8/8/25: Trump meddles in NYC mayor's race as tech CEOs capitulate

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4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- Dan Koh, host of The People's Cabinet, fills in for David. Subscribe to Dan's YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/@ThePeoplesCabinet

-- Trump announced plans for a new census excluding undocumented immigrants, a move that would face major constitutional challenges and could reshape congressional representation

-- House Republicans, backed by Trump, are pursuing an aggressive redistricting push in states like Florida, Texas, and Ohio to gain a dozen or more seats before 2026

-- A minor online critique of Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad was amplified by right-wing influencers, media, and politicians into a broader culture-war controversy

-- Former Biden adviser Anita Dunn told House investigators that while Biden aged physically in office, he remained fully engaged and in control, rejecting claims that staff made key decisions without his consent

-- Trump, joined by economist Stephen Moore, showcased charts in the Oval Office to argue the U.S. economy is strong and justify firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief

-- Trump has nominated Stephen Miran, his Council of Economic Advisers chair and architect of his tariff policy, to temporarily fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve Board

-- The Trump administration has begun ending collective bargaining agreements for federal unions, starting with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which stripped labor protections from over 400,000 employees

-- Top tech CEOs like Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman have courted Trump with gifts, praise, and investments

-- Trump has quietly considered stepping into New York’s mayoral race to oppose leftist Zohran Mamdani, consulting with Andrew Cuomo and advisers

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump wastes tax dollars on White House improvements, Trump threatens to take control of Washington DC, and much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome. My name is Dan Coe. I am still not David Packman. The most important
0:13.0	topic today is that David Pacman has welcomed a second child into this world. Let's all congratulate
0:18.2	him and his family and let's all hope he gets a little bit of
0:22.3	sleep. But there's a lot to cover, as I mentioned in yesterday's episode. I was the deputy cabinet
0:28.8	secretary and deputy director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House. What the hell does that
0:33.1	mean? It means that I helped work with the cabinet on behalf of President Biden, as well as worked with
0:38.9	mayors and governors on behalf of the president on things like disaster response and all kinds of
0:45.6	the gambit. Before that, I was Chief of Staff of the Department of Labor. That is the agency that
0:50.6	oversees the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I gave a little bit of overview of how that
0:54.9	works, but I'm going to elaborate a little bit more today. And I worked at the Huffington post before that
0:59.6	as Chief of Staff to Ariana Huffington. And before that was Chief of Staff to Mayor Walsh in City Hall
1:05.8	with some dabbles in the private sector. So I am so honored, again, to be a part of your community.
1:12.6	I'm so grateful to read all the comments from yesterday, both good and bad. I appreciate the feedback,
1:17.9	and I promise that I will try to get better. So I want to start first with a tweet that the president
1:24.3	put out about the census. He wrote, I have instructed our Department of Commerce to
1:31.2	immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate census based on modern day facts and figures.
1:36.7	Importantly, using the results and information gained from the presidential election of 2024.
1:41.9	People who are in our country illegally will, all caps, will not be counted in the
1:46.9	census. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Okay, so we're used to that last line from the
1:51.5	president. So, MPR writes this. According to a social media proposed by Trump, that census would
1:58.7	exclude millions of people living in the country without legal status, an unprecedented change to how the country has conducted population tallies
2:05.8	since the first U.S. census in 1790. Why is that? Because the 14th Amendment requires that the
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