Dave Weigel
speaker
617 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 1 Apr
Dave Weigel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's aimed at Trump, too.
So there's a lot of sort of Ouroboros communication between people in the administration congratulating and pepping each other up that does not connect with the average person.
I was going to say watching news.
They're getting a lot of it on social media, and they're not sharing Rand news.
They're not sharing helpful Rand news.
I don't think he's defended, unless I missed it, defended the concept of leaving NATO when Trump throws it out there.
Another pattern of this war has been him giving these interviews to reporters who share drabs of it, especially if you've got a Bloomberg terminal.
Markets are moving.
in erratic directions based on who he talked to and how they quote it, which has been great if you care about your investments.
But more seriously on this, no, and this is one reason that the real America first, no money for any other foreign country, conservatives never trusted Rubio.
There's been quite a honeymoon, a year plus honeymoon of him in this job.
But if you really want out of NATO, I don't think you're very confident that the administration would get out, no matter what Trump says.
Dave set up the the part about it not being possible without Congress, even withdraw drawing down commitments after the war.
I keep saying we need to need to sell it.
But that is something as as weak as Republicans can be in disagreeing with him.
That is something that a critical mass of Republicans in the House and Senate would oppose.
If there's any kind of let's say there's a vote on it, it wouldn't pass.
If there is an effort by the administration to draw down or support for NATO, that would be controversial.
You could start naming them Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton and Tom Tillis and enough Republicans to make it a real problem for them.
No, but of course, we're in a new world now, as Justice Alito pointed out, to where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who's a U.S.
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