Tommy Vietor

I'm Jon Lovett.

I'm Tommy Vietor.

I'm Dan Pfeiffer.

How's everyone's week going? Yeah, that's pretty cool.

It's all he's got, Dan.

Yeah, it really answers the question of does he not give a shit or did he not know how bad things were going to be? Because the electoral results punched him in the face and he still doesn't care.

So, Tommy, I kind of there's part of me that thinks there's going to be a delayed reaction and that like Natalie has kept him from all the worst news.

She's like ensconced him in a bubble and he's only getting some good.

I'm Dan Pfeiffer.

Tommy Vietor.

Well, how about this? What a night.

What a fucking night, guys.

But yeah, I think he's...

I think he's going to get pretty pissed.

Now, here's a question to your point, Tommy, about the pussies in the Republican Party.

Do you think Republicans, this is it? To me, I feel like the bloodletting within the Republican Party is going to be like we haven't seen in the whole Trump era because these people now, he's on his way out.

I'm Jon Lovett.

Tommy Vietor.

On today's show, the midterms are finally here.

And the final round of Time Sienna polls show what the averages have been saying all fall.

There was also some wild, by wild I mean terrifying reporting from Tucker Carlson, who cited anonymous sources close to Trump saying that the president may be within days of launching a nuclear strike.

On Iran's pickaxe mountain where, quote, Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program.

Tommy, what do you think of Tucker's very long post?

It was a very long post.

Adam Driver, great.

But also the podcast guys, Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor.

Larry, that would be like playing ABBA for Noriega and make you watch that thing.

No way would I make you watch that thing.

Welcome to Pod Save America.

I'm Tommy Vietor.

It is only two days until the midterms, two days until election day.

And we are all just refreshing those polling sites as fast as we possibly can to deal with our anxiety, to see what's going to happen, and to figure out what the numbers tell us.

And today we are so excited to welcome a first time guest, co-founder of Crooked Media and co-host of the podcast Pod Save America and Pod Save the World.

It's Tommy Vietor.

Hello.

Thank you for having me.

Welcome back to Pod Save the World.

I'm Tommy Vietor.

I'm Ben Rhodes.

And I think this is a very rare episode in Pod Save the World history because I think it's majority good news.

I'm Jon Lovett.

I'm Tommy Vietor.

On today's show, we got Barack Obama hitting the trail for Democrats, Cheesecake Factory discourse, more ass play from Trump, more anti-Muslim bigotry from Trump, more election meddling from Trump, this time in Alaska, the return of Jeffrey Epstein as a political issue, and the president's longest truth social post ever.

Was it? About his breakup with Bill Maher.

And I think – you know, I saw there was an ad from Abdul over the last couple of weeks where it's just an ad about his faith.

And it's a little broader than like answering the specific charges.

But I think you're right, Tommy.

Like they just – in the final week when people are looking for information as they're about to go into the voting booth, you kind of need to knock