Senator Elizabeth Warren launches Senate Banking Dems on Substack, calls for SEC investigation into Trump... plus we catch Molly Jong-Fast in a NYC taxi... also Duke makes a Friday cameo!
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Jim Acosta
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we are live. Welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show. As you can see, I have a very special |
| 0:05.3 | guest to end this week, TGIF. Thank goodness it's Friday. Senator, I'm sure you would echo that |
| 0:11.2 | sentiment after the week we have had. As you can see, everybody is very excited that you're here |
| 0:18.3 | seeing lots of comments come in, all the hearts coming in. |
| 0:21.4 | And my goodness, what a week we have had, Senator. |
| 0:24.7 | One of the reasons why I wanted to talk to you is that Senate banking Democrats under your leadership have launched an account on Substack. |
| 0:31.9 | This is where the cool kids are right now, as I like to tell people. |
| 0:36.1 | But you're the ranking member on that committee. Tell us about the message from Democrats when it comes to what is happening right now, as I'd like to tell people. But you're the ranking member on that committee. Tell us |
| 0:38.8 | about the message from Democrats when it comes to what is happening right now because people right now, |
| 0:43.1 | I mean, yes, the Dow went up today. Whoopty-Doo, people are freaking out over the markets. Their 401ks, |
| 0:48.8 | their retirement savings. And now the housing market might take another hit. Mortgage rates are climbing |
| 0:53.5 | again. |
| 0:57.9 | Trump has caused a great deal of economic turmoil this week. |
| 0:58.9 | What are your thoughts? |
| 1:03.7 | Look, Trump is driving this economy over a cliff. |
| 1:07.9 | And we've had a lot of economic problems in the past, right? |
| 1:09.7 | We had the crash in 2008. |
| 1:14.2 | We had the problems we had following COVID. |
| 1:19.3 | But this is the first time that I know of any time in U.S. history where one single guy, all by himself in the brilliance of his own interior mind, managed to take a good, strong economy, and do |
| 1:32.2 | everything possible to blow it up. So now we're in a place where every one of the economic lights |
| 1:39.2 | is flashing red. So we had this strong economy, making good recovery. Things are like headed in the right |
| 1:45.9 | direction. And now they're all in chaos. And it's because of Donald Trump. The latest, of course, |
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