This episode of the I've Had It podcast reacts to Democratic wins in a recent election and argues that party leaders should pursue accountability for the Trump administration rather than focus mainly on affordability. The hosts criticize Senator Cory Booker, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, arguing that their campaign funding from pro-Israel political action committees makes them unwilling to push investigations.
They also discuss Jared Kushner's business dealings, Trump's ballroom plans and calls for impeachment inquiries. These claims come from the hosts' own commentary, and listeners will hear the case for new Democratic leadership.
In this episode Jennifer Welch, Josh Welch
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Alright, the Democrats won big, a blue nominee, and now is the time to govern. Now is the time to deliver for the American people, and part of that deliver is the deliverables: affordability, pass common sense legislation. But another important component of the deliverables is to deliver accountability to the criminals, the criminals that have taken over our government. I was shocked to see the clip I'm about to play for you all, where Senator Cory Booker went on to Morning Joe this morning, and he was asked about Robert Garcia's oversight tweet that we covered earlier, where he said, "Law you're up," which everybody loved.
Except for Morning Joe and Cory Booker. Play the clip.
Talking about what Democrats need to do, I brought up an unfortunate tweet last night from, I think it was Congressman Garcia, who said, "Law you're up." I mean, that's the last message voters—that's the last message voters want. They want, you know what they—you know what they want? They want to be able to afford to fill up their car, gas, with gas.
I've heard enough.
Their tractors.
So for those of you that are listening, Cory Booker shook his head when he said the "Law you're up" thing. And I'm here to tell Morning Joe and Senator Booker, you corporatists that live in your little corporate bubble that incubate and collaborate with all of this stuff, you don't want this. But 88% of the public is terrified of this corruption and wants accountability. Josh?
Yeah, I—they're just out of touch. I mean, you've got these guys, like you said, that live in this bubble. Cory Booker, we know he's out of touch. We, I think, Charlie and I covered this on Friday, where he was asked to endorse Abdel Al-Sayyed and he wouldn't do it. And why wouldn't he do it? Because he takes APAC money. I mean, all these guys are so leveraged by corporate interest or APAC, all of them. And so then when you become leveraged, you're not free then to represent the will of the people. I mean, who are they talking to in their penthouse suites that they can say that people don't want accountability?
Did they not forget what happened in Minnesota? Have they not seen all the corruption? Have they not seen ICE just basically run rampant with our country and you think that we want to sit back and just take it and play nice? I mean, who the fuck are these guys? Like, Morning Joe doesn't speak for any of us. Cory Booker doesn't speak for any of us. The more I see guys like that shaking his head on some talk show with a former Republican, the more I think, "Cory Booker is one of those motherfuckers." He's one of those guys.
Get his ass out, out. He does not speak for the people that voted last night in droves to get the majority of the Senate and Congress.
Well, Cory, he did win his Senate seat last night. So we're going to have six more years of Cory Booker.
I know.
And I will say, he's better than a Republican, but not that much better. Because, like Josh said, he is leveraged. I asked Cory Booker a very simple question, a layup, "Is Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal?" And Cory Booker couldn't answer it. And so this is a completely out-of-touch old Democratic playbook. The new Dems arrived. Mississippi is probably going to be announced in the next day or two that it's gone blue. Kansas, Texas, and these old Dems hosted by a former Republican want us to sit there and listen to old Dems that brought us MAGA?
I'm sorry, the new Dems are here, and the new Dems are in the form of Robert Garcia, who is going full tilt because he is wasting no time. He's paying zero attention to Morning Joe and the pundit class that refuses to listen to the American people. And he puts this out, pop this up. I'm sorry, this is Jamie Raskin's committee. This is House Judiciary. But he, Robert Garcia and Jamie Raskin work hand in hand on all of this. Seth MacFarlane tweets, "Didn't take long.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats are hiring investigators as they gear up to launch probes of Trump 2.0 with subpoena power." And I cannot impress upon you all enough, as you all know because you come to this channel, how sick to death we are of do-nothing Democrats. You get to walk and chew gum. Donald Trump was able to do all of his interior design projects and make multi-billions of dollars. If that motherfucker can walk and chew gum, then you can deliver materially, work on affordability, and you can also deliver to the American people accountability.
You get to do two things. I'm so tired of these lazy corporatists running the show and they are still not getting the message. It was a blue nominee of epic proportions. Kansas is blue. My God, these people.
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First of all, I think I want to apply to be one of those investigators and maybe get some of this rage out of my system. I can just go sniff around on all these fucking crooked Republicans all day long and report back to you.
I love it.
Be a fun job, give you the inside scoop. But no, I mean, does anyone really think that these people turned out in the numbers like they did, that it wasn't related to people in our country, innocent people being shot by ICE agents with no accountability? Do you really think that that wasn't a part of it, that enrage the American public? Or maybe seeing that Donald Trump and Jared Kushner and all these people that are negotiating wars are making billions of dollars? Do you not get it? Do you not get it that that's what drove these people out, the fact that democracy is on the ballot, that our country is on the ballot, and you want us to sit back and you want to talk about affordability?
Yes, that's important, but can you not do two things? Can you not advocate for policy, for the economy, and at the same time demand accountability? Why can't you, Cory Booker, unless you're bought and sold by APAC money? That's why you can't. That's why you don't want this to happen. Joe Scarborough, all of you corporate elitists that get to live in tall Manhattan skyrises while the rest of us are in the heartland of the country wanting very basic things, and you're goddamn right, we want accountability. And we want it now.
We want investigators. We want everyone investigated that was a part of this.
And I would even argue that in forcing accountability, like ending the war, would in fact help drive down prices. Haul Pete Hegseth's ass in there. Haul Marco Rubio's ass in there. Figure out what they're doing in this war, in the war. These things are linked. The corruption and the grift and the adding of trillions of dollars to our national deficit while these rich fat cats flee with our tax dollars and burden us with the debt is directly related to inflation and high prices.
These things are intimately linked to one another. And the do-nothing Democrat era is over, and the new Dems have arrived, and we are here to fight for Dems that fight for us. If you fight for corporations and APAC, you cannot fight for us. So quit lying to us. Do us a favor and stop the bullshit. And here's somebody I want to talk about, Chuckles. He was asked if he will be the majority leader. And I haven't seen him.
I didn't see him campaigning for Angie Nixon. I didn't see him as a big surrogate on the campaign trail, but now he's here to take a victory lap. Unbelievable. Play the clip.
I finally got to my news. How do you deal with those candidates who won, who said they're not going to vote for you? Adam Hamilton, Troy Jackson.
Again, to repeat the answer, the issue is not me. I'll be re-elected as majority leader. But the issue is focusing on the American people and what they want.
Chuckle, my question is, I played a video on this podcast of you before where you say that your number one job is to get as much money to Israel as you possibly can. So what is your job? Are you going to do that or are you going to fight for the American people? And the arrogance displayed there, that you are going to, that the issue is not you. You're a huge issue. The Democratic electorate did not go out and like, "Yeah, we want the do-nothing Dems. Let's Merrick Garland this situation all over again."
It was a repudiation on all of it, on the establishment. And I'm just telling you, I will lead the biggest mass exodus from the Democratic Party if he is the Senate majority leader. I will go and change my registration. I cannot be a part of a political party that doesn't listen to the people, especially when our bench is winning right now and we have all this new blood and these new Dems that aren't compromised, that aren't prostitutes.
The era of political prostitution needs to end. If you're a political prostitute and you engage in that transactional stuff, maybe don't go on shows. Just be quiet. Just sit it out.
Yeah. He would be better served by that because, as he has said on a tape recording, as you've stated, his first priority is Israel. And he's known to take APAC money. He's leveraged just like the rest of them. I think in 12 hours, all of my rage has gone from Donald Trump and Elon Musk to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker because I'm just as mad about that as I was about those guys yesterday. But seriously, the reason for that is that everybody didn't put the effort and the fight into this to have this happen for us to hand it over to these guys again.
We didn't. And it's frustrating. It's maddening. We didn't do that. And you look at Abdel Al-Sayyed, you look at Talarico, you look at Hamilton, you look at some of these new faces, none of them are leveraged. None of them take APAC money. None of them. And so it's so refreshing to hear their message. And when they say something, you can believe it. You can believe it because they're not fighting for Israel's interest. This Israel-first sect of the Democratic Party, I'm sorry, but it's disgusting for those of us that aren't a part of it.
I don't have anything to do with Israel. I'm not against them, but they're no different to me than Egypt or Syria. I mean, it's just another country.
Well, they're different for me because they're committing a genocide.
Well, yeah, in that sense, yes, but in a positive way.
And then there's legislation on the table to co-mingle our military with their military. And then it's always these fundraisers they have. There's an American flag and an Israeli flag. I'm out on that. If there are Americans that love Israel, that's your business. But the majority of us, the majority of people that live.
Don't.
Don't. It's not important to us. I understand it's important to you, but it's not important to the majority of Americans. And the relationship is really weird and toxic at this stage. And what I dislike about it the most is their requirement of censorship, their requirement that you can't critique them.
Right. But they're exempt.
Then if you critique the country of Israel, then they say, "Oh, you're critiquing Jews." I'm doing no such thing. And we all know there are hundreds of thousands of American Jews that are out on this as well. And those Jewish voices are also asked to censor their critique of Israel. And that has to end. But speaking of another Israel-first politician, Hakeem Jeffries was asked about impeachment. Play the clip.
I haven't had a single member of the House Democratic Caucus talk to me about impeachment. We've been relentlessly focused on affordability and on accountability.
But wrong answer, wrong answer. Number one, Hakeem, you were one of the last little chicken shits to show up to endorse Zoran Mamdani. I was at Zoran Mamdani's victory party in, I believe, was your district in New York, or very close to your district. No, it was your district. It was in Brooklyn. And your ass wasn't there on the stage celebrating the new mayor. And he's the one that laser-focused and ran on affordability. And now y'all are like, "Oh, that dog barks.
Let's jump on that train." So now you're all about that. Number two, the answer there should have been, as we dig into all of these investigations, if we find impeachable offenses, you're goddamn right, we will pursue it. And we will do pros and cons and figure out if we have the votes to do it. If we don't have the votes, we might not waste time on it, but you're goddamn right, we are going to hunt down every single thing. And if there are impeachable offenses, we will expose them. That would have been the right answer. But this chicken shit stuff that, "Oh, we're going to let them off the hook and just laser-focus on affordability."
The old Democrats, nobody wants you. Nobody. I don't know anybody that wants this except for the cast at Morning Joe.
And nobody wants Hakeem Jeffries for a reason. And that's because he accepts APAC money. The APAC Political Action Committee routed more than $427,000 in earmark donor money to his committees this cycle. $250,000 went to his victory fund, $149,000 to his battlefront protection fund, $28,000 to his campaign. The $149,000 that came as two payments were earmarked by billionaire hedge fund investor Daniel Ock, reported as the largest earmark disbursement in that political action committee's history.
Weeks later, after receiving this money, Jeffries opposed a Thomas Massey amendment to cut $3.3 billion in military aid to Israel, calling it overly broad. And then let's not forget that Jeffries' chief of staff, former chief of staff, left and went to Palantir as a lobbyist to lobby on their behalf. So this guy who we're going to have front and center for the Democratic Party in the House is leveraged. There's no other way to say it. In some ways, he's no different than the Republicans that we get up here and bitch about every day.
Seriously. And I don't know what else to say about it. I mean, yes, is it better he's got a D in front of his name and that some of his policies are going to be more in lines with ours? Yes. But is it really in a sense that if it comes down to something with Israel or Jared Kushner or this war, where is his heart going to lie? Where are his interests going to lie? Not with the constituents, not with the people that voted for him. And so they are. I mean, that's all you got to say about it.
I want to point out a couple of things here in linking these two. Cory Booker is very good friends with the father of Jared Kushner and voted for him to be this convicted felon, voted for him to be the ambassador of France. And so there's some enmeshment there. We all know that Hakeem Jeffries had the let's play patty cake with fascists meeting, but not in public. Not, "Hey, yeah, motherfucker, you're going to be under investigation. You better get ready and lawyer up," which is what the American public want.
But then he's like, "Oh, Jared and I were talking about affordability." Like Jared Kushner, like anybody believes that Jared Kushner gives a flying fuck about affordability. This guy's buying private islands. He's doing multi-billion dollars here, multi-billion dollars there, multi-billion dollars with the Saudis, with the people that they claim are terrorists. Jared Kushner's got slush funds out the wazoo.
He's the biggest crook on the planet.
He's a total grift crook using the United States of America as his collateral, putting it up, our blood, sweat, and tears of this country to enrich himself personally. So there is a Kushner through line here on this. And then just because I don't want y'all to be like, "God, y'all are going hard at the Democrats," but we are going hard at them because we deserve better. We proved last night. We saved our country last night. And we cannot deliver our country with these two people, the strongly worded letter people.
They cannot be it. They can't. We deserve better. And I don't wish those politicians harm, but your policies and your loyalties will harm the country and harm the party and further incubate another demagogue in '28 or in '32. That is how this plays out. We've been here before and we don't want to do it again. But Trump decided to make his first appearance since the big loss. So you can imagine he's probably taken it really well. Play the clip.
Buildings are over 50 feet high. That's like a five-story building. And I don't think there's any ballroom. I doubt there's a ballroom in the country with a 50-foot ceiling. And you'll be able to have dinners for as many people as you want. We had King Charles here and we were very restricted. He said, "Could we have about 350 of our people?"
So as you can see, he really got the message loud and clear. But here's what I want to say. Is there that big of a difference in what Trump is doing right there? And then our Democratic leadership stepping out on the airwaves and poo-pooing 88% of the electorate that says corruption is very important to them and poo-pooing that and saying that accountability is not what people want. Getting even. They use words like getting even or retribution. No, it is preserving democracy and the rule of law.
And we have to uphold that. These people cannot get off the hook anymore. We cannot have a convicted felon president and Cory Booker's friend who is a convicted felon who hired a hooker to go bang his sister's husband and record it. I mean, some really sick shit. I mean, this really, really sick shit, right? Now he's our ambassador to France. And so is there that big of a difference? I will say there's better bullshit coming from the Democratic side right now, but it's all bullshit because you get to do Zoran Mamdani has shown us something.
You can govern all gas, no brakes. Trump showed us that. You can be an incredible, horrible interior designer slash architect and make a shit ton of money all at the same time. So this nonsense that they can't do two things at one time is the old Democratic way, the do-nothing Democrats when they tell us we have to govern incrementally. That's bullshit. Zoran's not governing incrementally in New York. It's pedal to the metal.
And we are so intertwined with Israel. And so many people are so mad. That was a big part of the movement yesterday and the votes that people are mad that we're in this war, that we're funding this war that's killing innocent children, that we're funding a war with another country, Israel, that's committing genocides on a daily basis against the Palestinians. We're fed up with it. We're so mad about it. And we know that these leaders are compromised and that anything that has to do with Israel, let's trust Chuck Schumer when he said that he's going to put their interests first.
And that's so disheartening. And so I hope that when we caucus in November and December, that our leaders get together and form a coalition and decide that we need new, fresh leaders to lead this particular cause from this election. Chuck Schumer doesn't know what's happening with the American people, how they're feeling. He's so wealthy and removed and old and out of touch. He doesn't know these things. Look at someone like Talarico or Abdel Al-Sayyed, how dialed in they are about common everyday people versus him.
And Hakeem Jeffries, he's too slick. You can just tell he's polished. He knows. And then Cory Booker, all these guys, they've been around. They had their chance. That day is done. It's over with. It's time to get new leadership. They are so biased with the money they take on these issues with Israel that they're simply unable to be in a leadership position. And everyone has to just say that part out loud. You are compromised because of the money that you take from pro-Israeli political action committees, period.
We don't trust you. We don't want you in that position. Just say it out loud.
And we deserve better. We deserve better politicians. We need better politicians. And we've elected them. And that's your seniority system. And we don't want to go by the system that led us to Trump any longer. We don't want to go by the Democratic system that incubated the electorate, that the Democrats and the Republicans never delivered for, that they believed this con man twice. So no, this is just insane. We have a criminal, adjudicated rapist, convicted felon man that's in the epicenter of a pedophile ring.
And you're all like, "Yeah, America, we're not going to focus on accountability." Whatever. I mean, Jesus Christ, what a bunch of whizzes. But I have great news in closing out. Viewership from last night's election coverage is in. Pop this up. Okay. NBC's number one, ABC, then CNN, then MS Now. Here's the best part, you guys. Fox News and CBS are both dead last, dead last. And both Fox News and CBS are owned by MAGA thumping ass kissing oligarchs.
And this is massive. This is massive, you guys. This could be the death of MAGA if we keep applying pressure to these elected leaders, these new Dems to not vote for do-nothing Chuck Schumer and compromised Hakeem Jeffries. We deserve better. You need to sit this out. I know you think, "God, it's going to be so fun. I'm going to be the leader of this." You abandoned and you neglected Angie Nixon.
And Hakeem had every opportunity to endorse people and be on the campaign trail. It was the speaker of the House. He should have been everywhere. But he can't. Why do you think Chuck Schumer withheld money from Angie Nixon? She's critical of Israel. And they can't have that. All right. That's all we have. Let's apply pressure to the Democrats that were elected or have been elected in your districts that we cannot have these two people in leadership positions because we deserve better.
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