A Most Gracious Loser (with John Heilemann)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Axe and Gibbs are joined by superhack John Heilemann, now the host of his own podcast “Hell & High Water.” The Hacks discuss the ongoing attempt by Trump to subvert our democracy, take a deep dive into some of the challenges facing the Democratic party in the near term, and talk about the politics of the stimulus negotiations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair.
0:10.4	It's axon tap with David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
0:15.7	If I lost, I'd be a very gracious loser.
0:26.6	If I lost, I would say I lost, and I'd go to Florida, and I'd take it easy, and I'd
0:32.0	go around, and I'd say I did a good job.
0:35.1	But you can't ever accept when they steal and rake and rob.
0:40.5	Can't accept.
0:44.5	Okay.
0:53.9	Well, there you have it, Gibbs.
0:55.7	I feel like I'm in a Roman Coliseum.
0:57.7	Yeah.
0:58.7	Well, you know, the fact is, I don't know what the count is in the Washington Post on falsehoods
1:02.8	and lies that the president is told in, but maybe the biggest whopper of all is that he
1:06.9	would be a gracious loser.
1:09.0	Yeah.
1:10.0	So speaking of gracious losers, speaking of gracious losers, here's John Hileman.
1:14.2	Our old buddy, the circus and MSNBC, and I like to think that if I get my ass handed
1:21.2	to me, I don't go back and say, please hand my ass to me again over and over again in
1:25.7	the same contest.
1:27.1	It's like a very special kind of glutton for punishment, gluttony for punishment that we
1:31.7	see on Trump's part here.
1:32.7	Yeah.
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