We have to admit, America was warned

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Jon Ossoff** (0:06)
Hey, I dreamed I'd be ready for college way ahead of time.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:09)
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**Jon Ossoff** (0:10)
Yes, and I have no idea how I'll get it all done on time and in my budget.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:14)
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**SPEAKER_3** (0:22)
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**SPEAKER_1** (0:23)
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**SPEAKER_3** (0:30)
How do you want to split it?

**SPEAKER_4** (0:31)
Actually, dinner's on me.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:32)
Okay, big money.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:34)
Well, I got a Venmo balance that I can spend with my Venmo Debit MasterCard, so.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:38)
Well, I Venmo'd you three times last week, so it's kind of on me, actually.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:42)
Yeah, you send it, I spend it.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:43)
Did my money get, like, reincarnated?

**SPEAKER_4** (0:45)
Yeah, it's chicken shawarma. Want it back?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:49)
I can't believe you, like, ate my Venmo.

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**David Pakman** (1:30)
We have a presidency here that is sort of like a loyalty cult that is separating at the seams as loyalties are troubled. And what we're seeing today are aides heading for the exits. Caroline Leavitt choosing her kids over Trump, how dare she? And Trump seems very troubled by it. We're also going to hear from Senator John Ossoff, who really is now just publicly connecting Donald Trump to the weird stuff going on with Natalie Harp and the Iran War. And Donald Trump accidentally promotes an article which credits Joe Biden for falling prescription drug prices under Trump and then a wildly incoherent announcement from the administration involving North Korea, South Korea and Iran. And it is raising some major new questions. With the midterms approaching, I also want to speak directly to anybody considering staying home, which I hope is nobody in my audience. We've been warned about situations like this and the opportunity to impose some accountability is coming. And I'm worried some people are going to stay home and they're not going to vote. So I want to speak directly to those folks. What a show. It is great to be back in the studio.
If you are eligible to vote in twenty twenty six and you are not planning to vote, I need to speak directly to you today. And the primary question is why the F are you not planning to vote? The stakes are so high. And before anybody says, oh, David, voting in twenty twenty six is not going to remove Donald Trump from office. I know that I understand how presidential terms work. I've made it clear that unless Donald Trump dies, he is going to be president until January of twenty twenty nine. He's not going to disappear the morning after the midterms. But that is just not the argument. Think of the twenty twenty six election as the process of hiring the departure committee for Donald Trump. You are choosing the people who are going to oversee the final two years of Donald Trump's presidency. You are deciding who controls the committees, who has investigative power to look into the corruption, who has subpoena power, who can block terrible legislation, who can place limits on an administration that is demonstrating its contempt for limits on its power time and time again.
And so what we have to understand is that if control of Congress changes or even just the House of Representatives, Trump is neutered politically. His agenda is dead and his officials can be forced to testify his administration can be buried in investigations into misconduct and corruption and conflicts of interest and abuses of power. Will that remove Trump immediately? No, it's not going to remove Donald Trump immediately. But it can mire Trump in oversight for two years and expose what his administration has been doing. It'll weaken MAGA. It'll make it way more difficult for Donald Trump to spend the remainder of his presidency operating without any meaningful resistance. And then it sets up twenty twenty eight. And this is, you know, if you're in the camp of I don't care about midterms, I care about who's the next president, then you should still be voting in twenty twenty six. Because what happens in November is going to set up circumstances for twenty twenty eight. The people elected in twenty six are going to be in office during the next presidential election. They may be responsible for protecting that election. They may be responsible for responding to another attempt from Republicans to undermine results. And so we need to vote now to ensure that the next transfer of power happens. Now let me deal with another common excuse.