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Jane Coaston (0:02)
It's Monday, November 24th. I'm Jane Coston and this is what a day. The show wondering where Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is going to end up on his tour day, explaining why tariffs are good even when President Donald Trump cancels them.
Mark Bray (0:15)
Isn't the fact that you're rolling back.
Jane Coaston (0:17)
Tariffs in admission that ultimately they do drive up prices for consumers? Kristen, how much does your arm weigh? And because you have to know where that plane landed, that I do not know exactly. But you know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. So we are trying, we try to push down the things we can control. I'm so sorry that plane crashed. On today's show, New York City Mayor Elect Zoran Mamdani charms President Trump during a meeting at the oval office, and U.S. and Ukrainian officials say they're making progress in bringing an end to Russia's war in Ukraine. But let's start with maga. Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene made a big announcement on Friday. She's leaving Congress. In a video, Representative Green explained that she felt betrayed by the party and the president she'd spent years fighting for. I have too much self respect and dignity. I love my family way too much and I do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President that we all fought for, only to fight and win my election. While Republicans will likely lose the midterms and in turn be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me. It's all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better. Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected to Congress on the back of MAGA and conspiracy theories spread by some of Maga's loudest voices. Entering Congress in 2021, she was already famous or infamous for arguing that the September 11 attacks were a hoax and that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton murdered John F. Kennedy Jr. On the day she was sworn into office. She wore a face mask that said Trump won, a reference to the 2020 presidential election, which he did not win. In a funny way, it seems like Greene wound up being more MAGA than Trump. She broke with the president on AI policies, America's role in the war in Gaza, healthcare policy, and the release of centering on the crimes of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And while her views get a lot of support from right wing populists Like Steve Bannon, President Trump called her a, quote, traitor. She responded to his claim in her resignation video. Standing up for American women who were raped at 14 years old, trafficked, and used by rich, powerful men should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for. MTG has detailed the numerous death threats she and her family have received because of her recent opposition to Trump's policies. But she is hardly the first to face threats of violence for saying or doing something that MAGA decides it doesn't like. From congressmen to poll workers to random people who post on the Internet. So many people have experienced violent threats because MAGA thinks that they need to be put back in line or pushed out of the conversation entirely. Mark Bray was never a congressman and definitely was never maga. He was a college professor who wrote a book called the Anti Fascist handbook back in 2017. But after the murder of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk earlier this year, Bray became the subject of a conservative media storm, fomented in part by the organization Kirk founded, Turning Point usa. So Bray made the decision to leave the United States to protect himself and his family. I spoke to him about what antifa even is and how writing a book eight years ago cost him his American home. Mark Bray, welcome to what a day.