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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Okay. I want to start tonight by showing you something that's actually pretty cool that's happening right now on the floor of the Senate. |
0:14.6 | Because about an hour ago, Senator Cory Booker, you can see him right there, started speaking, and it seems like he's going to be speaking for quite a while. Senator Booker said he intends to disrupt the normal business of the Senate for as |
0:26.5 | long as he is physically able to. He says he's doing it because he believes sincerely that the nation |
0:32.8 | is in crisis. He said Americans are asking their lawmakers to acknowledge that what the Trump |
0:37.2 | administration is doing is not normal. |
0:40.5 | So that's what he intends to do. |
0:42.6 | And he said he's going to stand right there until he no longer can. |
0:46.3 | So we're going to keep a close eye on that tonight and just wanted to mention it right off the top because it's a pretty cool thing happening right now. |
0:54.9 | Now in the meantime, I want to talk about just how badly Donald Trump wants to change the |
1:00.4 | subject right now. |
1:02.4 | I mean, when something super embarrassing happens, that's what you want to do, right? |
1:05.9 | That's true in life. |
1:06.9 | And it's definitely true when the top members of your administration get caught texting |
1:11.2 | about imminent war plans on an unsecure app and accidentally include a reporter on the chain. |
1:17.6 | And trust me, Donald Trump knows this one is breaking through in a way that other scandals have not. |
1:23.0 | Say what you want about him, and I promise you, I will keep saying a whole lot of things. But perhaps |
1:28.9 | more than anything else, the guy is a ferocious consumer of television. And he knows how to read a poll. |
1:35.3 | And a brand new poll from CBS News released just yesterday, a full 75% of Americans said the Trump |
1:42.2 | administration discussing military plans on signal and accidentally |
1:46.3 | including a journalist is a serious matter. |
1:49.8 | You don't say. |
1:51.1 | Now, in that sample, 76% said it was not appropriate for the administration to use the |
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