from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, January 24th.

Look who's agreeing with each other that America has a tech oligarchy issue. Here's the first clip. It's President Biden from his

farewell address last week. Many of you have heard this. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in

America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy,

our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair

shot for everyone to get ahead.

We see the consequences all across America, and we've seen it before.

President Biden last week. Now here's right-wing firebrand and frequent Trump advisor Steve Bannon on NPR's

weekend edition on Sunday saying Democrats didn't used to have a problem with oligarchs.

Remember, for the last four years, they had no problem at all with the oligarchs until they

flipped and surrendered after we won. Elon Musk came a little earlier, and he came

earlier because he saw the writing on the wall. His smart guy can see actually the true polling and

saw where this is going. So he's the first man out. But Zuckerberg came and surrendered afterwards.

Bezos came and surrendered afterwards. Steve Bannon from his podcast. So Biden and Bannon both don't like oligarchs.

Did you notice the difference there, though? Biden thinks America is surrendering to the oligarchs.

Bannon thinks the oligarchs are surrendering to Donald Trump. So let's talk about this and not just as a parlor

game of who's getting over on who, but about the potential effects on every American who's not in the top, you know,

one-tenth of one percent of wealth in the world.

With me now, Ashley Parker, staff writer at The Atlantic,

which she just joined moving from her previous job,

a senior national correspondent at the Washington Post.

As her bio page notes, Ashley is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who covered Donald Trump's

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