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Look, I think if this is a president who wanted to honor the military, he wouldn't be proposing 80,000 VA cuts. If this were a president who actually cared about the military, he wouldn't be freezing $2 billion worth of contracts or having a secretary of defense leaking attack plans on signal. In co…

Yahoo and focusing on getting a deal. So Dan, he has said again and again I want this to be diplomacy, but as part of the negotiations, we're not taking anything off the table. Look, I think the challenge here is that at times like this, to seal the deal you need your allies. And I think right now w…

Look in terms of the Democratic Party, this weekend was a good analogy. I saw Democrats, Republicans, Independents who were protesting in the millions against a president who is trying to silence us. And the analogy was apt. When the President uploaded a video of himself in a kingdom. So, Dan, are y…

Welcome back. Some stunning revelations about more than 4,000 pardons signed by former President Biden, many of them authorized not by hand but by auto pen. Axios reporting that senior Biden officials, quote, repeatedly question and criticize how the president's team decided on controversial pardons…

All right, John, thank you. Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean Pierre, meanwhile turning on the Dems in her new memoir, writing, quote, biden seemed to be totally at peace with his decision to drop out of the race. But I was stunned. My feelings a blur. I was angry and sad. I was enraged and h…

Is the Trump administration bringing people together, you think, in the wake of the horrible assassination? When I hear Donald Trump saying this weekend that President Biden with stage 4 cancer is a stupid, mean sob he said the word. By the way, how's it working? Not too well for him. If you start f…

What was going on here. Look, I think this is the biggest ludicrous distraction of all time, meant to distract from the fact that the president's underwater on the economy, on immigration, on all the things that he believed was his strength. And if you want to speak specifically to DOJ in process, P…

Shout out to my friend Dan here, who is a former aide to the Biden and Harris administration, debunking all the freaking claims from these Republican liars on cnn. And yes, I call them liars. Take a look at some of these clips if you're going to come after the Biden administration. On jobs. Presiden…

Dan Ko gets exposed after pushing a false narrative. This president. No problem. This president is pitting Americans against each other and redefining what it means to be American. Remember, this is a President who said that most foreign born Americans are on welfare from failed nations and criminal…

There were so many other parts of this where Donald Trump said it was a lie and then it was debunked. You know, Don Jr. For example, tweeted that this doesn't sound like my dad and that he never used the word enigma. And then immediately a video comes up of him calling Tucker Carlson an enigma. Righ…

That's a pretty bold thing for a president to say that he doesn't care the prices are going to go up. But I'm also confused about why this is about to happen in maybe 48 hours. And no one, including people who work in this administration, seems to know or believe is settled what the contours of the…

Should you be able to speak your mind without retribution from the government? This is a government that is controlling law firms, media companies, educational institutions and, and silencing opposition. At the end of the day, that's 100% a lie. And it's because of the money on the table from Nextar…

Hi, everybody. Dan Koh here. I don't have to tell you this is a scary time. While Donald Trump tramples our Constitution, undermines our democracy, and tries to silence us, prices are skyrocketing, families are hurting, and it feels like no one's doing anything about it. So I'm here at my home in An…

Welcome to the weekend. Happy Labor Day weekend. I'm Jackie Alemani, along with Eugene Daniels and Laura Barone Lopez, who is in for Jonathan Capehart. We begin with the resistance to President Trump's plans to militarize Chicago and a possible looming shutdown showdown between the Trump administrat…

Check your calendar. Because we are now 278 long days away from the midterms, and tension in Minnesota is still high, high, high. The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that investigators are now reviewing new footage of an altercation between someone who appears to be Alex Preddy and law…

We are now 362 days away from the midterms. Today, President Donald John Trump hosted Senate Republicans at the White House and shared what he thought of his party's big losses in last night's elections. Last night, it was, you know, not expected to be a victory. It was very Democrat areas, but I do…

It's the end of week four for convicted felon Donald Trump's presidency, and as he basks in the balmy breeze and sun at his Florida estate, Mar A Lago, mass firings are being executed across multiple federal agencies, impacting thousands of workers across the United States. Some employees were given…

Trump is ramping up military presence in D.C. all based on his own made up crime stats. Quick fact check. Violent crime in D.C. dropped 26% over the last year. That is according to the police. Trump also wants to control the narrative when it comes to his lagging economy. Trump tapped a partisan hac…

You know, the best way to reduce parking issues and traffic in downtown Andover is not to have businesses want to come to downtown Andover, to have attract people to downtown Andover. So I think we need to be respectful of the other businesses. But at the same time, it's not as if we haven't given o…

The following program is produced through the community television facilities of SaugusTV. The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of SaugusTV, its staff, board of directors, or underwriters. Welcome back to another episode of Know youw Town, the next in my series of congressio…

Overnight. Massachusetts 3rd congressional district too close to call. The vote still being counted this morning. Ten Democrats were vying for the open seat overnight. One candidate seemingly claimed victory. Gary Broad is live in Lowell now with the latest for us. Gary, It was a very strange sequen…

Recount results are expected later today. In the tight primary race for Massachusetts 3rd congressional district, candidate Dan Koh requested the recount after coming in just 122 votes behind Lori Trahan. The two were the frontrunners in a very crowded field of 10 Democrats vying to replace Nikki Ts…

Now to breaking News in Campaign 2018. The votes are in, but the race in the 3rd Congressional District is still too close to call. It appears we are headed to a recount just a handful of votes separate Dan Koh and Lori Trehan. WBC's Brianna Pitts is here with more on this breaking story. Brianna? K…

This is Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived. He hit 521 career home runs despite missing three years of his prime due to military service. But he's most well known for his remarkable.406 batting average, a measure of hits over at bats. And for centuries, the world determined whether or…

Good afternoon. I want to thank everybody for being here this morning. It's been a very long and exciting night for all of us. Now that 100% of the votes have been counted, I'm confident that I am your Democratic nominee. And let me thank the great people of the third District who came out to vote i…

Welcome to the seventh in a series of interviews with candidates to replace Representative Nikki Tsongas in the US House of Representatives. I'm Peggy Wargelin, a member of Concord Citizens Protecting Progress. Today we welcome Dan Koh, former chief of staff to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Thank you so…

New at noon. Democrat Dan Koh says he's filing for a recount in the 3rd congressional district Democratic primary race. In a statement released a short time ago, his campaign says with the closeness of the initial results, a recount is necessary to ensure every vote is counted. Ko is trailing Lori t…

You know, we said in the previous segment about the inefficacy of Congress, I actually think Congress has been incredibly effective at screwing people. You look at the one big beautiful bill, largest redistribution of wealth in the history of our country with Elon Musk getting a historic tax cut. Th…

At the end of the day, the one thing I learned most when serving in the administration is that most valuable resource isn't actually money. It actually isn't staff. But it's your time. And every minute that the Department of Labor is not focused on workers and we can talk about the different things…

So what are you feeling about last night? What lessons are you taking away? I'm feeling we're back, baby. That's the bottom line. Look, I think for a entire Trump administration that has been mocking the term diversity and inclusion and equity for the last couple years, I think we're seeing a divers…

Look, I think it's not about just about the ballroom. It's about what is right and what is wrong. I think reasonable people can disagree on those things, but everyone should agree that a ballroom financed by big Tobacco is wrong, that destroying history without any kind of process is wrong. This is…

I think the other thing that people are sick of is that they don't see Democrats fighting hard enough. There is so much going wrong in this administration, and I think we oversimplify it because we're concerned that people aren't going to understand the nuance. People are smarter than that. The Depa…

Wearing swastikas. Maybe Cash Patel should. Is that funny to you? No. What's funny? Maybe Cash Patel should sit this one out. I mean. And, Isabel, I'm surprised that you're chuckling about that, because that's actually true. No, I. Those people were among those T shirts. Those people were among the…

I thought the bedrock principle of the Republican Party was that government should stay out of the way and let us live our lives. But instead they are literally killing us. Alex Preddy was an ICU nurse at the VA, the same VA that Donald Trump proposed cutting 80,000 jobs from jobs that process burn…

Look, my mom raised me to be a nice person, so I'm gonna say this as nicely as possible. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a racist, sexist, homophobic insurrectionist. Let's just run the clock back, okay? This is a person who claimed that the California wildfires were caused by space lasers from a rich Jew…

The reason why Republicans are flailing on the affordability issue, because the Democrats have the story and have the high ground here. We want to talk about raising minimum wage. Republicans are always trying to vote it down. We talked about capping prescription drugs. Republicans tried to vote tha…

I think for me this is a president and an administration that has enabled pushing the line further and further back to the point where there is no line anymore. This is glorifying rape racial slurs has no standing. But then you look at the broader point right this is a president, a vice president wh…

I think the economic rage is there's a reason why Republicans are failing in the affordability issue, because the Democrats have the story and have the high ground here. We want to talk about raising minimum wage. Republicans are always trying to vote it down. We talked about capping prescription dr…

You definitely know his boss, but you probably don't know him. He is a rising star at City hall in Boston, doing big things and making it look easy. But spend a few moments in his shoes and you realize it hasn't always been easy. Dan Ko has a good title, but for now, let's just call him local Kid. I…

There's a reason why his approval ratings at 30% now. People are paying the price for his price. His price market child care is a lot more expensive than $2,000 a year. You're worried about paying the price in your home. He's proposing cutting the affordable housing budget by 44%. And if you're cold…

Let's take the case of Alex being a veteran ICU nurse at the VA. The VA. 79% of VA hospitals have nursing shortages. Last year, average wait times went up 20%. They lost 3,000 nurses from FY24 to FY25. So what's Donald Trump doing? Is he focusing on really helping veterans and empowering our veteran…

Them. In this point, when he's on the ground, I'm trying to see what his hands are doing, because that's the most important thing. And at one point, he's on all fours, so you can see his hands. From what I could see, there was no weapon in him. Now when he goes down and people get on top of him, wha…

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She chose to walk away from Congress because she was offered ambassador to the U.N. trump revoked that. So she had to go back. No, she was involved in that decision. That's a lie. That's why she went back. They didn't want to lose the House. That was what happened. You were not telling the truth. Th…

Because we've. We're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the United States of America. Those criminals, those gang members, those people who are taking homes that ought, by right, go to the people in this room and your children and your grandchildren. It's simple economics. If you have fewer…

Dollars. That's 13 times more than that, even. But we secured Most Favored nations agreements to slash drug prices by as much as 300, 400, 500, and even 600%.…

Okay, let's drop the bullshit. This is about oil and Donald Trump enriching himself. This is not about keeping Americans safe. This is not about curbing the drug epidemic. This is about oil. Venezuela sits on the largest reserve of oil in the world. Not Saudi Arabia, not America. Trump knows this, a…

Hey, everybody. I'm here with a special guest who has something to say. Hey, everyone. It's Kamala. And I am so proud to endorse Dan Ko for Congress. I have worked with him for years behind the scenes, in front of the scenes, and I'm going to tell you, he works hard. He cares about the people. He's…

She continues to slam Democrats in your party to the point where she said she's left the party. I mean, how do you respond to her? Look, I can't speak for what Karene feels, but as I say, under Joe Biden drugs, for the first time, we were able to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. Hearing ai…

What I hear over and over again is we need fighters. We need a fighter who isn't afraid to call out this president on everything that he does, because you guys do it every day. The mainstream media keeps getting distracted with something crazier every single day. But we can't let this president off…

Kristi Noem should be impeached and not only because of what we're seeing with ice in our streets. Let's take last year for example. Kristi Noem, because she thought it sounded good, put a cap on FEMA of contracts over 100,000 that she would have to personally sign off on. It was very clear she knew…

I think there should be a wake up call to every single person who has bent the knee to Donald Trump over the course of his career that he turns his back on people when they need them the most. He says he's fighting for unions. He stripped a million collective bargaining rights from people. He said h…

Hi, everybody. Dan Koh here. I don't have to tell you this is a scary time. While Donald Trump tramples our Constitution, undermines our democracy, and tries to silence us, prices are skyrocketing, families are hurting, and it feels like no one's doing anything about it. So I'm here at my home in An…

This president is pitting Americans against each other and redefining what it means to be American. Remember, this is a President who said that most foreign born Americans are on welfare from failed nations and criminals. 50 million people. Half of those people are US citizens. He went on CNBC celeb…

Where does this end? I think the scary thing is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, people forget that Donald Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more ICE agents that are going to be on the streets. I find it ironic that we're having this conversation amidst t…

What is. I'm sorry, guys. What's going on here? You guys are meant to report the truth. How have you let yourself become agents of propaganda of a radical fringe that's making it harder for us to enforce our laws? You just asked me a question that presumed that the reason why this woman died is beca…

I'm gonna say something that Democrats don't usually say, which is I agree with what the pope has been saying. Okay. You know, we have a situation where clearly Daniel watches this show. The pope is my MVP on a regular. Listen, listen, I'm a God fearing Catholic. There you go. And when I see people…

This is not about drugs. This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power. Okay? He knows he's in the hot seat with Donald Trump. That is one thing. And my question to everyb…

I think this is a classic example of why Americans are so fed up with politics in general. Right. We have Costs are continuing to go up no matter what Secretary Bessen says. It's nationwide. Right. Premiums are going to spike starting January 1st. And we're still waiting for the Republican alternati…

Is the Trump administration bringing people together, you think, in the wake of the horrible assassination? When I hear Donald Trump saying this weekend that President Biden with stage 4 cancer is a stupid, mean sob he said the word. By the way, how's it working? Not too well for him. If you start f…

Again, in this jobs report, there were very good news, right, that all of the job creation was private sector government jobs are down about 100,000 since President Trump took office. And it was all native born workers that were getting the jobs.…

Brian thank you, Carolyn. Two questions we were talking about before, earlier in this briefing about the president's orders. You were going back and forth about what the ad said and what it said. My first question is the ad, the advertisement that the Senate Democrats were featured in. So the first…

Look, 40 million people in some way rely on the Affordable Care Act. Four million people, all independent studies say, are going to lose their health care as a result of these premiums going up. Donald Trump, I find it ironic that he's delaying his decision on what his proposal is when he doesn't de…

Okay, here is why. This Senate deal to end the shutdown just flat out sucks, and we should reject it. There are two main aspects of this deal. First, it restores the federal employees who Donald Trump fired over the course of the last few months. The crazy thing is that should have never happened in…

The Fed is the last institution that Trump hasn't fully corrupted yet. Right. You look at what's happening with Congress, it's basically a rubber stamp for Trump. Same goes for the Supreme Court. You look at what happened in the State Department, USAID being gutted. Our place in the world and our pl…

Pro terrorist Marxist radicals are now the left's mainstream. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about. That is a direct quote from Kami Mamdami and it should terrify every single freedom loving American.…

I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights. If this was a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have cut $500 million of labor protections and labor investigations acro…

I have two Lebanese, Korean, German, Irish, Italian American kids, and I want them to grow up in a country that is proud of its diversity and proud of being a welcoming place for anybody, no matter what your color is, no matter what your gender is, no matter what your faith is. And I believe we need…

Where does this end? I think the scary thing is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, people forget that Donald Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more ICE agents that are going to be on the streets. I find it ironic that we're having this conversation amidst t…

Let me go back to the point I made earlier. The person who orchestrated Barack Obama's drone strike program which killed innocent civilians, including Americans. The Democrats actually promoted him in a vote, in a roll call vote to the CIA director. So spare me the holier than thou didst, okay? Spar…

Spare me the MAGA that you're fighting crime when you're cutting hundreds of DEA jobs. Cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from the budget that has community violence intervention that worked in the city of Boston that reduced homicides per 100,000% from 80 per 100,000 to 3. Tell me how that is…

There's a reason why Republicans are flailing on the affordability issue, because the Democrats have the story and have the high ground here. We want to talk about raising minimum wage. Republicans are always trying to vote it down. We talked about capping prescription drugs. Republicans tried to vo…

Where does this end? I think the scary thing is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, people forget that Donald Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more ICE agents that are going to be on the streets. I find it ironic that we're having this conversation amidst t…

When Alex Preddy approached the agents, he was packing a fully loaded Sig Sauer 9 millimeter handgun with two full mags. He did have a concealed carry permit. Reports say he did not have an ID on him, and we don't know whether he alerted officers that he was carrying. Which is what everybody with a…

Overdose, then two jerks floating on a boat trying to flip it back over or whatever. It doesn't matter. This is not about drugs. This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that po…

What we are seeing is what the Founding Fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. Supreme Court's supposed to be a co equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point. Congress is supposed to be a co equal check on the president.…

Every single day this president does something more crazy and more of a trample on the Constitution than the day before. And this media environment. And candidly, most of the elected officials you see are letting them off the boat is no corporate PAC money. Not just as a candidate, but if you are el…

If you ask the question, what is the exact right number of immigrants for the United States to let in? It is just very specific on the context. If you go Back to the 1920s, the United States passed an immigration reform act that effectively cut down immigration to close to zero for 40 years in this…

Hi, everyone. I'm Senator Andy Kim, and I just wanted to be able to send a quick message out there to Everybody in Massachusetts, 6th congressional district, because I support Dan Koh. I've known him for years. I think he's an incredible public servant. I've gotten to see him up close in terms of wo…

And it's not just Minnesota's money. It's every US citizen's tax who's paying taxes. It's their money. So when they look around and they see the garbage not being picked up during the snow in New York or they see potholes all over the streets in Minneapolis, they have to ask themselves where did my…

Constitution. All she does is complain about this country. Without this country, she would not be in very good shape. She probably wouldn't be alive right now. So Somalia is considered by many to be the worst country on earth. I don't know. I haven't been there. I won't be there anytime soon, I hope…

How many of you have seen your kids suffer with RSV and felt powerless to help them? Well, RFK Jr just eliminated the recommendation for the RSV vaccine in addition to five other vaccines simply because he thought it was the right idea to do. Typically a panel of experts do deep research. They did n…

Everybody. Doug Emhoff here with my good friend Dan Coe. We need to send this man to Congress. Let's go. Let's do it. Coforcongress.com.…

The terrorism is this president who insists on terrorizing American citizens and our way of life. Our way of life is that we have every right to protest things that we disagree with. Record people make clear our objection. We are not. Our loyalty is not to Donald Trump. Our loyalty is to this countr…

Let's look at the record. Elise Stefanik was there for Donald Trump's reelection announcement when few people were right. She got appointed ambassador to the UN they made her pull out. They tried. They said, go run for governor. Then he refused to endorse her. If I'm Elise Stefanik, what do I think…

Look, Donald Trump likes to think that names on buildings are going to be his legacy. Let's put some names on his actual legacy. How about the Donald debt? Okay, $40 trillion, most added to the debt in history of any president. $8 trillion. How about Trump's trough, which is supposed to be a new par…

People remember Iraq. We should not underestimate people's bitterness about what happened there and how much it costs. It cost $3 trillion, by the way. That would have paid for child care for every single family in this country for 10 years. It would have had 15 million. Could have paid for 15 milli…

He's creating divisions between people who look like him and people who don't look like him. Remember his Thanksgiving Day tweet where he talked about 53 million foreign, foreign people in this country being mostly gang leaders and mostly drug cartels? That census number he cited, 25 million. Of tha…

Think about, if you're a working class person right now, your SNAP benefits are cut. So you're hungry. Then you want to get health care, your Medicaid has been cut. Then Donald Trump is proposing cutting 44% of the affordable housing budget. Then how is that smart politics for Donald Trump? Because…

Hi, everybody. Dan Koh here. I don't have to tell you this is a scary time. While Donald Trump tramples our Constitution, undermines our democracy, and tries to silence us, prices are skyrocketing, families are hurting, and it feels like no one's doing anything about it. So I'm here at my home in An…

Look, if Democrats want to win again, if we want to take the fight to Trump and win over hearts and minds of maga, we need to be not afraid to take the case directly to them and have difficult conversations. You know, I'm gravely concerned about health care costs going up $10,000 or more when people…

He won the election. He's never hit the ball on this. He's going to implement his program, and we're going to see if it's going to work. I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights. If this w…

Foreign. Hello and welcome to the J Train podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming alive from Richmond, Virginia. That's right, every Wednesday is a chit chat Wednesday where I sit down with a comedian, a friend, friend, an expert. Today I got two of those and they're a friend. They are an expert…

I mean, it's just, wow, just a crazy few days. Biden is back now a legit number two and seemingly climbing very fast. And what's more, it is just stunning in the wake of what things were like post New Hampshire less than a month ago. Remember this? Our exclusive video of Biden leaving New Hampshire…

Total and utter chaos is breaking out in the Labor Department as Labor Secretary Lori Chavez Dariemer has been busted. And folks, there are videos and there are photos like these videos and photos as she was partying it up in October during the government shutdown. You see her right there at the Red…

Elected officials need to be out in the communities talking to the other side, talking to these voters and they need to get, get out of their offices and they need to start talking to people and listening to what they have to say because they've gotten to a point in their life, whether it's MAGA or…

Just another weekend, if you will. And as far as drinking wise and you know, completely get obliterated, you know, three or four nights in a row. Three nights in a row. Was there any reason that's a. Precipitated that? No, it just, just, just did it. Like I go out, have a beer, go have a couple beer…

Feeling overwhelmed by all that's happening in our country, confused about what information is real, trying to figure out what to do. You're not alone. My name is Dan Koh, and welcome to the People's Cabin, a podcast that directly explains the top issues facing our country today and talks about what…

We live in a society where second chances are rare. But my next guest is an example of why you don't give up on someone. Marty Walsh went from rock bottom to mayor of Boston, United States Secretary of Labor, and now executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association. He joins us t…

And in the daytime, if you saw me, I was a civic activist, I guess you can call me. And at night I would be out drinking. And you know, when I first started drinking many years ago, it was, it was, it was fun. Everyone did it. And was it like older people just influenced you do it, or the guys after…

So we are on the job. A new podcast at Local 103, labor and Politics in Boston. And we are going to talk politics today with our good friend, our great friend, Dan Ko. We have a lot to get to, Dan. A lot has happened this week. I know. We can talk about Tuesday's results. We can talk about Mamdami.…

Total and utter chaos is breaking out in the Labor Department as Labor Secretary Lori Chavez dreamer has been busted. And folks, there are videos and there are photos like these videos and photos as she was partying it up in October during the government shutdown. You see her right there at the Red…

Hey everybody. I got exciting news. I am guest hosting the David Pakman show on YouTube. David Pakman show has 3.3 million subscribers and David and his family just had a baby and so I am going to be filling in for the next couple days. I just filmed Friday's episode which will be up very soon. Plea…

We are now 362 days away from the midterms. Today, President Donald John Trump hosted Senate Republicans at the White House and shared what he thought of his party's big losses in last night's elections. Last night, it was, you know, not expected to be a victory. It was very Democrat areas, but I do…

Trump is ramping up military presence in D.C. all based on his own made up crime stats. Quick fact check. Violent crime in D.C. dropped 26% over the last year. That is according to the police. Trump also wants to control the narrative when it comes to his lagging economy. Trump tapped a partisan hac…

It's the end of week four for convicted felon Donald Trump's presidency, and as he basks in the balmy breeze and sun at his Florida estate, Mar A Lago, mass firings are being executed across multiple federal agencies, impacting thousands of workers across the United States. Some employees were given…

All right, John, thank you. Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean Pierre, meanwhile turning on the Dems in her new memoir, writing, quote, biden seemed to be totally at peace with his decision to drop out of the race. But I was stunned. My feelings a blur. I was angry and sad. I was enraged and h…

Welcome back. Some stunning revelations about more than 4,000 pardons signed by former President Biden, many of them authorized not by hand but by auto pin. Axios reporting that senior Biden officials, quote, repeatedly question and criticize how the president's team decided on controversial pardons…

I had Rock AI do a little research. I asked which US cities have the highest violent crime. St Louis, Memphis, Albuquerque, Detroit, Cleveland, Tulsa, Baltimore. And wouldn't you know it, y', all, every freaking one of them has a Democrat mayor. How many of them are led by Republicans? Zero. Not one…

Hi, everybody. Dan Ko here. I don't have to tell you this is a scary time. While Donald Trump tramples our Constitution, undermines our democracy, and tries to silence us, prices are skyrocketing, families are hurting, and it feels like no one's doing anything about it. So I'm here at my home in And…

Hi, everybody. Dan Ko here. I don't have to tell you this is a scary time. While Donald Trump tramples our Constitution, undermines our democracy, and tries to silence us, prices are skyrocketing, families are hurting, and it feels like no one's doing anything about it. So I'm here at my home in And…

I had Rock AI do a little research. I asked which US cities have the highest violent crime. St Louis, Memphis, Albuquerque, Detroit, Cleveland, Tulsa, Baltimore. And wouldn't you know it, y', all, every freaking one of them has a Democrat mayor. How many of them are led by Republicans? Zero. Not one…

We have $50 billion a year that go to oil subsidies when they're having record profits. We have 50 billion going to pharma. We have people able to write off their private jets and their yachts. Yet we're having a raging debate about 0.4% of the Medicaid budget that will allow hospitals to not ID peo…

My advice for Democrats is less hyperbole and more specifics on what people actually care about. Let me give you an example, Scott. You care a lot about the National Park System. He's proposing a 1.2 billion cut to national parks, since that's the most in the 109 year history of national parks. More…

Where does this end? I think the scary thing is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, people forget that Donald Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more ICE agents that are going to be on the streets. I find it ironic that we're having this conversation amidst t…

Can we just have a reality check on vaccines for a second? An unvaccinated person is 53 times more likely to die of COVID than someone who is vaccinated 14 times more likely to get infected. Smallpox killed 500 million people in the 20th century before vaccines measles kill 2.6 million people per ye…

Look, I think if this was a president who wanted to honor the military, he wouldn't be proposing 80,000 VA cuts. This was a president who actually cared about the military. He wouldn't be freezing $2 billion worth of contracts or having a secretary of defense leaking attack plans on signal. In contr…

When you say false equivalency, what are the one or two that really get to you? Well, for example, this idea that like both sides are equally corrupt, don't get me wrong, there have been, you know, spectacular specific instances of Democratic politicians who turned out to be corrupt. But and by the…

This is like firing the referee because you don't like the final score of a game. President Trump just fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You should be paying attention to this, Dan. You worked at that agency 1 to 10, 10 being basically worst case scenario. Where do you put th…

You're going to hear a lot in the coming days. Trump and other people talk about methodology, how we count the jobs that go into that jobs number, because they could all of a sudden decide, for example, that part time or gig workers, like the people who drive Uber and Lyft all of a sudden should cou…

Here's how this works. People want to be rich, but they want it to be fair. If Elon Musk is kind of screwing the system up, you know, they're not going to give him forgiveness because he's rich. Right? But, like, you know, we have to be the party that is going to say, like, yeah, you may be starting…

We are finding ourselves in incredibly dangerous times right now. Our elections are, in a sense, at risk. The future of the country vis a vis the independence of the DOJ, the Federal Reserve, etc. Are a question mark. How long is Donald Trump going to survive? And I don't mean in the literal physica…

So we are on the job. A new podcast at Local 103, labor and Politics in Boston. And we are going to talk politics today with our good friend, our great friend, Dan Ko. We have a lot to get to, Dan. A lot has happened this week. I know. We can talk about Tuesday's results. We can talk about Mamdami.…

Hello and welcome to the J Train podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming alive from Richmond, Virginia. That's right, every Wednesday is a chit chat Wednesday where I sit down with a comedian, a friend, friend, an expert. Today I got two of those and they're a friend. They are an expert and I'm…

Welcome to episode 10 of Inside Politics for Teens by teens, where I explore the politics and issues impacting our generation. I'm your host, Christina Lee, and today I'm focusing on coronavirus legislation. For this, I've invited Dan Koh, a member of the town of Andover Select Board. Dan, how are y…

Yeah, I grew up in Andover, Massachusetts. My family, Korean and Lebanese immigrants, the Lebanese side of my family came to the district that I'm running to represent about over a century ago now. I grew up in Andover in a very politically involved family. My father was the Commissioner of Public H…

This shutdown feels different. Republicans completely own the branches of government. If there's been one complaint about Democrats since Trump has officially come back into office, it's that they don't fight. A lot of talking, but they don't fight. And what we're seeing right now is Democrats fight…

To demonstrate that the laws are immoral. That's what civil disobedience is. I find it horrifying that this president has more praise for the people in Iran to protest than the people in the United States to exercise their right to peace. They have a right to protest. It's not advisable to go interf…

Think about, if you're a working class person right now, your SNAP benefits are cut. So you're hungry. Then you want to get health care, your Medicaid has been cut. Then Donald Trump is proposing cutting 44% of the affordable housing budget. Then how is that smart politics for Donald Trump? Because…

He's creating divisions between people who look like him and people who don't look like him. Remember his Thanksgiving Day tweet where he talked about 53 million foreign, foreign people in this country being mostly gang leaders and mostly drug cartels? That census number he cited, 25 million. Of tha…

People remember Iraq. We should not underestimate people's bitterness about what happened there and how much it costs. It cost $3 trillion, by the way. That would have paid for child care for every single family in this country for 10 years. It would have had 15 million. Could have paid for 15 milli…

Look, Donald Trump likes to think that names on buildings are going to be his legacy. Let's put some names on his actual legacy. How about the Donald debt? Okay, $40 trillion, most added to the debt in history of any president. $8 trillion. How about Trump's trough, which is supposed to be a new par…

Let's look at the record. Elise Stefanik was there for Donald Trump's reelection announcement when few people were right. She got appointed ambassador to the UN they made her pull out. They tried. They said, go run for governor. Then he refused to endorse her. If I'm Elise Stefanik, what do I think…

The terrorism is this president who insists on terrorizing American citizens and our way of life. Our way of life is that we have every right to protest things that we disagree with. Record people make clear our objection. We are not. Our loyalty is not to Donald Trump. Our loyalty is to this countr…

Everybody. Doug Emhoff here with my good friend Dan Coe. We need to send this man to Congress. Let's go. Let's do it. Coforcongress.com.…

How many of you have seen your kids suffer with RSV and felt powerless to help them? Well, RFK Jr just eliminated the recommendation for the RSV vaccine in addition to five other vaccines simply because he thought it was the right idea to do. Typically a panel of experts do deep research. They did n…

Constitution. All she does is complain about this country. Without this country, she would not be in very good shape. She probably wouldn't be alive right now. So Somalia is considered by many to be the worst country on earth. I don't know. I haven't been there. I won't be there anytime soon, I hope…

And it's not just Minnesota's money. It's every US citizen's tax who's paying taxes. It's their money. So when they look around and they see the garbage not being picked up during the snow in New York or they see potholes all over the streets in Minneapolis, they have to ask themselves where did my…

Hi, everyone. I'm Senator Andy Kim, and I just wanted to be able to send a quick message out there to Everybody in Massachusetts, 6th congressional district, because I support Dan Koh. I've known him for years. I think he's an incredible public servant. I've gotten to see him up close in terms of wo…

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Every single day this president does something more crazy and more of a trample on the Constitution than the day before. And this media environment. And candidly, most of the elected officials you see are letting them off the boat is no corporate PAC money. Not just as a candidate, but if you are el…

What we are seeing is what the Founding Fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. Supreme Court's supposed to be a co equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point. Congress is supposed to be a co equal check on the president.…

Overdose, then two jerks floating on a boat trying to flip it back over or whatever. It doesn't matter. This is not about drugs. This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that po…

When Alex Preddy approached the agents, he was packing a fully loaded Sig Sauer 9 millimeter handgun with two full mags. He did have a concealed carry permit. Reports say he did not have an ID on him, and we don't know whether he alerted officers that he was carrying. Which is what everybody with a…

Where does this end? I think the scary thing is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, people forget that Donald Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more ICE agents that are going to be on the streets. I find it ironic that we're having this conversation amidst t…

There's a reason why Republicans are flailing on the affordability issue, because the Democrats have the story and have the high ground here. We want to talk about raising minimum wage. Republicans are always trying to vote it down. We talked about capping prescription drugs. Republicans tried to vo…

Spare me the MAGA that you're fighting crime when you're cutting hundreds of DEA jobs. Cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from the budget that has community violence intervention that worked in the city of Boston that reduced homicides per 100,000% from 80 per 100,000 to 3. Tell me how that is…

Let me go back to the point I made earlier. The person who orchestrated Barack Obama's drone strike program which killed innocent civilians, including Americans. The Democrats actually promoted him in a vote, in a roll call vote to the CIA director. So spare me the holier than thou didst, okay? Spar…

Where does this end? I think the scary thing is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, people forget that Donald Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more ICE agents that are going to be on the streets. I find it ironic that we're having this conversation amidst t…

I have two Lebanese, Korean, German, Irish, Italian American kids, and I want them to grow up in a country that is proud of its diversity and proud of being a welcoming place for anybody, no matter what your color is, no matter what your gender is, no matter what your faith is. And I believe we need…

I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights. If this was a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have cut $500 million of labor protections and labor investigations acro…

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The Fed is the last institution that Trump hasn't fully corrupted yet. Right. You look at what's happening with Congress, it's basically a rubber stamp for Trump. Same goes for the Supreme Court. You look at what happened in the State Department, USAID being gutted. Our place in the world and our pl…

Okay, here is why. This Senate deal to end the shutdown just flat out sucks, and we should reject it. There are two main aspects of this deal. First, it restores the federal employees who Donald Trump fired over the course of the last few months. The crazy thing is that should have never happened in…

Look, 40 million people in some way rely on the Affordable Care Act. Four million people, all independent studies say, are going to lose their health care as a result of these premiums going up. Donald Trump, I find it ironic that he's delaying his decision on what his proposal is when he doesn't de…

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Again, in this jobs report, there were very good news, right, that all of the job creation was private sector government jobs are down about 100,000 since President Trump took office. And it was all native born workers that were getting the jobs.…

Is the Trump administration bringing people together, you think, in the wake of the horrible assassination? When I hear Donald Trump saying this weekend that President Biden with stage 4 cancer is a stupid, mean sob he said the word. By the way, how's it working? Not too well for him. If you start f…

I think this is a classic example of why Americans are so fed up with politics in general. Right. We have Costs are continuing to go up no matter what Secretary Bessen says. It's nationwide. Right. Premiums are going to spike starting January 1st. And we're still waiting for the Republican alternati…

This is not about drugs. This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power. Okay? He knows he's in the hot seat with Donald Trump. That is one thing. And my question to everyb…

I'm gonna say something that Democrats don't usually say, which is I agree with what the pope has been saying. Okay. You know, we have a situation where clearly Daniel watches this show. The pope is my MVP on a regular. Listen, listen, I'm a God fearing Catholic. There you go. And when I see people…

What is. I'm sorry, guys. What's going on here? You guys are meant to report the truth. How have you let yourself become agents of propaganda of a radical fringe that's making it harder for us to enforce our laws? You just asked me a question that presumed that the reason why this woman died is beca…

Where does this end? I think the scary thing is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, people forget that Donald Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more ICE agents that are going to be on the streets. I find it ironic that we're having this conversation amidst t…

This president is pitting Americans against each other and redefining what it means to be American. Remember, this is a President who said that most foreign born Americans are on welfare from failed nations and criminals. 50 million people. Half of those people are US citizens. He went on CNBC celeb…

Hi, everybody. Dan Koh here. I don't have to tell you this is a scary time. While Donald Trump tramples our Constitution, undermines our democracy, and tries to silence us, prices are skyrocketing, families are hurting, and it feels like no one's doing anything about it. So I'm here at my home in An…

I think there should be a wake up call to every single person who has bent the knee to Donald Trump over the course of his career that he turns his back on people when they need them the most. He says he's fighting for unions. He stripped a million collective bargaining rights from people. He said h…

Kristi Noem should be impeached and not only because of what we're seeing with ice in our streets. Let's take last year for example. Kristi Noem, because she thought it sounded good, put a cap on FEMA of contracts over 100,000 that she would have to personally sign off on. It was very clear she knew…

What I hear over and over again is we need fighters. We need a fighter who isn't afraid to call out this president on everything that he does, because you guys do it every day. The mainstream media keeps getting distracted with something crazier every single day. But we can't let this president off…

She continues to slam Democrats in your party to the point where she said she's left the party. I mean, how do you respond to her? Look, I can't speak for what Karene feels, but as I say, under Joe Biden drugs, for the first time, we were able to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. Hearing ai…

Hey, everybody. I'm here with a special guest who has something to say. Hey, everyone. It's Kamala. And I am so proud to endorse Dan Ko for Congress. I have worked with him for years behind the scenes, in front of the scenes, and I'm going to tell you, he works hard. He cares about the people. He's…

Okay, let's drop the bullshit. This is about oil and Donald Trump enriching himself. This is not about keeping Americans safe. This is not about curbing the drug epidemic. This is about oil. Venezuela sits on the largest reserve of oil in the world. Not Saudi Arabia, not America. Trump knows this, a…

Dollars. That's 13 times more than that, even. But we secured Most Favored nations agreements to slash drug prices by as much as 300, 400, 500, and even 600%.…

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She chose to walk away from Congress because she was offered ambassador to the U.N. trump revoked that. So she had to go back. No, she was involved in that decision. That's a lie. That's why she went back. They didn't want to lose the House. That was what happened. You were not telling the truth. Th…

Jesus.…

Them. In this point, when he's on the ground, I'm trying to see what his hands are doing, because that's the most important thing. And at one point, he's on all fours, so you can see his hands. From what I could see, there was no weapon in him. Now when he goes down and people get on top of him, wha…

Let's take the case of Alex being a veteran ICU nurse at the VA. The VA. 79% of VA hospitals have nursing shortages. Last year, average wait times went up 20%. They lost 3,000 nurses from FY24 to FY25. So what's Donald Trump doing? Is he focusing on really helping veterans and empowering our veteran…

There's a reason why his approval ratings at 30% now. People are paying the price for his price. His price market child care is a lot more expensive than $2,000 a year. You're worried about paying the price in your home. He's proposing cutting the affordable housing budget by 44%. And if you're cold…

You definitely know his boss, but you probably don't know him. He is a rising star at City hall in Boston, doing big things and making it look easy. But spend a few moments in his shoes and you realize it hasn't always been easy. Dan Ko has a good title, but for now, let's just call him local Kid. I…

I think the economic rage is there's a reason why Republicans are failing in the affordability issue, because the Democrats have the story and have the high ground here. We want to talk about raising minimum wage. Republicans are always trying to vote it down. We talked about capping prescription dr…

I think for me this is a president and an administration that has enabled pushing the line further and further back to the point where there is no line anymore. This is glorifying rape racial slurs has no standing. But then you look at the broader point right this is a president, a vice president wh…

The reason why Republicans are flailing on the affordability issue, because the Democrats have the story and have the high ground here. We want to talk about raising minimum wage. Republicans are always trying to vote it down. We talked about capping prescription drugs. Republicans tried to vote tha…

Look, my mom raised me to be a nice person, so I'm gonna say this as nicely as possible. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a racist, sexist, homophobic insurrectionist. Let's just run the clock back, okay? This is a person who claimed that the California wildfires were caused by space lasers from a rich Jew…

I thought the bedrock principle of the Republican Party was that government should stay out of the way and let us live our lives. But instead they are literally killing us. Alex Preddy was an ICU nurse at the VA, the same VA that Donald Trump proposed cutting 80,000 jobs from jobs that process burn…

Wearing swastikas. Maybe Cash Patel should. Is that funny to you? No. What's funny? Maybe Cash Patel should sit this one out. I mean. And, Isabel, I'm surprised that you're chuckling about that, because that's actually true. No, I. Those people were among those T shirts. Those people were among the…

I think the other thing that people are sick of is that they don't see Democrats fighting hard enough. There is so much going wrong in this administration, and I think we oversimplify it because we're concerned that people aren't going to understand the nuance. People are smarter than that. The Depa…

Look, I think it's not about just about the ballroom. It's about what is right and what is wrong. I think reasonable people can disagree on those things, but everyone should agree that a ballroom financed by big Tobacco is wrong, that destroying history without any kind of process is wrong. This is…

So what are you feeling about last night? What lessons are you taking away? I'm feeling we're back, baby. That's the bottom line. Look, I think for a entire Trump administration that has been mocking the term diversity and inclusion and equity for the last couple years, I think we're seeing a divers…

At the end of the day, the one thing I learned most when serving in the administration is that most valuable resource isn't actually money. It actually isn't staff. But it's your time. And every minute that the Department of Labor is not focused on workers and we can talk about the different things…

You know, we said in the previous segment about the inefficacy of Congress, I actually think Congress has been incredibly effective at screwing people. You look at the one big beautiful bill, largest redistribution of wealth in the history of our country with Elon Musk getting a historic tax cut. Th…

Overdose, then two jerks floating on a boat trying to flip it back over or whatever. It doesn't matter. This is not about drugs. This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that po…

We are trying to justify authoritarian behavior of people going after political enemies. Put Letitia James aside for a second. James Comey, you can make go down the list. We are trying to justify with every one of these things what we should not be able to justify, which is that this is an attorney…

Do you? How do you see it, Dan? I mean, look, I think this was a microcosm of one of the signatures of Donald Trump, which is when he's on the big stages, he can't help himself but to air grievances and lie. Right. He started by criticizing the decor of the UN Saying that he could have done a better…

Look, let's take a step back and realize what he's actually doing. This is why the president has consistently demeaned the courts every chance he gets, and trying to undermine judges, because he knows that's the last line of defense for him. Ultimately, he owns the White House. He certainly owns the…

And subsidizes for people in need. But nonetheless, I just think that there's going to be an issue. There's very few people in New York or around the country who don't think groceries are too expensive, that childcare is too expensive, that rent is too high, or that transportation is too cumbersome.…

I mean, it's just, wow, just a crazy few days. Biden is back now a legit number two and seemingly climbing very fast. And what's more, it is just stunning in the wake of what things were like post New Hampshire less than a month ago. Remember this? Our exclusive video of Biden leaving New Hampshire…

You definitely know his boss, but you probably don't know him. He is a rising star at City hall in Boston, doing big things and making it look easy. But spend a few moments in his shoes and you realize it hasn't always been easy. Dan Ko has a good title, but for now, let's just call him local Kid. I…

When you look at the map and you look at clearly where the gaming facility is located, the only way to get to where the site that's being proposed is through the city of Boston. So that's our legal argument. That's what we're in the courts for. But the mayor's door is always open, and he did meet wi…

Is not American in the way we believe so deeply in our fundamental freedoms. And when you look at what can be done, there's a couple of very, very basic things. First of all, every single mask needs to be removed. This is not Nazi Germany. This is the United States of America. If you're going to tak…

We are supposed to be the party that looks out for the most vulnerable and protects those being discriminated against. If we are not going to stand with a trans community and say this kind of that MAGA is trying to turn Democrats against each other on, we should all go home. And the fact that some D…