Amanda Head - White House Correspondent, 'Just The News' Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, she's not even in the Senate, but could
this be the voice of the next real Senate majority,
the majority or minority leader.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I want to say this right now, I fully welcome
Trump voters into our coalition.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
You know that voice of course, AOC, of course, who
was terrifying Chuck Schumer during the entire shutdown. According to
those now engaged in the civil war on the left,
she's going to run for the Senate. She's probably going
to take Chuck schumer spot. Chuck Schumer is on his
way out, but he's on his way out of the
minority leadership position before that, and the question is who
could possibly take his place? The options are not great.

(00:39):
Joining us now is Amanda Head, White House correspondent for
Just the News.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Amanda, good morning, Good morning, Thanks so much for having
me have this Friday.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, it's same to you. I appreciate you being here.
So I think most people who are watching this closely
realize that AOC, who is an avowed socialist, especially after
the Democrats in New York City just went full so
list for a mom, Donnie feel like she is the
future of their very very far left party. But the
immediate future doesn't look good for Chuck Schumer. Either the

(01:09):
civil war is going to cost him his leadership position,
it would appear.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
What are the options, Amanda, Oh my gosh, well they're
not great. And let me just say for AOC. You know,
there's a lot of talk out there, I feel like
amongst the youngest generation of both sides of conservatives and
also liberals, and they talk about you shape politics. So
you've got AOC out there saying I welcome MAGA into

(01:36):
the party. Okay, I'm sorry. What part of your platform
do you think is appealing to MAGA? Is it the
abolish ice part of your platform? Is it the defund
the police, the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, the
wealth tax that she has supported, abolishing the electoral college,
federal jobs guarantee, she thinks that housing is a human right,

(01:58):
free public college. I mean, there is nothing in her
platform that appeals to most of MAGA. Maybe there's some
fringe elements of MAGA that subscribe to something along that list.
But the bench is so short for Democrats. And you know,
this is something President Trump has talked about anytime anyone
asks him about a potential contender for twenty twenty eight.

(02:23):
The list goes on and on and on. But when
it comes to Chuck Schumer and I am hearing murmurings
that he's not going to he's not going to run
for reelection in twenty twenty eight. And you got to
just know, Bob that he's reading the tea leaves and
he's seeing a party move further and further away from
everything that he has stood for for the last by
the way, over fifty years.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's time to get Jack.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's pretty wild. It is time to go. There's no question.
Amanda Head is our guest from Justin Newsh's White House Correspondent. Yeah,
you know, he's been there far too long and the
party has just gone far too left. Like I said,
you know, not that he was ever anything close to
a moderate, but he was not a socialist. He was
not a communist. And now in particular that particular flavor
of liberalism has taken over in the form of Mamdani.

(03:05):
And obviously we've had Bernie Sanders and AOC there for
a while. No, some of the names that have been
floated as a potential minority leader if they do indeed
run him out are Hawaii's Brian Shatz, Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin Minnesota.
Is Amy Klovichar in New Jersey's Spartacus Corey Booker. Any
of those seem more likely or less to you to
be the standard bearer for the minority leader position.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
You know, when I look at that list, I feel
like Amy Clovishar is kind of the one who you know,
this is a Goldilock scenario. It's not too hot, it's
not too cold. She's kind of right there in the middle.
She's not Chuck Schumer, but she is younger and somewhat fresher,
and she's a woman. And when it comes to the
Democrat Party right now, checking off boxes matters to people,

(03:54):
not necessarily what they believe or what they want to do,
or even their capability to do what they want to do,
but does check off one of those all important boxes,
and she, I think is much more palatable to whatever
remaining reasonable Democrat base.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
They have left. Most of them have left and they.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Either don't participate electorally anymore, or they have left because
they said, Look, I'm looking in my rear view at
the Democrat Party and looking through my front windshield, and
it looks like Republicans picked up a lot of the
policies that I used to see over it with the Democrats,
So I don't know, you know, I think that she
probably has a better shot at getting a stronger coalition

(04:36):
than one of the more radicals. But at the same time, Bob,
I mean, Democrats aren't stupid. They're looking at the future
of their party and they have to know the direction
it's going. I'm sure that they will fight it. But
you look at the young folks who and the things
that they believe moving closer and closer to socialism, and
that's that's who their party appeals to.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Axios poll from last week I'm sure you saw too,
sixty seven percent of college students either have a positive
or neutral position on socialism. Forty percent of those college
students had a positive or neutral position on capitalism. So yeah,
that tells you where the party is headed, and maybe
obviously where the younger generation is headed. Even though gen

(05:17):
Z came up strongly for Trump in November, you know,
that might be shifting because of the ongoing and doctrination
in these colleges and so.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
They have Yeah, you know, I would like to think
that the reason for that gen Z shift was because
they liked the policies of Trump. I honestly think a
lot of them just wanted to burn the system down.
And I think that they have been failed by their
education system, and that's why they They have no idea
what socialism looks like when it is carried out to
it's for this extent.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
There's a video that's flying around, it's gone viral. It's
images of women who have been brutalized by socialism and
particularly by Islamism, which of course is all reflected in
Zoron Mamdani. This red green axis of evil quite frankly
that is making its way through the party has indeed,
you know, claimed so many victims, particularly women, And yeah,

(06:07):
you're right, they don't know what they're asking for. If
they embrace socialism and if they are not on guard
against the rise of Islamism, it's a really dangerous combination.
Amanda had White House, correspondent from Justin News. Amanda, I
really appreciate you coming on. Thank you for the insights
and have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Thank you the same to you. Take care