Ex-Fox news host reveals 'biggest political scandal' of last 10 days as she rips Trump

Thank you very much, Ty Cobb. And everyone's here with me now. I mean, Van, you get a ruling like this. And it's interesting, as Ty's saying, they're going to appeal a ruling that was just whether she has the right to be there or not.

They could just let the whole thing go and try to bring the case separately, right? Go on the merit. But that's not what they say they're going to do. Trump's political power right now? Look, I think the fizz is starting to come out of the soda.

The fizz is coming out of the soda. Donald Trump has had, he's just starting to run into problem after problem. You had 7 million people come out and march against him, most in history. Brush that off. Then gets whooped in the elections. I mean, just whooped.

Anybody with an r next to their name gets chased out of the ballot box. Then he gets forced to release the Epstein files. Now he's getting stopped in court. The way a would-be tyrant gets to kind of do his thing is he seems invincible. He's invulnerable. Nobody can stop this guy.

Everybody run for the hills. And now you're starting to see the air come out of the tires on this guy. Everybody run for the hills. And now you're starting to see the air come out of the tires on this guy. And it's like it's not over. But this is not the kind of month that you saw three or four months ago. He's just running over everything and everybody.

I think I'll come at this from even the GOP side, which is I think he's losing some of the GOP, which I think is biggest political story over the last 10 days. Look, he's obsessed with going after his political enemies, but what he should be focusing on right now is the average American citizen, and that's the economy. Polls came out today that were devastating. 62% of Americans say it's Trump's responsibility

for the economy, not Joe Biden. 71% believe tariffs have made their life worse as a result of things being more expensive. I'm talking about groceries, utilities, health care, housing. And then you have Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning Friday night. That is not a victory for Trump.

That is a victory for Marjorie Taylor Greene. Stay tuned to what she's going to be up to. And there may be more following her footsteps, which brings me back to how important this is for the cracking, potentially, of the GOP.

So, okay, to this point, Marjorie Taylor Greene. I heard a Republican operative, I can't remember who it was, but they were, used to work for Marco Rubio, was making the point that this was actually proof that Trump was strong, it up to Trump and guess who is gone. But Gretchen's point I think speaks to what a senior House Republican told Punchbowl today. More explosive early resignations are coming.

It's a tinderbox. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.

Yeah, he had a very razor thin majority, could only lose a few members. And what's happening is the clock is ticking forward and the midterms are less than a year away. There are all of these members who are looking up saying, wait a minute, the people in my district are not fans of the tariffs, are seeing grocery prices go up. They don't like the focus on political revenge, the ballroom, or whatever the heck is going

on. And they're looking around saying, hey, like, what about me? And so there's this fragmented trust between a lot of rank-and-file Republican House members and this administration. And so some of them are looking up and saying, instead of losing and going out on my hill, I think I'm going to join Marjorie Taylor Greene and seriously consider resigning because then I can vote how I want and freely for this final number

But I even think people staying in office and not resigning are gonna start voting how they feel See, that's also the big difference here. The crack was the Epstein file vote

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because that we may see Republicans now get a spine and decide that they're actually gonna vote based on what their constituents want and maybe what their own personal convictions actually are and not just because they're fearful that Trump will primary them.

So Eric Erickson, and I know there's been many a times he would be sitting here tonight, but I'm going to bring him into it even though he's not here.

OK.

He posted the kids in the executive branch working on behalf of the president, pushed the president on a plan to extend Obamacare subsidies without having a buy-in from House and Senate Republicans, elevated the stature of Democratic Senator Mark Kelly as Democrats had been flirting with Gavin Newsom, put out a Ukraine plan no one likes, failed to fill 18 judicial vacancies in nine red states. It looks like amateur hour has returned. I thought it was interesting there when he was referring to Mark Kelly that they've launched an investigation into him because he's part of that video that said don't follow illegal orders

Eric went down to three substantive issues here. Yeah. Look, I mean, he's not wrong

You you do when you first came in when Trump first came in They knew what they were doing. They what they were doing was terrible I was against it, but you could see the discipline and the execution. It was shock and awe, shock and awe. I think they did a bunch of stuff. And now they just don't know what to do. And so they're just riding their little tricycles

around in the Oval Office doing whatever comes to mind. And it's not working. Meanwhile, everyday Americans are looking at these prices. And they're looking had a president with a golden ballroom, with a golden bath, toilet, and going all over the world, and gallivanting, and doing whatever he wants to do. And I think they have lost the plot.

And I think when the problem is, when people are in love with somebody, and they fall out of love, it's hard to fall back in love. You got a bunch of farmers out there that were in love with Donald Trump. They are now losing their farms. farms, they're not coming back. You're seeing this line between dictator and lame duck. It's a fairly short trip. If you went back to the voters and said, especially the

independents, why did you vote for Donald Trump? They would say the economy and immigration. Likely those would be the top two things. Trump promised that on his first day of his new presidency he would reduce the price of groceries. That has somehow fallen off the back of the tractor. That is no, and apparently he may be changing, maybe even his chief of staff and top people

as of a report today, because he doesn't like how the economy is being messaged. But the problem is, it's him. He is more concerned about developing these political enemy storylines than he is about focusing on the economy, which is what the people voted him to do.

And he also said, I mean, Van, not that the economy is obviously the most important thing to people, but something like the Epstein files to some of his base, whether it be Laura Loomer or Steve Bannon, many others, some of them in this administration, Kash Patel, Dan Gino, Pam Bondi, you know, he was going to release the Epstein files.

Yeah, well, I don't know why he made that promise, maybe he hadn't seen them. Apparently once he saw them, he was like, never mind. And I mean, he has fallen down the stairs on that. And they're just everyday people. This is not a hard thing to figure out. If you had a list, anybody here had a list of people who had done bad stuff to hurt children, you'd let it, you release it. If you're sitting on that list, you don't have to say anything else about that person.

Their character is in the toilet and that's what happened to Donald Trump on this issue.

Yeah, a lot of Donald Trump's energy is kind of this anti-elitism which played into the Epstein files and so the fact that he's like, hey, nothing to see here, all of a sudden, everyone's like, wait a minute. I feel like, I thought you were like our instrument for revenge against these people. And now somehow you're one of these people. It's a terrible look.

The fact that the Republican House members flipped to that degree, I think it's a terrible sign. And if you see him speak right now, it doesn't seem like his heart's really in it. Am I the only one looking at this being like, hey this guy seems like he's, you know, he's kind of filling the seat but he doesn't really have a vision or a plan beyond some of the the revenge machinations that right now are falling short.

All right, well we'll see what happens with that. Obviously we're waiting. Kristen said they thought there might even be an appeal filed before our program, but it hasn't come yet. All right. Thank you all. And next, the breaking news. Explosions in Kiev at this hour as Trump expresses optimism about a peace plan. I think we've seen this before, haven't we? And crypto losing a trillion dollars in value in just weeks. Is there a bubble bursting? The Minneapolis Fed President, Neil Kashkari, is out front. dollars in value in just weeks. Is there a bubble bursting? The Minneapolis Fed President, Neil Kashkari, is out front.

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