Jon Lovett

We talked about this yesterday on Pod Save America, John, about how you had Graham.

What was that show?

On what?

It's called Pod Save America.

Lindsey Graham is at Disney World on Space Mountain.

And then TMZ caught Congressman Robert Garcia of California in Las Vegas.

And then Robert Garcia said, yeah, we should be in and we should be voting.

But they sent us home.

I'm visiting my father in Las Vegas.

I'm not apologizing for that.

And he posted a picture.

That's the right way to handle that.

I think that's right.

But then you think.

Okay, I understand that you're not really in charge of when Congress is in or out, but what would an opposition look like if everyone was so incensed by the fact that they were being sent home that they refused to leave?

not because they were even necessarily that focused on the politics of it, but so outraged by the fact that they were being sent home without having had a vote on DHS, being told that they're going to leave for two weeks while people are working for the Coast Guard without being paid, while Trump is illegally paying TSA because that's what's drawing the most headlines, and just stayed in Congress, stayed there.

Yeah, called fake hearings.

stood in front of the Capitol, walked to the White House, whatever it looks like.

And I don't know which of those like kind of strategic things are the right thing to do to get the most attention.

But I think what you're getting at is this feeling like, where's that instinct, that sort of outrage that drives you inescapably towards standing on the stairs and refusing to go back to your district.