Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, we've seen in the last several months this rift open between the president and Republicans in the Senate especially.
And they've been willing to buck his priorities.
You know, we talked about the Iran war vote, but they also essentially made him kill this Justice Department fund that was supposed to go to the victims of so-called weaponization.
They've started making noise about not thinking a lot of his nominees are fitting candidates for office.
Like the director of national intelligence, and to some extent, Todd Blanch, who Trump nominated as attorney general.
And you're starting to see that these senators, who up until this point had really not shown much of an independent streak, are starting to get a bit louder about their concerns that their priorities and the president's are diverging.
We're in the middle of a midterm election cycle, and Republicans want to display unity.
They want to say the president, the House, and the Senate were all on the same page and were all fighting for the American people.
And that signing ceremony was supposed to be a big way for them to demonstrate that they were doing that.
But I don't think Republicans are going to look kindly on the president taking away what would have been a major photo opportunity and a major media moment for them.
We always talk about how the president doesn't forget slights that members of Congress commit against him.
But I don't think that members of Congress would forget this slight against them.
Thanks for having me.
I've been thinking a lot about what's happening on the Hill this week.
And for me, this is a story about the way that Congress chooses or doesn't choose to police itself.
I think what we're seeing this week is extraordinary.
Two members of the House resigning within an hour of each other after a lot of pressure.
But it took us a while to get to this point.
And I think the way that it happened really says a lot about kind of the intersection between our politics and the way we expect our politicians to behave once they're in office.
Yeah, so I'm going to answer your question with another question.
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