Welcome to Potsave America. I'm Tommy Vitor. Over the past couple of weeks, we have been focused on this

messy conversation about problems within the Democratic Party and how to fix them. Always a fun topic on

Twitter. No one ever gets mad. We're also going to talk about how Democrats should adjust their

approach to a second Trump term. At the same time, though, there's an equally

important discussion going on in the media about how to cover Trump for a second time. And because

crooked media sits in both those worlds, that's a discussion we also want to have. So joining me

today to dig into this media debate is someone who is uniquely qualified to help us think through

these big changes and how we approach them. Eugene Daniels is a White House correspondent for Politico,

a co-author of their enormously influential playbook newsletter and the president of the White

House Correspondents Association. Eugene, welcome. Hello, thanks for having me. Great to see you. You're

also the best dressed man in Washington. We'll get to that later. But the bar is very low. for having me. Great to see you. You're also the best

dressed man in Washington. We'll get to that later. But the bar is very low. You know, a lot of

suits happening here. Buddy, I was the number, I was the first in line at the fucking three for one

sale at Joseph A. Banks. Don't even, I can't suck any shit. But we're going to get into all this

media stuff, talk about all the tough questions about covering Trump, your sort of journey to the center of this. But first, let's talk about the latest in D.C. So it's Wednesday morning, L.A. time. It looks like Pete Hegs-Sen nomination to be Secretary of Defense is maybe unsurprisingly in a bit of trouble. Already the impression was that senators were concerned about the allegations

of sexual assault and excessive drinking and had committed to having some pretty serious hearings

for Hegsef. But this morning, there were new reports that Trump and Ron DeSantis have talked

about DeSantis getting the nod if Hegsef doesn't make it through. This morning,

Hexeth is vowing not to back down. He's tweeting

that the left is smearing him with, quote, fake anonymous sources and BS stories, end quote,

one of those lefty fake sources, his own mother, who as we discussed on the Tuesday show,

wrote that now public incredibly damning email to Hegseh in 2018, calling him an abuser of women.

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