Sochi, is it clear what war over would even mean?

Well, I mean, I think war over would essentially mean no troops in the region, no U.S. forces whatsoever.

The Strait would be open.

Gas prices would come down, all of those things.

Here is the problem, is that there are comms problems, there are political problems, and there are problems problems.

This is an actual problem.

The president and the vice president can do all they want to try to finesse it and try to message it, which they're not doing well because the vice president was incoherent at the podium today, but they can do all of those things.

But if the Supreme Court sides with the administration, what's a Democratic response here?

So you're hearing that, and I, I wonder if Republicans don't acknowledge the economic reality that Americans are facing, how difficult is it for them in the midterm, Xochitl?

It's very difficult, and they should just learn from Joe Biden, who had a circumstance where the economy and the jobs numbers were, were improving, but yet the American people did not feel it.

And Democrats lost everything, and this is why we're at where we're at now.

One of the things is that if Republicans don't wake up soon, they're not only gonna lose in November, but it is gonna be a complete blue wave.

Everything has shown us that American people care about the economy.

They care about higher costs.

This is why they elected Donald Trump, and this is why they have elected Republicans, and Republicans were not able to deliver for them.

Is she right, Xochitl?

It strikes me, Kasie Hunt, looking at the landscape of how Democratic leaders, quote-unquote, "have been leading," the best thing you have going for you is Donald Trump.

Is Donald Trump.

I joked about this a few months ago, that I thought that Donald Trump was trying to sabotage the midterm elections for, you know, against his own party and for the, so that Democrats could win.

And every day he gives us a new piece of information where I believe this is true.

I mean, he was elected not to, not because of election integrity issues.

He was elected to lower prices.

And at the start, whether it is his tariff policy, whether it is this war that he was the one who started, whether now he has nothing, you know this, Jake, nothing happens in Washington, nothing bipartisan.

... from establishment Democrats about what this is nationally? I don't mean it as a slur.

Xochitl, you're the Democrat here.

No one is a- th- Democrats wanna celebrate the 250th anniversary, Scott, and you know that.

I think one interesting thing about all of this is that the, this isn't the first time.

We've seen Donald Trump obsessing over putting his name on the Kennedy Center.

He wants to ensure that while his approval rating is at 30%, um, the, the reality is, is that he, himself, is obsessed with his own image.

And so I think, Kaitlan, your questions were spot on in the sense that the American people are struggling every single day.

They... $250 is what it costs in some areas in order to pump gas.

I didn't know they were that economically illiterate.

Where are they?

... that could potentially swing, um, on the Democratic side.

That is a very good question that I think Democrats should start pressing, um, to, to the Democratic leaders, Jeffries and others, because we should be focusing.

We know that this is the message for the midterm elections.

We know that the midterms are favor- are likely to favor Democrats.

We have the voters on our side.

It's very clear, based on the polling, CNN's polling and the polling that we've seen out there, is that the American people don't trust the president on this anymore.

Mm.

Xochitl, do you share some of the President's optimism?

optimism?Well, I mean, I agree with Shermichael here.

I think that he does have to address the nation, but in order for him to address the nation, he would need to have a plan in the first place, and he would need to have an agreement that is gonna potentially move forward.

And we've been to this movie before with him.

He has said over and over and over that he would get out of this, he, he didn't wanna call it a war, but it is a war, as quickly as possible, and we're 47 days in.

Boris, I think I want the war to end.

I think all of us want the war to end.

I wonder, Xochitl, what credit President Trump would deserve if he's able to end the war with the US taking control of that nuclear dust, the enriched uranium that, uh, is near weapons grade that's buried underground?

I mean, he's undercutting his own message.

He is undercutting his own message, and rising gas prices ahead of the summer is never a good thing, especially in elec- an election year, and people are already seeing it when they go to work, whenever they go drop their kids off at school, summer vacations, et cetera.

What I find interesting about this war is that it doesn't seem like he was prepared for any of this.

You- often, when we go into war, gas prices go up.

It seems like it caught the White House a little bit off guard, and now they're scrambling and trying to figure out how to fix it.

You know, his message before was a lo- about losing lives.

He's like, "Yeah, we're gonna lose some lives." They didn't really, you know, have a plan to sort of get Americans out of the region either, right? They don't have a plan for how to keep Americans safe here at home.

What's your take on this?

I got a concept of a plan." It's talking two weeks, two months, and yet still there is no plan.

Well, Anderson, it has been 15 years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an alternative if they did not like something, and their alternative has always been repeal and replace.

The problem is is that that didn't work out for them.

They lost the midterm elections after they tried to repeal the ACA over and over and over, and now the situation that they're in is that 57...

The ACA has a 57% approval rating, which is way higher than Donald Trump.

And so you're right, you know, they haven't offered an alternative, and this is why you're seeing a discharge position that now as last time I checked in with House Democrats only needed about four Republicans, moderate Republicans, to sign on because they understand that affordability is a problem and healthcare premiums are gonna go up.

We're now seeing a president who seems to be doing kind of the same thing that- that Joe Biden did i- in the White House, not believing, you know, that- that he's getting credit for what he sees as advances in the economy when people aren't feeling it on affordability.

Do you think he would have the audience that he does without someone like Tucker Carlson? I mean, Tucker Carlson certainly amplifies his- his- his audience.

Yeah, he's certainly lifting him up.

He's giving him a platform.

He is- he is allowing his fringe, um, views to be seen by a larger audience, and I think that's the problematic piece is- and I think Adam is right.

I think the fact that there is, like, the more moderate Republican Party, there was- then we had the MAGA Republican Party, and now we have the fringe right, and I think what is interesting at a time when the Republican Party is actually not winning elections, it is Democrats that are winning elections, they now have the fringe right that they're going to have to deal with.

And that is not where the country is going.

And I- so I think ahead of the midterm elections and kind of what we're seeing with the Republican Party, it'll be interesting to see whether in Republican primaries and moving forward and even in 2028 as JD Vance may potentially face, um, some opposition from the fringe right, whether or not they feel like they need to actually please that far right movement and cater to them, and that- it seems like that's what the Heritage Foundation was doing and they got blowback.

Now it seems like there's room for sort of debate over Fuentes.

Xochi, do you think the Justice Department has, has partially put out this fire by giving Judge Boasberg some of the details he wanted? Um, they haven't... He wants more. There's gonna be another hearing tomorrow. Do you think this is going to escalate if they don't ultimately provide everything for... Essentially wants to know who was on the flight, which they went into more details today, but not really about everybody on the flight.

Well, they need to provide this. I mean, this is something where they've said that it can be sealed. They, the judge is willing to work with them if there is information that the public can't necessarily see. I think that the Justice Department is trying to escalate this. They like a fight with the court, especially when it comes to an issue like this. You saw that on the filing, the filings are not only coming from the line attorney who's working on the matter, it's everyone in leadership of the Justice Department is signed onto these filings. That-

Why do they do that?

... is unprecedented. They do it to essentially escalate it a bit more and to get the attention that they're getting. I also believe that this is an issue that is close to Trump. This is something that he has promised to do. He promised to crackdown on violent criminals. He, they like the visuals of deporting these people. I believe that the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, and the leadership there are sort of at a race and racing each other to, to please Trump. And so this is all part of the theater around it. It's interesting to me that their filing yesterday really asked the judge to sort of deescalate, and they believed that the judge was sort of taking things to the next level. Why, because the Justice Department is the one escalating it. They're the ones that are picking the fight with the judge. They're the ones out there calling for impeachment. They're the ones out there bashing the judge. Something, by the way, that the Justice Department normally doesn't do. And whenever you have a president commenting on a matter before a court, it is... Working at the Justice Department, you normally cringe when that happens. If I were working at the Justice Department and Joe Biden would've called for the impeachment of a judge, I can assure you that there would've been a public statement from the Justice Department saying that we disagree.