Mixed Messages (with Sasha Issenberg)

Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week, Axe and Murphy were joined by the distinguished Hack and renowned lie detective, Sasha Issenberg. Together, they delve into Trump's contradictory stance on abortion and his intriguing status as a Florida voter. The Hacks also dissect Biden's endeavors for student loan forgiveness, the evolving landscape of TikTok, the complexities of foreign policy, ongoing conflicts, the impact of social media, the rise of deep fakes, the lunar eclipse, and oh so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair. It's hacks on tap with David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
0:15.0	Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights,
0:27.0	especially since I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that all legal scholars both sides wanted and in fact
0:36.1	demand it be ended. Row v. Wait they wanted it ended. You know David this explains everything because when that decision came down I couldn't walk around without seeing judges and lawyers skipping down the street with joy. It was a big uniting moment. I've never seen
0:53.7	I'm happier. Yes, yes, it was I don't you remember those Halcyon days when
0:59.4	everybody got along and everybody we were all unified as a country wanting to do away with Roe versus Wade.
1:05.6	I forgot about that.
1:07.6	Yeah, me too, but the former president hasn't.
1:10.1	I'll tell you who else hasn't is our our guest here who can unfurl the mysteries of
1:20.1	the campaign world as we know it the digital campaign world as we know it, the digital campaign world as we know it today.
1:24.8	Sasha Eisenberg, author of The Lai Detectives in search of a playbook for winning elections
1:31.2	in the disinformation age.
1:33.3	Sasha, good to see you again.
1:34.9	Right to be with you, Hacks.
1:36.0	Thanks for coming and please tell me you did not bring the lie detector here,
1:40.7	right?
1:41.0	Because this show cannot take that.'d go on tilt yeah it would explode in a
1:46.7	Shower sparks now. This is a polygraph free zone yeah okay great then let us
1:51.6	See back in business But listen, as a strategic matter, this was interesting because he was trying for, no one
1:59.8	it would ever accuse him of having the wisdom of Solomon, but he was trying or his campaign team was trying for some solomonic solution to his problem having campaigned for years to do away with Roe versus Wade and visiting this turmoil and
2:17.0	heartache on the country he now is running in a general election and he tried to split the Murphy how how successful you
2:27.2	think he he was with that I feel like not very well you know it's just it's so ludicrous in Republican meetings struggling with the
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