WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.520 Welcome back to The Deep Dive. Today, we are 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:07.360 really opening the blinds on a moment of profound 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.380 political vulnerability. We are. We've got a 00:00:10.380 --> 00:00:12.960 hefty stack of sources, a massive analysis of 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:15.779 a deeply controversial political interview, some 00:00:15.779 --> 00:00:18.640 strategic White House announcements, and maybe 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:21.239 most importantly, brand new polling data. And 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:22.760 we're going to show you how they all connect. 00:00:22.899 --> 00:00:26.660 Exactly. Our main focus is the fallout from Chief 00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:28.859 of Staff Susie Wiles' Vanity Fair interview. 00:00:28.989 --> 00:00:31.190 I mean, this wasn't just a quick chat. This was 00:00:31.190 --> 00:00:34.170 11 separate sessions. 11. Our mission today is 00:00:34.170 --> 00:00:36.850 to unpack this moment where it feels like political 00:00:36.850 --> 00:00:40.659 discipline just vanished. and to see how that 00:00:40.659 --> 00:00:43.659 internal chaos is hitting up against these very 00:00:43.659 --> 00:00:46.780 real external pressures, the economy, the election 00:00:46.780 --> 00:00:48.859 cycle. And the central document itself is just, 00:00:48.859 --> 00:00:51.479 it's bizarre. Wiles is famously in the shadows, 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:53.600 right? Right, not a public figure. And she agrees 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.700 to 11 sessions of this intense exposure, but 00:00:56.700 --> 00:00:59.079 the visual part is where the mystery really starts 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.479 for me. Why did they let key figures, we're talking 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:05.519 J .D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Carolyn 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:09.450 Livett, Why did they let them do this high -investment 00:01:09.450 --> 00:01:12.969 photo shoot that just resulted in these deeply 00:01:12.969 --> 00:01:16.010 unflattering pictures? It was almost self -sabotage. 00:01:16.010 --> 00:01:18.769 Yeah. Visually. Yeah. The source analysis we 00:01:18.769 --> 00:01:20.549 have describes the whole thing as looking less 00:01:20.549 --> 00:01:23.189 like the White House and more like a chaotic 00:01:23.189 --> 00:01:25.950 promo for a third -rate dynasty reboot. That's 00:01:25.950 --> 00:01:28.109 a good way to put it. You have these shots highlighting 00:01:28.109 --> 00:01:31.409 crumpled suits, really awkward poses, and of 00:01:31.409 --> 00:01:33.310 course the internet just lit up with speculation. 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:35.319 People were wondering if the photographers were 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:37.840 doing it on purpose. Well, the details in the 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.939 close -ups were what got me. The analysis pointed 00:01:39.939 --> 00:01:42.019 out that in some of the extreme close -ups, like 00:01:42.019 --> 00:01:44.640 on Caroline Leavitt, you could clearly see things 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:47.439 like her lip filler injections. Wow. I mean, 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:49.819 if you're investing all this time and political 00:01:49.819 --> 00:01:52.500 capital to project power and the result is this 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:56.209 picture of profound disorder, Well, it really 00:01:56.209 --> 00:01:57.909 set the stage for the interview itself, didn't 00:01:57.909 --> 00:02:00.090 it? It absolutely did. It's like the administration 00:02:00.090 --> 00:02:02.370 handed the media shovel and Wiles just started 00:02:02.370 --> 00:02:04.810 digging. A very, very deep hole. The whole thing 00:02:04.810 --> 00:02:07.609 was an unfiltered bombshell. Right. So let's 00:02:07.609 --> 00:02:09.310 start with the character stuff and the internal 00:02:09.310 --> 00:02:11.610 politics, because that's where the discipline 00:02:11.610 --> 00:02:14.610 first really breaks down. The comments she made 00:02:14.610 --> 00:02:17.509 about the president's personality. and the people 00:02:17.509 --> 00:02:20.370 around him. She dropped this astonishing line 00:02:20.370 --> 00:02:23.330 that the president has an alcoholics personality. 00:02:23.490 --> 00:02:25.449 Which is incredible because he's a teetotaler. 00:02:25.729 --> 00:02:28.349 Exactly. Her point was he operates with that 00:02:28.349 --> 00:02:30.889 kind of high -confidence, reckless, boundary 00:02:30.889 --> 00:02:34.310 -pushing personality. And what's maybe even more 00:02:34.310 --> 00:02:36.629 remarkable is that the president apparently later 00:02:36.629 --> 00:02:38.909 agreed with her assessment. Still, to have your 00:02:38.909 --> 00:02:41.770 own shift of staff say that. It just validates 00:02:41.770 --> 00:02:44.210 every critic who says the administration is all 00:02:44.210 --> 00:02:47.469 impulse and no planning. It does. And her comments 00:02:47.469 --> 00:02:50.629 on the Inner Circle were just ruthless. Oh, yeah. 00:02:50.889 --> 00:02:53.150 JD Vance, who everyone sees as this potential 00:02:53.150 --> 00:02:55.750 successor, she calls him a political opportunist. 00:02:55.979 --> 00:02:58.879 a trumper for political reasons, and a conspiracy 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.099 theorist for a decade. Wow. And then Russell 00:03:01.099 --> 00:03:04.620 Vaughn, the former OMB head. A right -wing absolute 00:03:04.620 --> 00:03:06.680 zealot. So the person who's supposed to be holding 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.300 the team together is just publicly reducing her 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:12.780 colleagues to caricatures. Exactly. And her attempt 00:03:12.780 --> 00:03:15.759 to clean it up later, calling herself Mother 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.400 Hen over a bunch of junkyard personalities. Wow. 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:22.120 It was just too little, too late. She confirmed 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.000 all the infighting everyone already suspected 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.509 was there. OK, so let's move from the internal 00:03:26.509 --> 00:03:28.650 drama to the policy admissions, because this 00:03:28.650 --> 00:03:31.069 is where things really start to change the public 00:03:31.069 --> 00:03:33.030 understanding of what this administration is 00:03:33.030 --> 00:03:35.770 trying to do. Venezuela, for example. This is 00:03:35.770 --> 00:03:37.569 critical. I mean, this goes right to the heart 00:03:37.569 --> 00:03:41.449 of executive power, use of military force. Wiles 00:03:41.449 --> 00:03:43.909 flatly contradicted the White House's public 00:03:43.909 --> 00:03:46.270 line. Which was that the aggressive actions were 00:03:46.270 --> 00:03:48.490 about stopping drug trafficking. Right. She came 00:03:48.490 --> 00:03:51.449 out and explicitly said the real goal is regime 00:03:51.449 --> 00:03:55.150 change. Her words were, to take down Nicolas 00:03:55.150 --> 00:03:57.409 Maduro. And the legal justification she gave 00:03:57.409 --> 00:04:00.430 for it is, well, it's alarming. It is. She said 00:04:00.430 --> 00:04:03.009 their actions are legal and they don't need Congress's 00:04:03.009 --> 00:04:05.479 permission yet. And then she defines war as something 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:07.960 that only starts if there's an attack on land. 00:04:08.180 --> 00:04:10.300 That is the political time bomb in the statement. 00:04:10.300 --> 00:04:12.680 Right. I mean, if you define war as only starting 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:16.079 with a land attack, you have drastically and 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:19.180 probably illegally lowered the bar for military 00:04:19.180 --> 00:04:21.959 action at sea or in the air. So they believe 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:24.819 they can run a blockade or do airstrikes without 00:04:24.819 --> 00:04:27.139 any congressional authorization. That's what 00:04:27.139 --> 00:04:29.620 her definition implies. It's a massive expansion 00:04:29.620 --> 00:04:32.199 of presidential war powers totally unchecked 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.500 by the legislature. And she didn't stop there. 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:37.699 She just kept conceding past errors. The whole 00:04:37.699 --> 00:04:40.339 Epstein fallout. Oh, she threw Pam Bondi, the 00:04:40.339 --> 00:04:43.360 former Florida AG, completely under the bus. 00:04:43.819 --> 00:04:46.160 Said Bondi misjudged the whole situation. And 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.160 then admitted it was a mistake for the president 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.899 to try and link Bill Clinton to it. Yep. She 00:04:50.899 --> 00:04:52.740 even conceded the president polled around with 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:54.879 Epstein. Of course, she tried to dismiss it as 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:58.399 just what young single playboys do. It's an incredible 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.509 combination, isn't it? Admit the error, concede 00:05:01.509 --> 00:05:04.149 the association, and then offer this bizarre 00:05:04.149 --> 00:05:07.410 dismissive defense. It just undermines everything 00:05:07.410 --> 00:05:09.430 they had said before. And it was the same with 00:05:09.430 --> 00:05:12.250 immigration. She acknowledged specific damaging 00:05:12.250 --> 00:05:14.790 mistakes, like the deportation of a four -year 00:05:14.790 --> 00:05:18.069 -old with cancer, the Kilmar -Brigo -Garcia case, 00:05:18.610 --> 00:05:20.769 things the White House has always tried to deny 00:05:20.769 --> 00:05:23.470 or downplay. OK, what about tariffs and the whole 00:05:23.470 --> 00:05:26.500 retribution theme? because tariffs were a core 00:05:26.500 --> 00:05:29.180 promise. On tariffs, she admitted the whole process 00:05:29.180 --> 00:05:31.699 was haphazard and the results have been, quote, 00:05:32.019 --> 00:05:34.680 more painful than I expected. Which, again, just 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.339 undercuts their whole economic success narrative. 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:40.920 And on retribution, this is a big one. She confirmed 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.310 it. said that while the president doesn't wake 00:05:43.310 --> 00:05:45.649 up plotting revenge when there's an opportunity, 00:05:45.970 --> 00:05:48.829 he will go for it. And then conceded the prosecutions 00:05:48.829 --> 00:05:51.930 of Letitia James and James Comey might be vindictive. 00:05:52.029 --> 00:05:54.810 You just, you do not hear a sitting chief of 00:05:54.810 --> 00:05:57.509 staff use the words might be vindictive to describe 00:05:57.509 --> 00:05:59.709 high profile political prosecutions. And she 00:05:59.709 --> 00:06:01.750 sort of capped it all off by explaining her job 00:06:01.750 --> 00:06:04.379 is just to enable the president. She completely 00:06:04.379 --> 00:06:06.959 rejected the traditional idea of a chief of staff 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.839 being a check or a firewall. Which is basically 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.379 a declaration that the operation is completely 00:06:12.379 --> 00:06:15.560 unbound. It's driven solely by the president's 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.740 will. The fallout was, uh, immediate. Of course. 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.000 Wiles gets on Twitter, calls it a disingenuously 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:26.939 framed hit piece. A line that Levitt and the 00:06:26.939 --> 00:06:29.339 president then immediately parroted. But here's 00:06:29.339 --> 00:06:31.720 the thing. They haven't actually denied any of 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.199 the quotes, have they? No. That's the kicker. 00:06:34.459 --> 00:06:36.480 They're claiming a lack of context, but they're 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.779 not explaining how more context makes we want 00:06:38.779 --> 00:06:41.959 to take down Maduro sound any different. So they're 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.899 basically admitting it's all true. They just 00:06:43.899 --> 00:06:45.779 wish she hadn't said it out loud. Pretty much. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:47.779 Which led to all the speculation. You know, why 00:06:47.779 --> 00:06:50.779 did she do it? Is she jumping ship? The source 00:06:50.779 --> 00:06:52.759 material says that's unlikely. She's too loyal. 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:54.879 Is she trying to create a record for the history 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:57.139 books? Probably not in a magazine interview. 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.029 So the most likely theory is just. A total collapse 00:07:00.029 --> 00:07:02.750 of discipline. Yeah. She got a taste of the spotlight 00:07:02.750 --> 00:07:05.470 and just developed a case of political, verbal 00:07:05.470 --> 00:07:08.230 oversharing. She got carried away. Whatever the 00:07:08.230 --> 00:07:11.069 reason, the result is the same. A catastrophic 00:07:11.069 --> 00:07:13.589 breakdown in message control, especially after 00:07:13.589 --> 00:07:15.550 they've been so shockingly disciplined for 10 00:07:15.550 --> 00:07:17.949 months. And that chaos, of course, led to immediate 00:07:17.949 --> 00:07:19.970 damage control. Which brings us to their next 00:07:19.970 --> 00:07:22.389 strategic moves. That's right. The interview 00:07:22.389 --> 00:07:25.870 drops and just hours later, the president announces 00:07:25.870 --> 00:07:28.370 an address to the nation for the next night. 00:07:29.150 --> 00:07:32.149 That is not a coincidence. It's a desperate play 00:07:32.149 --> 00:07:34.629 to reset the narrative. So what do we think the 00:07:34.629 --> 00:07:36.889 address is going to be about? A few possibilities 00:07:36.889 --> 00:07:39.410 here. One, it could just be a sort of morale 00:07:39.410 --> 00:07:42.490 boosting all is well speech. Maybe announce some 00:07:42.490 --> 00:07:45.110 vague new initiative on jobs or health care. 00:07:45.269 --> 00:07:48.610 Another infrastructure week. Right. Or two, he 00:07:48.610 --> 00:07:50.850 could use it to put the full weight of the presidency 00:07:50.850 --> 00:07:54.170 behind that aggressive Venezuela strategy, while 00:07:54.170 --> 00:07:56.769 it's let slip. Officially announce the blockade 00:07:56.769 --> 00:08:00.110 of tankers, call Venezuela a terrorist regime. 00:08:00.250 --> 00:08:02.689 Elevate it from staff chatter to official doctrine. 00:08:02.990 --> 00:08:05.500 Exactly. And the third option is just pure damage 00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:08.220 control. Maybe try to preemptively label the 00:08:08.220 --> 00:08:11.339 upcoming Epstein files release as fake news or 00:08:11.339 --> 00:08:13.660 just dismiss the Wiles interview outright. A 00:08:13.660 --> 00:08:15.740 lot is going to depend on the delivery. The source 00:08:15.740 --> 00:08:18.100 material points to his physical position as the 00:08:18.100 --> 00:08:21.720 key tell. If he's sitting reading from a teleprompter, 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.319 you're watching a controlled staff written speech 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:27.100 by Miller or Rubio. If he's standing and sort 00:08:27.100 --> 00:08:30.350 of winging it. Well, then all bets are off. Speaking 00:08:30.350 --> 00:08:32.830 of calculated moves, we have to talk about the 00:08:32.830 --> 00:08:35.529 delicate political ballet that Senator JD Vance 00:08:35.529 --> 00:08:38.409 is doing right now. Oh, it is a textbook tightrope 00:08:38.409 --> 00:08:40.549 walk. He released that statement acknowledging 00:08:40.549 --> 00:08:43.110 the rough economy, but promising better times. 00:08:43.370 --> 00:08:46.529 Vance is acutely aware. of the data we're about 00:08:46.529 --> 00:08:49.730 to get into. He knows voters are unhappy. He 00:08:49.730 --> 00:08:51.610 knows that historically, when the economy is 00:08:51.610 --> 00:08:53.970 bad, you throw the bums out. And he sees a future 00:08:53.970 --> 00:08:57.690 for himself in 2026 or 2028. So he has to position 00:08:57.690 --> 00:09:00.529 himself as a change candidate. He has to show 00:09:00.529 --> 00:09:02.990 voters he gets their pain, even while he's part 00:09:02.990 --> 00:09:05.029 of an administration that's busy denying that 00:09:05.029 --> 00:09:07.450 pain exists. But that's so risky for him, isn't 00:09:07.450 --> 00:09:09.950 it? If he publicly says the economy is rough, 00:09:10.529 --> 00:09:12.629 isn't he risking the president's infamous wrath? 00:09:12.789 --> 00:09:15.529 It's an incredibly high stakes gamble. This isn't 00:09:15.529 --> 00:09:18.429 like a typical VP waiting in the wings. This 00:09:18.429 --> 00:09:20.690 president has shown he can just snap his fingers 00:09:20.690 --> 00:09:23.490 and make a Republican candidate radioactive with 00:09:23.490 --> 00:09:26.049 the base. So Vance has to create this distance 00:09:26.049 --> 00:09:28.970 on the economy, the number one issue, without 00:09:28.970 --> 00:09:31.110 triggering a personal attack that could just 00:09:31.110 --> 00:09:34.190 destroy his career. It requires a level of subtlety 00:09:34.190 --> 00:09:36.710 that, frankly, this administration has never 00:09:36.710 --> 00:09:39.759 been known for. OK, so let's shift from all that 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.460 internal chaos and maneuvering to the cold hard 00:09:42.460 --> 00:09:44.860 data. Because while the administration is having 00:09:44.860 --> 00:09:47.639 a meltdown, the opposition seems to be executing 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.740 a flawless player. And it is backed by polling 00:09:50.740 --> 00:09:53.360 that should have every Republican very, very 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.580 nervous. This is the recent PBS NPR Marist poll. 00:09:56.700 --> 00:09:59.740 Yes. And it delivered what the source calls a 00:09:59.740 --> 00:10:02.200 political gift to the Democrats. The numbers 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.460 are just striking. On the generic House ballot, 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.120 it's 55 percent for the Democrat, 41 percent 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.679 for the Republican. A 14 point spread. That's 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:12.039 huge. It's monumental. It's the biggest margin 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:14.539 Marist has recorded since the 2017 blue wave 00:10:14.539 --> 00:10:16.460 election. And what's driving it isn't just the 00:10:16.460 --> 00:10:19.320 base, it's independence. Exactly. Independence 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.740 are breaking two to one for the Democrats, 61 00:10:21.740 --> 00:10:24.879 to 28 percent. Oh. I mean, when that swing demographic 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:27.740 moves that dramatically. You have a systemic 00:10:27.740 --> 00:10:30.000 problem, not just a messaging issue. And the 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.740 poll asks the essential question. What's driving 00:10:32.740 --> 00:10:35.919 this? And the answer is crystal clear. The top 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.279 priority by a huge margin is lowering prices. 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.600 Fifty seven percent. Fifty seven. Compare that 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:45.879 to immigration at 16 or Israel -Gaza at six. 00:10:46.100 --> 00:10:47.940 It's a complete validation of the democratic 00:10:47.940 --> 00:10:50.970 strategy. For six months, they have been hammering 00:10:50.970 --> 00:10:54.110 on affordability, day in and day out. They have 00:10:54.110 --> 00:10:56.549 successfully captured the narrative on the one 00:10:56.549 --> 00:10:59.409 issue that almost six out of 10 voters care about 00:10:59.409 --> 00:11:01.649 most. And the president's personal numbers in 00:11:01.649 --> 00:11:04.009 that same poll are just as bad. Thirty nine percent 00:11:04.009 --> 00:11:06.309 approval, fifty six disapproving. Right. So the 00:11:06.309 --> 00:11:08.529 poll is not skewed. Those numbers are real. And 00:11:08.529 --> 00:11:09.990 we're seeing this confirmed in focus groups, 00:11:10.149 --> 00:11:12.049 too, right? With voters in swing states who used 00:11:12.049 --> 00:11:14.009 to support the president, but have flipped. Yes. 00:11:14.230 --> 00:11:17.750 And a very clear three part playbook has emerged 00:11:17.750 --> 00:11:20.250 from those conversations. It's the proof of concept 00:11:20.250 --> 00:11:22.559 for how Democrats can win. OK, what is it? The 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.840 winning formula for governors elect like Sherrill 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.200 and Spanberger was one, talk almost exclusively 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.580 about kitchen table issues. Two, avoid negativity 00:11:31.580 --> 00:11:35.159 and finger pointing. And three, avoid any association 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.340 with the more leftist elements of the party on 00:11:37.340 --> 00:11:39.480 social issues and immigration. That sounds like 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.799 the general playbook for 2026. A strategy of 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.360 disciplined focus, avoiding distractions. It's 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.259 the starkest possible contrast to the total lack 00:11:48.259 --> 00:11:50.259 of discipline we just saw in the Wiles interview. 00:11:50.500 --> 00:11:52.799 And the actual economic data only makes this 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.240 worse for them. It absolutely reinforces the 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:57.519 peril. The promises made to blue collar workers 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:59.879 are being directly undermined by the job numbers. 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.159 We've seen a net loss of 65 ,000 blue collar 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:06.279 jobs this year. In sectors like mining, transportation, 00:12:06.700 --> 00:12:08.980 manufacturing. All shrinking. with construction 00:12:08.980 --> 00:12:11.899 flat and unemployment is up to 4 .6 percent. 00:12:12.019 --> 00:12:13.919 That's the highest it's been since the pandemic. 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:16.059 Before that, you have to go all the way back 00:12:16.059 --> 00:12:19.740 to 2017. So this data directly challenges their 00:12:19.740 --> 00:12:22.019 core claim of economic strength. And it feeds 00:12:22.019 --> 00:12:23.899 right into the Democratic message. They can say, 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.639 see, we're the ones who can actually fix the 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:28.700 affordability crisis and protect these jobs. 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.700 If I were a Republican strategist, I would be 00:12:31.700 --> 00:12:34.000 extremely nervous right now. Yeah. The window 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.539 to change this economic narrative is closing 00:12:36.539 --> 00:12:38.720 fast. So let's bring it all together for you. 00:12:39.139 --> 00:12:41.399 You have an administration struggling with these 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.460 huge self -inflicted discipline failures. You've 00:12:44.460 --> 00:12:47.700 got internal chaos being broadcast to the world 00:12:47.700 --> 00:12:50.320 in the Wiles interview. You have key figures 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:53.700 like Vance forced into this precarious political 00:12:53.700 --> 00:12:56.769 dance. And all of that is happening while the 00:12:56.769 --> 00:12:59.629 opposition is running a ruthlessly disciplined, 00:12:59.990 --> 00:13:02.350 highly effective campaign focused on the one 00:13:02.350 --> 00:13:05.450 thing voters care about, affordability. That's 00:13:05.450 --> 00:13:07.649 the central insight here. The Wiles interview, 00:13:07.649 --> 00:13:09.710 it didn't really reveal anything that insiders 00:13:09.710 --> 00:13:12.669 didn't already suspect about the chaos. But the 00:13:12.669 --> 00:13:15.350 external data that Marist poll confirms that 00:13:15.350 --> 00:13:17.789 this lack of discipline is translating directly 00:13:17.789 --> 00:13:19.629 into political danger. Because they can't control 00:13:19.629 --> 00:13:23.169 the narrative. They can't. When 57 % of voters 00:13:23.169 --> 00:13:25.230 are worried about prices, they don't have the 00:13:25.230 --> 00:13:28.129 luxury of distracting everyone with fights over 00:13:28.129 --> 00:13:30.409 whether the president has an alcoholic's personality. 00:13:31.129 --> 00:13:34.429 The kitchen table always wins. Which leaves us 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:36.429 with a final provocative thought for you to consider. 00:13:37.049 --> 00:13:39.009 The administration's immediate reaction to the 00:13:39.009 --> 00:13:41.809 Wiles interview was panic. They amplified the 00:13:41.809 --> 00:13:44.169 story by trying to do damage control instead 00:13:44.169 --> 00:13:47.320 of just ignoring it. So considering the proven 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:49.539 success of the Democratic laybook, just sticking 00:13:49.539 --> 00:13:51.759 to kitchen table issues and avoiding negativity, 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.740 is the breakdown of Republican discipline actually 00:13:54.740 --> 00:13:56.720 more dangerous to their future than the substance 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.879 of what Wiles actually said? And how do you even 00:13:59.879 --> 00:14:02.399 begin to correct a chronic lack of discipline 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.100 when the leader himself sees that kind of unfiltered 00:14:05.100 --> 00:14:06.899 commentary as a core part of his strategy?