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Mike Johnson Caught In The Act, WH in Total Chaos as Lies Surface

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Mike Johnson Caught In The Act, WH in Total Chaos as Lies Surface

The hosts, Jen and Jim Acosta, discuss a range of grievances against the Trump administration, focusing on the bizarre role of aide Natalie Harp, who reportedly rode in a car trunk to stay near Trump. They argue her unchecked access poses national security risks, especially as the White House overreacted by attacking CNN’s Kristen Holmes and invoking her children. They praise John Ossoff for triggering Trump and mock Fox News for hypocritical critiques, while condemning Trump’s proposal to give Saudi Arabia nuclear weapons, citing the kingdom’s ties to 9/11 and Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. The conversation shifts to military failures, with Speaker Mike Johnson claiming Americans are grateful for the Iran war, despite sailors on the USS Lincoln suffering from poor food and mental health crises, blamed on Pete Hegseth’s incompetence. They applaud ABC’s lawsuit against the FCC as a brave stand against Trump’s bullying, contrasting it with CBS’s capitulation. The hosts urge Democrats to launch aggressive, multifaceted attacks on corruption and military neglect, and jokingly endorse extreme Republican figures like Hegseth and RFK Jr. for 2028 to expose dysfunction. They emphasize the need for accountability and support independent media, with Acosta promoting his own platforms. Overall, they paint a picture of a chaotic, corrupt administration requiring relentless opposition.

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All right, welcome to I've had it weekend. I am back with one of our favorites, best friend of the show, Jim Acosta, Jim. There are so many grievances that we can jump on. Is there anything off the top that you've had it with? Do you want to get off your chest political or otherwise? I mean, gosh, you know, Natalie Harp. Are we on the decoy plan? Are we riding in the trunk? That's, that's my question right now. You know, that, I mean, does she look into the mirror and say, mirror, mirror on the wall? Who's the creepiest of them all? I, you know, I covered politics for a long time in DC. And, you know, you hear of presidents having a body man or a body person. She's sort of like the, the presidential superfan. It's just the weirdest thing. I don't know. This is, I, maybe I'm overly obsessed with this or fixated on this, but it is the, just the strangest, one of the strangest things I've ever heard of covering politics and aid jumping into the trunk of a car. So she gets take close to Donald Trump. That's so weird. She jumped into the trunk of a car? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you, so this was being reported that this was a few years ago that, you know, she was supposed to get in this motorcade and there wasn't enough room in the car. And she said, okay, I'll get in the trunk. She got in the trunk. This is according to my old place reporting this. And there aren't pictures yet, but apparently there are photographs that people around Trump have of this. And they're not sharing with reporters yet, but, you know, it's only a matter of time. Oh, it's only a matter of time because you know, they just love nifing each other there. They do. This is what they do. They love it. Yeah. Jim, you know, what's interesting to me is if Obama, if Joe Biden, if there were president Harris and they had an aid like Natalie Harp, stalking, approved stalking, if you will, of the president of the United States. Fox News would lose their mind. They would lose their minds. But furthermore, I find it interesting that the entire MAGA movement, the women, the misogynist women of the MAGA movement. I'm talking about Katie Miller, the former press secretary of Caroline Leavitt, Erica Kirk, etc. They're all about women. Get married and breed. You have to get married and breed and be a tradwife and, you know, only women that have babies are happy. Well, Natalie Harp is a 35-year-old unmarried childless woman. I don't give a shit about that because I don't care if people breed or not. Breeding is hard, not the making it, but the actual, you know, growing and raising the child is a really difficult thing. It's expensive. But Jesse Waters is starting to weigh in on this. You know, I love Lady Waters in a really demented kind of way, right? We know you do, but it's good. Yeah. I like to study Lady Waters. And I'd like to welcome all the Fox News producers that are watching because they probably found out you and I are together today. So hello, guys. Welcome. Hi guys. Yes. Feel free to clip away and put us on your show. Yeah. But here is Lady Waters talking about John Ossoff because John Ossoff really, he is all gas no breaks right now with this thing. And I love it. He is Pitbull City. And I'm all about laser focus on the corruption and the weird shit that these people are doing. So here's Miss Priss. And it kind of sounds like he might be defending Ossoff. I want to get your take on this. Play the clip. Okay. Sounds good. Is by this comment, no, has Trump said so much worse, so much more sleazy things against other people. Yes. Have I defended those things? Absolutely. So I'm not going to pretend I'm all hot and bothered about it. And the president doesn't even care. He's like, what? Yeah. You know, he's hot and bothered by John Ossoff. Let's just be real. That's what's happening here. That's what's going on here. He let it slip. It came out. I mean, John Ossoff has been playing, I mean, I've been saying this on my show. He's been playing Trump like a harp. You know, he has figured out how to push Trump's buttons. It is a, it is not a skill that everybody learns. I had heard that, you know, that was something that I was capable of doing. Even though I didn't know I was doing, I was just doing my job, but it pushed his buttons. But but John Ossoff has figured it out. And when Fox starts to pay attention, I saw Laura Ingraham, who's another one of the goofy ones over there. And she was talking about Ossoff's makeup. And I'm thinking to myself, are you fucking kidding me? Your daddy, Donald Trump, wears more makeup than like, you know, what you would find on hand at a, you know, Eastern European whorehouse. Like that is, that is, that is the pot calling the kettle orange. But yeah, no, I, it's, it's kind of more, Ossoff is having a moment. There's no question about it. Okay. So now this week, the White House has is attacking the reporter who asked Trump about Ossoff's comments. Pop this up. Yeah. At Kristen H CNN is disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession at POTUS hosts a hero lifeguard in the Oval Office. And she uses it as an opportunity to take a cheap shot. And about one of the president Trump's staffers, these scumbags are the lowest of the low. Jim, the fact that all they have is you don't love America, you're a scumbag. They don't, they're, there's no policy beyond that. And the fact that they are so vociferously defending this Natalie Harp shit tells me my hypothesis that she could be a national security threat, that she knows some of this stuff because I think it's safe to assume when he's doing all of his crazy unhinged tweeting at night, she's with him because we know from 2016 when you covered it, he can't spell, he doesn't have proper grammar. And now everything is buttoned up. It's still that shit crazy, but there are not spelling errors and grammatical errors, despite the proper nouns sometimes being, or non proper nouns being capitalized in a weird format. Yeah. But if he is the way we see him in public, imagine what he's like in private. And Natalie Harp is by his side at all times. And so this is really, they're, they're overreacting to this whole thing in my opinion. So does she know a lot of shit and does she threaten to spill the beans if she doesn't get to get, maintain all of this access. To Susie Wilde say, Hey, you're getting creepy. You get the hell out of here Natalie. And she's like, well, are you sure you want to do that Susie? Because those people are psycho. That's true. Yeah, they're going to have to find her like a weird ambassador ship or something to keep her quiet. But you know, you know, if it wasn't weird already, the White House has made it weird the way they've completely overreacted and freaked out over this. The way they went after Kristen Holmes of CNN you know, she was a producer of mine back in the day when we covered the 2016 campaign together. And she's a great reporter, a nice person. She's a mom. She's got kids. I mean, for the White House to invoke her children to bring her children into this, it is disgraceful. It's despicable. And to me, it just, it just shows their true colors. And Susie, Wilde's the chief of staff. Do you have, do you not have a soul? Have you no shame? You, you, you're not going to fire somebody on that rapid response, 47 team for tweeting about a reporter's kids. I mean, it's absolutely appalling. But putting that to the side, I mean, I think what they've done over the White House is made Natalie Harper's story, which is the stupidest thing to do. And I, you know, I remember, you know, there was a old GOP, a flat friend of mine used to say back in the day, never let the staff be the story. And they've totally allowed that to happen with Natalie Harp. And she's, apparently she has like this really strange, sphinx-like role with Donald Trump, where she's allowed access to him, whereas nobody else is allowed that kind of individual time with him. Apparently she answers to nobody. Maggie Haberman has referred to her as Donald Trump's binky as his security blanket. What does that say about the state of affairs of this country when the president of the United States needs a binky? I mean, he already knew he was a manchild, but I guess this clenches it. And, you know, I just think that the whole damn thing is strange. And I agree with you. I think it is a national security problem. Apparently she's just like this super fan who's glombed onto him. And because he's his psyche is so fractured in such a fragile state that he needs somebody like that around him at all time. Like she leaves little personal notes for him around the residents. Like, you know, I just want you to know you're a wonderful person. And she does shit like that. Something that like somebody's spouse would do when they're like, you know, think about, think about all of these people for decades and how long before Trump, the Republican Party lecturing all of us about family values and traditional families. And here we have in the Oval Office, we have a first lady who hates her husband. And how do we know this? Because in her 40 million dollar heaping pile of dog shit documentary, she made sure to let the public know I don't sleep in the same bed with him. I do not have sex with that man. She wanted all of us to know that. And now he's running around with this 35 year old bat shit crazy mentally and emotionally unstable loon. And then they have a coordinated attack online where they want to tell all of us that we're sexist and that John Ossoff is sexist. And here's what they don't get. You guys are the sexist, misogynist once. You are propping up these lunatics. And then you're so thin skinned that anytime we call a spade a spade, you have to creep over into your little safe, safe spaces. And the fact that Donald Trump has to have a human being to constantly cuddle him tells you not only what an and national security risk it is for her to have all this access to the president. - Yeah. - Furthermore, our adversaries know this shit. Right now recently, he is playing patty cake again with his boyfriend, Kim Jong-Un. And you notice that what China, what Russia, what all of our adversaries want is a weak dollar. They want a weak United States of America. And our dipshit smoky-eyed sociopath vice president, J.D. Vance is out there talking about how great it is to devalue the dollar. Well, who wants that, do Americans want that? No, do American businesses want that? No, who wants that is China and Russia. So it's just really insane, but furthermore, can we just talk about the fact that Donald Trump has said that Saudi Arabia can have nuclear weapons? - Yes. - How do you Arabia funded 9/11? - Yeah, it's totally nuts. And I mean, and just the other day, he was posting on true social that the Strait of War Moose is going to become a US territory and he's talking about bombing Oman. I mean, he's totally crazy. He's totally out of control. Every day, there's a 25th amendment example. You and I have gotten heated over this before, but like Joe Biden bowing out of the 24 campaign over saying we killed Medicare. He had a brain fart moment where Donald Trump does that like multiple times a fucking day. And I don't understand. It is the weirdest thing in Washington, D.C. right now. It is the most undercover thing that I've ever seen in my entire career. The fact that he says and does ridiculously strange things on a daily basis that would call into question the mental well-being of any other US president. But because of the way he's gotten the press under his thumb in this country, they feel like they can't report on it. Or if they do, they sort of lightly tiptoe through the tulips and it's just doing a total disservice. But I think you're right. I think they floated out this trial balloon that yeah, we're gonna give Saudi Arabia nukes. And they were claiming, oh, it's just a civilian nuclear program. It's just for their power needs. And so they have more fucking oil than I mean, they could just burn oil for like the next 3,000 years to keep the lights on and rea. They don't need nuclear power. The purpose of having nuclear power in Saudi Arabia would seem to me is to convert that into nuclear weapon use. They've seen what the Israeli military can do. And people who don't understand this, they perceive Iran as a threat. And if Trump is gonna let Iran hang onto its nuclear program as a way to get out of this stupid word of choice that he's launched this country into, then of course the Saudis are gonna want nukes. And he is destabilizing the region even more so. So I agree with you. I think it's, you know, and to put this, I agree with the 9/11 reference, I brought this up the other day. We're almost at the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and he's talking about allowing the Saudis to develop a nuclear program. Like at what point does somebody grab the car keys and take the remote control away from grandpa? Like it makes no sense. Yeah. - And let's remember that Saudi Arabia killed dismembered, poured into acid and then down the drain, a journalist. - Yeah, Jamal Qashoggi. - And so the fact, I think there's a missed opportunity here by the Democrats. I love the Natalie Harp attack, but I think it's a real missed opportunity. - Yeah, I agree. - Do not be talking about how the president of the United States is funding terrorists and he is offering a soft place for terrorists to land. Because they would jump on this so fast who'd make your husband. So I think the Democrats really need to start integrating this on the campaign trail. Because we see that all of these Donald Trump and Doris candidates are losing and they're losing by double digits. And so I think this is a missed opportunity, but let's talk about one of the guardrails that doesn't exist this should. And of course I'm talking about Little Moses Mike Grindr Johnson, the speaker of the house who has no fucking idea that he actually is the speaker of the house because he thinks his job is to talk about how great Trump is and to be put on a master class all day every day, how to be a beta, how to be a beta. That's what this speaker of the house does. So here he is right here. And he says that Americans are grateful for the war in Iran, play the clip. - I continue. - Yeah, the Iran conflict has been the cause. Of course, the gas price is going up. It's shrug on, I am grateful. And I think all Americans of good sense are grateful that we have the greatest fighting force in the world, in the history of the world. Our men and women and uniform are the brave people who preserve freedom and stand on that line every single day, we're grateful. - I've heard enough. Mike Johnson doesn't give a shit about the troops. And I have had it from top to bottom with these Republicans lying and say they care about the troops. It's performative, word salad, bullshit. You never back it up with policy. You never back it up with money. They don't give a shit that these sailors on the USS Lincoln are starving, are throwing themselves overboard, or have like major massive mental problems right now because the military and people like Moses, Mike Grinder, are treating them like absolute shit. And even saying, oh, that's fake news. I am so sick of these lying, oh, the Lord woke me up in the middle of the night, said, wake up, buddy. You're Moses. And then this is what he does. This is what God, you know, this is God's guy. And the speaker of the House position, this is such a pathetic group of men. They are just the most pathetic, most worthless piece of men on the planet. Jim, go off about him. - No, and he's only going to be the speaker of the House for a few more months because I mean, unless there's something like Trump tries to cancel the elections and gets away with it, Mike Johnson, the House Republicans are going to get swept out. Democrats are going to come in. Could be a pretty healthy majority for the Democrats. In part because of the shitty job that Mike Johnson has done as speaker of the House, there's literally, there's literally zero oversight from the Republicans when it comes to anything that Donald Trump has done. I mean, you want to talk about the Iran War, which has resulted in gas prices shooting up. People are paying through the nose to just put gas in their car right now, pay for groceries. I mean, they're going to the grocery store for a lot of people sucks big time right now because of the way that inflation has just completely hit all of our lives. On top of that, you have the corruption. The, I mean, just unbelievably unprecedented corruption, I was talking Larry Sabito, who runs the Center for Politics over at UVA. And he is saying that, you know, Donald Trump is going to go down without question as the worst president of all time and in part because of how thoroughly corrupt he is. This whole thing where he has made billions of dollars off of crypto and these sketchy stock trades and it's absolutely insane. And so everybody else takes it, you know, you know, it takes it on the chin. I'm being diplomatic there while Trump is making off like a bandit is totally, totally nuts. And, you know, for Mike, I mean, Mike Johnson, I will tell you, he kind of wins. I don't know who is the most shameless person in Washington, but Mike Johnson has got to be right there in the shamelessness Olympics because to be able to go and say that people are grateful for the Iran War, I mean, that is just like a stupid lie that is completely shameless. - And completely great, listen to this. Here is a mother of a sailor on the USS Lincoln speaking out, play the clip. - Tell me things all day long, but, you know, in an email, but not seeing her hearing him is what gets me, and I think that's the biggest issue. I don't think it's the ship is the issue. I think it's our president, it's our government, that's not helping the morale. I think she's a Trump founder. - Yeah, it's incredible. And I've spoken with, I've been texting back and forth with the mother of a sailor who was on the USS Tripoli, and was saying the same thing, the food was awful, her son had lost 30 pounds, something along those lines, and she said her son at one point had to talk somebody out of committing suicide, and, you know, the MAGA and the White House, bots and trolls, and so on, you know, you put this stuff out there on social media as I have another's have, and they'll say, oh, you know, fuck you, Acosta, you know, if these sailors can't take it, they're in the wrong line of business, and so on, screw you. I mean, honestly, like this is the result of the fact that Donald Trump put a complete buffoon in charge of the Pentagon. Pete Hexath has no business being in charge of the Pentagon, and, of course, you're gonna have these kinds of logistical nightmares. When you have a Fox News weekend morning anchor, suddenly taking over the Department of Defense, it's totally bananas, and then Trump gets into a war of choice that he can't get himself out of, and so, of course, you're gonna run to these issues, and, and Jen, this, you and I have been around long enough to remember what happened during the Iraq war, where you had these multiple deployments over and over again, and it literally broke families and marriages, and just ripped people to shreds. And Donald Trump got out on that campaign trail. I was there in 2016 where he pledged that he would not get this country into another one of these fucked up wars, and he totally did it. He totally did it. And it might be-- - Do you remember? When George H. W. Bush lost, because he said, "Read my lips, no new taxes." - That's right. - And then he raised taxes, and he paid for it, and he was a one-term president, Because of that and again, we can diagnose. all these problems, Jim, which we are. But I think the Democrats have got to have, you know, multifaceted attacks all the time. Walk and chew gum out the wazoo. We've got Natalie Hart. We have him colluding with the terrorist country, Saudi Arabia, who funded 9/11, who kills journalists. This is who, and then they want to lecture us and they want to say, oh, Zoran Mamdani wants to read a law in New York. When that guy is like speaking for universal human rights, point out the hypocrisy. But the biggest hypocrisy that Republicans for me, this bullshit lie, we're fiscal conservatives. Right. We're so good with business. We're so concerned about the national debt. We are so patriotic when my entire adult life, Republican presidents always do the following. They get into office, lower the taxes on the richest, blame the poorest for all of the country's problems. They say, oh, we love the troops. They send the troops to the front line. Dick Cheney's ass never went to the front line. George W. Bish's ass never went to the front line. Donald Trump's ass never went to the front line. Karl Rove never went to the front line. All these people who are so hyped up were such supporters of the military. They ship them off and they treat them like shit. And it's all just performative lip service about it. Then now this regime is like, oh, you don't like it. What are you? A pussy? That's basically what they're all saying online right now. When you look at the homeless population of the United States of America, a third of them are veterans. One third, veterans' hospitals are so underfunded. In Donald Trump, all the neo cons that served with him, who I disagree with, who I don't even think are that great of people in Trump 1.0. All of these people said he is a fascist. He has no respect for the military. He wanted to shoot civilians in the legs. And these are neo-conhard core conservatives. And so I just, I want to see more attacks out of the Democrats on this stuff. But here's there's some that are really doing a good job. Here is Representative Jason Crow responding to Pete Loti Hegseth play the clip. To be surprised that a grossly incompetent and corrupt TV personality with zero experience, running a major national security agency, let alone our Department of Defense, is failing to do the job. There are a hundred plus other places around the world where Pete Hegseth needs to be. Managing wars, managing conflicts, checking on the health and welfare of our troops, instead of campaigning in Iowa. What do you think about Pete? I want him to run, run for president. Let's do it. What? Absolutely. I mean, I think right now, I mean, you know, this is sort of the, you know, who wants to be Trump's successor. You know, this is a game show that Trump is running right now. And I think Pete Hegseth is a contestant. The fact, I mean, I think Jason Crow is absolutely right. The fact that Pete Hegseth is in Iowa while you have this ridiculous scandal with aircraft carriers that don't have enough provisions for the sailors and marine serving on board, it's totally nuts. And I think Pete Hegseth will be, he will be a gift to all of us, Jen, for all of us who rely on content creation. We're like, please give us more content to talk about. Pete Hegseth will be an endless geyser. He will, Natalie Harp, you ain't seen nothing yet. Pete Hegseth will definitely do that. Apparently, I saw some picture we showed up and I with this giant belt buckle and all this shit. And I'm like, what? He thinks he's George W. Bush down and Crawford, Texas or something. You know, he is a ridiculous person. I mean, I've heard a lot of talk around DC that RFK Jr. wants to run for president on the Republican side. I think he's, he's another. I'm going to endorse him right now. I mean, I'm endorsing RFK Jr. for president on the Republican side right now. With Hegseth, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to start endorsing, but on both sides, the Republican and the Democratic side. And on the Republican, I want the craziest, I want the craziest motherfucker possible. And you're going to get that. I mean, it's, you know, who is, who is the craziest fuckers? This should be the game show. And I mean, an RFK Jr. RFK Jr. I mean, he sounds like Katherine Hepburn and on Golden Pond when he, you know, you know, the way he gets, it's amazing to me. The Donald Trump can fall asleep in the Oval Office when RFK Jr. is, you know, prattling a lot about vaccines. And it's just so crazy. I want to get your take on the, you worked in corporate media. And I have always been like, fight. Do not capitulate to this man. Do not, do not come to his demands. Take it to court. He always gets his ass beaten court. Well, ABC, yes, fighting back, pop this up. ABC has filed a first amendment lawsuit against the FCC in DC district court. The suit says the Trump administration has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason. It disapproves of what ABC broadcasts. And this to me, kudos to ABC. We have got to fight these people. Fight for your customers. Fight for this country. Be a guard rail. Corporations have more power because the Supreme Court has given it to them. And at some point, you have to realize who betters your bread corporations. And it's us. We do. That's right. What's your take on this? I think it's terrific. You know, I, you know, I like you, you know, I had a field day beating up on ABC and CBS for bending the knee at the beginning of this second go round with Donald Trump. And I mean, you remember, I mean, just to flash back to that moment, when ABC, you know, paid that ridiculous, basically extortion payment to Donald Trump and then CBS did, it felt like the wheels were coming off the fucking country. It felt like in the law firms and so on. And it scared the shit out of a lot of people that all of these major institutions were bending the knee and bowing down to the wannabe dictator. And it was part of the reason why I left. I would, you know, you remember CNN wannabe who did the midnight shift right when Donald Trump was coming back and I was like, fuck that noise. I'm not doing that. And I, you know, I just think that this is, this is a very good thing that ABC is coming around to this. And it means, it means so much to me that they're doing it because it says that they're starting to realize what, and it goes back to what you're just saying a few moments ago, what the right special sauces, what the right recipe is for taking on Donald Trump. And it's pretty fucking simple. It's just you have to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard. You cannot, you cannot take this bullshit where he thinks, oh, if I just beat up the little kid in class, he'll give me his lunch money. And, you know, CBS, look what CBS has done. They've, they've totally paid the price. They've been sold off to the Ellisons. And now you have 60 minutes. I mean, I guess 60 minutes is what? It's just done now. We're just going to have like this ridiculous oligarch-approved version of 60 minutes coming out this fall. It's totally insane and crazy. And I, you know, the ratings at CBS have tanked because of all of this. And I think ABC, it's exactly what you're saying a few moments ago. It's not just that they summon the courage. They summon their bank accounts. Some of their bean counters. And the bean counters are like, you know, when we try to shit-can Jimmy Kimmel, we lost, we almost lost a shit ton of money and almost lost our shirts. And, you know, for Donald Trump to sick-brun in cars, meeting a henchman on a ABC simply because, because what? Because the ladies on the view talk about him. Because Jimmy Kimmel tells the jokes. What a pussy. I mean, honestly. It is. Joy Behar, her, her, her true feelings. Are you serious? I mean, isn't that why he has nearly heart in the workplace? These people want to lecture as Pete Hexeth wants to lecture people about testosterone. So he has this whole policy of gender-affirming care. And Donald Trump spirals out about the view. And I'm telling you, liberal women trigger this shit out of these magaman. They are really do terrified of white liberal women. They're white liberal women are staying on democracy. And I'm like, speaking of stains, why don't you ask the House cleaners at the White House what lady Trump's pillowcases look like when he wakes up in the morning? I mean, this is, this is the, these are the most pathetic people in these, these white men, these white pink armed crusty country club Republican Trump supporting men are terrified of the ladies on the view. And I'm going to say it because now, because Trump won again, we can say pussy again. What a bunch of pussies, all of these magaman are. There's your clip, Fox News, wanted to put that out there. There you go, Jesse, clip it. I just think that I just want a second, everything you just said there. It is the damnedest thing. They want to live in the handmaid's tale. They want women to just shut their mouth and get back to the kitchen. And it's just so disgraceful what this country has become in the way that Donald Trump has, has weapon, he's the one who complains about weaponized government, cries about weaponized government. They're the ones who do the, the fucking government weaponization. And you know, the way they've gone after the networks, the way they've gone after journalists, the way they've gone after immigrants, the way they've gone after Jim Comey and people like Donald Trump's perceived political enemies. It's all government weaponization. And I've been saying this on my show. At some point, some of these clowns have committed crimes, the way that they keep trying to put his name back on the Kennedy Center, and all of this shit, at some point, somebody somewhere has committed a fucking crime, and there needs to be accountability for all of this at the end of the day, and Trump has talked about pardoning everybody under the sun, he's not going to pardon everybody. And people need to understand that if you, I mean, I just, I wonder his Brendan Carr committed crimes here. Of course they don't have that. As he, as he, as he, as he at the very least opened himself up to lawsuits, the way he's tried to go around ruining people's careers. And I, you know, if I were him, I would lawyer up. I would be, I would start gaming out a, you, he was behind project 2025. He might want to think about a legal project 2029 for where his ass leaves office. Love it. And does he need to start finding some lawyers to protect himself legally after he leaves office the way he's gone after individuals and companies in this fashion? I completely agree with everything you just said, and I think that the candidates that are going to run in 2028. What I'm looking for is somebody who talks, it says, I'm going to, everything that you saw him do, the gold, the corruption, every single facet of it, whether it's something aesthetic and shallow as the gold statues that he put up in DC and a stupid art. I'm going to live stream the destruction of all of that, so don't worry, you're going to get your therapy and that I'm going to have live cameras in the oval of people taking all that shit down. You have a bonfire where you have the UFC fight and all that's going to be live stream, but also I'm going to launch an investigation beyond all investigations and I will, you know, will not stop until every single lie, corruption, double dealing is completely exposed because of course they are committing crimes. These people are so corrupt, they're committing crimes and then blaming the immigrants for it, which is bullshit. And we actually have concentration camps in this country right now where these people are being held. And so I just think that I feel a momentum shift. I feel that our media ecosystem is growing. So everybody go follow Jim Acosta right now on YouTube on the podcast channels and on his sub stack. He actually goes live every day and it's important that we support independent media. Jim, thank you so much. We're one of my best gutties in the media system. We saw each other in Italy, everybody, I loved it together. That was so much fun. I know we should we should plan this every year, but we didn't do a show. We showed down a show. We could have done a show with our after all frittas or whatever and you know, we said it. Well, next time, next time. All right. Thanks so much Jim.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Natalie Harp, a Trump aide, is criticized for her unusual closeness to the president, including an incident where she reportedly rode in a car trunk to stay near him, raising concerns about her influence and potential national security risks.
  2. The White House attacked CNN reporter Kristen Holmes for asking about Harp, invoking her children, which the hosts condemn as disgraceful and a sign of overreaction.
  3. Senator John Ossoff is praised for effectively provoking Trump, while Fox News personalities like Jesse Watters and Laura Ingraham are mocked for their hypocritical critiques.
  4. Trump’s proposal to allow Saudi Arabia nuclear weapons is highlighted as dangerous, given Saudi ties to 9/11 and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, with hosts urging Democrats to focus on this issue.
  5. House Speaker Mike Johnson is criticized for claiming Americans are grateful for the Iran war, while troops on ships like the USS Lincoln face poor conditions, food shortages, and mental health crises, blamed on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s incompetence.
  6. ABC’s lawsuit against the FCC over Trump’s retaliatory actions is praised as a necessary stand against bullying, contrasting with CBS’s capitulation.
  7. The hosts call for Democrats to launch multifaceted attacks on corruption, military neglect, and hypocrisy, and endorse extreme Republican figures like Hegseth and RFK Jr. for 2028 to expose dysfunction.

Summary:

The hosts, Jen and Jim Acosta, discuss a range of grievances against the Trump administration, focusing on the bizarre role of aide Natalie Harp, who reportedly rode in a car trunk to stay near Trump. They argue her unchecked access poses national security risks, especially as the White House overreacted by attacking CNN’s Kristen Holmes and invoking her children. They praise John Ossoff for triggering Trump and mock Fox News for hypocritical critiques, while condemning Trump’s proposal to give Saudi Arabia nuclear weapons, citing the kingdom’s ties to 9/11 and Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

The conversation shifts to military failures, with Speaker Mike Johnson claiming Americans are grateful for the Iran war, despite sailors on the USS Lincoln suffering from poor food and mental health crises, blamed on Pete Hegseth’s incompetence. They applaud ABC’s lawsuit against the FCC as a brave stand against Trump’s bullying, contrasting it with CBS’s capitulation. The hosts urge Democrats to launch aggressive, multifaceted attacks on corruption and military neglect, and jokingly endorse extreme Republican figures like Hegseth and RFK Jr.

for 2028 to expose dysfunction. They emphasize the need for accountability and support independent media, with Acosta promoting his own platforms. Overall, they paint a picture of a chaotic, corrupt administration requiring relentless opposition.

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Natalie Harp is a White House aide known for her unusual closeness to President Trump, including reportedly jumping into a car trunk to stay near him. Critics describe her as a 'presidential superfan' and a potential national security risk due to her unchecked access.

The White House attacked CNN reporter Kristen Holmes for asking about Harp, calling her 'disgraceful' and invoking her children. This overreaction was widely criticized as disgraceful and despicable.

Democrats see the Harp story as a distraction from bigger issues like Trump's alleged corruption and ties to Saudi Arabia. Critics argue they should focus on policy failures, such as the Iran war and rising costs, rather than personal stories.

Trump has floated allowing Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear power, which critics say could lead to nuclear weapons. This is controversial given Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11 and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Mike Johnson said Americans are 'grateful' for the Iran conflict, praising the military. Critics called this shameless and out of touch, especially amid reports of poor conditions for sailors on the USS Lincoln.

Hegseth, a former Fox News host with no defense experience, is blamed for logistical failures like food shortages on aircraft carriers. He's also criticized for campaigning in Iowa while troops suffer, leading to calls for his resignation.

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