Jonathan Lemire

That was my guess as well. I can add that I know that she lip synced because they were afraid. Really? Yes, because the crowd was going to be so loud. Just remember this, of course, that the backstory here is this took place during the Gulf War and there was so much patriotism in the room. And that's why this is such an iconic moment.

So I do know that they had to record it because they just thought that she wouldn't be able to hear herself because of the roar of the audience. But what time signature it was, I'm less sure.

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Thank you.

The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it.

It's a deliberate strategy here in 2025. We did see some of it in 2017, but there's more to it this time around. He and his aides are trying to show the American people, hey, we're hard at work. Contrasting that to what they say is the inaction of the previous four years. but also to flood the people with so many orders and news.

It's designed to disorient already sort of despondent and despairing Democratic foes, leaving them sort of so confused they don't know what to focus on. And it is our job, as just mentioned, to try to separate signal and noise. But sometimes even the noise carries meaning. For instance, the Gaza proposal, it is extremely unlikely that this would ever happen. But Trump even raising the idea...

has real consequences and threatens to destabilize the region so it can't be ignored.

In part because it is just so overwhelming. Right now, he is just generating so much, and I hate to use the word content, but so much content and news, much of it very consequential, that it's hard to sift through for the media, for citizens, and for Democrats.

Right. The Trump team knows that not everything is going to work, and they're fine with that. I was talking to Trump aides last week and over the weekend about a variety of things that they've been doing, and they all acknowledge that some of this is going to get defeated. We mentioned birthright citizenship already taking a defeat in the courts. The

The payment freezes already has now been blocked by two federal judges. But some things will get through. And look, he's not the first president to want to hit the ground running. President uses his first hundred days to push as much of his agenda as he can when his political capital is at its highest. But we've never quite seen something like this once. where it's just an avalanche, a fire hose.

And even if, as one of his aides told me, 25, 30, 40 percent of it, that's it, gets done. That's still going to be consequential for the nation.

Oh, if you want me to, sir. Why don't you say what I'm saying?

And that's a great image, just very briefly, because it's it's not only action. It is executive action. Those those orders mean something.

But it's also the show. It's also the show. And that's so essential.

More than not this time around, it is a plan. Not everything. Donald Trump still takes the truth social in the middle of the night. But most of this has been in the works. I can't be overstated how this isn't their first time at this. In 2017, they were very slow in rolling out the transition. They were playing catch up.

And he was surrounded by sort of the grownups in the room who acted as guardrails, who sort of pushed him away from some of his more incendiary impulses. None of that is true this time. He has veterans in there who served him in the first term. He has staffers who have spent four years at Project 2025 and other places, other projects to get ready for this moment.

Glad to be here.

And even more than the first time around, he is a very compliant Republican Congress, House and Senate, small majorities to be sure, but they're still there. And to this point, they have shown no impetus to tell him no.

Also a hurricane.

Yeah, all of that is correct. I agree with. We're definitely seeing a lot of the nation is just fatigued, tired of this last election, tired of following the news, frankly, still burned out and dealing with the after effects of the COVID pandemic, which is a topic that needs much more exploration in the years and the years ahead. And we are seeing a lot of people simply tune out.

But I can't echo it enough how important, essential it is for the health of our democracy, for us to do our jobs, to try to sift through the noise and bring people the truth as best we can, but for also people to pay attention.

Thank you.

Happy to.

Let's do it.

I remember a lot about that game, but not this.

There you go.

I am really, really lacking in my knowledge of Super Bowl musical appearances. Same. I'm going to say the Navy SEALs.

I'm going to YouTube right now to see a clip.