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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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-- On the Show:
-- Marc Elias, a top Democratic election lawyer, joins us to discuss his arguments before the Supreme Court on December 9 in defense of federal limits on coordinated spending between parties and candidates
-- The Trump administration faces escalating private sector job losses as ADP reports companies are losing about 13,500 jobs per week while the White House hides official economic data
-- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urges passengers to follow etiquette rules on planes while highlighting the need for fully staffed, competent air traffic control
-- A federal judge dismisses Trump's criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James because Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor Trump appointed, was not legally authorized
-- Attorney General Pam Bondi promises legal action and appeals for Trump's dismissed cases even though a judge ruled every part of the cases invalid due to improper prosecutorial authority
-- The White House postpones the unveiling of Trump's new health care proposal while ACA subsidies are likely to continue for at least two more years
-- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent advises people to move from blue states to red states to slightly reduce inflation while ignoring the larger income and health disparities
-- Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defends Trump's H1-B policies, healthcare focus, and confidence in Lindsey Halligan despite contradictions with his own statements
-- Karoline Leavitt insists that all presidential orders are lawful even as Trump repeatedly attempts to push the military into illegal actions and the UCMJ requires disobedience of unlawful orders
-- On the Bonus Show: Texas men indicted over plot to overtake Haitian island, the Pentagon to cut ties with the Boy Scouts, the Trump phone is nowhere to be seen, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | The cracks in the economy are getting wider. |
| 0:03.5 | As we now learn that private companies are losing over 13,000 jobs a week. |
| 0:08.3 | The White House has shut down just about every official economic reporting system that they |
| 0:13.3 | could. |
| 0:13.9 | They didn't like the jobs numbers. |
| 0:15.4 | They didn't like the inflation numbers. |
| 0:17.0 | They don't want a GDP report. |
| 0:18.8 | So just shut the entire thing down. |
| 0:27.6 | And the Fed is going to be making interest rate decisions with no official data because Trump just doesn't like the numbers. Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a brilliant plan to fix air travel. |
| 0:32.6 | No more pajamas on planes, no more slippers on planes, but doing nothing about the actual air traffic |
| 0:40.8 | control issue. |
| 0:42.1 | And meanwhile, the cases from Trump's DOJ against James Comey and Letitia James have been thrown |
| 0:48.5 | out. |
| 0:49.4 | Turns out Trump's handpick prosecutor, Lindsay Halligan, wasn't even legally appointed. |
| 0:54.5 | And by the way, is incompetent. |
| 0:56.9 | And Pam Bondi is pretending like this is only a small and temporary setback. |
| 1:01.6 | Donald Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt, having some of the worst 24 hours since she |
| 1:06.0 | took the job. |
| 1:06.8 | And we will also hear from attorney Mark Elias about a major major case that you are not going to want to miss. We've got a great bonus show for you. Thanksgiving is coming up. I'm wearing a completely outrageous sweater, which will certainly throw 10 to 12% of the audience into an absolute tizzy and we're still donating new membership |
| 1:29.1 | monies received to feeding America through Thanksgiving, trying to do something about hunger |
| 1:36.7 | in the United States. |
| 1:42.3 | The economic news is not so good. |
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