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Mamdani: Too often, a working New Yorker is trying to find any extra dollar they can to make ends meet—then they look at city government and they don't see the same application of effort.

Popok: I am troubled by how many people are willing to endanger their law licenses in the service of Tump. Is it the proximity to power? Luttig: It’s proximity to Trump. If the president is calling the judges corrupt and you represent the president, then that’s your mindset

Mamdani: In advance of what was an incredible game one, we made what I would have to call one of our easiest decisions thus far in City Hall. We finally said no to the bedtime lobby, and we suspended bedtimes for children across our city.

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

Walz: Let's be very clear, this president is a failure at business except when he got elected to office and can use corruption…

MacFarlane: We're seeing this unhinged unspooled name calling, often misogynistic, often racist stuff emanating from Washington. 60 minutes would not platform it without the proper scrutiny. You lose that and you lose one of the few things that exist that don't sane wash

Kelly: What are the American people getting out of this conflict with Iran right now? Iran wasn’t about to develop a nuclear weapon. Their enrichment went up because Donald Trump tore up the JCPOA. So this conflict is of Donald Trump’s doing and making.

MacFarlane: Broadcast news is in crisis, trying to survive, not an extinction level event, but a mass casualty, business level event where they're going to lose broadcast operations across America because of the changes in the industry

Psaki: What are you hearing from your former colleagues about what's happening inside CBS right now? MacFarlane: I'm hearing an acceleration of concern about the future, not just of CBS news, but of linear legacy broadcast media

MacFarlane: They never tried to mute me, but I wasn't playing in the real estate of 60 minutes. This seems different to me. This doesn't seem like necessarily a heavy hand needs to be played there to be a perception of corporate interference, and that's damaging just in and of itself.

MacFarlane: 60 minutes is still going to be on. Jen. After the greatest television program ratings deliverer of all—the NFL. It'll still be Patrick Mahomes and 60 minutes. It'll still be Josh Allen and 60 minutes, which means people are going to, if nothing else, stumble upon the new show.

MacFarlane: His loss is a loss that transcends just Scott Pelley. It's going to impact people far and wide inside the network. And respectfully, nobody wins. Nobody benefits if 60 minutes gets damaged. Not the news industry, not politicians, not our better angels as we seek truth in America

MacFarlane: I would venture a bold prediction that if Americans were surveyed about the trustworthiness of 60 minutes, it may have more support and more trust or credibility with Americans than the general milquetoast term media.

MacFarlane: I wasn't called Scott in the office. I was called Scotty Mac, MacFarlane—because Scott Pelley was Scott. That's the reverence with which he was held at CBS

Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins: Be quiet. You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be conservative from Alabama. CNN does such false reporting, but now they have new ownership, so maybe it'll straighten it out. It’s hard to straighten garbage out.

Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins: CNN's a very corrupt organization, with a corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles. Young, beautiful woman, never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing with such hatred in her eyes.

Mullin: Are you calling me a racist? Green: Reclaiming my time. Ask him to shut up! Shut up! Mullin: No one will call me a racist. I’m Cherokee.

Rubio: I have never seen Trump fall asleep. Lieu: I’m going to show you a video that shows you just lied to congress. Here is a video of him asleep while you are talking.

Ossoff: Both of my Trump puppet opponents said that they would support this $1.8 billion slush fund for Jan 6 foot soldiers. I'm running against two Trump puppet Maga fanatics who are pro-war, pro-tariff, pro-cutting your health care pro-Jeffrey Epstein memorial ballroom….

MacFarlane: They're off message in the Republican conference and they know it. They are talking about ballrooms, reflecting pools, monumental arches, slush funds, and Pulte

MacFarlane: The WH is treating this dual position for Pulte like he's waiting tables at night. Doesn't seem tenable to me. I have been looking for members of the U.S. Senate who think Pulte is up for the job. I'll let you know when I find one.

Reporter: If the president's in such perfect health, why does he keep going back in for checkups? Oz: He likes the results. He does really well. Uh, he aces the test every single day

Reporter: This is the 4th checkup that the president has had. What are the doctors looking for? Oz: That amount of energy and that amount of mental acuity does not exist in a vacuum. You have to have a vessel to carry it, and the president has unique ability to just keep going

MacFarlane: I've talked to senators Laura, who are concerned about the quantity of U.S. Munitions right now. They know the bills are going to come due on this, and they don't know the trajectory. I don't think members of congress like the briefings they're getting…

MacFarlane: Nobody thinks this fund is dead and there is nobody, and I mean nobody. Laura, on capitol hill or elsewhere outside the Trump administration who thinks this thing's a good idea. There's no surrogate championing this fund, which means it's got political pressure surrounding it….

Steyer: I really love the people in this state. I really love this state. I believe we’re at a crossroads where we can basically show the world, show the rest of the country, what a 21st-century state is supposed to look like. We can definitely do that.

Steyer: Becerra is saying, “We’re not going to change anything.” And I’m saying that’s ridiculous. The truth is, we have to make California affordable for Californians, and we have to get back to the idea of a joyous state where we not only imagine the future, we create it—and we do it together.

Steyer: This race really comes down to three people. A hard-right MAGA Republican A corporate Democrat, Becerra, who’s taking money from oil companies and tobacco companies. Me—I’m the person who’s promising change in California…

Steyer: I have a strong anti-ICE platform. I think they are a criminal organization, and we have a very strong plan when it comes to prosecuting them. You don’t have to trust me. The head of ICE went online to say that my program is unfair to ICE agents, and I took that as a huge compliment.

Becerra: Money does not buy you leadership in California. Work does, results do, and votes.

Becerra: When can we get back to the days when people like my parents..without ever having stepped into a college classroom, could buy a house, send their four kids to college or the military, and then, when they retired, didn’t have to leave for Arizona or Idaho to afford it?

Becerra: When you've got millions of dollars as a billionaire, you can put up pretty much any commercial you want. We're not gonna rely on that. We're gonna rely on our momentum. We've got the momentum

Rep. Morelle on Oil Prices: Who listens to this guy? People with serious economic interests think that the price of oil is going down because Trump tweets out that he’s near a framework of a deal, and then two hours later he’s backtracking? This is what he does all the time.

CO AG Weiser: I don’t understand Governor Polis’ action to commute the sentence of Tina Peters. She broke the law. She broke her oath of office. She undermined election equipment at a cost of millions of dollars. I prosecuted her along with the Republican district attorney…

MacFarlane: What the historic preservationists are arguing is that the Reflecting Pool is supposed to be the color it’s always been. It’s supposed to be what they call achromatic—no color. Because when it doesn’t have color, it does a better job of reflecting…

Khanna: We need to be taxing agentic AI more than we are taxing human workers.

Reid: They want affection from us. They want all the stars to show up for America 250. They want all their favorite Black celebrities to sing and dance for them. But they hate Black and Brown people.

Reid: They’re whiny little bitches. If you say Stephen Miller is ugly—which is a fact—they cry. They want to be treated as children. They want to be praised.

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Ossoff: They tried to run Kemp, but he refused. So we're left with the congressman who's only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman and the coach, who's only a coach because his daddy was a coach.

Ossoff: The America first president who said he would end foreign wars to put America first and focus on America's working class. Instead, now he says, it's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare. Now he says all we can afford is war.

Ossoff: He promised the golden age. Inflation's higher than when Trump took office. Unemployment's higher than when Trump took office, and consumer sentiments at its worst in 70 years.

Ossoff: The president promised to fight for the working class and end foreign wars. Instead, he cut your healthcare to give the rich another tax break and last week yet more Americans were wounded in a war no one voted for and no one can explain

Ossoff: While you pay more for everything, Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom. He forced out that Republican, the one who made him release the Epstein files. That is true commitment to the cover-up.

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

Ossoff: He settled the suit with himself to create a $1.8 billion slush fund so he can cut checks to cronies and Jan 6th foot soldiers. The same men who sacked the Capitol. Donald Trump's brown shirts . He pardoned them, and now he wants you to pay them.

Khanna on Epstein files: Comer has made this totally partisan. He used two to three months to go after the Clintons, who haven’t been in office for 20 years, and yet he didn’t have Pam Bondi under oath. He didn’t have her testimony public. He didn’t have Howard Lutnick under oath.

Sanders: You know why Trump has a nucleus of support? People say, “I go out and I vote and I’m going nowhere. Democracy is not working. You know what I need? I need a strong guy.” It’s not just in this country. You’re seeing this all over the world.

Sanders: What Mamdani is doing is showing that you can have a democratic socialist, progressive ideology and run a city.

Cocchiarella: The business people think they are the new sages— Sanders: Don’t even use the word business people. Because somebody who owns a company with 30 people is a businessperson. These people are not businesspeople. They are oligarchs.

Perryman: They want to make the conversation about how much money is in there, who’s going to claim it—you know, like, let’s start with the fact that you have no authority. You don’t just get to sit at the White House and create these types of funds. There’s no authority to do that.

Lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: I don’t want it to be lost how courageous Kilmar has been and how he’s made some very hard decisions in the course of this litigation. He didn’t have to go down this path of fighting and exposing the administration for what they’re doing.

Acton: We love the Cavs. Ramaswamy managed to score some $60,000 courtside tickets, but was apparently found spending all his time trying to get into the Knicks locker room. When you love Ohio, you’re trying to get into the Cavs locker room.

Trump: I wish I looked just like Jaxson Dart. Is he a male model? He is a handsome guy, a beautiful guy. Conservative guy. He said, I love you, sir. When Jaxson gets harassed a little bit, he's also is loved more because we have more people than they do.

MacFarlane: $250 — who’d be carrying around that kind of bill in their wallet to begin with? It seems ornate. It seems like something royalty would carry, but at the same time, it’d be barely enough to cover the grocery bill for a family of four or five each week because prices are so high.

Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.

Former federal judge John Jones on Slush fund: This lawsuit essentially—there was no report of a settlement. It was just a discontinuance of the suit, and then comes the settlement thereafter. In my experience—you don’t do that unless you’re trying to keep something from the presiding judge.

Menendez: Delaney Hall was supposed to be a place to hold the worst of the worst. That’s just not the reality of who’s there. We had a pastor who was there for several weeks. We have mothers, fathers. You have pregnant women who are there.

Vance at Air Force Academy: I've watched a few highlights of graduation speeches where someone will discuss AI and be met with literal boos. Now you can't boo me. I'm the Vice President of the United States

Epstein survivor Dani Bensky on Howard Lutnick: He lived right next door. If you were on that block, you saw girls coming and going all the time.

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

CNN: The DOJ has launched a new criminal investigation into one of Trump's enemies, E. Jean Carroll. The source is telling CNN that the investigation now is focused on whether she committed perjury during her two civil lawsuits against the president.

MacFarlane: A whopper of a court filing just now from about three dozen retired former federal judges asking a court to stop this slush fund from proceeding and calling into question whether Trump and his own Department of Justice and IRS colluded to deceive the court

MacFarlane: Comey's arraignment is now set in that seashells by the seashore case. If the calendar holds up, the DOJ is going to have to show some of its cards in that case—they have filed so little, they've put nothing on the record in that case, wondering if it's going to implode…

MacFarlane: Amid all this turnover, there's a sloppiness that is rearing its head at the DOJ. You can see it in the court filings—this new genre of typos, the random capitalization, the random exclamation points, the hyperbole, the reference to Trump derangement syndrome

Talarico: Ken Paxton embodies everything that’s wrong with our political system. He was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors at our expense. And that kind of corruption is the rot at the core of this broken system.

Collins: Bezos said that you could double his taxes and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens. Mamdani: I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

Meiselas: You’ve attended the Knicks games, but not front row, not courtside. You’ve been with the people. I see the New York Post and Fox hitting you on that. Mamdani: I’ll never apologize for sitting in the nosebleeds.

Mamdani on Arch/Ballroom/Club Rose Garden: My message would be that this is not what government has to be. This is not the only vision for what it looks like to have politics in this country—that is so divorced from the needs and wants of everyday people.

Meiselas: Fox and Daily Wire are already out with their talking points. Mamdani wants to decide who deserves to keep their property. What’s your message to that audience? Mamdani: My message is the same as I would say to anyone: I want them to be able to afford to live in the city as well.

Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.

Fox reporter to protester: You have a dirty mouth Protester: You are a Nazi bitch

Raju: Who did you vote for? Texas Voter: Cornyn Raju: Why did you vote for Cornyn? Texas Voter: Because Trump did not endorse him. Raju: If Paxton wins the nomination, could you vote for him in the general election? Texas Voter: Hell no.

Patrick Holland who reviewed the new Trump phone describes the color as: Sometimes it looks like those gold coins that Scrooge McDuck would jump in… and yet other times it kind of looks like a urine sample.

MacFarlane: I think the pope is also channeling the voices of any number of young people who are petrified of this, dispirited by this, worried about what this means for their future. Pretty silent on the home front from political leaders here. It’s nice to see the pope talking about it.

MacFarlane: There is a consequence for the party having Paxton as the nominee. They're going to have to marshal a lot of money to fight this fight. But there are also a couple competitive U.S. House races on the southern border… a deflated party could make those even more competitive.

MacFarlane: There is such a big difference between an agreement in principle and an agreement in reality. Anybody trying to navigate a chore list with their kids can tell you the difference between an agreement in principle and an agreement in reality

Deluzio: The Trump administration is floundering. They are trying to get back to a situation that looks like it’s going to be worse than it was before they started the war, just to get the Strait of Hormuz moving again.

Rhodes: What have we learned? These Iranian drones that you can make in your garage have hit our bases, have hit our Gulf Arab allies. An aircraft carrier cannot stop a speedboat from closing the Strait of Hormuz.

Rhodes: Iran has demonstrated that it can control the Strait of Hormuz.That is a huge deal. The Gulf Arab allies have played along with a concept in which we provide their security and they provide the energy. Well, now their dependence on America has put them at risk.

Rhodes: Who looks like a more stable and predictable actor? The Chinese Communist Party, where maybe you think they’re bullies, but the terms never change? Or the United States, where you have a president who’s been imposing tariffs, launching wars, shaking you down for essentially tribute payments?

Jacobs: The War Powers Resolution of 1973 is very clear. After 60 days, the president is required to withdraw troops from hostilities unless Congress acts. Congress has not acted, and yet it is day 73 and my constituents are still in the region.

MacFarlane: Four members of Trump’s cabinet, all gone in quick succession, and all of them women. The breaking news to conclude the week is that Tulsi Gabbard is stepping down as director of national intelligence effective June 30.

Trump: I’m looking at Jaxon… I'm looking at the legs there. He's this beautiful guy. He's got legs like tree trunks. This is not a good thing for women.

Jessica: The weird stuff about the cognitive test and how he's acing things that they give to people that have had traumatic brain injuries—saying no one knows there's a B in the word dumb. We all know there's a B in the word dumb

MacFarlane: The senators are poised to offer amendment after amendment to gut this thing like a fish… And I'm not sure where Republicans find 50 votes to stop any of these amendments

Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester: What this administration is doing is showing us what their priorities are. Their priorities are a gold-plated ballroom. Their priorities are a new reflecting pool, which we hope is not painted with the face of Donald Trump at the bottom.

Shapiro: I was shocked when we discovered that within minutes of presenting ourselves as individuals who were in distress, this chatbot began dispensing medical advice. When pressed further, it said, “Hey, here’s my medical ID number.” That is against the law in Pennsylvania, and so we took action

McGovern: Can you explain what is happening with the Iran war powers resolution that was scheduled to be voted on this evening? Are we not voting on it because the American people are sick and tired of this illegal war that is costing tens of billions of dollars?

AOC: I think it’s pretty unbelievable that Gaza would not be mentioned once in the autopsy report. I think it was very clearly a major dynamic and a major thread that was happening in 2024. The fact that it’s not even addressed, I think, is a major oversight.

MacFarlane: This is like the least popular thing I've seen in congress, like getting carrot sticks on Halloween. This is not what anybody wants, and they don't even want to be talking about it. I can't find Republicans to even tacitly endorse this thing.

MacFarlane: The critics of the January 6th prosecutions have alleged it was a Biden launched weaponization. It was Donald Trump's first term in which those prosecutions were launched.

MacFarlane: The sales pitch the Trump administration undertook for this slush fund has been a clown show. The Senate was supposed to take up a reconciliation plan. The Senate peaced out and left town for two weeks because they were stuck in the mud on the $1.7 billion fund…

Ballou: Our clients are two January 6 officers who continue to receive threats from rioters and their supporters for speaking out. What we’ve got is a situation where a fund could be used to pay the very people—the rioters, the paramilitary organizations—that are threatening these officers.

Former NJ AG Matt Platkin: They’re indicting the SPLC for allegedly misusing donor funds to infiltrate and disrupt white supremacist networks by paying informants. Now they’re turning around and they’re going to take $1.8 billion of public money not to disrupt those networks, but to fund them.

MacFarlane: Do you have any concern that they ousted Tom Massie to enable a cover-up? Pocan: It seems very obvious to those of us who are watching that there’s a reason they wanted to get rid of him, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars…

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Platner: If this becomes a race about discussing policies and a positive vision for the future, we have one. We have a positive vision, and we have policies to get there. Susan Collins doesn’t. She just has, frankly, the status quo.

Trump: Mr. Kroger. You have stores in Washington. You see a big difference? Kroger CEO Greg Foran: We do. Trump: You said the right thing. That would have been the end of Kroger.

CNN: Would you be okay with people who were convicted of hurting police, getting taxpayer money? Blanche: Just to be clear, people that hurt police get money all the time.