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Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Not one but two guest Hacks join Axe this week while Murphy and Gibbs are away on assignment. John Heilemann, Executive Editor of The Recount, and Amanda Carpenter, political columnist for The Bulwark, chat with Axe about Mike Pence’s attempt to pivot away from Trump, the RNC’s censure of Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, whether Democrats should invoke Trump in the midterm elections, the latest chapter of Covid politics, and Biden’s Supreme Court nomination process.

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair.
0:10.4	It's axon tap with David Axelroth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
0:22.0	President Trump is wrong.
0:24.3	I had no right to overturn the election.
0:27.0	The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone.
0:32.5	And frankly, there is no idea more on American than the notion that any one person could
0:37.5	choose the American president.
0:40.7	Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election.
0:44.9	And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.
0:52.0	Well, Jeff Fox, you didn't include the applause at the end there, which I thought was a pretty
0:57.5	clever turn for Pence to try and convert Republican self-immolation into a moment of triumph
1:04.3	by dumping on the Democrats at the end.
1:06.5	Hey, I can't talk to my normal hakarus about this because they're AWOL.
1:13.0	But I brought in the A team here, John Hyelman.
1:17.3	Good to see you, brother.
1:18.3	Good to see you too, man.
1:19.3	Where are those other dudes like those hakarus?
1:21.5	Where would they, AWOL is not really a very good or precise explanation for the House.
1:25.9	I think they're knocking over a bank.
1:27.4	I'm not sure.
1:28.4	Yes, that's right.
1:29.4	But Amanda Carpenter is with us today, the great Amanda Carpenter from the Bullwork,
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