Top Political Soundbites of 2025, Trump's Israel and Tucker Friendships, and Life After a Pardon
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Hey, everybody. Mark Halpert here. Thank you for being part of NextUp. This is our last show of 2025. Eager to have a little bit of a holiday break. I hope you will, too. And we'll see you the first week of January. But a great show to finish off the year with that I'm super excited about. I am the editor-in-chief of the live interactive video platform Two-Way and your host here to everything NextUp on the MK Network. Very grateful to you. for helping us build the show this year. We've got a lot in store for next year that we're excited to share with you in the new year. But for now, again, we're all just super appreciative of how supportive you are, how the audience has grown, and again, doing new stuff together next year.
Two great guests today, conversations. First, Dan Senor, my friend who is one of the country's leading experts on foreign policy. and particularly adept at understanding what is going on within the American and Israeli governments, but other governments around the world. He's a super well-wired guy. He hosts his own podcast, and we're always grateful to have him here. I want to talk to him about what's going on with anti-Semitism here as the year ends, unfortunately, what's going on with the Middle East peace deal and how that's progressing, and also a really important topic that really doesn't get enough coverage, which is Marco Rubio. in the job as both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor.
We're going to talk about why that's so significant and how he's doing in the job. And then Congressman Chris Collins is here. He was a congressman in New York. He was the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump and then worked closely with President Trump until he got into some trouble with the law, was indicted at the federal level, pled guilty, went to prison, and then was endorsed by President Trump. And now he's not only running for Congress now in Florida, but he's written a new book and we're gonna talk to him about this extraordinary journey that he's been on and where he is now as a grandfather, someone who thought about retirement, but is instead looking to get back to elected office.
Excited to talk to them both and share those conversations with you. But first, my last reported monologue of the year. This is my – not struggle, but I was just thinking, like, how to do a year in review on politics. We did – last episode, we did the year in review in media. And I thought, well, what's the best way to do a year in review in politics? I could do another awards thing like we did with the media. But I was so struck by how – news packed the year was. I mean, there were just, you know, so many news stories this year in politics and in culture and in sports. I mean. The pace of news is so fast now. But for some reason, this year seemed particularly packed. And, of course, first and foremost, the new administration.
I mean, Donald Trump became president, sworn in president this year. It just seems like he's been there for a long time because it's been such an active administration. So what we're going to do is we're going to review 2025. by looking at some of the great clips of the year, some of the great sound bites from people in politics, media that define the year to a large extent. And some of them will be from Donald Trump. I could do the whole program, which is incredible clips from the president. But we're not going to let the president dominate this. And We're not even going to start with the president. Believe me, there'll be some Trump sound bites here. But we're going to start with others. And we're going to do that by showing you some clips.
My guess is you'll probably remember most of these, but not all of them. But we chose ones that we thought were interesting for representing the year, revealing things about the people involved, but also part of the story of the year in terms of issues and the mood of the nation. um i think you'll like them and i think some of them will make you laugh uh and and certainly will be um will be uh compelling so we're gonna do that i'll tell you that i did the research for these uh and and looked at with my colleagues some of the clip options on my new up phone and i want to show you something about the up phone again the up phone is from unplug.com it's the folks that are trying to change
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–8:59
2
Which political soundbites defined 2025 and why do they matter?
8:59–31:07
3
How did Vice President J.D. Vance shape U.S. foreign policy in 2025?
31:07–59:52
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Why did Gavin Newsom's Proposition 50 elevate his national profile?
59:52–1:15:58
Speakers
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