From Fireworks to Fallout: Musk’s Bizarre Move & Mamdani’s Mess

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Meghan and Miranda are back from the Fourth... rested, recharged, and heartbroken. The tragic events at Camp Mystic and across Texas cast a shadow over the holiday weekend. Then, POLITICO’s Capitol Bureau Chief Rachael Bade joins to catch us up on everything you may have missed: the fallout from the Big Beautiful Bill, Elon Musk’s surprise third-party launch, and the growing heat on NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani. Later, former UPenn swimmer Paula Scanlan joins to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to review state bans on transgender athletes. She shares her personal experience competing alongside Lia Thomas, and what might be coming next from the Court. Politics, culture, tragedy, and tough conversations... it’s all in today’s episode.

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0:00.0	Megan McCain has entered the chat.
0:07.0	Megan McCain has entered the chat. Welcome to Citizen McCain. I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend.
0:36.8	Miranda, did you have a nice Fourth of July? Yeah, it was nice. My in- all had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend. Miranda, did you have a
0:37.7	nice fourth of July? Yeah, it was nice. My in-laws bought a new house. So we went and it has a pool
0:43.7	in the backyard, which is so fabulous, like the ultimate luxury to have your own pool. So we had a
0:49.6	nice little pool party and did a cookout and the girls just swam and swim and swim the whole day.
0:55.8	And then just when I thought they were finished, they swam some more. And it was great.
1:01.0	It was such a wonderful time. It was very intimate and everybody came and it was lovely. So we had a
1:06.2	really good time. How about you? That's awesome. We went to local parade, excuse me, in Clarkdale, Arizona.
1:11.8	You love a parade. I do. Everybody loves a parade. And then we just, like, you know, made hot dogs with
1:17.5	friends and swam and same thing. Really nice. I love the Fourth of July. But sadly, you know,
1:24.9	one of the stories that we're all following that has just been so hard as this tragedy in Texas.
1:30.2	Officials say that 10 children and one counselor from Camp Mystic, which is a Christian's Girls Camp along the Guadalupe River, remain unaccounted for.
1:38.7	Across the state, there are still 41 known missing people.
1:42.3	The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes on Friday, which is the second highest
1:47.3	ever on record.
1:48.8	I want to show a clip really quickly of the Camp Mystic Kids on a bus tour, number one, please.
1:54.0	I'll shout it from the mountain top.
2:00.0	Right God.
2:00.7	I want my world to know.
2:03.3	The Lord of love has come to me.
2:06.4	I want to pass it on.
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