said or misled regarding the government basically, lying to th government or authorities in a way that might be illegal, i that they take this very seriously. and i would contrast that, alex, two times when we talk t people donald trump is a politician we talk to lawyers and aides and they don t feel that something is necessarily a existential threat or huge that i think mr. second pinot was clearly operating as a new yor trial lawyer, not just shall w say, a spokesman and i think that showed that a of this past week, they viewed this again as a very serious potential. and whether donald trump has been told internally, many for mr. second been on the other legal team, that this is likel or not, is what the lawyers sa he is operating on the lawyers as we reported earlier, but i want to emphasize right now, his lawyers are even saying hey, the statement doesn t mean tha it has been confirmed by the d side the ultimate and finally bases and will come from the government, and nowhere else
a space may not go over to rhonda scent is or whomeve else does that but, that doesn t mean tha democrats don t have to thin about their future and democrats are thinking about their future for 2024. which brings us to the vice, kamala harris. whom not everyone sort of gets what she is up to. so you had an interview with her, and i want to read an excerpt from what she wrot about it you interviewed her for vanity fair it was published on thursday and you have written, perhap it is a function of the worl and we all and have it, but th female vice president s wave friendlier and mor accommodating than a man in he position would ever be she is saddled with the burden of being first anything she says will attract more scrutiny. anything she doesn t do will attract more scorn there is a tension tha permeates the world around her being first is never comfortable. tell me more about this? so, i actually ha interviewed her for the podcas for a very short interview
and his weight supremacy and his gender six attack, or they loved the power that tha delivered. so to me, they re complicit in either case. also, molly, you said we agree with mitch mcconnell no, mitch mcconnell agrees wit us a look at that way donald trump is horrible this is the same mitchel connell who voted to acqui trump after january 6th. but he gave a speech minutes later saying trump is th problem in all of this it is the gop, folks, that i the problem. this gop is at its core fascist party. and it at about 60% of polls can you imagine there is a attack by dems a democrati president 60% of democrats sai that attack was defendin freedom? a match with the gop are calling? us so look, the gop sauce to g through them stuff they sought to lose a lot more elections. the other to find any path embrace democracy, or new part emerges and that is happenin in american history before nic it happened here so, molly, that might take couple of cycles the truth, is it donald trum run once ag
of the calm past podcast fas politics which i ve also the privilege of being and welcome to both of you i can t, i can t just, malay with mitch mcconnell i, mean donald trump insulte his wife, insults him, he made some comments after ye and what s his name, the holocaust denier went over for lunch that that has no place in th republican party didn t say the thing about donald trump himself talk about the quality o candidates, now pushed to th wall he finally says, mayb trump suburb loom. well, and he goes on nbc. i mean, right? it s practically like. that s a very pointed move, think. but yeah, that s amazing look he s put up with trump fo a long time. i think this is the one time that i ve ever agreed with mitch mcconnell. trump picked these terribl candidates and republicans los the midterms it is pretty easy to see tha even though biden didn t hav
towards maga republicanism and then there are others wh are downright hateful and ar using this to overturn the democracy. i think the bitter elections as you have said in ou discussions, it is one battl in a war that we are waiting right now. i think in that instance america has showed tha throughout our diversity, an our complexity, the one thin that we have in common, or the majority of americans have i common is that we want this to remain a democracy so i think that is what we are working towards. it s good to see you, merry christmas. by christmas, happy holidays we look for too many, man conversations. stacey, democratic representative for the unite states we are going to continue t break down the new details fro this historic plus, congress has passed massive 1.7 trillion dolla spending bill. among other things, it re-writes some election law. it provides billions of dollar in much-needed aid for ukraine and its defense agains