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Transcript: MAGA Dope Jim Jordan Accidentally Exposes Trump’s DOJ Scam
That, to me, I think, is really a terrible thing to contemplate—that they’re actually manipulating an aspect of the system that is there,…
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Transcript: Trump Erupts in “Mad King” Tirades as Presser Goes Awry
Sargent: Well, I do take some encouragement from the way people are talking about the “No Kings” rallies, which are set for this weekend.…
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Transcript: Trump ICE Raids Worsen as Pritzker Drops Bombshell Warning
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.…
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Transcript: Dems Will Stay Weak Until They Stop Obsessing Over Polls
And so here we are now, and this is an argument that I’m having, obviously, live. If we believe that our job right now—and I believe it…
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Transcript: Trump Threats to Jail Foes Darken amid Damning DOJ Leaks
Parker: Well, right. And, of course, you know, no one is above the law, and any public official who, you know, abuses their office to do…
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Transcript: Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires in Big Court Loss
Sargent: Just to wrap this up, the judge also issued a strong denunciation of Trump that I’d like to quote: “This is a nation of…
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Transcript: Democrats Got Something Really Big Done in New Mexico
And of course, I’m the only state in America that pays for college—two-year, four-year, part-time, full-time, anywhere, anytime. We do…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Snaps at Journos as Shutdown Polls Worsen
Sargent: Yeah, I think you’re getting at what I think is a real problem in the Trump coalition, kind of in a very broad sense, right? So…
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Transcript: Trump Accidentally Wrecks MAGA’s Dumb New Jimmy Kimmel Lie
And this goes to the heart of our system. I have begun, Greg, to have some doubts about whether our civil society has the strength to push…
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Transcript: Trump’s Angry Tirades at UN Rattle Experts: “Really Crazy”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 24 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Editor’s note:…
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Transcript: Trump’s Angry New Tirade at Dems Unnerves His Own Advisers
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 23 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent:This…
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Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges
Sargent: And then on top of that, Trump’s tweet announcing the second bombing was just sick. It said, quote, all in caps, “be warned if…
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Transcript: Trump’s Crazed Rants Reveal Dark Truth about Kimmel Ouster
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Editor’s note:…
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Transcript: Kimmel Suspension Is Another Shameless Media Capitulation
Cox: I think about it when I have to pay my mortgage every month. I mean, like, these are the institutions, like these are the places that…
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Transcript: Kash Patel Self-Destructs under Harsh Dem Epstein Grilling
Hemmer: It’s it’s fascinating because Patel commits himself to this investigation, which he is clearly not going to undertake. It’s like…
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Transcript: How Cities How Cities Are Fighting Back Against Trump
Mayor Justin Bibb: Yeah, I didn’t know how good I had it under former president, Joe Biden. It has certainly been a chaotic seven months…
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Transcript: Trump Threats Darken on Fox as MAGA Rage Over Kirk Worsens
Sommer: Yeah, you know, I was talking to some moderates recently who were saying, you know, I wish this political rhetoric would go down.…
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Transcript: Raskin Says Dems Must Use Funding Fight to Restrain Trump
Bacon: Last question. I guess you, Congressman Crockett, a few others are on this. So the Republicans have this new “we’re going to…
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Transcript: Nancy Mace Explodes in Fury after Dem’s Takedown Hits Home
Sargent: Well, I want to get at the cruelty dimension of this, because I think it’s really important. I want to point out that unless you…
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Transcript: Why Democratic Leadership Is Clueless About Politics
Litman: They’re going to have to go through a full rebranding exercise the way the Democrats had to do after Obama and we saw how that…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Seethes as Dumb New Epstein Spin Goes Awry
Sargent: Well, Steve, you’ve been covering politics a long time. There was a time at which you would have expected senior leaders of a…
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Transcript: Trump’s Firing of Lisa Cook Backfires as Brutal Poll Hits
Ford: I would expect it in the sense of the Fed, but with a caveat. I am heartened that a large majority of Americans feel that way. But I…
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Transcript: Trump Suddenly Facing Worsening Losses on Many Key Fronts
Sargent: And saying it’s all justified by emergency, but we’ll come back to that. We had something similar on these two other cases. On…
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Transcript: Fox’s Dumb Spin on RFK Fiasco in Senate Backfires on Trump
Sargent: Well, what I find really striking about this, as you mentioned earlier, is that Fox News does seem to recognize how politically…