“I have never been anti-vaccine. It's like when Sean Hannity says he's not a reporter, he's a talk host. He has been anti-vaccine. And later in the hearing, he denied things he said. He has spread lies. He is trying to get them to not use the, no one's going on here. This guy is a total liar. Yeah. And this is what he does every time, is he denies things he said on podcasts that we have tape of every time. This is just what he does because he doesn't want to actually have to answer for these things because I'll shock you here.”
Out-of-touch leadership defines the current congressional gerontocracy
“Look, when we talk about the gerontocracy, I think in a lot of ways, what we're doing is using a technocratic word for out of touch. And for some members, I think the issue is not that they are old, it is that they're completely out of touch with the lived experience on the ground for the people that they are supposed to represent. And paying attention to these issues, understanding them fully, it's not necessarily a function of age.”
The WHCA dinner normalization of Trump is problematic
“It's not inviting a Republican president. It's inviting a president who has attacked the press mercilessly throughout the last 15 months and whose administration has clamped down on press access, has threatened news organizations, and Trump personally has sued news organizations. So you're gonna have the guest of honor, a guy giving a speech, sitting up on this platform, who has undermined the press, you know, throughout his second term. That's why it's not normal.”
Virginia's redistricting is a significant win for Democrats
“Republicans have been gerrymandering these maps. They've been trying to have mid-cycle redraws of maps for a very, very long time. One of the things that they banked on was that Democrats were going to be so committed to the rules and democracy and looking like they were above it, that they would continue to take state houses across the country, that they would continue to redraw house maps to shape the power in the United States Congress. And what you're seeing, I think, in Virginia, is a recognition from the electorate that that no longer serves us.”
Trump uses tax dollars for corporate airline bailouts
“Is the Spirit CEO making a donation to... If we look at Trump World and we look at MAGA, we know that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. So what is it? Is it that the Trump administration has some kind of relationship with Spirit? Why is Donald Trump using our tax dollars to bail out Spirit Airlines? Earlier in this season of Donald Trump Destroys America, we saw him use some of that money to bail out Latin American countries. We've seen him use our tax dollars for any number of sordid things.”
“We saw Paramount negotiate this multi-million dollar settlement with Donald Trump over his lawsuit in minutes. We've seen this before. Disney also settled with Donald Trump just as he won the presidency over him suing because of something George Stephanopoulos said. Donald Trump has sued a lot of news organizations, and usually these news organizations fight back. The Wall Street Journal has, the New York Times is, the BBC is. But we saw Paramount settle as they were trying to complete this merger.”
“He's always lived that way. That's why when the Iran War starts, most of what we've heard from Donald Trump especially early on and even throughout the past month or so, is little bits of pieces that he tells reporters on the phone. There was a period where he must have called a dozen or two dozen reporters over a week period. Oftentimes, saying things that conflict from one call to the next, but each one is treated as a headline, it's treated as big news.”
