Veritas v. Vendetta (with Jonathan Martin and Robert Costa)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week, Mike Murphy is flying solo — but fear not, he’s joined by two heavyweight Hacks: Jonathan Martin, veteran political reporter and senior political columnist for Politico, and Robert Costa, CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent and co-author of Peril with Bob Woodward. Together, they dive into POTUS v. SCOTUS, wrongful deportations, China’s tariff triumphs, Harvard fighting back, deficits, stagflation, strongman stuff, and — naturally — a slew of other uplifting developments in American democracy.

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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	Mark, do you have something to stand?
0:22.6	Yeah, I mean, Steven Eidland, I don't understand what the confusion is.
0:25.6	This individual is a citizen of El Salvador.
0:28.6	He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country.
0:31.6	That's where you deport people back to their country of origin,
0:34.6	except for Venezuela that wasn't refusing to take people back or places like that.
0:38.7	I can tell you this, Mr. President.
0:40.4	No, the foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the President of the United States,
0:44.5	not by a court.
0:45.6	And no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United
0:49.7	States.
0:50.2	It's that simple.
0:51.3	End a story.
0:52.3	All right.
0:53.3	Here we are, Hackaroos.
0:55.0	Quite a day in the Oval yesterday, as you just heard.
0:58.9	That was Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with a legacy that includes freeing, imprisoned, authoritarian Cuba.
1:06.2	Now talking about this poor gentleman who's been dumped in an El Salvador and hellhole by the local thug
1:12.3	Presidante at the request of our Presidante, Donald Trump. And by the way, he does have legal
1:18.2	citizenship status. And he's never been convicted or even accused or prosecuted for any gang behavior,
1:25.9	yet they scooped them up, admitted it was
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