Hey, pull up a chair.

It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

Vladimir Putin said something.

One of the most interesting things, he said your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.

He said mail-in voting every election.

He said no country has mail-in voting.

It's impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections. And he said that to me. It was very interesting because we talked about 2020. He said, you won that election by so much. And that's how he got it. He said, and if you would have won, we wouldn't have had a war. You'd have all these millions of people alive now instead of dead. And he said, and you lost it because of mail-in voting.

It was a rigged election.

Wow, that Putin, he really straightened him out, you know.

Well, you know what?

I'll tell you what, if you want to know about how to run fair and clean elections,

there is no one on the planet, Mike Murphy, that I would want to go to more than Vladimir Putin.

Though, you know, Vladimir did say in a follow-up interview, the upside to it is when they mail in their ballots, you have an address so you know where to arrest them after the election.

Easier to find.

That would appeal as well. The second guy I would go to

after Vladimir Putin would be Ron Brownstein. That's true. The smartest guys around when it comes

to analyzing American politics. Brownstein, it's been a minute. It's great to have you. Great to have you back.

Yeah, great to be back with you guys. The Putin Election Security Act of 2025. We're going to get,

we're going to get back to this because I think not coincidentally, Trump launched his latest assault for 2026 to try and advantage the Republicans.

Yesterday, under the cover of this parlay that he had at the White House with the European

leaders in Zelensky.

And we should just acknowledging that that was a big event. Maybe we should

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