Faiz Shakir

It is really kind of who captures the emotions and the visceralness of the feelings of American public, especially post-Trump, where I think we'll have, once again, this moment of sensing who... It's an entertainment industry as much as it is policy industry.

It's...

who feels like they are representing understand my life.

And I think it's not just Rose.

A lot of people struggle to say, how am I going to capture you emotionally?

You know, it's interesting.

And where I'm agreeing with you is that in that disruption argument,

We need or want candidates who wrestle with coming in with an agenda and a plan on which is executable.

That, I think, this Project 2025, which obviously has now governed a lot of what Trump has done, and the fact that it really came in with a ball of fire, Doge, and a lot of the decimations.

Is that something to learn from?

Are you trying to learn from that?

100%.

Yeah, I mean, I could not stress this far.

And I don't think enough thinking is being done on the left of center, given that you've got a reorientation.

If you were to walk into the presidency right now- It's what, you know, it's interesting.

Like, we want to research these things.

more from a Lena Conway of our party, which is to say, here's a woman, a talented person of integrity, comes into the FTC and says, here's all these latent powers that many people didn't even know existed, didn't believe this agency should operate in the way that it is.

I'm coming in to reinstill a sense of imagination and purpose and mission to this place.

more akin to what it was founded to be.

And therefore, one of our primary objectives is to look at corporate concentration problems, file lawsuits, even when people in the bureaucracy might say, well, we haven't filed lawsuits like that before.