We Can Do Hard Things
Finally Some Good News! Wisconsin Deals Big Blow to Elon & Trump | Jessica Yellin
03 Apr 2025
399. Finally Some Good News! Wisconsin Deals Big Blow to Elon & Trump | Jessica Yellin Amanda and award-winning journalist Jessica Yellin break down this week’s biggest political stories—from elections to immigration to authoritarian warning signs—and what it all means. -How the Wisconsin election served as a clear rejection of Trump’s policies and Elon Musk -What this week’s revelations about forced removals mean for the future. -Why Republicans and Democrats are unexpectedly joining forces over the by proxy bill -The health risks we’re all facing due to Trump administration cuts and policies -Why Republicans may be thinking about breaking from Trump Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering Webby award-winning independent news brand -- dedicated to helping you manage your “information overload.” She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent. You can follow her on Instagram at Jessica Yellin. And also, to get real time, clear and brilliant reporting, go to substack.com and search for her page newsnotnoise and subscribe there. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello, We Can Do Hard Things. This is a special day because Jessica Yellen and I have been coming to you with the news you need to know this week for the last many weeks because we're trying to save you from the torment of riding the roller coaster all week long while still staying engaged enough to know what you need to know to fight for what you need to fight for. and giving us tips to do that.
And today is a very delightful day because we have some good news and some hopeful news, in addition to some that isn't, but this is a step in the right direction. So thank you for being here. We promise to deliver you some little shots of hope. Jessica Yellen. Always a damn joy to be with you.
Such a pleasure, Amanda. And I want to wish you a very happy Liberation Day.
Oh, yes. Are you feeling liberated? I mean, I feel liberated, a little liberated by Musk's humiliation, but I don't think that's what you're referring to.
No, but it is a good moment to take a beat and say Democrats for the first time had a good day this week. Yes. And we are recording on a day that Donald Trump has declared Liberation Day and he will unveil why at an event he is calling Make America Wealthy Again. It's just, you can't make it up.
Yeah. It's like, how many words can we fit after make America blank again? They're going to run out of words because that's the move. So this is the tariff day, right? This is the day where he's going to tell us all of the reciprocal tariffs in the world, which are- Yes. Right.
And that's gone well so far for America. I would say, yeah. You know, it's like, I can't remember. The stock market has lost some unprecedented amount of gains this year. There's like a lot of talk in the business community that what Trump is really doing is he's giving CEOs a chance to negotiate opportunities to have carve outs and tariffs, which is a form of, can we say it together? Corruption.
Oh, that's the theory behind it? One piece of the theory. That like he's telling this so that CEOs will come to him and say- Spare me. Yes. And here's dollars for that. So that's like what he's doing to the law firms. Like I will extract a hundred million dollars in concessions from you to not.
He would say that's cutting deals and negotiating because he's an amazing deal maker. That's the art of the deal. OK, if you're in the mafia. But anyway, we don't know what because we're talking before the announcements are coming out. But that the announcement keeps getting rolled back and back and back.
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