Tommy Vietor (interviewer) / also appears as host lines

It's like.

football fans, rich people.

Like if you're worried about crimes in that crowd, like get some dogs that can smell cocaine and then go bust people for solicitations.

There's some pitch that was going around of like TPSA having creed.

What do you want to bet he was thinking about Hamas?

Yeah, I had sort of the same reaction you did.

He wants to be the hero of every story.

He does not want a huge cut to ACA subsidies that he thinks would hurt him politically in the midterm.

He's not Paul Ryan.

This guy hasn't been dreaming of cutting the social safety net since he was at the keg party or whatever that weird quote was from 2012.

And so if Schumer and Jeffries could just talk to him directly and try to cut a deal, he would ice out Speaker Johnson in a heartbeat.

I mean, the big takeaway is people don't like the shutdown.

They're worried it will hurt the economy.

A big majority is worried it'll hurt the economy.

I'm a little skeptical when you start comparing the kind of like under the hood numbers, like who do you blame?

Cause I just think most people like don't have an opinion on it, but

It's a little better.

Like the Democratic Party's rationale is a little better than Republicans.

Nine points by about nine points.

People blame Republicans over Democrats.