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Hacks On Tap

The Death of Norms (with Robert Costa)

Hacks On Tap

Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.87.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, Murphy and Heilemann are joined by the great, pen-stained hack, Robert Costa. The Hacks dive into Trump’s first week in office, his aggressive approach to mass deportations, the political impact of his January 6th pardons, outrage exhaustion, security concerns, upcoming nomination votes, CHIPS, tariffs, and so much more. It’s an open-mic-night presidency, and we’re here to walk you through it!

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0:00.0

Hey, pull up a chair. It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

0:14.0

We've gotten a lot of people elected with those teletown halls.

0:24.6

We get on.

0:25.1

We have 25, 30,000 people on just in a congressional area, and they win easy.

0:30.3

It works for Elvis, the Beatles, and it doesn't work for anyone else, but it works for Trump.

0:35.9

Well, hackaroos, welcome to, I think it's day

0:38.5

eight of the Trump furneau. I'm here in Washington, D.C., your correspondent on an important mission

0:45.3

for EVs, watching the quiet streets as an eerie calm has descended over the city. Well,

0:52.0

all hell breaks loose in the bureaucracy to help us unrangle it because

0:56.1

the other guy escaped to Bolivia. He's given up. Here is the one and only third hack, Mr. John

1:01.3

Heilman, and we have a guest who is a fountain of wisdom and a good friend of the show.

1:06.6

Heilman, you should introduce our Sherpa. I believe it's a font of wisdom, not a fountain.

1:11.5

He's not a fountain of Wayne.

1:12.5

He's a fount. He's a fountain. He's 360. He's everything. He's on the channel.

1:16.7

It's Robert Costa who is with us. Bob, how you doing?

1:21.1

Good. You know, I actually saw a fountains of Wayne in Congress.

1:23.6

Of course you did. Of course you did. He was also the chief musicologist here for the Hexlandtamp Media Empire.

1:29.5

At some point, he was a, he was a member of Fountains of Wayne back when he was like 11 years old.

1:35.1

Bob, I want to ask you, the only reason we played that Trump clip is because I just think it's so funny, the version of Washington that Mike just described, doesn't sound

1:45.7

like Beatlemania there, but maybe, I don't know, it's just hilarious to hear Trump, you know,

1:49.3

the teleconferencing only works for the Beatles, Elvis, and me.

1:56.6

Who would you compare him more to, Elvis or the Beatles?

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