A Most Gracious Loser (with John Heilemann)

Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K 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.

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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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