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Hacks On Tap

Tirades in Tulsa (with Robert Gibbs)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.78K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Axe and Murphy are joined by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. We talk Trump’s Tulsa tirade and what the smaller-than-anticipated crowd size could mean for the campaign, the administration’s ongoing bungled pandemic response, big obstacles for Biden, the Bolton book, and more. Plus, we answer listener questions on whether a national crisis changes the importance of the economy in the minds of voters, to what extent we can trust polls this year, and Susan Rice VP speculation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, there, Murphy. I was hoping to start the show with music I'm told by our ace

0:29.7

engineer Jeff Fox that we would be treated badly if we stole music and used it on the show. So I

0:37.1

want to start with take me back to Tulsa, the great old Bob Will's tune and the Dexas playboy.

0:42.7

Well, unfortunately, the Democratic trial lawyers lobby prevents it, but it's the perfect theme song

0:48.4

for this episode since it's been such a slow news week. We have nothing to talk about. But you want

0:53.1

to start with Tulsa? That seems like the one place that Trump doesn't want to get taken back to

0:58.9

is Tulsa after what happened. And by the way, we have with us today our old buddy, Robert Gibbs,

1:06.4

who's as as a son of Alabama, probably is familiar with Bob Will's and the song take me back to Tulsa,

1:14.4

Gibbs, good to see you. Thank you guys for having me. I was in Tulsa once and I actually had a

1:19.6

lovely experience. So I don't know why Trump's but you weren't staring out at a sea of empty blue

1:26.2

seats. I was not expecting 19,000 people. No. So what about it, Murph? I know how much you hate being

1:34.8

called Murph, but I'm most most hate being called Murph, but everybody does it so we're just kind of,

1:39.5

you know, you know, we just, it could be where she could be smurf now. Do you like acts? Do you

1:44.4

like being your nickname being a medieval weapon of murder? Yeah, I've been called that on my life.

1:48.6

So yeah, it's something that you kind of like I can't. All right. So well, that roaring sound you

1:53.7

hear is the sound of campaign manager Brad Parscale, redlining one of his many forrari is heading

2:00.0

to the Mexican border with a suitcase full of cash as fast as possible because you're going to see

2:05.1

his head rolling down the white house steps. Vanity Fair already has a, I think I would say

2:10.4

unconfirmed, you know, report that he has decided to resign, but the bigger thing is it was a true

2:16.4

disaster. It was an expectations management disaster, but there was a tell behind that, I think,

2:23.8

even in the Ruby Red great state of Oklahoma, that, you know, COVID sanity beat Trump ego need for

2:34.2

a huge crowd, even even in a total red, red base area like that. So beyond the epic campaign

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