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Hacks On Tap

Bad Options (with Whit Ayers and Jonathan Martin)

Hacks On Tap

Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.87.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week finds Gibbs flying solo as Axe and Murphy are, shall we say, on the run. Nevertheless, the show must go on, and Gibbs is joined by two esteemed guests: GOP pollster Whit Ayers and Jonathan Martin, renowned author of “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future". Together, they embark on a deep dive into the week's tumultuous news cycle, examining everything from the latest New York Times poll to Trump’s hush money jury selection, the challenges and opportunities for both parties on abortion and immigration messaging, foreign policy, campaign infrastructure, margins of error, the golden bachelor, and so much more!

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0:00.0

Hey, pull up a chair. It's hacks on tap with David Axel Rock, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy. Hello fellow hacks and welcome to this week's show look we've got a lot to discuss and

0:27.5

what I say a lot I mean a lot I just want to go through a couple of things that have

0:31.7

happened since the hacks convened and

0:33.8

taped a week ago. The Arizona Supreme Court using a law from 1864, not a typo,

0:41.8

outlawed nearly every abortion in the state of Arizona.

0:46.0

Big implications nationally, big implications in one of the swing states.

0:50.0

Donald Trump tried numerous times to delay the trial, which we'll get to in a second, in New York City a hush money trial.

0:58.0

Through fits and starts, the House passed some legislation, surveillance legislation, more on the House in a second.

1:06.1

Speaker Johnson found it friendlier to travel to Marlago than hang out with the Freedom Caucus

1:12.0

in Washington.

1:14.0

Speaker Johnson and the former president held a press event in Marlago where they talked

1:19.1

about introducing legislation to make it illegal for non-citizens to vote.

1:23.8

If you're keeping track at home, it is currently not legal in any of the 50 states

1:29.1

for non-citizens to vote.

1:31.9

We have a new New York Times poll that we'll discuss. Obviously big

1:37.2

foreign policy news Iran attacked Israel over the weekend. Jury selection started in the aforementioned Donald J Trump trial in New York, six to eight week trial, expected

1:51.2

to have a verdict sometime around Memorial Day.

1:55.0

And another big thing in Washington happening this week,

1:58.0

Speaker Johnson is finally going to bring to the floor,

2:01.0

Aid for Israel, aid for Taiwan, and aid for Ukraine. And last but not

2:06.4

least, the Golden Bachelor is getting divorced. We are going to cover all of those waiting topics with a couple of people today, a couple of guests because Murphy and Axeron, well, they worked hard one week and now they're all on vacation. But joining us with Airs, long time, esteemed GOP

2:26.7

Polster. And joining him, Jonathan Martin, Uber columnist for Politico, we'll discuss his latest

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