Week in Review | 8/17/25
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Aaron McIntire recaps the week’s highlights: Vice President JD Vance details the GOP’s push for a new census and aggressive redistricting in red states to counter Democratic gerrymandering, emphasizing the need for decisive action to rebalance congressional apportionment. The nation mourns astronaut Jim Lovell, whose Apollo 13 heroism and Genesis 1 reading inspired millions. A discussion on AI’s impact on jobs highlights a Zoomer’s struggle to find work post-coding degree, with Aaron arguing that advanced AI prompts will demand skilled writers, not replace coders. Plus, a poll reveals 45.6% support Trump reining in crime in blue cities, though concerns about precedent linger.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AM Update, week in review, a collection of the best moments from Aaron McIntyre's |
| 0:08.0 | morning update. |
| 0:09.5 | Vice President J.D. Vance, as part of his interview on Fox News on Sunday, went through |
| 0:13.8 | what's at stake in great detail with not only redistricting, but the proposed new census, |
| 0:20.7 | which I've made it clear, and I think you probably agree, |
| 0:23.6 | needs to happen sooner rather than later. Here he is laying out in great detail what he thinks |
| 0:28.4 | the aftermath of those actions taking a new census and redistricting to the nth degree in red |
| 0:34.3 | states will actually have on the future of the country. Yeah, so another |
| 0:37.8 | crazy thing that I had no idea about, but everybody, even Democrats actually admit this, that the |
| 0:42.2 | census in 2020 had a major statistical error. And what that meant is that you actually undercounted |
| 0:48.0 | a few states that are Republican like Florida and Ohio. You overcounted some blue states. And so |
| 0:54.0 | what I understand, if you actually |
| 0:56.9 | did the census anew right now, you would have 10 additional Republican seats and nine fewer |
| 1:03.1 | Democrat seats. And really what we're living with, Maria, is the consequence of 40 years of |
| 1:08.4 | institutional control in the Democratic Party. These guys have fought very dirty for a very long time. |
| 1:13.4 | And they haven't just won elections and enacted laws that we may not agree with. |
| 1:17.4 | They have tried to rig the game for Democrats and against Republicans. |
| 1:21.1 | And thankfully, under President Trump's leadership, you finally see some spine. |
| 1:25.7 | You finally see some backbone in the Republican Party to fight back |
| 1:28.7 | against these very aggressive democratic dirty tricks. But the only way for us to do it is to actually |
| 1:34.0 | go and do the hard work, to reset the scales a little bit. What we want to do is redo the census, |
| 1:39.4 | but importantly, we want to redistrict some of these red states, and we want to make the congressional |
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