WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.040 Welcome to the Deep Dive. We're taking a whole 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:04.860 stack of sources, articles, internal memos, a 00:00:04.860 --> 00:00:07.179 lot of polling data, and we're going to cut right 00:00:07.179 --> 00:00:09.820 through the noise for you. Our mission today 00:00:09.820 --> 00:00:13.539 is to really trace these growing stress fractures 00:00:13.539 --> 00:00:15.900 in American governance. We're looking at a government 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:18.420 where the center is, well, really struggling 00:00:18.420 --> 00:00:20.320 to hold. That's the perfect way to frame it. 00:00:20.379 --> 00:00:23.980 I mean, our sources are showing a highly decentralized 00:00:23.980 --> 00:00:25.839 political power structure right now. It's all 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:27.899 over the place. So what does that mean, decentralized? 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.519 Well, you're seeing a presidency that relies 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.880 very heavily on narrative and sort of quick announcements. 00:00:34.219 --> 00:00:37.179 And at the same time, a legislative majority 00:00:37.179 --> 00:00:41.280 that is just seriously fractured. Right. So the 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.179 core questions we really need to answer for you 00:00:43.179 --> 00:00:45.600 today are, where does power actually reside when 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.630 Congress is gridlocked? And, you know, how effective 00:00:48.630 --> 00:00:52.350 is governing by narrative when real policy demands 00:00:52.350 --> 00:00:54.929 lasting laws? Okay, so we've zeroed in on three 00:00:54.929 --> 00:00:56.929 critical areas that kind of illustrate this breakdown. 00:00:57.429 --> 00:01:00.929 First, a really remarkable legislative mutiny 00:01:00.929 --> 00:01:03.789 over health care. Second, we're going to do a 00:01:03.789 --> 00:01:06.829 deep analysis of that recent primetime presidential 00:01:06.829 --> 00:01:08.969 address where the messaging was basically the 00:01:08.969 --> 00:01:12.090 policy. And third, the administration's increasing 00:01:12.090 --> 00:01:15.599 reliance on executive orders. or exos to fill 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.859 that legislative void. OK, let's unpack this. 00:01:17.939 --> 00:01:19.879 Let's do it. We have to start with this rebellion. 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.359 This I mean, it's pretty dramatic happening in 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:24.719 the House right now. And it all centers on these 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:27.659 expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Right. 00:01:27.900 --> 00:01:30.620 And Speaker Mike Johnson, he made a really tactical 00:01:30.620 --> 00:01:34.420 decision here. He decided not to allow a vote 00:01:34.420 --> 00:01:37.239 on extending these subsidies. And why? Because 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.140 of opposition from Donald Trump and the Freedom 00:01:40.140 --> 00:01:42.420 Caucus wing of his party. They were dead set 00:01:42.420 --> 00:01:44.879 against it. But the problem for the speaker is 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.760 this isn't some abstract policy point. Not at 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.980 all. The sources make it crystal clear that House 00:01:50.980 --> 00:01:53.159 moderates, especially the ones in those really 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:56.420 tight swing districts, were, and I quote, hopping 00:01:56.420 --> 00:01:59.659 mad. Hopping mad. I can see why. Oh, yeah. If 00:01:59.659 --> 00:02:02.879 these subsidies expire, we're talking about 22 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.260 million of their constituents facing skyrocketing 00:02:06.260 --> 00:02:10.060 health care premiums. That starts in 2026. This 00:02:10.060 --> 00:02:12.180 isn't just policy for them, it's a direct threat 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:14.860 to their jobs. So the speaker tried to, what, 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.539 appease them with a counter offer? He did. A 00:02:17.539 --> 00:02:20.159 bill focused on slightly expanding health savings 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.430 accounts, HSAs. OK, so for anyone listening who 00:02:23.430 --> 00:02:26.610 might not be clear, what exactly is an HSA? So 00:02:26.610 --> 00:02:30.129 an HSA lets you put money away tax free for medical 00:02:30.129 --> 00:02:32.610 costs, but they really only work well if you 00:02:32.610 --> 00:02:35.449 have a high deductible insurance plan. Republicans 00:02:35.449 --> 00:02:37.449 tend to like them because it's all about individual 00:02:37.449 --> 00:02:40.530 savings and market forces. But this particular 00:02:40.530 --> 00:02:43.030 bill? One source called it feeble. It tasked 00:02:43.030 --> 00:02:45.189 the House, but it has absolutely zero chance 00:02:45.189 --> 00:02:47.580 in the Senate. It was a non -starter for the 00:02:47.580 --> 00:02:49.960 moderates whose people depend on those immediate 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:52.479 ACA subsidies. And this failure is what really 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:54.219 sparked the rebellion. The mechanism they used 00:02:54.219 --> 00:02:56.340 is the part that gets really interesting here, 00:02:56.740 --> 00:02:59.219 the discharge petition. This is such a powerful 00:02:59.219 --> 00:03:01.520 tool and frankly a blunt one. How does it work? 00:03:01.819 --> 00:03:05.080 If you get 218 rank -and -file members to sign 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:08.319 on, they can force a vote on a bill. even against 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:10.340 their own leadership's wishes. And we just saw 00:03:10.340 --> 00:03:12.659 this used recently, right? Exactly. To force 00:03:12.659 --> 00:03:15.659 the release of the Epstein files. And that, I 00:03:15.659 --> 00:03:19.539 think, showed a lot of members just how potent 00:03:19.539 --> 00:03:22.400 this thing is when leadership tries to stonewall. 00:03:22.699 --> 00:03:25.460 So Democrats filed the petition for the ACA subsidies, 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.960 and they needed Republicans to cross the aisle. 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.680 And they got them. Four Republicans, including 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:33.580 the sort of ringleader, five -term rep Brian 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:36.099 Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania, they all signed 00:03:36.099 --> 00:03:40.189 on. And that hit the magic number, 218. You have 00:03:40.189 --> 00:03:41.550 to think about that political moment. I mean, 00:03:41.550 --> 00:03:44.229 this is a huge destabilizing event for the speaker. 00:03:44.490 --> 00:03:46.990 It's massive. The fact that a second discharge 00:03:46.990 --> 00:03:49.409 petition passed in a month against the express 00:03:49.409 --> 00:03:51.870 wishes of both the speaker and the former president, 00:03:52.310 --> 00:03:54.810 that shows a profound erosion of centralized 00:03:54.810 --> 00:03:56.870 authority. It's individual members basically 00:03:56.870 --> 00:03:59.069 saying, my district comes first. Right. Their 00:03:59.069 --> 00:04:01.110 own reelection, their constituents' wallets, 00:04:01.129 --> 00:04:02.889 that's all coming ahead of party loyalty right 00:04:02.889 --> 00:04:05.319 now. So Johnson is just stuck. He's in a real 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.099 bind. He can delay the vote for I think it's 00:04:08.099 --> 00:04:10.719 up to nine legislative days, which pushes it 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.879 into January. But by then the damage is done. 00:04:13.139 --> 00:04:15.979 By then, 22 million Americans are getting letters 00:04:15.979 --> 00:04:20.180 about their enormous 2026 premium hikes. It's 00:04:20.180 --> 00:04:22.560 a political minefield and it's a great example 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:25.279 of Congress reasserting its power against its 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:27.769 own leadership. That failure of legislative action, 00:04:28.209 --> 00:04:30.569 that inability to unite the party, it leads us 00:04:30.569 --> 00:04:32.649 directly to our next segment. The reliance on 00:04:32.649 --> 00:04:34.930 spectacle. Exactly, the reliance on spectacle 00:04:34.930 --> 00:04:38.230 and narrative. We need to analyze that recent 00:04:38.230 --> 00:04:41.000 primetime address to the nation. from Donald 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:42.660 Trump. That 18 -minute address that, I mean, 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.420 it basically weaponized a privilege that's usually 00:04:45.420 --> 00:04:48.500 reserved for genuine national crises. Our analysis 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:50.579 shows it was pretty much just a slightly elevated 00:04:50.579 --> 00:04:53.399 version of his standard stump speech. Pure narrative 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:55.639 control. Entirely. And it was heavy on certain 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:57.680 keywords. We actually have a word cloud of all 00:04:57.680 --> 00:04:59.779 the words used at least three times, the most 00:04:59.779 --> 00:05:03.399 prominent. Country, percent, American, year. 00:05:03.629 --> 00:05:06.529 people, health. So a very simple, high -level 00:05:06.529 --> 00:05:08.490 message he wants people to remember, no matter 00:05:08.490 --> 00:05:11.370 what the actual policy content is. That's it. 00:05:11.810 --> 00:05:13.290 In the opening minutes, we're just structured 00:05:13.290 --> 00:05:16.790 around this series of highly sensational and, 00:05:16.790 --> 00:05:19.709 well, often factually inaccurate claims. When 00:05:19.709 --> 00:05:22.110 you synthesize the details, the strategy becomes 00:05:22.110 --> 00:05:25.089 really clear. So what's the first pillar of that 00:05:25.089 --> 00:05:28.279 strategy? Narrative prioritization. Within the 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.439 first two minutes, he's talking about cultural 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.079 wedge issues like men and women's sports. Before 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:35.560 the economy, before health care. Exactly. It's 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.259 a clear signal that cultural warfare is the priority 00:05:38.259 --> 00:05:40.680 narrative. And what's the second piece? The reliance 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:44.980 on very specific recycled trigger language. He 00:05:44.980 --> 00:05:47.360 cited undocumented immigrants coming from prisons, 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:51.339 from asylums, using the precise number 11 ,888 00:05:51.339 --> 00:05:53.699 murderers. A line we've heard before. It's a 00:05:53.699 --> 00:05:55.959 line he has used consistently since his 2015 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:58.540 announcement. It just shows this incredible intentional 00:05:58.540 --> 00:06:01.439 discipline in using language for maximum emotional 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.199 impact. OK. And the third piece was the big policy 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:06.740 announcement, which itself seemed to lack any 00:06:06.740 --> 00:06:09.519 legal or financial grounding. Right. The warrior 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:13.300 dividend. These one time checks of $1 ,776 for 00:06:13.300 --> 00:06:16.339 soldiers. Sounds great on paper. Of course. But 00:06:16.339 --> 00:06:18.560 the sources immediately started questioning the 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:21.560 mechanism. He implied tariff revenue would pay 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.350 for it. But isn't that money already spoken for? 00:06:24.430 --> 00:06:26.610 It's spoken for about five or six times over. 00:06:27.110 --> 00:06:30.149 For debt reduction, for farmers, you name it. 00:06:30.629 --> 00:06:33.930 But more importantly, only Congress has the constitutional 00:06:33.930 --> 00:06:37.610 power of the purse. Right. This proposal can't 00:06:37.610 --> 00:06:40.269 legally go anywhere without congressional funding. 00:06:40.670 --> 00:06:43.149 So if the proposal is financially dubious and 00:06:43.149 --> 00:06:45.410 legally questionable, what's the point? It serves 00:06:45.410 --> 00:06:47.550 the narrative. He's operating on the principle 00:06:47.550 --> 00:06:49.870 that it's better to ask for forgiveness than 00:06:49.870 --> 00:06:52.250 permission. Except he rarely asks for the forgiveness 00:06:52.250 --> 00:06:55.149 part. Right. It's pure governance by announcement. 00:06:55.329 --> 00:06:57.910 In this whole cycle, this legislative desert, 00:06:58.149 --> 00:07:01.170 this heavy reliance on narrative, it leads us 00:07:01.170 --> 00:07:04.329 perfectly into our third segment. The explosion 00:07:04.329 --> 00:07:07.189 of governance through executive orders. The exos. 00:07:07.410 --> 00:07:09.209 This is what you do when Congress isn't doing 00:07:09.209 --> 00:07:11.980 its job. The connection is undeniable. I mean, 00:07:12.019 --> 00:07:14.120 since the administration has only passed one 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.379 major bill, the one they call BBB, the bipartisan 00:07:17.379 --> 00:07:19.660 budget bill, the president increasingly relies 00:07:19.660 --> 00:07:22.540 on this. And the data is just, well, it's striking. 00:07:23.259 --> 00:07:26.379 It really is. Our sources show Trump has signed 00:07:26.379 --> 00:07:31.439 221 XOs. so far in his current term. 221. That 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.060 is more than he signed in his entire first term, 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:37.660 which was 220. Wow. And it's also more than both 00:07:37.660 --> 00:07:40.519 Joe Biden and Barack Obama signed in their entire 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.300 terms. It's a fundamental shift toward unilateral 00:07:43.300 --> 00:07:45.740 action. And, you know, these exos aren't just 00:07:45.740 --> 00:07:47.620 coming out of thin air in the Oval Office. Right. 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:49.500 Who's writing them? We know that people like 00:07:49.500 --> 00:07:52.129 Stephen Miller. Will Sharf and the Heritage Foundation 00:07:52.129 --> 00:07:55.110 had a huge hand in drafting a lot of these. Some 00:07:55.110 --> 00:07:56.970 were even written during the transition period 00:07:56.970 --> 00:07:58.750 just waiting for a second term. And what are 00:07:58.750 --> 00:08:01.290 they mostly about? About a quarter of them deal 00:08:01.290 --> 00:08:03.829 with tariffs and economic policy. Yeah. But the 00:08:03.829 --> 00:08:05.829 whole strategy is really high risk. Why do you 00:08:05.829 --> 00:08:07.910 say that? Because the legal challenge rates are 00:08:07.910 --> 00:08:11.370 massive. For exos that are related to, say, targeting 00:08:11.370 --> 00:08:13.730 opponents or retaliation, the challenge rate 00:08:13.730 --> 00:08:17.009 is over 70 percent. 70 percent. For immigration 00:08:17.009 --> 00:08:20.420 and borders, it's over 60 percent. So it raises 00:08:20.420 --> 00:08:23.300 that central question, if the policy is constantly 00:08:23.300 --> 00:08:26.160 being challenged in court, how effective is it 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.319 really? Which brings up the question of durability. 00:08:29.060 --> 00:08:32.059 Is governing by EXO just a poor substitute for 00:08:32.059 --> 00:08:34.480 actual law? It is. First you have to remember, 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:37.159 EXOs are not laws. They're just instructions 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:39.759 to the federal bureaucracy on how to interpret 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.919 existing statutes. You can't be arrested for 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:45.190 violating an executive order. And crucially, 00:08:45.330 --> 00:08:48.029 they are temporary. Completely temporary. The 00:08:48.029 --> 00:08:50.409 next president could sign one single executive 00:08:50.409 --> 00:08:54.370 order and poof, revoke potentially 15 ,000 previous 00:08:54.370 --> 00:08:57.049 actions in an instant. They're just gone. And 00:08:57.049 --> 00:08:58.710 they can't fund themselves. That's the other 00:08:58.710 --> 00:09:00.830 huge piece. And EXO can tell the Department of 00:09:00.830 --> 00:09:03.090 Homeland Security to secure the border, but it 00:09:03.090 --> 00:09:05.490 can't pay for one new border agent, can't buy 00:09:05.490 --> 00:09:08.210 one new vehicle or fund one foot of a new wall. 00:09:08.350 --> 00:09:10.230 Congress still has to appropriate the money, 00:09:10.529 --> 00:09:12.269 which brings us right back to the dreadlock we 00:09:12.269 --> 00:09:14.870 started with. So if they can't fund anything 00:09:14.870 --> 00:09:17.210 and the next president can just delete them with 00:09:17.210 --> 00:09:20.769 the stroke of a pen is governing by XO. basically 00:09:20.769 --> 00:09:23.730 just a very large, very fancy press conference. 00:09:24.169 --> 00:09:26.970 In many ways, yes. The president absolutely understands 00:09:26.970 --> 00:09:28.769 that by inviting the press to watch him sign 00:09:28.769 --> 00:09:31.429 an XO, he controls the political narrative for 00:09:31.429 --> 00:09:34.009 that day. He creates headlines about his actions. 00:09:34.250 --> 00:09:36.830 Even if the action itself has no teeth. Exactly. 00:09:37.370 --> 00:09:39.370 Even if civil service employees down the line 00:09:39.370 --> 00:09:41.509 resist implementing it or if the courts immediately 00:09:41.509 --> 00:09:44.570 put it on hold, it's all about maximizing that 00:09:44.570 --> 00:09:47.690 short -term political impact. over any long term 00:09:47.690 --> 00:09:50.210 policy effectiveness. OK, so let's wrap all this 00:09:50.210 --> 00:09:52.870 up by looking at how this structural instability, 00:09:53.070 --> 00:09:54.990 the gridlock, the narrative control, the lack 00:09:54.990 --> 00:09:57.450 of durability, how it's affecting the actual 00:09:57.450 --> 00:09:59.710 political machinery as we head into the midterms. 00:09:59.889 --> 00:10:01.570 It all starts with the numbers. You have two 00:10:01.570 --> 00:10:03.870 recent polls, one from Maris, one from Ipsos. 00:10:04.070 --> 00:10:07.250 Both place Trump's approval at 39 percent. And 00:10:07.250 --> 00:10:09.269 staying under 40 percent is a key indicator. 00:10:09.529 --> 00:10:12.370 It's huge. It makes a president increasingly 00:10:12.370 --> 00:10:14.789 look like a lame duck. And that's the catalyst 00:10:14.789 --> 00:10:16.970 for everything else we're seeing. It gives party 00:10:16.970 --> 00:10:18.750 members, whether they're in Congress or at the 00:10:18.750 --> 00:10:22.250 RNC, the courage to challenge him. And we see 00:10:22.250 --> 00:10:25.309 that defiance directly in the RNC's new strategy 00:10:25.309 --> 00:10:29.019 on voting. Yes. I mean, despite years of the 00:10:29.019 --> 00:10:31.159 former president publicly complaining about mail 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.639 -in voting, the RNC is now apparently willing 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.159 to cross a weakened leader and make encouraging 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:39.419 Republicans to vote by mail a priority for 2026. 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:42.440 And that's just a pure electoral calculation. 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.620 Purely. Low propensity Trump voters might not 00:10:45.620 --> 00:10:48.080 show up unless it's made easier for them. The 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.299 Wisconsin GOP chair actually admitted, and I'm 00:10:50.299 --> 00:10:52.740 quoting here, we just can't keep going into election 00:10:52.740 --> 00:10:55.669 night 100 ,000 votes down. So the electoral strategy 00:10:55.669 --> 00:10:58.730 demands they defy their leader. It does. And 00:10:58.730 --> 00:11:00.629 we're also seeing the consequences inside the 00:11:00.629 --> 00:11:03.090 administration itself. The expected personnel 00:11:03.090 --> 00:11:05.529 purge seems to have begun. Starting with deputy 00:11:05.529 --> 00:11:08.450 FBI director Dan Bongino. He's being forced out. 00:11:08.570 --> 00:11:11.009 The writing was on the wall after a second deputy 00:11:11.009 --> 00:11:13.830 FBI director was appointed to a job that is usually 00:11:13.830 --> 00:11:16.710 held by just one person. And his exit really 00:11:16.710 --> 00:11:20.070 illustrates that conflict between loyalty and 00:11:20.070 --> 00:11:23.049 well. governance. It does. The sources point 00:11:23.049 --> 00:11:26.210 out he disliked the bureaucratic work, and there 00:11:26.210 --> 00:11:28.309 was a massive pay difference between his federal 00:11:28.309 --> 00:11:31.230 salary and what he can make as a podcaster. But 00:11:31.230 --> 00:11:33.750 the real conflict was his public statements, 00:11:33.830 --> 00:11:36.549 right? It was his constant public carping about 00:11:36.549 --> 00:11:39.169 the failure to release the Epstein files. That 00:11:39.169 --> 00:11:41.529 put him directly crosswise with Attorney General 00:11:41.529 --> 00:11:44.149 Pam Bondi and, by extension, Stephen Miller. 00:11:45.059 --> 00:11:47.940 Loyalty in this administration is often paramount. 00:11:48.179 --> 00:11:49.820 Okay, finally, let's talk about the money wars. 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:52.899 Yvonne Musk is back. He is. After taking a bit 00:11:52.899 --> 00:11:54.759 of a break from political donations, he's back 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:57.159 to donating big money to Republicans in the midterms. 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.500 And the analysis suggests this is basically a 00:11:59.500 --> 00:12:02.220 risk management move. I think so. It's partly 00:12:02.220 --> 00:12:05.220 about mitigating any potential bad blood with 00:12:05.220 --> 00:12:07.620 a president who is, you know, known for demanding 00:12:07.620 --> 00:12:10.379 loyalty, especially over those massive government 00:12:10.379 --> 00:12:13.080 contracts for his companies, and partly it's 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.379 seen as helping Republicans keep the House. Which 00:12:15.379 --> 00:12:18.259 would prevent another impeachment attempt. Precisely. 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.460 And the internal GOP donor structures fracturing, 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:24.360 too. WinRed, the main donation processor, is 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:26.860 being challenged by a competitor called Impact, 00:12:27.299 --> 00:12:29.419 which is led by a former Trump aide and owned 00:12:29.419 --> 00:12:31.659 by a company called Public Square, financially 00:12:31.659 --> 00:12:34.259 backed by the Trumps. So even the fundraising 00:12:34.259 --> 00:12:36.600 infrastructure, the very engine of the party, 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.399 is now part of this battle. When centralized 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:42.480 power weakens, everything is up for grabs. including 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:44.580 the lucrative donation pipeline. So what does 00:12:44.580 --> 00:12:46.720 this all mean for you, the listener? We've seen 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:49.419 Congress's power reassert itself with the discharge 00:12:49.419 --> 00:12:52.360 petition. We've seen a presidency that relies 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:55.379 almost entirely on narrative control, not durable 00:12:55.379 --> 00:12:58.340 legislative wins. And a party structure that 00:12:58.340 --> 00:13:01.580 is starting to defy its leader to pursue its 00:13:01.580 --> 00:13:04.860 own core electoral strategy. The data tells a 00:13:04.860 --> 00:13:07.960 really clear and I think concerning story. about 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:12.100 the future of governance. That policy is increasingly 00:13:12.100 --> 00:13:15.860 being implemented through executive orders. Actions 00:13:15.860 --> 00:13:19.639 that are, by their very nature, temporary, unfunded, 00:13:19.779 --> 00:13:22.360 and subject to immediate court challenge. So 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:23.700 here's the thought I want to leave you with. 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:25.940 If the strategy relies on quick announcements 00:13:25.940 --> 00:13:28.519 and actions that lack any legal durability, what 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:30.279 does that mean for the long -term effectiveness 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:32.539 and stability of this government's ability to 00:13:32.539 --> 00:13:35.240 achieve its own stated goals? That's the structural 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.019 instability you need to keep watching.