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🗓️ 17 May 2025
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0:00.0 | The last word with Ali Valshi hosting starts right now. Hey, Ali. Hi, friend. Can I ask you to go back |
0:05.5 | to your days as a White House Press secretary? Sure. It's like riding a bike. Yeah, right. You go out |
0:12.2 | there one day knowing some domestic policy that you're working on is not going as well as you'd like, |
0:16.9 | and reporters are coming at you about that, sort of like Donald Trump showing back up and, you know, |
0:21.6 | this budget reconciliation bill is not going the way he likes. |
0:24.5 | So once he turned to, I would assume that you try and misdirect perhaps to some topic |
0:29.1 | that you'd rather talk about. |
0:30.6 | Donald Trump keeps choosing this plane from Congress. |
0:33.5 | Yeah. |
0:34.8 | I like... |
0:35.4 | He loves the plane. |
0:36.5 | I would say if somebody gave me a $400 million plane, I just, |
0:40.8 | and if I took it, which I probably shouldn't, I would just not talk about it that much. |
0:46.1 | I know, but he loves it so much. I guess it's better than talking about the budget bill |
0:50.8 | failing in the budget committee, which you're nerdy like me and no, that's not a |
0:54.9 | good sign for it. |
0:55.6 | Your own committee didn't make it out of your own. |
0:57.8 | It didn't make it out of the committee you control. |
1:00.4 | Right. |
1:01.1 | Exactly. |
1:01.9 | By a wide margin. |
1:04.5 | But the plane. |
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