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Palace Intrigue (with Doug Heye)

Hacks On Tap

Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.87.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week the Hacks were joined by Hackeroo (and very friendly guy) Doug Heye. Doug taps into his experience as the former communications director for the RNC and deputy chief of staff to Eric Cantor to discuss the Republican in-fighting for the next Speaker of the House. The Hacks also discuss the strategy behind Sinema leaving the Democratic Party, how that shapes upcoming races, and so much more!

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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.

0:15.1

This is the day 4-6 happens and next thing you know, I organized the whole thing along

0:26.3

with Steve Van Aiden here.

0:30.3

And I don't tell you so, but if Steve Van Aiden and I had organized that, we would have won.

0:38.0

So Murphy, I always thought you missed your calling and you should have done stand-up, but

0:42.9

man, you would have had better material than Marjorie Taylor Greene did the other night.

0:46.3

I know she ate it.

0:47.3

I'm telling you, it crickets even in that crazy room, but I'll tell you, I got a note

0:51.2

from her friend at the Pfizer lab and they said, look, we're the best in the world, but

0:55.1

we can't help her.

0:56.1

There's nothing we make.

0:58.1

You know, just get the straight jacket and let's wish her well.

1:02.2

That was something else, but it is emblematic as you well know, Brother Axelroth of the crazy

1:07.7

town that's broken out in large part of the Republican House conference, not all of it,

1:12.0

I think, but enough to be troublesome.

1:14.1

So our guest, we decided to reach high and get Doug a former RNC comms director, a veteran

1:21.4

of Capitol Hill, was Deputy Chief of Staff for repelling a majority leader, Eric Canner.

1:26.1

I think comms director for Senator Richard Bertu, but somebody who really knows the game

1:30.5

of thrones like intrigue going on in the house right now is Kevin McCarthy tries to scrape

1:36.5

and ooze and claw his way to a narrow way.

1:39.6

Yeah, when they go low, we go high.

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