"This like the Gestapo." Lifelong Republicans Turn On Trump

Hey, John. Hi. All right. So we got some pretty dismal economic news this morning and the administration's best talker was out to explain. Let's get to Lauren with the numbers. Go ahead Lauren. Minus 23,000 Rebound for the July jobs report negative 23,000 revisions for June, Maria down by 37,000 may down by 66 combined 103,000 fewer jobs created in the months of May and June, Maria. The weakness in this number, we're really just two things, government workers and a sort of rebound from all the employment we got from the World Cup because the World Cup was ending as if you throw out the World Cup of the government workers. We actually had a number that was about plus a hundred thousand Well, 50,000 fuel government jobs did the doge savings have anything to do with that? There was some of that, but it was also one of these weird seasonal things where because there was a lot of snow in the winter a lot of schools had to stay open longer to make up for the snow days and so the teachers got laid off in July and said to the end of June It's one of those weird things. So I was Kevin Hassett, Trump's top economic adviser who's always a delight to see on television. That's not what happened No, it's not I would just say it wasn't because it was a snowy January and there was a World Cup. That is not what is happening. No Because there were the last two months were revised down. That's 103,000 fewer jobs or last three months than reported also the unemployment rate also only went down because People stopped looking people stopped looking Whole bunch of people just dropped out of the labor force. I do think it's funny for Fox News be like is this because of doge and has to be like no, no, of course not that was fake No, no, that just that was just getting rid of a bunch of funding for foreign aid that will ultimately cost us more money in the end because of a lawsuits We're going to be dealing with for the next 10 15 years. No, we didn't actually save the money. We claim there's a new report out today from GAO that that of the 110 billion or whatever that they were claiming They had saved that it was mostly just a mirage anyway. No, I might maybe it's not because it was a blizzard in January that we lost jobs in April, May and June. It might be because of tariffs ongoing war in the Middle East economic uncertainty rising costs gas prices. This is a this is a tough one It's a tough one because the Fed They're at their last meeting decided not to cut rates and there are actually three members of the board who voted to raise rates Which is an unusual disagreement and this is going to make that even tougher because usually Like now we have we're heading towards stagflation at this point, which is both unemployment or losing jobs and inflation remains high so That's very difficult because the tools that you would use to deal with the unemployment will have And the tools you use to deal with rising costs or intention and it's a real, you know, sticky wicket But I'm sure they got their top guys on it a lot of long faces on that Fox panel Watching Maria Bartiromo try to scream shout cope for it like I was in the Goldilocks zone You know the Goldilocks zone what's the Goldilocks zone? That's when nobody has a job and prices are going But a little bit above and then I guess everyone has some porridge. Yeah, the little just you know perfect temperature porridge Now that jobs report was obviously not helpful for Republicans who are trying to keep their seats But at least they have Trump in their corner Trump spoke to Jake Sherman of punch bowl About the midterms He actually before this answer that you about to see he was asked about his super PAC and and Jake asked him You know, there's all this money that your allies have raised he goes not my allies meet. I control it I control it which is interesting But he was asked about a Republican challenges in the fall and here's what he said The questions will they vote because a lot of them are very angry Every Republicans to be honest with you. Why is there a rep? I don't know. I mean they're angry But they're not angry. They're not angry at me, but they are angry at Republican. I saw that this morning And I was like this is what a gift It's awesome. He really is trying. He's like Like leave no stone unturned and things that I can say to help lose the election I want to call affordability a hoax. I want to say that I don't care about the midterms I want to say that I might I might send have to send the price of oil up again Like what else have? And I said oh right. Oh right. It's that People are really pissed at Republicans and caucus. He also uh Jake asked them About the midterms and people saying he doesn't care enough about them. He's like I'm busy and I'm still campaigning. I'm I don't have to do that. I don't have to be campaigning I'm gracing people with my presence But what I what I really love about this yeah, this is this is bad for this is obviously not helpful to the Republicans But it's also watching him in real time Explain why they lost This is really about him anticipating a loss of at least the house because the the lead up to this he says Look, I got record numbers of votes across all these different states And so for him he is already viewing a loss in the midterms as like a boon to him As I just as his ego like look. I am the one the I am the thing that holds this coalition together I know and I thought I thought this was interesting for a couple of reasons like back clip in itself is great But also his heart's not going to be in campaigning this fall. No and imagine what he's going to be like in 2028 When there's when there's some bad polls for JD or Marco or the team or whoever it's like he's everything is about him always Um, like you said he's got $400 million that do you think he's going to spend it to help probably not if it looks like things are going badly Yeah pods of america breaking news is brought to you by zypercuder with everyday interactions becoming increasingly impersonal Someone going just one extra step can be huge like when my doctor takes the time to call me with test results instead of sending them electronically They came back positive for gay It makes me feel like a human being again If you're hiring great candidates can also go the extra step and tell you why they're interested in your job On zypercuder as a way to stand out from others in the pool And zypercuder has a new feature showing you the most interested qualified candidates first So you can meet the right people faster zypercuder's powerful matching technology finds qualified candidates quickly Candidates can tell you in their own words. 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This is like the Gestapo His fiance 45-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Yasmin Suarez Regis was detained by ICE at George Bush intercontinental airport in Houston in late July eight ICE agents swarmed Jasmine and Detainter didn't tell us why and Russell. They're off into a car. Well, I was just in total disbelief Nothing like this has ever happened to me. You know, I have several businesses. I'm law abiding and I pay a lot of tax back in Texas Ganon says he deeply misses his fiance who will remain tonight's custody facing deportation Jasmine's Good as gold Love Jasmine That's it It's a tough story very awful for him. I think it's you know, I feel as though I saw a lot of people I understand the impulse, you know, it's like well, man You oh, you're law abiding and you pay tax doesn't happen to people like you. Well, you've now met the government That is doing to a lot of people that don't look like you what you thought could never happen to somebody like you But I do think like stories like this are important because I do think there are people that think of think about politics The same way that he did which is this is something that's going to happen to the other people This is something that happened to the bad people and even though Trump said both things at once over the course of that campaign and on purpose He they were people holding up signs saying nasty portations They were talking about the numbers. They were trying to hit This person and a lot of people like him heard what they wanted to hear Which is they were going to go after the criminals. They were going to solve the border Etc. What would you react? What was your reaction to it? Well, it's also The difference between a Trump and a Stephen Miller You know because there's been these moments when Trump is pressed on this and like what about the legal people What about the dreamers and he's like I love the dreamers? I want people here legally and Stephen Miller is like no I want to get rid of everyone who's not white and all the immigrants and Look, she did everything the right way. I think that's important here too such as like it is one thing for people to see someone voted for Donald Trump. and has been a Republican all their life, say this, but it's also about someone who enters the country legally, she had a timely asylum application, work permit, driver's license, all the things you're supposed to do, literally everything that you're supposed to do, and they still grabbed her. - Yeah, I do think, to your point, Donald Trump seeing this, this is the kind of thing, there've been moments in the past where he gets calls from somebody connected to the sort of ag sector, whatever, and they're like, "Hey, they're making it, so we can't butcher the meat chickens, and they're making it so that we can't harvest the crops or take in a way the good people." And he's like, "Well, that's ridiculous, I'm gonna deal with that. I'll talk to Brooke Wrongs about it, we're gonna fix it." And then Steven Miller gets back on the controls and it's undone, but I do think this is why Donald Trump is underwater, even on immigration, which was meant to be his bulwark and his proof of why he was elected in the first place. - There's also, I mean, this is not like isolated case here. I mean, ICE took more than 46,000 people into custody in July, that's a second term monthly record. So immigration judges ordered 79,000 removals in June. That's triple the December 2024 pace. So the machinery is not quieting down at all, it's only ramping up. - Yeah, they've moved away from the Christy Nome, Greg Bavino, Shinas Spotlight, dropped from a helicopter, really kind of, I don't know, luxury eight in the cruelty, but they've then dispersed what they've been doing and done it more quietly, but actually probably under Homan have been more successful at achieving the ends, they were beginning with. - Yeah, it's more politically effective, which is why they probably got rid of Nome and Bavino 'cause they were dances who were doing their jobs, but in a way that hurt the administration politically. - Now, one final story, just before we came into record, a panel of appeals court judges in DC ruled against the construction of the ballroom. It was a two to one ruling, two Democratic appointees versus a Trump appointee, but what they found is each president of the temporary tenant, not the owner of the White House and its executive residents, pointing out that there was no precedent for the president tearing down substantial portions of the White House, quote, unilaterally, and using privately collected funds that they said, this is for Congress to decide and not a matter for executive self-help. They also did freeze the ruling, so it now has 14 days to play out through the Supreme Court, Trump's obviously pissed about this. It wants to continue building it. At the same time, he has been building that hella pad for the new Marine one, and apparently the hella pad was completed or near completed. It was a big granite seal as tacky as fuck. - Of course. - And then he apparently didn't like how it looked or maybe there was a slope to it, you know this? - No. - So, they finished it, they basically finished it, and then ripped it out. It was basically done. By Tuesday, it was ripped out again. Something about it, he didn't like. There's some suggestion that it maybe had a slope that he didn't approve of. And so now they're going to rebuild it. Do you know why he's in such a rush to build this thing? - Why? - He wants it done for when President-G arrives. - Priorities. - And what's amazing about that is-- - Priorities are in line, folks. - President-G, what do you think of my new hella pad? - It's like-- - Pay no attention to what's happening over there where we've torn down half the building. But look at my beautiful new hella pad, President-G. - So this one's headed for the Supreme Court. And I looked at Rao's dissent, that's the Trump judge, just to see what the conservative justices would be looking for. And it does seem like if they don't uphold this decision, then it'll be based on standing. 'Cause there's a question of who is injured by this. - Right. - And Rao's basically, Rao's not arguing that Trump isn't breaking the law here. Just arguing that the national trust doesn't have standing and part of the standing argument is, when the person at the trust walks by, they have to see this demolition and stuff like that. So I wonder if it'll survive or not. - Yeah, and look, in fairness, there is a way in which all of this is testing powers that no president has ever considered using before. Because no president was so disrespectful and sort of like, egotistical. I mean, they were all incredibly egotistical, but egotistical in such a shallow way as to decide, as a tenant, to tear parts of the White House down without Congress and to get around eating congressional funds by raising private dollars. That's a deeply kind of strange things to do in a democracy because it's not your fucking house. And the idea, we all understand that the White House belongs to all of us, not only as taxpayers, but as sort of citizens. And this is our kind of the seat of our government. And it's like kind of beauty and history kind of belongs to us. But whether or not that means each of us has standing is a complicated question, right? Because the majority had a good answer, which is like on that theory, nobody would have standing to challenge someone who's gonna raise the statue of liberty or obscure the names in the Vietnam vet memorial or put a billboard on Mount Rushmore because then everyone could just look away. - Well, but yes, of course, and I largely agree with that. But the response to that is well, of course, but there are all kinds of ways in which we rely on the president to execute powers thoughtfully, carefully with respect for the country. And if they don't, there are other checks, right? That's what impeachment is for. That's what investigations are for. That's what elections are for. But we just don't have those doing their job right now. - Yeah, you know? - Once again, it's tough for the court to step in where Congress is supposed to do its job and has declined. Which is of course, is why people are so mad at Republicans. - Yes, ironically. - Which is back to every side. 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