. with the fertility journey that she's on and also a range of other issues. Some people think she's considering a bid for higher office. Let's take a look. That wasn't so bad. I have decided to start the process of... freezing my eggs. And in this political environment where this administration is denying reproductive care to women across the country. Was it? I mean, did the movement go too far with some of those positions? I mean, you briefly supported the idea of defunding the police. Well, you know, I think, I think that. During this time, and during, especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the Overton window. We were shut down. There was some of the highest unemployment rates that we have seen because of those shutdowns. And I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. And I actually think that the discussions that were had in that time were quite. fruitful. And when you're ready to make that decision about 2020, I'll let you know. I'll let you know. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leads in a different, very bold style. She's a proud progressive. And then she's also saying, hey, not everything ever said in the service of what you might call the progressive wing or sometimes, quote, woke politics got it right. What do you see happening here?

Well, I think that it's not just Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right? There's a lot of progressive candidates who are now being haunted by things that they said in 2020 or 2021, including Abdul El-Sayed and Francesca Hong, the gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin. And, you know, on the one hand, I think it's healthy that Democrats and including progressive Democrats are sort of disavowing some of the more outtray and unpopular positions that they took then. I do think that there has to be maybe a little bit more of an explanation by people. I mean, I think that there's grace for people who've changed, but there has to be some sort of explanation of how that change occurred, you know, some sort of statement that we, you know, we made a mistake by putting, by taking a lot of kind of common sense policies about criminal justice reform and, you know, talking about them in maximalist or hyperbolic terms. It didn't do us any favors. I think that you can, you know, they don't need to disavow the sort of underlying values, but they maybe do need to explain away a little bit some of that hyperbolic language. Mm-hmm. All makes sense. Michelle Goldberg, thank you. I want to thank you, Gene Robinson, who was with us at the top of the show as well. Next, we turned to the new Attorney General. Todd Blanche sworn in today, and I have a special breakdown on what really matters here, what it reveals about Trump's lawlessness and anti-police agenda. We're back with that in 90 seconds.

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President Trump's former defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, sworn in today, a normally celebratory step that was actually closed to the press, which is one of a few signs that the DOJ clash here didn't go well for Todd Blanche and Trump. Another unusual, albeit minor clue, was that there's reporting the DOJ team asked. people to clap Todd Blanche in when he arrived this morning. You see him there. MS Now reporting. We don't know why that special request was made, but we do know that there's many indications that Todd Blanche's credibility. has been low in the department, even if they got some people to come out to the hallway for this spectacle. Indeed, unlike most of Trump's cabinet nominees, Todd Blanche barely got confirmed at all. He struggled to get that original nomination out of committee. You may remember there was a lot of reporting on that. That first vote canceled because he was going to lose it had it been held then. He also ultimately lost the votes of some Republican senators leading to last week's nail bite, where he got through by a single vote. because he lost some Republicans. And he wouldn't even have gotten through by that vote had he not had to compromise under pressure, ruling out that already frozen MAGA crime front. That's what it took to win back two of what turned out to be needed Republican votes. So that is actually, I think, the most important development here legally, and it underscores two points. The first, pressure works. Donald Trump made a lot of noise about a lot of things that he could have done. Maybe he would skip the whole vote and just keep Todd Blanche in there on an acting basis. Try again next year if maybe they still held the Senate. It was bluster as usual. It was a bluff because the Republican senators did get Todd Blanche to formally end that fund after Trump made all those big cocky sounding threats. That's one. Pressure works. Two. Donald Trump still wants to fund and reward maga convicts. He wanted to do that up to the end, meaning he still wants to do it right now, even if his hands are more tied legally. He was at one point musing about risking the whole nomination for that goal. He was undercutting Todd Blanche and the others who had publicly claimed the fund was already over because it wasn't over because he wants it. It's Trump's priority even, depending on how you look at it, his possible obsession. As president, Donald Trump, already infamously used more of his authority to act against police, against their well-being, against their safety, against punishing those who attack police, be they federal or other types of police. He did that on the side of convicts more than any other president. He might like you to forget that. He has a lot of aides who do a lot of rhetorical backflips trying to disappear that, and then he has a propaganda machine that lies about that. But on this network and on this program, we will always remind you of that very recent history that they are trying to memory hold because we don't want to relive it. This new clash, of course, was about seizing your tax dollars to pay MAGA convicts, including possibly those from January 6th. And that's where those key Republican senators drew their line.

And when Todd Blanche's confirmation looked doomed, he then relented and compromised and submitted this written and signed memo stating that that MAGA fund is dead, that those funds will not be used, I should say abused if it was actually tried, to fund convicts and other violent people just because they're aligned with the president. The fund, which I will not... call by its propaganda name, although you can read it off the screen if you choose, the MAGA crime fund was rescinded, signed by Mr. Todd Blanche. The Times reports that there could be loopholes there, and that could be by design, because that's the whole reveal here. Todd Blanche may have been willing to write that up. under the pressure. And others in the DOJ have tried to walk away from that because, by the way, it was already frozen in court, probably illegal, a lot of things. But Donald Trump wants to take your money and use it that way. This would be a reimbursement for the pain that they suffer. A lot of people like it. If they don't approve dot, I put it back on the table. A lot of people like it. A lot of big supporters of Trump like it. kind of a nonsensical corrupt statement there. He wants to take your money without any act of Congress or under any legal authority and give it out to convicts. And then when he tries to defend it, this is why a lot of people say Trump is not the communicator he might have once been, he says the convict's getting the money like it. Yeah. Most people like free money. Convicts might like it extra in the case of these folks who... in any other normal time would still be incarcerated, but that's hardly a defense. Trump prioritized this on his first full day in office, pardoning over a thousand of those convicts. The Trump DOJ also abandoned the seditious conspiracy case against the very militias who were part of that effort to overthrow democracy. Trump signaled it's okay to do this as long as it's on his behalf. And so, This is the whole story. On the one hand, they were stopped, and it took leverage and pressure. That's why I told you step one, pressure works. On the other hand, not only Donald Trump and Todd Blanche and those enablers, but a heck of a lot of other people in our country who would rather just look the other way or not deal with this or try to give Trump the benefit of the doubt or just hope they don't have to deal with this the next time there's a coup attempt in our capital, are looking away from the fact. that Trump does want this kind of paid militia. He has not changed. She has actually only gotten more anti-police and more direct in this. It's the warning we heard from Congressman Jamie Raskin. It's all about weaponizing the tax dollars of the American people to support Donald Trump's private militia. If these people had real viable causes of action against anybody, they would go to federal court. And the ones who have gone to federal court have lost their cases, overwhelmingly.

Fact check, true. That was kind of going into the beginning of the summer. Here we are in the heart of the summer, nearing the end, if you look at it that way in August, and we've gone from that idea of floating to being blocked in court, to being fought back in Congress, too, with the leverage of this confirmation fight, perhaps the one thing about it that upholds the rule of law, to the thing being signed and sealed as dead under the law of the new Attorney General under his hand. Now, if Trump does still get Todd Blanche to try to reverse that, you can try to rescind a memo, just as you rescinded the fund, right? They will end up back in court. And they will have a problem. which is everything I've just told you that happened up to now. This thing was already paused by a judge, but it's now rescinded, signed by Todd Blanche, and so trying to revive that would be very hard. And this isn't something that the president can just do alone. That's why he's run into so much trouble. When you actually need to move money out of the treasury and you need to make bank transfers and you need all these different government officials involved, a judicial order blocking it, blocks it. Now, When you look at this and you say, okay, I guess it's kind of over, but we should be vigilant. What is the final takeaway? I will tell you in plain English. He wanted a coup. He supported a violent sedition as adjudicated in our courts of law. He got back into power and he released every last one of those violent thugs. And as if that weren't enough, he wanted to take your money to fund them. Why? Donald Trump doesn't pay back his own contractors and lawyers and other staff. We've heard that for decades. Why is he suddenly so interested in getting money to these people, even though now it's been stopped? Apparently, he wants them on call and ready to act again in the next election or two. And we take that seriously. We're going to fit in a break. That's my special report on what we learned from the Todd Blanche issues. But by the end of the hour, we will lighten up a little bit with Obama teaming up with Larry David for this big show that now is taking on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. If I was in charge, I'd make sure that no kids took that vaccine. That goes for measles, too. Oh, if you were in charge! That's right! Oh, God, help us all! It's some idiot, some moron ever put you in charge! That would be the dark day for humanity! Do you want to know what's going on to that scene? Do you want more? We have that by the end of the hour. But first, we look at this economy. We look at the job losses, which are rattling the Trump midterms, and then you try to make sense of what you should be ready for. We have the great Dylan Radigan, a Wall Street expert and critic. Next.

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economic system using a lot of jargon when he says maybe the this style of letter is ending he's saying the inequality problem is not as bad and then you have real people living through this where a you can't afford groceries gas basic needs the affordability crisis and then b if it were the great depression and everyone was suffering you might say well i guess we're all in this together but that struggle. That affordability struggle comes against the time of incredible self-enrichment, double-dealing, deregulation, and outright corruptions. The jobs report, the economic conditions are bad news politically for Trump, of course, because all those people that you heard worrying about this are living through it when he promised lower prices. Take the Wall Street Journal, which is not exactly an anti-Republican or anti-market outlets saying Republicans have just lost their edge with voters on the economy. The polling shows those Democrats beating. Republicans, if you ask it generically, and voters know what they're living through. They punished Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for high prices, and they may punish the Republicans for being the party in power with high prices as well, although Republican leaders now just want to run back the clock. Inflation, three and a half percent. Why do Republicans deserve to keep power in Washington if that's part of the scorecard? People have short memories and they forget that Biden or Biden's economic disastrous, you know, rain. Biden's prices that we're still dealing with. It's Biden's disastrous economic record. Do you think that's a winning message to just say it's not our fault? And 18 months in, is it not Trump's economy yet? You know, President Trump was certainly left with a mess to clean up. This is what they can come up with over 550 days into the second term. And here's how Trump sounded in February. You said you inherited a mess from President Biden when it comes to the economy. But at what point is it on you? At what point are we in the Trump economy? Oh, I'd say we're there now.

We're there now. We were there then. Welcome to the Trump economy, the job losses, the deregulation. A lot of problems if you're not in the top 1%. But how does this really work? Why do the markets bounce off the poor jobs numbers? What do you need to know in your own life as well as why Republicans are so nervous about this economy going into the midterms? Well, Dylan Radigan is a Wall Street expert and often Wall Street critic, a veteran of this network. He joins me next. I have one primary wish as president. In terms of people, I never want to be the late great Herbert Hoover. I don't want to be a president that oversees the great worldwide depression. That was Herbert Hoover. And it was a terrible thing. Rather than possibly going into a depression, rather than having your favorite president be Herbert Hoover. I never want to be Herbert Hoover. Hoover on the mind. We are joined by Dylan Radigan, a journalist and author. He's anchored shows on this network and on CNBC, as I mentioned, a market expert, but also often a Wall Street critic, CEO of Euphoria Sneakers, owner of Reservations.com, and looking nifty in the summer. I like Dylan the great and I also like, I like, I, I like Dylan the Great. I like that. And I like Italian philosopher. I think that we need to sort of update the lower third. Sort of the obvious thing. I don't, you know, Dylan, I don't know if living a lot of the year in Italy makes you an Italian philosopher. It might make you a sometime Italian. So that's, you know, that's a lot of work on the adverb. Maybe a financial philosopher. Let me turn you to the markets. Uh, Talk to me like just a regular person who says job losses are bad. Obviously, parts of the economy are doing worse than Trump promised. But the stock market liked that announcement Friday. And do you see this as a rough economy going into the election? The obvious answer is yes. The simple explanation is that the market benefits from a reduction in human beings. And so every time you move towards less human beings as a cost, as an overhead, as a point of overhead, it's market positive because what the market is pricing is productivity. Go on. So the answer is yes. And now brings up, I don't know, which then brings up the sort of hanging question, which is, okay. Why is capital so misaligned with humanity that capital becomes asset owners benefit? from things that are negative for everyone and particularly negative for non-asset owners and why are we moving to a world that is based on asset owners as a tiny percentage of the world and then non-asset owners and then people that collect dividends from robots to live a life as a non-asset owner and then people that live on boats in sardinia as asset owners and i think that that is a disturbing thing and i and i think

Actually, this goes to the original moral injury of 2008, which now Trump is the final exploiter of. And so there was an, there's an American and even a global dream that. A child, any child, can change their circumstances by creating extraordinary value for other people. That's a foundational myth of America, of childhood, of capitalism. And the more we move to a place where that is no longer true and the belief in that myth is no longer true because trust is in full collapse. At the same time that the technology AI, bigger than the horse and buggy, blah, blah. So you're going to have the biggest technological transition ever at the direct benefit of asset owners and the direct detriment of non-asset owners at a time when trusted institutions to manage that as in an all-time low. Yeah. And so is Donald Trump guilty? Sure. Yes, he is. Is it easy to walk around and to talk about the list of horrendous things and corruption and the crypto and the absurdity? The inventory is an abomination. And is he alone in this? Absolutely not. He is the continuation of it, in my opinion, and the validation of something that was unspoken and more perhaps.

restrained going back to 2008 in terms of asset transfer within the government and banks. Let me jump in. Let me jump in, and you're saying a lot, and as you're want to do, you're getting us back to the core of it, which is what you described as asset owners, so the minority of super rich who are living different than most people, and then how that affects all of us. On this little marble that we live on and share. Unless we destroy it. Political crisis of this gender, the humanity of Gen Z and the creativity that is actually possible in the positive expression of this technology as something that works for you. As opposed to being working for the technology. You mentioned the hangover from 08. And one of the issues was whether, yeah, and one of the issues is whether the rules protected everybody enough or not. And the deregulation, which as you said, yes, it predates Trump. And a lot of it was bipartisan. It was a banker class in both parties pushing that rather than Larry Summers, Rubin, blah, blah, blah. So now we have a very deregulated approach to finance and baking in general under Trump and specifically AI. It was this really deeply reported in New York Times piece that I want to quote from looking at what might be a deregulated AI bubble. Reading from this piece. They talk about how were trillions of dollars in investments on the back of just tens of billion in revenue. The AI bubble estimated to be 17 times as large as the dot-com bubble and quadruple the 08 housing bubble, which you just mentioned. The piece goes on to note, the housing crash is instructive. It rippled across the entire economy like a contagion because the market itself had drawn investments from across the entire economy. And they... observe in this piece that's more true of the AI boom, which has been driving America's growth across the spectrum. Your view of that. Obviously, that's a real risk. We'll find out together what happens. I think the most important thing is to actually just look at what the most extreme case of what is. of what is being financed. And I think I spoke with you about this last time I was here, but the SpaceX prospectus as a story, whether we believe it or not, they wrote it down Morgan, like they wrote a book and they said, this is the future we believe and this is why you should give me your dollar or whatever your money is. And I think that that narrative, which is then, again, 60% of the jobs, 10,000% growth, asset owners, non-Bashar al-Assad owners, space data centers, this whole sort of futuristic story is one. that implicitly ignores and doesn't talk about the human consequences of the economic benefits of what is being described. And so for sure.

Everybody wants to be an asset owner. And so the richest among us, if it comes down to it after we're done philosophizing, if the AI tsunami is coming, you'd rather be an asset owner, whether it's your personal brand, your bank account, your house, whatever it is, some stock market thing, a 401k down the line, then somebody making $65,000 a year in Memphis who's got to do Uber to pay for a health insurance policy that's no longer subsidized, which represents 25% of the people in this country who are not the homeless. and are not some whatever, but there's our people. And I think at the end of the day, every single thing that was set in motion, whether it was distrust in 2008 or actually financial policy, has been coming home to roost slowly as manifest through inflation and lack of trust in institutions. And then the open invitation for effectively a corrupt cancer to take it over in this classic sort of family corruption sense of, you know, Erbil, Iraq or something like this. I can make a lot of money doing this, and I will. as an invitation that was opened, in my opinion, in 2008, when there was a moral decision, a moral injury that refused to acknowledge that the structure of the policymaking was uniquely to the benefit of the class that controlled the government at the expense of the taxpayer. And it didn't matter even the dollars or how it happened or whether you believe me or you or anybody else or whatever movie person. You knew on some level that something unfair had happened and that that now, I think, has opened up both the cynicism and the hopelessness and the anger and the ambition of this moment. And I think Trump is really just a reflection of it. I think that it's not as much about his presidency as it is, him as the culmination of something that's a wave that's coming ashore that came from an earthquake 15 years ago. Yeah, and that makes a lot of sense. And what you're describing is the warning system, right? You can change the politician. You could look at who are the different tools of the deregulatory environment, the risk factor we're all carrying. But I love that you always go broader like that. So, Dylan, thank you. Keep on rocking in a free world. I'll see you in a month or two. Dylan, the great, I thought it was. You could say it. I just, I might not. We love you. I love that. But then what's the point? Then what's the point? Well, that's for you to decide. Again, our thanks to Dylan. Let me tell folks what's coming up because Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. is under fire. Talking about how he'll eat anything. And there's a fact check. That's next.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. is in hot water again. Obama and Larry David have teamed up with this HBO show that mines history to talk about what's happening now. Obama even played himself in a recent episode discussing the infamous Tansuit controversy. As for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.., the Embattled Health Secretary has been known for riding waves and waves of vaccine misinformation. And history can be a guide because if you go back before our recent controversies, back in the old days, having a medical breakthrough where you create a vaccine that saves tens of millions of lives was an unadulterated good thing, celebrated like apple pie or ice cream. There were anti-vaxxers, to be sure, but they were, before the internet, a very fringe, much smaller group with much less influence on government policy and, frankly, much less discussion and media coverage. So that's part of the context of how Larry David imagines a proud mom of the scientist who actually invented the polio vaccine and ends up arguing with a neighbor who seems not just a historical relic, but very much an example of the kind of science leadership we have in Trump's administration. Evelyn, I don't know if I happen to mention that my son Jonas? is appearing in front of Congress next week. Guess you've mentioned that before, several times. And do you know why he's appearing in front of Congress? Yes. Because he discovered the cure from Polio! Yes, he... Do you know that Jonas hasn't made a nickel from this vaccine? He didn't get a patent for it. He just wants to serve mankind. He's a very good boy. That vaccine's gonna kill people. He's gonna... Give them heart attacks. Oh, drop dead, Bobby. You should die a dog's death. I heard it shrivels up your Joel. Oh, please give me a break, okay? You don't know anything about science. I know more than you do. You're not a doctor. If I was in charge, I'd make sure that no kids took that vaccine. That goes for measles too. Oh, if you were in charge. That's right. Oh, God, help us all. Some idiot, some moron ever put you in charge. That would be the dark day for humanity. I can tell you that. Ma, ma, ma, relax. You don't need to talk to him. He doesn't know what he's talking about. You don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. You guys are crazy over there with your vaccine. Yeah, you're right. We're crazy, Bobby. We're in, so we're completely out of our mind. Thanks to you. Everybody's got to take vaccines. Excuse me. Is this 437 B60? This is 439. I think you're looking next door. Fluoride causes gender confusion. I'm smart enough to drink unpasserized milk every day. Drink the milk right from the town. Take it from the tit. Everybody knows. Does everybody know that, Bob? Oh, and by the way, Spanish flu. It's a bio weapon, except it's designed not to touch Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. And the government doesn't want you to know about that. Yes, I cut the head off a whale with a chainsaw, but I put the head up on my wall, so I made use of it. Hey, what are you doing? I'm not crazy. Lock him up. What are you doing? Hey, he's got worms in his brain. And he's got a dead bear in his shrunk. I'm going to eat.

By the time you get to the dead bear, it's clearly an Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. send up, although they are operating in a different historical universe for the sake of the show. But the joke here, of course, is also deadly serious. The ranting of that unhinged, untrained, uneducated, unscientific neighbor was just that, the ranting of a neighbor. And the punchline is the deadly serious fact, and I say deadly because you need a measles vaccine, that this person, abetted by Donald Trump, actually has some impact at the highest levels of the regulatory, medicinal, and scientific oversight of the United States government. And there's nothing funny about that. We'll be right back. Prices are up, jobs are down, and Americans are sounding off. The July jobs report came out this morning, and it is an absolute disaster for Trump. But we are in a deep recession. People are not being paid enough to live a sustainable life. The United States is currently hemorrhaging jobs. It's like the capitalism is turning into feudalism. And all the world are living below their means. They're not spending on anything unnecessary. They're not really indulge in anything anymore, and they still can't afford to live. I may. The most money I've ever made in my life. I never see the money. It's in my account and poof out. Gone. Are we having fun yet? Those are the facts. That's what people are living through. That disappointing jobs number from the Trump administration. And we're going to see what we do about it. But the last word tonight goes to the people. Thanks for watching. The weeknight starts now. Hi, I'm Angie Hicks, co-founder of Angie. And one thing I've learned is that you buy a house, but you make it a home. Because with every fix, update, and renovation, it becomes a little more your own. So you need all your jobs done well. For nearly 30 years, Angie has helped millions of homeowners hire skilled pros for the projects that matter. From plumbing to electrical, roof repair to deck upgrades. So leave it to the pros who will get your jobs done well. Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find a pro for your project at Angie. com.