I Know Next Sick Trick Trump Has Up His Sleeve

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins Joanna Coles to take on the chaos surrounding Donald Trump’s strikes in Iran—warning that the president may be waging a war without a clear strategy and without Congress’s approval. The former Marine questions Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership, calls for the firing of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over alleged conflicts of interest, and explains why Democrats are already preparing for the possibility that Trump could try to undermine the 2026 midterm elections. The conversation ranges from the Democratic Party’s struggle to reclaim patriotism and define its economic message to the political power of tech titans like Elon Musk and the national security threat posed by TikTok—before ending with lingering questions about the Epstein Files. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	How concerned are you with his talk of federalizing the elections, that there will be some kind of interference with the midterms. We should be very concerned. I mean, it's not academic. The guy tried to steal an election in 2020. In 2016, he was ready to claim it was a fraud if he hadn't won it. There's never been an example of him accepting the outcomes of an election result that's not to his benefit. So I think we have to assume he's going to try to steal it.
0:59.0	I'm Joanna Coles.
1:00.2	This is the Daily Beast podcast.
1:01.6	And I'm very fired up to bring you today's conversation with a man who I guess the best
1:07.5	description for him is he's an insurgent, moderate Democrat, and he's got opinions
1:13.6	on everything, like when is RFK Jr. going to be fired? Who is the next cabinet minister that
1:19.6	should go? He's also, as a Marine, got strong opinions on what an earth America is doing in Iran Iran and why has nobody explained it to us?
1:30.1	He went to Harvard, he was a Marine, and he got his MBA from MIT.
1:35.1	So his credentials are impeccable as a member of the Democratic elite.
1:41.5	His only problem is he's so young.
1:44.0	He's literally half the age of the two senators
1:47.3	representing Massachusetts. I'm talking about Congressman Jake Orkincloss. And well, no time to
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