Democratic Leaders Destroy Trump in Red Districts

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Speaker 4 Democratic leaders are finally pushing back aggressively.

Speaker 6 They seem to be getting their footing now.

Speaker 7 We're seeing Democrats also go into areas that are like plus five or plus 10 Republican districts that have voted for Trump before.

Speaker 12 And they're speaking to people who are pissed off because their Medicaids are being taken away.

Speaker 13 They're seeing veterans get fired and having their services taken away.

Speaker 4 They're seeing the cruelty with which Elon Musk and Trump and Doge are gutting the federal government, are propping up the billionaire oligarchs.

Speaker 11 Let me show you some Democrat leaders who are standing up and getting standing ovations doing so as well.

Speaker 11 Talk about Democrats going on Fox, Democrats going into Trump districts. Take a look at this.

Speaker 11 Democratic Congressmember Tom Swazi over the weekend got a huge standing ovation in a Trump plus five congressional district at Hofstra Hofstra University in Hempstead, when he was talking about Trump's despicable behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky.

Speaker 6 Let's play this clip.

Speaker 15 Listen, everybody's freaking out. Everybody's like, you know, I'm Mr.
Lake, let's work together.

Speaker 2 Let's try and find common ground.

Speaker 15 And what happened in the White House yesterday, I was so pissed off.

Speaker 16 I wanted you to get that out of your system.

Speaker 11 Next, I want to show you Democratic Congressmember Garcia, who goes on Fox, calls out Trump on Fox in enemy territory.

Speaker 4 Here, watch this.

Speaker 18 Very shameful display for all that to happen in the Oval Office in in front of the world and all of our allies who we need to stop Russia.

Speaker 18 And I think what honestly is most disgraceful is that throughout that conversation, the president could not be clear that Putin is a danger to Europe, to Ukraine, and to the United States.

Speaker 18 Putin is an authoritarian dictator, and we need to call it like it is and to embarrass Zelensky, who is taking Putin on right now, to belittle him, an ally and our couch.

Speaker 18 let me just for this day.

Speaker 5 Now take a look at the interview I did with Senator Schiff.

Speaker 20 This was a powerful moment.

Speaker 21 Let's play it.

Speaker 2 Well, to the people of America, I want to just say this is not who we are.

Speaker 23 This is not who we are. We don't bully an ally.
We don't take the side of a dictator.

Speaker 23 We don't ignore the long and important role that we have played in defending democracy. That is not who we are.
We're just not what we saw displayed by the President of the United States today.

Speaker 23 And I think we all have a role to play right now in the defense, not just of Ukraine, but of what the country stands for, of our values.

Speaker 23 I would say to our allies around the world, what they witness to might be Donald Trump, but it is not America. And we'll have to get through this period.
We'll have to struggle through this period.

Speaker 23 We'll have to be more reliant. When I say we, the freedom-loving people of the world, are going to have to be more reliant on other leaders in the world because we cannot rely on this president.

Speaker 23 And it's a terrible way to feel about a president of the United States, but the

Speaker 23 shameful display we had today.

Speaker 23 is so antithetical to everything that our country has stood for, and I hope it is never repeated.

Speaker 4 Here's Governor Josh Shapiro.

Speaker 6 Let's play this clip.

Speaker 25 When Donald Trump took the oath of office, he took the oath of office to be president of the United States and be the leader of the free world, as presidents have been for many generations, stretching back even before Ronald Reagan and the changes that came there.

Speaker 25 He went from being the leader of the free world to now in just one month wanting to be a leader of a single hemisphere and leaving China and Russia in charge of the other hemispheres.

Speaker 25 That is deeply, deeply dangerous for America's national security interests. It is deeply troubling to see a president retreat in the face of Vladimir Putin and President Xi.

Speaker 25 We need a president who's going to stand up for America's interests, who wants to be the leader of the free world.

Speaker 25 He has demonstrated nothing but weakness when it comes to national security over the course of his his first month in office. Ben, we need to talk about this more.

Speaker 25 America's national security is at risk as a result of these decisions the president has made.

Speaker 4 Next up, you have Senator Chris Murphy, who's been doing, I think, a good job pushing back against the Trump regime.

Speaker 21 Let's play it.

Speaker 28 What's your reaction to what you just heard from the president's national security advisor? Do you think there's hope of salvaging this relationship with Ukraine?

Speaker 29 So it is absolutely shameful what is happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin.

Speaker 29 Every single day, you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.

Speaker 29 For the last week, the White House has been pretending as if Ukraine started this war. That's essentially saying that Poland invaded Germany at the beginning of World War II.

Speaker 29 There are still facts in this world. And the fact is this, Vladimir Putin is a brutal dictator.
Russia started this war.

Speaker 29 And the entire pretext for that meeting yesterday was an attempt to rewrite history in order to sign a deal with Putin that hands Putin Ukraine. That is disastrous for U.S.
national security.

Speaker 29 That means that China will be on the march. Putin may not stop.
America may be at war with a nuclear power. And for what?

Speaker 29 For what?

Speaker 29 It appears as if America is trying to align itself with dictators, that Donald Trump wants us us to have our closest relationships with despots all around the world, because that makes it easier for him to transition America into a kleptocratic oligarchy where Elon Musk and Donald Trump rule and steal from the American people.

Speaker 29 If we were allied with democracies, that would be harder.

Speaker 29 But if the United States' closest partner is Russia, then it makes it a lot easier for Donald Trump, Elon, and their billionaire pals to steal from the American people, to steal our data, to steal our Medicare, to steal our Medicaid in order to enrich themselves.

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Speaker 17 There's Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

Speaker 21 Let's play it.

Speaker 34 And unfortunately, he decided that he wanted to talk about his clothes. Now, maybe this is because Trump never wanted to go serve his country.

Speaker 34 And right now, the only service that he's giving to us is driving our country apart. But I'm sorry, when you're at war, you're not worried about your outfit.

Speaker 34 That is what we call a privilege, number one. Number two, to say, oh, what can you afford?

Speaker 34 Well, if he was walking around in the fanciest suits, I'm sure that they would accuse him of taking our dollars and spending it on his wardrobe and being more concerned about that.

Speaker 34 Listen, this is a no-win situation when you're walking in with someone who has decided that he is going to align himself with a dictating thug.

Speaker 27 Here's Congresswoman Crockett again.

Speaker 34 And when we decided that we wanted to subpoena him to come in, him being Elon, you know who didn't even want to debate it? The Republicans.

Speaker 34 Not only did they shut it down, but they wouldn't allow us to engage in debate because they really don't have an explanation for why we would have an entire subcommittee that is supposed to sit atop this organization or whatever it is because it's not really an organization.

Speaker 34 And they don't want to bring in the guy that is the face of it.

Speaker 35 Can I ask you, is it also a little bit because they're afraid to go up against Elon Musk and Donald Trump?

Speaker 34 Well, I don't know if they're afraid. I just think they're wusses.

Speaker 34 I mean, you know, I don't really know what it is, but right now, one of the things that the former governor just said, he talked about people basically giving up their rights and giving up their duties.

Speaker 34 I've said that they've castrated their constitutional duties.

Speaker 34 You've got Republicans that will only move, or as we used to say, jump whenever Donald Trump says jump or Elon says jump, and it's usually how high, right? Like that's what they're doing.

Speaker 34 They are not listening to their constituents.

Speaker 33 Now, can we just contrast for a moment what you're seeing there with which MAGA Republican Congress member should we jump?

Speaker 33 Let's do a clip of Ronnie Jackson, MAGA Republican Congress member from Amarillo, Texas.

Speaker 6 Here's what he has to say about Zelensky.

Speaker 21 Here, let's play it.

Speaker 15 Don't you ever, ever come back to this this country again and disrespect our country, disrespect the Oval Office, and disrespect my president the way you did today.

Speaker 15 After all that we've done for you, your unbelievable sense of entitlement is disgusting to me and it's disgusting to most Americans in this country.

Speaker 15 As far as I'm concerned, you can go home and never come back.

Speaker 17 Now, contrast Ronnie Jackson to Democratic Congressmember Levin.

Speaker 33 Let's play this clip right here from this is Mike Levin from California.

Speaker 21 Let's play it.

Speaker 16 Comparing our alliance with Stalin during World War II to Trump's support for Putin is a really bad take, and here's why. In World War II, we partnered with Stalin out of necessity to defeat Hitler.

Speaker 16 We didn't share values. We didn't admire Stalin.
And when the war ended, we immediately pivoted to containing his authoritarian regime in the Cold War.

Speaker 16 What Trump is doing with Putin isn't about necessity. It's about admiration.
Trump has repeatedly praised Putin's leadership, echoed his propaganda, and undermined our own intelligence and military.

Speaker 16 There's no global emergency forcing Trump to align with Putin. It's a choice, and it's a choice that betrays everything the greatest generation fought for.

Speaker 16 Putin is attacking democracy, and our job, just like in World War II, is to stand up to that, not cheer him on.

Speaker 20 Let me show you one more clip right now of Senator Chris Murphy.

Speaker 21 Powerful moment right here where he said, look, I shouldn't have supported Marco Rubio.

Speaker 20 I thought Rubio would act normal.

Speaker 26 Rubio clearly isn't acting normal.

Speaker 21 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 28 Secretary of State Marco Rubio was there. He didn't participate in the conversation, but he was with the National Security Advisor when they asked Zelensky to leave the White House after that blowup.

Speaker 28 And he has been very supportive of what happened in that meeting. You voted to approve his nomination to be Secretary of State.
You still think you made the right choice?

Speaker 29 Nope, it was a mistake. It was a mistake.

Speaker 29 I think a lot of us thought that Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Donald Trump on an issue like this, that when Donald Trump decided to align America with dictatorships, again, in order to make it easier for him to steal from the American people, to turn America into an illiberal democracy in which, just like Russia, the oligarchs, the economically powerful people in America rule and the rest of us just feed the powerful.

Speaker 29 I thought when Donald Trump decided to do that, when Donald Trump would come to him and say, help me move America closer to Russia and to Russian values, Marco Rubio would stand up to him.

Speaker 29 Marco Rubio has not, and that's been a great disappointment to many of his former colleagues in the Senate.

Speaker 22 You have been. Just so we can see too what Rubio said this weekend, Rubio attacked Zelensky this weekend because he said Zelensky was too busy Ukraine splaining Ukraine to Donald Trump.

Speaker 9 He said, you can't Ukraine splain.

Speaker 20 Trump knows more about Ukraine than Zelensky.

Speaker 21 This is what Marco Rubio, America's Secretary of State, shameful I even have to say that, is saying, play this clip.

Speaker 36 Can we get them to a table to negotiate? That's our goal. Don't do anything to disrupt that.

Speaker 36 And that's what Zelensky did, unfortunately, is he found every opportunity to try to Ukraine Splain on every issue. Then he confronts the vice president.

Speaker 36 When the vice president says the goal here is diplomacy, he immediately jumps in and challenges the vice president. Well, what kind of diplomacy?

Speaker 36 So we all understand, okay, that Putin is not going to be an easy negotiator.

Speaker 14 By the way, while all of that was going on, what was Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump was

Speaker 8 doing some weirdo dance things in Mar-a-Lago as he was

Speaker 21 again destroying people's lives. Play this clip.

Speaker 21 You know, and finally, I want to share this clip with you.

Speaker 32 This is Elon Musk from this weekend. Joe Rogan, I think, is trying to compete with our podcast.

Speaker 26 It's beating Joe Rogan's show right now.

Speaker 32 So, Rogan had Elon on.

Speaker 32 And when Rogan had Elon on, Elon called Social Security a Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 27 And Elon then also posted that we need to get out of NATO.

Speaker 24 So just these are their own words.

Speaker 30 So when people say, oh, you're just just fear-mongering and saying they're going for your Social Security, well, we all agree that Elon is running the government right now.

Speaker 21 I mean, Trump email, you know, Trump puts emails, Elon this, Elon that.

Speaker 32 I'm telling Elon.

Speaker 9 And Elon's saying Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 21 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 38 Well, I mean, the government's one big permit scheme, if you ask me. Yeah, well, you could tell me.

Speaker 38 Social Security is

Speaker 38 the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.

Speaker 1 Right, explain that.

Speaker 38 Oh, so

Speaker 38 well, people pay into Social Security

Speaker 38 and the money goes out of Social Security immediately, but the obligation for Social Security is your entire retirement career. So you're paying

Speaker 38 what you're the kind of people

Speaker 38 you're paying

Speaker 38 like if you look at the future obligations of Social Security, it far exceeds the tax revenue.

Speaker 2 Far.

Speaker 38 Have you ever looked at

Speaker 38 the debt clock?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 38 Okay.

Speaker 38 There's our present-day debt, but then there's our future obligations. So when you look at the future obligations of Social Security,

Speaker 38 the actual national debt is like double what people think it is because of the future obligations.

Speaker 38 So

Speaker 38 basically people are living way longer than expected.

Speaker 38 and

Speaker 38 there are fewer babies being born. So you have more people who are retired and get that live for a long time and get re retirement payments.
So the future obligation. So

Speaker 38 however bad the financial situation is right now for the federal government, it will be much worse in the future.

Speaker 6 And then let me just reinforce what Elon said there with

Speaker 8 I'll show you Mike Johnson's interview from this weekend, where Mike Johnson says that there's all this fraud and social security, which, by the way,

Speaker 26 there isn't really all this fraud.

Speaker 21 I mean, I think it's less than 1%,

Speaker 26 which needs to be addressed, but you don't address it by getting rid of your FBI agents and your Department of Justice and replacing your FBI with UFC fighters, which is what the plan is from Cash Patel and Dan Vagino, whatever the guy's name is.

Speaker 8 But here's Megan Mike Johnson saying it.

Speaker 21 Let's play it.

Speaker 39 It's worth noting the Social Security Administration's internal watchdog found that less than 1% of benefit payments were improper.

Speaker 39 I do want to get to my final question, though, which is about the shutdown. Don't believe it, hey.

Speaker 2 Don't believe it. All right.
Okay. Well,

Speaker 26 so there, there you have it.

Speaker 31 I mean, it's, it's pretty clear what their agenda is, is it not?

Speaker 30 That's why people are pissed.

Speaker 9 Democrats need to keep speaking loudly about what's going on.

Speaker 26 Americans want fighters right now.

Speaker 30 Americans want people who are fearless right now.

Speaker 26 So be fearless. Be a fighter.

Speaker 4 Don't hold back.

Speaker 9 Go into red districts.

Speaker 24 Go into purple districts.

Speaker 30 Speak to the American people.

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