Oct 21, 2026 · 17 min · 8 segments
Ken Harbaugh sits down with Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan to unpack the coordinated, implicitly violent backlash that followed her remarks on holding lawbreakers in the Trump administration…
Elissa SlotkinGuest
Ken HarbaughHost
But first of all, I want to say I'm glad you hit all three of those points, but especially The second one, because in my orbit, there is a ton of concern that Republicans are going to lose badly in two weeks and Democrats are going to try to move on and they're not going to do the accountability piece because they're going to want to turn the page.
And if we know anything from our country's history, All the way back to the failure of reconstruction, to the failure to hold the January 6th insurrectionists accountable.
We know that if you don't deal with this kind of thing, it comes back to haunt you.
Are you having conversations with your colleagues about making this as high a priority as you want it to be?
Yeah, I mean, look, I think, again, we have to be able to do three things at once.
And actually, the point I was making was we need to find these signature cases, right? These particular, particularly egregious and illegal misuse of funds, enriching the president.
algae all over a pool, like that's ridiculous, right? So you gotta find these signature cases and hold people accountable.
And frankly, I'm learning a lot of lessons from other countries going through this.
I was in Hungary in September and they're dealing with 16 years of corruption.
You can't cover everything, but you can feel your way through these signature cases so that the public knows you're holding people accountable.
I think it is your focus on those signature cases that Mike Davis and others, the president himself, are intentionally overlooking.
I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him.
And that leads us to the charge that you're trying to drive young people away from Republican politics.
But first of all, I want to say I'm glad you hit all three of those points, but especially The second one, because in my orbit, there is a ton of concern that Republicans are going to lose badly in two weeks and Democrats are going to try to move on and they're not going to do the accountability piece because they're going to want to turn the page.
And if we know anything from our country's history, All the way back to the failure of reconstruction, to the failure to hold the January 6th insurrectionists accountable.
We know that if you don't deal with this kind of thing, it comes back to haunt you.
Are you having conversations with your colleagues about making this as high a priority as you want it to be?
Yeah, I mean, look, I think, again, we have to be able to do three things at once.
And actually, the point I was making was we need to find these signature cases, right? These particular, particularly egregious and illegal misuse of funds, enriching the president.
algae all over a pool, like that's ridiculous, right? So you gotta find these signature cases and hold people accountable.
And frankly, I'm learning a lot of lessons from other countries going through this.
I was in Hungary in September and they're dealing with 16 years of corruption.
You can't cover everything, but you can feel your way through these signature cases so that the public knows you're holding people accountable.
I think it is your focus on those signature cases that Mike Davis and others, the president himself, are intentionally overlooking.
I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him.
And that leads us to the charge that you're trying to drive young people away from Republican politics.
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