like-Trump was president up until 2020, right? And he's president now, so what has he done to fix some of these vulnerabilities that he talks about?

That's a really important point because while we have him raising the alarm about the security of elections in this speech, if you look at what they've done, uh, during the Trump administration, it's kind of the opposite of making elections secure.

The White House has kind of eviscerated a lot of the security apparatus that the government had set up.

Trump recently fired most of the commissioners at the, you know, Election Assistance Commission.

The Federal Election Commission doesn't have a workable set of commissioners.

It's unable to do a lot of what it's supposed to do because the White House has been unable to get enough commissioners on there.

They're not even trying.

But how do the voters feel about it? Like, do we know if this moves the needle at all with people?

So explain to me what we're looking at in terms of how this kind of freak out just before the vote.

Well, and pretty much everything they do is they're in a bad situation, I think, from a messaging perspective here, because it's pretty clear that when these files are released, if ever, there will probably be some mention of Donald Trump in them.

We know Elon Musk said that.

So they are preparing for that eventuality should these ever come out.

But every little thing that happens contributes to this narrative that they're hiding something.

And as you said, Trump hasn't been accused of anything.

It's pretty clear that he and Epstein had some sort of falling out that the girls may have had contributed to that.

Zach, can you help us understand why this has become an issue, given that it ended?

I think he's learned that as long as Donald Trump is on his side, he's fine.

He made some very clear assurances specifically to Bill Cassidy in order to get confirmed.

And now I think Bill Cassidy, if he was objectively looking at it, would have to wonder if Robert F. Kennedy essentially lied to him when he said that he was not going to rock the boat on vaccines.

That's clearly what he's doing.

So Mike said it.

Do we see a Bill Cassidy come that's angry about this, that wants to hear something about it? Or do we hear somebody that's essentially following Trump's lead on it? You hear goat rodeo.

That's never a term you want associated with what's going on in your agency.

Is there any legal issue with what they're doing?

In Memphis,

but we'll see.

Yeah, but.

Well, he'll do Chicago first.

We'll do New York.

We'll do Los Angeles.

These are places, these are the cities he would like to other for a lot of the voters that support him.

Zach, can I talk to you about what we're looking at here? Because it would be the first time someone's fired a Fed governor in like 100 years.