AOC warns Dems on new progressive candidates: Hear them out.
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Briefing with Jen Psaki starts right now. Good evening, Jen.
First of all, Jacob, I love your show. It is so refreshing and good. I get why people love it. I also love your version of the prediction markets. It's very fun. And it's one of the things that is your superpower. So I'm so enjoying it.
I would never, ever trust those online prediction markets, Jen. And I come on anytime. Open invite. You come on. It's early in the morning. OK. Come out with you.
I want to come out for the prediction markets, but I could talk to you forever, as you know. But I'm about to talk with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
I cannot wait. Go do it.
I know. I see. I said the full name, but everybody knows AOC. We will use the formal name, but everybody knows AOC. But I am really looking forward to talking to her. I think she's such an interesting person. fascinating person, not just in politics, but really in terms of connecting with people right now and really reading what's happening out in the country. So I'm really looking forward to talking to her about all of it.
I can't wait to watch that interview, exactly for the same reason that you have said. I watch her all over the country. I start to come out to Los Angeles and draw crowds with Bernie Sanders. Unlike crowds I have ever seen in Los Angeles ever before in my hometown, she is an incredible communicator, an incredible connector. And after watching what happened here in New York on election night, she was the very beginning of a wave I think we're just starting to feel.
No question. We'll see. We'll talk about that. Lots of people won on Tuesday, too. Jacob, I will see you tomorrow morning on my television.
Thanks, Jen. Have a good weekend. See ya.
Okay, as I was just saying to Jacob, and I'm just going to remind you again, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to be with us tonight. She's going to join me here in just a moment. And we have a ton to talk about. We will talk about all of it. But I have to start tonight with something I really, I honestly, I never thought I would say. And that is, I agree with J.D. Vance.
If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story.
Okay, JD, that was JD Vance at the Nixon Library yesterday, making what I would say is a very good point that I don't think he intended to make. Stay with me here. While bizarrely trying to downplay the seriousness of the Watergate scandal... Vance basically made the very astute point in the process that the Trump administration does stuff like stuff like Watergate all the time. I mean, there's the obvious stuff like how Trump tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, how he encouraged a violent mob to march to the Capitol and stop the election from being certified. A mob that actively tried to hang his own vice president. All of that definitely feels worse than Watergate. But I actually think the point J.D.
Vance accidentally made is more fine-tuned than that. Because what is really so unbelievable about the Trump administration this time around, in Trump's second term, is how Trump does Watergate-level impeachment-worthy stuff so often that we can hardly process it before we have to move on to the next thing. Seems like every month we learn about a new perceived Trump enemy that the Justice Department is targeting with sham investigations. But like a frog in a slowly boiling pot, that almost feels normal now. And it's hard to focus on because there's just so much else going on. There's the fact that Trump's son-in-law has reportedly been soliciting billions of dollars for his investment firm from countries in the Middle East while acting as one of Trump's top negotiators and advisors in that very same region, which he swears is ethical.
I mean, there's the fact that companies with ties to Trump adult sons keep landing major government contracts, which they say is OK because the president isn't involved.
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