Well, A- um, Adam, what does it say to you that Bruce Blakeman wanted him there, but Bruce Blakeman is more than likely not going to be the governor of New York?

Mm-hmm.

They had other places to be, other things to do.

Yeah, when I saw that side by side of Donald Trump a decade ago compared to today, what struck me was just the degradation of our president, the degradation of his energy, his enthusiasm, his tone, and even his focus.

He is not focused on anything, and that is why I think people want to distance themselves from him.

He is focused on some things, but it's all of the wrong things right now.

The Iran war is 220-plus days in when he said it would last two weeks.

ICE has been a huge disappointment for the people that even wanted immigration enforcement after seeing killings happening in our street, and Republicans are trying to distance themselves from this awful policy of a degrading, weak president.

Okay.

A lot of young voters throughout our most formative years, when I was, like, you know, 14 to 18 years old, I was paying attention to politics a lot.

Many young voters weren't.

During our most formative years, we had a narcissistic president in his first term that didn't break through to a lot of people in middle school or in high school.

Now, when Trump came around the second time, he was able to effectively label himself a change agent, and he branded himself as somebody who was going to uproot the system and help young voters.

Well, we've seen the opposite.

Gas prices are up, uh, no matter what Kevin Hassett says.

Um, w- what's the subliminal message here?

Me too.

I learned a lot about how he thinks about things.

And you know what really struck me? Is just how, like, un-nimble, how rigid a lot of these hosts are.

Like, Abdul is very nimble and flexible.

He could jump from topic to topic and give his deep framework.

Jesse Watters seems to have a superficial grasp of what he was talking about.

Like, he had these snarky one-liners, like, "Oh, I think, I don't think it's that funny," or whatever.

How do you feel about the, uh, the Michigan Senate race in general?

Uh, but, but they are determined to go after Jack Smith, and Letitia James, and James Comey, and, and folks like that, largely to put a chill on anyone who would criticize Donald Trump or investigate him.

Yeah, it seems like the Trump admin is desperately trying to pull some sleight of hand to divert people's attention away from the fact that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.

He lost it, and he cannot cope with that fact, so six years later, he's spreading lies about it, and he escaped any accountability because Jack Smith's case ended up fizzling out after Trump became the president.

But Jack Smith had a rock solid case, and Donald Trump is scared of that.

It's funny, Jim Jordan, who sent this request to, uh, to, um, the DOJ, ended up saying that this was a separation of powers issue.

I didn't hear any complaining about the separation of powers when Trump was directly requesting that the DOJ, uh, that Pam Bondi investigate-

Yep

... as you pointed out.

And Adam, what, what are your thoughts? What, what, what's, what say you this day?

Yeah, really quickly, thank you all for having me on such an intense day.

I wanna build on what you guys were saying about policy choice, because that was so spot on.

Every single authoritarian policy coming from this administration is an expression of the fact that they are scared.

They are scared of what happens when the American people can speak their voices and go through the democratic process.

They're attacking colleges because they don't want critical-thinking s- people to be able to go out there and expose them.

They're attacking the press because they don't want the press to be able to expose them.

I was coming to you anyway.