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-- On the Show:

-- Sarah Longwell, Republican strategist, publisher of The Bulwark, and author of the new book How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time, joins us to discuss the midterm results, what her focus groups of swing voters are saying, and where Trump and the Republican Party go from here

-- The Trump White House warns House Democrats in writing that their planned investigations could themselves become criminal cases

-- Eleven Democrats miss the Hegseth impeachment vote, handing Republicans a 211 to 204 win they had the numbers to beat

-- Texas Democrats file full recreational marijuana legalization days after sweeping the governorship and the state House

-- Republicans pick Jim Jordan as House leader as his higher gas prices clip comes back to haunt him

-- 60 Minutes cut Trump's rambling and false claims from his interview, the same editing he sued CBS over for Kamala Harris

-- Trump's press secretary search turns to a former Disney actress after his last pick lasted five days

-- On the Bonus Show: Nvidia Shareholders sue CEO Jensen Huang over hidden affair, Russell Brand sentenced over 10 years in prison, Kennedy family tries to stop Trump’s Washington arch, and much more...

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(0:00) Intro

(0:00) White House threatens Democrats with investigations

(8:26) Democrats blow the Hegseth impeachment vote

(19:04) Texas Democrats move to legalize marijuana

(26:32) Jim Jordan becomes Republican leader

(37:31) Sarah Longwell interview

(1:01:23) 60 Minutes edited the hell out of Trump

(1:10:30) Trump's press secretary casting call
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-- On the Show:

-- Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov joins us at Crooked Con to discuss the midterm results, Trump's political future, and what comes next

-- Outgoing House Speaker Mike Johnson responds to the Republican midterm wipeout by blaming voters for making the wrong choice

-- Donald Trump claims the midterm elections were rigged and revives his election denial playbook after Republicans lost Congress

-- Trump's surprise White House press briefing with Dana White veers off the rails with rambling answers on the midterms, Iran, and Hegseth

-- Republican Thomas Massie files eight articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth as Hakeem Jeffries backs the effort to remove him

-- Pete Hegseth holds a desperate Pentagon press conference, insisting he was just following Trump's orders as impeachment pressure builds

-- Trump calls into C-SPAN late at night with an unidentified woman laughing in the background in one of his strangest appearances yet

-- Lauren Boebert loses the safest Republican district in Colorado, the seat she moved to after nearly losing her original district in 2022

-- On the Bonus Show: Democrats' own base wants Schumer and Jeffries replaced, California voters reject the billionaire tax after a $378 million campaign against it, the I've Had It podcast loses sponsor after sponsor over a Charlie Kirk joke, and much more...

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(0:00) Intro(1:12) Mike Johnson blames voters(9:42) Trump claims midterms rigged(16:29) Trump press briefing with Dana White(24:42) Massie files Hegseth impeachment articles(31:03) Hegseth's desperate Pentagon presser(38:43) Jessica Tarlov interview(50:58) Trump's bizarre C-SPAN call(1:01:08) Boebert loses her safe seat

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-- On the Show:

-- Brian Tyler Cohen joins from Crooked Con to talk about the election results, Trump's corruption, and what Democrats do with power now

-- Democrats won big, and the fight over retribution versus accountability is already splitting the left

-- What a Democratic Congress can actually get done, and where Trump's veto pen still wins

-- Trump's disastrous interview veers from the Iran war to his own financial corruption to whether he thinks he is going to hell

-- Trump is now hinting he may bail out and sit out the 2028 election entirely as the fallout from the Republican disaster gets worse

-- Mitch McConnell freezes and cannot answer even the simplest question about the midterm results in a viral video that is hard to watch

-- Trump appears to be turning on JD Vance and Pete Hegseth as the blame game over the Iran war and the election disaster gets ugly

-- Sky News reporter Dominic Waghorn asks Trump to his face how it feels to be a loser after the midterm disaster, and Trump's reaction says everything

-- On the Bonus Show: How wrong were the 2026 polls, Katie Miller ends her podcast, LIV golf is winding down, and much more...

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(00:00) Intro

(01:13) Retribution is not accountability

(08:36) What Democrats can actually do

(19:22) Trump's disastrous 60 Minutes interview

(29:26) Trump may skip 2028

(35:18) McConnell silent in viral video

(44:19) Brian Tyler Cohen interview

(1:02:30) Trump turns on Hegseth, Vance

(1:10:10) Trump asked how losing feels
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