The Jim Acosta Show Episode 3 - With Director of Center for Politics at UVA - Larry Sabato
The Jim Acosta Show
Jim Acosta
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Day 3 of the new show! We get into everything including my run-in at the anti-Musk rally in DC this week. Plus I tease my conversation with MeidasTouch Network - Tomorrow at 1pm ET. Stay tuned Friday for a big congressional guest.
Still reporting from Washington, I’m Jim Acosta.
Thank you Scott Dworkin, Taegan Goddard, Shannon Brandao, Jessica Smock, Ally Hamilton, and many others for tuning into my live video with Larry Sabato! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, starting a couple minutes late, but welcome to the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:23.0 | Episode three on this Wednesday afternoon. |
| 0:27.1 | A little chilly in Washington. |
| 0:28.5 | I don't know about you, but this is definitely not the weather we were having yesterday when it was about 20 degrees warmer. |
| 0:34.5 | So good to be inside. |
| 0:36.4 | Good to be warm. |
| 0:39.4 | Duke is curled up on the sofa a few feet away. Maybe I'll get them to come over a little bit later. I did tuck her him out. |
| 0:44.1 | I'll just admit right now. I did tuck her him out a little bit before the show started just to get |
| 0:48.5 | things underway. Folks who are listening to episode one or watching episode one the other day, might have heard a |
| 0:54.9 | couple of whimpers in the background because Duke wanted to, you know, get in on the chat already. |
| 0:59.9 | And I can see your comments already right now. |
| 1:01.8 | But anyway, my goodness, where do we begin? |
| 1:06.2 | It's Wednesday, which reminds me of that meme from 30 Rock where Liz Lemon says, what a week. |
| 1:13.3 | And Jack Donegie says, Lemon, it's only Wednesday. |
| 1:16.8 | In just a few moments, I'll be joined by the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, my old friend, Larry Sabado. |
| 1:24.6 | And we're getting him squared away as we speak. |
| 1:27.1 | But in the meantime, let's get started. |
| 1:31.3 | Let's talk about what's happening in the news today. |
| 1:33.2 | And I guess first of all, I think the only place to start is clean up on 1,600. |
| 1:38.3 | Clean up on Isle 1600. |
| 1:40.2 | The top story of the White House is already apparently walking back. |
| 1:44.1 | Trump's pledge to rebuild Gaza and turn it into the Riviera. |
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