Oct 1, 2026 · 31 min · 15 segments
Today we are one month away from the midterms and Republicans are flailing through the final stretch. Jack Smith testified in the Senate, and reminded us all of Trump's crimes, and the newly launched…
Steve PiersonHost
Jason BerlinHost
was amazing what he did and it was amazing that they asked him to testify like right before the midterms they want to remind everybody that trump uh tried to overthrow the government like thank you i don't know why that would be successful for your side that seems insane and it was because he just of course delivered a command performance
Anyway, you know, Republicans really are flailing like the unforced errors that just reek of desperation coming into this final stretch.
It's exactly what we want to see and I don't want to get – I'm a pragmatic optimist.
And they granted it a month before the midterms where he got to go up there and, like you said, remind us of all of the crimes and the indictments over the grand jury that And and that Republicans also who are like.
stepped up in those moments to prevent democracy from falling uh and it was those republicans who stood up to trump that would be you know uh testifying against him potentially um these trials went forward the case went forward of course he had to drop it when he became president because uh the long-standing clause of not prosecuting a president or whatever that bullshit is um But it was great.
And then, of course, we had Schmitty, Senator Schmidt from Missouri, who was so excited to catch Jack Smith in this gotcha moment over this conspiracy theory that he'd been colluding with Letitia James and going to an Atlanta Hawks game.
And yeah, yeah, he, Senator Schmidt, yeah, right, mixed up the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Atlanta Hawks.
It was trying to accuse Jack Smith of, Yeah, colluding with her at a game, going to an Atlanta Hawks game when, in fact, he was at an Iowa Hawkeyes game.
was amazing what he did and it was amazing that they asked him to testify like right before the midterms they want to remind everybody that trump uh tried to overthrow the government like thank you i don't know why that would be successful for your side that seems insane and it was because he just of course delivered a command performance
Anyway, you know, Republicans really are flailing like the unforced errors that just reek of desperation coming into this final stretch.
It's exactly what we want to see and I don't want to get – I'm a pragmatic optimist.
And they granted it a month before the midterms where he got to go up there and, like you said, remind us of all of the crimes and the indictments over the grand jury that And and that Republicans also who are like.
stepped up in those moments to prevent democracy from falling uh and it was those republicans who stood up to trump that would be you know uh testifying against him potentially um these trials went forward the case went forward of course he had to drop it when he became president because uh the long-standing clause of not prosecuting a president or whatever that bullshit is um But it was great.
And then, of course, we had Schmitty, Senator Schmidt from Missouri, who was so excited to catch Jack Smith in this gotcha moment over this conspiracy theory that he'd been colluding with Letitia James and going to an Atlanta Hawks game.
And yeah, yeah, he, Senator Schmidt, yeah, right, mixed up the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Atlanta Hawks.
It was trying to accuse Jack Smith of, Yeah, colluding with her at a game, going to an Atlanta Hawks game when, in fact, he was at an Iowa Hawkeyes game.
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