exclusive audio of congressman matt gaetz discussing pardons with a key trump ally. then, the new maga, forget trump, we are talking about mothers against greg abbott, a new group that wants change for texas families. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, mitch mcconnell got played, there is no other way to say. he got duped, he fooled, he got bamboozled, whatever word you want to use, that is what happened to him. it is a statement i don t think i have ever said before on the show. i m about to say something else rather unprecedented, kudos to joe manchin, working together with senate majority leader chuck schumer. joe manchin pulled a fast one on old mitch and in doing so, resurrected president biden stalled legislative agenda. how did they manage it? it is a bit complicated, so bear with me for a second. you see, the white house and senate democrats had two pieces of legislation that they wanted to pass before the midterms. one was the so-called chips bill, w
i have ever said before on the show. i m about to say something else rather unprecedented, kudos to joe manchin, working together with senate majority leader chuck schumer. joe manchin pulled a fast one on old mitch and in doing so, resurrected president biden stalled legislative agenda. how did they manage it? it is a bit complicated, so bear with me for a second. you see, the white house and senate democrats had two pieces of legislation that they wanted to pass before the midterms. one was the so-called chips bill, which provided funding for american made semiconductors and the other was a renegotiated slimmed down version of president biden s build back better proposal from last year. mitch mcconnell and a number of senate republicans supported the chips bill, but those same senators threatened to block its passage if democrats attempted to pass any biden s build back better plan do the reconciliation process. the once a year exception, one budget related legislation can
political advertising, that sort of, that very effective way to connect with voters. i would love to see more of that, and more groups around the country with adopting this sort of method. you talk about fetterman s ads, his trolling of dr. oz, and in pennsylvania, you talk about nuisance ads. so, maybe, maybe finally, after years and years of complaining about democratic messaging, and bringing up briefing books to a knife fight, maybe, they re actually bringing knives to the night fight now. and, you know, that can mean some points in a close election. so, more of it will be released. yeah, and speaking of the politics of it, betsy, we have about 30 seconds. we are seeing record fundraising from better or work, abbott s challenger, who always talks about texas
i would love to see more of that, and more groups around the country with adopting this sort of method. you talk about fetterman s ads, his trolling of dr. oz, and in pennsylvania, you talk about nuisance ads. so, maybe, maybe finally, after years and years of complaining about democratic messaging, and bringing up briefing books to a knife fight, maybe, they re actually bringing knives to the night fight now. and, you know, that can mean some points in a close election. so, more of it will be released. yeah, and speaking of the politics of it, betsy, we have about 30 seconds. we are seeing record fundraising from better or work, abbott s challenger, who always talks about texas some days this year. major democratic donors historically have been pretty