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This is The Daily Show with your host, Sean Stewart. Welcome to the show, Stewart. We've got a great show for you tonight. By the way...

We were on a break for a week and I got my hair did. Looking pretty sharp. By the way, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat from the great insurance state of Connecticut, will be joining me later to talk about how the Democrats. Ladies and gentlemen, I got to tell you something. It is Trump's world and we're just cowering in it.

Over just the past few days, Donald Trump deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite a judge's order, extraordinarily renditioned a pro-Palestinian Columbia student with a green card, declared that CNN and MSNBC should be illegal. By the way, I'm not against everything he does.

But perhaps most impressively... Yesterday, the president played in a golf tournament at Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach County. He later took to social media to announce his championship win, calling the victory a, quote, great honor. He won the tournament at Trump International. How did that happen? This dude's whole life, he's like the Make-A-Wish Batman kid. LAUGHTER

that, Donald? You caught all the criminals. Look, I'm opposed to anyone rolling back American democracy, but I do tip the cap to any 78-year-old winning a golf tournament. And by the way, still having enough energy left to stroll into the command center in his golf attire to bomb the shit out of Yemen. Now look, anyone can bomb the shit out of Yemen after nine holes, but 18...

By the way, when he did that shift at McDonald's, did they just let him keep the headset? Is that... While they're bombing the shit out of Yemen, he's like, hold on, I got fries at the drive-thru window. Hold on. By the way, by bombing Yemen, Donald Trump continued a presidential tradition dating back decades. It may have been what the Wright brothers invented the plane for. How much better do we have to make this for it to be able to reach and bomb the shit out of Yemen? But fear not, because Democrats...

put on the back foot, finally have an opportunity to stand up and show their dispirited party they still have the principle and the backbone to face down this wannabe tyrant. Republicans need at least eight Senate Democrats to reach the 60 required votes or the government's going to shut down at midnight tomorrow night. Oh, it is on like Donkey Kong. It turns out the Byzantine Senate rules have presented a golden opportunity to the minority party because the budget

The Republicans are proposing is a non-starter.

This is a terrible CR. A bill that is designed to hurt the American people. It would cut by nearly 50% funding for medical research. To take away nursing home care from millions of our seniors. There's more than a billion dollar of cuts to veteran benefits. I'm voting no. I will be a hard no. Vote no, hell no. I am even more hell no.

Can you be more hell no? Is that like, hell no! H-E double hockey stick? By the way, like, who's this dude fooling? You know that salty language isn't you, Merkley? Dollar in the swear jar, it's H-E double hockey sticks from now on. But this abomination of a budget shall not pass! Because, Senator Schumer, please remind the people what is necessary.

Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate. You don't have the votes. You need congressional approval because you don't have the votes. Because the filibuster requires... I only saw the play once. You see, Republicans, your little evil budget plan might have worked if you hadn't forgotten that one Senator Schumer is Charles in charge of the Democratic Party.

I'm afraid your diabolical scheme has been foiled. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer set off a firestorm heading into this weekend when he changed course and announced he would vote to move forward on a Republican-backed funding bill. Turns out you had the votes. Republicans had the votes. What the f*** happened? I will vote to keep the government open. I believe it is my job.

to make the best choice for the country to minimize the harms to the American people. But you had, but you had to say it were terrible. And oh, oh, wait a minute. Oh shit, I know what's going on here. All right, I know what's going on here. Yeah, let me go on, Chucky. You probably got a little something out of this, didn't you? Oh, see, shoot. You wouldn't have given up that powerful leverage on the budget for nothing. My guess is Chucky got some cheese.

Did Schumer get anything from Republicans in exchange for those dumb votes? He did not. Senator Schumer, no disrespect, but you are a disgrace to Jewish stereotypes about financial negotiations. That's just, that's what we do. But you're out there. How much is it? Five dollars. How about I give you seven? Like, what are you doing? And for those of you who may have felt like this was a total capitulation.

Senator Schumer just felt like this wasn't the moment for Democrats to press their case because Trump is still too strong. When he went below 40% in the polls, the Republican legislators started working with us. He was at 51. He's now at 48. We're going to keep at it, keep at it, keep at it until he goes below 40. When it happens, I am hopeful that our Republican colleagues will resume working with us. You're going to keep at it. Keep at it.

Keep at it. Keep at it. And what? This was it. This was the it that you would have been keeping at. The keeping of the it. It's not the keeping of the it. That's the issue. It's what the it. Don't you have to start it to at it? If this wasn't it, then what is it if this not be it?

But apparently the grand plan is Dems keep fecklessly complaining until the 48 approval comes down to 40, which is a plan. But it's forgetting one crucial piece of information in Schumer's popularity calculation. Devastating, cascading poll numbers for Democrats. Only 27 percent of voters have a positive view of the party. The lowest favorability rating in the history of NBC's polling. You're a twit.

You've got to get Trump to lose eight points of popularity just for you to get to the point where you're 13 points below him. Your approval is only seven points above where it turns red and goes into low power mode. Maybe you're not a numbers learner. Maybe a visual demonstration of where you're at. Let me meet you where you f***ing live. All right, here we go. This is nice. I'm going to do this.

is 48% approval this is them this is you this is you 27 this is them oh I see that much higher yes they're much higher and if you keep this up you'll be wearing these on your dick do you understand perhaps I'm being too hard on the second although I am not

Perhaps he has insider knowledge of a quiet, smoldering, Republican-immune ability to compromise. Perhaps underneath that hard shell of Republican intransigence is a soft, nougaty center of responsible legislative leadership waiting to be freed. Bargains! Driven in the hallowed yet marbled halls of power. Or maybe someplace mustier. I talk to them. One of the places I told them to go in the gym, you know, when you're on that bike in your shorts panting away next to a Republican. A lot of the inhibitions come off. That's your f***?

I'm gonna dangle my balls out of my shorts and maybe at the gym. Oh, you know, they're gonna lose all their inhibitions on the equipment. You know, actually, Chuck, I would like to work with you on Medicaid reform. And also, I never told anybody this, but I once jerked a guy off in a park. Oh, this elliptical, I just lose my inhibitions. And, you know, I would probably be just a skosh more receptive to Schumer's theory of gym-based negotiation strategies if it had worked the last time.

We talk to our Republican colleagues all the time. I talk to them all in the gym. When you're a 60-year-old on a bike panting in your shorts, the inhibitions sort of fall away. You know, I'm not here to posture shame. But for a guy who seems to be spending most of his life in the gym, a little less talky-talk, a little more core. Second of all, in the gym, they're only being agreeable with you because they want you to leave them alone. In the gym.

on the stationary bike. Oh, sure, Chuck. Yeah, I'm definitely going to do that. But I have to tell you something. Pedaling really hard and not going anywhere, it's a great metaphor for the Democratic Party right now. Really. Also, but for some reason...

There is a persistent fiction within the Democratic Party that if they just hang out with Republicans in the gym or wait out Trump's popularity or give them concessions on a continuing resolution they said would harm the country, that Republicans will finally see the light. Democrats will be rewarded with productive bipartisanship or democracy.

As they put it... This fever will break. All this excitement about Donald Trump, it's going to break. So it is like a cult. The fever will break. Is this the night the fever will break? The chance to break the fever. I believe at some point soon, the fever will break. I think you're going to see the fever break. President Obama saying, quote, Now I believe when we're successful in this election, that the fever may break. If someone's been running a fever since the aughts...

That's not a fever. That is their default resting temperature. This fiction that you are inventing, this idea that somehow, oh, they'll come to their senses. It allows Democrats to keep thinking that Republicans are actually the ones in the precarious position.

They've got a very narrow margin in the House, a bit bigger margin in the Senate, and their goals are internally conflicting. They don't have the numbers. Republicans need Democratic votes. It's going to be clear they can't pass anything without Democratic help. Congress won't be able to keep the lights on, let alone pass anything of substance, without the buy-in and blessing of House Democrats and Hakeem Jeffries. Thank you.

It's a great message, except Republicans have gotten everything through. Every f***ing crazy appointment. The guy who wrote the children's book on Russiagate runs the FBI. Tulsa Gabbard, RFK, weekend Fox and Friends guy. They all sail through. Literally, the only one that has failed so far is picking a Chucky doll that runs on cocaine in Viagra for Attorney General. And that's just because the Republicans personally hated him. Probably for something he did at the gym. Look, you...

You don't understand. These Republicans are committed to a plan born of ideological 50 to 60 year project to remake the United States and classifying it as a fever excuses you from having to propose an alternative, coherent vision and allows you to pretend that this is just an issue of messaging and not merit. Boy, are Dems busy fixing the messaging.

Ambitious Democrats have a new game plan. They're going to yak it up about sports and go on more podcasts or whatever the hell this is. I'm Congresswoman Sarah Jacobs. Get ready with me while I explain to you how House Republicans are trying to give away your health care to give tax breaks to big corporations. Last week, Republicans introduced their budget resolution. I'm sorry.

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Perhaps nothing is as emblematic of this mismatch between the parties than the Democrats' latest viral offering. Now, I understand Democrats would want to showcase that some of their members have not had hip replacement surgery yet. And I hope you understand whatever that last one was. I'm fighting you while taking a shit! Well...

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What do you really think about the Democratic Party? I didn't pick that up. What is happening? So just in this CR for the budget, there was great resolve and unity about what a disaster this was for the American people.

Chuck Schumer, they need us. They don't have us. They don't get to pass it. And then he just flips. And I don't want to just blame it on him. There was clearly a decision was made within the Senate. Was there a meeting at a was there a lunch where all the senators in the Democratic caucus had, I'm going to assume, mostly mushy food? Yeah.

There is there is there is there is jello served at every single one of our lunches. I've been to the Senate. There is a chewing and digestion issue. Was there a discussion as to whether or not you would invoke the filibuster, not give them cloture? And how did that discussion go?

Yeah, there was a discussion and there was a disagreement. I don't listen. I don't agree with the decision a handful of my colleagues made. And this all to me sits in context. Right. I mean, as you have described, what is happening right now is the billionaire takeover of our government, the highest level of corruption that we have ever seen coming out of the White House. And by the way, added to it, the destruction of our democracy, because they know that they can't get away with it if we can hold them accountable.

And so this moment requires us to break norms. This moment requires us to take risks. And I get it. A lot of my colleagues said shutting down the government, being in a government shutdown, that's a risk. That hands power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. But how on earth are we going to ask the American people

to take risks for us, right? When there's a five-alarm constitutional fire and we need them to be out on the streets, not with hundreds, not with thousands or tens of thousands of people, but with hundreds of thousands of people, if we're not willing to show courage and take risks ourselves. Well, you know, the idea, and I've heard a lot of it, and I think you bring up a lot of it at some point, but I hear a lot of the American people have to get involved. And it does feel a little bit like, well, we've gone to a Knicks game

And they're getting their asses kicked. And in a timeout, they turn to the crowd and go like, you're in. Isn't the whole point. And I hear a lot of like, it's a billionaire takeover and it's a threat to democracy. What I don't hear a lot of is what are the three things that in that CR, if Chuck Schumer had any leverage, what are the three things he would have asked for?

Other than what would he have asked for? Because I follow it pretty closely and I don't know.

Yeah, listen, so that CR transferred a bunch of money out of programs that help regular people, right? There was money cut from housing programs and job training programs. That's bad for this country. It gave the president new authorities that he didn't have before the CR was passed. What are the new authorities? So, for instance, one of them is that the president under the CR can start new military programs in the country that have not been authorized independently by Congress. And, of course... But before we...

Congress just authorized that. So it is authorized. Well, we don't normally give that kind of open-ended authorization to the president, certainly not at a time when the president is regularly, hourly, abusing his statutory and constitutional authority. It seems like a pretty bad time to give him additional new authority. So Chuck Schumer could have said, I am going to filibuster this unless you keep the power of the military purse intact.

So this is the first time since I've been in Congress that we have not had a bipartisan full year spending bill. Right. That was negotiated with Republicans and Democrats. And that's what we want. We wanted to have a seat at the table. Listen, this was not going to be a perfect bill. That's the saddest thing I've ever heard. But you want it. But you don't want a full year spending bill passed without having some of your priorities in that bill. And that's not what ended up happening here. I get it.

The specter of the shutdown, White, was real. You never know who's gonna win a fight over a shutdown, but this seems to be a moment where our party should be taking some risks. It didn't seem like they even tried. Yeah. Yeah, John.

I mean, and again, I don't think you can ask the people of this country to do these exceptional things that are going to be necessary to save our democracy if we aren't willing to take risks. And it's not just what happened over the CR, right? I mean, we have the opportunity to just say no to all legislation that

coming before the Senate unless it fixes the constitutional crisis. We didn't all have to show up to the State of the Union speech. We could have decided to do something extraordinary, like boycott it en masse. I thought the paddles... I thought any time you can take a page out of the Valentine heart candy playbook, little messages, like, is it...

Maybe this is begging the question. Maybe we need to step back and say, is the problem here not that the Democrats don't have a plan to fight it? It's that they actually don't have a plan, that they don't have a foundation of how they would. Look, this election was about the American people repudiating that government was serving their needs. Right.

The Republicans have been working on this little Project 2025 for 60 years, and the Democrats feel like they were just caught off guard. So what is the foundational governing philosophy of the Democrats that addresses people's discomfort with the way that their government has been operating?

Yeah. I mean, listen, ultimately, we need to be a party that stands for everybody in this country having access to happiness and success, not just the billionaires. We need to be a party that attacks corporate power. Right. So that people are in control of their lives. And listen, we do not hold the levers of power right now.

Right. So we need to be clear with people that the things that are being broken right now are being broken by Republicans who asked to be in charge of the House and the Senate and the White House. And you are seeing. But the public doesn't view them as breaking it. They view the Democrats as having broken it. That's my my question is, is there a reflection on the Democratic side that part of what this is, is their theory on governance is somewhat broken that.

You know, let me explain this. Let me give you a more specific example. If I'm a taxpayer, I feel like I pay money, I pay taxes, but I don't get health care. I have to buy insurance. So if I buy insurance, I get health care. Well, not really. I get access to a system that maybe will deny me my health care or maybe will do that. Have Democrats thought about isn't that the fundamental problem with how people are viewing health?

their government. It shouldn't take 10 years to build a bridge, right? It shouldn't take five years to get a subdivision permitted. Government is not working for people right now. And when I first got into politics, the Democratic Party every single day talked about reforming government, talked about reforming democracy, talked about getting big money out of politics, talked about...

strict ethics reform and somewhere we lost our way. At some point, that went from a top three issue to like a top 20 issue. And that allowed the Republican Party to become the party that was actually aggressive about reform in government. If we want to be credible anti-corruption messengers, and by the way, this is the most corrupt White House, the most corrupt government we've ever seen. Thank God I talked about me. This is the most corrupt show I've ever seen in my entire

Then as Democrats, we have to start talking about how we would fix it. And what happened in this last election, as you know, is that we made democracy the tentpole of the Harris campaign. And it looked like we were defending the existing democracy. This version of democracy is working for billionaires, corporations and the elites. And if we don't talk about how we're going to change that, then we're not going to be credible in this country. But isn't it going to be... Please, enjoy your coffee. I think...

Credibility, I think, is such an important word here. But it's something that is earned. And

I see a Democratic Party that is way too comfortable with corporate lobbyists, a Democratic Party that God bless that we can negotiate the price of 10 drugs and that that's a huge victory. Like if that doesn't send the message that this party is utterly out of touch with, it's not a party that understands, it seems, the power and leverage that government can have to fight corrupt.

It seems altogether too comfortable being a part of the corruption. So listen, it all started during the Wall Street crisis of 2008. The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that breaks up the banks, not the party that bails out the banks.

Right. And it was that day the Democratic Party started to lose credibility. Isn't it maybe it's Jimmy Carter opening up trade? It's Clinton deregulating the financial institutions. This is a long history of even when you think about Medicare or the ACA.

Oftentimes, those are just subsidies. Corporations love the ACA. They're making a shit ton of money, billions of dollars. So this party has become addicted recently to sort of writing people checks in order to compensate for the way in which the economy is rigged. I'm not saying that the child tax credit is... Now we're getting somewhere, baby. Come on! Now you're talking, Murphy! Right?

So I'm not saying, right, I'm not saying that the child tax credit isn't a good thing or a little bit more money for your Obamacare subsidy isn't a good thing. But that doesn't make people feel good that you're having to give them a little bit of money to compensate for the fact that work doesn't pay in this country. There you go. That drug company CEOs are making out like bandits buying their seventh house. Right? Hallelujah! Right?

So if you were really serious, if you were really serious about communicating a message that resonates with people, you wouldn't be talking about just negotiating in a different way for 10 drugs. You would be talking about putting a cap on the amount of money that any drug company can sell drugs to any American. Is that so hard? That's the point. The point is simply this. The government subsidizes these corporations with billions of dollars and demands nothing in return.

And isn't that the foundation of a governing philosophy? Maybe they could put it in a book. They could call it Project Something. Like, is that work not being done? Because right now it looks like ad hoc people on TikTok are

making better brand for themselves. But the party seems utterly rudderless. OK, so two things. One, we viewed people like Bernie as an outlier threat to the institutional Democratic Party, when in fact what he was talking about and is still talking about is the crossover message, right? Is the message that actually brings... It's the traditional Democratic message. It actually... It's RFK.

And that pulls Trump voters back into the Democratic coalition. The second thing is this. The Republican Party has paid for a permanent infrastructure around ideas and around messaging that makes something like Project 2025 possible, whereas Democrats raise lots of money every two years,

We blow it all on 30-second ads that disappear into the ether as soon as the election is done. Instead of actually building our own permanent infrastructure, we could be selling our ideas like economic justice, like loving instead of fearing your neighbor, like breaking up powerful corporations every single day. Practical ideas, common sense, easy ideas. But sell them every day. Build the infrastructure in order to be able to sell them every day. Clearly, they have the money.

Clearly there are think tanks. Is it because no one has brought the party together as an individual? Is it because the corporatist part of the party has been dominant?

I think the Republican Party has had some dominant figures, some of them funders like the Kochs, some of them political figures like Donald Trump. The Democratic Party hasn't had that kind of continuity of leadership. But there's also a consultant class inside the Democratic Party that makes a lot of money off of those 30-second ads.

And they don't make as much money if you're actually developing ideas that last. And so breaking the grip of those consultants on the Democratic Party who have made a lot of money but have not actually produced as many votes as we would like, that's part of our challenge as well. Right. No, listen, I couldn't agree more. It feels a little bit like the Democrats are standing on 34th Street and they're looking up at the Empire State Building and they're going, we should build one of those.

And we're like, oh, why didn't you? And they're like, I don't know. We opened up a Papaya King a few blocks down the thing. You know.

How how far back in this process do you think the Democratic Party is? And is there even a consensus about beginning that process? Because it doesn't seem to be even nascent. Yeah, but they are handing us the opportunity. Right. Donald Trump ran as a fake populist and he is there for the unmasking. Right. He has no clothes on.

I mean, don't. Right. Yeah, I got it. So they're literally every single day empowering the billionaires. I've still got Chuck Schumer in the gym in my head. So there's nothing you can say to me that is going to wash that shit out of my brain. Yeah, some of us go to the gym, some of us don't. I just...

Schumer on an elliptical. I'm sorry. So it's there for the taking. I mean, their only legislative agenda item of any consequence is another tax cut. All the money going to the billionaires and the millionaires. So it's there for the taking to rebrand the Democratic Party as the true populist party. But it takes... But not rebranding. Actually...

actually remaking and doing. Yes. And listen, we are the party that actually has ideas that transfer power from the powerful to the powerless. We have been a little bit too addicted to incrementalism, but they are handing us the opportunity to go out and rip from their coalition, right? People who actually do care about reordering fairness in our economy and are looking at these guys and realizing, you know what? The economy still sucks. My

income isn't going up and it kind of feels like the only people that are benefiting are Elon Musk and their billionaire friends. So like take the moment and build a set of ideas that are big and hairy and transfer power in a meaningful, easily to understand way. But that's what I'm saying. You weren't there. I don't. I'm there, man. I'm to do it. You invited me here. I'm to sit here.

Yelling at the screen. These people, look at these people. Look how f***ing sad these people are. They're just sad. Every day I come in before the show, do you have any questions? I don't know. I'm here on Mondays. So you can't get, so you can't, I don't think, get a lot lower than 27%. Uh-oh. I wouldn't bet on it, friend. And listen, and listen.

Here, the opportunity of this moment is given how legitimately upset people are at what has happened over the last week. This is an opportunity for the Democratic Party collectively to show that we are ready to meet this moment, show that we are ready to engage. If you had to put together the dream team tomorrow,

to start this project. Who are, what are the groups that you're pulling together? What are the people and how are they getting started on creating this cohesive governing philosophy that says government is still important as a counterweight to not just legislative power or executive power, but of corporate power and of world interventionist power. And we need it

Could you name three people that you'd put on that task tomorrow? Well, listen, I think every single Democrat has to be a part of this. I mean, again, I reject this idea that people like Bernie are threats to our electoral success. I think these ideas centering our entire conversation around asking the billionaires to transfer a little bit of their success to everybody else is...

is core to the sort of existential future of the party. And we need to bring this conversation everywhere. I mean, this is our project right now. We can't stay in Washington and win this fight, right? We have got to be all... I don't think they're going to let you stay in Washington. We have got to bring... So, but three people don't come to mind because I can't see Bernie anymore...

Sweet Bernie in his sweater walking the Capitol grounds out of breath going like, AOC and I, we're going to go. We're going to be in Colorado. We're going to be in Nevada. Come out and see us. I don't know what these people are doing, but I'm doing my best. Like, there's got to be another answer to that.

Right? But, you know, listen, 10,000 people are showing up for Bernie, but 1,000 people are showing up on a dime for any Democrat who's got a message that resonates. People are desperate to do something right now. They want to be plugged into action. And so we need to be out there giving people mission sets,

Go to your Republican member of Congress's office if they're not going to come out and do a town hall. Tell them what $880 billion of Medicaid cuts would do to your community. Raise your voice online. Go to your state capitol.

If we show up and give people action sets, they are going to respond. This is one of these rare moments where it's not like we're asking people to do something and they won't do it. It's the American people asking us to do things that we aren't willing to do. I think what they want is a cohesive message that feels like it addresses...

what people believe were the corrupt and broken elements of the system that Democrats helped design and have to be honest with themselves that no longer are functioning in the way that they want. Make government work again and make it work for everybody, not just the billionaires. Whoa, make government work again. Hold on a second. Oh, man! Hey, everybody! Hold on.

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