Tommy Vietor

And that over classification is still a massive problem that has not been tackled at all.

And what these new restrictions will do, like you said, like reporters, they're not gonna stop reporting because they can't walk around the hall, but like in totality, it slowly chips away.

at their media access and their ability to do their job and their relationships in the building.

And it's like you said, replacing like real outlets with fake right-wing ones.

And it's just like right now, Pete Hegseth, who was technically a member of the media until like six months ago, is just mocking them on Twitter.

Have you seen this?

He's doing like hand emoji waving at them.

And like the real threat to national security is what this guy's putting in his signal chats.

It's not NBC News.

It's just so childish and petty.

Speaking of which, by the time you're listening to this, the government will have been shut down.

for two weeks, celebrating its two-week birthday.

And as is the case with most two-week-olds, all we're really getting is screaming and lots of shit to clean up.

Democrats still aren't signing onto the House funding bill.

Republicans still aren't negotiating with Democrats on healthcare premiums.

And Mike Johnson won't even bring the House back into session.

Instead, they're trying to extort leverage by firing people.

On Friday, Grim Reaper Russ Vogt announced the layoffs of 4,000 federal workers, mostly at Treasury and HHS.

And J.D.

Vance made this promise during his tour of the Sunday shows.