Stephanie Ruhle & Bale Dalton

“Pete Hageeht is in congress at a hearing today, and one of the things we learned is how much, this Iranian war has cost us so far, which is $25,000,000,000. I have a really amazing statistic from friend of the show, Spencer Ackerman here, Molly. That's how much the surge cost.”

“The thing that's extraordinary about this Gallup poll is people feel worse about the economy today than they did during COVID, than they did during the great recession. And so we have to pull apart why that is because, usually, like, a president gets blamed for for the economy that that he's presiding over, but it's usually not the president's fault. In this case, all of the almost all of the negative things happening to us from an economic perspective are direct policy decisions made by Donald Trump.”

“Business people I speak to are still like, it's working for me. They they don't like him. They don't like lots and lots of policies. They see all the risks involved, but they contort themselves into pretzels to make excuses for him Because they love the access they have. This is what happened in Russia. Look what happened to all the oligarchs. Right? They chummed up to Putin. They made lots of money, and then he turned around and stabbed them in the back.”

“Right after the president won, I called someone very, very, very close to him. And I said, look. America just showed us the pendulum has swung to an extent. This is Trump's opportunity as in his early days, in his inauguration speech, really, to say let's come together. And when I tell you this person screamed, yelled, and cackled at me, like, come together, come to the middle. I mean, this person spiked a ball in my face, you know, punched me in the teeth, laughed their head off, and basically said, absolutely not. Every single naysayer out there should get on their knees and beg him for mercy and forgiveness.”

“The leaks that are coming out of the Pentagon, these are career department officials. Okay? These are people from the military, and the reason they're blowing a whistle is because they're panicked about our national security. That's a different kind of leaking, and the reporting that we're getting is extraordinary. When those people are sounding the alarm, that's a lot more than Jared versus Bannon versus Mnuchin versus John Kelly. That's a totally different game.”

“What if you were a military parent? Okay? So what has Pete Hegseth done this week? Made some videos, spent some time with Kid Rock with Kid Rock. What is he doing today? Sending out a a funny, a cartoon of him as Franklin you know, with Franklin the turtle before he goes into this hearing. We've got men and women serving our country. How would you feel if you were a military parent watching this?”

“A Florida judge issued a restraining order on behalf of a Florida woman, another woman, not also not his wife because Cory Mills was deemed to be, a danger to her and had, blackmailed her, with revenge porn, basically trying to share, you know, pictures and videos of of intimate moments that they had had with people that she wanted to go on and date. And she had to ask congressman Mills 11 different times to stop contacting her. And he he refused to listen, and that's what landed him in court and got the, got the restraining order against them.”

“In District 7, forty 5,000 people are now without health insurance period because of the ACA subsidies expiring. And over a 150,000 people just in this district will see their premiums go two times, three times, or even four times. So a family of four that was paying, you know, dollars 2,500 a month is now paying upwards of, you know, dollars 5,500, dollars 6,000 a month. That's not sustainable.”

“The Republicans here in Tallahassee are are truly breaking our constitutional, requirement, to to not gerrymander districts because they're unable to create the policies to keep in office, so they have to pick their districts in a way that the voters get, disenfranchised.”