Jessica Tarlov

A, do you think we are heading for the ground invasion?

And B, are we ever going to be able to regulate what's going on here?

I know that there are bills, you know, Chris Murphy has a bill about this, but the people who are supposed to be doing the regulating are having to quit because it's impossible.

to get any work done in this DOJ, in this SEC.

Yeah.

I mean, I understand, you know, odds of Jesus's actual resurrection and things like that are fun for people.

But the war and peace and also that, you know, there was a big expose about Pete Hegseth's financial advisor making a big bet, but they actually lost.

And I'm like, how can the secretary of defense be the one person who didn't end up profiting from the war that he seemingly controls?

Both are really bad for our status quo as we are engaged in a war that he is seemingly has some degree of control over from the Pentagon at Mar-a-Lago.

I'm sure you saw the Times report that apparently Pam Bondi might be on the chopping block and Tulsi Gabbard, two key figures in your world and your work.

Do you...

It does feel like

there's a flailing happening now that, like, the first year of the administration, I didn't think as much.

I mean, we should note it's one year since liberation day to day.

Obviously, the impact of the tariffs has been disastrous for the economy, and, you know, SCOTUS pulled them back a bit.

But in general, like, the last few months, and certainly with...

the war, it's felt like a flailing crescendo, I guess, like that the polls are catching up with the reality on the ground for Trump.

Are you sensing that as well?

And do you think that means that they're just going to go hyper lawless because they have nothing else to do and they're staring down the barrel of losing the midterms?

Yeah, I mean, worse for me because I have to watch the rallies, but probably better for us if he's having a great time in rural Ohio, you know, with a bunch of diehard MAGA fans because that, you know, 25 percent of the base is definitely still there.