How much pressure do you think Democrats will be under to wage campaigns of impeachment?

So that's a very live debate that I think you can find Democrats who are kind of passionate on both sides of that.

Now, one of the things that was interesting this week that has been talked about is Thomas Massey, who is a Republican House member who lost his primary in Kentucky after Trump.

You know, kind of turned against him and endorsed his opponent.

And, you know, Trump is very nasty.

Thomas Nassi is a widower.

His wife passed away a few years ago.

Did we witness the collapse of the Republican coalition?

How do you see the advent of independent journalists like yourself changing some of the culture of Washington and changing some of the culture of how we deal with politicians going forward?

Yeah, well, you know, it's really interesting because, you know, these days I'm based out of Minneapolis.

I lived in D.C. for a number of years, you know, kind of until COVID.

And then I had a newborn and, you know, we ended up kind of coming back here to pot up with family.

So, you know, one of the things that I often reflect on is that, you know, even 20 years ago, it wouldn't be possible for me to do what I do now.

at this degree every move from washington dc but you know because of digital communications and social media i'm able to dm with sources all day or text with them on signal i'm still out in dc a couple times a year at least for meetings and things like that but um you know that's for all the bad things about the internet that is one kind of cool thing is that you know i can do reporting and commentary and and feel like i'm plugged in to what's going on even though i'm not actually there But, you know, I lived in DC long enough to kind of understand how that culture works.

And, you know, it's kind of understandable that, you know, when you're reporting on the Trump administration for an outlet that isn't partisan, you know, that you're going to have warm relationships with some of your sources.

And so is it... is it good for Democrats to see him put his finger on the scale leading into some of these primaries?

You know, just given that the war is deeply unpopular already with the American public, do you think that is, like, a contingency the administration would, would be willing to take?

I'm really skeptical that they would do that, although I was shocked when I woke up on February 28th to the news that we had started a war against Iran because I thought, you know, that was a really risky gamble, and we're kind of seeing, uh, why in everything that's played out in the months since.

So I, I think there would be a huge political cost to pay for that.

I mean, America has lost 13 service members and, of course, you know, there's been much more of a human toll in Iran itself, but, you know, even those 13 service members here in the States, uh, really took a political cost out on Trump.

Um, his approval numbers are at all-time lows right now.

And so I think a ground invasion, especially if it was aimed at basically just restoring the status quo as it was in February, which it seems like it pretty much would be.

Um, you know, Trump has made some kind of nebulous comments about taking the oil or, like, pillaging natural resources in Iran, but, you know, I don't think that really is much of an enticement for the American public.

It, I mean, what are Trump's ob- objectives at this point? Like, how have they changed?

Yep.

... you know, like amplifying a story of someone...

Like, I remember, um, you know, wh- when Republicans were trying to- to repeal the- the ACA, you know, back in 2017, um, you know, a lot- a lot of clips that really took off at that time were like, um, you know, kind of testimonials of people who- who the ACA had helped save their life in some way and, like, you know, just kind of that emotion of like, "This is what it meant to me and this is what'll happen to me if- if, you know, the ACA's repealed." So, like, y- you could either have the emotional impact or, like, the conflict.

But yeah, I mean, I think you're right that if it's just, like, someone talking into a camera and it's, you know, it's kind of missing those elements, it's probably not really going to take off.

And not that every single clip has to.

And, you know, um, I think I err on the side of, like, posting more rather than less, so I'm not necessarily looking for, like, every clip to blow up.

'Cause sometimes, you know, things are just newsworthy that I think are still worth, like, putting out there in the world, you know, a Republican, um, like on M- Maria Bartiromo Show explaining that, you know, they're basically gonna try and defund the Medicaid expansion and make the states, you know, either cut benefits or, um, you know, have to blow their own u- blow their own budgets up to kind of fill the- fill in the- the shortfall there.

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