00:00As we survey the wreckage of the midterms, let's look at what's next.
00:04Robert Garcia, who will be the next Oversight Committee Chairman,
00:08gave us a clue when he issued a one-line statement last night,
00:12Lawyer Up.
00:14Payback is the number one priority, obviously, for Democrats across the country.
00:19They want to use their victories to grind Republicans into the mud.
00:23You saw it in the gloating victory speech from Abdul El-Sayed,
00:27in which he sarcastically referred to J.D. Vance as Habibi
00:32and delighted in the fact that the Vice President will have to swear him in.
00:36You saw it in Peggy Flanagan's speech.
00:39We will rip ice apart, she said.
00:41You saw it in the salivating from Jamie Raskin about impeaching Trump.
00:46And you saw it in the threats against Elon Musk and other billionaires.
00:50The only upside of a Democrat hubris is that it will surely lead them to overreach
00:57and turn off a volatile electorate before 2028.
01:01But President Trump can't pretend the route wasn't a referendum on him
01:06and his smash-mouth politics that alienate people with little to show for it.
01:11He told voters to pretend that he's on the ballot.
01:15He handpicked dud candidates.
01:17He can't wipe his hands of the calamity.
01:19Exit polls show voters blamed him for high prices and gas costs.
01:24They opposed the Iran war and they ranked corruption as a major concern.
01:29At 38%, his approval was the lowest for a president going into the midterms in almost 20 years.
01:36Trump is a turnout machine just for the other side.
01:40He speaks loudly and carries a small stick when he needs to do the opposite.
01:45He now has the opportunity of changing course, end the war, focus on the economy,
01:50stay the course on immigration and tell his family to stop cashing in.
01:55Obama and Clinton lost both houses in midterms and still got a lot done by veto and executive action.
02:01They ended their presidencies more popular than before.
02:05If Donald Trump sets the table for a Republican to win in 2028, his legacy will be preserved.
