Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition figure in the Russian political system, was found dead in a prison in the remote Siberian province of Krasnoyarsk, a few miles from the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostavka.
00:00:44.940I mean, Putin is demonized for very good reasons.
00:00:48.840And maybe the Navalny murder, clearly.
00:00:52.180I'm curious from your time studying this and doing the project, what you think about the zealotry and the extremism of that belief that makes it more theocratic, that makes you think you have the truth.
00:01:03.240You know, my dad reminded me the other day of this Vaclav Havel quote, surround yourself with people seeking the truth, not those who think they already found it.
00:01:13.260Which is a way of saying, if somebody has a full monopoly on the truth, religious, scientific or otherwise, you know, you got to take a beat.
00:01:22.480And so it looks like you're about to respond.
00:01:34.440And if you are under the guise that what you're doing is because you believe this is God's will and these are your thoughts, then it gives you permission.
00:01:45.780It gives you the right to and it motivates you to do anything you want because you're doing it supposedly in God's name and anything up to and including violence.
00:01:57.340And we saw that happen on January 6th.
00:02:00.640So make no mistake, this is not a religious movement.
00:02:04.860This is a political movement that is after sheer power.
00:02:09.660And that's the fear that we have this.
00:02:13.140They have a mouthpiece and he is going to he's going to ride this.
00:02:17.680He's going to try to ride this all the White House.
00:02:21.700Goldberg goes on and says, indeed, one reason we know it's not true, publicly criticizing.
00:02:26.440Putin's treatment of Navalny can land you in a Russian cell, criticizing Biden's alleged treatment of Trump can land you in a Fox News studio.
00:02:52.560They're they're they're in the Trump, the Trump death cult of a death cult for American democracy.
00:02:59.660And to make those comparisons are so grotesque.
00:03:03.840And to compare America to Russia is so grotesque.
00:03:07.800To compare Trump to Navalny, Trump, who flies around in a 757, who lives in a golden skyscraper, who lives in Mar-a-Lago, where you have a Navalny dead, poisoned in a penal colony.
00:03:52.020We'll say it's just like Russia, just like Trump's been doing since 2015, just to elect this con artist who wants to undermine America's rule of law and American democracy.
00:04:05.960Yeah, you have to assume, actually, that that tweet or statement by Donald Trump is the new MAGA party line on Navalny.
00:04:16.440Note that he refers to the sudden death of Alexei Navalny as if, you know, he had he'd like, you know, tripped on a staircase in his house or something like that.
00:04:28.840No, he was sent to a to a Siberian prison camp to die, to be killed, probably to be poisoned.
00:04:36.900Who knows? But he was he was he's dead like anybody who opposes Vladimir Putin.
00:04:43.360And Trump mentions, of course, unfair courtroom decisions.
00:04:48.320He's still smarting from all the court judgments and rulings against him last week.
00:04:58.420First of all, you know, you have Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, the third ranking official in the United States government down there, bending the knee to Donald Trump.
00:05:16.940And you have the Republican Party essentially turning its back, at least the people who are running the Republican Party, turning their back on NATO at a time when Vladimir Putin is making gains in Ukraine,
00:05:35.380refusing to authorize new funds, military aid for Ukraine so it can it can fight back.
00:05:44.120Talk to the Europeans very clearly and alarmingly putting the security of Europe and the world in danger.
00:05:54.380And this is what the Republican Party is going with.
00:07:32.200They're actually the intellectual center of the drive for Christian nationalism.
00:07:36.040Look, I think it's a very positive story.
00:07:39.880Other people may take it the wrong way, may interpret that differently.
00:07:43.040But as you know, Russ Vogt was the director of OMB in President Trump's first term.
00:07:47.240We're one of the smartest guys, and you've seen the CRA people we've had on here time and time again breaking down the toughest problems the country has in easily digestible concepts that one can grasp and figure out what action plans are.
00:08:02.360In fact, Mark Paoletta, the great associate of Justice Thomas, will be here later in the show.
00:08:43.320So Morning Joe, he refers to us as freaks, weirdos, insurrectionists, and a Trump death cult.
00:08:53.180Freaks, weirdos, insurrectionists, and death cult.
00:08:56.400I want you, as you go to work today, as you're watching us from your home or wherever you're either watching or listening, either on the podcast later today or in the radio, the vast radio network of John Fredericks that we're on or through Real America's Voice, Getter, Rumble, wherever you get it, wherever your touch point is.
00:09:20.520You are what Edmund Burke calls the little platoons that keep civic society working.
00:09:27.040As I say over and over again, when they talk about capital markets and they talk about the bond market and the stock market and how the U.S. you get a premium.
00:09:36.040You know, the U.S. companies always get a premium because there's so much liquidity, so much liquidity.
00:10:14.260You are the full faith and credit of the United States government, you, the good householder, the person that goes to work every day, raises your family, raises them up patriotically so they want to serve their country, right?
00:10:31.400And remember, every day you're getting the short end of the stick from a group of globalist elites that are in charge of this country that, interestingly enough, detest you.
00:10:42.940They detest you individually, they detest you as a group, and they detest your values and what you stand for.
00:10:50.020You are freaks, weirdos, insurrectionists, and a death cult.
00:10:56.560And you can see, by the way, they go after the Russ vote and the decent folks over at the Center for Renewing America.
00:11:02.680You're now, and I told you this six months ago, nine months ago, the term they're going to use in 2024, they're all going to converge on one term.
00:11:12.940And that term is Christian nationalism.
00:11:16.100Because to them, it pulls together the two worst, the things they hate the most, Christianity and nationalism.
00:11:23.680Maybe we make a Christian populist nationalism.
00:11:26.600That would be the trifecta, wouldn't it?
00:11:28.560Today in the Daily Beast, a pretty solid article over there.
00:11:35.420If we can get the Daily Beast article up and put it up, pretty solid article about the impact you've had, the precinct committee strategy that you have endeavored upon a couple of years ago.
00:11:45.000The little platoons, the underpinnings of civic society in America.
00:11:50.140Because that's why we have the most robust capital markets.
00:11:53.280That's why our stock market is always the premier one.
00:12:10.040Of course, if the elites in this country are going to invite them in, if you and I are in the same situation, we'd be taking the kids and coming north.
00:12:21.780No, they're doing it because they understand you're decent folks and decent householders and you believe in family, in community, in neighborhood, in towns, in villages throughout this country.
00:13:17.540Find him, I don't know, it's $466 million.
00:13:19.840I think now, with interest and penalties.
00:13:23.140Yet yesterday, on Andrea Mitchell, remember, the sharpest tool in the shed, right?
00:13:29.060Andrea Mitchell kind of wandering around, don't know exactly where she is at any one time.
00:13:34.260But she is married to her former chairman of the Federal Reserve and probably, outside of Volcker, the most revered, although I thought he juiced the system a little too much, caused the crash of, was one of the guys that was, I think, responsible for the 2008 financial crash, of which we've never recovered from.
00:13:53.160So an ambassador, former ambassador to Moscow, Mike McFaul yesterday argued, hey, if the ultra-maga Republican Christian nationalist house that has the biblical worldview Johnson captured will not shove $60 billion to the oligarchs for the oligarch grift in Ukraine so that more Ukrainian innocent men, women, and children can be slaughtered in the charnel house that is the eastern Russian-speaking border.
00:14:33.860And give it to the Ukrainians, of which would destroy immediately Bretton Woods and everything that the fetish of the post-war international rules-based order is predicated on.
00:14:46.800But remember, you're the freaks, you're the weirdos, you're the insurrectionists, you're the death cult.
00:16:59.740And it's got a full bedroom, yes, that is a king bed, one-and-a-half baths, a fireplace, four TVs, a washer-dryer, and, and I quote, a residential-sized fridge.
00:17:13.420And if you're thinking, what would my friends say if I take this offer?
00:17:17.260Will they judge me as they sit in their boardrooms and mega-yachts and Hitler shrines?
00:17:22.760Will they still treat me to luxury vacations and sing songs about me off their phones?
00:17:27.200Well, that's the beauty of friendship, Clarence.
00:17:29.800If they're real friends, they'll love you no matter what your job is.
00:17:33.620So I guess this might be the perfect way to find out who your real friends actually are.
00:19:30.500And every single justice on the Supreme Court, left and right, the liberals piled on this guy.
00:19:37.480And so it's – and I think the left realized, wow, like we are going to get blown out.
00:19:42.740I think it's probably going to be a 9-0 decision on that one.
00:19:46.140That's regarding Colorado and Maine and the secretaries of state and these crazy state courts trying to remove Donald Trump from the ballot and, you know, thwart democracy.
00:19:56.260But they realize they don't control the Supreme Court.
00:23:43.100You saw that in the Dobbs decision where he said substantive due process is false and can completely be thrown out, right, on lots of other opinions that had been touched on there.
00:23:53.100But what we showed in that interview was a chart that showed that almost every justice on the Supreme Court, if you remember this, Steve, had become more liberal since the time of the Warren Court and even before.
00:24:05.300They all became more liberal because they want to be like—they cave to the leftist pressure.
00:24:11.420The only person who didn't was Clarence Thomas.
00:24:14.360And the question for those people were, why isn't this going to happen to you in 10 years or 15 years?
00:24:21.620Tell me why you're not going to drift.
00:24:23.700Why are you a person of principle that's going to stand by your principles?
00:24:26.940That's what Thomas has taught the justices on this court, and he is the leader, as I said, both intellectually but courage-wise, right, a guy who they come after nonstop, and he doesn't bend.
00:24:39.660That's what we need more of, and we need to support the court, and you're—you know, we need to support the court.
00:24:46.500This is why they try—if they win this time, what they're going to try to do is pack the court.
00:24:53.240They're trying to expand the Supreme Court.
00:24:54.700They're going to try to expand the federal judiciary.
00:25:09.840This is why Oliver—Oliver's thing is draped in comedy, but is a very serious—and this is the attack on the court, and particularly Justice Thomas is only going to get played up.
00:25:20.940Can I go ahead and play—the resistance is starting to break.
00:25:43.200Donald Trump every day gives you a reason to understand the stakes are so much higher now, whether he's talking about terminating the Constitution, whether he's talking about assassinating generals that are—does this sound familiar?
00:25:56.040Assassinating generals who are disloyal to him, are shooting them for treason, or whether he talks about how he has the right that he's legally protected.
00:26:07.520If he decides, like Putin, to assassinate one of his political rivals, he says as president, he should have complete immunity on that.
00:26:18.340What I'm finding is, as far as exhaustion setting in, Jen, I'm finding exhaustion among Trump supporters in my family, in my neighborhood, in my old church, people I grew up with who voted for Trump in 16, voted for Trump in 20.
00:27:47.660The book is called Created Equal, Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.
00:27:50.560You know what I'm doing this one, Steve?
00:27:51.600I'm going out to college campuses and talking to kids about the movie, which is the same name, Created Equal, Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, in the book here.
00:31:08.320If they don't pass this, historians will write about them like the American firsters in 1940 who said, oh, aid to Great Britain won't matter.
00:31:36.780There's something called the Repo Act that is passed out with overwhelming majorities from both the Senate and the Houses.
00:31:43.180It basically takes the frozen Russian assets that we have, and it gives it to the Ukrainians, sponsored by Senator Reich, Republican, and Congressman McCall, Republican in the House.
00:32:18.760It's been relentless and nonstop since this war started, and guess what?
00:32:24.900McFaul and Stavridis and all the clowns they had on MSNBC for two years, two years, have been dead wrong on everything about this war.
00:32:35.400And we in the war have been dead right.
00:32:37.460Remember they were going to destroy the Russian economy, do things they didn't do to the Nazis or Imperial Japan, their central bank, take down the currency.
00:33:55.820They need 500,000 troops, new troops, fresh troops.
00:33:59.600And they're already press gang them like they did in Nelson's Navy back in the early 19th century.
00:34:04.380And the parents are getting their kids out of there, particularly their sons.
00:34:08.940This is why you had virtually a mutiny of the two most beloved officers in the Ukrainian army two weeks ago.
00:34:15.820And you had to send the the the dominatrix, Victoria Nuland, war criminal Victoria Nuland over there to stabilize the situation for the CIA in the deep state.
00:34:28.180Because they told Zelensky, we need manpower.
00:35:16.140And now McCall, this is how radical they are.
00:35:19.300What he's talking about, the underpinnings of his fetish.
00:35:22.500His fetish is the post-war international liberal rules-based order.
00:35:27.720The same order that was used to enslave Lao Baixing.
00:35:31.420The same rules-based order that was to destroy your economic viability, folks, 54% of you can't put your hands on a thousand bucks in cash right now.
00:35:44.700Because that international rules-based order that the Bush regime backed up the murderers of Tiananmen Square, right?
00:35:52.500When the Chinese Communist Party, who we had given the country to in 1949, were about to fall to patriots, Lao Baixing, old hundred names in Beijing.
00:40:19.240And President Trump's biggest and most consequential accomplishment of his first term was transforming the 5-4 left of center courts to the 5-4 Clarence Thomas court with President Trump's appointments of Justice Gorset.
00:40:59.460I'm not one of those people who says that the chief justice is liberal.
00:41:02.580But the chief justice thinks that he's protecting the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary by keeping the liberal critics at bay, you know, appeasing the liberal critics.
00:41:17.940And I would say that by trying to depoliticize the court, he's actually politicizing it and making it worse because he makes it where these liberals think that these justices are gettable.
00:41:29.880What's nice about Justice Clarence Thomas is he's been on the court, you know, for over 30 years, and you're not going to move that man.
00:41:38.900He used to write lonely dissents where these decisions were eight to one, and it was Clarence Thomas writing these lonely dissents for many, many years.
00:41:47.220And now it's the Clarence Thomas court because of President Trump, and that is so important.
00:41:53.680Do they hate him – because they do hate him – do they hate him because he's a black man that's the intellectual leader of not just the court but really this movement of a vast intellectual awakening in this country?
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00:46:23.480The word has to be – in Europe, they have to understand something and embrace it.
00:46:28.560In Europe, in the Swiss ski resorts, in Tuscany, in the south of France, in Paris, in Berlin, and particularly in the west end of London, Belgravia, right?
00:48:23.540And what it is is it's a bill to bring back runoff elections in the state of Florida.
00:48:28.100What's basically going on is because of the occurrence of MAGA, audiences and voters like the people who watch your show know and they can find out in primary who the true dyed-in-the-wool conservative MAGA candidate is.
00:48:43.620And they coalesce around that candidate, and those candidates are winning in races across the board.
00:48:48.460That's why the Freedom Caucus is growing.
00:48:50.160That's why you're getting more people like Matt Gaetz in office.
00:48:52.420And so what the establishment is trying to do now is actually force whoever wins a contested primary into a second runoff primary in order to coalesce the forces around the moderate, extend the election season, and pour more money.
00:49:06.960Remember, the establishment will always have a money advantage.
00:49:11.840And so by extending the calendar year, putting them through two primaries, they can dump more money behind the preferred establishment candidate and drag them out.
00:49:19.540Now, one of the reasons why they want to do this is because it's already clear through polling that Matt Gaetz is the frontrunner for governor in 2026.
00:49:28.480That election will kick off roughly a year from now, and he's going to beat anybody in a contested four-, five-, or six-way primary.
00:49:35.560But they think that if they force him into a two-way primary, then they can gather their forces and drag him out a longer year and hit him.
00:49:43.280It's got two committee stops, state affairs tomorrow morning, 8 a.m., five-hour committee meeting.
00:49:47.440I hope everybody's calling every elected Republican in the state legislature and telling them to vote heck no on this bill, and then it's going to hit the floor next week, and hopefully we can kill this.
00:49:56.440And then, of course, a backstop is trying to get the governor to veto it too, but we can stop this if we're loud enough.
00:50:04.780Where do people go to your site to get all the phone numbers?
00:50:08.140Grace and Mo are going to be on this tomorrow.
00:50:29.780In about ten minutes, I'm going to post every phone number for all of the members of the committee, the state affairs committee, on my Twitter page.
00:50:37.060That's at Anthony Sabatini, at Anthony Sabatini, and work the phones, work the emails, and let's be loud and let's get this thing stopped.
00:51:05.880You would never think there would be any games in Tallahassee.
00:51:08.500Mike Davis, let's talk about Illinois.
00:51:10.800President Trump is up for, I don't know, 600 or 700 years in prison for crimes.
00:51:17.180Tell me how that's – tell me, is it even-handed how they're doing this with Democrats, sir, at the state level?
00:51:22.720No, and I'm going to talk about a case.
00:51:24.900We have two cases right now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:51:28.960You have a case where the Supreme Court is going to interpret two criminal statutes, one on gratuities, which is a form of bribery, and then one related to obstruction.
00:51:44.880The obstruction charge that the Biden Justice Department is bringing against the January 6th defendants and Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department is bringing against President Trump.
00:51:57.880And so you have this Obama judge in Chicago, this Obama federal judge in Chicago, who is correctly delaying by six months former Illinois Democrat House Speaker Michael Madigan's corruption trial,
00:52:15.980because the Supreme Court is hearing the gratuities case on April 15th and will decide that case before the end of June, likely, right?
00:52:29.600Hey, Davis, hang on for one second. Mike, hang on for one second. I'm going to hold you through the break, 90-second break.
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