Welcome to the Rest is Politics US with me, Katty K.

And me, Anthony Scaramucci, Katty.

We're going to be diving into Trump's latest power grab today,

from deploying American troops in our cities to bending the courts.

And obviously he's still intimidating all of our great institutions,

including most of our elite universities, Caddy.

So another big week in Trump land.

Yeah, and trying to fire a Federal Reserve Board governor.

So we'll see how that goes down.

Trump says he's not a dictator.

We're going to ask whether his actions are starting to tell a different story. And then in the

second half, we're going to look at whether the Democrats can fight back effectively. We're seeing

some movement from Democratic governors that's been kind of interesting the last week or so. And is

their new strategy working? Before we start, though, I want to have a little strategy

here. You know, I'm convening our first cabinet meeting. I just want to say you have a lovely

sweater on and I like your hair color and I think you're a phenomenal podcaster and you've

you've made podcasting safe. It's not enough really. More, more, please. You've made podcasting safe in America. You've made podcasting safe. It's not enough, really. More, more, please.

You've made podcasting safe in America.

You've closed the podcasting borders.

It's okay, Anthony, but, you know, step it up.

The fact that every cabinet meeting goes to a higher level of ass kissing is, I mean, there's nobody in there. This is a timeout. Could you just imagine? It's almost like a Saturday lights go. It's always like, okay, timeout. The ass-kissing is out of control. Could somebody dial it back in? Trump, you look like shit. You're walking like shit. I mean, what are you doing? You know what it is? They'd look to the Europeans come in and they'd learned from their European colleagues. I mean, maybe they called up the Europeans and said, that was good. How did you guys do it? How did you coordinate your flattery in a way that it sounded authentic? And then they went and studied it a bit and then they came in. They had three and a half hours of this cabinet meeting with the cameras in there. The poor camera guy's arms must have been falling off, holding up that boom mic. And one bit, oh, did you notice this? My best bit. The camera, of course, is on Donald Trump. Next to him is Pete Hegseth. And on the other side of him is Marco Rubio, who just won't look up, who's doing doodles on his notepad. You can see him. Watch the video, guys.

There's Marco Rubio, who just won't look up, who's doing doodles on his notepad. You can see him. Watch the video, guys. There's Marco Rubio just like, say, please God get me out of here. Please, God, get me out of here alive. Please, God, how do I not make sure that my face betrays what I'm actually thinking? This is just vomit making. And all the while, he's doing little doodles. You're not alive.

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