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Can Newsom Stop Trump's Steal?

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

News, Politics

4.683.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In response to Trump and Texas Republicans' attempt to rig the 2026 midterm elections, Governor Gavin Newsom calls a special election to redraw California's congressional map. The governor stops by the show to talk to Dan about why California Democrats decided to strike first—and what it will take for the ballot proposal to become law. But first, Jon and Dan discuss Trump's authoritarian power grab in the nation's capital, the January 6th attendee he appointed to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the President's negotiations in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Thank you. Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favro.

1:28.0

I'm Dan Pfeiffer. On today's show, we got vehicle checkpoints and street patrols in newly militarized D.C. ICE is out of control and showing up at Democratic political

1:33.5

events. Trump thinks Putin wants to make peace ahead of their Alaska meeting. Gavin Newsom talks to us

1:39.4

about his big redistricting announcement today, and we'll end with a few minutes on the podcast guest

1:44.9

everyone's talking about this week.

1:48.7

How's that?

1:49.9

But let's start with this week's big economic news.

1:52.8

Wholesale prices, which are basically the prices that producers like farmers, factories,

1:57.3

other businesses get paid for their goods and services, just rose at the fastest

2:02.8

rate in three years. Economists say this is a sign that the cost of Trump's tariffs are starting

2:08.8

to hit hard and will start affecting consumers in a bigger way, driving up inflation. So what does

2:15.7

Donald Trump have to say? Here he is just hours after the report was

2:19.4

released. We've ended Biden's inflation nightmare. So we have the worst inflation in the history of

2:25.4

our country. And now our inflation is down to a perfect number, a beautiful number, hardly any at all.

2:32.0

Perfect number, beautiful number, hardly any at all.

2:36.0

He didn't need to say that.

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