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Chapter 1: What are the implications of Trump's low approval ratings?
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Chapter 2: How are gas prices affecting political sentiment?
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Chapter 3: What is Trump's current stance on the war in Iran?
I'm Dan Pfeiffer. On today's show, we're going to talk about reports that Trump is getting bored with the war, even as the military is preparing for a possible ground invasion of Iran. More Republicans in Congress are speaking out against the war. Gas prices keep going up and the polls are looking bleak for the president and his party.
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Chapter 4: How is the military preparing for potential ground invasion?
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Chapter 5: What challenges are Democrats facing in California's gubernatorial race?
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I read a story today that I'm desperate to make a deal. I'm not. I don't. I'm the opposite of desperate. I don't care. We don't need the foremost straight. We don't need it. We don't need it at all. We have so much oil. Our country is not affected by this. Frankly, I thought the oil prices would go up more, and I thought the stock market would go down more.
Hasn't been nearly as severe as I thought. This ballroom is going to be something that's so beautiful for the city. It's no secret the military wanted it more than anybody. We're building an arc, a triumphal arc, which will be incredible for the city, incredible. We're fixing up what was the Kennedy Center. I was honored when the board Change the name a little bit. I'm a gold person.
It's all real stuff. You can't imitate it. Someday they'll discover a paint that will look like gold, and the guy's going to be the richest man in the world. See this pen right here? This pen is an interesting example. It's the same thing. So this pen is very inexpensive, but it writes well. I like it. They can't have the pen the way it was. You know what it is.
Chapter 6: How do recent election results reflect voter sentiment?
I don't want to give too much publicity, but they do treat me well, Sharpie. I don't want a stupid person being president.
Hear, hear, sir. Hear, hear. I mean, that went on for hours this morning. It's a cabinet meeting in the middle of a war. Marines, other troops headed to the Middle East. Could be a ground invasion any moment now. Oils prices off the charts. Stock market had its worst day since the Iran war began today. And we got that this morning.
It does seem like he's a little bored, Dan, with this massive war that he continues to claim he's already won. What do you think is going on behind the scenes? And what do you think of that journal story?
What is going on behind the scenes? You know, every once in a while in The Simpsons, they go to the inside of Homer's brain and it's just like tumbleweeds or like a hamster on a wheel. I kind of feel like that's what is going on behind the scenes.
Like that story in The Wall Street Journal is so disturbing because the takeaway is that Trump just simply doesn't have the attention span for the war he started. And when you read the story, he's like a passive observer of the war. It's like he's told AIDS he wants it to end soon.
Well, it's it's an it's another episode of The Trump Show, and he feels like the episode has run its course and it's time for a new episode because otherwise he's going to lose the audience.
But he's the commander in chief. He started the war. Like, what's his plan to end it? What's he doing? Like, what is that actually happening? There's just he really just like gave an order. A war started and he's kind of like just kind of weighing in periodically from the sidelines is like like the peanut gallery. And it's like it's embarrassing.
Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the TSA funding crisis?
Yeah, I've been trying to piece together, as I'm sure you have and everyone else, over the last 48, 72 hours, what actually is happening. Because you can't really trust Donald Trump to tell the truth. You can't really trust the Iranians to tell the truth. It seems as though that there are some countries that want to act as mediators and they've been trading messages between lower level U.S.
officials and Iranian officials and they want to put together actual negotiations. in person, but no one has decided that they want to do that yet. The Iranians, they are very cautious about trusting Donald Trump. I wonder why. Exactly.
Because they think he's just talking about negotiations so he can pull off another sneak attack on Iran, as he has done now many times before, and the Israelis have also done. So Iran is preparing for some kind of an invasion. It does seem like we could get, you know, the Marines and the other troops they sent over to the Middle East could arrive any minute now.
The original deadline for Trump deciding to do a war crime and blow up all their power plants was Friday night. And so there is some thought that maybe Friday or Saturday there's some kind of invasion or attack. Axios, as they reported on, the final blow. There's four options. Three of them involve invading Karg Island and other islands. in order to secure the Strait of Hormuz.
One option is just seizing ships with Iranian oil, stopping them. So it is, Trump's out there saying that there are negotiations. It's happening. I don't, it doesn't seem like that's true. It seems like the Iranians are open to negotiations, but again, can't trust so they don't know what to do.
But who in Iran, right? There's that too, yeah. Well, Trump for a while was the leader of parliament he wanted to talk to, but it was unclear if that person has any power. And as soon as Trump called that person, he called him hot or a really hot option. Hot option. Hot option.
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Chapter 8: How might upcoming elections impact the Democratic Party's future?
That probably wasn't good for that person standing in the country and with the Republican guard, the IRGC, who actually runs the country. And it's just, there really is something... Like the president is just lying all the time. He lied about why we went to war repeatedly. He is lying about how the war is going.
It appears he's making up negotiations of some kind, or at least he's dramatically overstating what's happening in order to manipulate the market.
Yeah, the most generous interpretation is that.
I mean, is it possible that there are people in the country of Iran who are talking to people in other countries, and then those people are talking to people in our country? That is probably happening in some way, shape, or form. Whether any of those people have the authority to actually cut a deal or there is actual progress. Like we have seen publicly traded, publicly talked about conditions.
The Iranians had some. The United States has a 15-point plan, whatever else. But the president is making it seem like there is a group of Iranians and a group of Americans in some sort of mythical Yalta having a conversation about the future of this war. And that's clearly ā not happening. And the Iranians don't trust them. We don't trust them. We know not to trust the Iranians.
And you're doing this in a country of which there are no American reporters on the ground of consequence. Maybe there's a handful and there's no domestic reporting in that country to tell us what's happening. And so we really just have no idea what's happening.
Meanwhile, 4 million people in Iran and Lebanon have been displaced so far. Tens of thousands have already left those countries as refugees, some to Turkey, some to other countries. Thousands are dead, including American soldiers. And basically, oil prices continue to rise. And the Strait of Hormuz has not opened up anymore.
Trump talked about getting eight ships through that Iran gave as a gift. No one really knows what the fuck he's talking about there.
That's another example. He made it seem like it was a grand diplomatic gesture. No. To show that they were serious. People can't really tell what he's talking about. There's evidence of two ships going through, but that seems to be the sorts of ships that Iran was letting through already.
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