Trump Call LEAKS As RESIGNATION BOMB Blows Up Term!

Resignations continue to rock Donald Trump's administration. Members of Congress are ready to leave en masse, and it would mean the end of Donald Trump's administration, effectively making him a lame duck if Mike Johnson lost his gavel as Speaker before we even got to the midterms, which is why Donald Trump is more panicked than ever, as one resignation bombshell is blowing up his term and leading him to make a frantic and panicked call that is leaking out that we're gonna get into.

There's a lot of news but before we get to it if I could quickly ask you to leave a like on this video and if you haven't already and you enjoy our channel to hit that subscribe button because it goes a long way in supporting our work. Now before we get into the resignation bombshell that has Donald Trump panicking on the phone. I want to start with why he's so panicked and why there are so many resignations and the losing streak he's been on lately. This will bring a smile to your face as Chris Hayes breaks it down.

Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes. Look, Donald Trump is having the worst political spell of his second term. And my God, is it showing? I mean, you can make the case with the exception of the immediate aftermath of January 6th, which is his, I think, political nade year. This has been the first few weeks,

the worst few weeks he's ever had. And it's been a really incredible turn when you consider what people were saying 10 short months ago when Trump was first sworn into office, right? Remember, his administration was desperate

to project strength as if they had won a massive political mandate instead of a narrow one and a half point victory. But the projection of strength becomes actual strength if everyone decides to play along. And we saw big tech and big law and media companies and elite universities all preemptively surrender to Trump. But then something started to change. People started saying no. The initial waves of mass opposition in this administration and its overreach started with everyday Americans,

people protesting the deportations of their friends and neighbors at ICE facilities, the over 7 million Americans who showed up to No King's protests from coast to coast, growing each time they were called, or the jurors, who starting very early on refused to rubber stamp the trumped up cases that this Department of Justice brought against the people who stood up to them. And once some people started saying no, it created a kind of permission structure for,

to give one example, Disney to refuse to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air forever because Donald Trump doesn't like his commentary. Slowly but surely, the no's have gotten louder and louder, and now it has become a chorus of resistance against this president. Remember, back in the spring, the Democratic leadership in the Senate, particularly under Chuck Schumer, who I interviewed at the time, rubber stamped Trump's proposal to keep the

government open, basically said, this is my budget, take it or leave it, and they took it. Trump's proposal to keep the government open basically said, this is my budget ticket or leave it and they took it in September. They refused to go along with a unilaterally Republican only crafted spending bill. And we had the longest shutdown fight in the country's history. Now, ultimately, some of them relented. They caved eight of them. They lost the fight over insurance subsidies for millions of Americans. But the politics of the shutdown just definitively shifted things firmly onto the opposition's terrain.

Democrats were able to frame the narrative on their own terms. They successfully made health care an issue that is front of mind for voters. The polling shows the messaging is resonating with voters. The Obamacare issue has been left unresolved. I think a crazy thing for Republicans to do because premiums are in fact shooting up. That wasn't made up.

And it's going to haunt the entire Republican Party, particularly Republican House members in swing seats heading into the midterms who have to explain what's going on to their voters. In fact, there are reports that some Republicans are already privately panicking over those upcoming elections. We got one new poll that shows Democrats with a gargantuan 14 point lead in the generic ballot.

Now, that's an outlier in the polling. And if that ends up being an outlier in the final result, even so, it is very clear when you put all the polling together, the Democrats right now are the ones with political momentum. That's evidenced by the off-cycle elections earlier this month. The first real test we had of all of this when Democrats flipped the governor's mansion and the state legislature in Virginia opening up a super majority there.

They became the first party in decades to hold New Jersey's gubernatorial mansion for three straight terms. L after L after L after L for Donald Trump. It is nothing but losses. That is all he has seen lately. Not just at large as we look at his political career falling apart, but his control over

MAGA. The political conditions, yeah, they're horrible. His poll numbers, never been worse. But his grip on MAGA loosening, that is something that Donald Trump would have never expected. It is why Republicans who no longer fear him are defying him, are ready to resign. And one Republican who resigned months ago is creating maybe the biggest resignation problem

for Trump yet. It's why he's panicked on the phone. I want to get into it all right here. Tennessee Republican Mark Green to resign from Congress for private sector job. Mark Green of Tennessee said Monday that he will resign from Congress after it passes a massive policy bill to advance Donald Trump's domestic agenda.

Now of course, that Trump big bullshit bill passed, Green resigned, and now there's a special election in Tennessee. Which brings us to... Scoop! Trump and Johnson to hold Telletown Hall for GOP in tight Tennessee House race. Donald Trump and Mike Johnson plan to hold

a Monday evening Telletown Hall to boost a Republican candidate in a high-stakes Tennessee special congressional election. The Trump-Johnson dual rally underscores the emphasis Republicans are placing on the December 2nd election. Johnson will hold several campaign events Donald Trump is going to call into a rally alongside Mike Johnson and a seat in the Democratic Senate. separating the Republican and Democrat Afton Bain. So Donald Trump is going to call into a rally alongside Mike Johnson in a seat that a year ago he won by 22 points. This should be an afterthought. This shouldn't be a consideration and Donald Trump is panicked, on the phone freaking out because a Republican in what was a safe Trump seat

before resigned after Donald Trump passed the worst piece of legislation we have seen in either of his terms. So disgusted, so done with it, he just had to leave. And that kind of shows what the future is looking like for Donald Trump. Mass resignations over a health care plan that's to come. Of course, scandals rocking his administration. So many more investigations. Pete Hegset's war crimes, for God's sakes.

Donald Trump taking talking points from Russia. It is why Republicans are threatening to resign. It would leave Donald Trump with special elections that he would fear. It might give the House over to Democrats. And while all this is happening, there is a race in Tennessee, the race that Donald Trump is calling into, that is about to put the most pressure on the GOP if they lose it, which is why it is more important than ever to be talking about it and listening

and supporting Afton Bain, the incredible candidate running, who sat down with Brian

Tyler Cohen. You're going to want to hear this.

And so what does it say that the president's super PAC now feels the need to start spending money on this race?

It means we're out organizing them. I mean, this is a 22 point race. As you said, we have narrowed the margin to six points. We are about four points down. It's a testament to the grassroots energy, the organizing muscle that we've built the past decade, and of course, having a exciting candidate at the top of the ticket.

So in terms of running in a deep red district, how are you thinking about that in terms of turning out people who obviously otherwise wouldn't have normally voted for Democrats? How is that whole process going? And for people watching who kind of don't have faith that Democrats could win in a district that Trump won by 22 points,

what do you say to them?

So the key is organizing. I had the highest total voter turnout of any Democratic state representative in Tennessee in the 24th cycle. So I know how to mobilize the base, which is very important. It's a mobilization race, especially with the truncated timeline of a special election. A two is message. We have been running on the message of affordability, make living affordable again. And the and the fact that, uh, you have a candidate who, um, believes deeply in addressing the cost of living. And, and

as I've said on the campaign trail, we are building a coalition of the disenchanted, those that feel that politics aren't working for them. Uh, and if you're upset with the cost of living and the chaos in Washington, then I am the candidate.

Have you gotten a sense that the people who had voted for Trump in 2024, on this pretense that they would be voting for lower costs, cheaper rent, cheaper housing, cheaper groceries, cheaper eggs, and instead what they got was a trade war

that increased the cost of everything. Medicaid stripped away, ACA premium set to double, triple, quadruple.

Is there some opportunity to get those people Medicaid stripped away, ACA premium set to double, triple, quadruple.

Is there some opportunity to get those people who believe Trump when he was offering up this populist message only to then get into office and basically focus on building himself a ballroom?

Absolutely. And I can provide an anecdote. I received an email from a lifelong Republican living in Clarksville, which is in the purple county, Montgomery County of the district. And a lifelong Republican said that he receives health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace.

He pays around $57 for his family of four. And without those subsidies, he would, his premiums would increase to around $500. And he said, if I vote for you, if I vote for the first Democrat ever in my life, you have to commit to ensuring these subsidies. Farmers are saying we are experiencing a farmageddon in Tennessee. Our soybean farmers have been hit incredibly hard.

And I said on the campaign trail and as a Democratic candidate that I would work to roll back tariffs that are bankrupting our Tennessee farmers.

What has been kind of the breakdown of people who are coming to see you when you do talks or rallies or whatever it may be?

A lot of people, a lot of voters who've been disillusioned with our politics. Tennessee is a tough state. It is, you know, it's not, I don't think it's a democracy at all. And our voices are silenced. And so to have a candidate in a campaign that is nationalized where our voters are receiving postcards from across the country,

it just feels like something really exciting is happening here and folks just wanna be part of it. I joined a large canvas. The DNC came down, Ken Martin, the new chair, to launch a canvas. And there were probably 200 people there.

I asked, how many of you have ever knocked a door before? And about 50 of them raised their hand. And so that is the type of energy. We're seeing people that want to be part of their democracy. They want to participate. It's not a spectator sport.

And I've just been so delighted to see the grassroots energy around this race and I hopefully it'll it'll lead us to to a win on December 2nd.

You know we have seen kind of a whole raft of different candidates across the political spectrum whether it's Zoran Mamdani in New York or Abigail Spanberger and Mikey Sherrill in New Jersey and Virginia kind of all come together under under a collective belief that life should be affordable for all Americans. And so how are you thinking about that in light of the fact that, you know,

normally when you have democratic candidates, it's where do you lie on the ideological spectrum? Are you super progressive? Are you more moderate? This doesn't seem to be the case anymore. It seems to be kind of a relentless focus

on just making sure that Americans have lived with some basic standard of decency?

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I can attribute it to James Tallarico, who said, it's not about left versus right, it's about top versus bottom. And that could not be more true in a state of Tennessee that has been bought and sold to the highest bidder. My opponent is a puppet to the puppet masters of the universe and special interests. And he's not gonna answer for the district. And the issue of affordability,

I've been fighting in the state legislature to eliminate our sales tax on groceries. We are one of not only nine states that still taxes food. And I've been organizing around that for the past three years and have built a bipartisan coalition

who say, let's do this.

That is the type of candidate we can get behind, message that we can get behind. And I'm so appreciative of Brian Tyler Cohen, all the incredible work he always does, making sure that we elevate these candidates, that we elevate these voices, that we learn about these races. Brian is the man. I'm glad I was able to pull that clip because I thought it was such an incredible interview. We are also going to try to get Afton on this

show very soon. Obviously a big election coming up, wanting to get the message out, but if you're in Tennessee, get out there, knock doors, make calls. Donald Trump is. You should be as well. He's panicked. We got to be prepared. We're going to keep talking about that on this show every single day. If you want to support that as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video. If you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments,

keep on fighting y'all, don't let them silence you. keep on fighting y'all, don't let them silence you. And until next time, I'll see you soon.