Hasan Piker on How Democrats Should Wield Power

So the Democratic Party that’s coming into power now remains an opposition party at the national level. Donald Trump still has the White House, even if they’ve got the House and the Senate. What do you think they should do? I’ve jokingly referred to this as files and trials, belt to ass and hopefully a comprehensive legislative agenda that is defining what the Democratic Party is. Two of those seem a little catchier than the third. Yes, well, the third one is just for me. I mean, what is Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer saying? - Corruption? They have something. - Corruption, chaos, they got — let’s start with the, what was it called? - Files? - I said files and trials. Epstein files. I feel like that is a nod to the swing voters that were very frustrated about this. So I think that is a high-profile incident that I know will cause many of the apoliticals or many of the low-propensity voters to pay close attention to exactly what’s going on. But more importantly, I think it’s the trials that are a necessity. Investigations. Identifying what Kristi Noem did and exposing the network of pay-to-play initiatives that were taking place inside of the White House, because we’ve never seen outright corruption of this sort, perhaps ever in American history. I often joke and say, look, I’m Turkish. I grew up in Turkey. I know Erdogan is very corrupt and so is Vladimir Putin and Russia, for example. But at least they hide it. And Trump was so in our faces with his corruption and with his lack of interest in the overall economy. I mean, there are so many instances where he just said, I don’t care about inflation, I don’t care about the prices. And I mean, even with your former colleague Ross on the “60 Minutes” interview, where he had his own Marie Antoinette moment, where he was like, well, you know, I made billions of dollars because I put money in the stock market. He’s like, why don’t you put your money in the stock market? “Your net worth, maybe it’s changed with the stock market recently, but your net worth went up by $3 billion. - Well, so did everyone’s. - Since you returned to —— OK, are you ready? So everyone’s — my net worth did not go up by $3 billion. Well, you should have had stock. - For the record. I should have —— - You should have had stock. I should have had stock.” Not exactly populist, is it? He’s not exactly the man of the people. And I think the Democrats need to work hard to make sure that people fully grasp the outright corruption that’s taking place inside of the White House. We need law and order. I’m a law and order Democrat. I believe in accountability. We need answers and we also need punishments. And I think this is something that people are demanding.