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detached from reality. and it was full of lies. his presidential address was not presidential. his performance, another reminder that none of this is normal. instead of trying to unify our country, instead of focusing on the issues that matter most to americans, the president glossed over those issues, choosing to focus on trolling democrats and throwing red meat to his base. >> the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country. >> the chair now directs the sergeant at arms to restore order. >> and remove this gentleman from the chamber. >> for. >> his. i imposed an immediate freeze on all federal hiring, a freeze on all new federal regulations, and a freeze on all foreign aid. we have ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies,

and our country will be woke no longer. joe biden especially. let the price of eggs get out of control. i have created the brand new department of government efficiency goes. perhaps you've heard of it. perhaps. the next phase of our plan to deliver the greatest economy in history is for this congress to pass tax cuts for everybody. we need greenland for national security and even international security. the united states has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support ukraine's defense with no security, with no energy. do you want to keep it going for

another five years? yeah, yeah, you would say pocahontas says yes. >> okay. this is very problematic. i just want to know we're going to fact check all those things in just a moment. but when the president said, talked about pocahontas, he was talking about senator warren and the camera panned to her. it was absolutely insane. democrats in the chamber, they protested with signs to call out those falsehoods. many walked out as the address went on, and michigan senator elissa slotkin was tasked with returning america to the real world by giving the democratic response. >> we just went through another fraught election season. americans made it clear that prices are too high, and that the government needs to be more responsive to their needs. america wants change, but there is a responsible way to make change and a reckless way. while we're on the subject of elon musk, is there anyone in america who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20 year olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information, and your bank accounts?

>> joining us now is claire mccaskill, former u.s. senator from missouri, and elise jordan, former aide to the george w bush white house and state department. both are msnbc political analysts who want to go first. >> welcome, welcome very much. well, that was rich. this whole evening was just filled with a lot of stuff. at least. i want to start with you on on an aspect of this, which i thought was how so? how should we put it, rich? it was a rich moment for me when trump talked about an unelected bureaucracy. let's take a quick listen to that, please. >> we have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work. my administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to america again. and any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately. because we are draining the

swamp. it's very simple. and the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over. >> so there were two aspects of that that i thought were rich. one, the bobbleheads behind the president voted for those bureaucrats in that bureaucracy that they're now sitting there watching, be deconstructed with broad smiles on their face. second, the most obvious unelected bureaucrat at the center of all of this is elon musk. and i think for me, at least, as i hope for a lot of americans, they're beginning to see now just how dangerous this proposition could be. what was your take in contextualizing that moment against the backdrop of this evening? >> it is interesting. >> to me how. >> elon musk has done a pretty good job of making donald trump still feel relatively unthreatened. why would you give elon musk a prime seat at your state of the union to highlight

that he has a front and center role as an unelected bureaucrat? yet that's what donald trump did. and all night, that was basically the tone of donald trump saying that he's going to cut your tax, he's going to cut he's going to cut taxes on your wages, that he's going to cut taxes on social security. all these moves that republicans are hoping that he's not going to do. he still is embracing it. he just doesn't get yet that he is in a more politically perilous position when it comes to the economy. then he is portraying and giving out to the world. he's stuck in the culture war, but america wants to know what's happening to the stock market, what's happening with the price of eggs. >> and he's not alone in being in that perilous position. he is taking republicans in congress with him for the ride. there was something about him standing in front of the legislative body and talking very little about legislation, or how they are going to be partners in this agenda. most of this he wants to do by executive fiat.

>> don't you know he's king? >> he doesn't. >> mean them. to heck with that other branch he's got elon. you know, the biggest laugh line was that he was going to balance the budget. that was the biggest laugh line in the whole speech. i mean, i spit my diet coke when he said that if anybody believes this guy is capable of balancing a budget, well, then you need to go live in greenland, which will not be part of the united states. and i got to tell you, the contrast between him and the senator from michigan. i mean, she nailed it. that's a really hard thing to do. and i just want to give her props because she did exactly what needed to be done. she kept it real relatable. she talked about things that people care about. she explained things in a way that made perfect sense. and you know what else she did? she actually did it and was likable. and i got to tell you, talking to senators today, the difference between the democrats

and this speech and any other time i have been around where there's been a george bush giving a state of the union, or whether there was even donald trump in the first term, the level of disgust that people feel about what this man is doing to our democracy is real, palpable. and i get it that everybody's frustrated that there's not some phoenix rising from the ashes, leading us to the promised land. it's going to be hard and messy for a few months, but he's in a horrible position in terms of the economy, and he's in even worse position in terms of getting stuff through congress. >> let's play some of elissa slotkin. i have something to say about the democrats, but i'm gonna hold my powder. let's play. elissa slotkin talking about the prices going up. >> president trump is trying to deliver an unprecedented giveaway to his billionaire friends. he's on the hunt to find trillions of dollars to pass along to the wealthiest in america. and to do that, he's going to make you pay in every

part of your life. grocery and home prices are going up, not down. and he hasn't laid out a credible plan to deal with either of those. >> this is what claire was talking about. it was clear. it was direct. it's like he hasn't laid out a plan for any of that. look, donald trump did talk about grocery prices on the campaign trail. he talked about the eggs going down. he also talked about rounding up undocumented people. he talked about letting rfk do whatever he wants with women, with hhs. he talked about elon musk coming in. he everything he talked about the tariffs. i mean, i don't know. i'm not buying the thing that like, oh, the americans really just want the prices. that's what they all voted for. nobody voted for some of the other stuff. they they didn't think the other stuff was going to be this bad in my estimation. and now the chickens, for lack of a better term, because they're not laying their eggs right now, claire coming home to roost. but i mean, am i right, am i wrong? >> well, i think some of the people who voted for trump were all in on his maga rally

speeches. there was about 15% of the people that voted for him, some of them that don't like him. they actually thought he was going to be better for them in terms of the personal things they were worried about in their lives. they're not trumpers. they're not really. many of them probably voted for joe biden. and what we know is that is the swing vote in this country that actually decides who has power. and he thinks everybody who voted for him loves him. and he is wrong about that, and he is not addressing those people and the reason they voted for him. and you know what? we can snatch them back. we can snatch him back. >> yeah, but. >> the snatch it back, michael, when they holding up bingo or auction signs. >> to say, well thank thank you, symone. >> i just can we talk. >> about the bingo signs were killing me. i don't know who thought up the bingo signs, but they should be fired. >> michael, this is an indictment, in my opinion, on the democratic leadership. i talk to a lot of members during the. they was texting, the staff

were on my phones and they were calling. and i think the best way to describe it is the democratic leadership said they didn't want disruptions and they wanted people to attend and bring a guest. and they wanted, you know, little business as usual. and we're fighting back in other ways. there is a palpable disgust, as claire said, from not just the members, but their constituents. and it's like a pot that someone described it to me, this boiling and it's about to bubble over. if you do not allow the members of spacex to release valve, it's going to bubble over. and this was a the members didn't. the visuals are not taking back the house in 2026. not these visuals. where's the signs? put the signs up folks. >> please erase board the dry erase board with different messages. you don't. >> put the paddles up, y'all. do we have a. do we have something of the paddles? >> but but here's the thing. here's the thing about the moment for me that if for folks, if you really want to understand the difference between republican control and

democratic acquiescence, it's in how two things happened in that chamber and how they were handled. when marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert stood up and showed their behinds on the house floor, right. when they just act a full shouting and talking and being loud and disruptive, what happened? >> they stayed. >> they stayed. democrats didn't threaten them. democrats didn't tell them, sit your behind down and shut up. right. order in the house. well what happened? >> what should happen? democrats. >> but what happened? what happened tonight? >> well what should have happened tonight? >> what should have happened? what happened then is what happened tonight. because the republicans weren't coming to play. they weren't going to give the democrats the quarter. they knew what they were going to do. they knew they were going to try to be disruptive in some form. and their goal was to shut it

down in one of two ways. and both of them worked usa, usa, as if we they own that. you know that moniker and throw them out. >> i guess you. >> mean what should of the democrats done and said. >> throw. >> them out? no, no, i'm talking about tonight. >> my, my. >> what should the democrats have done. tonight instead of. >> what some of us believe they shouldn't have shown up? or if they showed up at a certain point? here's the deal. when, when the congressman was kicked out, half that room should have left with him because that was the point. he was the only one to stand up and say, i'm not going to sit here and let you lie in this chamber. i'm not going to let you get away with this because you're lying right now. and instead of calling the man a lie like they did to barack obama. >> i remember i was there, right? >> and nothing happened. >> and what happened then? >> didn't he get he got a pat on

the wrist after i think. >> what happened tonight. but i also think there is what happens tomorrow. and i think part of democratic democrat strategy is to let the man speak for himself. can we play the sound of trump describing tariffs as just a little disturbance? >> yeah. >> that was crazy. >> tariffs are about making america rich again and making america great again. and it's happening and it will happen rather quickly. there will be a little disturbance. but we're okay with that. it won't be much. no you're not. oh. and look and look where biden took us. very low. the lowest we've ever been. >> a concession in there claire. an admission? >> oh, yeah. no. and interesting i today his commerce secretary came out and said he was going to roll back the tariffs tomorrow. tomorrow he was going

to roll them back. there was going to be a compromise on wednesday. so either he's folding tomorrow and he's going to pretend he didn't fold, or the commerce secretary has been put out, put out, way out on a limb and it's going to be sawed off behind him because trump is going to wait for the little disturbance to set in. >> i want to know how much how much money was made going to be made. when that happens. >> i know somebody's going to make money behind the scenes. and by the way, the sec and doj will not prosecute them. >> i don't. >> know, they. >> i want. >> to know because they know. >> who's making. >> getting. >> paid tomorrow. >> in the market. >> oh, i know senator. >> claire mccaskill. she misses being in the us senate tonight. senator, thank you so. much for being with us, elise jordan, you are sticking with us. more of our special. >> coverage after this. >> i'm also working on my articles of impeachment. this president is unfit. he should not hold the office. 34 felony convictions, two times impeached.

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about how the middle east is a rough neighborhood. >> in the middle east, we're bringing back our hostages from gaza. in my first term, we achieved one of the most groundbreaking peace agreements in generations, the abraham accords. and now we're going to build on that foundation to create a more peaceful and prosperous future for the entire region. a lot of things are happening in the middle east. people have been talking about that so much lately, with everything going on with ukraine and russia. but a lot of things are happening in the middle east. rough neighborhood actually. >> so yeah, that's a that's a throwaway line when you just don't really know what to say with your characterization of it. >> could use a good casino. that's that's. >> some nice oceanfront property to be developed by my son in law. >> well, and also, we'll know who to blame. as though marco rubio. >> that's the rub. >> setting up. no, no, no, you nailed it. i mean, he really was getting that out there front and

center, putting marco on the spot and saying deliberately, yeah, when things don't go like i promised they were going to go, this is the fall guy. that's marco, and you could just see him squirming in his seat and looking as uncomfortable as he did the other day in the oval office when the brawl happened with president zelensky. >> but given the number of challenges across the globe, given that you have our european allies getting together and saying, what is this going to look like if we have to do this without the united states? given the ongoing crisis in israel and in gaza, the fact that it took him an hour to say, this is what i, as the president of the united states, this is what i, as a world leader, see our role on the global stage, being that in and of itself is telling. >> and it hasn't changed that much from the first term. there is no grand strategy of the trump foreign policy and the way he sees protecting america's

natural national interest. he sees himself. and what is transactional day to day? there's no long term plan. there's no nurturing. our friendships and our long standing alliances and having some modicum of respect for the rules based order that we have benefited from our economy, our peace and security. no, exactly. this is that is just a passing. he doesn't care. at the end of the day, all he cares about is what day to day is going to be a headline and small wins that he can pick up. >> do you see the democrats playing? i think a particularly politically strategic role here, where they level up their vocal support, in contrast to republicans in the house and senate for ukraine, for the rules based world order, for the democratic norms and principles that republicans once

articulated and quite honestly, beat democrats over the head with in the 80s and the 90s. >> i mean, before i was born, i was about to. >> say, you know, i mean, just as a form of just political theater, you know, even though you had very, very, very much, you know, mainstream democrats supporting those very same foreign policy. and you can see the arc of foreign policy from eisenhower on down the line. it's consistent, regardless of party, right, republican or democrat. but do you think the democrats could, in this moment, given the crap show that occurred in the oval office last week, what we heard tonight from the president that they could carve out this space in a way that they may not otherwise have been able to carve out with a pro-democracy, pro-ukrainian republican president. >> well, i think they can connect the chaos that's happening in our foreign policy to the chaos that's happening at home. it's all the same through

line. what's happening with our institutions, with weakening any entity that could possibly check the power of people like donald trump and his friends. no, i mean it. it's what the through line with his foreign policy, with who he likes, who's who he's attracted to, how he likes these despots, he likes autocrats. he likes these men who are going to abandon him if it's in their interest in any given moment, and he doesn't understand the inherent stability. listen, i can be as frustrated as anyone with international organizations and having to heed to them and kowtow. but at the end of the day, we have these rules. we have this order because it ultimately has been to our benefit. >> the president tonight talked about taking the panama canal and greenland. i just let's play this for folks, because i think people are completely missing it. >> to further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the panama canal, and

we've already started doing it. and i also have a message tonight for the incredible people of greenland. we strongly support your right to determine your own future. and if you choose, we welcome you into the united states of america. we need greenland for national security. >> i don't i don't know why people in the chamber were laughing. you know, donald trump and jd vance, they sounded a lot like vladimir putin in the oval office with zelensky on friday. but donald trump also sounded like putin to me tonight when he was talking about greenland and the panama canal. greenland does not want to be. they don't want to be americans, literally. american journalists have gone there and been like, do you want to be american? and they're like, no, we want our own independence, okay? they want to be further independent. the same thing when he talks about making canada the 51st state annexing canada, he does not respect the sovereignty of other nations. he does not respect the contracts

and the rules and the treaties. that's why he's talking about taking the panama canal. my question is, how he going to take it? we already are in the process of doing it. like are there are there is seal team six at the panama canal right now. like how are you taking it? this to me is not a joke. he is very clearly signaling that he doesn't care about sovereignty and territorial integrity. if he wants something, he's going to take it, which is why he can identify so much with vladimir putin. cause that's what putin thinks. >> well, the way he came off tonight, i thought did seem pathetic in that it was almost just a pro tourism ad for the united states. the way he was almost pitching greenland to the greenland, the people of greenland. oh, you know, there are all these benefits of, you know, being american. you can still do it. it just seemed really pathetic. and the same way that it shows, you know, the way he talks about canada, it's almost as if he read something about the louisiana purchase a few months before going into the oval and was like, yeah, i can do this one. this one's mine. >> i will say, if you were

pitching america tonight, it was a pretty dark pitch through and through, from beginning to end of that speech. and to go back to the point that michael was making about the opportunity that is here for democrats. i thought that elissa slotkin did a very good job of creating a contrast and contextualizing the meeting with zelensky in a way i've not heard another dem do. let's take a listen. >> to that scene in the oval office. wasn't just a bad episode of reality tv. it summed up trump's whole approach to the world. he believes in cozying up to dictators like vladimir putin and kicking our friends like the canadians in the teeth. he sees american leadership as merely a series of real estate transactions. >> a few things there, which is donald trump has recast who the hero is in this story and who the villain is. and i think what slotkin did tonight was bring folks home and say, let's remember who our friends are and let's remember who our adversaries are. they're not who donald trump is telling you. this is what the kids would say

when they're like, yes, yes. okay. yes. >> okay. what is that again? >> you can't do it. i didn't. >> get it at all. that shows i'm just like, entered the realm of. old age. i thought she did a fantastic job. i thought that she kept it short also. which is such an advantage that so many politicians just underestimate. people are going to actually pay attention to the substance of what she said. she was very clear, plain, eloquent. she didn't she? there wasn't any drama. she didn't need to add any drama to what she was saying, because the reality is already there. it she was telling the truth, but it came across in just a very simple, straightforward way that i think more democrats would be smart to emulate. >> yeah, i agree with that. i thought she did a very good job because that's a very tough thing to do to follow any president. >> many a career. >> yes. killed many a career. she didn't need a drink of

water. >> right. i was about to. >> say that, but i do. i think the slotkin piece tonight, if they're really creative folks inside the bubble with the democrats right now to juxtapose pieces. if i'm doing an ad tomorrow, which i would be doing right now, if i'm the dnc chair, i would have my folks put up an ad tomorrow to play in some key areas. pieces from trump's speech with slotkin's response and begin to set the narrative. the narrative contrast because the fight for the house began tonight, folks. >> i started three months ago. >> no, but it actually it actually began in earnest tonight. politically, i think a lot of folks now, particularly given what you've already described as the energy, the angst inside the democratic party for what some would argue is the failure to seize the moment by a proactive action. right. i think they can begin

now to take some steps to sort of reframe this conversation for the country that i think is ready for that reframing, given everything that's been happening, what we're seeing happening in red states, in town hall meetings, what we're seeing happen with with members now in the republicans being told, hey, no more, no more town hall meetings. all right? >> don't actually talk to the people who put you in office and that you serve and who pay your salary. no, be a coward. >> be a coward. be a coward. i love it, elise jordan, thank you so much with that great word. >> thanks for having me. >> you got it. we'll continue to fact check donald trump's nearly two hour long speech right after this. don't go. >> shopping. online comes with digital threats. so turn on nordvpn and encrypt your online traffic. get 72% off nordvpn and up to one year for free. >> this is the story of the one.

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failed to do its oversight, oversight responsibility over these years to catch the very thing that they're now sitting there very haughtily, looking at the rest of the country and going, oh, well, you've just spent way too much money, darling, and we're just taking your program from you. >> i mean, alicia, i just feel like it's like. it's like the president was setting america up tonight for. what are you going to. is this your excuse to go in and, you know, raid the social security situation? the former administrator, the former commissioner, governor martin o'malley, is saying that next month people might not get their checks. my mother texted me two weeks ago and said, tell elon, don't text, don't touch my social security. well, mother, i don't speak to elon musk. but, you know, i'll tell you guys, i think. people wanted to come into this new presidency and be made to feel more secure, whether that was in the prices at the grocery store, whether that was about america's role in the world stage, going after people's social security is not

a way to make people feel more confident, more secure. and what i would have really liked to have seen was a pan to the republicans sitting in that chamber. thank you. as their leader of their party started talking about going after social security, because if people are showing up to town halls in purple and red districts to talk about doge, then. they are certainly going to show. up to talk about social security. >> they're going to be in a line talking about social security. but i heard hakeem the leader, the leader. he has a statement. >> he put out a statement on the joint address. read it. donald trump delivered one of the most divisive presidential addresses in american history. he did not try to unite the country or speak to the serious economic challenges facing everyday americans. instead, president trump promoted the reckless republican budget that sets up the largest cut to medicaid in our country's history. democrats will continue to fight hard to make life better for the for the people, and together we will get

through this turbulent moment. chris murphy, senator, not necessarily known as like a staunch leader of the resistance. okay, very much so known previously for working in a bipartisan fashion, a number of issues. he did an interview with julie sirkin earlier this week, and he said that he believes that the next six months are critical and we might not have a democracy in six months if democrats don't steal their spine, if you will. and again, i read to you all in the break some of the things that people were, you know, texting me throughout. i do think that democratic leadership has to they have hampered their members in a way that is not going no matter how many, how good their ads are, are not going to allow them to take back the house in 2026. you have to give the membership a release valve. and so this was a good opportunity for that. they didn't do that. they told members do not protest. they encouraged people. they said, we want you to attend. they discouraged the protest and the members protesting in their in their

ways that we have, you know, in my opinion, rightfully criticized. it's like a cry for help. it's like, come on, please, hakeem jeffries, please, chuck schumer. and let me just the next opportunity is march 14th on this budget situation. so you didn't want the democrats. are you going to literally tell these people whose member whose people in their districts are saying, i want you to fight for me? sound from a town hall where someone stood up and said, please, just, we'll be with you. just do something. >> well, i know a thing or two about steely spines. >> yes, we. >> know, i really appreciate that, that. >> i did that. >> for you. thank you very much. i really do appreciate that. but there's a lot of value in what you're saying, simone, because you're right. it's not going to get solved in a television ad. it's not going to get solved in anything you send across the transom on people's phones. it's a combination of a lot of things that have to come together. and at the core of that is action. and in this, in this age where you see at least one party doing and taking all kinds of actions,

right, whether you like them or not, there's activity and what it's doing, if you've noticed, is it's emboldening the republicans in a way in which dissent becomes much more difficult. the tighter the more active, the harder it is. you don't have that right now on the democratic side in a way that i thought maybe they could have begun to do that tonight. let them to your point, let the members express themselves, smack them on the hand tomorrow morning, but create that link of that moment of action for them so they can begin to see. okay, yeah. now we can coalesce around and yeah, we'll take the hit on the hand. and the public may or may not like everything that we did, but at least they know one thing about us. we're ready to fight. >> you know who's giving to democrats tonight? people that support al green. his his his coffers are being filled because they're like, that's that's fine for me. and i'm like, maybe you

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pocketbook issues are critical. and so when you talk about not bringing solutions to inflation, the president had an opportunity to present real solutions to pocketbook issues tonight. and he didn't do that. he presented a very divisive speech that i think splits america even further apart from each other. i thought he lost an opportunity. so we i spoke about those issues and about medicaid and medicare, which is so critical to districts like the one that i represent. >> you know, i also thought it was interesting, congressman, that inasmuch as there was what donald trump said about immigration in this country, there was what he did not say. he didn't talk about the fact that agriculture leaders, that construction leaders are saying you are going to decimate my workforces if you continue on with this mass deportation plan that you have. he didn't talk about the fact that houses of worship are currently suing his administration because they don't want ice showing up in a

sensitive place like a place of worship, going after moms and dads who are there to praise, not to be in a situation with law enforcement. but he did say this, and it is about the path to citizenship that he is putting up for sale in the form of a gold card. take a listen. >> we have developed in great detail what we are calling the gold card, which goes on sale very, very soon. for $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world to buy a path to u.s. citizenship. it's like the green card, but better and more sophisticated. >> what does it tell you that he is treating immigration to this country like an episode of the price is right? >> well, i agree, this is not. >> a. version of. american express. >> to get it to. >> get a green card.

>> but you know, he didn't he didn't present options. you know, we feel very strongly that the border should be secure as well. latinos also want a secure border. there are many members of the congressional hispanic caucus that represent border districts. but we also want dreamers. >> we want. >> to make sure that farmworkers who are not showing up to work show up to work, because if they don't, it will show up in our cash register. and we want families to be kept together. so those three. issues dreamers, farm workers and keeping families together are, i think, very low hanging fruit in the very diverse and complicated immigration debate. and he didn't bring that up. he brought this gold card opportunity. and, you know, i don't think he's going to be able to balance the budget or impact the inflation or the prices of eggs, you know, with this gold card program. so i thought he lost a big opportunity there as well. congressman, i don't know how the hell much money he's going to raise from my $5 million. i

mean, how many people are you talking about? i mean, this is how stupid the idea is to begin with, but i digress. the important thing, i think, is everything else that that beyond immigration, you're talking about a wholesale reordering of our economy, which will have a direct impact on your community, my community, in ways that are profound as entrepreneurs, as small business owners, as risk takers. we will be the first to feel the brunt of these devastatingly bad policies. speak, if you would, to what this means when you're hearing a president talk about laying down tariffs, which will be a tax on the small businesses that you represent. talking about upending medicaid and medicare, which will have an impact on the on the health fabric of the

community. speak about what that looks like. because i don't people i don't think people really fully understand. everybody wants to put our communities in buckets, you know, and we are much more than a bucket that you can throw a pair of gold lamé sneakers at or do the bro conversation. right. and at the same, in the next breath, talk about someone striking or striking a $5 million check to come into the country. well, tariffs of course, are going to unleash a response from those other countries. and again, it will show up in our supermarkets. it will show up in our bodegas. and people are going to have to pay. a much more for, for emergency products as well. you know, pampers, milk, eggs, the things that you buy every other day. people go to the supermarket once or every other week and they and they shop big for two

weeks, but they go to the local grocery store every other day, and they get clipped for money as they go there. and they feel it, they feel the pinch. and so these tariffs will have a direct impact on the price of goods, and particularly emergency goods that people use every day. working class families. and so this is horrible for the districts like the ones that i that the one that i represent. and so we're hoping we're hoping that there will be some plan to curb inflation. and he didn't bring any plans. he didn't bring any suggestions. he didn't bring a short term or long, long term plan to address inflation in neighborhoods like the ones that i represent. all right. with regards and with regards to, let me just add one one last thing with regards to immigration and the massive rates. there's fear out there. so local businesses are not seeing the kind of foot traffic that they regularly see.

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catastrophe and an inflation nightmare. as president, i'm fighting every day to reverse this damage and make america affordable again. >> several democrats. >> walked out as trump misrepresented, you know, basically everything tonight, including congresswoman lateefah simon, who said in a statement, i attended the joint session because i felt it was my duty to uphold congress's power of checks and balances and be a witness to truth. there was no truth to be found after hearing president trump's lies about social security and his celebration of firing dedicated federal workers. i walked out of his joint address to congress. democratic congresswoman lateefah simon of california, who delivered the working families party response tonight, joins us now. >> welcome, congresswoman. talk to us about that moment, if you would, that where you made that conscious decision, because i think a lot of folks really would like a better appreciation

of what it was like to sit in that house and hear the level of lying, the exaggerations about what they have done in in six weeks time. walk us through a little bit of your thinking. and also, if you could give us a little of the backstory, because we know we've been talking about some of the consternation of some in the democratic caucus with wanting to do more, but not necessarily being allowed to. >> i appreciate the question. you know, a couple of things. i am eight weeks in into my journey as an elected. >> member. >> of the united states congress, and i have had actually nothing but support from congressional leadership to represent the good folks of california's 12th district and the way in which folks have asked me from my district to represent, i have 30 years in background as a community organizer and as an organizational leader and as a

elected from my town. i'm a widow, i'm a mama, a single mother, and i bring all of those things into my seat, and my job is to represent my folks. listen, tonight, representing veterans and single moms and low income folks working three and four jobs and elders, i'd be damned if i stood longer than i did, listening to outright lies that were coming from that dais. when you talk about gutting social security, you're talking about our aunts and our mothers and our uncles who are living in care homes, who might not have care in the months to come, who can't live out their last days with dignity and respect. we're talking about an administration that is talking about breaking down the department of education, an institution that creates national standards for classroom sizes and provides resources for disabled children to have aides in the classroom. there's only so much i can hear last night. you know, i talked

to my mother about this. i said, mom, i don't want to go. my mother was born in the jim crow south, okay, in malvern, arkansas, and she told me, no one kicks you out of your house. so i sat down today and i began to listen. i did my duty, but at some point, the people that i represent knew that my work would have been done better in my office planning tomorrow. the fight ahead. we have to fight not only to win back the house. we have to mobilize our communities, block by block to win an america that we all deserve. >> congresswoman symone sanders townsend here. talk about tomorrow and the days after. the chairman so rightfully put it that, you know, the reelection 2026, the midterm election kickoff started tonight. but like in earnest, even though there are many people that have already been thinking and talking about that. but what does tomorrow and the day after and the day after look like? because the people, the people are tired. they are tired. they are frustrated and people are

scared. they are folks that have lost their jobs, i'm sure in your district, because the federal government is the largest employer in this country and 80% as our good friend jen psaki said about an hour and a half ago of those folks work outside of washington, dc, maryland and virginia. absolutely. >> there's been a callousness that we've seen over the course of the past few weeks since the president was sworn in, but also want to be clear, government outside of red or blue hasn't worked for a lot of people. let's just be very clear. the poorest people in this country were two and three jobs work. they work with their full bodies. they are janitors. they are auto repair men and women. they are working in our cafeterias. they are taxi drivers. they go into banks and they're not able to get loans. there are folks who have been working for decades and can't move from public housing. they can't get a down payment on on a house or rental assistance. if we are to create an america that works for everyone, leaders must

be proximate to those real struggles and the dreams and the hopes of all of our folks. right? so this administration and tonight we saw it pitting immigrants who come to this country seeking asylum to meet a broken immigration system that congress and the federal government were supposed to fix a long time ago, and they haven't done it, have been pitted against working class people who are literally working 15 hours a day trying to make ends meet. you know, the cost of the cost of eggs has nothing to do with the fact that we have an immigration problem. the fact that rents are rising every single day have nothing to do with the fact that brown and black people are in leadership at their companies. we're going back to a 1950s america. i want to be very clear about that. for those of us who have parents, who have aunts and uncles and communities that are still alive, who remembered what a jim

crow america looks like tonight in the chamber, you could look easily to your right, and you could see essentially a monolithic group of folks who look just like one another. and then you went to the left side and you would see what america truly looks like, a beautiful tapestry of all of us who pray differently, who look differently, who come from four corners of the globe to make this country what it is. we know what we all deserve. and i got to say, as a new member of congress, i was shocked at what seemed like a blatant disrespect for the house, and it wasn't coming from representative green. it was coming from the men behind him on the right side who were telling him and yelling, sit down! i mean, it felt like i was watching something in a history class of racist yelling at an elderly black man challenging the president of the united states not to cut medical care for the

sick. what have we become? tomorrow means we organize, we enroll folks in continuous care because medicare and medicare and medicaid are still ours. and my state, we can't lose those things. but again, 2026 is too far ahead, folks. got to get on the ground. we got to get proximate. and i believe that that's what we will do. >> and tomorrow you make the threat palpable for people. i want you to take a listen to what senator slotkin had to say about trump on the economy. >> his tariffs on allies like canada will raise prices on energy, lumber and cars and start a trade war that will hurt manufacturing and farmers. your premiums and prescriptions will cost more, because the math on his proposals doesn't work without going after your health care. meanwhile, for those keeping score, the national debt is going up, not down. and if he's not careful, he could walk us right into a recession. >> congresswoman, are you worried about a recession?

>> i think most of the folks in my district are worried about next week. they they are feeling their own recessions right now. for again, a small family of four, two working adults in the bay area and in new york and in texas and in delaware and in west virginia, their rent is more than their net take home. they're struggling to figure out how to move beyond tomorrow. we have a populace which, again, white folks and black folks and latino folks alike who are on snap benefits and they are facing real cuts. listen, i have had as a teen mother over 28 years ago. i know what it's like to receive snap benefits and to have to put food back at the register. millions of americans will be poor and will be sicker due to trump's policies. that's clear. that's not hyperbole. we know that. and so, no, i'm not going to sit in any space and

have the leader of what is and what should always be the free world lie to the folks who are struggling in this country seeking an american dream. it's just not right. we got to get to work. >> congresswoman one, i think last point that that really kind of sums up what this is about in so many respects potatoes, grains, lumber, steel, electronics, cars, fruits, vegetables, beer, liquor, liquor, the things we need, the things we enjoy, the things that are part of our lives, that infuse our communities, in which our entrepreneurs sell these products, in these goods in which our citizens consume them. the economic impact here could be profound, and it's not something that will happen eight, nine, ten months from now. we're talking literally within weeks as wall street is already out today, warning that

this could get ugly real fast. speak if you could. in the moment you have left about that toll that's to come on these communities. and how does your leadership help them get through that? >> well. >> here's what's really real. i'm a single mother, and i know every couple of days i go to the market and i get bananas for breakfast for my little girl. she's a middle schooler. groceries will rise. the cost of goods will rise this month. not next month. this month, next week, you will see a difference. and trump is telling folks, i don't even have an idea how to decrease prices, or he doesn't even care because he's too never had to figure out how to scrape up money to pay rent. he's never figured out the mental math that low income families have to make when they're in the grocery aisles. those are not what his cabinet has experienced. and so in they're dictating what poor

people and working people need. our folks are going to come up short. but i guarantee you, i guarantee you, the young people that are watching tonight in middle school, you're learning about how the united states has worked to be a kind and just actor globally. well, we're going back. we are going back. we are not the benevolent leader that we have pushed to be. we are taking away food from famine districts. we are literally looking at our allies and saying, you know what? we don't support you anymore. we actually want to work with your aggressor. i got to still believe that the american promise give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. i believe those things. i believe in the constitution. i believe in the civil rights act. i believe in brown versus board of education. i believe in the leaders who said this concept that the framers came up with is yours to have. that's why i'm going to continue to serve, and i'm going to continue to organize, and i'm going to

continue to lead in the ways in which shirley chisholm chose to lead by not only civil disobedience that is peaceful, to shine the light on the devilish ways of racist, but to work harder and to come early and leave late. i'm so proud to serve. and while i'm just beginning, this is the place that i want to be. to represent my people day in and day out. and that's all of our people. that is the american people. >> congresswoman, i think that the folks in your districts are proud tonight in hearing your voice. congresswoman lateefah simon, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. we're going to continue this conversation after this quick break with basil smikle and susan del percio right after this. >> this is. >> the. one who keeps it moving. >> he stocks the. >> right parts and knows. >> just where. >> to. >> find them, because. this is about. >> more. >> than business. >> the industrial grade products you need. call, click or stop by

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>> well. >> just trying to keep up with the chairman over here. okay. what are the things we haven't talked about is the fact that there was a we mentioned it in the open. there was a lot of red meat for the base. and i have heard person after person after person on the socials tonight on our network, on other networks, say, you know, people voted for the economy, they voted for the about the prices of eggs. and he's not bringing those down. they didn't vote for these things he's talking about now. but he talked about these things on the campaign trail. and i think he gave the red meat because the culture wars are not just a distraction. they are, in fact, the playbook. that's why he talked about this idea that there are all these trans women in sports is like, insane. but he dedicated a huge amount of time tonight to talking about that and other, quote unquote, culture war issues. >> i have never. >> believed that it was about the economy. are people struggling? absolutely right. i'm a member of congress. member sbi is my congress member. so all of the things that he talked about with respect to people not going in the stores, and they're kind of being some desolation on

the streets because of the fear of ice and the economy. it's absolutely true. i see it every day. but it was never about the economy. the man talked. trump talked more about what haitians eat than the price of eggs. the fact that over 100 million birds had had to be euthanized. most of them lay eggs. and no one is talking about that. no one's talking about how to help those farmers. no one's really talking about the fact that one of the huge suppliers in long island had to euthanize millions, hundreds of thousands of his animals because of this. no one's talking about that. he certainly is not talking about that. instead. >> he's talking about joe biden and the price of oil. still, 43. >> days later. >> and you know what? look, we this is this msnbc after dark? >> you speak freely and. >> speak freely to be. the only way i can couch this is political s&m. he is punishing people, right? he is inflicting pain on people on one hand and

then speaking happily and rosalie about them and talking about their pain and their aspirations, using the culture wars, using that anger, using that fear to gin them up so that they can forget about all the pain that he's been. he has been and will continue to cause. the problem is, as has been mentioned, that democrats need to be as strident as they were in trying to get rid of joe biden. talking about. >> hey. >> you okay? >> because they came from joe. >> biden. >> but now they act. >> like. >> oh, wait, where's my cat? they have to be as strident about donald trump and what he's doing and going into these communities. as they were talking about removing a sitting president from the ticket. they have not done that. and the problem and what's going to happen is you're going to have folks like congress member who's fantastic that working families

party knows what they're doing. there have been leaders of my state, i'm going to say, this is msnbc after dark, right? there have been leaders of my state and other states who have gone out of their way to try to marginalize and get rid of the working families party, but the reality is they know exactly what to do in situations like this. this is war. this is a war. it's a culture war. it's an economic war. and he got up. he donald trump got up at that podium and talked not to the country, certainly not to democrats. he talked to his he talked to the republicans in the room and the republicans in the in in the viewing audience with no intention of bipartisanship whatsoever. and if we're in that moment in time, you need a, as they say, wartime concierge. yes you do. >> i got nothing else to say tonight. >> i'm speaking just, you know, see, this is this is a guy who understands the politics of the

moment and how that translates into the politics of bigger moments. when you move, move the pieces on the chessboard in a way that trump did tonight. because what i took away from this speech was. and i really kind of was waiting for you to get here so i could raise this up. >> you need republican support. i did. >> i did i did. >> like two of us. >> like we. >> got. >> two republican corner. but what donald trump did tonight in so the creating the intersection between the culture wars and the economic populism was laying out a tale of american empire. he is he is talking about an imperial america. yeah. folks, dropping all this stuff about i'm a king and showing those little, little photos of, you know, drawings and all, all that's part of this narrative. susan, that, that, that donald trump has been

feeding his people. and it's almost like the breadcrumbs. keep following me, keep following me, keep following me. >> especially on the economy. >> if you think. >> about it, he. >> laid out all of. >> those culture issues to put out there. i've done this, i've. >> done this. >> follow me here now. >> trust me. >> it's going to hurt. >> but don't worry. >> i feel your pain. but wait, you can. >> follow me. i will get this done for. you as well. >> meanwhile, prices are never coming down. i mean, here's. >> something that we just have to understand. >> about inflation. >> once it hits and prices go up, it doesn't come down. >> the prices don't come. >> back down. and i would like to do this. >> i know it's going to be very unpopular. >> but can we stop. >> talking. >> about the price of eggs in the context of an economic issue, because it's actually. >> due to something else? >> the flu. >> the bird flu. >> right now, we could talk about how. donald trump has. >> fired people who. >> are. >> responsible for. >> overseeing the bird flu. >> yes, and i'm all in for that. but, you know, just like i defended joe biden on certain

supply. chain issues during covid, the price of eggs is different. and actually, i think folks do themselves a disservice focusing on that, because right now people. >> are. >> going into debt paying for their groceries. they can't afford the groceries. it goes on their credit card. guess what keeps going up? >> credit interest. >> rates on your credit card. and now 53% of people are going into debt paying their grocery bill. so that's where the rubber hits the road. and i'm. >> really looking. >> towards. >> frankly. >> march 12th. >> not march 14th. the government shut down. march 12th. first numbers that come out on inflation under donald trump's watch. okay. now that's where the follow. me comes in. i think this is all about setting himself up because between the tariffs and the inflation rate going up, he's got to say just wait it out. just wait with me. i've got your back. but it is a follow me and it is only i can

do it. >> he said there will be disturbance. >> to the. >> american people are going to start. >> since i'm. >> rebranding. >> the only one at this table that remembers this. to your point about inflation, i remember when gasoline was $0.50 a gallon. well, yeah, and i'm still waiting for that $0.50 to return, baby, because. >> was. >> that before 1989? $0.50 a gallon? i got upset when it went from from 25 to $0.50. so that's what i'm talking about. basil smikle and susan del percio stick around because we want to talk a little bit more with you. we'll be right back, folks. don't go anywhere $0.50 a gallon. we're waiting take your business from launch to legendary with shopify. sell more with the world's best converting checkout. turn analytics into opportunities so you can scale further faster. take your business to a whole new level. switch to shopify. start your free trial today. reach

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standing o for an unelected bureaucrat. >> yeah. >> you know, i was in atlanta talking to a bunch of young men who were interested in running for office, and they asked me about the oval office appearance, and i'm like, yeah, i remember the audacity of taupe. now you've got a guy with a baseball cap on and a cabinet meeting, right? and the question was, do we normally see the influence of this, this money in politics? and i said, you know, there's money in politics, but you don't normally see is the puppet pulling the strings. and that is exactly what you see with with elon musk and donald trump. elon musk is in charge, donald trump is not in charge. and day after day after day, i get text messages from my friends in the federal government saying their departments are being completely gutted and there's no rhyme or reason for it. they're just picking out people or looking at numbers and just getting rid of them, not understanding the value of or the gravity of the work that they're doing, including people at the fda,

including folks that actually keep us safe, the myriad programs and people that keep this bureaucracy running are so that we can go on with our lives and not have to pay attention to those fine details because they're good people who are public servants that are doing exactly that. and elon musk, who is being held up, there's probably going to be a statue of him somewhere sometime soon in dc. i hope they actually don't put. >> i hope the. mayor weighs. >> in on that. but, but but the fact that that he is he has this outsized role in our governance, not in not just in our politics, but in our governance should be scaring everybody. >> can i just note that the government in court, the trump administration's government in court because people are outside groups, are suing over doge and what they are doing in the federal government, the court they have said that, well, elon musk is not the head of doge. and then finally, they named someone amy gleason. she was in mexico when she found out that she was actually the head of doge. so she came back. she

lives in tennessee. so also didn't, you know, return to the office, i guess. but now what donald trump said today goes directly in the face of what his administration is defending in court. and there's going to be real implications for that. we've already have reported that folks have already flagged the judge. hey, judge, don't know if you saw this tonight, but they lied. >> yeah, well, that's what but that's what they've been doing. and so they've been able you leave it long enough and donald trump will spill the beans because he can't help himself. he's going to brag about the thing that he's done. and that's what he did in that moment. he was bragging about, hey, i got you, elon. he's in charge of everything. oh, snap. we weren't supposed to say that out loud. where are we? so that's that's kind of where we are. but where does this i said, let's get to tomorrow since it's today, what happens next? what do you think as we as we sort of trundle our way to march 12th, march 14th,

the debt conversation starts to heat up more emphasis and focus on clothing, shutting the government down. elon musk wants to shut down the government. >> yes he does. >> donald trump is probably agnostic on it. you know, depending on if he can get a transaction out of it. yeah, he'd be for it if but otherwise, to basil's point, musk is the one who's really kind of navigating and driving this right now. >> to a point. and we can't forget he does this because donald trump abdicated the right to him. fine. but donald trump can end it. so as soon as the numbers start going against him. yeah. then donald trump stops the elon musk full stop and elon musk will listen. because guess what? he has billions of dollars in government contracts. so yes, he's in charge of it. like any cabinet position is in charge of an agency. but who's held accountable? it should be the president, i think. i think he's

getting off. donald trump is getting off way too easy on these doge cuts by saying it's elon musk. i would put it all back on trump. now, where do we go going forward? i actually think if you're going to look towards shutting down the government, i think donald trump is perfectly fine making a deal with the democrats to spend more money. he doesn't care. he likes debt. he will make that deal. because right before that we talked about the inflation numbers coming out. the economy is not there. he knows he's going to be blamed for a shutdown. why? oh, because it happened twice before. so he knows how this play ends and he will make a deal with the democrats. because again what does he have to lose. >> he's not even talking to them right now though. like it. >> doesn't matter. he doesn't have to talk to him. he just has to say to his folks, what do they need? what do they want? what do they want? what can you have to give him? there's there'll be no oval office meeting. >> which is. >> the problem. >> but that's that's the point. >> it's a problem. >> but there's a. >> reason, you know, there's we could talk about the process and we could talk what's probably

going to happen. >> well, but that's the issue. because if he does make a deal with the democrats, then the folks are like, why did you cut this deal? right? why did you work with him? because you are now forced to do that and he forced you to do that. so now you have to give in to him. and look, there's the old adage, maybe it's my west indian family. i don't know. those that can't hear must feel. and at this point in time, and i don't wish this on anybody. but the reality is, if the democrats are going to take a stand, a lot of people are going to have to feel some pain to understand the level of what donald trump is doing, the fact that he's willing to go to any extent to shut down government, to cause people pain so he can come back and be their savior, that's what he wants to be. and if we don't wake, if and what i don't want to see is us play his game, change the conversation, change the rules of engagement. and if we're not doing if we're not doing that, then he is going to pull us down this path that we

cannot get, can't get back from. >> but basil, don't you think if you right now, if the democrats were doing what donald trump was doing, which was raising $1 million a person, now maybe they can't raise it in that money. but for a super pac, he's looking to have $500 million by this summer. why? the democrats didn't launch a campaign tonight on social security. why aren't they? i mean, like a real campaign? i don't mean like talking points and raising things and wearing colors. i mean, where are the ads? they should be out tomorrow morning. they know how to turn around this stuff fast and go after him like they are running a campaign for president today. >> absolutely right. and i've said this before. he was sending mail to black voters in the midwest saying democrats are going to take away your menthol cigarettes like it gets that local and that devious. i mean, we should we should have been doing that already. even if it's not mail, it could be digital. whatever it is, we need to be developing our own set of

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>> oh well. well you've heard. >> it tonight. >> good evening. >> i don't know where we. >> are. >> but good morning. >> before we dive into everything, just your response. i know you heard our last conversation. i'm wondering what you think about this, this plea that folks have from democrats to do a little more. are there ads being cut as we speak about social security that we'll see from the democratic national committee tomorrow? tell us what you know, mr. vice chair. >> let me, let me. >> let me tell you what. >> i. >> what i watch. and i know. >> you've been talking about. >> it for. >> for a. >> while now. >> the president got up there and showed nothing but but his behind his remarks were lousy. they were long and. >> they were. >> and they were full of lies. and he spent, you. >> know. >> time. >> that we will never. >> get back completely ignoring the american people. ignoring the things. >> that they really. >> care about. and so to your point, are we going to be clipping that, that speech and getting that out to everybody and fact checking him and continuing to tell the american

people what's on the line for them? you can bet your bottom dollar we're going to do that, and we're going to be creative about how we do that. i'm just today you saw after the speech the democrats had a spin room with influencers who were talking to members of congress. i know chair martin was talking to many folks today on. >> a variety. >> of different platforms leading into this speech. and i'm talking to you this morning, and we're going to keep talking to the american people about this guy who is an abject failure. donald trump has failed at everything in his life, and he's treating this country like one of his little businesses. and, you know, we don't need to see that happen here in america. >> malcolm, what did you think was the most damning part of that speech? >> the fact that. >> this guy spent more time attacking americans than he did, talking about the fact that people cannot afford their lives. >> i mean, i. >> know that so much. of politics, unfortunately, has become politician a says this,

politician b says this. let's cover their argument. but there. >> are people. >> who are never going to get interviewed on msnbc, never going to be interviewed by cnn, never going to be highlighted in a focus group who can't afford their damn. >> lives. >> who are going to wake up. >> tomorrow morning. >> and maybe they were able to afford. >> the $10. >> eggs who are maybe. or maybe not going to be able to drop their kids off at daycare, who maybe or maybe. >> not are going. >> to be able to cover. >> their health care. >> and the president didn't talk about it. >> at all. >> you know. >> i'm. >> a big eagles fan. >> and our. >> super bowl winning coach, nick sirianni, would say all the time. you got to keep the main thing, the main thing and the main thing is donald trump in just six weeks has made life more expensive, has made america sicker, has made us weaker. and he got up on that stage and. >> just lied. >> to the american people. the only american energy that was unleashed was the full

gaslighting that we saw in front of our face. vice chair, i'm loving. i'm loving the bite of your palate right now. this is great. i love the energy. and i think a lot of i won't say the democratic base. i will say americans because i know a number of republicans and a number of independent voters are looking for that bite. and that fight in this moment for them. so what you just articulated, i think, is a very powerful turning of the corner. basil said something that i thought was very, very important. and that is if the democrats show the energy going after donald trump, half the energy going after donald trump, that they showed going after joe biden. that's what this fight is about. and so your leadership is a fresh turn in that regard. how

do you see sustaining that over time as we get into the dog days of spring and summer and, you know, attentions wane. and, you know, i got to get in, get in shape for the summer, right. everybody's got a distraction. how do you keep that energy going? because as i, simone and i were talking a little bit before the battleground for the for the 26 house and senate, u.s. senate started tonight. >> let me. >> say two things. the first is people should. >> be off. people should be off that you have a guy. >> who spends every single day, every single day ripping. >> away the things that. >> we all. deserve to have. >> like he's. >> firing the people. >> who make sure. >> you don't poison your kids when you sit. >> them. >> down for dinner. in the six weeks he's been in office. planes are near. >> missing every. >> day, falling. >> out of the damn sky.

>> people's social. security and medicaid. >> and medicare that they paid. >> into is. >> at risk. >> and so i'm not going to tell anybody. >> to not be upset. >> about what's going on, to not be upset. >> about a. >> guy who's. >> trying. >> to sell our government. >> for parts. to whatever billionaire. >> will say. >> the nicest things about him because somebody didn't love him as a kid. >> so, yeah, you should be. >> upset about that. >> but i think a lot about this show silo that i don't really watch, but that my husband watches and i'm forced to listen to if i want. >> to. >> sit on my damn couch. and one of the main characters in the show, silo, said something on one of the episodes i was overhearing where she said, we have to find. >> a way. >> to be angry with each other and not act each other. we should be crystal clear. every single democrat voted against these massive tax breaks for billionaires, voted against cutting medicaid by almost a billion, almost. $1 trillion. excuse me. voted against cutting food stamps by almost $250

billion. democrats stood firm, voted against it. every single one. and so. >> i want to stop. >> treating donald trump and republicans as if. >> they are. >> some. >> children who need to be stopped. by democrats. why did democrats let trump do? trump is a. grown man who doesn't care about the. >> american people. >> that's why he's. >> doing the things. >> that. he's doing. he is a. >> grown man and. >> a weakling. that's why. >> he's doing the. >> things he's doing. >> and if these, you know, state of the unions or joint addresses are. >> a sort of. moment for us to stop and ask about the state of the country. donald trump. >> has failed. >> the only person donald trump has performed well for is the guy who. is leading his internship, elon musk and vladimir putin. >> those are the. >> only people who give donald trump a passing grade. everybody else is getting the. crap kicked out of them every single day. but we have to keep the main thing, the main thing. >> democrats are. >> the party of. working people and working families. we are the party that created the.

>> modern social. >> safety net, and we're going to. >> do everything. >> we can, not waiting until 2026. but there are two special elections happening in florida, and. >> we're going. >> to do everything we can to focus on those races and races that happen. special elections. >> there's a special election in. >> pennsylvania right now to make sure joanna mcclinton remains the speaker of the pennsylvania. >> house of representatives. >> there's a lot of work to do, and we have to do that work together, and we have to keep our focus on donald trump and the republicans who know better, who know. >> better. >> but are allowing him to. >> get away with this stuff. all right, i'm ready. all right. grown man malcolm kenyatta, vice chair of the dnc. thank you so much, man. >> thank you. >> my friends. take care. >> you know, you you made the point while we. >> were in break. >> this is the president of the united states returning to the scene of the crime. yeah. this is the first time he's been at the capitol since january 6th. and he was on the ellipse. and he told all those folks to go to the capitol, donald trump, that he hasn't been back there since

then. so usually when the perpetrator or the criminal returns to the scene of the crime, there are consequences. there are no consequences for him tonight. there may not be any consequences in the future if the people do not see and hear often repeated what he said tonight, and the real implications of what this means for their lives. but, you know, this wasn't just on cable news, every single outlet. it was his first time in the house chamber. i will note, since, you know, january 6th. but it wasn't just on cable news. it was on every single local fox, abc, nbc, cbs network. and that means something. >> well, you know, i think in terms of, you know, returning to the scene of the crime, what is striking about that point is that the people who were on the floor cowering and angry and afraid for their lives, who would then the next day and the days after that, stand and

condemn the president of the united states for allowing that to happen and in fact, instigating it to happen tonight. applauding, laughing. us saying, the very man that they condemned four years ago. >> one of the. >> best parts i thought of alyssa slotkin's remarks was understanding that people right now want to call to action, like people want to know what to do. and she gave them three steps don't tune out, which is hard. yeah, keep the tv on, but necessary to hold your elected officials accountable. we are seeing that in these town halls. we are seeing it with the fact that phones are ringing off the hook and organize in your community. i will say the moms chat in my neighborhood was not talking about this address tonight. it was talking about the fact that there are three cases of measles in the county north of us. it is. and that's what people are going to be talking about. there we go. >> does it for us tonight. >> thank you for staying up late

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