d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers
i can t say whether he will or not. but he might. in the end, i loved doing that experience with him because i felt like i in a weird way got to step out of myself and just react like i showed with you the garfield high school stuff. and obviously i think about that kind of thing. we interview people all the time. we think about ways to do it. he has found his own way. as i mentioned, he built it himself, all the stars and icons and cultural leaders you saw him talk to. they re all people that decided to talk to him not because he was established some big brand or rolling stone or tv but because of what he built and posted. we ve also talked to times about how the internet has the dark sides in politics. shoutout to the bright side here that people can still create and share themselves and all of their unique weirdness and sometimes you find the whole world is interested and sports you w that, i want to thank you for spending time with us here on the beat. the readout is up next.
and he kelly montague day is something we created. you know you have friends that are just extra. he was extra. we all loved him. so my high school they would have, like, 707 s day was a thing. then we re dressup days. we just made it up. it wasn t a real thing. we all just dressed up like him one day. he didn t know it. he showed up and everyone is walking around dressed like him. and then they put it in the year book. can you have a idea that is not real but then it becomes real. maybe there is kelly montague day. what can you say about you and your friends? yo! you have the picture. i ll tell you right here. all right. this is kelly montague on kelly montague day. kelly just was a style he rocked. he would always have this kind of tank top, backpack, usually had the old school head phones. there it is. the real picture. shoutout to kelly montague day. the shoutout to kelly and to garfield high school in seattle. in fact, our alma mater is known for the alumni like jimi hendrix
movement there. and then you have what some are call i don t know if you ve heard this. there are people out there calling it biden s hot policy summer. have you heard that? that s going around. no, i have not heard of the hot biden summer. i appreciate your honesty. some are calling it a hot policy summer, which is a playful nod to mega thee stallion about a true thing, which is early summer it was nothing works, joe manchin won t let anything happen. you re coming out towards labor day and people are hearing about inflation program, climate spending at a time when it s hot, and they say, oh, biden s doing things. now this week, student loan breakthrough. 10 to 20k for people of varying ages who are dealing with this broken system. you have a lot of people cheering that. there are fair debates. i asked some of those questions to susan rice last night. it s complicated. but then there s some really
secrets . she s never heard of this kind of thing. have you? i have not. it s interesting to hear her say, i m not going to get into national security, she was the former national security adviser. somebody just taking a load of and it deciding for himself what i want to keep and what i don t, that s unprecedented as far as i can tell. i mentioned from introducing you, we don t know why he s more interested in this now. but we know that he used to be so uninterested that it was seen as an issue, and they tried to change the briefing to keep him more interested. yeah. as an investigative mind set or a journalistic mind set we would call that suspicious. we cannot infer too much until we get more. but you deal in intelligence. you ve interviewed several presidents as part of your work. do you find that to be an odd or suspicious switch? and what can you tell us about that? it is odd in the sense that