Mike Grella
speaker
807 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Apr
Mike Grella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 16 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 4.
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In 2025, 52% were already disappointed with Donald Trump's picks for his administration.
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That is the first time you get a majority.
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Back in 2017, it was only 44% for Donald Trump.
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Before that, you see 16%, 17%, 14%.
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Joe Biden's picks were not, in fact, pulled, but less than 40 percent disapproved in separate Pew polling.
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So the bottom line is even going into this.
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There was already a lot of skepticism about Donald Trump's picks for his cabinet, for his appointments.
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There's no doubt in my mind that this number will almost certainly take a little bit upwards because we already were dealing with a. OK, so look at that.
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Keep going.
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public that was quite skeptical.
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This story can only make things worse, Kate.
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Obviously, he's very much in the middle of this story.
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Despite what some of Trump defenders try to say, if you were to speak to Spider Marks, for example, he would absolutely say that Pete Hegseth was right in the middle.
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And again, what you see here was the most
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unpopular defense secretary going all the way back.
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You have to go all the way back to Donald Rumsfeld, who, of course, was basically kind of forced out a little bit back in 2006.
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The unfavorable rating for Pete Hegseth, 42%, compared to this favorable rating that was only 30%.
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Many more Americans disliked Pete Hegseth coming into this scandal than liked him.
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Again, skeptical, skeptical, skeptical.
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Yeah, they're very different.
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