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and thank you all for joining us. we have a lot to get to in the next hour of the reidout, including chairwoman marjorie taylor greene. let that sink in, leading the first hearing of the doge subcommittee, the only doge thing that actually exists in real life, but which will certainly not delve into elon musk's glaring conflicts of interest and potential self enrichment. and remember the toilet paper crisis of 2020, the last time trump was president, when you couldn't beg, borrow or steal a roll. now, under trump the sequel, we have. the egg crisis of 2025 with soaring prices and lines like this one outside of egg farms. and trump is doing nothing about it. after promising to bring grocery prices down starting on day one. but we begin tonight with more and more signs of the sheer open gangsterism of the current iteration of the us government. we have donald trump's department of justice ordering the corruption case against new york city mayor eric adams to be dismissed, but in a way that keeps him on the hook for future

prosecution. if he doesn't play ball and he isn't the only trump ally breathing a sigh of relief, at least for now, federal prosecutors in manhattan have dropped a criminal probe that focused on whether former world wrestling entertainment boss vince mcmahon tried to cover up multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. those charges sound so familiar, don't they? i'm going to i'm going to noodle on it to see if i can recall what they're similar to. and it must be totally coincidental that mcmahon's wife, linda, is trump's choice for education secretary and will likely breeze through her confirmation hearings starting tomorrow. since every senate republican has been brought to heel like good doggies for fear of trump and his boss, elon's wrath. meanwhile, trump, musk inc. are still mowing down federal departments. we're hearing reports from states of money not arriving when it should, and we've now seen the first death attributed to the mauling of u.s. aid in the nation of myanmar. a 71 year old refugee

who was residing in a thai displacement camp has reportedly died after her oxygen supply was cut off after the usaid hospital, where she received her oxygen treatments closed due to the withdrawal of u.s. foreign aid. this whole christian nation thing is working out just great. the upheaval is unfolding here at home, too, but not without signs of resistance. check out this sign unfurled by an artist in dc. ellen is stealing your data. the message is getting across. shares of tesla have had a tough run since trump's inauguration, with the stock falling 13% since late january, according to barron's, as customers look elsewhere for their electric vehicles. not that elon is hurting, actually. far from it. the lever is reporting that he just nabbed a lucrative new spacex contract as musk's doge. or as rachel maddow likes to say, doggy is reportedly canceling federal education contracts in the name of frugality. his rocket company, spacex, this week

cemented an updated nasa contract, adding millions of dollars to its already massive deal with the space agency. and late today, news broke that tesla is forecast to win the largest state department contract of 2025 $400 million for armored teslas, according to procurement documents reviewed by drop site news. it's a periodic reminder that musk became the world's richest man, primarily through u.s. government contracts, which he now essentially has the power to award to himself, while also having the access to potentially put his competitors on the do not pay list. like i said, gangster government. and while all that is going on, the man ostensibly elected president, the guy forced to sit through elon, overtaking him in the oval while holding his toddler. you know, donald trump. remember him? he's been amusing himself, putting his big preschool sized magic marker signature on more and more executive orders, many

of them seemingly little more than passion projects of his that do nothing to bring down grocery prices or help everyday americans like, you know, establishing a task force to eradicate nonexistent anti-christian bias in a country where the supreme court keeps ruling that christians have the right to, you know, pray on the public school football field or refuse to bake cookies for or in cakes for gay couples, or cover birth control at their businesses. he's also ending the use of paper straws. yes, i promise that is a real executive order and renaming the gulf of mexico the gulf of america, which literally no one asked for and no other country has to go along with. despite apple and google groveling, taking the knee and updating their apps accordingly like this is the soviet union taking that last one very seriously to the point of his reality show administration retaliating against the associated press. barring its reporters from yesterday's oval office executive order signing, because the ap has not pulled a google maps and capitulated to his

demands, the ap continues to refer to the gulf of mexico as the gulf of mexico, because that is what it is called everywhere in the world except in america. and on top of all of that, trump continues to push his delusional idea that he will seize control of greenland, canada, and the panama canal and, quote, take gaza and turn it into a real estate development and be welcomed with open arms by the nearly 2 million palestinians that he says he will somehow displace. i'm joined now by mehdi hassan, editor in chief of and ceo and ceo of. i don't have a lot of ceos sitting in this chair, so thank you for being here and gracing me with. >> i'm a pretend. >> ceo. >> although i feel. >> seen by your monologue. >> i have. >> a. >> preschool sized. >> magic marker. >> signature too, sadly. >> maybe it's. >> the one. >> thing i have. >> in common with trump. >> it is. it is odd. i mean, he really needs a big marker to make him feel special, but i want i want to talk about the fact that a lot of the stuff that's happening right now, it

isn't going over very well. yeah. there's a there's a poll that shows that the whole idea of seizing gaza and seizing greenland, etc, not popular. >> so yeah. >> we ran this data for. >> progress poll today. >> which shows. >> seizing greenland. >> majority of americans. surprisingly against seizing canada. majority of. >> americans surprisingly against. >> taking gaza, annexing it, owning it, whatever. he said, i will own it. >> he. >> told fox. 64% of americans are opposed amongst. >> republicans. >> pretty split 4643. and when. >> you ask. >> them, do you want to send american troops. >> to secure. >> gaza. >> 69% of americans opposed, including a majority of republicans. no one wants this. and by the way, have you noticed a lot of republicans are running this very kind of trump is the state you can't question. >> him line, which. >> is he won the election. >> this is what people voted for. >> i keep hearing this line. this is what people voted for. no they didn't. i don't remember him on the campaign trail saying, i'm going to take over gaza. he didn't promise it. and by the way, the american public don't want it. so this is a lot of bs that's being pushed that they are somehow popular. they have a mandate. they won by 1.5% in the popular vote. he didn't win a majority of the popular

vote. yeah. and yeah, he didn't say he was going to do half the stuff he's doing. i don't remember war with denmark being on the ballot paper last year. >> i don't and i also don't remember, even though he was on the campaign trail with donald trump and offering $1 million, sort of, you know, some sort of weird lottery in pennsylvania. i don't recall donald trump saying, by the way, when i'm president, i'm going to use my magic marker to sign executive orders about gulf of america while that guy is going to award himself contracts, $400 million he's about to get from the state department, a new spacex contract. he himself has not lost a dime in this money saving reorganization that they're doing in these. he's, in fact, making money. >> well. >> his personal wealth has. >> rocketed upwards since the election. >> he did for that. >> he did very well out of the election. i mean, this is a guy who i think you and i both mocked him. many people mocked him for buying twitter for, what was it, 40 billion or overpriced twitter. he bought twitter for 40 billion. he bought the united states government for 200 million. right. that is. >> a good. >> deal for elon musk. and he didn't just buy the government. you know, miriam adelson gave $100 million, his right wing

pro-israel donor. she's getting, you know, middle east policy out of it. or other people donate and get x or y policy. he got the whole thing. >> yeah. >> he got the government and he got. >> to. >> run it. i can't think of a time in modern american history where we've had donors before. we've had a gilded age before. we've had a lot of we've never had a guy who gives the money and then goes, no, you're not just going to get the policies you want. you run the thing while i play golf and use my magic marker, and he is running the thing. he's going around. and as you said, you reported a death in thailand. usaid absolutely destroyed. no one voted for that. i don't remember that being mentioned. i watched a lot of trump rallies on the campaign trail. i don't remember him saying, i'm going to shut down usaid with any without any congressional approval, cut off aid to children who need it. this guy has made, i think spacex has made $22 billion over the last couple of decades in government contracts, 15 billion from nasa and doge is now arriving at nasa. and they're offering the same thing, you know, buyouts. do you want to quit? are they going to look at the nasa contracts to spacex? is elon musk going to adjudicate? is he going to sit on both sides

of the table and represent nasa and spacex doge slash nasa? it's insane. if i if i pitched this as a movie storyline, you would say that's just unrealistic for the body to have that much power in this movie. >> yeah. i mean, the idea of j.d. rockefeller, for instance, being in the oval office, standing there while the actual president of the united states is giving a press conference would be absurd in that era. >> because elon's the actual president of the united states. >> he clearly is. he's standing over trump. it is the weakest donald trump has ever looked, as he couldn't even really stop the child from talking. right. the child had more power in that room than he did. >> you see the photo doing the rounds with the little kid saying, why are you sitting in my dad's chair for trump? i mean, that iconic image and meme, because it does speak to the moment we're in. this is a government. even without musk. you had trump and his billionaire friends. his first cabinet in his first term was the richest cabinet ever. his second cabinet is the richest cabinet ever. it is a government of billionaires by billionaires for billionaires. but in this way, i can't think of a i can't think of a parallel in a foreign country. i can't think of a parallel in modern american history where, again, the

billionaires aren't just running a department or getting favors or getting policies that they want, or even like a dropped sec investigation. no, no, he's running the whole thing. he's running the whole. and by the way, that is at the core of this, doj has been investigating his company's sec, multiple u.s. government agencies were investigating musk companies. that all goes away now. and he makes money at the same time he's canceling 900. was it 900 billion of 900 million of education, department of education money, all sorts of cuts. and yet, as you mentioned, a $38 million contract on monday. yeah. again, if i was in the writer's room in hollywood writing the trump second term, you would say that's unrealistic. we can't have that storyline where he gets 38 million. no, they're doing it. >> and the question is when will somebody call for an audit of what they're doing? because they're saying, well, we're being transparent because we're putting this online, but they've reduced donald trump in this gangster movie to fredo corleone, right? he's the fredo in this. he's not in charge. but there's also a sort of core of gangsterism that feeds into what trump loves to do bullying fbi agents. yes. terrifying them. right. making eric adams essentially a puppet in the

state. hostage. he's a hostage at this point and doing the same across the board. how is this being looked at around the country? because he is acting more like vladimir putin, sounding like vladimir putin cutting weird deals, you know, to essentially say, hey, ukraine, you're going to have to give up, you know, your country in the war. there's a gangsterism to it as well. >> look, great minds think alike. i've been saying all week, and i'm glad you led the show in this way, that this is the mob boss analogy is the best analogy. donald trump, of course, in the 70s and 80s, was allegedly tied to lots of mob bosses during his real estate empire building in new york and beyond. and, you know, he had lawyers who worked with mob bosses, etc. he does like that approach. you know, you, you know, you intimate what needs to be done. you nudge it away. you don't put stuff on paper. you get stuff done through threats, bullying or just flattery. right? you saw that with the king of jordan, right? and people understand how to operate around the mob boss. and globally, i think, look, this is a real problem for the united states of america. whatever he gets done in the short term, he's had these kind of short term wins that he's going on

about long term, medium term. it's a disaster for american alliances. the european union knows that america is not there for the eu, whether it's rallying with putin or anything else. the canadians now know they're booing a woman in a wheelchair singing the national anthem. that's how much canada has turned on the united states. if i'm china, i'm loving this right, because all these alliances are falling apart. every time he goes after another country in south america or africa. if i'm the chinese, i'm calling them up to say, do you really trust the americans? and it's not just about trump, right? remember, our system has this. we've now had, what, three changes of government in three different elections? unprecedented. you can't even rely on america's word because whatever happens, he can tear up whatever biden did before him and vice versa. so it is a real problem. you've got the danes panicking about greenland, the eu military chief, the military chief of the european union said. should we put eu troops in greenland for america, not because they're worried about china, russia, for the united states? i never thought that would happen in my lifetime. an astonishing statement. >> i mean, you recently interviewed the foreign minister of south africa. i mean, we in the continent, people that i talked to, i have relatives there that are there partly laughing at the united states,

and they're partly horrified at what we've become because they've said, you've become what you always characterized us as, that you essentially now have a mobutu style government, not a government. anyone would want to do business with a government that isn't esteemed anymore. that is seen as sort of a joke. i mean, we're sending the tv weekend host from fox over as our defense secretary, and we're, you know, having our transportation run by the guy from the real world, boston. the world can see this. yeah. it's visible. >> and as you mentioned, you've got linda mcmahon from wwe about to be education secretary. >> well, trump is sort of entertaining himself with the cabinet. he's like, i just want to be entertained by the people i love. >> this is what america voted for, not cheaper eggs. they voted for entertaining cabinet of billionaires. it's a real problem. and i think i think it's going to really, really hurt the us in the medium to long run, if not the short run. we are three weeks in. god help us. it feels like three. >> years, three years. >> but but let's just let's just put this in perspective. i'm not one of these people who thinks this guy is impregnable, inevitable, infallible. we've

seen this show before. we saw the first trump show. yes, he's in a much stronger position than he was in the first time. he controls more of government. he's got higher ratings in the polls, remarkably. keeps me up at night. but it all, you know, the only way for him is down. we know that. and if this is where we are, the chaos of three weeks in. yeah. let's talk again in three months. let's talk again in three years. if we survive that long. i do think the chaos with these these people are incompetent. this is this is a kakistocracy government by the worst people, and that is who he's putting into it. look at tulsi gabbard confirmed today with the only republican vote against her, mitch mcconnell. >> who, by the way, gets absolutely no kudos for this. he built this mess by letting donald trump get away with it. donald trump. >> is president today because of mitch mcconnell and merrick garland. >> indeed, mehdi hassan, it's always fun. thank you very much. and coming up, the clown show at the doge subcommittee hearing, a committee for an agency that doesn't actually exist, run by none other than marjorie taylor greene. we will take it. we will talk to a democrat who's on that talk to a democrat who's on that committee next. tap into etsy for home and style staples

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is indian-american, and their children, therefore are also indian-american. and yet jd was demanding that marko elez, a 25 year old elon musk staffer with dog e, be rehired to continue to continue rifling through americans personal data after he resigned because the wall street journal posted an article revealing the racist comments attributed to a since deleted social media account that's linked to him. the journal uncovered archived posts that included gems like just for the record, i was racist before it was cool and you could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. vance declared his support for liz via twitter, but only after replying to musk, who was also calling for his reinstatement. vance tweeted i obviously disagreed with some of his posts, but i don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life. referring to the staffer who has high level access to american social media social security numbers. as a kid, congressman ro khanna, who is also of indian

descent, replied to vance's post asking the vice president if he plans to ask les to at least apologize for the racist posts. vance, still apparently in podcast troll mode despite his newly elevated station, responded for the sake of both our kids grow up racist trolls on the internet while offensive, don't threaten my kids. you know what does a culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes, apparently. now also referring to the 25 year old with access to america's $6 trillion payment system as a racist troll. comforting. earlier today, one of trump's other favorite internet trolls, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, held her first house doggie doge committee, whatever we're calling it these days, where she tried to pretend that musk and his junior programmers haven't been given unlimited, unregulated and unconstitutional power to pilfer taxpayer dollars and rummage through your personal data. >> this will not be a subcommittee dedicated to making government efficient for everyday people. it's about

helping elon musk and donald trump be as efficient as possible in robbing our government. >> i'm trying. >> to figure out exactly what it is that the republicans believe. >> our job. >> is, because right. >> now, they have. >> relinquished their. >> constitutional duties. >> over to. >> an unelected bureaucrat. joining me now is congressman ro khanna of california. he's a member of the house oversight committee who did try to subpoena, which did try to subpoena elon musk last week. i have to start with this this exchange. and we did want you to just respond to it because there is something, frankly, emasculating about another man defending your own wife and children more than you do. and jd vance, you know, sort of committed that kind of emasculating act by being more vigorous in defending marco vélez than he was about defending vance. i found it weird. i just want to know what you thought of it. >> well, i. >> thought his. >> outburst was so undignified.

all i said is this 25. year old. who has. >> said to normalize. >> indian hate. imagine if he had said normalize white hate. what jd vance reaction would have been? but he says normalize indian hate. he says repeal. >> the. >> civil rights act. meaning that people who are going to a restaurant now, the restaurant can have black people and indian people sit separately from white people. and all i said is ask him to retract that and apologize before rehiring him, and he would not commit to that. in fact, this person apparently has been rehired. no public retraction. no acknowledgment of wrong. and yet they are basically. >> firing anyone. >> who utters the words die. >> it's hypocrisy. >> and he was saying these things specifically about silicon valley. you represent silicon valley. there is a tendency, the peter thiel's the sacks, mr. sacks, all south africans. i will note white south africans who seem to have really put their foot down, that

they really don't like the idea of diversity and inclusion, and it really it angers them. i mean, elon musk has made that statement before. what they so that seems to be something that they're willing to allow in our government. right. but my question is, okay, you all don't care if somebody isn't diverse. do you care if they're self-dealing? elon musk, a silicon valley person, he had contracts currently with 12 agencies for roughly $15 billion. that's in funding in the last decade. he has new contracts, apparently with nasa for spacex. he just may have gotten a $400 million contract with the department of state. while he's gutting those departments for everyone else and for the poor, cutting aid to poor people. who's auditing this? >> well, that's. >> why we wanted him to come before the oversight committee. i mean, he doesn't have to do financial disclosures. i don't understand it. every member of congress has to do financial disclosures. everything in our

assets. any transaction the president does, the vice president does. he doesn't have to do that. he doesn't have to go through the government ethics to recuse himself. >> does does normalize indian hate kid have to does the what big balls his name. do they have to file any disclosure? >> i don't know, i don't think so. >> i mean, you have a full list on the oversight committee of who they are. >> we don't we don't. we need to know who they are. how are they being paid? i mean, what budget authorized their payment? how who what where did they get this access to sensitive information from the treasury department while they were federal employees or before they were federal employees? because it's illegal. if they weren't made federal employees, those are. >> and you all don't know that. and you're on the oversight committee. >> we're on the oversight committee because they have not given us any of this information. look, musk, also look at where he started. if he really cared about the deficit, if you really cared about the $36 trillion of deficit, would you start your cuts with the agency? that's 0.1% of the federal budget. >> usa aid. >> yeah. or would you look at the pentagon, which is 56%, or

would you look at medicare advantage fraud? or would you look at the pharmaceutical companies that are ripping off medicare? and president biden had the guts after many, many years to actually go after them and negotiate. this is a farce. it's a cultural issue. it's a cultural war that they're they're waging, going after programs that are helping africans who are dying of malaria, dying of aids, which george w bush had the moral conscience to help. that's what they're going after. >> let me ask you this, because we know that there is fraud and abuse. we know that rick scott, the current senior senator from florida, his former company, and he claimed to know nothing about it when he was ceo, committed record medicare fraud. i mean, it was the largest medicare and medicaid and tricare fraud in the history of the united states. his company, this is before florida decided to make him governor and then senator. he pretended he didn't know anything. he said he didn't know anything about it. so that happens, right? but that's not what they're they're going after. to your point, the pentagon is definitely bloated.

we all remember the stories growing up about the, you know, the $50 hammers, right. have you seen any evidence that these computer programmers are looking at that kind of stuff? >> no, they haven't started with that. and that's why initially i wrote an op ed at msnbc, senator warren, senator sanders, we said, okay, here are the places to start. start looking. here are the places you can cut. and we're willing to give you an open hearing, because the democrats actually have been the ones railing against this wasteful spending. we're the ones who've been railing against the fraud on medicare advantage, on on medicare, because we're the ones who want medicare for all. and he didn't take us up on that. instead, he hires these folks to stop payments, stop payments for medicaid for a few hours. and then we start hearing about these cuts to programs of helping kids in africa, cuts to cancer funding, research cuts to the department of education that funds schools in working class neighborhoods, by the way, largely in trump districts. >> yeah. let me play for you what what elon musk said in his

press conference that he allowed donald trump to attend in the oval. take a listen. >> we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible. in fact, our actions we post our actions to the doge handle on x. and to the doge website. so all of our actions are maximally transparent. >> if you have. >> received billions. >> of dollars. >> in contracts from the pentagon, and the president is directing you to. >> look. >> into the department of defense, is that we definitely need to do. >> are going to do at the president's. >> request. >> does that. >> present a. >> conflict of. >> interest for you? >> no, because you'd have to look at the individual contract and say, first of all, i'm not the one, you know, filing the contract. it's people at spacex. >> oh, right. it's not him. it's his company. is the occam's razor here. answer that. elon musk and donald trump and friends are gutting all of these social services and money for poor people and people in other countries, because in the end, what they really want to do is pass a big tax cut. so on top of those contracts, spacex and tesla and elon musk don't have

to pay taxes. >> i think it's two things. i think they want the tax breaks for their very, very wealthy folks, and they're fine cutting benefits for the working class and middle class americans, many of whom who voted for trump. it's a total betrayal, but i think it's something deeper. they also want to kneecap the administrative state. they don't want regulation. they don't want civil servants. they want basically a free market that is left alone. they view the government as oppressive as an obstacle. this is the techno libertarianism. and people really need to take that ideology seriously. some of these folks think they're better than us, that they should be making. >> the rules, they think they're genetically superior, and that they should just be able to do whatever they want. >> it's a threat to democracy, the very core of democracy. it's like, do we want a government where everyone is participating? one thing where elon admits, right, he misspoke. oh, it wasn't the gaza it was. >> supposed to gaza. >> this is why we have a congress. so other people get to ask you questions. >> and we and you and that, and you're in congress because you

work for the american people. elon musk just works for himself, works for himself and his own enrichment. congressman rokana, thank you. thank you for having me. thank you very much. and coming up, and thank you for defending us. somebody ought to. coming up. inflation is rising. and the trump administration is now making the excuse that get this president can't actually control the price of eggs. wait. hold on. somebody tell joe biden because that's not what they've been saying for the last several years. we'll dive into that. and trump's policies may make things even worse for the economy. you think next. >> came. >> and doug. you'll be back. >> emus can't help people customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. you're just a. >> flightless bird. >> no. >> he's. >> a. >> dreamer, frank. >> and doug.

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>> eggs. >> and now. they're $110. >> back in. >> the good. >> old days. >> like a year. >> ago, there were. >> 17 to. >> $24. >> a. >> case a year ago. wonder who was president then? well, surprise, surprise, it turns out the only person that could bankrupt a casino where the house always wins might not be the best person to head our economy. and it's not just eggs or other groceries. it's the economy as a whole. with the labor department reporting that consumer prices rose 3% in january, a consumer survey conducted by michigan university found that expectations for inflation is also rising, and consumer confidence fell to its lowest point in over a year. all this winning comes following white house press secretary caroline leavitt telling reporters last week that donald trump doesn't have a timeline for alleviating the nation's high cost of living, leaving trump to play the blame game today, calling it biden's inflation in spite of the fact that joe biden is literally home in delaware not being president and his own campaign promise to

fix it all on day one. he also separately criticized the federal reserve for not cutting interest rates, which i'm sure they'd be happy to do if trump could just produce a stronger economy. joining me now is michael steele, former rnc chair and co-host of the weekend on msnbc. now look, michael. michael. >> no, no. >> no, michael, look, from my time working in campaign world and also from, you know, reporting on you, you know, i covered you when i was at thegrio very extensively. and your campaign, you're very successful midterm in 2010. one of the things i learned is that narrative matters and simple narrative matters. simplified price of eggs being real, high things being real expensive. very hard to message against that, right? >> very hard. and it's even harder because donald trump is the one who set the narrative. that's how we got there. remember, he was the one telling us how bad egg prices were at.

>> you. >> know, $5 a dozen now at the giant across in our neighborhood. >> come on. >> ten bucks. >> sir. okay, it's ten bucks. and i love a morning egg, but i'm like, you know what? let me go ahead and have me some spinach and some toast. >> i swear. >> i swear. >> i just take a little milk and put a little yellow in the middle of it and pretend look. >> but no, my vegan friend, she's like, look, this is your chance to go vegan. and i'm like, you know what? it probably is because it's expensive, but. >> this is the important thing. and you. >> set the. >> conversation exactly right. >> i mean. >> all of this. oh, on day one i'm going to do all these things. okay. well, we're in starting week four and the consumer. price index is up. it's expensive. it's more expensive now to engage in and trade and business. oh and then you want tariffs and then you want the feds to lower interest

rates. donald trump you know in this economy if you lower interest rates what that does to inflation right. you you went to wharton didn't you. or was it just the war part of wharton? >> that's not fair. because his father got him into wharton, not because of his grades. so let's just be clear. he was a legacy admission, legacy. the legacy admission is not really usually so smart. let me show you this, because it's not just. >> i was. >> going to say another die student, that's all. >> go ahead. him and jd and look and let's go through just a few of these. walmart a $2 $2.60. what is it, $2 260 count carton purchase up high. sam's club two of the same. you know they're they're just up. i'm just going to show you all those places that are limiting the number of eggs that you can buy because of how expensive it is. and then let's look at all the other things that have gone up. it's not just eggs. fresh fish and seafood are up. bacon and related prices are up. you know that's a problem. meat, poultry

and fish up. cookies up. fresh biscuits, rolls, muffins, ice cream, canned fruits, olives, pickles. relishes. you can go on and on and on. and what the republican response has been, the trump response. this is from the new york times. they argue that mr. trump's tax proposals, such as eliminating taxes on overtime, would curb inflation by giving giving workers more incentives to work longer hours, therefore expanding the labor force. they're like, don't worry, guys, just work more hours. >> they so stupid. >> they are so stupid. really. i mean, look, you've just now forced all the federal workers back to the office this week. so now. so they're back to sitting in traffic. they're back to having to figure out childcare. they're back to doing all these other things that were expenses they didn't have to contend with. they readjusted their economies in a post covid environment in which they didn't have to go to work. so now, you

know, to the office, they still work. and they were much more efficient, by the way. so now donald trump, because there's something about being in the building, i guess wants everybody back at the office. so on top of that, you think they're going to just work longer hours and not get paid the overtime or not get again, this is all very stupid. and i think if we at one level start recognizing that they're throwing everything out there because donald trump wants them to, there is no plan here other than the idea that we're going to downsize government. we're going to cut back on, on on expenses, we're going to enrich elon musk, we're going to enrich other billionaires. and we're not we're not really caring about the fact that, as you reported a moment ago, that someone died because the oxygen that they needed to survive, that was brought to them by

usaid was cut off. and so when more and more of those stories start becoming the daily beat, the daily drum beat for this administration on top of what he's done, just the idea of what he wants to do is having an impact on the economy. when they start actually doing it, things are going to get ugly real fast. now, having said that, joy, democrats have got to have a narrative to set the right tone and to move the country in a different direction, because right now that hasn't happened. that hasn't happened yet. >> and saying, you know, we're going to look for bipartisan solutions where we can. that ain't it. that ain't hitting on nothing like my bestie's grandma used to say, that ain't hitting on nothing. y'all got to come up with something better than that. let me come up with let me help him out. let's modify michael steele's brilliant drill, baby drill eggs. baby eggs. >> eggs. eggs. eggs. >> eggs. >> eggs. >> michael steele, my friend. i'll see you at giant. thank you very much. >> coming up.

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state of new york, as well as governor kathy hochul and the state's attorney general, letitia james, for allegedly failing to enforce federal immigration law and warning other states that if they don't comply, quote, you're next. bondi was also asked about another new york official not mentioned as part of that lawsuit. new york city mayor eric adams. >> i was. >> curious to see what things have been like out of new york city and denver officials. >> yeah. >> well, we're. >> hoping that in new york. >> mayor adams. >> is going. >> to cooperate. >> with us, with the. >> sanctuary cities and the illegal aliens. >> this comes just days after the doj ordered prosecutors to drop the bribery and corruption charges against mayor adams, claiming that the charges were hindering his ability to carry out trump's draconian immigration agenda. yesterday, adams delivered remarks thanking the justice department for its honesty, saying, now we can put this cruel episode behind us and focus entirely on the future of our city. but even if those charges get dropped, which they

haven't been yet, adams is still facing a tough reelection campaign as he's up against dwindling poll numbers and several primary challengers. we were hoping to talk to new york city mayoral candidate michael blake, but there are technical issues. so back with me is michael steele. thanks for jumping back in to fill in. i want to talk about this because pam bondi, in her confirmation hearings, claimed that there will be no retribution coming out of the justice department. no enemies list, nothing like that. but now suddenly she's going after letitia james, who just happens to have won a very big civil case against donald trump such that he owes $500 million to the to the state of new york. your thoughts? >> well, you know, when they open their mouth, they're lying. >> so that's that's. >> everything coming out of this administration. pam bondi included. you cannot trust this justice department to bring justice. that's the only justice they're looking for is for donald trump. and so mayor adams bought into that. he bent the knee down at mar-a-lago. now

he's got a clean deck. he still has to account to new york voters. that's going to be his his little, you know, problem. now there's some conversations, conversations reporting that he may decide to run as a republican because, damn it, the most important thing i can ever do in my life is to hold office, right? i guess he wants it that much. >> yeah. >> but all of this, all of this out of the justice department, we just need to start warming up and stockpiling it because there's more to come. joy, this is all. this is all about retribution. what did donald trump say when he announced his election? >> i, richard retribution. and he really meant i'm my retribution. he's his own retribution. and the thing is, is that yes, it is all about retribution. but for eric adams, he needs to stay in office in order to stay out of prison because these charges were filed. right? they were filed without prejudice, meaning that they could come back. if he doesn't do as he's told, he has to be good doggy and do what he's told and what he what they

want done is for in this biggest city, which is one of the three cities with the most immigrants. and now i'm speaking to you, my brother. as a catholic, there is a principle of loving the immigrant and caring for the immigrant. and new york enshrined that in its sanctuary city law. he has already told his staffers, don't criticize trump, and he's essentially told schools let ice in, even though that violates the sanctuary city laws in the state of new york. essentially isn't eric adams now because he has to behave. going to allow ice to raid schools, hospitals, mosques, churches. >> of course he is. what alternative alternative does he have? because the sword over his head is what donald, what pam bondi and donald trump have put in front of him, which is you be a good boo and we take care of you. you're not. guess what? we feed you back to the justice department. wolves and the state of new york will, you know, the courts that will be allowed to go after you. and so that's his reality. and look, at the end of

the day, the work that has to go on on behalf of human beings who are caught in the crosshairs of our immigration system, cannot be diminished because of the politics or because of a particular policy. at the end of the day, end of the day, all these good little christian boys and girls out here who like to beat their breast about about that aspect of christ teaching, you have to live up to the words. and that's not what we see here. so those institutions, the church, individuals, organizations will continue to look out and care for those folks. the mayor has to deal with the political problem of his own making, and that is he decided not to stand with with the least of these, but to stand with the guy who wants to do the most to those that he can. >> i will note the new york daily news reports that donald trump has revoked $80 million from new york city after a threat to claw back fema money, fema money that they are owed. speaking of money that they're

owed, we didn't get to talk about this in the last segment. i wanted you to end on the idea that it looks like what donald trump and company and his doge doggy, whatever we're calling them, they're looking to gut medicaid. new york gets a lot of medicaid, but red states get much, much more. states like louisiana really probably couldn't make it without federal help. red states get more medicaid. and what do you make of the fact that it looks like they're going to try to gut medicaid to make room for their giant tax cut for the super rich? >> well. >> that look, about a year from now and that squeal you'll be hearing will be from red states, california, new york, maryland, states that have made adjustments and can make adjustments with their budgets. yes, tight. probably painful, but they will figure it out. but states that that actually receive those benefits at a greater volume than new york, for example, they will pay a real price. >> yeah, they're going to pay the price. and that's what they voted for. michael steele, thank you very much. a lot of people

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