You're a master of the story, also the school of the school.
Just to get something to talk and then get it started.
No, not at all. This story is my safe space. You mean, you're all right? Yes, exactly.
“This story is the story of the story that I just understood.”
The story of the studio, the job or the music. The story of the story? I don't feel like it's a story. A story is a story. - Save. With this story.
And I think it's an operation. And with that, Republicans are refusing to work yet again. Yep, as you know, the mega Republicans have effectively shut down the House of Representatives right now. Where are they going while the American people need to understand
what the hell is happening with this war on Iran, this unlawful war
where American soldiers, American service members are losing their lives where our economy is tanking, where it's the largest oil shock in world history. Well, the mega Republicans have went to Doral in Miami. They're in Donald Trump's resort as we speak.
They are taking a vacation, a mega Republican retreat. I kid you not, that is where they are at right now.
“Mega Mike left the House, you saw him right there.”
And then they all went to Doral to hang with Donald Trump and watch him golf. And they are doing events right now in the Donald J. Trump ballroom. Mega Mike and all the mega influencers are going to be there. And they're going to be talking about how great they think everything is.
It should be noted if you look at the gas prices as Meredith Le Hill points out just outside Trump's Doral Florida resort. By the way, all the money being funneled there is just absurd. They'll be greeted to see what Donald Trump has done to gas prices, because gas prices are surging.
Now, before Mega Mike left, he also wanted everybody to know that it is a misconception that war is a bad thing. War is about peace is what Mega Mike Johnson wanted everybody to know before going to Doral play this clip. One last note, there is a misconception that Operation Epic Suriors in
any way a diversion from Republican demands for peace. It's the opposite. And Mega Mike also wanted everyone to know that Shore Congress has a constitutional right to exercise oversight over things like war.
In fact, it's actually Congress. That is the one required for there to be a declaration of war. But Mega Mike says what strength is? Is not doing that. So let me get this straight.
War is peace and strength is weakness here. Play this clip. In my estimation, this course of action was necessary lawful and effective and reversing it. Now, would weaken America.
Congress has a constitutional right to exercise its oversight authority and we will. But we also have a duty and obligation, not to undercut our own national security. Now, at this retreat in Doral in Miami right now, you have
mega Republicans making posts like this. Congressmen Andy Ogles writes, "Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie. The kind of ideas coming out of Doral, Florida.
Right now, you've got Donald Trump making posts like this. Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran national women's soccer team to be forced back to Iran where they will most likely be killed. Don't do it, Mr. Prime Minister.
Give us asylum. The U.S. will take them if you won't. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. You know, Donald the U.S. is actually taking Iranians who are here and sending them back to Iran.
Your whole policy is not taking Iranians for asylum. And so now you want to use this has some bizarre propaganda distraction fees.
“But that's what's going on in Doral right now.”
I want to bring in Jack Schlossberg. Jack, it's great to see his running for Congress in New York's 12th Congressional District. Jack, it's great to see it. I want to get into kind of your policies.
I want to get into why you're running. But let's, the why may be a little bit answered by the lead in right there, which is Congress ain't working for us. And they're out there vacationing and doing whatever the hell Donald Trump wants them to be doing. But it ain't helping us.
Can you talk to us about that first?
Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me on the program. Ben, I'm a, I'm a longtime listener. And I, uh, this is a, so happy to be here with you. And thanks for all that you guys are doing to get the message out there. Yes, the Republican retreat.
Um, our Congress isn't working for us.
That's a huge reason why I'm running.
I think we need to get people in Congress who are going to shake things up. New generation with new energy, new creativity and new ideas. And we need to be doing a lot better because the problems that we're not solving every day. That goes by are just things that we're going to have to do with down the line. It's going to cost you and me time and money for the rest of our adult lives,
all the, all the time that we're missing right now and all the issues that we're not addressing. So I like, I like the, the idea of a Republican retreat. I do think that the GOP is on its heels and many ways around the country. We've seen that from democratic voters turning out and record numbers.
“And I think we're going to keep seeing that in the midterm elections.”
But I really want to say this because yes, they're in retreat. They may be on their heels. Their policies are wildly unpopular. Gas prices are going to go up. Everything is more expensive for everybody, not just here in New York.
12, where people are struggling to think that they can raise a family here. People can't afford to pay their rent. Things are not good in New York 12 and around the country because our economy is not affordable. It's not affordable to live in New York and so many other places, but here's the real deal. Yes, a lot of this stuff is people are understanding that Trump is not for them.
Even if he, they thought he was, but we can't underestimate the stakes right now. This is our country's 250th anniversary. I think it's coming at a very particular time. We're at a crossroads and this is our last chance to stop Trump. We don't know what happens if the democratic party doesn't win back the house.
And that's going to take a huge amount of effort. We are behind and we'll be behind for some time. We have to recognize that as a party, even though we might take comfort and some of the little wins. We can't act like this is all going to go our way. They're going to try dirty tricks.
They're going to try to nationalize the election. Trump is going to try to stay for a third term. I'm running because we don't have enough time. We don't have another, we can't afford to see what happens. We have to take it into our own hands and people have to step up and run.
“And that's what I'm trying to do here in New York.”
Yeah, it is interesting calling it a retreat while it does feel like the Republicans are in a retreat at a retreat. And it does feel though like America is in retreat. And sure, Trump uses the blow-veading and pragodosious language that he's done his entire life. But if you look at his casinos and you look at his companies, where did that take him as he would say?
My casinos have never been better, this is on the precipice of the most historical thing,
bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, and to me what we're seeing right here, specifically in this particular moment is really exactly what happened with his casinos and all of his businesses. He made these promises, it's total utter fraud. Everything is being destroyed, like quite literally everywhere. All of our relationships are being broken.
And what's he doing on America's 250th, well last Friday, he registered the Trump 250 trademark, so he could put his name on the flags and the monuments and the pins to make money off of it for himself.
“Doesn't that just kind of sum up this moment perfectly, Jack?”
Yeah, it really does. I like to say we're in a three-part crisis, a cost crisis, a corruption crisis, and a constitutional crisis, and to me, the most unifying of all of those, well, it's probably costs,
but corruption is up there because this president has made upwards of four billion dollars this year.
His son is sitting on boards of tons of publicly traded companies. He himself has his own currency that he's issued. We need to step up and do something about this because if this becomes the new normal, and the president is able to trade Mark America's birthday and have issued his own currency while weakening the dollar and having gold skyrocket and increasing prices on basically every commodity
and input cost in our economy, we're getting screwed and he's getting rich. And I think everybody knows he's just, he tells you what you want, tells you us what we want to hear, and then it takes our pockets. It's a slap in the face with one hand and he's picking our pockets with the other. How to control, we can't let this go on.
Talk to us about your policies in New York and kind of what you're running on. Because I think that obviously, trumps that a record low when it comes to the presidency, and I think it's going to stay that way. But I think one of the reasons that your campaign has been taken off is that people are looking for answers and they're looking for policies that are these policies going to help me,
because one of those other stuff is happening and working. So talk to us about what you're running on. Yeah, so we try to communicate policies in ways people can actually understand that makes sense to them. So I go around, I've been campaigning around the district in New York 12, my hometown, for months now, and I listen to people and they're concerns.
One of the most important things people have told me is housing.
People can't afford to pay their rent, rents are skyrocketing here in New York 12. So we came out with our three part housing fairness plan. One part is a standard renter's
Deduction.
their rent from their federal income taxes, just like a mortgage interest payment.
“And people have been very, it's been very, very well received. We call it the SRD.”
And people, I was walking down the street yesterday and a group of guys started cheering. Schlossberg, SRD. People love the SRD. We've got the Ricochet rule, which is our plan for public safety. Why is it called the Ricochet rule? Well, there are a lot of illegal firearms that get trafficked into New York 12. And crime in public safety is another top concern people tell me when I'm out on the trail. So we're going, we've got to plan the Ricochet rule to stop the
flow of illegal guns into New York 12 because those guns, 70% of them, of the guns used in crime in New York, come from five different states. So we want to put a monetary penalty on those states that export illegal firearms across the country and use that to create a task force
to try to enforce gun laws here in America. Another policy I'm really proud of, it's the first
policy that we came out with was an especially light of the attack that we saw over the weekend here in New York City in this district on the Upper East Side where I'm from is Jack's fast track plan. Where we want to try to fast track a doubling of funds for the nonprofit security grant program here in New York. And that program is a federal program that provides millions of dollars to houses of worship in this district and across the country to pay for security upgrades for for cameras,
for security guards, for reinforce doors. And I were really proud of those policies as well. So we're focused on, again, those three crises, the cost crisis, the corruption crisis,
and the constitutional crisis. And on the corruption crisis, we've got a really exciting
policy that I'm not going to give away too much, but we're going to be announcing it later today, maybe tomorrow, and it has to do with Trump Tower. So I pull people, we'll stay tuned because
“I'm really proud of this one. And the way you're going about fueling the campaign, I think, says a lot”
also talked to us about it because where you're taking money from, where you're not taking a money from, I think people want to know that these days. Look, I think the corruption crisis is real. And it matters where your representative gets their money from. That's who they can be expected to answer to once they're elected. And unlike the opponents that I'm running against, which are taking a lot of dark money and relying on IES and superpacks to buy them millions of
dollars of TV ads, we don't do that. I took an integrity pledge upon myself, the challenge the other opponents in this race to do that. They haven't done so yet. And it's, I don't take corporate pack money. I don't take super pack money. And I will not take money from big AI companies like Palantir and the rest. Our campaign is our average donation. Unlike the other people I'm running against is under 40 bucks. We've got 45,000 people who have contributed from all 50 states.
And we're really proud of that because we are a people-powered campaign. It's grassroots. And it might be a kind of ironic coming from me, given my family background. But I'm the outsider in this race. And the numbers tell the story of a campaign powered by real people, out on the ground, who just want to see change and want to see new energy and new life into the democratic party because we don't need to accept what's going on here as normal. And we don't,
we can't be the ones who sell out to corporations and big packs. We need to go back to what we do best, which is representing real people in their real struggles.
“Jack, where can people find out more about the campaign?”
Oh my gosh. Well, they'll be very, very happy to visit www.jackforneyork.com. Please sign up to volunteer if you live in New York 12 or anywhere in New York or really anywhere at all, come visit to hang out for a day. We've got over 3,000 people who have signed up to volunteer and we're loving it. And if you can, chip in $1.5, go a long, goes a long way. We can win this, but we're going to need a lot of support. Jack, Schlossberg, everybody running for New York's
12th Congressional District. Thanks Jack. Thank you. And everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers.
