Stephanie Ruhle and Tom Saenz: Why Aren't People Freaking Out?

Stephanie Ruhle and Tom Saenz: Why Aren't People Freaking Out?

If Zohran Mamdani, as NYC mayor-elect, held a dinner with finance bros and threatened them with a huge wealth tax if they didn't sweet-talk him and say how much they agreed with his political vision, the Wall Street community would freak out. Yet, this version of a shakedown is *really* happening at the White House all the time and in response, the country's most powerful and wealthy business leaders can only trip over each other as they jostle for the chance to cut up Trump's well-done steak. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is tripping over its own rulings to green-light ICE's racial profiling in Southern California.

Stephanie Ruhle
and MALDEF's Thomas Saenz join Tim Miller.
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