What Are Senate Democrats Gaining From Blocking Peace in Ukraine?
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Useful Idiot's Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning news |
| 0:03.8 | show so that you do not have to. I'm Katie Helper. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Mary Matta. Good Monday morning. Thanks so much for being here. Our website is |
| 0:10.4 | Useful Idiot's Podcast.com. Go there to support the show and get bonus content. |
| 0:15.9 | Great to start the week with you and some of the best and brightest on corporate TV. So much to get to today. |
| 0:23.2 | Let's kick it off with our weekly recap from Meet the Depressed. |
| 0:28.9 | Good Sunday morning. After months of trading barbs throughout the New York City mayoral campaign, |
| 0:35.7 | President Donald Trump and mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani |
| 0:39.8 | finally met face to face in the Oval Office this week. |
| 0:43.7 | In a stunning turnaround, Mr. Trump, a native New Yorker, |
| 0:47.8 | emphasizing what he has in common |
| 0:50.4 | with the 34-year-old Democratic Socialist. |
| 0:54.0 | You know, we had some interesting conversation, and some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have. |
| 1:00.4 | I feel very confident that. |
| 1:02.3 | Like what? |
| 1:05.0 | Affordability, Aaron, that old-fashioned word affordability. |
| 1:08.7 | Well, I mean, that's sort of the most that's the closest claim it's just a |
| 1:14.0 | talking point though yeah that's the closest to an answer but the problem there is first of all |
| 1:17.5 | zaraamamdani centered affordability he came up with it he had actual plans to address it so for example |
| 1:24.1 | having uh government subsidized grocery stores in one borough each, whereas Trump talked about affordability for a second and then sort of calling affordability a con job, saying that Democrats were just lying about it, basically doing the whole Biden thing of saying things are great. |
| 1:41.4 | Like, what are you worried about? |
| 1:43.2 | Yes. |
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