Jen Psaki welcomes Governor J.B. Pritzker, who gave a speech yesterday in New Hampshire lambasting Trump, criticizing “do-nothing” Democrats and calling for mass mobilization against the growing number of unprecedented attacks the Trump administration has launched against migrants, universities, and the American economy. They discuss the administration’s stance on migrants, which hits home for Pritzker personally, as the child of Ukrainian immigrants. Jen also speaks with The Atlantic's Ashley Parker, who interviewed Trump in the run-up to his 100-day milestone. Check out our social pages below:https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsakihttps://www.instagram.com/InsideWithPsaki/https://www.tiktok.com/@insidewithpsakihttps://www.msnbc.com/jen-psakihttps://bsky.app/profile/insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com
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OK, the first thing I want to tell you tonight is that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is going to join me live. And you may have seen the speech. You may have seen clips. But he gave quite a speech last night in New Hampshire. He attacked the Trump administration with some of what I would consider the most direct and clear language we've heard from any elected Democrat in a very long time.
He also went after what he called do-nothing Democrats, which was a very interesting and important part of the conversation, what it means. He called for mass protests and for mass mobilization and basically for disruption.
Now, if you haven't seen that speech, and you may not have, it happened on a Sunday, we want you to see that speech, and we're going to play a lot of it throughout the course of the next hour. And we're also going to talk to Governor Pritzker about it, including the do-nothing Democrats.
because I really do think it raises a lot of important questions about how Democrats should be approaching this moment.
In the story, in my view, of what the opposition has done across these first 100 days of the Trump administration, and frankly, what they're going to do moving forward, is every bit as important to focus on as what the Trump administration has done and what they're going to do moving forward.
And one of the things I've noticed is that the disagreement among Democrats about how to approach this moment actually isn't really an ideological one. I mean, yes, of course, there are debates and disagreements on big issues on the margins and even some bigger than the margins. Those are important, too.
But Democrats generally agree that taking a wrecking ball to the economy with a half-cocked trade war is a bad idea, as most people agree.
Democrats agree that letting the world's richest man, you know who I'm talking about, and his band of weird interns rifle through the federal government and fire people who answer the phones at Social Security offices, people who track extreme weather events, people who research cancer, is a bad idea.
Democrats agree that mistakenly shipping a legal resident to a notorious foreign prison is outrageous because it is. And deporting U.S. citizens as young as two years old is appalling because it is. Democrats agree that abusing your power to go after law firms and the media and universities is the stuff of tin pot dictators. They agree on that, all of that.
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