Breitbart's BRADLEY JAYE On The Shutdown

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Breitbart News Deputy Politics editor Bradley Jay.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It looks like there's a path out of it. For
forty days, American people with differing levels of pain kind
of suffered through this and looks like Democrats aren't going
to get anything at all for it, and in a
lot of ways they're worse off than when they started.
But the Senate passed last night with the help of

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eight Democrats. They confirmed a proceasonal vote that looks like
it's going to provide a path out of the shutdown.
The House still has to passed whatever the Senate gets through.
Just a real embarrassing episode for Chuck Schumer, who has
not just his moderate members of his conference critiquing and

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condemning his shutdown strategy, but the left is absolutely furious
with him. It's just another episode that shows that no
one's really driving the car for Democrats, and I think
that over the next year, heading into these mid terms,
especially with Mahamdani becoming their most prominent voice on the

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national stage, there'll be a lot of pain for Democrat.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, so it's The Hill reported Sunday afternoon that ten
Senate Democrats were expected to vote in favor of this bill.
To reopen. You're saying, we got eight of them. How
are they doing today? I mean, talk about a divided party,
but I feel like both parties are really the infighting
is out an all time high. But these eight Democrats?

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Who are they?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Do?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
You know the names of all of them?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
We do, and I wrote about them last night on
sitepark dot com. It's interesting that of those eight, none
of them are up in twenty twenty six. They're all
up in twenty eight, thirty or the retiring. That's not
an accident. This deal is incredibly politically toxic to any

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any Democrat who has to face the primary in the
midterm elections. It's just they set the elections, they set
the expectations so high, and then they folded just a
nightmare scenario for them.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah. I find that interesting though, and I didn't expect
to digress in this way, Bradley. But I don't know
what to read into that. So you got eight votes
from Democrats coming from Democrats according to what you're telling
me right now, who are They're? Cool? Man? You know,
they don't have to worry about re election and when

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they do, it's a lifetime away if they even do so,
does that mean, it means one of two things. Either
A this is a good deal, it's the right thing
to do, and I can do it and I don't
have to sweat you know, backlash. Or two moreover, I
just want this to end. I want to be a
part of the reopening. Uh, and I can be. Which

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do you think it is?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, there's no doubt that this is an orchestrated fold
and the humor was involved. H id for weeks that
there was never going to be a very unlikely to
be for Democrats and absolutely necessary to vote to advance
a government funding bill. The reason why is because this vote,

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it really is going to be a litmus test for
Democrats heading into the midterms. If you're a your good
friend Chris Murphy who's wanting to run for president's you
have to come out as forcefully as you can against
this deal. Because that's what the Democrat Party has become.
It is a resistance party. It is do anything necessary

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to block whatever it is President Trump. If President Trump
has tried to pass a bill to feed women and
children and with food stamps, you have to come out
against it. I mean, that's what the dem Party is
right now.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
And That's another reason that Chuck Schumer is going to
have so much of a hard time going forward, is
that so many people now are called on they're wise
that his team, and they know that even though he
voted no yesterday against this bill, they know that he
was a part of the deal to end the shutdown.

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So much of what goes on in Washington is just
a song and dance Kabookie Theater makes a mistake about it.
This is a Chuck Schumer production, and he has a
big problem in his hands as he looks to maintain
his leadership position. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Uh, it hurt me to hear you refer to Chris
Murphy as my friend. I'm just trying to move move,
move on from that. I don't know the note of
good uh and again Ron with Bradley Jay from Breitbart,
who's written he's covering, uh, the everything that that's this

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very situation right now actively the stories are being updated.
I don't know if you bother with any of his content.
I mean, he couldn't stop posting videos last night about
how angry he was, how opposed to this move by
these eight Democrats that he was, And at one point
you want to Kabooki theaters. Great Bradley Chris Murphy actually

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stared into this camera and his at home looking wildly
well rested, and yet points to himself and says, I
know I look exhausted. I look terrible. That's because I've
been working so hard the last couple of weeks on
this whole thing. It's all you've been doing is TV appearances.
You've just been flying around the country making television appearances.

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I believe there are many It's kind of what you
were just saying, right, there are many on the left
who didn't want this to end just because it gave
them material. It gave them. They don't want an ending
to this. They don't want to admit that Obamacare was
a massive scam and ultimately a failure, and they'll never

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admit that. But an ending to this means I got
to find something new to come at Trump about, which
they'll do. But that I believe that the main reason
was people are collateral damage. Lifestyles are you know, health
and and you know Americans being able to afford this

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for that's collateral damage. This is this is kobookie theater.
Like you said, it's a game of chicken. They were
playing a game of chicken.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
That's right. The look applying TV makeup and reciting code
team talking points is a lot of hard work. So
be nice to christ all right.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
It kills me, He kills me.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I love how he's trying to reinvent himself as some
kind of a populist champion of the people. I mean
he's just I mean, your typical upper crust elitist scumbags.
That's again, That's that's what it takes to rise in
the Democrat Party. Right now, they're looking for somebody who
is as authentically angry as the Democrat elite who've run

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their part in the ground as they are, and Murphy
thinks that he's gonna be that guy. I'm so here
to watch him over the next couple of years as
he continues his reinvention. He is just a grade A villain.
It's gonna be a lot of fun to watch. But no,
you're exactly right. Obamacare is a failure. And the reason

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that we're having this fight on these enhanced Obamacare subsidies
right now is because during COVID, knowing that Obamacare with failure,
Democrats push these subsidies through to try to prop it up.
It's all nonsense, it's garbage, and it's ingenuous for them.
They know that Obamacare is a failure, that some Democrats

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have even talked about it on the Senate for and
prior days. Republicans have an opportunity now with Democrats having
elevated this issue to try to do something about it
that actually brings premiums down and doesn't just give goodies
to the insurance companies. It'll be interesting to see how

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far Republicans are willing to go and if they can
do anything about it. I'm not entirely optimistic that they
can seize this moment, but it is an opportunity for him.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, you know, how do you feel too? It's interesting.
I love when Trump gets his David and Goliath on,
which I think is what's resonated with a lot of Americans,
at least in the very beginning, because he was a
guy who say I'm going to drain the swamp. That's
a David and Goliath endeavor. Good luck with that, and

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slowly but surely that began, I wouldn't say necessarily in
his first term, but he's getting around to it after
that brief hiatus. Get to it now and taking on
big pharma, taking on insurance companies and the racket that
that is and the pockets that are being lined. There
is also very David and golife. But you know what

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hurts me, Bradley is when he's like, what you could
get though, is trump care. I'm going to offer you
the greatest healthcare is when he schleps his own wares.
That's that hurts him. I believe optics wise, unless how
do you feel? Do you feel otherwise?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I agree with you that there needs to be an adjustment,
particularly heading into the midterm. Yeah, I think that the
off year elections show that Republicans the American people aren't
necessarily buying what they're selling. The Democrats are so motivated
right now because the ears they've been told that Trump
is trying to kill them in their sleep. Look, twenty

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twenty four was a great election victory, but it was
a year ago. We have to find a way to
get out these low propensity voters, Trump voters, the Scott
presslers the turning point, say, folks, they can only do
so much. We have to talk about issues the American
people care about. Look, it's great that Trump's meeting with

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the President of Hungary, but most Americans don't care about
that and couldn't find Hungary on a map. What are
you doing for me lately? That's what Trump and Republicans
need to demonstrate to the American people. They need to
make a very clear contrast. This is your life under Republicans,
this is your life under Democrats, and they have to

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do so with the sense of urgency to combat the
urgency that the Democrat base has right now because every election,
whether it's off year, mid term, presidential, it doesn't matter.
These Democrats are voting as if their life depends upon
it because they actually believe that we need the Republicans

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need to give their voters that same sense of urgency,
and it starts by talking about these issues that hit
them closest to home.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
I thought that's extremely well said. Obviously goes without saying,
how do you think things play out this week? If
you had to give a timeline, if if you had
to put it all down, because we do look to
wrap all this up this week, right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Look for you know how the Senate is, it has
all these archaic rules that flows it down. There'll have
to be some sort of time agreement for them to
wrap this up by today. I think it's more likely
that they finished Tuesday, possibly Wednesday. Uh they would. Then
they'd have to kick it back over to the House,

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and since this package is amended, the House would have
to pass it again. That might not be easy. They
might need some Democrat votes. That will be a whole
nother adventure. That said, I think it's possible that this
can get through the Senate and then passed by the House,
perhaps by the end of this week Thursday or Friday.

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Then the cr that they're going to pass it extends
funding until January thirtieth. In a couple of short months,
we could be doing this all over again.