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00:00:27.000And now we are going to explore whether, in fact, Donald Trump will be arrested tomorrow.
00:00:32.000So, Donald Trump, over the weekend, he announced on Truth Social that he was about to be arrested imminently.
00:00:37.000He put out a statement that said, quote, now illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly political Manhattan district attorney's office, which has allowed new records to be set in violent crime and whose leader is funded by George Soros, so far all true, indicate that with no crime being able to be proven and based on an old and fully debunked by numerous other prosecutors fairy tale, the far and away leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States of America will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.
00:01:03.000Okay, so he's announcing, we have no other information that he's gonna be arrested on Tuesday, but he's announcing that there's a leak that is saying that he's gonna be arrested on Tuesday.
00:01:13.000And then he continued by saying, Biden wants to pretend he has nothing to do with the Manhattan DA's assault on Democracy One.
00:01:18.000In fact, he has stuffed the DA's office with the Department of Injustice people, including one top DOJ operative from D.C.
00:01:24.000who's actually running the Horseface Witch Hunt.
00:01:26.000Horseface is his name for Stormy Daniels.
00:01:29.000Bragg is a Soros racist in reverse who's taking his orders from DC.
00:01:33.000I beat them twice, doing much better the second time.
00:01:35.000And despite their disinformation campaign, they don't want to run against Trump or my great record.
00:01:38.000So his theory apparently is that not only is he going to be arrested, the reason he's going to be arrested is the Democrats can stop him from running.
00:01:45.000We'll get to the actual political implications of a possible arrest itself, but we have to begin with the information.
00:01:51.000Trump is the only person so far, including the DA, who's come out and said that he's going to be arrested on Tuesday.
00:01:57.000Now, there was speculation late last week that there is a possibility that as a grand jury investigation continues in New York, the possibility of an indictment was growing.
00:02:06.000However, There has been no actual leak from the DA's office to the public about the possibility of Trump being arrested, which suggests that somebody from the DA's office must have called Trump and asked him to turn himself in.
00:02:17.000But even that is sort of up in the air.
00:02:19.000At this point, we just don't know what we don't know.
00:02:22.000And as it turns out, There are still witnesses who have to testify before that New York grand jury.
00:02:28.000So the highest likelihood at this point, just from a pure procedural standpoint, is that Donald Trump heard a rumor from a friend of a friend, and that friend of a friend said, you're going to be arrested on Tuesday.
00:02:38.000And Trump, not having any sort of filter, just went directly to Truth Social and put that out there.
00:02:43.000But we have no other corroborative information that he will, in fact, be arrested on Tuesday.
00:02:46.000Now, that's not to say he won't be arrested.
00:02:47.000He could certainly be arrested on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, the following week, right?
00:02:53.000And again, Alvin Bragg in New York, the DA there, who is in fact Soros elected.
00:02:58.000He's a person who's funded by George Soros, a very left-wing prosecutor.
00:03:01.000He's sort of implied that an indictment is on the table for Trump in the near future.
00:03:07.000But this set the entire world ablaze, obviously, because when the former president of the United States and the current frontrunner in the Republican nominating race announces that he is likely to be arrested by a hardcore Democrat prosecutor in New York over a crime that was allegedly committed Back in 2016, and you may have checked your calendar recently, it is now 2023.
00:03:24.000And the statute of limitations on a misdemeanor in the state of New York, on a New York state misdemeanor, is two years, which would have ended this thing in 2018.
00:03:33.000And the statute of limitations on a New York felony is five years, which would have ended this thing in 2021.
00:03:38.000And the only way to extend beyond that statute of limitations is to somehow hook Trump's behavior from 2016 into a federal campaign finance felony.
00:03:46.000That would be the only theory under which you could do this sort of thing.
00:03:49.000It starts to look really dicey in the first place, and it also does look politically motivated because we've had too many prosecutors who've come out and they've said that we are going to get Trump.
00:03:58.000We had Letitia James, when she took office as Attorney General of New York, officially say, like in her opening statement, we're going to get Trump.
00:04:03.000We're going to go after him, which by the way is not how you go after crime.
00:04:06.000The way that you typically go after crime is you find a crime and then you prosecute the person who committed the crime.
00:04:10.000You don't find a person you would like to prosecute, and then you figure out which crime they have committed.
00:04:14.000But it seems like there are a lot of prosecutors out there who have done this.
00:04:17.000Now, Trump has opened himself up on a wide variety of scores.
00:04:21.000By using what would be at best dicey behavior.
00:04:24.000But that two things can be true at once.
00:04:25.000That dicey behavior can be dicey and also not criminal as we've seen multiple times in the past.
00:04:29.000And we'll get to legal predicate for the kind of charge that Alvin Bragg would be trying to bring against Trump.
00:04:34.000And we'll show that that legal predicate really does not exist.
00:04:37.000There'd be a novel legal theory if carried to fruition.
00:04:40.000So according to the Associated Press, even as Trump's lawyer and spokesperson said there had been no communication from prosecutors, Trump declared in a post on a social media platform he expects to be taken into custody on Tuesday.
00:04:48.000Again, this is why I say I think Trump is just kind of Speaking off the cuff, as per his usual arrangement, I don't think this is a planned statement.
00:04:54.000I don't think there was a leak directly from the New York DA's office to Trump.
00:04:58.000It sounds like this went through a process of telephone and finally Trump got the information that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday and he put that out there.
00:05:04.000But as I say, there's still process to take place.
00:05:09.000That a possible Donald Trump hush money indictment is on hold until a final witness even testifies before a Manhattan grand jury on Monday afternoon.
00:05:16.000A source with knowledge of the investigation told Insider Saturday night there is at least one more witness that spoke on a condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge details of the grand jury proceedings.
00:05:25.000Well, if there's still a witness, that means the grand jury has not even voted yet.
00:05:28.000On whether they believe that an indictment would be justified or necessary.
00:05:31.000Which means that it seems weird that Trump, before the grand jury has even decided, would be saying, I'm going to get arrested on Tuesday.
00:05:38.000Probably somebody told him, the soonest you could be arrested is on Tuesday, and they're already talking about an arrest.
00:05:43.000The source declined to identify the witness, whose testimony will cap a two-month grand jury presentation by prosecutors under District Attorney Alvin Brad.
00:05:49.000A separate source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the witness is not Allen Weisselberg, that's Trump's former CFO.
00:05:56.000The star witness for the grand jury so far has been former Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen.
00:06:01.000He expected to be the final grand jury witness when he testified on Monday and Wednesday of last week.
00:06:08.000So, bottom line is that Trump's timing may be off.
00:06:10.000Now, that doesn't undercut the fact that if he is indeed arrested, it's going to be an absolute bombshell in the middle of American politics, the presidential race, and law enforcement generally.
00:06:21.000We'll get to more on that in just one second.
00:06:22.000First, let's talk about the fact that there are a lot of people out there that you just cannot trust.
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00:07:48.000First of all, there's nothing illegal about calling for people to protest.
00:07:51.000If there were, then the entire Black Lives Matter movement would have never got off the ground in June of 2020.
00:07:56.000Democrats love protests until they are protests of things that they don't particularly like, at which point it becomes a threat to democracy.
00:08:01.000Trump saying protest does not mean that he is calling for a violent insurrection against anybody.
00:08:10.000If you say to your neighbor, you should go out and you should commit an act of violence against Bob, and then he goes out and commits an act of violence against Bob, then you will be prosecuted for incitement.
00:08:20.000It is not incitement to say protest, protest, protest, even in all capital letters, even if it's Donald Trump, even if there are lots of exclamation points.
00:08:28.000So let's go through a little bit of the actual case here with regard to what's happened.
00:08:33.000First of all, Michael Cohen, who would be the chief witness in all of this, and who himself has been, I believe, convicted of perjury.
00:08:40.000He lied when he was talking about his taxes and all of this, and he pled guilty to campaign finance fraud.
00:08:48.000As we'll talk about that has implications for Trump's actual case because those two cases are one and the same with regard to Stormy Daniels. But he was also convicted for hiding money from the IRS and all the rest. Michael Cohen says Trump isn't doing this because the DA leaked, he's doing this because he's essentially leaking the fact that he's going to be arrested. Okay, whatever. Here's Michael Cohen. This untruth social post that was put out by Donald, knowing Donald the way that I do, I don't see a reason that Donald would have put out the statement
00:09:17.000unless he has or his team have been contacted by the district attorney's office and advised accordingly.
00:09:25.000It's not Donald to turn around and to come up with something for just because he's bored at Mar-a-Lardo sitting there on a Saturday morning, hey, let's stir this all up.
00:09:38.000And I'll tell you something else about when I read that post.
00:09:43.000It's eerily similar to the battle cry that he put out just prior to the January 6th insurrection.
00:09:51.000Okay, that sort of stuff is super tiresome.
00:09:54.000And the reason that it's super tiresome, of course, is because saying that you want people to protest is not the same thing as saying that you want them to commit acts of violence.
00:10:00.000I will say, every time I hear Michael Cohen, I can't help but think of the Donald Trump tweet, maybe my favorite Donald Trump tweet of all time.
00:10:06.000I mean, Donald Trump's Twitter feed is just lit.
00:10:08.000But Donald Trump, August 22nd, 2018, quote, If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest you don't retain the services of Michael Cain.
00:10:20.000One of my favorite tweets of all time.
00:10:21.000Of course, you know, Donald Trump has a habit of not hiring the best people.
00:10:24.000I mean, let's just put it out there that half the people who he's hired, he's either fired because he thought they were incompetent or have ended up, you know, being prosecuted.
00:10:34.000In any case, Michael Cohen, as it turns out, was not a good lawyer, and this is what is going to lie at the heart of this particular case, is what did Trump know, and when did he know it, and what was going through his head when he authorized a payment from Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels.
00:10:48.000So, to recap this rather salacious saga, the story here is that way back when, Donald Trump likely stooped Stormy Daniels, who is a former foreign actress, in 2006.
00:11:03.000All the way back to 2006, this is 10 years before Donald Trump was running for president, and he was at some sort of golf event, and he hit on Stormy Daniels, and then he essentially invited her to his hotel room, implying that he would cast her on The Apprentice, and then he had sex with her.
00:11:22.000And she waited for like years on end for this to, because Donald Trump was not exactly known as, you know, Captain Monogamy.
00:11:30.000This has never been Donald Trump's brand.
00:11:31.000Donald Trump's brand has never been that he is a particularly holy man when it comes to his wedding vows.
00:11:37.000And so the, there, there's really no, no, there, there, there was, there was no actual story there with regard to Stormy Daniels screwing Donald Trump, because after all, Donald Trump for several decades screwed anything that moved.
00:11:48.000And then he married half of those people.
00:11:52.000It became a story in 2015 when Donald Trump started running for president.
00:11:54.000When that happened, Stormy Daniels saw a paycheck.
00:11:56.000And at that point, she was like, okay, I've got a story to tell.
00:12:00.000She, of course, is not the only person who said that she had a story to tell during the time.
00:12:03.000There's also Karen McDougal, who was a former Playboy Playmate, who had also allegedly had some sort of affair with Trump.
00:12:08.000And she also started retailing her story.
00:12:11.000And all of this got very much tied up with both the campaign and with monetary payoffs.
00:12:16.000Even the New York Times recognizes, by the way, that any of Trump's conduct with regard to authorizing Michael Cohen to pay Stormy Daniels, even that would not be illegal.
00:12:24.000It would be salacious and kind of gross, but it wouldn't be an actual crime.
00:12:30.000I mean, this is the New York Times, not me.
00:12:32.000The New York Times, which hates Donald Trump and would love nothing better than to see the guy perp walk.
00:12:36.000They would love to see him with a picture with the numbers in front of the police screen, the whole deal.
00:12:41.000Even the New York Times is like, yeah, this case is not really amazing.
00:12:46.000Prosecutors are expected to use a legal theory that has not been assessed in New York courts, raising the possibility a judge could throw out or limit the charges.
00:12:52.000The episode has already been examined by both the Federal Election Commission and federal prosecutors in New York.
00:12:57.000Neither took action against Mr. Trump.
00:12:58.000That includes Cyrus Vance, who is very much motivated to attack Trump.
00:13:03.000Trump, for his part, denies ever having had sex with Stormy Daniels and said he did nothing wrong.
00:13:07.000Now, again, that's exactly what you predict from Trump.
00:13:11.000But the notion that he committed a crime is very much up for debate.
00:13:14.000And if we're talking about beyond a reasonable doubt for a conviction, there's a lot of reasonable doubt in this particular case with regard to the criminal violation that would have occurred.
00:13:22.000And again, it's the weakness of the case that dictates that there must be something political at play here.
00:13:26.000If this were a super strong case, you'd say, oh, well, you know, they have to prosecute.
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00:14:59.000He thought about it over and over and over again.
00:15:02.000So in 2011, when Trump was talking about running for president, you remember he actually flirted pretty strongly with it in 2011-2012.
00:15:08.000Daniels began working with an agent to see if she could sell the story of their liaison, because, hey, make a buck while you can.
00:15:15.000And they negotiated, according to the New York Times, a $15,000 deal with Life & Style, a celebrity magazine, telling its reporters that Daniels believed Trump's offer to make her a contestant had been a lie.
00:15:25.000The reporter asked her, just to impress you, to try to sleep with you?
00:15:38.000When the magazine contacted the Trump Organization for comment, Michael Cohen, who was Trump's attorney at the time and now a convicted perjurer, returned the call.
00:15:45.000A lawyer who had joined the company just four years earlier, Cohen had become Trump's fixer.
00:15:53.000That October, Daniel's story actually surfaced briefly because they tried to leak it to a gossip blog called The Dirty.
00:15:58.000A couple of media outlets followed up and then offered payment because after Trump was no longer running for president, no one frankly cared.
00:16:05.000A couple of media outlets followed up and then offered payment, and Daniels actually at the time denied the story.
00:16:10.000And then in 2015, of course, Trump crops up again in the political eye, and Daniels once again is like, hey, I can make some moolah off that one time that I schtup the president to be.
00:16:20.000So she tried to sell the story again in spring 2016, knowing that Trump was in the headlines, this time for more than $200,000.
00:16:26.000All of the publications that she approached passed, including the National Enquirer, at about the same time.
00:16:30.000Karen McDougal, former Playboy Playmate, also began thinking, how do I make a buck off the fact that Donald Trump slept with me in 2006?
00:16:49.000Midterm elections, Iraq War, beginning of the Sunni insurgency, the Shia insurgency, and Donald Trump nailing pretty much everything.
00:16:58.000In 2016, with her modeling career flagging, McDougal hired Mr. Davidson, the same lawyer who'd helped Stormy Daniels remove the 2011 blog post, and then they approached the National Enquirer, The National Enquirer essentially tried to buy up these stories in order to silence them because the person who ran the National Enquirer was good friends with Donald Trump.
00:17:16.000So the people, according to the New York Times, surrounding Stormy Daniels immediately realized that Trump's new vulnerability made her more of a threat and gave her story value.
00:17:24.000And Davidson, the Los Angeles lawyer, was also friendly with Stormy Daniels' agent, Gina Rodriguez, and with the Enquirer's editor.
00:17:30.000On the day after the Access Hollywood tape, the famous, grab him by the bleep, Tape emerged.
00:17:35.000These two lawyers texted about the damage it had done to Trump's campaign, and then they asked for a pitch.
00:17:39.000These lawyers asked Stormy Daniels' agent to send another pitch for the National Enquirer at the time.
00:17:44.000Three days after the Access Hollywood tape, and here we get into the actual legal issue, Michael Cohen agreed to pay $130,000 to Stormy Daniels in a deal that threatened severe financial penalties for Daniels, essentially an NDA.
00:18:00.000Apparently he said he was trying to figure out where to get the money while Trump campaigned.
00:18:04.000So according to Cohen, Trump had approved the payment and delegated to him and the Trump Organization's chief financial officer the task of arranging it.
00:18:09.000They considered options for funneling the money through the company, but they didn't settle on a solution.
00:18:14.000Stormy Daniels started to think, hey, maybe the current presidential candidate is waiting until after the election in order to pay me off because if the election is over and he loses, that story no longer has any value at all.
00:18:26.000And so instead, Daniel's lawyer canceled the deal and the porn actress began shopping the story.
00:18:30.000Again, Cohen finally agreed to make the payment himself.
00:18:33.000He spoke briefly by phone with Trump twice and then transferred out $130,000.
00:18:37.000From his home equity line of credit into the accounts of a Delaware Shell company.
00:18:41.000And Cohen, again, ends up being charged and pleading guilty to campaign finance violations.
00:18:47.000The idea being that he gave a contribution to the Trump campaign by paying off Stormy Daniels by himself, but didn't report it as a campaign contribution.
00:18:54.000And in the original filing with regard to his campaign finance violations in 2018, the suggestion was made in the filings that Trump had essentially incentivized Cohen to do that and therefore could have been implicated in campaign finance problems.
00:19:07.000So why in 2018 wasn't Trump actually, why exactly wasn't he arrested at the time?
00:19:17.000Problem number one is that it's totally unclear whether Trump would have actually been able to be convicted on that charge, given the fact that he had multiple reasons to want Stormy Daniels' story not to come out.
00:19:27.000One could have been the election, so he could theoretically say this was a campaign expenditure, it should have gone through his campaign arm.
00:19:33.000The second is, it wasn't a campaign expenditure, and so if he'd used the campaign hour, that would have been campaign finance fraud, right?
00:19:40.000The reason that he wanted to shut down Storm Daniels' story is because he didn't want Melania finding out, because it's embarrassing Melania, right?
00:19:44.000That's the so-called Melania defense that people have been talking about.
00:19:48.000So again, the violation here is just unclear on a wide variety of issues.
00:19:53.000Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation, he says if the state charges are based on a supposed violation of federal campaign finance law, the Manhattan DA is way off base.
00:20:03.000The misdemeanor would be falsification of business records by the Trump organization.
00:20:06.000That Trump sent 130 grand to Michael Cohen for legal services, but the legal services were actually just to pay off the Stormy Daniels.
00:20:20.000If you're going to try to wrap that into some sort of felony, it would have to be a federal felony, like a finance felony on the federal level.
00:20:26.000And as we'll talk about in a second, that is an extremely weak case.
00:20:31.000Also, speaking of extremely weak cases, the case that the federal government knows what it is doing financially continues to weaken.
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00:21:33.000So what exactly would the legal case be?
00:21:36.000Well, Again, as Spakovsky points out, a settlement payment of a nuisance claim is not a federal campaign expense.
00:21:42.000So if you're just paying settlements to a bunch of ladies who you banged at one point, that's ugly, but it's not actually a federal campaign expense.
00:21:50.000And the state DA has no authority to prosecute a federal campaign finance violation in any event.
00:21:54.000So they would have to say falsification of New York State Records Act in order to cover up a federal campaign finance violation.
00:22:03.000And Sapkowski, who used to work at the Federal Elections Commission, he says, I used to work over there.
00:22:08.000And there's a reason they let this case go.
00:22:09.000He said the federal agencies with jurisdictions did not consider it a violation.
00:22:14.000In 2018, Von Spakovsky wrote the payments to Daniels seem to be a nuisance settlement, which celebrities often make.
00:22:19.000And again, Trump himself maintains that he never had sex with Stormy Daniels.
00:22:23.000And so that's actually a fairly low amount.
00:22:25.000I mean, if you're looking at the possibility of a presidential race and you have to silence this lady because the presidential is happening like three weeks from today, $130,000 for that is not actually a very large amount of money.
00:22:36.000Reason Magazine points out also that the theory here is really weak.
00:22:40.000Quote, the theory underlying that charge was that Cohen contributed the Hutch money at Trump's behest for the principal purpose of influencing the election, as opposed to avoiding personal embarrassment for Trump or sparing Melania Trump's feelings.
00:22:50.000As the former FEC chairman Bradley Smith noted at the time, that interpretation was open to question.
00:22:53.000He wrote, quote, the best interpretation of the law is that it simply is not a campaign expense to pay blackmail for things that happened years before one's candidacy, and thus nothing that Cohen, or in this case Trump, did is of campaign finance crime.
00:23:04.000And the reason that Cohen pled guilty, presumably, is because he pled guilty really to the other charges and he got a much lowered sentence so that he would then testify against Trump.
00:23:12.000Smith said, at a minimum, it's unclear whether paying blackmail to a mistress is quote, for the purpose of influencing an election and so must be paid with campaign funds or a personal use and so prohibited from being paid with campaign funds.
00:23:22.000So the question as to whether this is actually going to end with a conviction is a very, very strong question.
00:23:29.000Especially because, again, we have predicate for this sort of attempted prosecution, and it has in the past failed.
00:23:35.000So, for example, back in 2012, you'll recall there was a man named Senator John Edwards.
00:23:40.000Senator John Edwards ran for president in 2008, and he flamed out.
00:23:45.000Well, during that 2008 bid for the White House, you'll recall that he was actually stooping his camera woman.
00:23:50.000And then, apparently, He solicited nearly a million bucks from his wealthy backers to finance the cover-up of the illicit affair and his illegitimate child during that bid.
00:24:19.000Remember, in a case where John Edwards actually did shit up his camera woman and she bore a child by him, they were looking for a million dollars.
00:24:28.000In any case, He was found not guilty on count three of a six-part indictment.
00:24:33.000That count pertained to whether Edwards illegally received several hundred thousand dollars in donations from a wealthy heiress to cover up the affair in 2008.
00:24:39.000So the legal theory there was that the reason that he did that was to cover it up during the 2008 presidential campaign in the hopes that that would somehow not sink him in the 2008 presidential campaign.
00:24:50.000They said, well, maybe the reason that he covered it up is because it was really embarrassing to him on just a sort of generalized public level, given the fact that his wife was dying of cancer at the time.
00:24:59.000So, there's predicate for an attempted prosecution and a failure of that prosecution.
00:25:03.000There's also been cases, obviously in American history, of sitting presidents literally paying off people for sexual peccadilloes, or sexual harassment or assault, as the case may be.
00:25:13.000You'll remember that Bill Clinton signed a settlement with Paula Jones for $850,000 in November of 1998.
00:25:24.000So is that a campaign finance related expense?
00:25:26.000I mean, you could say that it probably was.
00:25:27.000I mean, obviously, this is a person who was the President of the United States.
00:25:31.000And whether or not you're running or whether you're not running, I mean, that obviously has to do with your job as President of the United States.
00:25:35.000With that said, he wasn't running for re-election.
00:25:38.000I guess you could make a distinction there.
00:25:39.000Legally speaking, but you have predicate for people paying off these sorts of issues and it not being seen as a legal violation, just being seen as sort of gross.
00:25:48.000So, this raises the question of what here is happening politically.
00:25:51.000Because again, the case here is incredibly weak.
00:25:53.000Even CNN's Elliott Williams, legal analyst on CNN, right?
00:25:56.000Even he says this is a super weak case.
00:26:15.000And the star witness here in the form of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former attorney, has credibility issues, has been convicted of crimes.
00:26:21.000And so to your point, Abby, as far as the strength of the case, it's certainly not the kind of slam dunk that many people would wish that it were.
00:26:29.000I mean, that obviously is true, and everybody now acknowledges that.
00:26:32.000So this raises the question as to what exactly is happening here, and what is happening here is wish fulfillment.
00:26:36.000What's happening here on the part of many people on the left is wish fulfillment.
00:26:39.000There are really only two possible rationales for doing this.
00:26:42.000One is Alvin Bragg wants his name in the headlines.
00:26:44.000The first prosecutor who goes after Donald Trump becomes a celebrity figure across the United States.
00:26:48.000They finally get the picture that they've been wanting since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, really since he was nominated, which is Donald Trump being frog-marched somewhere.
00:26:57.000That is the thing that they are looking for.
00:26:59.000And this is also why they are spinning up talk that if he is arrested, that he will be denied bail because he posted on his profile that people ought to protest.
00:27:07.000The UK Daily Mail is already spinning up that narrative.
00:27:09.000They say a former federal prosecutor warned on Saturday that former President Trump's social media posts sharing details of his expected arrest could see him denied bail.
00:27:18.000So, Glenn Kirshner, MSNBC legal analyst, has compared the all-caps rant to his post leading up to the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021, and said it could affect the terms of his release.
00:27:27.000He speculated a judge could interpret Trump's post as an attempt to incite a crowd to riot.
00:27:32.000He said, I would slap a government exhibit sticker on this post and I would introduce it at his criminal trial.
00:27:36.000Okay, now, I understand that y'all want him to languish in jail.
00:27:39.000And you're not gonna put, what, is he a flight risk?
00:27:43.000You really think he's gonna, like, lead an armed revolt against the DA in Manhattan?
00:27:48.000So much wish fulfillment happening right here.
00:27:50.000They just want, they want the headline, and that's all they care about is the headline.
00:27:54.000Because again, this case is way too weak to go to trial on.
00:27:56.000Unless you just assume that there's a left-wing jury and the left-wing jury is going to convict Trump of jaywalking.
00:28:01.000And no matter what happens, reasonable doubt no longer matters because Trump has to be got, so you go get him.
00:28:08.000By the way, the dead giveaway here that this is not about the criminal violation is the fact that Alvin Bragg, the DA who is going after Donald Trump, is one of the softest DAs in all of America.
00:28:18.000He announced in January of 2022, he released a memo detailing his new charging bail plea and sentencing policies.
00:28:25.000Among the crimes that Bragg said his office would not prosecute, marijuana misdemeanors, including selling more than three ounces, not paying public transportation fare, trespassing except a fourth-degree stalking charge, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration in certain cases, and prostitution.
00:28:39.000So he's not enforcing any of that in the city of New York.
00:28:42.000He announced he wasn't going to in January 2022.
00:28:43.000New York has been a crime-ridden hellhole for the past several years.
00:28:48.000This guy was elected, As the DA and he immediately said he's not going to prosecute crimes, but he's making sure that he definitely goes after Donald Trump for activities that originally took place in 2006 and then a payoff that happened in 2016.
00:29:03.000Yeah, he just he's basically just a Harvey Dent type seeking justice, no matter where the where the road leads before it turns into two phase.
00:29:29.000Again, as I said earlier, I think what probably happened is Trump heard through the grapevine that an arrest was imminent, and so he went on Truth Social and decided to beat everybody to the punch.
00:29:36.000Alvin Bragg did leak something to the press over the weekend and the thing that he leaked to the press is a statement in which he told all of his law enforcement officers they're doing a spectacular job because he is just a servant of the law he is.
00:29:47.000Quote, our law enforcement partners will ensure that any specific or credible threats against this office will be fully investigated and the proper safeguards are in place so all 1,600 of us have a secure work environment.
00:29:57.000In the meantime, as with all of our investigations, we will continue to apply the law evenly and fairly and speak openly only when appropriate.
00:30:03.000We do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.
00:30:07.000Well, mostly the rule of law has been threatened in New York by Alvin Bragg and by Democrats who have decided not to enforce the law in the city of New York.
00:30:35.000I think Trump probably needed it, is the truth.
00:30:37.000I mean, in terms of his campaign, his campaign has been fairly lackluster so far, but you want to talk about a shot in the arm for Donald Trump's campaign.
00:30:44.000Have him arrested on a bunch of spurious garbage charges.
00:30:47.000Nothing is going to enliven the Republican base in favor of Donald Trump, again, like the feeling that he is being targeted, not because of something that he has done.
00:30:53.000But he's being targeted because they hate his guts and they hate his guts because they really hate your guts, which was, again, his 2016 campaign.
00:31:00.000So we'll get to the political fallout from all of this momentarily.
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00:34:04.000So obviously this is very political on the part of people on the left who again would love nothing better than to see Donald Trump go to jail for a very long time.
00:34:11.000It's also political on the part of some people on the right who are calling for other Republicans to comment on an arrest and an indictment that hasn't actually happened yet.
00:34:19.000So the proper response at this point from Republicans is Nothing.
00:34:23.000I mean, the proper response is it would be absurd to prosecute Donald Trump from what we know on anything remotely like these charges.
00:34:37.000An outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump.
00:34:43.000I'm directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections.
00:34:49.000All right, that's perfectly legit from the Speaker of the House.
00:34:52.000Again, he is sitting in Congress right now, and he's the Speaker of the House.
00:34:56.000Meanwhile, Mike Pence, who is the former Vice President to Donald Trump, and running pretty hard against Trump for the presidential nomination at this point.
00:35:03.000I mean, he's made very clear his disapproval of Trump on a wide variety of scores.
00:35:06.000Even Pence is like, yeah, no, this is nonsense.
00:35:10.000The idea of indicting a former president of the United States is deeply troubling to me as it is to tens of millions of Americans.
00:35:17.000And particularly happening in what appears to be a politically charged environment in New York where the Attorney General and other elected officials literally campaigned Okay, that is a proper answer from Mike Pence.
00:35:29.000There's an entire article in the New York Times, however, Trump allies pressured DeSantis to weigh in on an expected indictment.
00:35:33.000going to be to represent. No one is above the law. I'm confident President Trump can take care of himself. My focus is going to continue to be on the issues that are affecting the American people.
00:35:45.000Okay, that is a proper answer from Mike Pence. There's an entire article in the New York Times, however, Trump allies pressure DeSantis to weigh in on an expected indictment. Why?
00:35:55.000I mean, first of all, Donald Trump's out there calling Ron DeSantis meatball Ron and talking up Charlie Crist and and apparently his people are investigating Casey DeSantis and all this and they're like, but why won't he defend Donald Trump?
00:36:05.000OK, so first of all, like, give me a break.
00:36:37.000There's an entire article in the New York Times about this, though.
00:36:39.000Because, again, it's like, Jason Miller, the former president's senior advisor, said on Twitter the Trump team was taking note of DeSantis' radio silence about the likely indictment.
00:37:25.000They did target him throughout his presidency.
00:37:27.000You had members of the FBI who were targeting him with nonsense like the Steele dossier.
00:37:30.000You had people like James Comey, who were essentially bootstrapping into existence entire Russian collusion investigations based on nonsense and then leaking them to the press.
00:37:40.000You had all sorts of garbage that was just being dumped on Trump day in and day out because he was a Republican and because he didn't stand for the same principles that the New York Times wanted him to stand for.
00:38:32.000A lot of people immediately revert to, if the Democrats hate that guy enough that they are trying to arrest him, then probably we need to back him.
00:38:40.000That is just going to be the natural consequence of this.
00:38:42.000And so the notion that Trump is going to pay any sort of severe political price for being indicted, I think is an absolute lie.
00:38:48.000Does that mean that Trump wants to be that?
00:38:49.000No, I don't think anybody wants to be indicted.
00:38:51.000But to pretend that it's not going to have an impact on the race is silly.
00:38:53.000And again, that is the reason why there are fundraising emails that went out over the weekend for Donald Trump predicated on the indictment.
00:38:59.000Just from a political point of view, it's not a terrible thing for Donald Trump to be indicted if you are Team Trump and you want him nominated in 2024.
00:39:06.000That, again, is why the focus is now turned to what are all the Republicans saying about Donald Trump, as though their world has to revolve around whatever legal problems Donald Trump is having today.
00:39:15.000Now, again, there is something to the idea that Republicans over time, and as they are called upon to do, will actually, once he's indicted, I promise you, Ron DeSantis and every other Republican is going to speak up about it because it will be the number one issue in the country.
00:39:26.000But you can't do that based on him simply putting out a truth social with no actual verified indictment or arrest at this point.
00:39:32.000Meanwhile for the left, again, this is orgasmic fantasyland for the left.
00:39:36.000They've been waiting for years for this.
00:39:37.000You have Rachel Maddow, who's now attempting to spin up and bootstrap into existence the possibility of an actual armed revolt led by Donald Trump over this indictment.
00:39:52.000Because he is, right now, a declared candidate for president.
00:39:58.000I mean, I think that he's banking on it being something that helps him, but he is playing with a fire that he doesn't know how to contain and that nobody knows how to contain, right?
00:40:08.000I mean, I think it is a little unnerving that his first political campaign appearance for his 2024 run is in Waco.
00:40:17.000again, doesn't have to be the end of the world for him and could potentially be a positive for him.
00:40:22.000But if he's asking for a militant, racially, racially tinged, violent response from his followers, that's something that won't be good for him. She's breathless about this.
00:40:35.000I mean, honestly, they're breathless about this.
00:41:17.000If you think this is something they dread, they don't.
00:41:19.000This is something they would love nothing better than.
00:41:21.000If this materialized, they'd be over the moon.
00:41:25.000And your reaction to Trump's claim that he will be arrested Tuesday, his calls for protests, and by the way, the Manhattan DA's office still not confirming that there is any imminent arrest or indictment that is scheduled for Tuesday.
00:41:39.000Obviously, the larger point is the one Fred that you mentioned.
00:41:42.000You know, if you are the most sympathetic observer possible to Donald Trump, and you do double backflips, you can find some credence in his argument that on January 6, he did not know that his language would lead to violence.
00:41:58.000He knows the effect of the language that he used that day and how it led to violence.
00:42:03.000And here he is coming very close to that language Again, it makes it very hard to avoid the conclusion that he is willing to use the threat of violence as part of his political strategy.
00:42:16.000Okay, by the way, this is also a wonderful way for them to backfill an entire rationale for arresting him in the first place.
00:42:24.000The man is, I mean, it's just, it's completely circular.
00:42:26.000He's so dangerous that we have to arrest him.
00:42:28.000And then if he protests his arrest, then that's unbelievably dangerous, which is why we have to arrest him.
00:42:53.000Meanwhile, speaking of people who probably should be arrested, more details are now coming out about the Biden family and the payoffs they received from China.
00:43:02.000The FBI has been investigating Hunter Biden for apparently the last 200 years.
00:43:06.000They launched their investigation into Hunter Biden and his corruption.
00:43:09.000And his drug problems and all that stuff back in like 2018.
00:43:13.000So I don't know why it takes the FBI years and years and years to come up with anything.
00:43:19.000But I mean, we now have some fairly significant details about exactly how the money flowed inside the Biden family.
00:43:26.000The Biden family has been capitalizing off the Biden name for a very long time.
00:43:29.000The only question is whether Joe himself received any money.
00:43:31.000That really is the only question because every single other member of his family, his brothers, his kids, they were receiving money off the Biden name from foreign sources.
00:43:40.000Last week, in a development noticed only by the right but completely ignored by the left, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability issued a memorandum revealing new evidence resulting from an investigation into the Biden family's influence peddling and business schemes, subpoenaed financial records, Show that from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members Hunter Biden, James Biden, Haley Biden, and an unknown Biden and their companies collectively received $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to Rob Walker, a Biden family associate.
00:44:05.000Notably, on March 1, 2017, less than two months after VP Joe Biden left public office, State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to Rob Walker's company.
00:44:13.000The next day, the company wired $1 million to a company associated with James Giller, another Biden family associate.
00:44:19.000Afterwards, the Biden family received approximately a million bucks in payments over a three-month period in different bank accounts.
00:44:24.000From the bank records, it appears the Biden family received approximately one-third of the money obtained from the China Wire.
00:44:30.000And apparently it went to Hunter and James, and also to Haley Biden, that would be the widow of Beau Biden and the person with whom Hunter Biden then had a sexual affair, and also an unknown Biden.
00:44:42.000If ever we get the full details as to how the money flowed, I would honestly, I'd be a little surprised if none of the money ever flowed to Joe, considering he's lived high on the hog for decades at this point on a government salary.
00:44:55.000But, again, this sort of stuff will be largely ignored, and there will be much attention paid to Hunter Biden suing a laptop repair shop owner, citing an invasion of privacy.
00:45:03.000Now, Hunter Biden has filed a sweeping countersuit, according to the Washington Post, against the computer repair shop owner, who said that Hunter dropped his laptop off and never claimed it, a legal action that escalates the battle over how provocative data and images of the President's son were obtained nearly four years ago.
00:45:40.000It's both real and not an invasion of privacy because it turns out that when you, in a cocaine-addled stupor, drop off your laptop at a repair shop and then leave it there for the next five years or whatever it was, and then the repair shop owner turns it over to somebody, at a certain point, it's no longer your property.
00:45:55.000If you leave your car in the impound lot for four years, it's not going to be there when you get back.
00:46:00.000In the counterclaim filed on Friday morning in U.S.
00:46:02.000District Court in Delaware, Biden and his attorneys say John Paul MacIsaac had no legal right to copy and distribute private information.
00:46:07.000Again, now they're admitting that it's all real.
00:46:09.000They accuse him and others of six counts of invasion of privacy, including conspiracy to obtain and distribute the data.
00:46:15.000The lawsuit could draw further attention to a sordid chapter in Hunter Biden's life.
00:46:19.000Has there been a non-sordid chapter in Hunter Biden's life that we haven't heard about yet?
00:46:23.000He's the smartest person that Joe Biden knows.
00:47:11.000The entire global economy was based on inflated currency and overweening spending for the past several years, and the bill comes due eventually.
00:47:18.000IMF International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Ken Rogoff said as much, said the global economy is about to hit the skids over the weekend.
00:47:24.000highly prescient articles that you wrote. This year alone, actually, the looming financial crisis for Project Syndicate very much sticks in my mind, though you didn't mention Silicon Valley Bank, so I'll deduct a point in all seriousness. How worried are you?
00:47:41.000Well I mean, I think the global economy is about to go through the wringer because interest rates have gone up and there was this euphoria a few weeks ago that maybe nothing's going to happen, but I think we're going to get some kind of global recession.
00:47:59.000Well, yes, because as it turns out, when you raise the interest rates in order to quash inflation, you are going to get lack of liquidity in the markets.
00:48:07.000Lack of liquidity in the markets is going to have some significant downstream effects.
00:48:10.000One of those downstream effects is actually the big get bigger.
00:48:12.000This is the part that's hilarious, is that we reconstructed the entire financial system supposedly in 2007-2008 so that we didn't have too big to fail.
00:48:19.000And now, the too big to fails are eating up everybody else.
00:48:22.000So over the weekend, UBS Group AG agreed to take over Credit Suisse for more than $3 billion, pushed into the biggest banking deal in a year by the regulators.
00:48:31.000The governments were actually like, we need you to pick up Credit Suisse because they look kind of ugly on the balance sheet and so we need you to eat them.
00:48:36.000The deal between the twin pillars of Swiss finance is the first mega-merger of systemically important global banks since 2008.
00:48:42.000The Swiss government said it would provide more than $9 billion to backstop some losses that UBS may incur by taking over Credit Suisse.
00:48:49.000It's just a bailout that's funneled through UBS.
00:48:51.000So essentially, instead of just bailing out Credit Suisse directly and saying, we're going to backstop you and you guys just continue along your merry way, they said, UBS, you pick up some of the liability, we'll pick up $9 billion of the liability and we'll save Credit Suisse by eating it.
00:49:04.000The Swiss National Bank also provided more than $100 billion of liquidity to UBS to help facilitate the deal.
00:49:11.000So this is a government-sponsored deal in actual reality.
00:49:15.000Basically the Swiss government The Swiss National Bank stepped in, facilitated the deal, and forced a merger, forced Credit Suisse into UBS.
00:49:24.000Swiss authorities were under pressure to make the deal happen before the Asian markets opened for the week because they were afraid that the stock price on Credit Suisse was going to continue to plummet.
00:49:32.000The urgency on the part of regulators was prompted by an increasingly dire outlook at Credit Suisse.
00:49:36.000The bank faced as much as $10 billion in customer outflows a day last week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
00:49:41.000So it looked like a run on the bank over at Credit Suisse.
00:49:44.000And so they were forced to do another one of these bailouts.
00:49:46.000Meanwhile, in the United States, there are serious questions as to how far the federal regulators are actually going to be backing a lot of the regional banks.
00:49:53.000And Janet Yellen made a big boo-boo last week when the Treasury Secretary admitted that only certain systemically important banks would have depositors backstopped.
00:50:01.000Well, that means that there's going to be a run on all the other banks.
00:50:03.000If you're not one of the banks that is now backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, you're going to look at your money and be like, uh, I'm not sure that that is secure.
00:50:09.000Jenny Ellen just said that if it's in this bank, it's secure.
00:50:11.000But if it's in that bank, not so secure.
00:50:13.000Well, that is going to create runs on all the other banks.
00:50:16.000Again, genius level stuff from the people who run our economy.
00:50:19.000Meanwhile, First Citizens is evaluating an offer for SVB.
00:50:23.000At least one of their suitors is making a serious consideration for the collapsed lender.
00:50:26.000Reuters reported earlier this week that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has asked banks interested in acquiring SVB and Signature Bank to submit all of their bids by March 17th.
00:50:35.000Now, all of that could have been avoided in the first place if they hadn't actually stopped All these other banks from bidding on it in the first place.
00:50:51.000And instead of allowing another bank to buy it up, they stopped the banks from buying it up.
00:50:55.000They stepped in themselves, backstopping $7 to $8 trillion in unsecured deposits across the American landscape, but only apparently at selected banks.
00:51:03.000And now they're saying we should sell off these defunct banks to the new... You know what would have been great is if you had just allowed one of the big banks to eat one of the smaller banks.
00:51:11.000Or even done what the Swiss National Bank just did and actually helped facilitate that deal in order to reapply some sort of surety to the system.
00:51:22.000And now we're told, I love this, now we are being told, of course, that obviously the Fed had spotted big problems at SVB before the collapse.
00:51:30.000Well, weird that they didn't do anything about it.
00:51:33.000According to the New York Times, Silicon Valley Bank's risky practices were on the Federal Reserve's radar for more than a year, an awareness that proved insufficient to stop the bank's demise.
00:51:41.000The Fed repeatedly warned the bank it had problems, according to a person familiar with the matter.
00:51:44.000In 2021, a Fed review of the growing bank found serious weaknesses in how it was handling key risks.
00:51:50.000Supervisors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which oversaw SVB, issued six citations.
00:51:55.000The bank did not fix its vulnerabilities.
00:51:57.000By July 2022, SVB was in full supervisory review, getting a more careful look, and was ultimately rated deficient for governance and controls, and was placed under a set of restrictions that prevented it from growing through more acquisition.
00:52:08.000It became clear to the Fed the firm was using bad models to determine how its business would fare as the central bank raised rates.
00:52:14.000By early 2023, Silicon Valley Bank was in what Fed calls a horizontal review and assessment meant to gauge the strength of risk management, and they found that they did not have good risk management.
00:52:22.000And still, they were unable to do anything.
00:52:25.000This is why all the call for more regulation.
00:52:27.000What if we had more government involvement?
00:52:28.000Well, I mean, you guys did a crap job the first several times, so I'm wondering as to why exactly we should trust you this time.
00:52:34.000And again, as I mentioned, if you're a mid-sized bank that actually has not gotten that unlimited FDIC backstop, you're freaking out right now.
00:52:42.000Which is why over the weekend, according to Axios, the mid-sized bank coalition of America sent a letter to regulators arguing that a temporary suspension of the FDIC's deposit insurance limit is necessary to ensure that smaller banks can navigate the current banking crisis.
00:52:53.000Because otherwise, what you're going to see is a bunch of the non-specials fail.
00:52:58.000And those are going to get gobbled up by the big guys.
00:54:31.000And it's a show where Sean Bean doesn't die in the first 15 minutes of the movie, which is typically he dies in the first 15 minutes of the movie, even though he's a really, really good actor.
00:54:38.000So that is definitely worth the watch.
00:54:55.000So, CNN crew is trying to cover the issue of street crime, and a reporter named Kyung La tweeted out, Again, Jason Keillor and I, I believe it's Jason Keillor, sorry, Jason Kroverik, a CNN producer and I, were at City Hall in San Francisco to do an interview for CNN.
00:55:10.000We had security to watch our rental car plus crew car.
00:55:13.000Thieves did this in under four seconds.
00:55:15.000Security stopped the jerks from stealing other bags, but seriously, this is ridiculous.
00:55:20.000Apparently the security tried to grab the crux, but ended up with an image of the license plate to the vehicle they drove often.
00:55:25.000And she wrote, San Francisco is a beautiful city.
00:55:38.000But I assume that if Donald Trump had done anything in the city of San Francisco, the DAs would be looking into prosecuting him.
00:55:44.000This is where you start to lose the American people, folks, is when your law enforcement resources are not dedicated to making the lives of people in your cities better.
00:55:52.000They're dedicated to getting the political opponents of people who will make the DA more famous.
00:55:55.000At that point, a lot of people start to tune out.
00:55:57.000That's precisely what you're watching happening with Donald Trump.
00:56:01.000Street crime is Worse than it's been in a long time in places like New York and San Francisco.
00:56:05.000And yet it seems like the resources are being devoted not to those issues, but to ancillary issues that light up Twitter, but don't make anybody's life actually better.
00:56:13.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:56:15.000Okay, so over the weekend, the San Jose Sharks, who are the worst team in the Western Conference in the NHL, apparently they are bad at both hockey and also biology.
00:56:28.000And they decided that they were going to tweet out The San Jose Sharks, first of all, they changed their logo to the trans flag, essentially.
00:57:14.000Anyway, San Jose Sharks, they tweeted out, Worldwide, gender diversity is seen far differently than it is in the Western world, or as you may know it.
00:57:21.000Most of us are familiar with the male, female, and transgender labels, but in other cultures, the existence of the third gender, or even fourth and fifth genders, is common.
00:57:30.000It's really, really uncommon across the world.
00:57:33.000In fact, you have to find, like, very, very random cultures in extremely small places that humor anything remotely like what they are talking about.
00:57:40.000And also, very often when they're talking about a third gender, they're talking about intersex people, which is not the same thing as saying that a man can be a woman or a woman can be a man.
00:57:48.000So the San Jose Shark says, the Mux gender is a respected third gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca, Mexico, that has existed for centuries.
00:57:56.000Wow, I mean, that's a culture we've all heard of and has had massive cultural influence across the world.
00:59:42.000So they tweet out the Nina Busket zip up.
00:59:46.000We're honored as a third gender in the North Pagan tribe of the Blackfoot competitor Confederacy in northern Montana and southern Alberta, Canada.
00:59:53.000Well then, I mean, if the Nina Upacapsa were honored that way, then obviously that means that mainstream Western culture is just wrong.
01:00:03.000And so is, by the way, virtually all cultures all over Earth for all of time.
01:00:07.000And so is all of mammalian biology, that there are only two sexes, and that sex is dichotomous.
01:00:14.000Now, I just have to wonder, who is running the show at some of these places?
01:00:18.000Because, let's face it, I mean, if you actually look at the demographic breakdown per league, I've talked about this before, sports leagues have different fanbases.
01:00:25.000The NBA's fanbase is disproportionately black and left-wing, in terms of its politics and its demographic breakdown.
01:00:31.000The NHL fanbase is disproportionately white and right-wing.
01:00:34.000The NASCAR fanbase is disproportionately white and right-wing.
01:01:00.000The people who run these teams are in that bubble because in corporate America, everybody exists in a bubble that is far away from the regular Americans and far away from their own audience.
01:01:08.000They don't even know what they're talking about.
01:01:13.000So Robin DiAngelo, who's one of the great grifters of all time, she's the author of what is, I think, factually speaking, the worst book ever written, White Fragility.
01:01:21.000It is an awful, awful piece of garbage.
01:01:24.000If you want to see my full take on white fragility, I did a YouTube video, probably a year ago, in which I went through white fragility in detail.
01:01:30.000It's like a 35-minute breakdown, breaking down what is truly one of the most awful books ever put into the English language.
01:01:36.000And she was doing another one of these Maoist struggle sessions, talking about how white people are terrible and also they carry the burden of having to fix all of Earth.
01:01:44.000So, shockingly, white people are both terrible and also should have all the power.
01:02:23.000I just want to play that one more time because then I want to contrast that with another thing that was said by a famous person recently that got that person's career ended.
01:03:04.000Here's the quote with the races reversed, the way that Robin DiAngelo would.
01:03:08.000You tell me if you can spot a distinction between Scott Adams, if he'd been talking about black people getting away from white people, and what Robin DiAngelo just said.
01:03:14.000Quote, if nearly half of whites are not okay with black people, according to this poll, according, not according to me, according to this poll, that's a hate group.
01:03:19.000I don't want to have anything to do with them.
01:03:21.000I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to black people is to get the hell away from white people.
01:03:26.000Just get the F away, because there's no fixing this.
01:03:29.000That's if Scott Adams had been talking about black people getting away from white people, and it is indistinguishable from what Robin DiAngelo is saying, except she says the word affinity groups a lot.