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Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

All three Hacks together —- a real Fourth of July miracle. They cover Thom Tillis’ resignation, the big, beautiful bill, the New York mayor’s race, Elon’s tweets, kitchen-table economics, rising star Sarah McBride, the Trump monster, the DOGE monster, and more—because nothing says “patriotism” like chaos, crypto, and meat cuts.

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair.
0:10.0	It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
0:14.0	So what do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years?
0:27.5	When President Trump breaks this promise by pushing them off of Medicaid
0:32.1	because the funding's not there anymore, guys,
0:36.5	when the White House, the picturesures advising the president, are not telling him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise. So, Murphy, Heilman, what I love about that. This is what happened. How about just say hello? David, how about say, Hey, guys? How about that? How about hi? Yeah, hey, yeah, hi.
0:55.3	How are you doing, guys?
0:56.3	I don't know.
0:57.4	Okay, hi. How are you guys doing? Murphy, I see your beard is growing up. I've decided, you see, I've got a little stubble too. I've decided not to shave until the Senate votes on this bill. So I could be a full David Letterman by...
0:52.2	No, no, I'm telling you, get ready to join the Red Sox,
0:55.4	because you could have the William Smith Carlin. Bill, so I could be a full David Letterman by... No, no, I'm telling you, get ready to join the Red Sox,
1:12.8	because you could have the William Smith cough drop beard here.
1:16.5	Yeah, but that was Tom Tillis who staged a revolt over the weekend
1:22.3	and ended up announcing he wasn't going to run for your election
1:26.7	rather than yielding to Donald Trump
1:28.5	instead of sticking up for a state.
1:32.4	Yeah.
1:33.1	But I love this because people say, well, obviously people are lying to him about what this
1:38.9	Well, yeah, so is the advisors, you know.
1:41.1	If they'd only tell King Edward about the problems here,
1:45.5	then, you know, but unfortunately those damn advisors, they're always screwing everything off.
1:49.6	He's such a good man. By the way, I want to, I want to salute Tillis. Yes. Who's shown
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