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0:00 19 campaign and author of the endless urgency on Substack.

0:03 Great to see you.

0:03 Thanks for being here tonight.

0:05 So,

0:06 first let's start with New York keeping the focus

0:08 on Mayor Mom Donnie where he always wants it to be.

0:10 His tax the rich video, you know, naming and shaming Citadel's Ken Griffin.

0:15 He responded today.

0:16 Take a listen.

0:18 And now what the mayor of New York has made

0:20 clear to my partners and principally my New York partners,

0:23 my New York partners, is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami.

0:29 All right, Mike.

0:30 So, they're leaving and they're taking all those jobs with them.

0:33 Well, they're going to head to Miami that's got

0:34 a new Democratic mayor for the first time in, I believe,

0:36 like two or three decades.

0:38 So, is he a Democratic socialist or a Democrat?

0:40 Well, I'm just making the point that I think

0:42 Republicans are losing an awful lot of elections right now.

0:44 I mean, you're talking about all the Democrats

0:47 on my side that have rich parents,

0:48 but like we're not talking about the Republicans right now.

0:50 I mean, Donald Trump's kids are making deals in front

0:52 of the Pentagon right now that Trump is helping them get through.

0:54 So, I think we've got a problem of nepotism.

0:56 I think we've got a problem with both political

0:58 parties being out of touch with working-class Americans right now.

1:00 And it was on display at the Mech Galla

1:02 with Sarah Pollson with that ridiculous mask that she had on.

1:05 It was on display in Washington today where

1:07 Senate Republicans are trying to pass a bill

1:09 right now to spend a billion dollars

1:11 a year money to build Donald Trump's stupid ballroom.

1:13 So, I don't think anything's getting done to help working people right now.

1:16 All right.

1:16 Well, I understand uh you are opposed to the ballroom.

1:20 That is something that is not for Donald Trump.

1:22 It's for future leaders and you know

1:23 that there are lots of events held for leaders

1:25 all around the world in in tents on the south lot of the White House.

1:29 It's it's not great.

1:30 But let's get back to the hypocrisy here.

1:32 You say that Republican kids are making money.

1:34 Yeah.

1:34 But they're are not also calling uh for the blood

1:37 of capitalists to be taken in the streets like Hassan Per.

1:40 They're not standing outside of people's

1:42 homes and shaming them for their success.

1:44 Uh, so why is there all of this hypocrisy with these champagne

1:47 socialists who are perfectly happy with living

1:50 high on the hog privileged lifestyle, but they don't want it for the rest of us?

1:54 Well, hey, look, I'm the first person to tell

1:55 you that I think there are a lot of liberals

1:57 who are living high on the hog that don't

1:58 know what it's like to come from a working-class family.

2:00 And as somebody who's my mom stayed home and my dad

2:02 was an FBI agent working on a government salary to raise us,

2:05 like I came from basically nothing relative to a lot of these people.

2:08 But again, that hypocrisy is abounds.

2:10 Republicans are the first one to complain about welfare

2:13 and and SNAP and cut benefits and stuff like that.

2:15 But we're we're governed by a billionaire right now.

2:17 Donald Trump's got more billionaires in his cabinet who

2:19 have never really worked a day in their life.

2:21 His kids have, you know, they act like they hit a home run.

2:23 They they were born at the plate.

2:25 Like come on.

2:26 Okay.

2:26 So, you're hypocrisy everywhere.

2:27 You can make the same argument everywhere.

2:29 Donald Trump who whose father started a real estate business from scratch.

2:33 Whose father whose father started it from scratch.

2:35 You pass it along because that's what happens in real estate.

2:38 You you pass things along.

2:39 to grow businesses to develop companies not just in the United

2:43 States but all over the world who employ thousands of workingclass people

2:48 and support local economies whether it's in Chicago

2:51 when it's in New York City and so you can't say that they've never worked a day

2:55 in their life especially while you have Don Jr.

2:58 and Eric Trump and Ivanka all standing on their own

3:00 two feet when it comes to working inside that business.

3:03 That's a very different scenario than taking your parents'

3:06 money and then demanding that working class people,

3:08 especially New York, pay more taxes to pay for your pet projects.

3:11 Do I answer or are you going to filibuster me on your own show, Katie?

3:14 I mean, your your core argument is right that there are

3:17 a lot of people in the country that are hypocrites on this stuff,

3:19 but Donald Trump is the world's most famous Nepo baby.

3:22 All right.

3:22 His dad built that business.

3:23 He handed it over.

3:24 He basically ruined it.

3:25 And the only reason he's been able to grow his net

3:27 worth by so much is through outright corruption in Washington right now.

3:30 In the last year, Donald Trump has made

3:32 $4.5 billion dollars to grow his net worth.

3:34 He's got his kids selling contracts to the Pentagon for drone strike technology

3:37 that's going to aid in this stupid war that they're doing in Iran,

3:39 which the American people don't want, just like the ballroom,

3:42 just like everything else that this president does.

3:44 So, if he wants to get to work to help support the American people, fine.

3:47 But earlier today, Donald Trump said,

3:48 I wrote it down just to make sure I said it to you,

3:50 that gas prices being higher right now at $5 and $6

3:53 in most of the country is a small price to pay.

3:56 A small price to pay for what?

3:57 When you're a billionaire who's never

4:00 Iran is nowhere near having a nuclear weapon

4:02 and the American people aren't buying that lie.

4:03 No, they weren't.

4:04 They weren't before the war.

4:05 They weren't before.

4:06 No, listen.

4:07 Donald Trump cut up the Iran deal that Obama

4:09 made and now he's stuck in this situation.

4:10 Can't figure out how to open it.

4:14 It did nothing about the ballistic missile program,

4:16 which is really what Gabber Tulsi Gabber herself said

4:18 that they were nowhere near having a nuclear weapon.

4:20 There's no justification for this work.

4:23 I know the average person watching this right now is paying $5

4:25 a gallon for gas and that's why Donald Trump's approval rating is cratering.

4:28 I I understand and I do think that $5 a gallon

4:30 for gas is something that is hurting the American people,

4:33 especially the working class,

4:34 but the president has tried to explain that he believes

4:37 uh it is in the best interest of the United

4:38 States for the Iranian regime not to have a nuclear

4:41 weapon and that it will be over in due time.

4:44 But I want to get over to LA before we let you go.

4:46 Spencer Pratt, of course, is running for mayor.

4:48 Uh he highlighted how these progressive leaders insulate

4:50 themselves from the consequences of their own policies.

4:53 Uh we had JJ Smith on last night

4:55 to talk about the consequences in San Francisco.

4:57 Uh there's this harm harm reduction program

5:00 that actually does more harm than good.

5:02 Is this a reality check for any of these folks who are in these positions?

5:05 I mean, you can't tell me that working-class voters

5:07 in Wisconsin are happy looking at the policies of San Francisco,

5:10 New York, and that they want that to come

5:12 into their their neighborhoods or their congressional districts.

5:15 I mean, probably not.

5:16 But let's talk about Spencer Pratt for a second because I

5:18 thought that ad that they put together was really well done.

5:20 But Spencer Pratt doesn't live in that trailer uh where his house used to be.

5:23 He's living in another $2.5 million house.

5:24 So maybe he should tell the truth about where he actually lives

5:27 instead of trying to score cheap

5:28 political points after something horrible happened,

5:30 the natural disaster and the fires in LA.

5:32 I I think this is on your original disaster.

5:35 But well, I mean, you know what I mean.

5:37 But look, it it it Republicans love to do

5:41 this thing where they complain about the problems in LA,

5:42 they complain about the problems in New York, and there are real problems there.

5:45 I'm in Chicago, there's problems here,

5:47 but there are also problems in Republican states all across the country.

5:49 So, I think voters in Wisconsin probably care

5:51 a lot more about what's happening in Wisconsin,

5:53 and voters in California care a lot more about what's happening in California.

5:56 My advice to Republicans is spend less time

5:58 complaining about big Democratic cities and spend more

6:00 time fixing the problems in your state because

6:02 Mississippi is the poverty capital of this country.

6:04 Louisiana is the murder capital of this country.

6:06 Arkansas is the teen pregnancy rate capital of this country.

6:08 Go deal with those issues.

6:09 Then you come lecture us in big cities.

6:11 Well, the average Mississippian is richer

6:13 than the average person in Great Britain.

6:15 So, I think there's a big cont.

6:17 That's irrelevant to me.

6:18 In Great Britain,

6:19 just because red states have blue cities that pull down or drive

6:22 up their crime rates and everything else doesn't mean you can blame

6:24 I know it's always the Democrat's fault.

6:26 The party of personal responsibility can

6:27 never take responsibility for the crime.

6:29 We're not responsible for Democratic policies and and that are

6:31 implemented by when you run for office,

6:34 you're responsible for what happens in your state.

6:36 So if you're the governor of Louisiana,

6:37 Arkansas, Mississippi, you're responsible for that stuff.

6:39 Get to work.

6:41 Education in Mississippi is better than in New

6:43 York and California at this moment in time.

6:44 So we will see.

6:45 We'll compare now.

6:46 It's on the rise.

6:47 That's one of the few things they're doing, right?

6:49 One of the few.

6:50 Okay.

6:50 We'll get We'll agree on that.

6:51 Good to see you, Mike.

6:52 Thanks for coming on.

6:53 Thank you.

6:53 Bye.