Alex Wagner
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Okay. I'm dealing with the gaze of strangers. I'm pretty used to it by now, but it'll mess you up a little bit in the beginning. Actually, the press tour is weird. Like, I don't... I think when I was younger, I liked it more. I don't love being the object of press. Hmm. You know? Probably because there's like a control issue. Yeah, right.
Okay. I'm dealing with the gaze of strangers. I'm pretty used to it by now, but it'll mess you up a little bit in the beginning. Actually, the press tour is weird. Like, I don't... I think when I was younger, I liked it more. I don't love being the object of press. Hmm. You know? Probably because there's like a control issue. Yeah, right.
Like, when it's your show, you control it, whereas with... It's other people that are controlling it, which is... The reason that a lot of powerful people don't like...
Like, when it's your show, you control it, whereas with... It's other people that are controlling it, which is... The reason that a lot of powerful people don't like...
Like, when it's your show, you control it, whereas with... It's other people that are controlling it, which is... The reason that a lot of powerful people don't like...
journalism like fundamentally right you don't have if you're a powerful person you're used to people like deferring to you and being very differential and and having control over them and like that's just not the way journalism works like it's like it's interesting that you can see all this rage by all these powerful people about against journalists and fundamentally it's because the power dynamics of journalism are intentionally not in the hands of the most powerful people
journalism like fundamentally right you don't have if you're a powerful person you're used to people like deferring to you and being very differential and and having control over them and like that's just not the way journalism works like it's like it's interesting that you can see all this rage by all these powerful people about against journalists and fundamentally it's because the power dynamics of journalism are intentionally not in the hands of the most powerful people
journalism like fundamentally right you don't have if you're a powerful person you're used to people like deferring to you and being very differential and and having control over them and like that's just not the way journalism works like it's like it's interesting that you can see all this rage by all these powerful people about against journalists and fundamentally it's because the power dynamics of journalism are intentionally not in the hands of the most powerful people
That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
There's a few different tracks in which they're operating on, but one of them is, and we started to see this last week with people finding out that their National Institutes of Health grant panels were being canceled. clinical trials being canceled, like, oh, skin cancer drug.
There's a few different tracks in which they're operating on, but one of them is, and we started to see this last week with people finding out that their National Institutes of Health grant panels were being canceled. clinical trials being canceled, like, oh, skin cancer drug.
There's a few different tracks in which they're operating on, but one of them is, and we started to see this last week with people finding out that their National Institutes of Health grant panels were being canceled. clinical trials being canceled, like, oh, skin cancer drug.
They are trying to break the whole thing because they want to refashion it such that the entirety of the federal government is an object tool of the one person who occupies the presidency and nothing else. There are a bunch of statutory requirements in place that
They are trying to break the whole thing because they want to refashion it such that the entirety of the federal government is an object tool of the one person who occupies the presidency and nothing else. There are a bunch of statutory requirements in place that
They are trying to break the whole thing because they want to refashion it such that the entirety of the federal government is an object tool of the one person who occupies the presidency and nothing else. There are a bunch of statutory requirements in place that
are geared towards the presidency serving the public interest, and they want to turn it into a 19th century urban machine with nuclear weapons.
are geared towards the presidency serving the public interest, and they want to turn it into a 19th century urban machine with nuclear weapons.
are geared towards the presidency serving the public interest, and they want to turn it into a 19th century urban machine with nuclear weapons.