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Chapter 1: What is the focus of Ben Meiselas' report on Trump?
More lunacy this morning as Europeans apply retaliatory tariffs against the United States. The MAGA Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives are trying to just justify everything here is normal.
Chapter 2: How are MAGA Republicans impacting the Department of Education?
This also, as they gut the Department of Education, firing over half of their staff and doing it also so cruelly, they faked a security emergency to get people to evacuate the building so that once they were fired, they couldn't get back in. And Linda McMahon basically confirmed that on Fox, the new secretary. It's just cruel.
Talking about cruelty, take a look at MAGA Republican Senator Jim Banks. When he's asked, you You know, the Department of Education, it's tasked with protecting disabled students in red states. Also, watch the response.
The Department of Education is tasked with protecting disabled students across America. And Jamie Raskin, for example, is all out there saying, how are you going to defend this? So let me ask you.
Well, I think it's simple. That will be done at the state level. A federal bureaucrat who's in Washington, D.C., can't protect schools and kids in Indiana. That has to be done at the local level.
And that's why getting the federal government out of the way and letting schools take care of these issues with those tax dollars that will be spent, more tax dollars spent at the local level will help that happen in a much better way than anything that happens in Washington, D.C.
They don't even know what the Department of Education is like. The states do run their education and the Department of Education helps with things like helping with disabled students and poor students in their red states. I mean, they're quite literally voting against their constituents.
So then you have that combined with what Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, then goes on and talks more this morning about conquering Canada. Play this clip.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's trade policies?
the end game here could you eventually get to a point where there's no that you've got a huge economy you've conjoined you've merged the economies of canada and the united states can you get to that point you think the best the best way the president has said it the best way to actually merge the economies of canada the united states is for canada to become our 51st state if they want to
Merge it. That's how you make it the 51st state. But think about this for a second. Why are American cars made in Canada? Why are they made in Canada? The president just doesn't make sense. Why are American cars made in Canada? Those jobs should be in America.
Chapter 4: How does Congressman Brendan Boyle view Trump's actions?
Let's call in Democratic Congress member Boyle, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from Philly. Congress member Boyle, what do you it's like some like weirdo cosplay. Like maybe we like did this in high school where we were told to take contrarian opinions and you were still looked at as like, what the heck are you doing? Like this is what they're doing in our government.
Yeah, you know, hearing Howard Lutnick talk about cars, actually, he does remind me of the first guy I bought a used car from 25 years ago. And it turns out it was a lemon. So Lutnick is very much along those lines. You know, this is so crazy. It's nuts. I come from, as you pointed out, proudly the city of Philadelphia, the home of the Super Bowl champions, by the way.
Biggest city in the biggest battleground state. I was inundated with nonstop campaign TV ads for all of 2024. About 70% of them were about inflation and getting costs down. That's really more than any other issue, what the campaign was about. It was the number one issue for voters.
Trump ends up winning by one and a half points, or as the other side likes to say, the greatest landslide since George Washington. As those of us who like math say, the second closest election in the last 50 years. And what does Trump do? Does he attempt to lower costs? No, still to this point, not one piece of legislation has been introduced in Congress by Republicans to reduce costs.
Instead, he's focusing on attacking our closest ally and literally has members, senior members of our government talking about taking over Canada. It is nuts. It achieves nothing. And I don't know really what the end game for this stupid tariff strategy is. And I do fear things will get significantly more expensive for most Americans and Canadians before it ends.
Even the Wall Street Journal opinion page today. How do you like the trade war now? Trump is furious that Canada won't take his tariffs lying down. And then you had that photo of Donald Trump and Elon Musk selling selling Teslas in front of the White House. I mean, what are you what are your I mean, Philly's tough. Philly's tough.
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Chapter 5: What is Brendan Boyle's perspective on the trade war with Canada?
I mean, your constituents have to look at the... Show that photo one more time, Salty. I mean, if you go around like that in Philly, what are people saying there?
As you pointed out, those of us from Philly are not exactly known for being shy or polite. So we'd have no problem letting Donald Trump know exactly what we think and feel. But it's just... I wish that all of this, that we could just laugh at it and it was a bad reality TV show.
Unfortunately, real damage is being done though to the American people and real damage is being done to the standing of the United States around the world. You know, if I had said six months ago to you that we would be in an all out trade war with Canada, threatening to physically take it over,
Inspiring Canadians of all different political ideologies to boo the American national anthem to see the approval rating of the United States in Canada now and around the 10 percent level. We're polling about where China and Russia do. in terms of what Canadians think of us. It's truly disastrous and tragic.
Chapter 6: What is happening to the US Department of Education under Trump's administration?
When you hear a clip like I played at the outset of Senator Jim Banks of Indiana saying that we don't need the Department of Education, It doesn't matter what they do with disabled students. The states will just deal with it anyway. I mean, it fundamentally misunderstands the dynamic of the way education works.
But you're someone who's always, from the day you arrived in Congress, you've been fighting for the best education and to avoid cuts. And now you're seeing the entire Department of Education essentially get gutted. What's your response to all of it?
You know, my wife is a public school teacher. She's an elementary school teacher, has been for 25 years. Very dedicated person that could be making a lot more money than she chooses to make because she's so committed to what she does, teaching right now, teaching second grade kids. The war on education that we're seeing being waged by Donald Trump and Musk and the Musketeers. It is disgusting.
And you know, what Jim Banks wanted to confuse people about, the reality is, Most of the funding for K through 12 education in this country comes from the state and local level, and that's already where those decisions are made.
Nonetheless, the Federal Department of Education plays a crucial role in our overall education system, while still primarily most of the funding and the decisions are made at the state and local level, especially as it relates to higher education. and student loans.
So to see so many people committed to education, committed educators, literally thrown out of their offices and not allowed to come back in after years, sometimes decades of real service to our country, it just disgusts me.
talk about how, in addition to attacking education, seems that Doge and these MAGA Republicans and Trump are always attacking the most vulnerable or the people who have also given the most to the country. I mean, they're attacking veterans.
but getting rid of what 70 000 jobs at the at the va attacking the social security administration 7 000 jobs there uh attacking over and over again medicaid what are you hearing from your constituents there and you know and again that that contrast as people's 401ks and pensions are being destroyed as people are being cruelly fired trump in front of the white house with elon musk selling
selling Teslas and talking about buying fancy cars?
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