Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!

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Speaker 2 As Donald Trump continues to wreck the economy and consumer confidence is almost as bad as it ever was in recent modern history, the University of Michigan survey shows the worst consumer sentiment since 2022.

Speaker 2 Also, the inflation expectations, the worst since 1993. What's Donald Trump talking about? tariffing champagne in response to his tariffs.

Speaker 2 He's saying to all the champagne businesses in the U.S., because there's all those those champagne businesses in the U.S. I'm not sure Donald Trump realizes where champagne is actually made.

Speaker 2 He's going to be the protector of champagne because Europe's put on retaliatory tariffs, because Trump arbitrarily and unilaterally put on tariffs against Europe for stealing aluminum into the rest of the world.

Speaker 2 What else is Donald Trump talking about in addition to champagne? Because his people's 401ks and pensions are being destroyed. Donald Trump's

Speaker 2 top official at the DOJ is Attorney General Pambondi had an important message that she and the Trump administration will be doing everything possible to protect Teslas. Play this clip.

Speaker 7 We have people we're locking up on that. We have someone in jail right now from one of the dealerships.
They threw a Molotov cocktail through a dealership. They're looking at up to 20 years in prison.

Speaker 7 So if you're going to touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out because we're coming after you. And if you're funding this, we're coming after you.

Speaker 7 We're going to find out who you are.

Speaker 8 So

Speaker 2 I mean, these are decisions that they're making to go out and say these things. Let's bring in Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz, Congressmember Moskowitz.
What do you make of just this moment?

Speaker 2 What are you hearing from your constituents right now?

Speaker 5 I'm hearing they're getting everything that they voted for. They specifically voted for this tariff on champagne.
They had enough of big champagne taking advantage of them and are happy finally.

Speaker 5 As my dog is digging in the background,

Speaker 5 his name is Obi. He's a sheep-doodle.
He's wearing a tie. He's ready for Congress.
Obi, you're ruining the podcast here. Sit down.

Speaker 5 Are we done?

Speaker 5 I think we're done.

Speaker 2 He's excited.

Speaker 5 He's excited.

Speaker 5 He got into the champagne, actually. It's what happened.

Speaker 5 No, so here we go, right? Donald Trump. Okay, what is he talking about? Champagne.
It's what people voted for, right? They wanted him to go after big champagne.

Speaker 5 They're tired of being taken advantage of.

Speaker 5 Look, this is, it's total chaos. I mean, it's just chaos.

Speaker 5 You know, everyone's like, oh, what's the Democratic bumper sticker? It should just be chaos. There's no better word to describe than what's happening right now that Trump is doing.

Speaker 5 You know, Trump said in January of 2024 in the lead up to his

Speaker 5 election that it's the Trump stock market. As the market was increasing, he took credit for it.
Well, guess what, buddy? In March of 2025, it's your stock market also. And things are not going well.

Speaker 5 We're down like 4,000 points.

Speaker 5 Can you imagine for a second as we sit here, just take a step back, if the market had gone down 4,000 points in two weeks and Joe Biden was president, I mean, they would be literally trying to impeach him.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 5 What we actually need right now, speaking of Joe Biden for a second, you know, for all the claims about Joe Biden, it would be nice if Trump actually went to the basement.

Speaker 5 Like, if there is a basement, right? If that was true, we need Trump to go there, like take like a week off because it's just, it's too much.

Speaker 5 He, you know, with the tariffs, he's just tariffing everyone, which by the way, don't listen to me. Listen to, you know, Senator Mullen, who says a tariff is a tax.
He was a business owner.

Speaker 5 Tariffs are taxes. You know, and then as far as Pam Bondi is concerned, you know, with don't don't touch a Tesla.
Why? Is the Epstein files in the Tesla?

Speaker 5 I mean, look, we obviously don't want violence.

Speaker 5 You know, we shouldn't be seeing violence. But why? I mean, what's so important about a Tesla is different from another card? Maybe the Epstein files that she can't find are in that Tesla.

Speaker 2 Look, she was the Attorney General of your state.

Speaker 2 And when she was the Attorney General of your state, I mean, I mean,

Speaker 2 let's be real. I mean, those were the relevant years where Epstein

Speaker 2 was also living in your state. And did you see that stunt that they did where I think she gave, and she thought that Donald Trump would be pleased about the stunt that she did.

Speaker 2 And I mean, I'm not sure how Trump wasn't aware of the stunt.

Speaker 2 The whole thing is strange, but they had those MAGA influencers show up to the White House and she gave them all binders that said, this is the Epstein files.

Speaker 5 Everyone got a book report.

Speaker 2 Don't they? They had a book report. It was the phone.
It was his phone list that was released. many years ago, which by the way has Trump's name on it.

Speaker 2 You previously in Congress in the last session actually brought it up and said, look, MAGAs, you know, you want to actually talk about those connections.

Speaker 2 What do you think about the fact, though, that they've made that such a big issue for them? And now they keep uncovering up the Epstein files, and now, like, they're blaming the next person.

Speaker 2 They're never going to turn those over, are they?

Speaker 5 Listen, I don't know. It's unclear,

Speaker 5 but it has become a huge problem for them.

Speaker 5 That became a huge nightmare when people came out with, you know, white binders that, you know, an eight-year-old turns in a book report with, and then they were smiling and dancing with a binder full of victims.

Speaker 5 You know, what wasn't a really good look. And actually, it was a quick moment where the left and the right online came together and said that this is was an outrageous stunt.

Speaker 5 And I think the DOJ has suffered a credibility issue

Speaker 5 as a result of that, no doubt. But listen, let's talk about the things at hand, right? Let's talk about what's going on

Speaker 5 in the world.

Speaker 5 We proposed a ceasefire. Ukraine signed on to a 30-day ceasefire.
That's good, right? That's good. I'm glad we've realized that Ukraine's our ally.
We've unpaused the aid that we were sending them.

Speaker 5 So that's flowing again. We've unpaused the intelligence sharing.
So that's good. We're sharing intelligence again.
So we figured out Ukraine is our ally. Russia won't sign on to the 30-day ceasefire.

Speaker 5 So maybe that should give the Trump administration some pause because Trump says he wants to stop the killings. Well, Ukraine agreed to stop the killings.

Speaker 5 killings Russia's like a little more killing so um you know hopefully they can reorient on that um we're still pressing this Canada is the 51st state nonsense something that's never going to happen um you know but uh but you know that so that we have a tariff war with literally uh our neighbor uh in Canada uh we started talking to Hamas I don't know if you heard about that we talked to Hamas directly that has hasn't happened ever since we deemed them a terrorist organization we did that for a week until we pulled the guy off, the Hamas envoy, because he said Hamas were, you know, they were pretty fine people.

Speaker 5 Can you imagine if someone in the Biden administration said, hey, we've talked to Hamas, pretty fine people, they would have impeached the Secretary of State over that.

Speaker 5 So, what else is going on?

Speaker 2 And by the way, Bustowitz, that barely got a blip in the headline as you're mentioning that right now, that they had someone talk to Hamas,

Speaker 2 talked up like, oh, they're pretty good negotiators. Good negotiations.
Yeah,

Speaker 5 he said they're great people. They're great people.

Speaker 2 They had to pull them off. I mean, but that didn't get enough attention.

Speaker 2 But look, in your state of Florida, there was a lot of tourism from Canada, you know, and that Canada tourism boycott, you know, must be really hurting.

Speaker 2 You're, I've heard personally from a lot of people who have rental properties in Canada, who own it and rent it out to people in Canada, that they just ain't showing up right now.

Speaker 2 I think it's like 40, 50 percent of the

Speaker 2 kind of just tourism, vacation, rental stuff is going. Are you seeing that in Florida? Are you hearing that from constituents?

Speaker 5 Yeah, we're hearing it. I mean, my district has a lot of part-time residents that come in during winter that live in the district, as does South Florida.

Speaker 5 A lot of people from Canada come here during winter.

Speaker 5 And that's a big boom to the economy. The number one industry in Florida is tourism, and that's a big piece of it.
So yeah, they're talking about boycotting the United States.

Speaker 5 And this is exactly what he ran on, of course, right? He gave all these rallies. He spoke about all these things and he said, here are the number one things I'm going to do.

Speaker 5 I'm going to raise egg prices. I'm going to decrease the stock market.
I'm going to increase the cost of goods. I'm going to launch a trade war with Canada.

Speaker 5 I'm going to try to convince the Danish to sell me Greenland. Okay.
You know, we're going to talk to Hamas.

Speaker 5 You know, and listen, a little bit of pain. Everyone's going to have a little bit of pain.
You know, we're going to take jobs away from veterans.

Speaker 5 We're probably going to, you know, cut, you know, Medicaid. I mean, these are obviously the things he said, said from the stage, Ben, did I not hear them correctly?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, what I saw this morning was he posted, our economy will boom

Speaker 2 like never before. I mean, you know, the

Speaker 2 guy, though, moves on so seamlessly, Bernie Madoff, Ponzi scheme style, just to the next one, what they floated that there was going to be.

Speaker 2 If you're making $150,000 or less, you're not going to be taxed. By the way, what happened to no tax on tips, no tax on social security? Not in the bill.
Not in the bill.

Speaker 5 Not in the bill.

Speaker 2 Explain to the people out there, Moskowitz. If they wanted it to be in the bill, it could have been right.
They could have put that in the bill.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they could have put it in the bill. The problem is, is that, you know, their whole thing is about not adding to the debt.
And the bill, as it is, already adds trillions of dollars to the debt.

Speaker 5 Listen to Thomas Massey, who wears a debt clock. So their current bill adds trillions of dollars to the debt, which is what Doge was supposed to get at.

Speaker 5 So that's been a failure as far as getting our debt down. And they talk about, oh, tax on, no tax on tips.
Well, they didn't put it in the bill because they don't have a way to pay for it.

Speaker 5 And then the Treasury Sector comes out and says, anyone making less than $150,000, no taxes. But we're not going to do that until we balance the budget.

Speaker 5 By the way, we haven't balanced the budget since who? Bill Clinton, a Democrat. So, you know, look, the one thing Trump understands is that the media cycle is like this.

Speaker 5 And you can just put stuff out. You can just feed the beast.
People hear it and they forget. They move on.
Okay. There's another something going on, another outrage, another more chaos.

Speaker 5 We turn our attention. Steve Bannon flooded the zone.
And so they're doing that.

Speaker 5 But the one thing that Trump does know, and it is the James Carville, it's the economy stupid, is they can't escape prices that people are paying when they go out and shop, whether that's at the grocery store or anywhere else, retail.

Speaker 5 And they can't escape. what people are seeing in the stock market.
That's not just people who are invested in stocks. That's people's 401ks.
That's people's pensions. It's their nest egg.

Speaker 5 They can't escape that data, no matter how they keep saying it's the golden age. Things are going to boom.
At some point, the American people are going to lose patience with that.

Speaker 5 In fact, if we look at the polling, Trump is already underwater on the economy.

Speaker 2 And he has his commerce secretary, Howard Luttnick, who looks like he was selling sham wows in the 1990s. Here's what he's got to say.
Let's play it.

Speaker 8 We've seen worries about growth.

Speaker 8 I know you said you're not expecting a recession, but investors are on edge over the possibility of a recession this year after the Atlanta Federal Reserve said that it's predicting a 2.4% contraction in the first quarter.

Speaker 8 And of course, President Trump would not

Speaker 8 be contraction. Correct.
Correct. First quarter.

Speaker 4 Okay, right here, right here, right now. Right here, right now.

Speaker 9 That is ridiculous. Okay.

Speaker 2 Right here, right now. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 right here, right now. If you buy three contractions, we'll throw in free shipping.

Speaker 2 Do you know the Sham Wow reference?

Speaker 5 Of course I do. But seriously, Ben, Ben, listen, I'm going to give you a piece of advice.
I've made many mistakes in my past, and sometimes I get ratioed on Twitter when I do that.

Speaker 5 Do not denigrate the Sham Wow community.

Speaker 2 They're very powerful. There you have it, everybody.
Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz, appreciate you. Everybody hit subscribe.
Does your dog always walk around with a tie? Is that just...

Speaker 5 He went and got a bath? He came back with a tie. I thought it was cute.
I mean, look, he's wearing a tie and I'm not.

Speaker 2 It's very cute. Everyone has a ton.

Speaker 5 As you can tell, he thinks I'm doing a great job.

Speaker 2 He thinks you're doing a plus. Hey, Obi.
Obi!

Speaker 5 Nope, nothing.

Speaker 2 Oh, there you go. Five minutes.
Let's get to 5 million. Thanks, Congressman.

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