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Hacks On Tap

Groundwork & Gruntwork (with Steve Israel)

Hacks On Tap

Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.87.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week, Axe and Murphy were joined by the coolest cat from Congress, Steve Israel! The Hacks discuss Trump’s immigration war, avoiding the Schumer shutdown, warrior mentality, and more. Plus, stick around ‘til the end for an inspiring message from Steve—you’ll be glad you did!

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0:00.0

Hey, pull up a chair. It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

0:20.6

I'm proud to be a part of this administration. We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think.

0:25.4

I don't care of the left things. We're coming. All right. They're coming. That's Tom. They're coming for you, Axelrod. You're on the list.

0:33.4

I'm sure after this podcast, that'll be true. Tom Homan, who's the immigration czar of the Trump administration, after a judge question,

0:45.8

the snatching up of hundreds of Venezuelans and spiriting them off to El Salvador.

0:55.4

Murphy, there's a lot to discuss today, and we need somebody extra sharp.

1:02.4

But all we could come up with is Steve Israel.

1:05.6

I know, and we were going alphabetical, too.

1:09.4

We've got the coolest, coolest cat from Congress, I'll say here.

1:14.4

There you go.

1:15.4

Not only did he serve the great people of Long Island, thankless work in my view,

1:21.8

having worked on campaigns there, but he did it for years, ran the Democratic Congressional

1:26.3

Campaign Committee to great success.

1:28.6

Yes.

1:28.8

And being a Renaissance man, runs a bookstore called Theodores out there, which is a leading light,

1:35.2

a high lantern of civilization in these dark and troubled times.

1:38.9

So, Steve, thank you for joining us today.

1:41.1

Well, even with David's snarky introduction, I'm happy to be with you.

1:46.2

I knew that Murphy was going to clean up on aisle nine so I could do that.

1:51.8

But listen, let's get to the, there's a lot, you know, there's, it's crazy with the zone

1:57.6

being flooded every day.

1:58.8

There's, we really do Murphy, maybe need to do this every single day the way

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