Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the bulwark. Just got off deadline White House with Nicole and Molly

John Fass. We were talking about Jared Kushner and Ivanka, raping Flamingo Island in Albania and

the corruption around this regime. We talked about the New New York Times story about Platner.

And I didn't get a chance to talk about this, but Dan Goldman was on right after me.

And he was discussing the vote that failed nearly in the Senate that would have stopped permanently,

Trump's ability to use the thug fund that he negotiated with himself and to disperse that to his allies.

So we know that Trump is backed off of, you know, his $1.8 billion thug fund.

But I think there's a lot of feeling that maybe after the midterms, he decides he doesn't have the political baggage.

There's not a fewer Republicans, you know, chirping his ear on the hill about it, that he'll just find another way to either

through this fund or something else to pay off his January 6th, insurrectionist allies.

Dan Goldman talked about that. I want to play a little bit of that from you from our

deadline White House hour and then come back and talk about one particular element of this

that got in my craw

relating to my senator, not for long, from Louisiana Bill Cassidy.

Let's listen to Goldman.

We finally seem to have hit at least some low spot.

I wouldn't say bottom, but some low spot where the Republicans are jumping.

And I don't know if they're jumping as

much because John Corny and Bill Cassidy were removed by Donald Trump endorsed candidates

around the same time that the slush fund happened, or if it is actually just too much,

or perhaps it is a critical mass of Tom Tillis, of Cassidy, of Cornyn, as well as the

others who have Murkowski, et cetera, who have generally been skeptical. But I'm very concerned

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